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A genus of tropical trees and shrubs of the order Loganiaceæ. See Nux vomica.

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, obtained by the action of acetic acid and potassium nitrite on uric acid, as a yellow crystalline substance, with a bitter, astringent taste.

A body of students. [R.]

Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts. Such as, born beneath the burning sky And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie. Dryden.

Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry. [R.] Evelyn.

Sycophancy. [Obs.]

Likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regularity. Axis of symmetry. (Geom.) See under Axis. -- Respective symmetry, that disposition of parts in which only the opposite sides are equal to each other.

Concurrence of starry position or influence; hence, similarity of condition, fortune, etc., as prefigured by astrological calculation. [R.] Motley.

Measurement by a tachometer; the science or use of tachometers.

The science or use of the tachymeter. -- Ta`chy*met"ric (#), a.

In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election.

ll hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery. Tapestry carpet, a kind of carpet, somewhat resembling Brussels, in which the warp is printed before weaving, so as to produce the figure in the cloth. -- Tapestry moth. (Zoöl.) Same as Carpet moth, under Carpet.

A small black dermestoid beetle (Attagenus piceus) whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, silk, fur, flour, and various other goods.

The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.

Butyl; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

Butylene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

Worship or undue admiration of wonderful or miraculous things. [R.] The thaumatolatry by which our theology has been debased for more than a century. Hare.

That branch of chemical science which includes the investigation of the various relations existing between chemical action and that manifestation of force termed heat, or the determination of the heat evolved by, or employed in, chemical actions.

The estimation of temperature by the use of a thermometric apparatus.

The act of measuring with a tonometer; specifically (Med.), measurement of tension, esp. the tension of the eyeball.