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Telling tales; babbling. "The telltale heart." Poe.

Of or pertaining to Temple, a valley in Thessaly, celebrated by Greek poets on account of its beautiful scenery; resembling Temple; hence, beautiful; delightful; charming.

Of or pertaining to Alfred (Lord) Tennyson, the English poet (1809-92); resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.

æ filius Etym: [L., son of the earth], formerly, one appointed to write a satirical Latin poem at the public acts in the University of Oxford; -- not unlike the prevaricator at Cambridge, England. -- Terra firma Etym: [L.], firm or solid earth, as opposed to water. -- Terra Japonica. Etym: [NL.] Same as Gambier. It w…

The earth's surface; the earth. [Poetic] Tenfold the length of this terrene. Milton.

Free from terror. Poe.

as, terse language; a terse style. Terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence. Macaulay. A poet, too, was there, whose verse Was tender, musical, and terse. Longfellow.

A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.

A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb.

A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines. Pope.

A Latin epic poem by Statius about Thebes in Boeotia.

Not there; elsewhere; absent. [Poetic] Shak.

ranch of heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities; also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the Theogony of Hesiod.

discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.

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

te; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.

rson addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style. Art thou he that should come Matt. xi. 3.

To enslave. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser.

To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak. Of all his threating reck not a mite. Chaucer. Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. Dryden.

e of thou; -- used always attributively, and chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry. Thine is used in the predicate; as, the knife is thine. See Thine. Our father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. Matt. vi. 9,10. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good. Mil…