Tenant In Tail
Tenant In Tail. See Tail, Estate. This Term Is Used By Tenants To• Denote The Various Claims Of Right Which They May Maintain Against Their Landlords, Such As The Right Of Occu Pancy Not Subject To Removal; And The Right To Occupy At A Rent Not Subject To Increase On ...
Tenasserim
Tenas'serim, Acquired By Britain After The War In 1825, Is The Third Or Southernmost Division Of British Burmah * (q.v.)—the Other Two Divisions Comprising The Ancient King Doms Of Pegu And Aracan. On Jan. 31, 1862, These Three Maritime Provinces Were United Under One Local Administration, Bearing The Name Of ...
Tender
Tender, As A Legal Term, Means The Formal Offer To Perform Some Obligation Incum Bent On The Person Tendering. It Is More Frequently Used In Reference To The Payment Of Money Which Is Due. A Tender Of The Debt Is Properly Made, The Legal Con Sequence Is This, That If ...
Tendon
Tendon Is A Term Employed In Anatomy To Designate The White Fibrous Tissue Reach Ing From The End Of A Muscle To Bone Or Some Other Structure Which Is To Serve As A Fixed Attachment For It, Or Which It Is Intended To Move. In Accordance With Their Form, Tendons ...
Tennant
Tennant, Wilmam, Still To Be Remembered As The Author Of Finder Fair, Was Born At Anstruther, In Fife, In The Year 1785. A Cripple Almost.from His Birth, And Doomed To Propel Himself Through Life On Crutches, He Betook Himself Naturally To Study, As Requiring No Exertion Of The Limbs. In ...
Tennessee
Tennessee', A Southern State Of The American Union, The Third Admitted Under The Federal Constitution, Extends In Let. 35° To 36° 30' N., And Long. 81° 37' To 90° 28' W.; And Is Bounded On The N. By Kentucky And Virginia; And On The S. By Georgia, Alabama, And Mississippi. ...
Tennessee
Tennessee (ante) For Civil Purposes Is Divided Into East, West, And Middle Ten Nessee, And Comprises 8 Great Natural Divisions. On Its Eastern Borders Rises, In Huge, Ridge-like Masses And Treeless Domes, The Appalachian Chain, The Loftiest Peaks Of Which Attain An Elevation Of More Than 6,000 Ft. Above The ...
Tennis
Tennis, A Game Of Great Antiquity, Belongs To The Class Of Ball-games, And Finds Its Analogies In The Sphairisis Of The Greeks, And The Piles Of The Romans. Under The Name Of Patame, A Name Given To It From The Ball Being At That Time Struck With The Palm Of ...
Tense
. Tense (fr. Temps, From Lat. Tempts, Time), In Grammar, Designates A Set Of Changes Which Verbs Undergo In Order To Mark The Time Of The Action. See Conjugation. Tent (lat. Tentorivm, From Tentus, Stretched). Without Speculating On The Relative Priority Of Tents And Other Forms Of Human Dwellings, It ...
Tenure Of Land
Tenure Of Land, In England, Was An Accompaniment Or Immediate Consequence Of The Feudal System (q.v.) Established During The Middle Ages Throughout The Greater Part Of Europe. Feuds Were Introduced By The Barbarous Tribes Who Poured Themselves Into The Roman Empire During The 4th, 5th, And 6th Centuries. The Chief ...
Teocalli
Teocal'li (house Of God), The Name Given To The Temples Of The Aborigines Of Mexico, Of Which May Still Remain In A More Or Less Perfect State. They Were Built In The Form Of Four-sided Pyramids, And Consisted For The Most Part Of Two, Three, Or More Stories Or Terraces, ...
Teredo
Tere'do, A Genus Of Lamellibranchiate Mollusks Of The Family Pholadidce; Very Much Elongated, And Worm-shaped; The Mouth Very Delicate, Open In Front And At Its Lower Part, For The Passage Of The Short Foot; The Shell Rather Thick, Equivalve, Destitute Of Hinge, Gaping At Both Ends. The Species Are Rather ...
Terentius Afer
Teren'tius A'fer, Puetrus, The Comic Poet, Was Born At Carthage, 195 E.c. By Birth Or Purchase, He Became The Slave Of The Roman Senator Publius Terentius Lucanus, Who, Out Of Regard To His Handsome Person And Unusual Talents, Educated Him Highly, And Finally Manumitted Him. On His Manumission, He Assumed, ...
Terra Del Fitero
Terra Del Fite'ro (land Of Fire), An Archipelago Situated At The Extreme S. Of South America, From The Main Land Of Which It Is Separated By Magellan's Strait, Consists Of 11 Large Islands, Of Which The Chief Is King Charles's South Laud, And About 20 Islets; Lat. 52° To 56° ...
Terrestrial Temperature
Terrestrial Temperature. The Distribution Of Heat Over The Globe Is Repre Sented By Isothermal Lines, Or Lines Drawn Through All Places Having The Same Mean Tem Perature. The Part Of The Globe Having The Highest Mean Annual Temperature Forms An Irregu Larly Shaped Belt, Lying Along The Equator, And Comprised ...
Tertiary
Tertiary (lat. Tertiarius, One Of The Third Rank), A Name Given By Church Writers To A Class In The Roman Catholic Church, Who, Without Entering Into The Seclusion Of A Monastery, Aspire To Practice In Ordinary Life All The Substantial Obligations Of The Scheme Of Virtue Supposed To Be Laid ...
Tertiillian
Tertiillian, A Father Of The Church, And One Of The Earliest Who Used The Latin Language In Written Compositions. In One Passage, The Genuineness Of Which There Is No Reason To Doubt, He Calls Himself Septimius Tertullianus. The Best Manuscripts Call Him Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus. He Was The Son ...
Testing
Testing, In Chemistry, Embraces A Series Of Processes, The Details Of Which Would Occupy Far More Space Than The General Plan Of This Work Would Admit Of. Indeed, Testing May Be Regarded As Equivalent To Qualitative Analysis. As A Simple Illustration Of The Process Of Testing, We Will Assume That ...
Tetanus
Tetanus (derived From The Gr. Teinein, To Stretch), Is One Of The Most Formidable Dis Eases Of The Nervous System, And Is Characterized By An Involuntary, Persistent, Intense, And Painful Contraction Or Cramp (see Spasat) Of More Or Less Extensive Groups Of The Vol Untary Muscles, Nearly The Whole Of ...
Teutonic
Teutonic, A Term Applied To A Group Of Nations As Well As Of Languages, Forming An Important Division Or Stem Of The Aryan (q.v.) Family. The Teutonic Languages Will Be Found Enumerated And Classified In The Table At The End Of The Article Philology. The Teutonic Stock Of Nations, As ...
Teutonic Knights
Teutonic Knights, One Of The More Celebrated Of The Military And Religious Orders To Which The Crusades Gave Birth. The Sufferings Of The Christian Soldiers At The Siege Of Acre Excited The Sympathy Of Certain Merchants Of Bremen And Liibeck, Who Ren Dered Such Important Services By The Erection Of ...
Texas
Texas, One Of The South-western States Of America, Is Bounded On The S.w. By Mexico, From Which It Is Separated By The Rio Grande; And On The E. By Arkansas And Louisiana. Area (greater Than Any Other State Or Territory But Alaska), 274,356 Sq. Miles. Pop. '60, 601,039; '70, 818,579. ...
Texas
Texas (ante) May Be Divided Into Four Sections, Eastern, Central Or Middle, West Ern, And Northern Texas. The First Embraces The Territory Between The Sabine And Trinity Rivers And Is The Great Lumber Region Of The State. The Soil Of The Uplands Of ;this Portion Has A Light, Loamy Texture ...
Texas Cattle Disease
Texas Cattle Disease, Otherwise Called Spanish Fever, Splenic Fever, Accli Mation Fever, American Cattle Plague, Red Water, Black Water, Yellow Murrain, And Bloody Murrain; A Very Fatal Epizootic, Contagious Or Infectious Fever Of Cattle, Confined To Regions S. Of The 37th Parallel Of N. Latitude Except When Communicated By Cattle ...
Texeli
Texeli (more Properly, Tokely), Emmtic, Count, A Celebrated Hungarian Patriot, Was Descended From A Noble Lutheran Family, And Was Born At The Castle Of Kasmark, In The County Of Zips, In 1656. His Father, Count Stephen, Had Been Implicated In The Conspiracy Of Zriny And Ragotsky To Free Hungary From ...
Thales
Tha'les, An Early Greek Philosopher, Founder Of The Ionic Or Physical School Of Philosophy, And One Of The Seven Wise Men (q.v.), Was A Native Of Miletus, In Asia Minor, And Flourished Toward The Close Of The 7th C. B.c. Very Little Is Known Regard Ing His Life. He Is ...
Thallium
Thallium (symb. Tl, Equiv. 204, Spec. Gray. 11.9) Is A Metal Which Derives Its Name From The Greek Word Thallos, Green, Because Its Existence Was First Recognized By An Intense Green Lite Appearing Lu The Spectrum Of A Flame In Which Thallium Is Volatilized. It Was Discovered By Mr. Crookes, ...
Thames
Thames (lat. Tam-esis; The Root Tam Probably Meaning Broad, And Esis Or Iris, Being Identical With Esk, Ex, Ouse, Etc., All From Cel. Uisg, Water), The Most Important River Of Great Britain, And The Longest In England, Flows E.s.e. Across The S. Portion Of The Country. Its Remotest Springs—those Of ...
Theater
Theater, A Place For Public Representations, Chiefly Of A Dramatic Or Musical De Scription. Theaters Are Of Very Ancient Origin. They Were Found In Every Greek City, Both At Home And In The Colonies, And Many Very Interesting Specimens Of The Greek Theaters Stil Lexist In Very Good Preservation. These ...
Theatines
The'atines, One Of The More Modern Religious Brotherhoods Of The Roman Catholic Church; Which Played A Very Important Part In The Well-known Internal Movelnent For Reformation Which Took Place In Central And Southern Italy Toward The Middle Of The 16th C., And Which Rank() Has Described In His History Of ...
Thebes
Thebes, The Name Of A Celebrated Egyptian City, Called By The Egyptians Taape, Or Taouab; By The Hebrews, No-amen; By The Greeks, Thebm; And At A Later Period, Diospolis Magna. It Lies In The Broadest Section Of The Valley Of The Nile, In About 26° N., And Was Formerly The ...
Thebes_2
Thebes, The Principal City Of Beotia, In Ancient Greece, Was Situated In The Southern Part Of The Country, On The Slopes Of Mount Teumessus, And Between Two Streams, The Dirce And The Ismenus. According To The Prevalent Tradition, Thebes Was Founded By A Colony Of Phenicians Under Cadmus (q.v.), After ...
Thellusson Act
Thellusson Act Is An Act Of Parliament, 39 And 40 Geo. Iii. C. 98, Passed For The Purpose Of Checking The Disposition Of Testators To Accumulate The Income Of Their Estates Until It Should Form A Large Fortune. The Late Mr. Thellusson Had, By His Will, Directed His Personal Property ...
Themistocles
Themis'tocles, The Great Athenian General And Statesman, Was The Son Of An Obscure Citizen Of Athens, And Was Born About 514 B.c. He Was Actuated By Excessive Ambition,from A Very Early Period, And Began His Public Career By Setting Himself In Opposition To The Principal Men Of The State, And ...
Theocritus
Theocritus, The Creator And Most Celebrated Composer Of Bucolic Poetry, Was The _son Of Praxagoras And Philinna, And B. At Syracuse. The Date Of His Birth Is Unknown, But The Period Of His Greatest Literary Activity Was Probably 272 B.c. About The Close Of The Reign Of Ptolemy Soter, He ...
Theodicy
Theodicy (gr. Theos, God, And Diki, Justice; Lat. Iheodicaa, The Judgment Of God), Aname Given To The Exposition Of The Theory Of Divine Providence, With A View Espe Cially To The Vindication Of The Attributes, And Particularly Of The Sanctity And Justice Of God In Establishing The Present Order Of ...
Theodolite
Theodolite (gr. Theao, I See, Dolichos, Long), An Instrument Much Employed In Land Surveying For The Measurement Of Angles Horizontal And Vertical Is Neither More Nor Less • Than An Altitude And Azimuth Instrument, Proportioned And Constructed So As To Be Con Veniently Portable. Like All Instruments In Very General ...
Theodore
Theodore, Of Mopsuestia, A Well-known Writer Of The Syrian Church, And Especially Notable In Connection With The Controversy Of "the Three Chapters," Was Born Of A Wealthy And Distinguished Family At Antioch, In The First Half Of The 4th Century. He Was The School-fellow And Friend Of St. John Chrysostom, ...
Theodore
Theodore, King Of Abyssinia, Otherwise Described As Negus, Emperor Or King Of Of Ethiopia, A Prince Whose Extraordinary Career Has Excited Much Interest Since War Was Declared Against Him By The English Government. At The Time When The Article Abyssinia First Appeared In This Work, The Subject Was Not Of ...
Theodoretus
Theodore'tus (gr. Iheodoretos, God-bestowed), A Celebrated Church Historian And Theological Writer, Was Born At Antioch About The Year 393, And Received His Name From The Circumstance Of His Being Supposed To Have Been Granted As The Fruit Of Earnest Prayer, To His Parents, Who Had Long Been Childless. He Was ...
Theodoric
Theodoric, Surnamed The Great, The Founder Of The Ostrogothic Monarchy, Which Comprised Italy, Sicily, South-eastern Gaul, Rhmtia, Noricum, Pannonia, And Dalma Tia, Was Born On The Banks Of The Neusiedler See, To The S. Of Vienna, In 455 A.d. His Father, Theodemir, Was One Of The Three Brothers (the Other ...
Theodosius
Theodo'sius, The Name Of Three Later Roman Emperors.—tneoroostus I., Surnamed The Great, And The Elder, To Distinguish Him From His Grandson, Was Of Spanish Descent, And Was Born Either At Italica (as Gibbon And Those Who Wish To Make Him Of Kin With Trajan Maintain), Or More Probably At Cauca, ...
Theology
Theology (gr. Theologia, Lit., A Speaking Or Writing About God) Is A Term- Employed To Denote The Theory Of The Divine Nature And Operation. It First Occurs In Plato And Aristotle, Who Understand By It The Doctrine Of The Greek Gods, And Of Their Relation To The World. Homer, Hesiod, ...
Theophiliis
Theophiliis, One Of The Most Important Precursors Of Dr. Faust, Was, To The Legend, Coadjutor-bishop At Adana, In Cilicia. After The Death Of His Bishop, Being Unanimously Chosen Successor, He Declined The Proffered Honor, But Was Shortly After Ward, At The Instigation Of Slanderers, Deposed From His Former Office By ...
Theophrastus
Theophrastus, The Greek Moralist And Naturalist, Was Born At Eresus In Lesbos, And Studied Philosophy At Athens, First Under Plato, And Subsequently Under Aristotle. The Latter Took Especial Interest In Him, And According To A Rather Incredible Legend, Altered His Original Name Of Tyrtamus Into That Of Theophrastus (divine Speaker), ...
Theory
Theory, A Word Expressing The Scientific Process Of Generalization Under Various Aspects. Theory Is, In The First Place, Opposed To Fact, Or Matter Of Fact, And Signifies That A Certain Class Of Facts Have Been Generalized And Brought Into A Single Comprehensive Statement. It Thus Corresponds To A Principle, General ...
Theosophy
Theosophy (gr. Theosophia, Divine Wisdom), The Name Given To A So-called Sacred Science, Which Holds A Place Distinct As Well From That Of Philosophy As From That Of Theology, Even In Questions Where These Latter Sciences Have The Same Object With It, Namely, The Nature And Attributes Of God. In ...
Therapeitve
Therapeit've, A Pious "jewish" Sect, Mentioned In A Book Ascribed To Philo, As Living Chiefly On The Lake Mareotis, Near Alexandria, But As Having Also Numerous Colonies In Other Parts Of The World. They Are Described As In Many Respects Like The Essenes (q.v.). Like Them, They Lived Unmarried In ...
Thermidor
Thermidor, I.e., The "hot Month," Formed, In The Calendar Of The First French Republic, The 11th Month, And Lasted From July 19 To Aug. 18. The 9th Thermidor Of The Republican Year 2 (july 27, 1794) Is Historically Memorable As The Date Of Robes Pierre's Fall, And The Termination Of ...
Thermoelectricity And Thermo Magnetism
Thermoelectricity And Thermo-magnetism. If The Ends Of An Iron Wire Be Attached By Twisting Or Soldering To The Extremities Of The Copper Wire Of A Galva Nometer, And One Of These Junctions Be Heated, The Galvanometer Indicates The Passage Of A Current In The Circuit In A Direction From Copper ...
Thermometer
Thermometer (gr. Literally, Heat Measurer), A Term Which, In Spite Of Its Derivation, Is Usually Restricted To Instruments Which Measure Temperature (see Heat) By The Expan N'on Of Bodies. Like That Of The Telescope And Microscope, And Many Other Valuable Pieces Of Philosophical Apparatus, Its Early History Is Very Obscure. ...
Theseus
The'seus, One Of The Most Celebrated Personages Of The Greek Heroic Age. The Leg End Of His Career Is Differently Told, But Be Is Usually Said To Have Been The Son Of 2egeus, King Of Athens, By Hthra, Daughter Of Pittheus, King Of Troezen. He Was Brought Up At The ...
Thetis
The'tis, Daughter Of Nereus And Doris, Was Married Against Her Will By The Gods To Peleus, By Whom She Became The Mother Of Achilles. She Dwelt In The Depths Of The Sea With Her Father, And Had, Like Proteus, The Power Of Changing Her Shape. Her Hand Is Said To ...
Thiers
Thiers, Louis Adolphe, French Historian And Statesman, Was B. April 16, 1797, At Marseilles. His Father Is Variously Reported To Have Been A Locksmith, A Decayed Cloth Merchant, Or An Advocate At The Parliament Of Marseilles; His Mother Belonged To An' Old Commercial Family Which Had Fallen Into Poverty. He ...
Thirst
Thirst Is A Well-known Sensation, Resulting From A Peculiar State Of The Mucous Mem Brane Of The Digestive Canal, But Especially Of The Mucous Membrane And The Faeces, Usually Caused By An Insufficient Supply Of Liquid. In Cases Of Extreme Thirst, There Is A Peculiar Sense Of Clamminess In The ...
Thirty Years War
Thirty Years' War Was Not Properly One War, But Rather An Uninterrupted Suc Cession Of Wars (1618-48) In Germany, In Which Austria, The Most Of The Catholic Princes Of Germany, And Spain, Were Engaged On One Side Throughout, But Against Dif Ferent Antagonists. This Long-continued Strife Had Its Origin In ...
Thistle
Thistle, Carcluus, A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Composita3, Sub-order Eynarocephake, With Spinous Leaves, Imbricated Involucres, And Heads Of Flowers, Con Sisting Of Tubular Hermaphrodite Florets Alone, Very Rarely Dicecious, Stamens Free, Pappus Deciduous, The Receptacle Having Chaffy Bristles. The Flowers Are Sometimes Large, Gen Erally Purple, Rarely ...
Thomas Sydenhax
Sydenhax, Thomas, A Great English Physician, Was Born Of Good Parentage, In 1624, At Winford Eagle, Dorsetshire, And Was Educated At Magdalen Hall, Oxford. According To The Well-known French Surgeon, Desault, He Afterward Studied At Mont Pellier. He Graduated At Oxford As Bachelor In Medicine In 1648. Through The Interest ...
Thomas Telford
Telford, Thomas, An Eminent Engineer, Was B. In The Parish Of Westerkirk, In Esk Dale, Dumfriesshire, Aug. 9, 1757. His Father Was A Shepherd; And During The Intervals Of His Attendance At School, Young Telford Followed The Same Occupation, Diligently Employing His Leisure Moments In The Perusal Of Whatever Books ...
Thomas The Rhymer
Thomas The Rhymer, A Name Given To The Earliest Poet Of Scotland. The History Of His Life And Writings Is Involved In Much Obscurity; But It Is Generally Believed That Thomas Learmount Of Was The Person Whose Poems And Prophecies Were Extensively Known Among The People Of Scotland At An ...
Thomasiits
Thomasiits, Cmusrran, A German Philosopher And Jurist, Was Born At Leipsic, Jan. 1, 1655; Studied At Frankfort-on-the-oder (1675-79), And, Returning To His Native Town, Commenced To Lecture On Law In A Style Perfectly Free From The Pedantry Of The Schools. In 1687, To The Astonishment Of His Latin-speaking Colleagues, He ...
Thomson
Thomson, James, Author Of The Seasons, Was Born On Sept. 11, 1700, At Ednam, In Roxburghshire, Of Which Parish His Father Was Minister. He Was Put To School At Jed Burgh, And Afterward Sent To Complete His Education At Edinburgh. His Intention Was To Enter The Church, And He Went ...
Thomson_2
Thomson, Sir William, One Of The Few Very Great Living Mathematicians And Natural Philosophers, Was B. In June, 1824. His Father Was Prof. Of Mathematics In The Uniyer Gity Of Glasgow. Thomson Graduated In 1845, As Second Wrangler And First Smith's Prizeman At Cambridge, Where He Was Shortly Afterward Elected ...
Thor
Thor, The God Of Thunder, Was The Son Of Odin And Earth (yard); His Wife Was Sif (= Sib, Friendship, Love, And Thus Of The Same Import With Freyja). His Palace, Sup Ported On 540 Pillars, Was Called Thrudwanger; Here He Received The Warriors That Had Fallen In Battle. Thunder ...
Thorn Apple
Thorn-apple, Datum, A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Solunaceco, Having A. Tubular 5-cleft Calyx, A Large Funnel-shaped 5-lobed Flower, A 2-laminated Stigma, And An. Imperfectly 4-celled, Prickly, Or Unarmed Capsule. The Species Of This Genus Are Annual Herbaceous Plants, Rarely Shrubs Or Trees; And Are In General Very ...
Thorwaldsen
Thorwaldsen, One Of The Greatest Of Modern Sculptors, Was Born, It Is Supposed, At Copenhagen, On Nov. 19, 1770. Neither The Place Nor The Day Of His Birth, However, Can Be Fixed With Absolute Certainty; And He Himself, When Casually Questioned As To The Last, Replied With A Certain Brusque ...
Thrace
Thrace, Anciently The Name Of An Extensive Country Bounded On The N. By The Dan Ube, On The E. By The Euxine, On The S. By The .1elgean And Macedonia, And On The W. By Macedonia And Illyria. In Prehistorical Times, However, The Name Appears To Have Denoted The Whole ...
Threshing
Threshing Is The Separating Of The Grain Or Seeds Of Plants From The Straw Or Haulm, A Process Which Has Been Accomplished In Different Ages And Countries By Means Less Or More Effective. The First Method Known To Have Been Practiced Was The Beating• Out Of The Grain From The ...
Thrssaly
Thrssaly, The Largest Division Of Ancient Greece, Lay To The S. Of Macedonia And The E, Of Epirus, Being Separated From The Latter By Mount Pindus, And From The Former By The Cambunian Mountains, The Zegean Sea Bounding It On The E., And The Maliac Gulf And Mount (eta On ...
Thrush
Thrush, Turdus Or Merula, A Genus Of Birds Of The Family Rnerulidce Or Turdides, Having A Bill Of Moderate Size, Straight, The Upper Mandible Convex, Its Point Com Pressed, Notched, And Slightly Curved Downward, The Gape Furnished With A Few Hairs; The Nostrils Near The Base Of The Bill, Oval, ...
Thrush_2
Thrush, Known Also As Infantile Sore Mouth, Is Essentially A Disease Of Early Infancy, Although It May Occur At Any Age. Its Characteristic Symptom Is The Presence Of Small Roundish White Specks Or Patches On The Lining Membrane Of The Cavity Of The Mouth And Throat, On The Surface Of ...
Thucydides
Thucyd'ides, The Great Historian Of The Peloponnesian War, Born Of The Demus Hal Imus, Most Probably In 471 B.c., Is Said To Have Been The Son Of Olorus And Hegesipyle, And Connected With The Family Of Cimon. It Is Stated—on Authority Equally Conjec Tural, However—that He Was Instructed In Oratory ...
Thurifer
Thurifer (lat. Thur, Incense, And Fer., To Carry), The Ministering Attendant In The Roman Catholic Church, At Solemn Mass, Vespers, And Other Solemn Ceremonies, Whose Duty It Is To Carry The Thurible, Or Incense Vessel, And Either To Minister Incense (q.v.) Himself, Or To Present The Thurible To Be Used ...
Thyroid Body Or Gland
Thyroid Body Or Gland (gr. Thyreos, A Shield, And Eidos, Like), One Of The Ductless Or Vascular Glands, Lying At The Upper Part Of The Trachea, And Consisting Of Two Latteral Lobes, Placed One On Each Side Of This Canal, And Connected Together By A Narrow Trans Verse Portion At ...
Thysantra
Thysantra, An Order Of Wingless Insects Of Small Size, And Which Undergo No Morphoses. They Are Furnished With Peculiar Organs, Either Along Their Sides Or At The Extremity Of The Abdomen, Which, As Well As The Legs, Are Used For Locomotion. The Whole Order Is Comprised In Two Families--potturida3, Or ...
Tiber
Tiber, The Chief River Of Central Italy, And The Most Famous In The Peninsula, Rises. From Two Springs In A Wood Of Beech Trees In A Dell Of The Tuscan Apennines (province Arezzo), About 6 M. N. Of The Village Of Pieve-san-stefaua, And In Lat. About 43° 45' North. Its ...
Tiberiiis
Tibe'riiis, Trimnrus Claudius Nero Catsar, The Second Emperor Of Rome, Was The Son Of Tiberius Claudius Nero, One Of The Active Partisans Of Pompey And Antony In The War Of The Second Triumvirate, And Of Livia, A Descendant Of Appius Claudius Ctecus, And Was Born Nov. 16, 42 B.c. The ...
Tibet Or Tubet Thibet
Thib'et, Tib'et Or Tubet, Is The European Name Of A Country In Central Asia, Bounded On The N. By Mongolia, On The E. By China, And On The S. And W. By Hindustan. The Native Name Is Bod Or Bodyul, The Land Of Bod. It Covers An Area Of From ...
The Act Of Swallowing
Swallowing, The Act Of, Is Accomplished By A Set Of Associated Movements Which Have Been Divided By Physiologists Into Three Stages. In The First Stage, The Food Having Been Previously Duly Reduced To A Pulp By Trituration And Insalivation, Is Carried Back By The Contraction Of Various Muscles Until It ...
The Times
Times, The, Is The Largest And Most Important Daily Newspaper In England And In The World. It Was Founded Toward The End Of The Last Century By Mr. John Walter, A London Printer. In January, 1785, He Established The Daily Universal Register, Which He Con Tinued To Publish Until January, ...
The Trachea
Trachea, The, Is Sufficiently Described In The Article Respiration. We Have Here Only To Notice Those Affections Of This Tube Which Require Surgical Or Medical Aid. _foreign Bodies Occasionally Pass Through The Larynx Into The Trachea. In Cases Of This Kind, The Patient Who Has Had Some Foreign Substance In ...