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und; boundary. Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries. Bacon.

A day which is a term (as for payment of rent), or is a day in a term, as of the sitting of a court; esp., one of a series of special days, designated by scientists of different nations or stations, for making synoptic magnetic, meteorological, or other physical observations.

Insurance for a specified term providing for no payment to the insured except upon losses during the term, and becoming void upon its expiration.

A policy of term insurance.

The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

The quality or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper.

nd puppet shows as extremely vociferous and tumultous. [Obs.] Chaucer. "And oftentimes by Termagant and Mahound [Mahomet] swore." Spenser. The lesser part on Christ believed well, On Termagant the more, and on Mahound. Fairfax.

Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants.

Same as Termatarium.

One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practice tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like. [Obs.] [Written also termor.] B. Jonson.

A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or termites. See Termite.

Capable of being terminated or bounded; limitable. -- Ter"mi*na*ble*ness, n. Terminable annuity, an annuity for a stated, definite number of years; -- distinguished from life annuity, and perpetual annuity.

Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge.

A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.

Termination; ending. [R.] Puttenham.

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.

Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining; definitive. Bp. Rust. -- Ter"mi*na*tive*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.

One who, or that which, terminates.