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The Trosachs wound, as now, between gigantic walls of rock tapestried with broom and wild roses. Macaulay.

ient and celebrated Christian hymn, of uncertain authorship, but often ascribed to St. Ambrose; -- so called from the first words "Te Deum laudamus." It forms part of the daily matins of the Roman Catholic breviary, and is sung on all occasions of thanksgiving. In its English form, commencing with words, "We praise the…

fusion; specifically, Thea Chinensis, from which the tea of commerce is obtained. -- Tea rose (Bot.), a delicate and graceful variety of the rose (Rosa Indica, var. odorata), introduced from China, and so named from its scent. Many varieties are now cultivated. -- Tea service, the appurtenances or utensils required f…

y from revelation. -- Scholastic theology, theology as taught by the scholastics, or as prosecuted after their principles and methods. -- Speculative theology, theology as founded upon, or influenced by, speculation or metaphysical philosophy. -- Systematic theology, that branch of theology of which the aim is to re…

turned from me. Addison. I'll be this abject thing no more. Granville. I have a thing in prose. Swift.

To prick, as with a thorn. [Poetic] I am the only rose of all the stock That never thorn'd him. Tennyson.

as, Althorp, Mablethorpe. "Within a little thorp I staid." Fairfax. Then thorpe and byre arose in fire. Tennyson.

See Throse. [Scot.] Burns.

To grow; to thrive. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

aised above the stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of pin-eyed.

as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth. At every new thud of the blast, a sob arose. Jeffrey. At intervals there came some tremendous thud on the side of the steamer. C. Mackay.

tree (Myroxylon toluiferum), the wood of which is red in the center, and has an aromatic rose odor. It affords the balsam called tolu.

One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. [Poetic.] Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.

To take off the or upper part of; to crop. Top your rose trees a little with your knife. Evelyn.

The quality or state of being torose.

Torose.

Same as Torose.

Same as Torose.

To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose. [Obs.] Duke of Buckingham.

The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.