Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 89
Tusky (a.) Having tusks. "The scar indented by the tusky boar." -- Dryden.
Tussac grass () Tussock grass. Tussah
Tussah silk () A silk cloth made from the cocoons of a caterpillar other than the common silkworm, much used in Bengal and China.
Tussah silk () The silk fiber itself. [Written also tusseh silk.]
Tussicular (a.) Of or pertaining to a cough. -- Dunglison.
Tussle (v. i. & t.) To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with. [Colloq.]
Tussle (n.) A struggle; a scuffle. [Colloq.]
Tussle (n.) Disorderly fighting [syn: hassle, scuffle, tussle, dogfight, rough-and-tumble].
Tussle (v.) Fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters; "the drunken men started to scuffle" [syn: scuffle, tussle].
Tussle (v.) Make messy or untidy; "the child mussed up my hair" [syn: muss, tussle].
Tussock (n.) A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge.
Such laying of the hair in tussocks and tufts. -- Latimer.
Tussock (n.) (Bot.) Same as Tussock grass, below.
Tussock (n.) (Zool.) A caterpillar of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. Some species are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. Called also tussock caterpillar. See Orgyia.
Tussock grass. (Bot.) (a) A tall, strong grass of the genus Dactylis ({Dactylis caespitosa), valuable for fodder, introduced into Scotland from the Falkland Islands.
Tussock grass. (Bot.) (b) A tufted grass ({Aira caespitosa).
Tussock grass. (Bot.) (c) Any kind of sedge ({Carex) which forms dense tufts in a wet meadow or boggy place.
Tussock moth (Zool.), The imago of any tussock caterpillar.
They belong to Orgyia, Halecidota, and allied genera.
Tussock (n.) A bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass [syn: tuft, tussock].
Tussocky (a.) Having the form of tussocks; full of, or covered with, tussocks, or tufts.
Tussuck (n.) See Tussock. -- Grew.
Tut (interj.) Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.
Tut (n.) An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.
Tut (n.) A hassock. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Tut (v.) Utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval [syn: tsk, tut, tut-tut].
TUT, () Transistor Under Test.
Tutelage (n.) 保護；監護；指導；受監護；受教導 The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage.
The childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy. -- Macaulay.
Tutelage (n.) The state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed. -- V. Knox. Tutelar
Tutelage (n.) Teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) [syn: tutelage, tuition, tutorship].
Tutelage (n.) Attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard" [syn: care, charge, tutelage, guardianship].
Tutelage. () State of guardianship; the condition of one who is subject to the control of a guardian.
Tutelar (a.) Alt. of Tutelary.
Tutelary (a.) Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, tutelary goddesses.
This, of all advantages, is the greatest . . . the most tutelary of morals. -- Landor.
Tutelar (a.) Providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding; "daycare that is educational and not just custodial"; "a guardian angel"; "tutelary gods" [syn: custodial, tutelary, tutelar].
Tutele (n.) Tutelage. [Obs.] -- Howell.
Tutenag (n.) (Metal.) Crude zinc. [India]
Tutenag (n.) (Metal.) Packfong. [Written also tutenague.]
Tut-mouthed (a.) Having a projecting under jaw; prognathous. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Tut-nose (n.) A snub nose. [Prov. Eng.]
Tutor (n.) One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing. Specifically:
Tutor (n.) A treasurer; a keeper. "Tutour of your treasure." -- Piers Plowman.
Tutor (n.) (Civ. Law) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
Tutor (n.) A private or public teacher.
Tutor (n.) (Eng. Universities) An officer or member of some hall, who instructs students, and is responsible for their discipline.
Tutor (n.) (Am. Colleges) An instructor of a lower rank than a professor.
Tutored (imp. & p. p.) of Tutor.
Tutoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tutor.
Tutor
(v. t.)
To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.
Their sons are well tutored by you. -- Shak.
Tutor (v. t.) To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity. -- Addison.
Tutor (n.) A person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.) [syn: coach, private instructor, tutor].
Tutor (v.) Be a tutor to someone; give individual instruction; "She tutored me in Spanish."
Tutor (v.) Act as a guardian to someone.
Tutor, () A Scripting language on PLATO systems from CDC.
["The TUTOR Language", Bruce Sherwood, Control Data, 1977].
Tutor, () civil law. A person who has been lawfully appointed to the care of the person and property of a minor.
Tutor, () By the laws of Louisiana minors under the age of fourteen years, if males, and under the age of twelve years, if females, are both, as to their persons and their estates, placed under the authority of a tutor. Civ. Code, art. 263. Above that age, and until their, majority or emancipation, they are placed under the authority of a curator. Ibid.
Tutorage (n.) The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.
Tutoress (n.) A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress. -- E. Moore.
Tutorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.
Tutorial (n.) A class[6] or short series of classes in which one or more instructors provide intensive instruction on some subject to a small group. Such short courses of instruction may be held at an institution of learning, or in any other place where a small group may desire a brief but thorough introduction to a topic.
Tutorial (n.) Hence: (Computers) A set of instructions on how to use a particular computer program, built into the software package itself, displayed on the computer screen, and user with all of or the most important features of the program.
Tutorial (a.) Of or relating to tutors or tutoring; "tutorial sessions."
Tutorial (n.) A session of intensive tuition given by a tutor to an individual or to a small number of students.
Tutorism (n.) Tutorship. [R.]
Tutorize (v. t.) To teach; to instruct.
I . . . shall tutorize him some day. -- J. H. Newman.
Tutorship (n.) The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage. -- Hooker.
Tutorship (n.) Teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) [syn: tutelage, tuition, tutorship].
Tutorship. () The power which an individual, sui juris, has to take care of the person of one who is unable to take care of himself. Tutorship differs from curatorship, (q.v.) Vide Procurator; Pro-tutor; Undertutor.
Tutory
(n.)
Tutorage. [Obs.] -- Holinshed.
Tutress (n.) Tutoress. [Obs.] -- Selden.
Tutrix (n.) A female guardian; a tutoress. [R.] -- Smollett.
Tutrix. () A woman who is appointed to the office of a tutor.
Tutsan (n.) A plant of the genus Hypericum ({Hypericum Androsoemum), from which a healing ointment is prepared in Spain; -- called also parkleaves.
Tutsan (n.) Deciduous bushy Eurasian shrub with golden yellow flowers and reddish-purple fruits from which a soothing salve is made in Spain [syn: common St John's wort, tutsan, Hypericum androsaemum].
Tutti
(n. pl.)
(Mus.) All;
-- a direction for all the singers or players to perform together. -- Moore
(Encyc. of Music).
Tutty (n.) (Chem.) A yellow or brown amorphous
substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces
of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide.
Compare: Zinc
Zinc (n.) (Chem.) An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic number 30. Atomic weight 65.38. [Formerly written also zink.]
Butter of zinc (Old Chem.), Zinc chloride, ZnCl2, a deliquescent white waxy or oily substance.
Oxide of zinc. (Chem.) See Zinc oxide, below.
Zinc amine (Chem.), A white amorphous substance, Zn(NH2)2, obtained by the action of ammonia on zinc ethyl; -- called also zinc amide.
Zinc amyle (Chem.), A colorless, transparent liquid, composed of zinc and amyle, which, when exposed to the atmosphere, emits fumes, and absorbs oxygen with rapidity.
Zinc blende (Min.), A native zinc sulphide. See Blende, n. (a).
Zinc bloom (Min.), Hydrous carbonate of zinc, usually occurring in white earthy incrustations; -- called also hydrozincite.
Zinc ethyl (Chem.), A colorless, transparent, poisonous liquid, composed of zinc and ethyl, which takes fire spontaneously on exposure to the atmosphere.
Zinc green, A green pigment consisting of zinc and cobalt oxides; -- called also Rinmann's green.
Zinc methyl (Chem.), A colorless mobile liquid Zn(CH3)2, produced by the action of methyl iodide on a zinc sodium alloy. It has a disagreeable odor, and is spontaneously inflammable in the air. It has been of great importance in the synthesis of organic compounds, and is the type of a large series of similar compounds, as zinc ethyl, zinc amyle, etc.
Zinc oxide (Chem.), The oxide of zinc, ZnO, forming a light fluffy sublimate when zinc is burned; -- called also flowers of zinc, philosopher's wool, nihil album, etc. The impure oxide produced by burning the metal, roasting its ores, or in melting brass, is called also pompholyx, and tutty.
Zinc spinel (Min.), A mineral, related to spinel, consisting essentially of the oxides of zinc and aluminium; gahnite.
Zinc vitriol (Chem.), Zinc sulphate. See White vitriol, under Vitriol.
Zinc white, A white powder consisting of zinc oxide, used as a pigment.
Tut-work (n.) (Mining) Work done by the piece, as in nonmetaliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom. -- Tomlinson.
Tut-workmen (n. pl. ) of Tut-workman.
Tut-workman (n.) (Mining) One who does tut-work. -- Tomlinson.
Tu-whit (n. & interj.) Alt. of Tu-whoo.
Tu-whoo (n. & interj.) Words imitative of the notes of the owl.
Thy tu-whits are lulled, I wot, Thy tu-whoos of yesternight. -- Tennyson.
Tuyere (n.) A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge. [Corruptly written also tweer, and twier.]
Tuy[`e]re arch, The embrasure, in the wall of a blast furnace through which the tuy[`e]re enters.
Tuz (n.) A lock or tuft of hair. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Compare: Tucan
Tucan (n.) (Zool.) The Mexican pocket gopher ({Geomys Mexicanus). It resembles the common pocket gopher of the Western United States, but is larger. Called also tugan, and tuza.
Tuza (n.) (Zool.) The tucan. Twaddell
Twaddle (v. i. & t.) To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. -- Stanyhurst.
Twaddle (n.) Silly talk; gabble; fustian.
I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. -- T. Hughes.
Twaddle (n.) Pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle].
Twaddle (v.) Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble].
Twaddler (n.) One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.
Twaddler (n.) Someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle.
Twaddling () a. & n. from Twaddle, v.
Twaddy (n.) Idle trifling; twaddle.
Twagger (n.) A lamb. [Prov. Eng.]
Twain (a. & n.) Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque. "Children twain." -- Chaucer.
And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. -- Matt. v. 41.
In twain, in halves; into two parts; asunder.
When old winter split the rocks in twain. -- Dryden.
Twain cloud. (Meteor.) Same as Cumulo-stratus.
Twain (n.) Two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad].
TWAIN, () Technology Without An Important Name
TWAIN, () An image capture API for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems that enables the user to control a scanner or digital camera from image processing software.
TWAIN, () Was first released on 1992-02-29 and is currently ratified at version 2.0 as of 2005-11-28. It is maintained by the TWAIN Working Group.
Kevin
Bier, chairman-emeritus of the TWAIN Working Group and the one of the original
co-author/ editors of TWAIN 1.0, chose the name TWAIN after reading
letters by Mark Twain. It was unofficially considered to mean
"toolkit without an important name."
The word "twain" is an archaic form meaning "two". It
appears in Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" -
"...and never the twain shall meet...", reflecting the
difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal
computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more
distinctive. This led people to believe it was an acronym, and
then to a contest to come up with an expansion. None were
selected, but the entry "Technology Without An Interesting
Name" continues to haunt
the standard. (2000-02-25)
Twain, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 87
Housing Units (2000): 57
Land area (2000): 7.419895 sq. miles (19.217440 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.419895 sq. miles (19.217440 sq. km)
FIPS code: 80952
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 40.018101 N, 121.048898 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 95984
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Twain, CA
Twain
Twaite (n.) [Prov. E.] (Zool.) A European shad; -- called also twaite shad. See Shad.
Twaite (n.) (O. Eng. Law) A piece of cleared ground. See Thwaite.
Twang (n.) A tang. See Tang a state. [R.]
Twanged (imp. & p. p.) of Twang.
Twanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Twang.
Twang (v. i.) To sound with a quick, harsh noise; to make the sound of a tense string pulled and suddenly let go; as, the bowstring twanged.
Twang (v. t.) To make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly.
Sounds the tough horn, and twangs the quivering string. -- Pope.
Twang (n.) A harsh, quick sound, like that made by a stretched string when pulled and suddenly let go; as, the twang of a bowstring.
Twang (n.) An affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound.
He has such a twang in his discourse. --Arbuthnot.
Twang (n.) A sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string).
Twang (n.) Exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects) [syn: twang, nasal twang].
Twang (v.) Cause to sound with a twang; "He twanged the guitar string."
Twang (v.) Sound with a twang; "the bowstring was twanging."
Twang (v.) Twitch or throb with pain.
Twang (v.) Pluck (strings of an instrument); "He twanged his bow."
Twang (v.) Pronounce with a nasal twang.
Twangle (v. i. & t.) To twang.
While the twangling violin Struck up with Soldier-laddie. -- Tennyson.
Twank (v. t.) To cause to make a sharp twanging sound; to twang, or twangle. -- Addison.
Twankay (n.) See Note under Tea, n., 1.
'T was () A contraction of it was.
Twattle (v. i.) To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip. -- L'Estrange.
Twattle (v. t.) To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet. [Prov. Eng.] -- Grose.
Twattle (n.) Act of prating; idle talk; twaddle.
Twattler (n.) One who twattles; a twaddler.
Tway (a. & n.) Two; twain. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Twayblade (n.) (Bot.) Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis. [Written also twyblade.]
Twayblade (n.) Orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia [syn: twayblade, Listera ovata].
Twayblade (n.) An orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves.
Tweag (v. t.) To tweak. [Obs.] Tweag
Tweag (n.) Alt. of Tweague.
Tweague (n.) A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
This put the old fellow in a rare tweague. -- Arbuthnot.
Tweak (v. t.) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose. -- Shak.
Tweak (n.) A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose. -- Swift.
Tweak (n.) Trouble; distress; tweag. [Obs.]
Tweak (n.) A prostitute. [Obs.] -- Brathwait.
Tweak (n.) A squeeze with the fingers [syn: pinch, tweak]
Tweak (v.) Pinch or squeeze sharply.
Tweak (v.) Pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush" [syn: pluck, tweak, pull off, pick off].
Tweak (v.) Adjust finely; "fine-tune the engine" [syn: fine-tune, tweak].
Tweak (v. t.) To change slightly, usually in reference to a value. Also used synonymously with twiddle. If a program is almost correct, rather than figure out the precise problem you might just keep tweaking it until it works. See frobnicate and fudge factor; also see shotgun debugging.
Tweak (v. t.) To tune a program; preferred usage in the U.K.
Tweak, () To change slightly, usually in reference to a value. Also used synonymously with twiddle. If a program is almost correct, rather than figure out the precise problem you might just keep tweaking it until it works. See frobnicate and fudge factor; also see shotgun debugging.
Tweak, () To tune or bum a program; preferred usage in the UK. [{Jargon File]
Twee (a.) Affectedly dainty or refined [syn: dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee].
Twee (a.) Sweet or cute in a way that is silly or sentimental.
Twee (a.) chiefly British : Affectedly or excessively dainty, delicate, cute, or quaint <such a theme might sound twee or corny -- Times Literary Supplement>.
Tweed (n.) A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving.
Tweed (n.) Thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland.
Tweed (n.) (Usually in the plural) Trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth [syn: flannel, gabardine, tweed, white].
Tweedle (v. t.) [Written also twidle.] To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.
A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service. -- Addison.
Tweedle (v. t.) To twist. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Tweedle (v.) Sing in modulation [syn: tweedle, chirp].
Tweedle (v.) Play negligently on a musical instrument.
Tweedle (v.) Entice through the use of music.
Tweel (n. & v.) See Twill.
Compare: Tuyere
Tuyere (n.) A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge. [Corruptly written also tweer, and twier.]
Tuy[`e]re arch, the embrasure, in the wall of a blast furnace through which the tuy[`e]re enters.
Tweer (n.) Same as Tuyere. Tweese
Tweese (n.) Alt. of Tweeze.
Tweeze (n.) A surgeon's case of instruments. -- Howell.
Tweezers (n. pl.) Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.
Twelfth (a.) Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.
Twelfth (a.) Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided.
Twelfth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.
Twelfth (n.) The next in order after the eleventh.
Twelfth (n.) (Mus.) An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.
Twelfth (a.) Coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position [syn: twelfth, 12th].
Twelfth (n.) Position 12 in a countable series of things.
Twelfth (n.) One part in twelve equal parts [syn: one-twelfth, twelfth, twelfth part, duodecimal].