Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T

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Teaberry (n.) (Bot.) The checkerberry.

Teaberry (n.) Creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil [syn: teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens].

Teaberry (n.) Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry].

Taught (imp. & p. p.) of Teach.

Teaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Teach.

Teach (v. t.) To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to teach morals.

If some men teach wicked things, it must be that

others should practice them. -- South.

Teach (v. t.) To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of studies; as, to teach a child or a class. "He taught his disciples." -- Mark ix. 31.

The village master taught his little school. -- Goldsmith.

Teach (v. t.) To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish.

I shall myself to herbs teach you. -- Chaucer.

They have taught their tongue to speak lies. -- Jer. ix. 5.

Note: This verb is often used with two objects, one of the person, the other of the thing; as, he taught me Latin grammar. In the passive construction, either of these objects may be retained in the objective case, while the other becomes the subject; as, I was taught Latin grammar by him; Latin grammar was taught me by him.

Syn: To instruct; inform; inculcate; tell; guide; counsel; admonish. See the Note under Learn.

Teach (v. i.) To give instruction; to follow the business, or to perform the duties, of a preceptor.

And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach. -- Chaucer.

The priests thereof teach for hire. -- Micah iii. 11.

Teach (n.) An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718) [syn: Teach, Edward Teach, Thatch, Edward Thatch, Blackbeard]

Teach (v.) Impart skills or knowledge to; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat" [syn: teach, learn, instruct].

Teach (v.) Accustom gradually to some action or attitude; "The child is taught to obey her parents".

Teachable (a.) Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile.

We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased, and teachable, to learn our religion from the Word of God. -- I. Watts.

Teachable (a.) Ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters" [syn: docile, teachable].

Teachableness (n.) Willingness to be taught.

Teache (n.) (Sugar Manuf.) Any one of the series of boilers or evaporating pans in which the cane juice is concentrated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series. -- Ure.

Note: The 1890 edition had the following etymology for teache: [Cf. Ir. teaghaim, Gael. teasaich, to heat.].

Presumably a speculation which proved incorrect?

Teacher (n.) One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.

Teacher (n.) One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.

The teachers in all the churches assembled. -- Sir W. Raleigh.

Teacher (n.) A person whose occupation is teaching [syn: teacher, instructor].

Teacher (n.) A personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher".

Teaching (n.) The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction.

Syn: Education; instruction; breeding. See Education.
Teaching (n.) The profession of a teacher; "he prepared for teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession" [syn: teaching, instruction, pedagogy].

Teaching (n.) A doctrine that is taught; "the teachings of religion"; "he believed all the Christian precepts" [syn: teaching, precept, commandment].

Teaching (n.) The activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded" [syn: education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity].

Teachless (a.) Not teachable. [R.] -- Shelley.

Teacup (n.) A small cup from which to drink tea.

Teacup (n.) As much as a teacup will hold [syn: teacup, teacupful].

Teacup (n.) A cup from which tea is drunk

Teacupfuls (n. pl. ) of Teacupful.

Teacupful (n.) As much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.

Tead (n.) Alt. of Teade.

Teade (n.) A torch. [Obs.] "A burning teade." -- Spenser.

Teagle (n.) A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift. [Prov. Eng.]

Teague (n.) An Irishman; -- a term used in contempt. -- Johnson.

Teague, TX -- U.S. city in Texas

Population (2000): 4557

Housing Units (2000): 1526
Land area (2000): 3.438095 sq. miles (8.904626 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 3.438095 sq. miles (8.904626 sq. km)

FIPS code: 72020

Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48

Location: 31.627618 N, 96.283353 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 75860

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Teague, TX

Teague

Teak (n.) (Bot.) A tree of East Indies ({Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree. [Written also teek.]

African+teak,+A+tree+({Oldfieldia+Africana">African teak, a tree ({Oldfieldia Africana) of Sierra Leone; also, its very heavy and durable wood; -- called also African oak.

New+Zeland+teak,+A+large+tree+({Vitex+littoralis">New Zeland teak, a large tree ({Vitex littoralis) of New Zeland; also, its hard, durable timber.

Teak (n.) Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding [syn: teak, teakwood].

Teak (n.) Tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood [syn: teak, Tectona grandis].

Teakettle (n.) A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.

Teakettle (n.) Kettle for boiling water to make tea.

Teal (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings.

Note: The common European teal ({Anas crecca) and the European blue-winged teal, or garganey ({Anas querquedula or Anas circia), are well-known species.

In America the blue-winged teal ({Anas discors), the green-winged teal ({Anas Carolinensis), and the cinnamon teal ({Anas cyanoptera) are common species, valued as game birds. See Garganey.

Goose teal, A goslet. See Goslet.

Teal duck, The common European teal.

Teal (a.) Of a bluish shade of green [syn: bluish green, blue-green, cyan, teal].

Teal (n.) A blue-green color or pigment; "they painted it a light shade of bluish green" [syn: bluish green, blue green, teal].

Teal (n.) Any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America.

Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.

A team of ducklings about her. -- Holland.

Team (n.) Hence, a number of animals moving together.

A long team of snowy swans on high. -- Dryden.

Team (n.) Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like. "A team of dolphins." -- Spenser.

To take his team and till the earth. -- Piers Plowman.

It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighboring farm to tug them out of the slough. -- Macaulay.

Team (n.) A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.

Team (n.) (Zool.) A flock of wild ducks.

Team (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. -- Burrill.

Team (v. i.) To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster.

Team (v. t.) To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. [R.] -- Thoreau.

Team (n.) A cooperative unit (especially in sports) [syn: team, squad].

Team (n.) Two or more draft animals that work together to pull something.

Team (v.) Form a team; "We teamed up for this new project" [syn: team, team up].

Teamed (a.) Yoked in, or as in, a team. [Obs.]

Let their teamed fishes softly swim. -- Spenser.

Teaming (n.) The act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team.

Teaming (n.) (Manuf.) Contract work. [R.] -- Knight.

Teammate (n.) 隊友，同隊隊員 A fellow member of a team; "it was his first start against his former teammates" [syn: teammate, mate].

Teamster (n.) One who drives a team.

Teamster (n.) The driver of a team of horses doing hauling.

Teamster (n.) Someone who drives a truck as an occupation [syn: teamster, trucker, truck driver].

Teamwork (n.) Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor.

Teamwork (n.) Work done by a number of associates, usually each doing a clearly defined portion, but all subordinating personal prominence to the efficiency of the whole; as, the teamwork of a football eleven or a gun crew.

Is the teamwork system employed, or does one workman make the whole cigar? -- U. S. Consular Repts.

Teamwork (n.) Cooperative work done by a team (especially when it is effective); "it will take money, good planning and, above all, teamwork".

Teamwork, () A SASD tool from Sterling Software, formerly CADRE Technologies, which supports the Shlaer/ Mellor Object-Oriented method and the Yourdon-DeMarco, Hatley-Pirbhai, Constantine and Buhr notations.

Teamwork was abandoned when Computer Associates acquired Sterling Software in March 2000.

(2002-05-29)

Teapot (n.) A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.

Teapot (n.) Pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle.

Teapoy (n.) An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.

Tear (n.) (Physiol.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.

And yet for thee ne wept she never a tear. -- Chaucer.

Tear (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.

Let Araby extol her happy coast, Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears. -- Dryden.

Tear (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. [R.] "Some melodous tear." -- Milton.

Tear (n.) (Glass Manuf.) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.

Note: Tear is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tear-distilling, tear-drop, tear-filled, tear-stained, and the like.

Tears of St. Lawrence, The Perseid shower of meteors, seen every year on or about the eve of St. Lawrence, August 9th.

Tears of wine, Drops which form and roll down a glass above the surface of strong wine. The phenomenon is due to the evaporation of alcohol from the surface layer, which, becoming more watery, increases in surface tension and creeps up the sides until its weight causes it to break.

Tore (imp.) of Tear.

Tare () of Tear.

Torn (p. p.) of Tear.

Tearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tear.

Tear (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.

Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator. -- Shak.

Tear (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.

Tear (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.

The hand of fate Hath torn thee from me. -- Addison.

Tear (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.

Tear (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate. "Once I loved torn ocean's roar." -- Byron.

To tear a cat, To rant violently; to rave; -- especially

applied to theatrical ranting. [Obs.] -- Shak.

To tear down, To demolish violently; to pull or pluck down.

To tear off, To pull off by violence; to strip.

To tear out, To pull or draw out by violence; as, to tear out the eyes.

To tear up, To rip up; to remove from a fixed state by violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the foundation of government or order.

Tear (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.

Tear (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.

Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure. -- Macaulay.

Wear and tear. See under Wear, n.

Tear (n.) A drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands; "his story brought tears to her eyes" [syn: tear, teardrop].

Tear (n.) An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn: rip, rent, snag, split, tear].

Tear (n.) An occasion for excessive eating or drinking; "they went on a bust that lasted three days" [syn: bust, tear, binge, bout].

Tear (n.) The act of tearing; "he took the manuscript in both hands and gave it a mighty tear".

Tear (v.) Separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear the paper" [syn: tear, rupture, snap, bust].

Tear (v.) To separate or be separated by force; "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars".

Tear (v.) Move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck].

Tear (v.) Strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" [syn: pluck, pull, tear, deplume, deplumate, displume].

Tear (v.) Fill with tears or shed tears; "Her eyes were tearing".

Tearer (n.) One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.

Tear-falling (a.) Shedding tears; tender. [Poetic] "Tear-falling pity." -- Shak.

Tearful (a.) Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly, adv. -- Tear"ful*ness, n.
Tearful (a.) Filled with or marked by tears; "tearful eyes"; "tearful entreaties" [ant: dry-eyed, tearless].

Tearful (a.) Showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping].

Tearless (a.) Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling. -- Tear"less*ly, adv. -- Tear"less*ness, n.

Tearless (a.) Free from tears [syn: tearless, dry-eyed] [ant: tearful].

Tearpit (n.) (Anat.) A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.

Tear-thumb (n.) (Bot.) A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.

Teary (a.) Wet with tears; tearful.

Teary (a.) Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.

Teary (a.) With eyes full of tears [syn: teary, teary-eyed, watery-eyed].

Tea-saucer (n.) A small saucer in which a teacup is set.

Teased (imp. & p. p.) of Tease.

Teasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tease.

Tease (v. t.) To comb or card, as wool or flax. "Teasing matted wool." -- Wordsworth.

Tease (v. t.) To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.

Tease (v. t.) (Anat.) To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.

Tease (v. t.) To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. -- Cowper.

He . . . suffered them to tease him into acts directly opposed to his strongest inclinations. -- Macaulay.

Syn: To vex; harass: annoy; disturb; irritate; plague; torment; mortify; tantalize; chagrin.

Usage: Tease, Vex. To tease is literally to pull or scratch, and implies a prolonged annoyance in respect to little things, which is often more irritating, and harder to bear, than severe pain. Vex meant originally to seize and bear away hither and thither, and hence, to disturb; as, to vex the ocean with storms. This sense of the term now rarely occurs; but vex is still a stronger word than tease, denoting the disturbance or anger created by minor provocations, losses, disappointments, etc. We are teased by the buzzing of a fly in our eyes; we are vexed by the carelessness or stupidity of our servants.

Not by the force of carnal reason,

But indefatigable teasing. -- Hudibras.

In disappointments, where the affections have been strongly placed, and the expectations sanguine, particularly where the agency of others is concerned, sorrow may degenerate into vexation and chagrin. -- Cogan.

Tease tenon (Joinery), A long tenon at the top of a post to receive two beams crossing each other one above the other.
Tease (n.) One who teases or plagues. [Colloq.]

Tease (n.) Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) [syn: tease, teaser, annoyer, vexer].

Tease (n.) A seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men [syn: coquette, flirt, vamp, vamper, minx, tease, prickteaser].
Tease (n.) The act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances; "he ignored their teases"; "his ribbing was gentle but persistent" [syn: tease, teasing, ribbing, tantalization].

Tease (v.) Annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer" [syn: tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer].

Tease (v.) Harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride].

Tease (v.) To arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them; "The advertisement is intended to tease the customers"; "She has a way of teasing men with her flirtatious behavior".

Tease (v.) Tear into pieces; "tease tissue for microscopic examinations".

Tease (v.) Raise the nap of (fabrics).

Tease (v.) Disentangle and raise the fibers of; "tease wool" [syn: tease, tease apart, loosen].

Tease (v.) Separate the fibers of; "tease wool" [syn: tease, card].

Tease (v.) Mock or make fun of playfully; "the flirting man teased the young woman".

Tease (v.) Ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect [syn: tease, fluff].

Teasel (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.

Note: Small teasel is Dipsacus pilosus, wild teasel is Dipsacus sylvestris.

Teasel (n.) A bur of this plant.

Teasel (n.) Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.

Teasel frame, A frame or set of iron bars in which teasel heads are fixed for raising the nap on woolen cloth.

Teasel (n.) Any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts [syn: teasel, teazel, teasle].

Teaseled (imp. & p. p.) of Teasel.

Teaselled () of Teasel.

Teaseling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Teasel.

Teaselling () of Teasel.

Teasel (v. t.) To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.

Teaseler (n.) One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth. [Written also teaseller, teasler.]

Teaseling (n.) The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels. [Written also teaselling, teazling.]

Teaser (n.) One who teases or vexes.

Teaser (n.) (Zool.) A jager gull. [Prov. Eng.]

Teaser (n.) (Elec.) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.

Teaser (n.) A worker who teases wool.

Teaser (n.) Someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) [syn: tease, teaser, annoyer, vexer].

Teaser (n.) An advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest

Teaser (n.) A particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"; "that's a real puzzler" [syn: puzzle, puzzler, mystifier, teaser].

Teaser (n.) An attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show.

Teaser (n.) A flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings [syn: tormenter, tormentor, teaser].

Teaser (n.) A device for teasing wool; "a teaser is used to disentangle the fibers".

Teasel (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species ({Dipsacus fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.

Note: Small teasel is Dipsacus pilosus, wild teasel is Dipsacus sylvestris.

Teasel (n.) A bur of this plant.

Teasel (n.) Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
Teasel frame, A frame or set of iron bars in which teasel heads are fixed for raising the nap on woolen cloth.

Teasle (n. & v. t.) See Teasel.

Teasle (n.) Any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts [syn: teasel, teazel, teasle].

Teaspoon (n.) A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.

Teaspoon (n.) same as teaspoonful.
Teaspoon (n.) As much as a teaspoon will hold [syn: teaspoon, teaspoonful].

Teaspoon (n.) A small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee; holds about one fluid dram.

Teaspoonfuls (n. pl. ) of Teaspoonful.

Teaspoonful (n.) As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon. In cooking, it is usually estimated as 4.9 milliliters, which is 1/6 of a fluid ounce, or 1/3 of a tablespoonful. In cooking recipes it may be abbreviated as t.

Note: In the 1890 dictionary, it was defined as a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.

Teat (n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.

Teat (n.) (Mach.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.

Teat (n.) The small projection of a mammary gland [syn: nipple, mammilla, mamilla, pap, teat, tit].

Teated (a.) Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal.

Teathe (n. & v.) See Tath. [Prov. Eng.]
Teatish (a.) Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.

Tettish (a.) Captious; testy. [Written also teatish.] [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.

Teaze-hole (n.) (Glass Works) The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced.

Teasel (n.) [Written also tassel, tazel, teasle, teazel, and teazle.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species ({Dipsacus fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.
Note: Small teasel is Dipsacus pilosus, wild teasel is Dipsacus sylvestris.
Teasel (n.) A bur of this plant.

Teazel (n. & v. t.) See Teasel.

Teazel (n.) Any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts [syn: teasel, teazel, teasle].

Teazer (n.) The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works. -- Tomlinson.

Note: Small teasel is Dipsacus pilosus, wild teasel is Dipsacus sylvestris.

Teasel (n.) A bur of this plant.

Teasel (n.) Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.

Teasel frame, A frame or set of iron bars in which teasel heads are fixed for raising the nap on woolen cloth.

Teasel (n.) Any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts [syn: teasel, teazel, teasle].

Teazle (n. & v. t.) See Teasel.

Tebeth (n.) [Heb.] The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January. -- Esther ii. 16.

Tebeth, () (Esther 2:16), A word probably of Persian origin, denoting the cold time of the year; used by the later Jews as denoting the tenth month of the year. Assyrian tebituv, "rain."

Tebeth, () Good, goodness (The tenth month of the Hebrews).

Techily (adv.) In a techy manner.

Techiness (n.) The quality or state of being techy.

Technic (a.) Technical.

Technic (n.) The method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique.

They illustrate the method of nature, not the technic of a manlike Artificer. -- Tyndall.

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