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One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.

To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.

Free from terror. Poe.

y colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet, used for upholstery and trimmings.

A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.

A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, etc., and beaten up with eggs.

See Transference.

One who makes a transfer or conveyance.

Capable of being transferred; transferable.

A price less than the value; as, to sell a thing at an underrate. Cowley.

To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate. Bp. Hall.

To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.

Committing no mistake; incapable or error or failure certain; sure; unfailing; as, the unerring wisdom of God. Hissing in air the unerring weapon flew. Dryden.

In an unerring manner.

Very; true. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Verily; truly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Ferrule. [Obs.]

Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches.

(Zoöl.) A wartlike elevation or roughness.

Shaped like a wart or warts.