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Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having (such) a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad- tempered man; a well-tempered sword.

A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.

A borer; the teredo.

A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.

Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like. -- n.

Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.

Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.

Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house. L'Estrange.

Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.

Weary; fatigued; exhausted.

The state of being tired, or weary.

Having the tonsure; shaven; shorn; clipped; hence, bald. A tonsured head in middle age forlorn. Tennyson.

To cut into shreads or pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. Milton.

See Treadle.

A game at cards for three.

Provided or bound with a tressure; arranged in the form of a tressure. The tressured fleur-de-lis he claims To wreathe his shield. Sir W. Scott.

Having three colors.

White, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse.

Of a genuine or right breed; as, a true-bred beast. Shak.