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e which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.

An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript.

uding those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.

An order of fishes remarkable for their long and compressed form. The ribbon fishes are examples. See Ribbon fish, under Ribbon.

er lord, upon his subjects. The taille, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm. A. Smith.

his favorite wife. In beauty of design and rich decorative detail it is one of the best examples of Saracenic architecture.

curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. Artificial, or Logarithmic, tangent, the logarithm of the natural tangent of an arc. -- Natural tangent, a decimal expr…

large and contains lancelike mandibles and maxillæ. The horseflies and robber flies are examples.

Any armadillo of the family Tatusiidæ, of which the peba and mule armadillo are examples. Also used adjectively.

usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.

a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.

e of a certain series of basic compounds containing a chain of four nitrogen atoms; for example, ethyl tetrazone, (C2H5)2N.N2.N(C2H5)2, a colorless liquid having an odor of leeks.

ranths in thecæ and the gonophores in capsules. The campanularians and sertularians are examples. Called also Thecata. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

and capture thieves and bring them to justice. -- Thief tube, a tube for withdrawing a sample of a liquid from a cask. -- Thieves' vinegar, a kind of aromatic vinegar for the sick room, taking its name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at…

ave six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples.

are converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (Conus), Pleurotoma, and Terebra, are examples. See Illust. of Cone, n., 4, Pleurotoma, and Terebra.

es) which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.

buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourly trample on their sovereign's head. Shak.

To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] Bacon.

To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.