TWO-PETALED
TWO-PETALED, adjective Dipetalous.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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TWO-PETALED, adjective Dipetalous.
TWO-SEEDED, adjective In botany, dispermous; containing two seeds, as a fruit; having two seeds to a flower, as a plant.
TWO-TIPPED, adjective Bilabiate.
TWO-TONGUED, adjective Double-tongued; deceitful.
TWO-VALVED, adjective Bivalvular, as a shell, pod, or glume.TYE, verb transitive [See Tie, the more usual orthography, and Tying.]To bind or fasten.TYE, noun A knot. [See Tie.]1...
TWOEDGED, adjective Having two edges, or edges on both sides; as a two-edged sword.
TWOFOLD, adjective [two and fold.] Two of the same kind, or two different things existing together; as twofold nature; a twofold sense; a twofold argument.1. Double; as twofold ...
TWY-BLADE, noun [tway and blade.] A plant of the genus Ophris; a polypetalous flower, consisting of six dissimilar leaves, of which the five upper ones are so disposed as to rep...
TYE, verb transitive [Latin taceo, to be silent.]1. To bind; to fasten with a band or cord and knot.My son, keep thy father's commandments-- bind them continually upon thine hea...
TYED, participle passive Bound; fastened with a knot; confined; restrained; united, as notes.
TY'ER, noun One who ties or unites.
TYGER. [See Tiger.]
TY'ING, participle present tense [See Tie and Tye.] Binding; fastening. [As this participle must be written with y, it might be well to write the verb tye.]
TYKE, noun A dog; or one as contemptible as a dog.
TYM'BAL, noun A kind of kettle drum.A tymbal's sound were better than my voice.
TYM'PAN, noun [Latin tympanum. See Tymbal.]1. A drum; hence, the barrel or hollow part of the ear behind the membrane of the tympanum.2. The area of a pediment; also, the part o...
TYM'PANITES, noun In medicine, a flatulent distention of the belly; wind dropsy; tympany.
TYM'PANIZE, verb intransitive To act the part of a drummer.TYM'PANIZE, verb transitive To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum.
TYM'PANUM, noun The drum of the ear. [See Tympan.]1. In mechanics, a wheel placed round an axis.
TYM'PANY, noun A flatulent distention of the belly. [See Tympanites.]
TYN'Y, adjective Small. [See Tiny.]
TYPE, noun [Latin typus; Gr. from the root of tap; to beat, strike, impress.]1. The mark of something; an emblem; that which represents something else.Thy emblem, gracious queen...
TY'PE-METAL, noun A compound of lead and antimony, with a small quantity of copper or brass.
TY'PHOID, adjective [typhus and Gr. form.] Resembling typhus; weak; low.
TY'PHUS, adjective [from Gr. to inflame or heat. Hippocrates gave this name to a fever which produced great heat in the eyes.] A typhus disease or fever is accompanied with grea...
TYP'ICTYP'ICAL, adjective Emblematic; figurative; representing something future by a form, model or resemblance. Abraham's offering of his only son Isaac, was typical of the sac...
TYP'ICAL, a. Emblematic; figurative; representing something future by a form, model or resemblance. Abraham's offering of his only son Isaac, was typical of the sacrifice of Chr...