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ringy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.

A photograph, image, or impression, reproduced by or taken with a telephotographic apparatus.

A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.

A ternion; the number three; three things taken together; a triad. Some in ternaries, some in pairs, and some single. Holder.

which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.

for operating the motors, the rail being insulated from the ground and the current being taken off by means of contact brushes or other devices.

tinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] He was taken a threap that he would have it finished before the year was done. Carlyle.

ure of the screw shaft. -- Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.

es, influences, or events; course; current. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak.

Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news. I shall make my master glad with these tidings. Shak. Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. Goldsmith.

he Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. Gen. iii. 23.

ure. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as time unit for the beat, and the numerator, the number of these to the measure.

Liquor taken in tippling; drink. Pulque, the national tipple of Mexico. S. B. Griffin.

The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe. To take tithing of their blood and sweat. Motley.

A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. Toll and team (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins. Burrill. -- Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers. -- Toll bridge, a bridge wher…

A gate where toll is taken.

A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.

Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; -- so called from its being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl. Also, a cigar stump. [Slang]

at which gives pain, vexation, or misery. They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. Matt. iv. 24.

Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.