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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 in ordinary breathing. It varies from twenty to thirty cubic inches. -- Tidal basin, a dock that is filled at the rising of the tide. -- Tidal wave. (a) See Tide wave,…

t room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water- tight; air-tight.

eable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designate…

both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air. In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand. Macaulay.

usible iron- gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1.

century, and copied in modern fashions; -- called also toquet. His velvet toque stuck as airily as ever upon the side of his head. Motley.

To put into great agitation. [R.] "[They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air." Milton.

n to determine the possession of; to gamble for. -- To toss up, to throw a coin into the air, and wager on which side it will fall, or determine a question by its fall. Bramsion.

A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.

To perform, as a tune; to play. A person is the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet. Sir W. Scott.

as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England. The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour. Milton.

An ornamental firework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire. G. Francis.

A tumor containing air and communicating with the trachea. Morell Mackenzie.

ibes in space, as a planet or comet in its orbit, or stone thrown upward obliquely in the air.

Translucent. [Obs.] The air's tralucent gallery. Sir. J. Davies.

ansparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to Ant: opaque. "Transparent elemental air." Milton.

Transparent; pervious to the sight. [R.] "The wide, transpicuous air." Milton.

Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture. With transport views the airy rule his own, And swells on an imaginary throne. Pope. Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled. Doddridge.

It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.

Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap. -- Trap shooter.