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665 words match “ARRANGE”

TABULAR a.
Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.
TAMBOUR n.
n, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
TARGET n.
The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.
TASTELESS a.
Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. -- Taste"less*ly, adv. -- Taste"less*ness, n.
TAXASPIDEAN a.
Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; -- said of certain birds.
TEGULAR a.
Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement. -- Teg"u*lar*ly, adv.
TELEPOLARISCOPE n.
A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope. Lockyer.
TELESPECTROSCOPE n.
A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars. Lockyer.
TERN a.
flowers (Bot.), flowers growing three and three together. -- Tern leaves (Bot.), leaves arranged in threes, or three by three, or having three in each whorl or set. -- Tern peduncles (Bot.), three peduncles growing together from the same axis. -- Tern schooner (Naut.), a three-masted schooner.
TERNATE a.
Having the parts arranged by threes; as, ternate branches, leaves, or flowers. -- Ter"nate*ly, adv.
TETRAMEROUS a.
Having the parts arranged in sets of four; as, a tetramerous flower.
TETRAPLA n.
A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or four columns.
TEXTILE a.
cs. Textile cone (Zoöl.), a beautiful cone shell (Conus textilis) in which the colors are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth.
THERMOSIPHON n.
An arrangement of siphon tubes for assisting circulation in a liquid.
THREE-LEAFED; THREE-LEAVED a.
Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes. Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.
THRUST n.
of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. -- Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.
THUJA n.
A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. [Written also thuya.] See Thyine wood.
TICKLER n.
A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity. [Com. Cant, U.S.] Bartlett.
TIDY a.
Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy. A tidy man, that tened [injured] me never. Piers Plowman.
TOILET n.
Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect. [Written also toilette.] Toilet glass, a looking-glass for a toilet table or for a dressing room. -- Toilet service, Toilet set, earthenware, glass, and other utensils for a dressing room. -- Toilet table, a dres…
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