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family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election.

from Taunt, v. Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. Burke.

of the capital of Amenophis IV., whose archive chamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of tablets (called the Tel-el-Amarna, or the Amarna, tablets) was found here, forming the Asiatic correspondence (Tel-el-Amarna letters) of Amenophis IV. and his father, Amenophis III., written in cuneiform characters. It…

One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.

A collection of tents; an encampment. [Obs.] Drayton.

The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection.

Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like.

The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion.

A noun or verb, not modified by inflections; also, that part of a noun or verb which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) in declension or conjugation; stem.

A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.

The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation. Thought can not be superadded to matter, so as in any sense to render it true that matter can become cogitative. Dr. T. Dwight.

The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.

Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion. Eager his tone, and ardent were his eyes. Dryden.

That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.

Tower mustard (Bot.), the cruciferous plant Arabis perfoliata. -- Tower of London, a collection of buildings in the eastern part of London, formerly containing a state prison, and now used as an arsenal and repository of various objects of public interest.

the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

rt treatise, especially on practical religion. The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. Swift. Tracts for the Times. See Tractarian.

Traditional. The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations. Buckminster.

To cause to lose senses or recollection; to entrance. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.