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In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms.

n that God has fixed a certain term for the probation of individual persons, during which period, and no longer, they have the offer to grace. Murdock.

s. "The so-called tertiary colors are citrine, russet, and olive." Fairholt. -- Tertiary period. (Geol.) (a) The first period of the age of mammals, or of the Cenozoic era. (b) The rock formation of that period; -- called also Tertiary formation. See the Chart of Geology. -- Tertiary syphilis (Med.), the third and la…

egistering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods. Nichol.

r conveying heat, as a case containing material which retains its heat for a considerable period.

consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.

especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.

Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.

A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.

Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares. Longfellow. Tidal air (Physiol.), the air which passes in and out of the lungs…

Time; period; season. [Obsoles.] "This lusty summer's tide." Chaucer. And rest their weary limbs a tide. Spenser. Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride. Spenser. At the tide of Christ his birth. Fuller.

A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. Heb. i. 1.

A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece. Toe biter (Zoöl.), a tadpole; a polliwig. -- Toe drop (Med.), a morbid condition of the foot in which the toe is depressed and the heel elevated, as in talipes equinus. See Talipes.

unit of measurement of the freight transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the products obtained by multiplying the aggregate weight of each shipment in tons during the given period by the number of miles for which it is carried.…

Ton miles collectively; esp., the total ton miles performed by a railroad in a given period.

s were forfeited on lapsed policies, on the policies of those who died within the tontine period only the face of the policy was paid without any share of the surplus, and the survivor at the end of the tontine period received the entire surplus. This plan of tontine insurance has been replaced in the United States by…

one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.

d belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great.

Approaching; coming near. "His toward peril." Spenser.

1715; also, any high headdress. Lay trains of amorous intrigues In towers, and curls, and periwigs. Hudibras.