Webster's Dictionary 1828

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TECHNICALNESS

TECH'NICALNESSTECH'NICS, noun The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.

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TECHNOLOGICAL

TECHNOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Technology.]1. Pertaining to technology.2. Pertaining to the arts; as technological institutes.

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TECHNOLOGIST

TECHNOL'OGIST, noun One who discourses or treats of arts, or of the terms of art.

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TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOL'OGY, noun [Gr. art, and word or discourse.]1. A description of arts; or a treatise on the arts.2. An explanation of the terms of the arts.

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TECHY

TECH'Y, adjective [so written for touchy.] Peevish; fretful; irritable. [More correctly touchy.]

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TECNNIC

TECN'NICTECTON'IC, adjective [Gr. to fabricate.] Pertaining to building.

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TED

TED, verb transitive A spread; tedu, to distend. Among farmers, to spread; to turn new mowed grass from the swath, and scatter it for drying. [Local.]

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TEDDED

TED'DED, participle passive Spread from the swath; as tedded grass.

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TEDDER

TED'DER, noun1. A rope or chain by which an animal is tied that he may feed on the ground to the extent of the rope and no further. Hence the popular saying, a person has gone t...

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TEDE

TEDE, noun [Latin toeda.] A torch; a flambeau. [Not in use.]

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TEDIOUS

TE'DIOUS, adjective [Latin toedium.]1. Wearisome; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, or slowness which causes prolixity. We say, a man is tedious in relating a story; a minis...

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TEDIOUSLY

TE'DIOUSLY, adverb In such a manner as to weary.

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TEDIOUSNES

TE'DIOUSNES, noun Wearisomeness by length of continuance or by prolixity; as the tediousness of an oration or argument.1. Prolixity; length.2. Tiresomeness; quality of wearying;...

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TEDIUM

TE'DIUM, noun [Latin toedium.] Irksomeness; wearisomeness.

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TEEK

TEEK, noun A tree of the East Indies, which furnishes an abundance of ship timber. The generic name given to it by Linne, is Tectona.

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TEEM

TEEM, verb intransitive1. To bring forth, as young.If she must teemCreate her child of spleen--2. To be pregnant; to conceive; to engender young.TEEMing buds and cheerful greens...

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TEEMER

TEE'MER, noun One that brings forth young.

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TEEMFUL

TEE'MFUL, adjective Pregnant; prolific.1. Brimful.

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TEEMING

TEE'MING, participle present tense Producing young.

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TEEMLESS

TEE'MLESS, adjective Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as the teemless earth.

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TEEN

TEEN, noun [infra.] Grief; sorrow. [Not in use.]TEEN, verb transitive To excite; to provoke., [Not in use.]

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TEENS

TEENS, noun [from teen, ten.] The years of one's age reckoned by the termination teen. These years begin with thirteen, and end with nineteen. Miss is in her teens

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TEETH

TEETH, plural of tooth, which see.In the teeth directly; in direct opposition; in front.Nor strive with all the tempest in my teethTEETH, verb intransitive [from the noun.] To b...

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TEETHING

TEE'THING, participle present tense Breeding teeth; undergoing dentition.TEE'THING, noun The operation or process of the first growth of teeth, or the process by which they make...

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TEGULAR

TEG'ULAR, adjective [Latin tegula, a tile, from tego, to cover or make close.] Pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile; consisting of tiles.

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TEGULARLY

TEG'ULARLY, adverb In the manner of tiles on a roof.

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TEGUMENT

TEG'UMENT, noun [Latin tegumentum, from tego, to cover.]A cover or covering; seldom used except in reference to the covering of a living body. [See Integument.]