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The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheæ of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.

The act of informing officiously; communication of sectrts, scandal, etc., maliciously.

A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of the dress of ladies.

from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound, which is the basis of common ink. Called also tannin, and gallotannic acid.

A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges. On tap. (a) Ready to be drawn; as, ale on tap. (b) Broached, or furnished with a tap; as, a barrel on tap. -- Plug tap (Mech.), a screw-cutting tap with a slightly tapering e…

ments of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which variations are…

A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.

A station on the Nile, midway between Thebes and Memphis, forming the site of the capital of Amenophis IV., whose archive chamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of tablets (called the Tel-el-Amarna, or the Amarna, tablets) was found here, forming the Asiatic correspondence (Tel-el-Amarna letters) of Amenoph…

The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight.

Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge.

Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.

em.) (a) A simple tube of thin glass, closed at one end, for heating solutions and for performing ordinary reactions. (b) A graduated tube.

uages, or the peoples who speak these languages. Teutonic languages, a group of languages forming a division of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family, and embracing the High German, Low German, Gothic, and Scandinavian dialects and languages. -- Teutonic order, a military religious order of knights, established toward t…

stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.

The act or art of performing something wonderful; magic; legerdemain. T. Warton.

The wall forming a calicle of a coral.

A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.

lower segments in the hyoid arch, often consolidated with the body of the hyoid bone and forming one of its great horns, as in man.

ended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding. So they prepared timber . . . to build the house. 1 Kings v. 18. Many of the timbers were decayed. W. Coxe.…

e detachable or movable fore part of a gunstock, lying beneath the barrel or barrels, and forming a hold for the left hand.