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Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.

Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.

Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand.

An insect characterized by having but four perfect legs, as certain of the butterflies.

Characterized by division into four parts.

Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal. Her chaffer was so thrifty and so new. Chaucer. I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he hath not been thrifty. Swift.

Like thrums; made of, furnished with, or characterized by, thrums. Dampier. On her head thrummy cap she had. Chalkhill.

An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthæ. See Aphthæ.

d by Armand de Rancé in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.

An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.

Having, or characterized by, three unequal axes intersecting at oblique angles. See the Note under crystallization.

Of or pertaining to tricrotism; characterized by tricrotism.

Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, trimorphism; -- contrasted with monomorphic, dimorphic, and polymorphic.

Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical. Burton. -- Trop`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.

Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.

Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.

A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption.

tyle (Arch.), the latest development of Gothic architecture in England, under the Tudors, characterized by flat four-centered arches, shallow moldings, and a profusion of paneling on the walls.

Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent. The flight became wild and tumultuous. Macaulay.