Tee-to"-tum (?), n. [Cf. Teetotaler.] A workingmen's resort conducted under religious influences as a counteractant to the drinking saloon. [Colloq. or Cant]
Tel*au"to*gram (?), n. A message transmitted and recorded by a teleautograph.
Tel*au"to*graph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + autograph.] A facsimile telegraph for reproducing writing, pictures, maps, etc. In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits. In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to move a pen as the pencil moves. -- Tel`au*tog"ra*phist (#), n.
Tel`e*chi"ro*graph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + chei`r, cheiro`s, hand + -graph.] An instrument for telegraphically transmitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror.
Te*le"ga (?), n. [Russ. telyega.] A rude four-wheeled, springless wagon, used among the Russians.
Te*leg"o*ny (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + root of Gr. &?; to be born.] (Biol.) The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father. -- Te*leg"o*nous (#), a.
Te*leg"ra*phone (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + -graph + &?; sound.] An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.
Tel`e*graph"o*scope (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + -graph + -scope.] An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image.
Telegraph plant. An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.
Tel`e*hy`dro*ba*rom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + hydrobarometer.] An instrument for indicating the level of water in a distant tank or reservior.
Tel`e-i*con"o*graph (?), n. [Gr. th^le far + iconograph.] 1. An instrument essentially the same as the telemetrograph.