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Terse
superl.
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Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
Terse
superl.
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Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.
Terse
superl.
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Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.
Tersulphide
n.
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A trisulphide.
Tersulphuret
n.
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A trisulphide.
Ter-tenant
n.
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See Terre-tenant.
Tertial
a. & n.
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Same as Tertiary.
Tertian
a.
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Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.
Tertian
n.
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A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
Tertian
n.
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A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
Tertiary
a.
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Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word.
Tertiary
a.
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Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
Tertiary
a.
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Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
Tertiary
a.
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Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills.
Tertiaries
pl.
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of Tertiary
Tertiary
n.
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A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third.
Tertiary
n.
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The Tertiary era, period, or formation.
Tertiary
n.
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One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Tertiate
v. t.
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To do or perform for the third time.
Tertiate
v. t.
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To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.
Terutero
n.
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The South American lapwing (Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing.
Terza rima
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A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.
Terzetto
n.
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A composition in three voice parts; a vocal (rarely an instrumental) trio.
Tesselar
a.
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Formed of tesserae, as a mosaic.
Tessellata
n. pl.
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A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates.
Tessellated
imp. & p. p.
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of Tessellate
Tessellating
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Tessellate
Tessellate
v. t.
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To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
Tessellate
a.
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Tessellated.
Tessellated
a.
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Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement.