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Increase in height; elevation; rise. Little River affords navigation during a swell to within three miles of the Miami. Jefferson.

Affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical statement of an argument. "The synoptic Gospels." Alford. -- Syn*op"tic*al*ly, adv.

A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard. Nares.

An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army. Milford.

To think fit. [Obs. or R.] G. Gifford.

d two figures of slaves, destined for the tomb, in an incomparable style of art. J. S. Harford.

, one appointed to write a satirical Latin poem at the public acts in the University of Oxford; -- not unlike the prevaricator at Cambridge, England. -- Terra firma Etym: [L.], firm or solid earth, as opposed to water. -- Terra Japonica. Etym: [NL.] Same as Gambier. It was formerly supposed to be a kind of earth from…

e degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.

at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.

ugh or between obstacles; to thrid. Heavy trading ships . . . threading the Bosphorus. Mitford. They would not thread the gates. Shak.

Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite.

Like a toad. [Obs.] A. Stafford.

To imprison in a tollbooth. [R.] That they might tollbooth Oxford men. Bp. Corbet.

toluiferum), the wood of which is red in the center, and has an aromatic rose odor. It affords the balsam called tolu.

r criterion by which the qualities of a thing are tried. Hooker. The foregoing doctrine affords us also a touchstone for the trial of spirits. South. Irish touchstone (Min.), basalt, the stone which composes the Giant's Causeway.

Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton. [R.] Ford.

One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called "Tracts for the Times," issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of…

h thy note. Shak. This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. Ford.

t. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experience.

That which affords entertainment; a gratification; a satisfaction; as, the concert was a rich treat.