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Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable. Bacon.

That which is told; tale; account. [R.] I am at the end of my tell. Walpole.

the former world, Still tend from bad to worse. Milton. The clouds above me to the white Alps tend. Byron.

A tureen. [Obs.] Walpole.

testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold. Walpole.

A division of Tunicata comprising the free-swimming species, such as Salpa and Doliolum.

A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death. Theta function (Math.), one of a group of functions used in developing the…

pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc. My heart Throbs to know one thing. Shak. Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast. Shak.

A long adit in a coalpit.

To be in a pet. She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph. Landor.

Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures. [Obs.] Holder. --Tract"a*ble*ness, n. -- Tract"a/bly, adv.

A prefix, signifying over, beyond, through and through, on the other side, as in transalpine, beyond the Alps; transform, to form through and through, that is, anew, transfigure.

To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters. A. J. Ellis.

ansliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.

espalier; a trellis. Spectator. I shall plant the roses against my treillage to-morrow. Walpole.

lamanders. The common European species are Hemisalamandra cristata, Molge palmata, and M. alpestris, a red-bellied species common in Switzerland. The most common species the United States is Diemyctylus viridescens. See Illust. under Salamander.

To rub or grind to a very fine or impalpable powder; to pulverize and comminute thoroughly.

The act of triturating, or reducing to a fine or impalpable powder by grinding, rubbing, bruising, etc. Paley.

he. Chairs of wood, the seats triangular, the backs, arms, and legs loaded with turnery. Walpole.

Employing two hangs; as, the two-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.