Made a temperature of brass and iron together.
Holland.
Absolute temperature. (Physics) See under Absolute. — Animal
temperature (Physiol.), the nearly constant temperature maintained in
the bodies of warm-blooded (homoiothermal) animals during life. The
ultimate source of the heat is to be found in the potential energy of
the food and the oxygen which is absorbed from the air during
respiration. See Homoiothermal. — Temperature sense (Physiol.), the
faculty of perceiving cold and warmth, and so of perceiving differences
of temperature in external objects. H. N. Martin.
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Tem"pered (?), a. Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel;
having (such) a temper; — chiefly used in composition; as, a
good-tempered or bad-tempered man; a well-tempered sword.
Tem"per*er (?), n. One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a
machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
Tem"per*ing, n. (Metal.) The process of giving the requisite degree of
hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the
process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for various
purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article, when heated
to redness, in cold water or other liquid, to give an excess of
hardness, and then reheating it gradually until the hardness is reduced
or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the color
produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil.
Tempering color, the shade of color that indicates the degree of temper
in tempering steel, as pale straw yellow for lancets, razors, and tools
for metal; dark straw yellow for penknives, screw taps, etc.; brown
yellow for axes, chisels, and plane irons; yellow tinged with purple
for table knives and shears; purple for swords and watch springs; blue
for springs and saws; and very pale blue tinged with green, too soft
for steel instruments.
Tem"pest (?), n. [OF. tempeste, F. tempête, (assumed) LL. tempesta, fr.
L. tempestas a portion of time, a season, weather, storm, akin to
tempus time. See Temporal of time.] 1. An extensive current of wind,
rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with
rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
[We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock
transfixed.
Milton.
2. Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a
tempest of war, or of the passions.
3. A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
[Archaic] Smollett.
Tempest is sometimes used in the formation of self- explaining
compounds; as, tempest-beaten, tempest-loving, tempest-tossed,
tempest-winged, and the like.
Syn. — Storm; agitation; perturbation. See Storm.
Tem"pest, v. t. [Cf. OF. tempester, F. tempêter to rage.] To disturb as
by a tempest. [Obs.]
Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest
the ocean.
Milton.
Tem"pest, v. i. To storm. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Tem*pes"tive (?), a. [L. tempestivus.] Seasonable; timely; as,
tempestive showers. [Obs.] Heywood. — Tem*pes"tive*ly, adv. [Obs.]
Tem`pes*tiv"i*ly (?), n. [L. tempestivitas.] The quality, or state, of
being tempestive; seasonableness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Tem*pes"tu*ous (?), a. [L. tempestuous: cf. OF. tempestueux, F.
tempêtueux.] Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a
tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a
tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate. — Tem*pes"tu*ous*ly, adv. —
Tem*pes"tu*ous*ness, n.
They saw the Hebrew leader, Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous
beard.
Longfellow.
Tem"plar (?), n. [OE. templere, F. templier, LL. templarius. See Temple
a church.] 1. One of a religious and military order first established
at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection
of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or
Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment
of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.
The order was first limited in numbers, and its members were bound by
vows of chastity and poverty. After the conquest of Palestine by the
Saracens, the Templars spread over Europe, and, by reason of their
reputation for valor and piety, they were enriched by numerous
donations of money and lands. The extravagances and vices of the later
Templars, however, finally led to the suppression of the order by the
Council of Vienne in 1312.
2. A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at
London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars.
See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple. [Eng.]
3. One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons,
called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men,
styled Good Templars.