Tech"nics (?), n. The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of
learning as respect the arts.
Tech`nique" (?), n. [F.] Same as Technic, n.
Tech"nism (?), n. Technicality.
Tech`no*log"ic (?), a. Technological.
Tech`no*log"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. technologique.] Of or pertaining to
technology.
Tech*nol"o*gist (?), n. One skilled in technology; one who treats of
arts, or of the terms of arts.
Tech*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; an art + - logy; cf. Gr. &?; systematic
treatment: cf. F. technologie.] Industrial science; the science of
systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more
important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.
Technology is not an independent science, having a set of doctrines of
its own, but consists of applications of the principles established in
the various physical sciences (chemistry, mechanics, mineralogy, etc.)
to manufacturing processes. Internat. Cyc.
Tech"y (?), a. [From OE. tecche, tache, a habit, bad habit, vice, OF.
tache, teche, a spot, stain, blemish, habit, vice, F. tache a spot,
blemish; probably akin to E. tack a small nail. See Tack a small nail,
and cf. Touchy.] Peevish; fretful; irritable.
Tec`ti*branch (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used
adjectively.
||Tec`ti*bran"chi*a (?), n. pl. [NL.] Same as Tectibranchiata.
||
||Tec`ti*bran`chi*a"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tectus (p. p. of tegere
||to cover) + Gr. &?; a gill.] (Zoöl.) An order, or suborder, of
||gastropod Mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one
||side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there
||is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary.
||The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.
||
Tec`ti*bran"chi*ate (?), a. [L. tectus (p. p. of tegere to cover) + E.
branchiate.] (Zoöl.) Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or
pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. — n. A tectibranchiate mollusk.
Tect"ly (?), adv. [L. tectus covered, fr. tegere to cover.] Covertly;
privately; secretly. [Obs.] Holinshed.
Tec*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; a carpenter + -logy.] (Biol.) A division
of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality
constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the
organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different
orders, each organ being considered an individual. See Promorphology,
and Morphon.
Tec*ton"ic (?), a. [L. tectonicus, Gr. &?;, fr. &?;, &?;, a carpenter,
builder.] Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.
Tec*ton"ics (?), n. The science, or the art, by which implements,
vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably
to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic
sentiments and ideas.
Tec*to"ri*al (?), a. [L. tectorius.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to
covering; — applied to a membrane immediately over the organ of Corti
in the internal ear.
||Tec"tri*ces (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tegere, tectum, to cover.]
||(Zoöl.) The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.
||
Te"cum (?), n. (Bot.) See Tucum.
Ted (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tedded (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tedding.]
[Prob. fr. Icel. te&?;ja to spread manure, fr. ta&?; manure; akin to
MHG. zetten to scatter, spread. √58. Cf. Teathe.] To spread, or turn
from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; — chiefly
used in the past participle.
The smell of grain or tedded grass.
Milton.
The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field.
Coleridge.
Ted"der (?), n. A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite
its drying.
Ted"der, n. [OE. √64. See Tether.] Same as Tether.
Ted"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Teddered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Teddering.]
Same as Tether.
||Te` De"um (?). [L., from te (accus. of tu thou) + Deum, accus. of
||Deus God. See Thou, and Deity.] 1. An ancient and celebrated
||Christian hymn, of uncertain authorship, but often ascribed to St.
||Ambrose; — so called from the first words "Te Deum laudamus." It
||forms part of the daily matins of the Roman Catholic breviary, and is
||sung on all occasions of thanksgiving. In its English form,
||commencing with words, "We praise thee, O God," it forms a part of
||the regular morning service of the Church of England and the
||Protestant Episcopal Church in America.
||
2. A religious service in which the singing of the hymn forms a
principal part.
Tedge (?), n. (Founding) The gate of a mold, through which the melted
metal is poured; runner, geat.