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Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking. The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers. V. Knox. The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense. Macaulay.

The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.

Crabbedness; perverseness. [Obs.]

Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.

The state or property of being tithonic; actinism. [R.]

The state of healty tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.

The quality or state of being toxic or poisonous; poisonousness.

The quality or state of being triple, or threefold; trebleness. In their trinal triplicities on high. Spenser.

To deprive of the rank or rights of a city. [Obs.]

Inelasticity.

ing united; quality of the unique; unification. Not unity, but what the schoolmen call unicity. De Quincey. The unicity we strive not to express, for that is impossible, but to designate by the nearest analogy. Coleridge.

Absence of simplicity; artfulness. C. Kingsley.

Want of veracity; untruthfulness; as, unveracity of heart. Carlyle.

An apple-green mineral occurring in reniform masses. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina.

Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light.

e of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity.

olution; rotation. [R.] Locke. I hardly believe he hath from elder times unknown the verticity of the loadstone. Sir T. Browne.

glucoside obtained from the pansy (Viola tricolor), and decomposing into glucose and quercitrin.

Tenacity of life; vital force; natural vigor. [Obs.] The vivacity of some of these pensioners is little less than a miracle, they lived so long. Fuller.

Quality or state of being volcanic; volcanic power.