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SYNTONIZE v.
or devise so as to emit or respond to electric oscillations of a certain wave length; to tune; specif., to put (two or more instruments or systems of wireless telegraphy) in syntony with each other. -- Syn`to*ni*za"tion (#), n.
TAKE v.
o, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like. This man was taken of the Jews. Acts xxiii. 27. Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak. Pope. They that come abroad after these showers are commonly taken wi…
TEMPTER n.
ill never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
THEDOM n.
Success; fortune; luck; chance. [Obs.] Evil thedom on his monk's snout. Chaucer.
THUMB v.
To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune.
THWART v.
to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. Shak. The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other. South.
TIDE n.
current. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak.
TIMELINESS n.
The quality or state of being timely; seasonableness; opportuneness.
TO prep.
ion as far as; as, they met us to the number of three hundred. We ready are to try our fortunes To the last man. Shak. Few of the Esquimaux can count to ten. Quant. Rev.
TONE n. 2 definitions
A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.
TOPLESS a.
e fop; hence, fig.: very lofty; supreme; unequaled. " The topless Apennines." "Topless fortunes." Beau. & Fl.
TORMENTRESS n.
A woman who torments. Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor. Holland.
TOUCH v.
To perform, as a tune; to play. A person is the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet. Sir W. Scott.
TRANSLATE v.
another form; to transform. Happy is your grace, That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Shak.
TREASURE n.
lth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve. This treasure hath fortune unto us given. Chaucer.
TRICE n.
rase in a trice. "With a trice." Turbervile. " On a trice." Shak. A man shall make his fortune in a trice. Young.
TRIDENT n.
A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of Neptune.
TRINE v.
To put in the aspect of a trine. [R.] By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined. Dryden.
TRITON n.
A fabled sea demigod, the son of Neptune and Amphitrite, and the trumpeter of Neptune. He is represented by poets and painters as having the upper part of his body like that of a man, and the lower part like that of a fish. He often has a trumpet made of a shell. Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old T…
TRUST v.
w confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something. Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust, Now to suspect is vain. Dryden.
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