Teg*men"tal (?), a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or
tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells
of the taste buds.
||Teg*men"tum (?), n.; pl. Tegmenta (#). [L., a covering.] (Anat.) A
||covering; — applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers
||in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.
||
Te*guex"in (?), n. (Zoöl.) A large South American lizard (Tejus
teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above,
marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits,
insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied
species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin.
||Teg"u*la (?), n.; pl. Tegulæ (#). [L., a tile, dim. fr. tegere to
||cover.] (Zoöl.) A small appendage situated above the base of the
||wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.
||
Teg"u*lar (?), a. [LL. tegularis, from L. tegula a tile. See Tile.] Of
or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles;
consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement. — Teg"u*lar*ly, adv.
Teg`u*la"ted (?), a. Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal,
overlapping like tiles; — said of a kind of ancient armor. Fairholt.
Teg"u*ment (?), n. [L. tegumentum, from tegere to cover. See Thatch,
n., and cf. Detect, Protect.] 1. A cover or covering; an integument.
2. Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ
of such a body; skin; hide.
Teg`u*men"ta*ry (?), a. [Cf. F. tégumentaire.] Of or pertaining to a
tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument
or covering.
Te-hee" (?), n. & interj. A tittering laugh; a titter. "'Te-hee,' quoth
she." Chaucer.
Te-hee", v. i. To titter; to laugh derisively.
She cried, "Come, come; you must not look grave upon me." Upon this, I
te-heed.
Madame D'Arblay.
Teil (?), n. [OF. teil, til, L. tilia.] (Bot.) The lime tree, or
linden; — called also teil tree.
Teind (?), n. [Cf. Icel. tund. See Tithe.] A tithe. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Teine (?), n. See Teyne. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tein"land (?), n. (O. Eng. Law) Land granted by the crown to a thane or
lord. Burrill.
Tei"no*scope (?), n. [Gr. &?; to extend + -scope.] (Physics) An
instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic
aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through
the prisms are increased or diminished; — called also prism telescope.
Sir D. Brewster.
Teint (?), n. [F. teint, teinte. See Tint.] Tint; color; tinge, See
Tint. [Obs.]
Time shall . . . embrown the teint.
Dryden.
Tein"ture (?), n. [F. See Tincture.] Color; tinge; tincture. [Obs.]
Holland.
Tek (?), n. (Zoöl.) A Siberian ibex.
||Tel`a*mo"nes (?), n. pl. [L., pl. of telamo or telamon, Gr. &?; a
||bearer, fr. &?; to bear.] (Arch.) Same as Atlantes.
||
||Tel*an`gi*ec"ta*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; end + &?; vessel + &?;
||extension.] (Med.) Dilatation of the capillary vessels.
||
Tel*an`gi*ec"ta*sy (?), n. (Med.) Telangiectasis.
Te"lar*ly (?), adv. In a weblike manner. [Obs.] "Telarly interwoven."
Sir T. Browne.
Te"la*ry (?), a. [LL. telaris, fr. L. tela a web. See Toil a snare.] Of
or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary. "Pictures of
telary spiders." Sir T. Browne.
Tel"e*du (?), n. (Zoöl.) An East Indian carnivore (Mydaus meliceps)
allied to the badger, and noted for the very offensive odor that it
emits, somewhat resembling that of a skunk. It is a native of the high
mountains of Java and Sumatra, and has long, silky fur. Called also
stinking badger, and stinkard.
Tel"e*gram (?), n. [Gr. &?; far + - gram.] A message sent by telegraph;
a telegraphic dispatch.
"A friend desires us to give notice that he will ask leave, at some
convenient time, to introduce a new word into the vocabulary. It is
telegram, instead of telegraphic dispatch, or telegraphic
communication." Albany [N. Y.] Evening Journal (April 6, 1852).
Tel`e*gram*mic (?), a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram;
laconic; concise; brief. [R.]
Tel"e*graph (?), n. [Gr. &?; far, far off (cf. Lith. toli) + -graph:
cf. F. télégraphe. See Graphic.] An apparatus, or a process, for
communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially
by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words
or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical
action.
The instruments used are classed as indicator, type- printing,
symbol-printing, or chemical-printing telegraphs, according as the
intelligence is given by the movements of a pointer or indicator, as in
Cooke & Wheatstone's (the form commonly used in England), or by
impressing, on a fillet of paper, letters from types, as in House's and
Hughe's, or dots and marks from a sharp point moved by a magnet, as in
Morse's, or symbols produced by electro-chemical action, as in Bain's.
In the offices in the United States the recording instrument is now
little used, the receiving operator reading by ear the combinations of
long and short intervals of sound produced by the armature of an
electro- magnet as it is put in motion by the opening and breaking of
the circuit, which motion, in registering instruments, traces upon a
ribbon of paper the lines and dots used to represent the letters of the
alphabet. See Illustration in Appendix.
Acoustic telegraph. See under Acoustic. — Dial telegraph, a telegraph
in which letters of the alphabet and numbers or other symbols are
placed upon the border of a circular dial plate at each station, the
apparatus being so arranged that the needle or index of the dial at the
receiving station accurately copies the movements of that at the
sending station. — Electric telegraph, or Electro- magnetic telegraph,
a telegraph in which an operator at one station causes words or signs
to be made at another by means of a current of electricity, generated
by a battery and transmitted over an intervening wire. — Facsimile
telegraph. See under Facsimile. — Indicator telegraph. See under
Indicator. — Pan-telegraph, an electric telegraph by means of which a
drawing or writing, as an autographic message, may be exactly
reproduced at a distant station. - - Printing telegraph, an electric
telegraph which automatically prints the message as it is received at a
distant station, in letters, not signs. — Signal telegraph, a telegraph
in which preconcerted signals, made by a machine, or otherwise, at one
station, are seen or heard and interpreted at another; a semaphore. —
Submarine telegraph cable, a telegraph cable laid under water to
connect stations separated by a body of water. — Telegraph cable, a
telegraphic cable consisting of several conducting wires, inclosed by
an insulating and protecting material, so as to bring the wires into
compact compass for use on poles, or to form a strong cable impervious
to water, to be laid under ground, as in a town or city, or under
water, as in the ocean. — Telegraph plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant
(Desmodium gyrans) native of the East Indies. The leaflets move up and
down like the signals of a semaphore.
Tel"e*graph (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Telegraphed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Telegraphing (?).] [F. télégraphier.] To convey or announce by
telegraph.
Te*leg"ra*pher (?), n. One who sends telegraphic messages; a
telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.
Tel`e*graph"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. télégraphique.] Of or pertaining to the
telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic
signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.
Tel`e*graph"ic*al (?), a. Telegraphic. — Tel`e*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
Te*leg"ra*phist (?), n. One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.
Te*leg"ra*phy (?), n. [Cf. F. télégraphie.] The science or art of
constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as,
submarine telegraphy.
Te*lem"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?; far + - meter.] An instrument used for
measuring the distance of an object from an observer; as, a telescope
with a micrometer for measuring the apparent diameter of an object
whose real dimensions are known.
||Te`le*o*ceph"i*al (t`l**sf"*l or t`l-), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. te`leos
||complete + kefalh` head.] (Zoöl.) An extensive order of bony fishes
||including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon, cod,
||perch, etc.
||
Te`le*o*log"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. téléologique.] (Biol.) Of or
pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design. —
Te`le*o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Te`le*ol"o*gist (?), n. (Biol.) One versed in teleology.
Te`le*ol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;, teleos, the end or issue + -logy: cf.
F. téléologie.] The doctrine of the final causes of things; specif.
(Biol.), the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of
organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by
purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical
explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine
of adaptation to purpose.
Te"le*o*phore` (?), n. [Gr. teleos complete + &?; to bear.] (Zoöl.)
Same as Gonotheca.
Te`le*or*gan"ic (?), a. [Gr. teleos complete + E. organic.] (Physiol.)
Vital; as, teleorganic functions.
Te`le*o*saur" (?), n. (Paleon.) Any one of several species of fossil
suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are
related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebræ.
||Te`le*o*sau"rus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; complete, perfect + &?; a
||lizard.] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the
||Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.
||
Te"le*ost (?), n. [Gr. &?; complete + &?; bone.] (Zoöl.) One of the
Teleosti. Also used adjectively.
Te`le*os"te*an (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the teleosts. — n. A
teleostean fish.
||Te`le*os"te*i (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; complete + &?; bone.]
||(Zoöl.) A subclass of fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes
||as distinguished from the ganoids.
||
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||Te"le*os`to*mi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; complete + &?; mouth.]
||(Zoöl.) An extensive division of fishes including the ordinary fishes
||(Teleostei) and the ganoids.
||
Te`le*o*zo"ic (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having tissued composed of cells.
Te*le*o*zo"ön (?), n. (Zoöl.) A metazoan.
Te*lep"a*thy (?), n. [Gr. &?; far off + &?;, &?;, to suffer.] The
sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or
emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the
ordinary channels of sensation. — Tel`e*path"ic, a. — Te*lep"a*thist,
n.
Tel"e*pheme (?), n. [Gr. &?; afar + &?; a saying.] A message by a
telephone. [Recent]
Tel"e*phone (?), n. [Gr. &?; far off + &?; sound.] (Physics) An
instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a
distance.
The ordinary telephone consists essentially of a device by which
currents of electricity, produced by sounds through the agency of
certain mechanical devices and exactly corresponding in duration and
intensity to the vibrations of the air which attend them, are
transmitted to a distant station, and there, acting on suitable
mechanism, reproduce similar sounds by repeating the vibrations. The
necessary variations in the electrical currents are usually produced by
means of a microphone attached to a thin diaphragm upon which the voice
acts, and are intensified by means of an induction coil. In the
magnetic telephone, or magneto- telephone, the diaphragm is of soft
iron placed close to the pole of a magnet upon which is wound a coil of
fine wire, and its vibrations produce corresponding vibrable currents
in the wire by induction. The mechanical, or string, telephone is a
device in which the voice or sound causes vibrations in a thin
diaphragm, which are directly transmitted along a wire or string
connecting it to a similar diaphragm at the remote station, thus
reproducing the sound. It does not employ electricity.
Tel"e*phone, v. t. To convey or announce by telephone.
Tel`e*phon"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. téléphonique. See Telephone.] 1.
Conveying sound to a great distance.