Search the Dictionary

examine. With such altered looks, . . . All pale and speechless, he surveyed me round. Dryden.

pleasure, Which, when no other enemy survives, Still conquers all the conquerors. Sir J. Denham. Alike are life and death, When life in death survives. Longfellow.

rd nor fights nor fies; their fate so near At once suspends their courage and their fear. Denham.

of a person waiting for the verdict of a jury. Ten days the prophet in suspense remained. Denham. Upon the ticklish balance of suspense. Cowper.

imes, a rustic. Her private orchards, walled on every side, To lawless sylvans all access denied. Pope.

surfaces at diarthrodial joints. -- Synovial fluid, synovia. -- Synovial membrane, the dense and very smooth connective tissue membrane which secretes synovia and surrounds synovial capsules and other synovial cavities.

A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third. [Written also tale.]

Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180. Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five hundred talents. Jowett (T…

The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. [Prov. Eng.]

A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.

A combining form (also used adjectively) used in chemistry to denote the presence of tartar or of some of its compounds or derivatives.

r thing touched to produce a tone. Tasto solo, single touch; -- in old music, a direction denoting that the notes in the bass over or under which it is written should be performed alone, or with no other chords than unisons and octaves.

ss of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.

Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. See Ecbatic. Gibbs.

Condition with regard to heat or cold; temperature. [Obs.] Bodies are denominated "hot" and "cold" in proportion to the present temperament of that part of our body to which they are applied. Locke.

Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.

Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.

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

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting four proportional or combining parts of the substance or ingredient denoted by the term to which it is prefixed, as in tetra-chloride, tetroxide.