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A taboret. Young.

A telluride. [Obsoles.]

Combined or impregnated with tellurium; tellurized. [Written also telluretted.] [Obsoles.] Tellureted hydrogen (Chem.), hydrogen telluride, H2Te, a gaseous substance analogous to hydrogen sulphide; -- called also tellurhydric acid.

Round; terete. [Obs.] Fotherby.

Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.

Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes. Owen.

Terete. [Obs.]

One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass.

A trisulphide. [R.]

or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences. -- The`o*ret"ic*al*ly, adv.

presented to us in the New Testament, morals come before contemplation, ethics before theoretics. H. B. Wilson.

Besides; moreover. [Obs.] Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.

Up to that time; before then; -- correlative with heretofore.

Thirteen. [Obs. or Scot.]

Thirty. [Obs. or Scot.] Burns.

A Turret. [Obs.]

The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea. [Obs.] Sir J. Davies.

To pass over a strait or narrow sea. [Written also transfreight.] [Obs.] E. Hall.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth. Chaucer.

Tractable; moderate. [Obs.] By nature debonaire and tretable. Chaucer.