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to be prolific; to abound. His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy. Sir W. Scott. The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which teem in our time. F. Harrison.

Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Serving as a text; authoritative. Glanvill.

to a system of theology. School divinity was but Aristotle's philosophy theologized. Glanvill.

r thing sighed, and . . . turned from me. Addison. I'll be this abject thing no more. Granville. I have a thing in prose. Swift.

A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe. "Within a little thorp I staid." Fairfax. Then thorpe and byre arose in fire. Tennyson.

the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful of gain; thoughtful in seeking truth. Glanvill.

One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights. Let me alone to match your tilter. Glanville.

Any pleasurable sensation. Those titillations that reach no higher than the senses. Glanvill.

ing, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. Shak. Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour. Beattie.

Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities. God made the country, and man made the town. Cowper.

ition begun upon an honorable respect Shak. Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré. Longfellow.

transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] Glanvill.

an imitation. The Grecian learning was but a transcript of the Chaldean and Egyptian. Glanvill.

That which remains but for a brief time. Glanvill.

A leap across or from one thing to another. [R.] "An unadvised transiliency." Glanvill.

and a body covered with short spines mixed with bristles. One South American species (S. villosus) is called also couiy; another (S. prehensilis) is called also coendou. -- Tree rat (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large ratlike West Indian rodents belonging to the genera Capromys and Plagiodon. They are allied…

The act of tripling, or making threefold, or adding three together. Glanvill.

to keep an engagement or appointment. The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at village stile. Tennyson.

y or state of being in a place; local relation; position or location; whereness. [R.] Glanvill.