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Thud
  • (n.) A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance
  • (v. i. & t.) To make, or strike so as to make, a dull sound, or thud.

    Thug
  • (n.) An assassin

    Thuja
  • (n.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves

    Thulium
  • (n.) A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite

    Thumb
  • (n.) The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges
  • (v. i.) To play with the thumb or thumbs
  • (v. t.) To handle awkwardly.

    Thummim
  • (n. pl.) A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest.

    Thump
  • (n.) A blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy
  • (v. i.) To give a thump or thumps
  • (v. t.) To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound.

    Thunder
  • (n.) An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
  • (v. t.) To emit with noise and terror

    Thurible
  • (n.) A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains

    Thursday
  • (n.) The fifth day of the week, following Wednesday and preceding Friday.

    Thus
  • (adv.) In this or that manner
  • (n.) The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers

    Thwack
  • (n.) A heavy blow with something flat or heavy
  • (v. t.) To fill to overflow.

    Thwart
  • (n.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.
  • (prep.) Across
  • (v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition
  • (v. t.) To cross, as a purpose

    Thy
  • (pron.) Of thee, or belonging to thee

    Thylacine
  • (n.) The zebra wolf.

    Thyme
  • (n.) Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus. The garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris) is a warm, pungent aromatic, much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups

    Thymic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the thymus gland.

    Thymol
  • (n.) A phenol derivative of cymene, C10H13.OH, isomeric with carvacrol, found in oil of thyme, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a pleasant aromatic odor and strong antiseptic properties

    Thymus
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the thymus gland.
  • (n.) The thymus gland.

    Thyroid
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the thyroid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery

    Thyrse
  • (n.) A thyrsus.

    Thyrsus
  • (n.) A species of inflorescence

    Thysanuran
  • (n.) One of the Thysanura. Also used adjectively.

    Thyself
  • (pron.) An emphasized form of the personal pronoun of the second person

    Tiara
  • (n.) A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over

    Tibia
  • (n.) A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.

    Tibiotarsus
  • (n.) The large bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the proximal part of the tarsus with the tibia

    Tic
  • (n.) A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles

    Tical
  • (n.) A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents

    Tick
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of large parasitic mites which attach themselves to, and suck the blood of, cattle, dogs, and many other animals
  • (v. i.) To give tick
  • (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark

    Tidal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to tides

    Tidbit
  • (n.) A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable

    Tide
  • (n.) To betide
  • (prep.) A stream
  • (v. t.) To cause to float with the tide

    Tidings
  • (n.) Account of what has taken place, and was not before known

    Tidy
  • (n.) A child's pinafore.
  • (superl.) Arranged in good order
  • (v. i.) To make things tidy.
  • (v. t.) To put in proper order

    Tie
  • (v. i.) To make a tie
  • (v. t.) A beam or rod for holding two parts together

    Tier
  • (n.) A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord
  • (v. t.) A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another

    Tiff
  • (n.) A fit of anger or peevishness
  • (v. i.) To be in a pet.
  • (v. t.) To deck out

    Tiger
  • (n.) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering

    Tight
  • (superl.) Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid
  • (v. t.) To tighten.

    Tigress
  • (n.) The female of the tiger.

    Tike
  • (n.) A countryman or clown

    Tilde
  • (n.) The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words

    Tile
  • (n.) A draintile.

    Tiling
  • (n.) A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles.

    Till
  • (conj.) As far as
  • (n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers
  • (prep.) To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate
  • (v. i.) To cultivate land.
  • (v. t.) To

    Tilt
  • (n.) A cloth cover of a boat
  • (v. i.) To lean
  • (v. t.) To cover with a tilt, or awning.

    Timbal
  • (n.) A kettledrum.

    Timber
  • (n.) A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards
  • (v. i.) To light on a tree.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with timber

    Timbrel
  • (n.) A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity.

    Time
  • (n.) A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future
  • (v. i.) To keep or beat time
  • (v. t.) To appoint the time for

    Timid
  • (a.) Wanting courage to meet danger

    Timocracy
  • (n.) A state in which honors are distributed according to a rating of property.

    Timorous
  • (a.) Fearful of danger

    Tin
  • (n.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated
  • (v. t.) To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.

    Tinamou
  • (n.) Any one of several species of South American birds belonging to Tinamus and allied genera

    Tincal
  • (n.) Crude native borax, formerly imported from Thibet. It was once the chief source of boric compounds

    Tinct
  • (a.) Tined
  • (n.) Color
  • (v. t.) To color or stain

    Tinder
  • (n.) Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.

    Tine
  • (n.) A tooth, or spike, as of a fork
  • (v. i.) To kindle
  • (v. t.) To kindle

    Ting
  • (n.) A sharp sound, as of a bell
  • (v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell

    Tinker
  • (n.) A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.
  • (v. i.) To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.
  • (v. t.) To mend or solder, as metal wares

    Tinkle
  • (n.) A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.
  • (v. i.) To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
  • (v. t.) To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.

    Tinned
  • (a.) Covered, or plated, with tin

    Tinner
  • (n.) One who makes, or works in, tinware

    Tinnitus
  • (n.) A ringing, whistling, or other imaginary noise perceived in the ears

    Tinny
  • (a.) Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.

    Tinsel
  • (a.) Showy to excess
  • (n.) A shining material used for ornamental purposes
  • (v. t.) To adorn with tinsel

    Tinsmith
  • (n.) One who works in tin

    Tinstone
  • (n.) Cassiterite.

    Tint
  • (n.) A color considered with reference to other very similar colors
  • (v. t.) To give a slight coloring to

    Tinware
  • (n.) Articles made of tinned iron.

    Tiny
  • (superl.) Very small

    Tip
  • (n.) A gift
  • (v. i.) To fall on, or incline to, one side.
  • (v. t.) To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon

    Tipcart
  • (n.) A cart so constructed that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load.

    Tipper
  • (n.) A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well

    Tippet
  • (n.) A cape, or scarflike garment for covering the neck, or the neck and shoulders

    Tipple
  • (n.) An apparatus by which loaded cars are emptied by tipping
  • (v. i.) To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually
  • (v. t.) To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess.

    Tipstaff
  • (n.) An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal

    Tipster
  • (n.) One who makes a practice of giving or selling tips, or private hints or information, esp. for use in gambling upon the probable outcome of events, as horse races

    Tipsy
  • (superl.) Being under the influence of strong drink

    Tiptoe
  • (a.) Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe
  • (n.) The end, or tip, of the toe.
  • (v. i.) To step or walk on tiptoe.

    Tiptop
  • (a.) Very excellent
  • (n.) The highest or utmost degree

    Tirade
  • (n.) A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse

    Tire
  • (n.) A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves
  • (v. i.) To become weary
  • (v. t.) To adorn

    Tissue
  • (n.) A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.
  • (v. t.) To form tissue of

    Tit
  • (n.) A morsel

    Titan
  • (a.) Titanic.

    Tithable
  • (a.) Subject to the payment of tithes

    Tithe
  • (a.) Tenth.
  • (n.) A tenth
  • (v. i.) Tp pay tithes.
  • (v. t.) To levy a tenth part on

    Tithing
  • (n.) A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other

    Titi
  • (n.) Any related tree of the genus Cyrilla, often disting. as white titi.

    Title
  • (n.) A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.

    Titrate
  • (n.) To analyse, or determine the strength of, by means of standard solutions. Cf. Standardized solution, under Solution

    Titration
  • (n.) The act or process of titrating

    Titter
  • (n.) A restrained laugh.
  • (v. i.) To seesaw.
  • (v. t.) To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth

    Tittle
  • (n.) A particle

    Tittup
  • (n.) The act of tittuping
  • (v. i.) To behave or move in a lively or restless manner, as an impatient horse

    Titubation
  • (n.) The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling

    Titular
  • (a.) Existing in title or name only
  • (n.) A titulary.

    Tmesis
  • (n.) The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words

    To
  • (prep.) Accompaniment
  • (prep.) Apposition

    Toadeater
  • (n.) A fawning, obsequious parasite

    Toadfish
  • (n.) Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad

    Toadflax
  • (n.) An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers

    Toadstone
  • (n.) A local name for the igneous rocks of Derbyshire, England

    Toadstool
  • (n.) A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless

    Toady
  • (n.) A coarse, rustic woman.
  • (v. t.) To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.

    Toast
  • (v.) A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink
  • (v. t.) To dry and brown by the heat of a fire

    Tobacco
  • (n.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff

    Tobit
  • (n.) A book of the Apocrypha.

    Toboggan
  • (n.) A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes
  • (v. i.) To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.

    Toccata
  • (n.) An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio

    Tocsin
  • (n.) An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.

    Toddle
  • (n.) A toddling walk.
  • (v. i.) To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.

    Toddy
  • (n.) A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies

    Tody
  • (n.) Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers

    Toe
  • (n.) A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved
  • (v. i.) To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way).
  • (v. t.) To touch or reach with the toes

    Toed
  • (a.) Having (such or so many) toes

    Toff
  • (n.) A fop

    Toft
  • (n.) A grove of trees

    Tog
  • (v. t. & i.) To put toggery, or togs, on

    Toga
  • (n.) The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle

    Together
  • (prep.) In company or association with respect to place or time

    Toggery
  • (n.) Clothes

    Toggle
  • (n.) A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring

    Togue
  • (n.) The namaycush.

    Toil
  • (n.) A net or snare
  • (v.) Labor with pain and fatigue
  • (v. i.) To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration
  • (v. t.) To labor

    Tokay
  • (n.) A grape of an oval shape and whitish color.

    Token
  • (n.) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn

    Tola
  • (n.) A weight of British India. The standard tola is equal to 180 grains.

    Told
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Tell

    Tole
  • (v. t.) To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable

    Toll
  • (n.) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
  • (v. i.) To pay toll or tallage.
  • (v. t.) To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

    Toltec
  • (n.) One of a race which formerly occupied Mexico.

    Tolu
  • (n.) A fragrant balsam said to have been first brought from Santiago de Tolu, in New Granada.

    Tolyl
  • (n.) The hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C6H4, regarded as characteristic of certain compounds of the aromatic series related to toluene

    Tom
  • (n.) A familiar contraction of Thomas, a proper name of a man.

    Tomahawk
  • (n.) A kind of war hatchet used by the American Indians. It was originally made of stone, but afterwards of iron
  • (v. t.) To cut, strike, or kill, with a tomahawk.

    Toman
  • (n.) A money of account in Persia, whose value varies greatly at different times and places. Its average value may be reckoned at about two and a half dollars

    Tomb
  • (n.) A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead
  • (v. t.) To place in a tomb

    Tomcod
  • (n.) A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States

    Tome
  • (n.) As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work

    Tomfoolery
  • (n.) Folly

    Tommy
  • (n.) A truck, or barter

    Tomorrow
  • (adv.) On the day after the present day
  • (n.) The day after the present

    Tompion
  • (n.) A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone.

    Ton
  • (n.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight

    Tonality
  • (n.) The principle of key in music

    Tone
  • (n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
  • (v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.

    Tonga
  • (n.) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum

    Tongs
  • (n. pl.) An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals

    Tongue
  • (n.) A language
  • (v. i.) To talk
  • (v. t.) To chide

    Tonic
  • (a.) Characterized by continuous muscular contraction
  • (n.) A medicine that increases the strength, and gives vigor of action to the system.

    Tonight
  • (adv.) On the last night past.
  • (n.) The present or the coming night

    Tonnage
  • (n.) A duty or impost on vessels, estimated per ton, or, a duty, toll, or rate payable on goods per ton transported on canals

    Tonne
  • (n.) A metric ton.

    Tonometer
  • (n.) An apparatus for studying and registering the action of various fluids and drugs on the excised heart of lower animals

    Tonsil
  • (n.) One of the two glandular organs situated in the throat at the sides of the fauces. The tonsils are sometimes called the almonds, from their shape

    Tonsorial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a barber, or shaving.

    Tonsure
  • (n.) The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head

    Tontine
  • (n.) An annuity, with the benefit of survivorship, or a loan raised on life annuities with the benefit of survivorship

    Tonus
  • (n.) Tonicity, or tone

    Tony
  • (n.) A simpleton.

    Too
  • (adv.) Likewise

    Took
  • (imp.) of Take

    Tooling
  • (n.) Work performed with a tool.

    Toon
  • (n.) The reddish brown wood of an East Indian tree (Cedrela Toona) closely resembling the Spanish cedar

    Tooth
  • (n.) An angular or prominence on any edge
  • (v. t.) To furnish with teeth.

    Tootle
  • (v. i.) To toot gently, repeatedly, or continuously, on a wind instrument, as a flute

    Top
  • (n.) A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out
  • (v. i.) To excel
  • (v. t.) To arrange, as fruit, with the best on top.

    Topaz
  • (n.) A mineral occurring in rhombic prisms, generally yellowish and pellucid, also colorless, and of greenesh, bluish, or brownish shades

    Topcoat
  • (n.) An outer coat

    Tope
  • (n.) A grove or clump of trees
  • (v. i.) To drink hard or frequently

    Topgallant
  • (n.) A topgallant mast or sail.

    Tophet
  • (n.) A place lying east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom.

    Tophus
  • (n.) Calcareous tufa.

    Topi
  • (n.) An antelope (Damaliscus corrigum jimela) having a glossy purplish brown coat. It is related to the blesbok and is native of British East Africa

    Topknot
  • (n.) A crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird

    Topless
  • (a.) Having no top, or no visble fop

    Topmast
  • (n.) The second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast, and below the topgallant mast

    Topmost
  • (a.) Highest

    Topography
  • (n.) The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land

    Topology
  • (n.) The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place

    Toponym
  • (n.) A name of a place

    Topper
  • (n.) A cover of a top layer or part.

    Topping
  • (a.) Fine
  • (n.) That which comes from hemp in the process of hatcheling.

    Topple
  • (v. i.) To fall forward
  • (v. t.) To throw down

    Topsail
  • (n.) In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship

    Topsoil
  • (n.) The upper layer of soil

    Toque
  • (n.) A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions

    Tor
  • (n.) A tower

    Torbernite
  • (n.) A mineral occurring in emerald-green tabular crystals having a micaceous structure. It is a hydrous phosphate of uranium and copper

    Torch
  • (n.) A flashlight.

    Tore
  • (imp.) of Tear

    Torment
  • (n.) An engine for casting stones.
  • (v. t.) To pain

    Torn
  • (p. p.) of Tear

    Torose
  • (a.) Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions

    Torpedo
  • (n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels
  • (v. t.) to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo.

    Torpid
  • (a.) An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.

    Torpor
  • (n.) Dullness

    Torque
  • (n.) A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons

    Torrefy
  • (v. t.) To dry by a fire.

    Torrent
  • (n.) A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like

    Torrid
  • (a.) Parched

    Torsade
  • (n.) A twisted cord

    Torsion
  • (n.) That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted

    Torsk
  • (n.) The codfish. Called also tusk.

    Torso
  • (n.) The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs

    Tort
  • (a.) Stretched tight
  • (n.) Any civil wrong or injury

    Torula
  • (n.) A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively

    Torus
  • (n.) A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular.

    Tory
  • (a.) Of ro pertaining to the Tories.
  • (n.) A member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party

    Toss
  • (n.) A throwing up of the head
  • (v. i.) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to try

    Tot
  • (n.) A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint.
  • (v. t.) To mark with the word "tot"

    Total
  • (a.) Whole
  • (n.) The whole
  • (v. t.) To bring to a total

    Tote
  • (n.) The entire body, or all
  • (v. t.) To carry or bear

    Totipalmate
  • (a.) Having all four toes united by a web

    Totter
  • (v. i.) To shake

    Toucan
  • (n.) A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.

    Touch
  • (a.) To lay a hand upon for curing disease.
  • (n.) A boys' game
  • (v.) Act or power of exciting emotion.
  • (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
  • (v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of

    Tough
  • (superl.) Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness

    Tour
  • (n.) A tower.
  • (v. i.) To make a tourm
  • (v. t.) A going round

    Tousle
  • (v. t.) To put into disorder

    Tout
  • (n.) A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like.
  • (v. i.) To act as a tout.
  • (v. t.) To give a tip on (a race horse) to a better with the expectation of sharing in the latter's winnings

    Tow
  • (n.) The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle
  • (v. t.) A rope by which anything is towed

    Towage
  • (v.) The act of towing.

    Towboat
  • (n.) A steamer used for towing other vessels

    Towel
  • (n.) A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath
  • (v. t.) To beat with a stick.

    Tower
  • (n.) A citadel
  • (v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects
  • (v. t.) To soar into.

    Towhee
  • (n.) The chewink.

    Towline
  • (v. t.) A line used to tow vessels

    Town
  • (adv. & prep.) A farm or farmstead

    Towpath
  • (n.) A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats

    Towrope
  • (n.) A rope used in towing vessels.

    Toxalbumin
  • (n.) Any of a class of toxic substances of protein nature

    Toxicant
  • (n.) A poisonous agent or drug, as opium

    Toxicity
  • (n.) The quality or state of being toxic or poisonous

    Toxicogenic
  • (a.) Producing toxic products

    Toxicology
  • (n.) The science which treats of poisons, their effects, antidotes, and recognition

    Toxoid
  • (n.) An altered form of a toxin, possessing little or no toxic power.

    Toy
  • (v. i.) To dally amorously
  • (v. t.) A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes

    Trabeated
  • (a.) Furnished with an entablature.

    Trabecula
  • (n.) A small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in the framework of an organ part

    Trace
  • (n.) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, esp
  • (v. i.) To walk
  • (v. t.) A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists

    Trachea
  • (n.) One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts

    Tracheid
  • (n.) A wood cell with spiral or other markings and closed throughout, as in pine wood.

    Tracheitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.

    Tracheobronchial
  • (a.) Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction

    Tracheoscopy
  • (n.) Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of a mirror.

    Tracheotomy
  • (n.) The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.

    Trachoma
  • (n.) Granular conjunctivitis due to a specific micrococcus.

    Trachyte
  • (n.) An igneous rock, usually light gray in color and breaking with a rough surface. It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica

    Trachytic
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.

    Tracing
  • (n.) A regular path or track

    Track
  • (n.) A mark left by something that has passed along
  • (v. t.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power

    Tract
  • (n.) A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent
  • (v.) A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent
  • (v. t.) To trace out

    Trade
  • (v.) A company of men engaged in the same occupation
  • (v. i.) To barter, or to buy and sell
  • (v. t.) To sell or exchange in commerce

    Tradition
  • (n.) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
  • (v. t.) To transmit by way of tradition

    Traditor
  • (n.) A deliverer

    Traduce
  • (v. t.) To draw away

    Traducianism
  • (n.) The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation

    Traffic
  • (v.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling
  • (v. i.) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money
  • (v. t.) To exchange in traffic

    Tragacanth
  • (n.) A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus

    Tragedian
  • (n.) An actor or player in tragedy.

    Tragedienne
  • (n.) A woman who plays in tragedy.

    Tragedy
  • (n.) A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue

    Tragic
  • (n.) A tragedy

    Tragopan
  • (n.) Any one of several species of Asiatic pheasants of the genus Ceriornis. They are brilliantly colored with a variety of tints, the back and breast are usually covered with white or buff ocelli, and the head is ornamented with two bright-colored, fleshy wattles

    Tragus
  • (n.) The prominence in front of the external opening of the ear.

    Trail
  • (n.) A footpath or road track through a wilderness or wild region
  • (v. i.) To be drawn out in length
  • (v. t.) To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle

    Train
  • (n.) A heavy long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like
  • (v.) A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.
  • (v. i.) To be drilled in military exercises
  • (v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.

    Traipse
  • (v. i.) To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or thoughtless manner.

    Trait
  • (v.) A distinguishing or marked feature

    Traject
  • (v. t.) A place for passing across

    Tram
  • (n.) A car on a horse railroad.
  • (v. i.) To operate, or conduct the business of, a tramway
  • (v. t.) To convey or transport on a tramway or on a tram car.

    Trance
  • (n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible
  • (v. i.) To pass
  • (v. t.) To entrance.

    Tranquil
  • (a.) Quiet

    Transact
  • (v. i.) To conduct matters
  • (v. t.) To carry through

    Transalpine
  • (a.) Being on the farther side of the Alps in regard to Rome, that is, on the north or west side of the Alps
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, that is, out of Italy.

    Transatlantic
  • (a.) Crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

    Transcend
  • (v. i.) To be transcendent
  • (v. t.) To pass over

    Transcontinental
  • (a.) Extending or going across a continent

    Transcribe
  • (v. t.) To write over again, or in the same words

    Transcript
  • (n.) A copy of any kind

    Transduction
  • (n.) The act of conveying over.

    Transept
  • (n.) The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir

    Transfer
  • (n.) A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts
  • (v. t.) To convey from one place or person another

    Transfigure
  • (v. t.) Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious

    Transfix
  • (v. t.) To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon

    Transform
  • (v. i.) To be changed in form
  • (v. t.) To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value

    Transfuse
  • (v. t.) To cause to pass from to another

    Transfusion
  • (n.) The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.

    Transgress
  • (v. i.) To offend against the law
  • (v. t.) Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty

    Transient
  • (a.) Hasty
  • (n.) That which remains but for a brief time.

    Transit
  • (n.) A line or route of passage or conveyance
  • (v. t.) To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).

    Translate
  • (v. i.) To make a translation
  • (v. t.) To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another

    Translation
  • (n.) A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor

    Translator
  • (n.) A repeating instrument.

    Transliterate
  • (v. t.) To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet

    Translocation
  • (n.) removal of things from one place to another

    Translucent
  • (a.) Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen

    Transmarine
  • (a.) Lying or being beyond the sea.

    Transmigrant
  • (a.) Migrating or passing from one place or state to another
  • (n.) One who transmigrates.

    Transmigrate
  • (v. i.) To pass from one body or condition into another.

    Transmission
  • (n.) The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted

    Transmit
  • (v. t.) To cause to pass over or through

    Transmogrify
  • (v. t.) To change into a different shape

    Transmutation
  • (n.) The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted

    Transmute
  • (v. t.) To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another

    Transom
  • (n.) A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening

    Transpadane
  • (a.) Lying or being on the further side of the river Po with reference to Rome, that is, on the north side

    Transparency
  • (n.) That which is transparent

    Transparent
  • (a.) Admitting the passage of light

    Transpicuous
  • (a.) Transparent

    Transpierce
  • (v. t.) To pierce through

    Transpire
  • (v. i.) To escape from secrecy
  • (v. t.) To evaporate (moisture) from living cells.

    Transplant
  • (v. t.) To remove, and plant in another place

    Transport
  • (v.) A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
  • (v. t.) To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal

    Transpose
  • (v. t.) To bring, as any term of an equation, from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation

    Transposition
  • (n.) A change of a composition into another key.

    Transship
  • (v. t.) To transfer from one ship or conveyance to another.

    Transubstantiate
  • (v. t.) To change, as the sacramental elements, bread and wine, into the flesh and blood of Christ

    Transubstantiation
  • (n.) A change into another substance.

    Transude
  • (v. i.) To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures

    Transversal
  • (a.) Running or lying across
  • (n.) A straight line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines, as a line intersecting the three sides of a triangle or the sides produced

    Transverse
  • (a.) Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction
  • (n.) Anything that is transverse or athwart.
  • (v. t.) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

    Trap
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to trap rock
  • (n.) A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids
  • (v. i.) To set traps for game

    Trash
  • (n.) A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
  • (v. i.) To follow with violence and trampling.
  • (v. t.) To free from trash, or worthless matter

    Traumatic
  • (a.) Adapted to the cure of wounds
  • (n.) A traumatic medicine.

    Traumatism
  • (n.) A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body

    Travail
  • (n.) Labor with pain
  • (v. t.) To harass

    Trave
  • (n.) A crossbeam

    Travois
  • (n.) A logging sled.

    Trawl
  • (n.) A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it
  • (v. t.) To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.

    Tray
  • (n.) A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried
  • (v. t.) To betray


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