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A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tarsus; as, tarsometatarsus.

Same as Taxonomy.

Pertaining to, or involving, taxonomy, or the laws and principles of classification; classificatory.

One skilled in taxonomy.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the temple, or temporal bone; as, temporofacial.

Tenebrous; dark; gloomy. [Obs.]

Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy. It lightens, it brightens, The tenebrific scene. Burns. Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time. R. Browning.

Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. -- Ten"e*brous*ness, n. The most dark, tenebrous night. J. Hall (1565). The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress. Longfellow.

A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.

A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.] Drayton. Through the thick they heard one rudely rush. Spenser. He through a little window cast his sight Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light. Dryden. Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under Fiddle. -- Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and di…

Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal. Her chaffer was so thrifty and so new. Chaucer. I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he hath not been thrifty. Swift.

To posper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry. Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold. I. Watts.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the thyroid body or the thyroid cartilage; as, thyrohyal.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tibia; as, tibiotarsus, tibiofibular.

A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.

An automobile designed for touring; specif., a roomy car, not a limousine, for five or more passengers.

The loosely woven substance which lines the chambers within the gleba in certain Gasteromycetes.

-- Tree mouse (Zoöl.), any one of several species of African mice of the subfamily Dendromyinæ. They have long claws and habitually live in trees. -- Tree nymph, a wood nymph. See Dryad. -- Tree of a saddle, a saddle frame. -- Tree of heaven (Bot.), an ornamental tree (Ailantus glandulosus) having long, handsome p…

Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. [Obs.] Fairfax.

Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. Shak. Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful, Heart so full of care and cumber. Longfellow.