Testimonies (pl. ) of Testimony
Testimony (n.) A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.
Testimony (n.) Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians.
Testimony (n.) Open attestation; profession.
Testimony (n.) Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
Testimony (n.) The two tables of the law.
Testimony (n.) Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre/ Scriptures.
Testimony (v. t.) To witness; to attest; to prove by testimony.
Testiness (n.) The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.
Testing (n.) The act of testing or proving; trial; proof.
Testing (n.) The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation.
Testes (pl. ) of Testis
Testis (n.) A testicle.
Teston (n.) A tester; a sixpence.
Testone (n.) A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents.
Testoon (n.) An Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty cents.
Testudinal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tortoise.
Testudinarious (a.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a tortoise shell.
Testudinata (n. pl.) An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsal shell, called the carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates.
Testudinate (a.) Alt. of Testudinated
Testudinated (a.) Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.
Testudineous (a.) Resembling the shell of a tortoise.
Testudines (pl. ) of Testudo
Testudo (n.) A genus of tortoises which formerly included a large number of diverse forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial species, such as the European land tortoise (Testudo Graeca) and the gopher of the Southern United States.
Testudo (n.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels.
Testudo (n.) A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
Testy (superl.) Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
Tetanic (a.) Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction.
Tetanic (a.) Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n.
Tetanic (n.) A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.
Tetanin (n.) A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus; -- so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.
Tetanization (n.) The production or condition of tetanus.
Tetanize (v. t.) To throw, as a muscle, into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in. See Tetanus, n., 2.
Tetanoid (a.) Resembling tetanus.
Tetanomotor (n.) An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.
Tetanus (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.
Tetanus (n.) That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks.
Tetany (n.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.
Tetard (n.) A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.
Tetartohedral (a.) Having one fourth the number of planes which are requisite to complete symmetry.
Tetartohedrism (n.) The property of being tetartohedral.
Tetaug (n.) See Tautog.
Tetchiness (n.) See Techiness.
Tetchy (a.) See Techy.
Tete (n.) A kind of wig; false hair.
Tete-a-tete (n.) Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons.
Tete-a-tete (n.) A short sofa intended to accomodate two persons.
Tete-a-tete (a.) Private; confidential; familiar.
Tete-a-tete (adv.) Face to face; privately or confidentially; familiarly.
Tetes-de-pont (pl. ) of Tete-de-pont
Tete-de-pont (n.) A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead.
Tetel (n.) A large African antelope (Alcelaphus tora). It has widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.
Tether (n.) A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.
Tethered (imp. & p. p.) of Tether
Tethering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tether
Tether (v. t.) To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits.
Tethydan (n.) A tunicate.
Tethyodea (n. pl.) A division of Tunicata including the common attached ascidians, both simple and compound. Called also Tethioidea.
Tethys (n.) A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored.
Tetra- () A combining form or prefix signifying four, as in tetrabasic, tetrapetalous.
Tetra- () 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.
Tetrabasic (a.) Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monacid base; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by bases; quadribasic; -- said of certain acids; thus, normal silicic acid, Si(OH)4, is a tetrabasic acid.
Tetraboric (a.) Same as Pyroboric.
Tetrabranchiata (n. pl.) An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species are found in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras, etc.
Tetrabranchiate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Tetrabranchiata.
Tetrabranchiate (n.) One of the Tetrabranchiata.
Tetracarpel (a.) Composed of four carpels.
Tetrachord (n.) A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.
Tetrachotomous (a.) Having a division by fours; separated into four parts or series, or into series of fours.
Tetracid (a.) Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monobasic acid; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement ba acids or acid atoms; -- said of certain bases; thus, erythrine, C4H6(OH)4, is a tetracid alcohol.
Tetracoccous (a.) Having four cocci, or carpels.
Tetracolon (n.) A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines.
Tetracoralla (n. pl.) Same as Rugosa.
Tetractinellid (n.) Any species of sponge of the division Tetractinellida. Also used adjectively.
Tetractinellida (n. pl.) A division of Spongiae in which the spicules are siliceous and have four branches diverging at right angles. Called also Tetractinellinae.
Tetrad (n.) The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion.
Tetrad (n.) A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical; as, carbon is a tetrad.
Tetradactyl (a.) Alt. of Tetradactyle
Tetradactyle (a.) Tetradactylous.
Tetradactylous (a.) Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand.
Tetradecane (n.) A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.
Tetradecapoda (n. pl.) Same as Arthrostraca.
Tetradic (a.) Of or pertaining to a tetrad; possessing or having the characteristics of a tetrad; as, a carbon is a tetradic element.
Tetradite (n.) A person in some way remarkable with regard to the number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead.
Tetradon (n.) See Tetrodon.
Tetradont (a. & n.) See Tetrodont.
Tetradrachm (n.) Alt. of Tetradrachma
Tetradrachma (n.) A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, of the value of four drachms.
Tetradymite (n.) A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Called also telluric bismuth.
Tetradynamia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others.
Tetradynamian (n.) A plant of the order Tetradynamia.
Tetradynamian (a.) Alt. of Tetradynamous
Tetradynamous (a.) Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.
Tetragon (n.) A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc.
Tetragon (n.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle.
Tetragonal (a.) Of or pertaining to a tetragon; having four angles or sides; thus, the square, the parallelogram, the rhombus, and the trapezium are tetragonal fingers.
Tetragonal (a.) Having four prominent longitudinal angles.
Tetragonal (a.) Designating, or belonging to, a certain system of crystallization; dimetric. See Tetragonal system, under Crystallization.
Tetragrammaton (n.) The mystic number four, which was often symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc.
Tetragynia (n. pl.) A Linnaean order of plants having four styles.