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Of or pertaining to the Teutons, esp. the ancient Teutons; Germanic.

A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism.

A condition of tonicity with respect to temperature.

A thunderbolt, -- formerly believed to be a stone. Fear no more the lightning flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone. Shak.

A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.

Cassiterite.

shire, England; -- said by some to be derived from the German todter stein, meaning dead stone, that is, stone which contains no ores.

A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.

A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top.

Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.

A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.

A variety of anhydrite composed of contorted plates fancied to resemble pieces of tripe.

A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights. Brande & C.

has a trumpet made of a shell. Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. Wordsworth.

A superfluous or augmented fourth. [R.]

Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.

In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.

The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.

species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake. Black turnstone, the California turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala). The adult in summer is…

Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.