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To serve instead of; to take the place of. Burning ships the banished sun supply. Waller. The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, had lighted up the sky. Dryden.

Survivorship. [R.] His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership. Bp. Burnet.

The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband. [India]

The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics. Bp. Burnet.

, v. t., 3. Macaulay. Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time. Bp. Burnet.

p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of Taken. [Poetic & Scot.] Burns.

e, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing. Symbol Ta. Atomic weight 182.0. Formerly called also tantalium.

A foolish or thoughtless young person, esp. a slothful or slovenly woman. [Scot.] Burns.

Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion. "A leopard's tawny and spotted hide." Longfellow.

A torch. [Obs.] "A burning teade." Spenser.

To kindle; to burn. [Obs.] Herrick.

the degree required, as indicated by the color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil. Tempering color, the shade of color that indicates the degree of temper in tempering steel, as pale straw yellow for lancets, razors, and tools for metal; dark straw yellow for penknives, screw taps, etc.; brown ye…

ering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy. It lightens, it brightens, The tenebrific scene. Burns. Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time. R. Browning.

rra alba Etym: [L., white earth] (Com.), a white amorphous earthy substance consisting of burnt gypsum, aluminium silicate (kaolin), or some similar ingredient, as magnesia. It is sometimes used to adulterate certain foods, spices, candies, paints, etc. -- Terra cotta. Etym: [It., fr. terra earth + cotta, fem. of cott…

all that. Pope. The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd [gold] for a'that. Burns. -- For that. See under For, prep. -- In that. See under In, prep.

rm, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater. Burns. Shade above shade, a woody theater Of stateliest view. Milton.

er. So much woe as I have with you tholed. Chaucer. To thole the winter's steely dribble. Burns.

rite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly called also thorinum. Symbol Th. Atomic weight 232.0.

See Throse. [Scot.] Burns.

thing continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse. Bp. Burnet.