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n Asiatic wild dog (Canis procyonoides), native of Japan and adjacent countries. It has a short, bushy tail. Called also raccoon dog.

ty. -- Tangent galvanometer (Elec.), a form of galvanometer having a circular coil and a short needle, in which the tangent of the angle of deflection of the needle is proportional to the strength of the current. -- Tangent of an angle, the natural tangent of the arc subtending or measuring the angle. -- Tangent of…

ging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.

es of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones.

A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter T in shape.

upposed to have originated in Holland and to have been the principal stock from which the shorthorns were derived.

es specially designed to give a large image of a distant object in a camera of relatively short focal length.

o grow soft and pliable. I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Shak.

A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.

A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.

and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell.

To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics.

The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.

hair and drooping ears, while others, at the English and the black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth hair and upright ears.

The South American lapwing (Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing.

A short sofa intended to accomodate two persons.

A short fly that falls too far out to be handled by an infielder and too close in to be caught by an outfielder. [Cant]

Having a short, thick body; stout.

One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.

The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer. Thumb band, a twist of anything as thick as the thumb. Mortimer. -- Thumb blue, indigo in the form of small balls or lumps, used by washer…