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A system of apparatus for electric signals providing for automatic transmission of a definite number of different signals or calls, as in connection with hotel annunciators.

headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless. -- Tem`er*a"ri*ous*ly, adv. I spake against temerarious judgment. Latimer.

Temerity. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war.

Temerarious. [Obs.]

a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free or frank tenements. The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a "tenant," and the manner of possession is called "tenure." Blackstone.

Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants. Blackstone.

Capable of being leased; held by tenants. Spelman.

n which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text. My theme is alway one and ever was. Chaucer. And when a soldier was the theme, my name Was not far off. Shak.

Enticement. [Obs.]

The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. [R.] Shak.

To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Transubstantiation. [Obs.]

A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.

may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall. A tremendous mischief was a foot. Motley.

A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail.

An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.

of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.

The act unhinging, or the state of being unhinged.

Not redeemed.