Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T

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Technic (n.) pl. Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.

Compare: Technique

Technique (n.) [F.] The method or manner of performance in any art; -- also called technic.

Technique (n.) The body of technical methods and procedures used in a science or craft.

Technique (n.) The detailed movements used for executing an artistic performance; technical skill; artistic execution; as, a pianist's fingering technique.

Technical (a.) Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical. -- Blackstone.

Technical (a.) Of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill; "his technical innovation was his brushwork"; "the technical dazzle of her dancing" [syn: technical, proficient].

Technical (a.) Characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences; "a technical problem"; "highly technical matters hardly suitable for the general public"; "a technical report"; "producing the A-bomb was a challenge to the technical people of this country"; "technical training"; "technical language" [ant: nontechnical, untechnical].

Technical (a.) Of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles; "technical college"; "technological development" [syn: technical, technological].

Technical (a.) Of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood; "technical terminology"; "a technical report"; "technical language" [syn: technical, expert].

Technical (a.) Resulting from or dependent on market factors rather than fundamental economic considerations; "analysts content that the stock market is due for a technical rally"; "the fall is only a technical correction."

Technical (n.) A pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.

Technical (n.) (Basketball) A foul that can be assessed on a player or a coach or a team for unsportsmanlike conduct; does not usually involve physical contact during play [syn: technical foul, technical].

Technical. () That which properly belongs to an art.

Technical. () In the construction of contracts, it is a general rule that technical words are to be taken according to their approved and known use in the trade in which the contract is entered into, or to which it relates, unless they have manifestly been understood in another sense by the parties. 2 B. & P. 164; 6 T. R. 320; 3 Stark. Ev. 1036, and the article Construction.

Technical. () Words which do not of themselves denote that they are, used in a technical sense, are to have their plain, popular, obvious and natural meaning. 6 Watts & Serg. 114.

Technical. () The law, like other professions, has a technical language. "When a mechanic speaks to me of the instruments and operations of his trade,", says Mr. Wynne, Eunom. Dial. 2, s. 5, "I shall be as unlikely to comprehend him, as he would me in the language of my profession, though we both of us spoke English all the while. Is it wonderful then, if in systems of law, and especially among the hasty recruits of commentators, you meet (to use Lord Coke's expression) with a whole army of words that cannot defend themselves in a grammatical war? Technical language, in all cases, is formed from the most intimate knowledge of any art. One words stands for a great many, as it is. always to be resolved into many ideas by definitions. It is, therefore, unintelligible, because it is concise, and it is useful for the same reason." Vide Language.

Technicalities (n. pl. ) of Technicality.

Technicality (n.) The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.

Technicality (n.) That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like.

The technicalities of the sect. -- Palfrey.

Technicality (n.) A detail that is considered insignificant [syn: technicality, trifle, triviality].

Technicality, (n.) In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.

Technically (adv.) In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession.

Technically (adv.) With regard to technique; "technically lagging behind the Japanese"; "a technically brilliant boxer."

Technically (adv.) With regard to technical skill and the technology available; "a technically brilliant solution."

Technically (adv.) According to the exact meaning; according to the facts; "technically, a bank's reserves belong to the stockholders"; "technically, the term is no longer used by experts."

Technicalness (n.) The quality or state of being technical; technicality.

Technicals (n. pl.) Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.

Technicist (n.) One skilled in technics or in one or more of the practical arts.

Technicological (a.) Technological; technical. [R.] -- Dr. J. Scott.

Technicology (n.) Technology. [R.]

Technics (n.) The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.

Technics (n.) The study of a particular art.

Technique (n.) Same as Technic, n.

Technique (n.) [F.] The method or manner of performance in any art; -- also called technic.

Technique (n.) The body of technical methods and procedures used in a science or craft.

Technique (n.) The detailed movements used for executing an artistic performance; technical skill; artistic execution; as, a pianist's fingering technique.

Technique (n.) A practical method or art applied to some particular task.

Technique (n.) Skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity; "practice greatly improves proficiency" [syn: proficiency, technique].

Technism (n.) Technicality.

Technologic (a.) Technological.

Technological (a.) Of or pertaining to technology.

Technological (a.) Based in scientific and industrial progress; "a technological civilization."

Technological (a.) Of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles; "technical college"; "technological development" [syn: technical, technological].

Technologist (n.) One skilled in technology; one who treats of arts, or of the terms of arts.

Technologist (n.) A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems [syn: engineer, applied scientist, technologist].

Technology (n.) . 工藝學；工藝；技術；科技 [C] [U]；術語，專門語 [U] Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.

Note: 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.

Technology (n.) The practical application of science to commerce or industry [syn: {technology}, {engineering}].

Technology (n.) The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems; "he had trouble deciding which branch of engineering to study" [syn: {engineering}, {engineering science}, {applied science}, {technology}].

Technology, () Marketroid jargon for "{software"> Marketroid jargon for "{software", "{hardware", "{protocol}" or something else too technical to name.

The most flagrant abuse of this word has to be "{Windows NT" (New Technology) - Microsoft's attempt to make the incorporation of some ancient concepts into their OS sound like real progress. The irony, and even the meaning, of this seems to be utterly lost on Microsoft whose Windows 2000 start-up screen proclaims "Based on NT Technology", (meaning yet another version of NT, including some Windows 95 features at last).

See also: Biotechnology

Biotechnology (n.) [ U ] (Informal biotech) 生物技術；生物工藝學 The use of living things, especially cells and bacteria, in industrial processes.

// A biotech company/ firm.

Techy (a.) Peevish; fretful; irritable.

Techy (a.) Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy].

Tectibranch (n.) (Zool.) One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

Tectibranchia (n. pl.) [NL.] Same as Tectibranchiata.

Tectibranchiata (n. pl.) (Zool.) 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.

Tectibranchiate (a.) (Zool.) Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata.

Tectibranchiate (n.) A tectibranchiate mollusk.

Tectly (adv.) Covertly; privately; secretly. [Obs.] -- Holinshed.

Tectology (n.) (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.

Tectonic (a.) Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.

Tectonic (a.) (Biol.) Structural.

Tectonic (a.) (Geol. & Phys. Geog.) Of, pert. to, or designating, the rock structures and external forms resulting from the deformation of the earth's crust; as, tectonic arches or valleys; tectonic plates.

Tectonic (a.) Pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust; "tectonic plates"; "tectonic valleys."

Tectonic (a.) Of or pertaining to construction or architecture [syn: tectonic, architectonic].

Tectonics (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.

Tectonics (n.) (Geol. & Phys. Geog.) the branch of geology concerned with the rock structures and external forms resulting from the deformation of the earth's crust; also, similar studies of other planets. Also called structural geology.

Plate tectonics, () A geological theory which considers the earth's crust as divided into a number of large relatively rigid plates, which move relatively independently on the more plastic asthenosphere under the influence of magmatic upwellings, so as to drift apart, slide past, or collide with each other, causing the formation, breakup, or merging of continents, and causing volcanism, the building of mountain ranges, and the subduction of one plate beneath another. In recent decades a large body of data have accumulated to support the theory and provide some details of the mechanisms at work. One set of supporting observations consists of data showing that the continents have slowly moved relative to each other over long periods of time, a phenomenon called continental drift. Africa and South America, for example, have apparently moved apart from a connected configuration at about 2 to 3 cm per year over tens of millions of years.

Tectonics (n.) The science of architecture [syn: architectonics, tectonics].

Tectonics (n.) The branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust [syn: tectonics, plate tectonics,

plate tectonic theory].

Tectorial (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to covering; -- applied to a membrane immediately over the organ of Corti in the internal ear.

Tectrices (n. pl.) (Zool.) The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.

Tecum (n.) (Bot.) See Tucum.

Tucum (n.) [So called by the Indians of Brazil.] A fine, strong fiber obtained from the young leaves of a Brazilian palm ({Astrocaryum vulgare), used for cordage, bowstrings, etc.; also, the plant yielding this fiber. Called also tecum, and tecum fiber.

Tedded (imp. & p. p.) of Ted.

Tedding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ted.

Ted (v. t.) 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 (n.) A tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing Edwardian style clothes [syn: Ted, Teddy boy].

Tedder (n.) A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.

Tedder (n.) Same as Tether.

Teddered (imp. & p. p.) of Tedder.

Teddering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tedder.

Tedder (v. t.) Same as Tether.

Tedder, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida

Population (2000): 2079

Housing Units (2000): 531

Land area (2000): 0.278476 sq. miles (0.721249 sq. km)

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

Total area (2000): 0.278476 sq. miles (0.721249 sq. km)

FIPS code: 71312

Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12

Location: 26.284357 N, 80.121106 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

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

Headwords:

Tedder, FL

Tedder

Te Deum () 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.

Te Deum () A religious service in which the singing of the hymn forms a principal part.

Te Deum () A musical setting of the Te Deum [1].

Te Deum (n.) An ancient liturgical hymn.

Tedge (n.) (Founding) The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured; runner, geat.

Tediosity (n.) Tediousness. [Obs.]

Tedious (a.) Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- Te"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Te"di*ous*ness, n.

I see a man's life is a tedious one. -- Shak.

I would not be tedious to the court. -- Bunyan.

Syn: Wearisome; fatiguing. See Irksome.

Tedious (a.) So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket" -- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome].

Tedious (a.) Using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes" [syn: long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordy].

Tedium (n.) Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [Written also taedium.] -- Cowper.

To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams. -- Prof. Wilson.

The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling. -- Dickens.

Tedium (n.) The feeling of being bored by something tedious [syn: boredom, ennui, tedium].

Tedium (n.) Dullness owing to length or slowness [syn: tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness].

Tedium, (n.) Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source -- the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.

Tee (n.) The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits.

Tee (n.) The nodule of earth, or a short peg stuck into the ground, from which the ball is struck at the beginning of play for each hole in golf.

Tee (n.) A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter T in shape.

Tee (n.) The letter T, t; also, something shaped like, or resembling in form, the letter T.

Tee (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Teed; p. pr. & vb. n. Teeing.] (Golf) To place (the ball) on a tee; also called to tee up.

Tee (n.) The starting place for each hole on a golf course; "they were waiting on the first tee" [syn: tee, teeing ground].

Tee (n.) Support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff [syn: tee, football tee].

Tee (n.) A short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground [syn: tee, golf tee].

Tee (v.) Place on a tee; "tee golf balls" [syn: tee, tee up].

Tee (v.) Connect with a tee; "tee two pipes."

Tee (n.,v. t.) [Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission. ?Oh, you're sending him the bits to that? Slap on a tee for me.? From the Unix command tee(1) , itself named after a pipe fitting (see plumbing). Can also mean ?save one for me?, as in ?Tee a slice for me!? Also spelled ?T?.

Tee, () A Unix command which copies its standard input to its standard output (like cat) but also to a file given as its argument. tee is thus useful in pipelines of Unix commands (see plumbing) where it allows you to create a duplicate copy of the data stream. E.g. egrep Unix Dictionary | tee /dev/tty | wc -l searches for lines containing the string "Unix" in the file "Dictionary", prints them to the terminal (/dev/tty) and counts them.

Unix manual page: tee(1).

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Tee iron () See T iron, under T.

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.

Teek (n.) (Bot.) See Teak. [Obs.]

Teel (n.) Sesame. [Sometimes written til.]

Teel oil, Sesame oil.

Teelseed (n.) The seed of sesame.

Teem (v. t.) To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Swift.

Teem (v. t.) (Steel Manuf.)

To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.

Teem (v. t.) To think fit. [Obs. or R.] -- G. Gifford.

Teemed (imp. & p. p.) of Teem.

Teeming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Teem.

Teem (v. i.) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

If she must teem, Create her child of spleen. -- Shak.

Teem (v. i.) To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.

His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy. -- Sir W. Scott.

The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which teem in our time. -- F. Harrison.

Teem (v. t.) To produce; to bring forth. [R.]

That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker; Each minute teems a new one. -- Shak.

Teem (v.) Be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries" [syn: teem, pullulate, swarm].

Teem (v.) Move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate].

Teemer (n.) One who teems, or brings forth.

Teemful (a.) Pregnant; prolific. [Obs.]

Teemful (a.) Brimful. [Obs.] -- Ainsworth.

Teeming (a.) Prolific; productive.

Teeming buds and cheerful appear. -- Dryden.

Teeming (a.) Abundantly filled with especially living things; "the Third World's teeming millions"; "the teeming boulevard."

Teemless (a.) Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth. [Poetic] -- Dryden.

Teen (n.) Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] -- Chaucer. Spenser.

With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. -- M. Arnold.

Teen (v. t.) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.

Teen (v. t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.

Teen (n.) A teenager.

Teen (a.) Being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years" [syn: adolescent, teen, teenage, teenaged].

Teen (n.) A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen].

Teenage (n.) The longer wood for making or mending fences. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.

Teenage (n.) 青少年時期 Of or pertaining to a teenager; being in one's teens; as, a busload of teenage football fans; teenage inexperience.

Teenage (a.) 十幾歲的；青少年的 Being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years" [syn: {adolescent}, {teen}, {teenage}, {teenaged}].

Teenager (n.) 青少年，十幾歲的少年 A person whose age is in the teens, i.e. one between the ages of 13 to 19 inclusive.

Teenager (n.) A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: {adolescent}, {stripling}, {teenager}, {teen}].

Teenager (n.) 十幾歲的青少年 A person aged between 13 and 19 years.

Teend (v. t. & i.) To kindle; to burn. [Obs.] -- Herrick.

Teenful (a.) Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.

Teens (n. pl.) The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.

Teens (n.) The time of life between the ages of 12 and 20.

Teens (n.) All the numbers that end in -teen.

Teeny (a.) Very small; tiny. [Colloq.]

Teeny (a.) Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross. [Prov. Eng.]

Teeny (a.) (Used informally) Very small; "a wee tot" [syn: bitty, bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy].

Teeong (n.) (Zool.) The mino bird.

Teest (n.) A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.

Teetan (n.) (Zool.) A pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

Teetee (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of small, soft-furred South American monkeys belonging to Callithrix, Chrysothrix, and allied genera; as, the collared teetee ({Callithrix torquatus), and the squirrel teetee ({Chrysothrix sciurea). Called also pinche, titi, and saimiri. See Squirrel monkey, under Squirrel.

Teetee (n.) (Zool.) A diving petrel of Australia ({Halodroma wrinatrix).

Teetered (imp. & p. p.) of Teeter.

Teetering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Teeter.

Teeter (v. i. & t.) To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter. [U. S.]

[The bobolink] alit upon the flower, and teetered up and down. -- H. W. Beecher.

Teeter (n.) A plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end [syn: seesaw, teeter, teeter-totter, teetertotter, teeterboard, tilting board, dandle board].

Teeter (v.) Move unsteadily, with a rocking motion [syn: teeter, seesaw, totter].

Teeter-tail (n.) (Zool.) The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper.

Tip-up (n.) (Zool.) The spotted sandpiper; -- called also teeter-tail. See under Sandpiper.

Teeth (n.) pl. of Tooth.

Teethed (imp. & p. p.) of Teeth.

Teething (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Teeth.

Teeth (v. i.) To breed, or grow, teeth.

Teeth (n.) The kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal [syn: dentition, teeth].

Teething (n.) The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.

Teething (n.) The eruption through the gums of baby teeth [syn: teething, dentition, odontiasis].

Teetotal (a.) Entire; total. [Colloq.]

Teetotal (a.) Practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages; "he's been dry for ten years"; "no thank you; I happen to be teetotal" [syn: dry, teetotal].

Teetotal (v.) Practice teetotalism and abstain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Teetotaler (n.) One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.

Teetotaler (n.) A total abstainer [syn: teetotaler, teetotaller, teetotalist].

Teetotaler, (n.) One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

Teetotalism (n.) The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks.

Teetotalism (n.) Abstaining from alcohol [syn: teetotaling, teetotalism].

Teetotally (adv.) Entirely; totally. [Colloq.]

Teetotum (n.) A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers.

The staggerings of the gentleman . . . were like those of a teetotum nearly spent. -- Dickens.

Tee-to-tum (n.) A workingmen's resort conducted under religious influences as a counteractant to the drinking saloon. [Colloq. or Cant]

Teetotum (n.) A conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin; "he got a bright red top and string for his birthday" [syn: top, whirligig, teetotum, spinning top].

Teetuck (n.) The rock pipit. [Prov. Eng.]

Teeuck (n.) The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]

Teewit (n.) (Zool.) The pewit. [Prov. Eng.]

Teg (n.) A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.

Teg (n.) Two-year-old sheep.

Tegmina (n. pl. ) of Tegmen.

Tegmen (n.) A tegument or covering.

Tegmen (n.) (Bot.) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.

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