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Titanic. The Titan physical difficulties of his enterprise. I. Taylor.

A massive crane with an overhanging counterbalanced arm carrying a traveler and lifting crab, the whole supported by a carriage mounted on track rails. It is used esp. for setting heavy masonry blocks for piers, breakwaters, etc.

A salt of titanic acid.

Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient mythology; hence, enormous in size or strength; as, Titanic structures.

Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite.

See Sphene.

Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic mineral.

An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron- gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1.

A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain double compounds of titanium with some other elements; as, titano- cyanide, titano-fluoride, titano-silicate, etc.

A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.

Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that element has a lower valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.

Of or pertaining to Toledo in Spain; made in Toledo. [Obs.] "Tables Tolletanes." Chaucer.

A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.

Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.

Transmission.

Transportation. [Obs.] "Give me swift transportance." Shak.

Transporting; as, transportant love. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

To change into another substance. [R.] The spider love which transubstantiates all, And can convert manna to gall. Donne.

A change into another substance.

One who maintains the doctrine of transubstantiation. Barrow.