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A team of horses harnessed one before the other. "He drove tandems." Thackeray. Tandem engine, a compound steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in the same axis, close to one another. -- Tandem bicycle or tricycle, one for two persons in which one rider sits before the other.

A whim, or burst of ill-humor; an affected air. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift. Thackeray.

o bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

To make tipsy. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

of ton. Byron. If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish. Thackeray. Bon ton. See in the Vocabulary.

when blown. "A tooting horn." Howell. Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches. Thackeray.

Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow, an attorney's son. Thackeray.

A wagon, or other vehicle. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

A table companion; a trencher mate. Thackeray.

Trembling; quaking. Thackeray.

A good fellow; an excellent person. [Slang] Alfred is a trump, I think you say. Thackeray. To put to one's trumps, or To put on one's trumps, to force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion. But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign th…

Worthless or deceptive in character. "A trumpery little ring." Thackeray.

A votary of the turf, or race course; hence, sometimes, a blackleg. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

e; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key. [Written also twidle.] Thackeray.

One who unbosoms, or discloses. [R.] "An unbosomer of secrets." Thackeray.

A pawnbroker. [Slang] Thackeray. My uncle, a pawnbroker. [Slang] - - Uncle Sam, a humorous appellation given to the United States Government. See Uncle Sam, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

A state of disagreement; a falling out. Thackeray.

n, or of prosperity and the contrary. [Colloq.] They had their ups and downs of fortune. Thackeray.