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A distemper in hawks.

tove plant (Bot.), a plant which requires artificial heat to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates. -- Stove plate, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves.

; as, the arrow went straight to the mark. "Floating straight." Shak. I know thy generous temper well; Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze. Addison. Everything was going on straight. W. Black.

Hereditary character, quality, or disposition. Intemperance and lust breed diseases, which, propogated, spoil the strain of nation. Tillotson.

o reduce to mildness or obedience; to tame; as, to subdue a stubborn child; to subdue the temper or passions.

e men, if they would truly observe them, substantially religious toward God, chastle, and temperate. Tillotson.

nder difficult or oppressive circumstances; patience; moderation. Chaucer. But hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise. Spenser.

The increase of temperature communicated to steam by superheating it.

To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.

An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.

the existence of something else. Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper. Macaulay.

by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it. Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary. -- Mineral tar (Min.), a kind of soft native bitumen. -- Tar board, a strong quality of millboard made from junk and old tarred rope. Knight. -…

A person of a keen, irritable temper. To catch a tartar, to lay hold of, or encounter, a person who proves too strong for the assailant. [Colloq.]

re indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature. T. A. Edison.

ing toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in oil, reheated to between 370º and 670º C., and cooled in air.

A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station.

An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.

rder or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars.

y pitiful, and of tender mercy. James v. 11. I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper. Fuller.

lity or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper.