Townshend
Townshend, The Right. Hon. Charles, English Orator And Statesman, Was Second Son Of The Third Viscount Townshend, And Grandson Of The Foregoing. He Was Born In 1725, And Entered The House Of Commons In 1747, As A Supporter Of The Pelham (whig) Administration. His First Great Speech Was Against The ...
Tracheotomy And Laryngotomy
Tracheotomy And Laryngot'omy. The Air-passages Maybe Opened In Three Dif Ferent Situations—namely, Through The Erico-thyroid Membrane (see Larynx), When The Operation Is Termed Laryngotteny; Through The Cricoid Cartilage And The Upper Rings Of The Trachea, The Operation Being Known As Laryngo-t•acheotcmy; And Through The Tra Chea, Below The Isthmus Of ...
Tract Societies
Tract Societies, Organizations Formed To Increase The Circulation Chiefly Of Religious Truth. Before The Invention Of Printing Great Exertions Were Often Made To Multiply Copies Of Religious Writings. Wycliffe Wrote More Than 100 Tracts Which His Disciples Copied And Circulated; Some Of Them Were Sent As Far As Bohemia, And ...
Tractarianish
Tracta`rianish, A Remarkable And Important Movement In The English Church During The Second Quarter Of The Present Century, Which Consisted In An Endeavor To Revive And Bring Into Prominence The Principles Of Antiquity, Catholicity, And Authority Recog Nized In Some Portions Of The Anglican Formularies, In Contrast To The Protestant ...
Trade Marks
Trade-marks. The Attaching Of Peculiar Marks By Which Manufacturers Seek To Distinguish Their Own Productions Front Those Made By Other Persons, Is An Important Both As Concern; The Producer And The Consumer; Because No Honest Manufac Turer Will Invent And Apply A Trade-mark To His Wares Unless He Is Convinced ...
Trade Protection Societies
Trade Protection Societies Are Associations Composed Of Merchants, Trades Men, And Others, Which Have Been Formed For The Promotion Of Trade, And For Protecting The Individual Members From Losses In Their Business Transactions With Each Other, And With The Community At Large. They Began To Spring Up About The Middle ...
Trades Unions
Trades-unions (ante), Organizations Of Working-men For Mutual Protection And Assistance. They Exist In Europe, In Certain Countries; But Are Most Common And Power Ful In Great Britain And America. Their Origin Is Properly Described As " The Inevitable And Necessary Outcome Of Those Changes In Industrial Life Which Led To ...
Trades Unions
Trades-unions, In Their Character Of Benefit And Sick Societies, Do Not Fall Within The Range Of This Article. We Have Principally To Consider Them As Associations Of Work Men Against Employers For The Purpose Of Gaining, Either In Time Or Money, A Larger Share Of The Profits Of Their Trade. ...
Training
Training, Applied In A Sporting Sense, Implies The Acquisition Of The Most Vigorous And Perfect Health, And Is Used Alike In Reference To Men, Horses, And Dogs. An Indi Vidual Is Said To Be Trained " In Condition," When Lie Has By Certain Processes Rendered His Frame As Fit As ...
Transcendent
Transcendent' I.j.—transcenden T (transcendentalis, Transcendens), Words Em Ployed By Various Schoolmen, In Particular Duns Scotus, To Describe The Conceptions That, By Th&r Universality, Rise Above Or Transcend The Ten Aristotelian Categories (see Categories). Thus, According To Scotus, Ens, Or Being, Because It Is Predicable Of Sub Stance And Accident Alike, ...
Transfu Sion Of Blood
Transfu Sion Of Blood Has Been Regarded As A Recognized And Legitimate Opera Tion In Obstetric Surgery Since The Year 1824, When Dr. Blundell Published His Well-known Work, Entitled Physiological And Pathological Researches. The Operation Had, However, Been Vaguely Known To The Medical Profession For The Last Four Centuries; And ...
Transpadane Republic
Transpadane Republic. See Cisalpine Republic. Transplanting—the Removal Of A Growing Plant From One Situation To Another— Is Much Practiced With Many Kinds Of Cultivated Plants Which Arc Reared In A Nursery And Planted Out. Many Flowers And Culinary Plants Are Generally Tref.:,id In This Way. As Well As Ornamental Shrubs ...
Transportation
Transportation, From The Latin For Carrying Across, Means The Removing Of Per Sons From One Territory To Another; And Is Thus Distinguished From Banishment, Which Is The Mere Driving Of Persons Out Of The Country In Which They Live. Transportation, In This Country, Means A Removal Beyond Seas, And Has ...
Transubstantiation
Transubstantiation (lat. Transubstantiatio, Change Of Substance, From Trans, Over, And Eubstantia, A Substance), A Word Used By The Scholastic Writers Of The Roman Catholic Church To Designate The Change Which Is Believed By Roman Catholics To Take Place In The Eucharistic Elements Of Bread And Wine, In Virtue Of The ...
Transvaal
Transvaal (ire., " Across The Vaal"), Till 1877 A Republic, Now A British Territory, In S.e. Africa, Includes The Country N. Of The Vaal River, And On Both Slopes Of The Maga Liesberg Or Cashan Mountains, Into Which The Emigrant Boers Retired After The Annexa Tion Of The Orange River ...
Transylvania
Transylva'nia (called By The Hungarians The Woody And Mountainous Country;" By The Germans Siebenburgen, Castles," From The Seven Forts Built By The Saxons On Their Establishment In The Country, And Which Forts Became Nuclei Of The Walled Cities Of Hermannstadt, Elausenburg, Kronstadt, Bistritz, Mediasch, Muilderabach, And Schtisburg; And By The ...
Trap Or Trappean Rocks
Trap Or Trappean Rocks, An Important Section Of The Igneous Rocks (q.v.), Asso Ciated With Primary And Secondary Strata, So Called From The Swedish Trappa, A Stair, Because These Rocks, Having Resisted, From Their Greater Hardness, The Abrading Influ Ences Which Have Destroyed The Softer Sedimentary Strata, Stand Out Like ...
Trappist Order
Trappist Order, Trre, Celebrated Among The Religious Orders Of The Roman Catho Lic Church For Its Extraordinary Austerities, Is So Called From La Trappe, An Abbey Of The Cistercian Order Founded In The Middle Of The 12th Century. The Discipline Of This Monastery, In Common With Many Others Of The ...
Trasimenus Lacus
Trasime'nus Lacus, The Ancient Name Of An Italian Lake (lago Trasimeno, Or Laga Di Perugia) Lying Between The Towns Of Cortona And Perugia. It Is About 10 M. In Length By 8 In Breadth; The Greatest Depth Is Not Above 30 Ft.. Has No Apparent Outlet, And The Margins Are ...
Trawling
Trawling, A Mode Of Fishing By A Net Dragged Along The Bottom Of The Sea, Behind A Boat. It Is Much Employed In Deep-sea Fishing On The Coast Of England, And By Far The Greater Part Of The Fresh Fish Brought To The London Market, Herring And Mackerel Excepted, Is ...
Treason
Treason (fr. Trahison, Lat. Traditio, From Tradere, To Give Up Or Betray), In The Law Of The United Kingdom, Is The Highest Civil Crime Which A Member Of The Community Can Commit, Being Treachery Against The Sovereign. By The Ancient Common Law Of England, There Was Great Latitude As To ...
Treasury
Treasury, That Department Of The Executive Of The Government Of The United King Dom Which Has The Control Of The Revenue And Expenditure Of The Country. The Head Of The Treasury Was In Former Times An Officer Called The Lord High Treasurer (see Treasurer, Loup High), Hut His Office Has ...
Treaty
Treaty, In Public Law, An Agreement Of Friendship, Alliance, Commerce, Or Naviga Tion, Entered Into Between Two Or More Independent States. Treaties Have Been Divided By Publicists Into Personal And Real, The Difference Being That The Former Relate Exclu Sively To The Persons Of The Contracting Parties—for Example, Treaties Guaranteeing ...
Tree
Tree, The Name Given To Those Plants Which Live For Many Years, And Have Woody Stems And Branches, The Stem Being Generally Single, And Beating A Head Of Branches And Twigs; Whereas Shrubs (q.v.) Have Generally A Number Of Stems Springing From One Root. The Terms Tree And Shrub Are ...
Trees Of Liberty
Trees Of Liberty. The Custom, Common To Almost All The Nations Of Europe, Of Celebrating The Beginning Of 'spring And Various National And Ecclesiastical Festivals By Setting Up Green Boughs, Led, During The War Of Independence In The United States, To The Habit Of Planting Poplars And Other Trees As ...
Trent
Trent (ital. Trento, Ger. Trient, Lat. Tridentum), A Walled T. Of Austria, In The Southern Part 'of The Tyrol, Capital Of The Circle Of The Same Name, Is Situated On The Left Bank Of The Adige (here Spanned By A Wooden Bridge 146 Ft. In A Beautiful And Fertile Valley, ...
Trespass
Trespass As A Legal Term, In The Law Of England, Means Any Wrong Or Injury Com Mitted Upon Either The Person Or Property Of An Individual. Not Amounting To A Crime. As Regards A Trespass To The Person. The More Familiar Term Is An Assault Or Imprisonment; But Trespass As ...
Treves
Treves (ger. Trier, Lat. Augusta Trevirnrum), A T. Of Rhenish Prussia (pop. In '71, 21,442; In '75. 32.972). Capital Of The Circle Of The Same Name, Lies On The Right Bank Of The Moselle, In A Lovely Valley, Between Vine-covered Hills, About 65 M. S.w. Of Coblenz. The River Is ...
Trevor
Trevor, Sir Jorni, Knight, B. In 1633. In The Parliament Of James Ii. Which Met On May 19, 1685, He Was Elected Speaker Of The House Of Commons. " Trevor," Says Macaulay, "had Been Bred Half A Pettifogger, And Half A Gambler, Had Brought To Political Life Sentiments And Principles ...
Triads
Triads (in Chemistry). Until Recently, The Terms Equivalent Number And Atomic Weight Were Usually Regarded By Chemists As Synonymous. Many Recent Writers, Among Whom Laurent (see His Chemical Method, Translated By The Cavendish Society) Stands Pre-eminent, Have, However, Shown That There Is An Essential Difference Between Them; And This Differ ...
Triangle
Triangle (ties, Three, Angulus, A Corner), The Most Simple Of Geometrical Figures, Is A Figure Having Three Angles; But, Oddly Enough, It Is Generally Defined By Geometers As A Figure Of Three Sides, And Its Property Of Being Three-angled Is Put In The Subordinate Position Of A Necessary Consequence. It ...
Triangulation
Triangulation Is The Operation Of Dividing Any Portion Of The Earth's Surface Into Triangles Of As Large A Size As Possible, Which May Be Called Primary, And Which Must Be Afterward Subdivided Into Triangles Of A Smaller Size, Forming A Great Network Of Sec Ondary Or Subsidiary Triangles, Which Serve ...
Tribe
Tribe (lat. Tribua, A Division, Originally Perhaps A Third Part, In Reference To The Three Cantons Whose Coalescence Formed The Germ Of Rome, Q.v.), An Aggregate Of Stocks. —a Stock Being An Aggregate Of Persons Considered To Be Kindred—or An Aggregate Of Families, Forming A Community Usually Under The Government ...
Trichina Spiralis
Trichina Spira'lis, The Name Given To A Peeoli.ir Nematoid Worm, Which, In Its Sexually Immature State, Inhabits The Muscles Usually Of The Pig. It Was Discovered In 1835, Mr. Wormald, Then Demonstrator Of Anatomy At St. Bartholomew's, Giving To Prof. Owen Four Microscopical Specimens Of Speckled Muscle From A Subject ...
Trichiniasis
Trichiniasis Is The Name Of The Diseased Condition Which Is Induced By The In Gestion Of Food Containing Trichina Spinals In Large Quantity. The First Recorded Case, As Occurring In The Human Subject, Is That Of Zenker, Which Has Been Already Noticed In The Article Trichina; But There Can Be ...
Triennial Prescription
Triennial Prescription, In The Law Of Scotland, Is A Limit Of Three Years Imposed On All Creditors To Bring Their Actions To Recover A Certain Class Of Debts And Damages—such As Actions To Recover Merchants' Accounts, Servants' Wages, House-rents (where The Lease Is Verbal), Debts Due To Tradesmen, Lawyers, And ...
Trigonocarpon
Trigonocarpon, A Common Fruit In The Coal-measures, Occurring In All The Strata Except The Underclays And Limestones. Some Six Or Eight Species Have Been Established, Which Differ From Each Other In Size And Shape—some Being As Small As A Pea, And Others As Large As A Walnut. They Are Marked, ...
Trigonometry
Trigonometry (gr. Trigonon, A Triangle, Metria, Measurement), The Measurement Of Triangles. This Definition, Though Expressing Correctly Enough The Scope Of Trigo Nometry In Its Early Stages, Is Now Wholly Inapplicable, As Trigonometry, Like Geometry, Has Far Exceeded Its Primitive Limits; And Though The Original Name Is, For Convenience, Retained, The ...
Triiimph
Tri'iimph (lat. Triumphus) Was The Naive .iven In Ancient Rome To The Public Honor Bestowed On A General Who Had Been Successful In War. It Consisted In A Solemn Pro Cession Along The Via Sacra Up To The Capitol, Where Sacrifice Was Offered To Jupiter. The Victor Sat In A ...
Trilobites
Tril'obites. An Order Of Fossil Crustacea Entirely Confined To The Paleozoic Rocks. They Are Specially Abundant In The Silurian Period, And Disappear In The Lower Members Of The Coal-measures. The Body Was Covered With A Chitinous Shield, Which Consisted Of A Large United Cephalic Shield, A Variable Number Of Body ...
Trimmer
Trimmer, Mrs. Saraii, Teas B. At Ipswich On Jan. 6. 1741. Her Father Was A Mr. Joshua Kirby, A Man Of Intelligence And Piety, Who Removed To London About 14 Years After, And Became Tutor To 1 He Prince Of Wales. Afterward George Iii.. In The Science Of Perspective, A ...
Trimurti
Trimurti (from The Sanskrit Tri, Three, And Mdrti, Form), Is The Name Of The Hindu Triad, Or The Gods Brahman (masculine), Vishn'u, And Siva, When Thought Of As An Inseparable Unity, Though Three In Form. The Padma-purdn'a (see Puran'a), Which, Being A Purfin'a Of The Vaishn'ava Sect, Assigns To Vishn'u ...
Trincomalee
Trincomalee', A Sea-port T. And Magnificent Harbor On The N.e. Coast Of Ceylon, In :8° 34' N., And 81° 12' East., The Town Is Built On A Bold Peninsula, Which Divides The Inner And Outward Harbors. It Is A Place Of Great Antiquity, But Its Ancient Renown Was Due More ...
Trinidad
Trinidad', An Island Belonging To Great Britain, And The Most Southerly Of The West India Islands, Being In Lat. 11° North. It Is About 50 M. Long, Varying In Breadth From 30 To 35 In., And The Area Amounts To 1755 Sq. Miles. It Is Separated From The Mainland (venezuela) ...
Trinity College
Trinity College, Cambridge, Was Founded By King Henry Vih., In 1546, Upon The Site, And Partly Out Of The Revenues Of Several Inure Ancient Foundations. The Names Of These Were Killg's Hall, Michael House, Fyswicke's Hostel, Hovinge Inn, Gregory's, Margaret's, Catherine's, Gerard's, And Tyler's Hostels. Of These, The First Two ...
Trinity Doctrine Of Tue
Trinity. Doctrine Of Tue (ante), As A Doctrine Has Reference Only To The Fact As Revealed; While Theories Respecting It Are Attempts To State The Mode, Which Is Unrevelled And Unknown. A Man May Have Faith In The Doctrine Without Attempting To Form Any Theory Concerning It; His Faith May ...
Trinity House
Trinity House (properly Called, The Corporation Of The Elder Brethren Of The Holy And Undivided Trinity), A Corporation Intrusted With The Regulation And Management Of The Light-houses And Buoys Of The Shores And Rivers Of England. In 1518 A Society Under The Above Name Was Founded At Deptford By Sir ...
Tripoli
Tripoli, A Regency Of The Ottoman Empire, And The Most Easterly Of The Barbary States, A. Africa, Is Bounded On The W, By Tunis, On The S. By The Libyan Desert And Fezzan, On The C.—if We Include The Plateau Of Barca (q.v.)—by Egypt, And On The N. By The ...
Triredie
Tri'redie (from Tres, Three, And •emus, An Oar) Is The Designation Given In Ancient Times To A Galley Having Three Banks Of Oars. It Is Said To Have Been First Employed By The Corinthians In Their War With Corcyra, 664 Ti.c. In The Persian And Peloponnesian Wars, Triremes Were The ...
Tristan Da Cunha
Tristan Da Cunha, An Island In The S. Atlantic Ocean, Lies Midway Between The Coast. Of South America And The Cape Of Good. Hope, In 37' 6' S. Lat. It Is About 20 M. In Circumference. In 1816 A Company Of British Artillery Was Stationed On The Island For The ...
Tristram
Tristram Is Tire Hero Of A British Legend, Which Originally Had No Connection With The Stories Of King Arthur And The Round Table, Although Later Minstrels Sought To Inter Weave Them. Briefly, The Legend Goes As Follows: Tristram, Son Of Rouland Rise, Lord Of Ermonie, And Blanche Fleur, Sister Of ...
Tritffle
Tritffle, Tuber, A Genus Of Fungi Of The Section Gasteromycetes; Globose, Or Nearly So; Of A Fleshy Substance, With A Distinct Skin, The Whole Substance Pervaded By A Net Work Of Serpentine Veins, Which Are The Hymenium, And Bear The Spore-cases In Minute Cavities. The Species Are Not Numerous; They ...
Troglodytes
Troglodytes (gr. Troglodytai—gr. Trogle, A Hole, And Dye, To Get Into; Hence Cave Dveller), The Name By The Ancient Greeks To Various Tribes Or Races Of Uncivilized Men, Who Dwelt Either In Natural Or In Holes Which They Had Dug For Themselves In The Earth. They Are Mentioned By Strabo ...
Trollope
Trollope, Awrnoxr, Second Son Of Mrs. Frances Trollope, And One Of The Most Popular Novelists Of The Day, Was B. In 1815. He Was Educated At Winchester, And Sub Sequently Harrow. While Filling A Responsible Official Situation In The Post-office, He Has Found, Or Made, Leisure To Amuse The Public ...
Troubadour
Troubadour (provencal, Trobar; Fr. Trouver, To Find, Of Unknown Derivation). In Provencal Poetry (see Tuourkar), A Troubadour Was A Polished And Cultivated Poet— What The Germans Call A Kenstdichter (art-poet)—•ho Did Not Make A Trade Of His Muse, In Opposition To The Musician And Jongleur, Who Wandered About The Country ...
Trout
Trout (fr. Truitc, From )1. Lat. Trade, Which, According To Diez, May Be From Gr. Trek Yes, The Mune Of A Voracious Sea-fish, Derived From T Pogo, To Cat), The Popular Name Of Many Species Of The Genus Sauna, As Characterized By Ouvier, Some Of Which Are Referred By Valenciennes ...
Trouvere
Trouvere, The Name Given In N. France To The Same Kind Of Courtly Or Polished Poet Who, Iu S. France, Etc., Was Called Troubadour (q.v.). Like The Latter, He Was Usually Attended By A Jongleur, Whose Business It Was To Furnish An Instrumental Accompaniment To The Songs Which His Master ...
Troy
Troy, A City Of New York, On The E. Bank Of The Hudson River, At The Head Of Steamboat Navigation And Tide-water, 151 M. N. Of New York City, And 6 M, N. Of Albany. Built Upon The Alluvial Flats Of The River And Hills, Called Mount Ida, On The ...
Troy
Troy. The Earliest Traditions Of The Greek People, As Contained In Their Oldest Poetry And History, Represent The Country On Both Sides Of The Iegean As Peopled By Races, Either Of Genuine Hellenic, Or Of .closely Affiliated Tribes. Among Those Who Peopled The Eastern Or Asiatic Coast Are Specially Named ...
Troy Weight
Troy-weight. The Origin Of The Term " Troy" Is Unknown; Some Consider It To Be A Corruption Of Le Roy, As The Troy Pound Was, Till Recently, The Standard Pound (pondus Regis); Some Derive It From Troy Novant, The Monkish Name For London; While The Majority Of Philologists And Lexicographers ...
Truck System
Truck-system (french Troquer, Scotch Trock, To Barter Or Exchange) Is Applied To The Practice Of Paying Workmen In Goods Instead Of Current Money. There Is No Question About The Bad Social Of Such An Arrangement In The Ordinary Staple And Steady Systems Of Productive Industry, Though There Are Cases Where ...
Trumbull
Trumbull, Jour:, American Painter, Son Of Gov. Jonathan Trumbull (said To Have Been The Original " Brother Jonathan,") Of Connecticut, And Brother Of Gen. Jonathan Trumbull, Aide-de-camp To Gen. Washington, Was B. In Lebanon, Conn., Juue 6, 1756, Was Educated At Harvard College, And Devoted Himself To Painting. Ile Had ...
Truss
- Truss, An Instrument Employed In The Palliative Treatment Of Hernia (q.v.), With The View Of Preventing Its Descent, And In Some Cases Of Effecting A Permanent Cure. It Con Sists Essentially Of A Pad Or Cushion Attached To A Metallic Spring, With Straps So Arranged That Its Position May ...
Trust
Trust, In The Law Of England, Is A Confidence Reposed In Some Other Person Touching Land Or Goods For Which The Cestui Que Trust, Or Beneficiary, Has No Remedy Except In The Chancery Division Of The High Court Of Justice. It Means A Species Of Divided Proprietor Ship, Whereby The ...
Tschudi
Tschudi, An Ancient And Noble Family In The Swiss Canton Of Glarus, Several Mem Bers Of Which Have Distinguished Themselves As Authors, Statesmen, And Warriors. The Two Following Are The Most Notable Of The Tschudi: Gilles, Oi Aegidies (b. 1505, Died 1572), Who Was Active On The Catholic Bide During ...
Tsetse
Tsetse, Glossinia Morsitans, A Dipterous Insect, Which Is A Terrible Pest Of Some Parts Of S_ Africa. It Is Not Much Larger Than The Common House-fly, Of A Brown Color, With Four Yellow Bars Across The Abdomen. The Wings Project Considerably Beyond The. Abdomen. It Is Remarkably Alert, At Least ...
Tube Well
Tube-well Is An American Contrivance, Introduced Into England In 1867, Having For Its Object The Obtaining Of A Small Supply Of Water In A Very Short Space Of Time By The Application Of A Limited Amount Of Manual Power. The Apparatus Comprises Three Parts—a Tube Or Well, A Rammer Or ...
Tubercle
Tubercle Is A Word That Has Been Employed By Pathologists Of Different Epochs In Very Different Seises. The Older Writers Employed The Term Merely To Express An External Form; And Everything Was Called A Tubercle Which Manifested Itself In The Form Of A Small Knot. Without Entering Into Any Discussion ...
Tubingen
Tu'bingen, An Important T. Of Wurtemberg, In The Circle Of The Black Forest, 20 M. S.s.w. Of Stuttgart, Is &tinned On The Necker, At The Influx Of The Steinlach. In One Of The Most Beautiful And Fertile Districts Of The Oberland. Ttibingen Is An Old Place, Irregularly Built, With Steep ...
Tubular Bridge
Tubular Bridge. The Advantages Of The Tube For Carrying A Level Roadway Across A Large Spau Were Brought Into General Notice By Robert Stephenson, Engineer Of The Chester And Holyhead Railway, In The Construction Of The Bridges To Carry That Railway Across The Menai Strait. It Was Required By The ...
Tudor
Tudor, The Surname Of A Family Of Welsh Extraction, Which Occupied The Throne Of England From 1485 To 1603. In The Welsh Language Tudor Is The Equivalent Of Theo Dore. Owen Tudor, The First Of The Race Known In History, Has Had A Pedigree Assigned Him From The Ancient Welsh ...
Tulip
Tulip, Tulipa, A Genus Of Plants Of The Natural Order Liliacco, Having An Inferior Bell-shaped Perianth, Of Six Distinct Segments, Without Nectaries; A Sessile Three-lobed Stigma, A Three-cornered Capsule, And Flat Seeds. The Bulb Is Fleshy, And Covered With A Brown Skin. About Thirty Species Are Known, Mostly Natives Of ...
Tumors
Tumors Do Not Admit Of A Simple Definition, But, In The Words Of Sir James Paget, Who Has Specially Investigated This Department Of Surgical Pathology, They All Belong To The Class Of Overgrowths Or Hypertrophies, And Their Most Constant Distinctive Charac Ters Are: (1) That They Are Deviations Both In ...
Tumors
Tumors (ante). The Frequency Of The Occurrence Of Tumors, The Great Variety Of Them, And Their Various Relations To The Constitutional Condition Of The Subject In Which They Are Developed, Make Them Of Great Importance, Not Only To The Surgeon, But To All Who Are Liable To Be Afflicted With ...
Tumultuous Assemblages
Tumultuous Assemblages Are, In Point Of Law, In The Category Of Riots, And Were Carried To An Enormous Height In The Reign Of Charles I. It Was Afterward Enacted By A Statute Of 13 Ch. Ii. C. 5, That Not More Than Twenty Names Should Be Signed To Any Peti ...
Tungsten
Tung'sten (symb. 'w, Equiv. 92—in New System, 184—sp. Gr. 17.6) Is A Rare Metal, Which Derives Its Name From The Swedish Words Lung, Heavy, And Sten, A Stone. It Is Chiefly Derived From Wolfram (whence The Symbol W), Which Is A Tungstate Of Iron And Manganese, And Likewise Occurs In ...
Tunis
Tunis, Capital Of The African State Of The Same Name, Lies On The West Side Of A Small Lake Or Lagoon, Near The S. W. Extremity Of The Lake Of Tunis, About Three M. From The Ruins Of Ancient Carthage. It Occupies Rising Ground, And Both The City Proper And ...
Tunkers
Tunkers, A Religious Sect, Occupying Settlements In New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Etc., And Thus Pretty Widely Scattered Throughout The Northern And Middle Parts Of The United States. They Are Nowhere Numerous, And Are Chiefly Occupied In The Cultivation Of The Soil. The Name Which They Take For ...
Tunnel
Tunnel (ate). One Of The Most Important Tunnels In The United States Is The Hoo Sac Tunnel In Berkshire Co., Western Mass., Owned By The State, Is An Important Dart Of The Fitchburg Railway From Boston To The West. The E. End Of The Tunnel Is 137 In. From Boston. ...
Tunnel
Tunnel. Tunnels Are Passages Constructed Under Ground To Carry Roads, Railways, Canals, Or Streams Of Water. Tunneling, Which Has Long Been In Use For Roads, And Aque Ducts, Has Of Late Received A Great Development In The Construction Of Railways. At The Pres Ent Time There Are Believed To Be ...
Tunny
Tunny, Tlelinnus V1170218, A Fish Of The Family Scomberidce (q.v.), Found In The Medi Terranean. And In The Atlantic' Ocean, Hut Particularly Abundant In The Mediterranean, Where The Tunny Fishery Is Of Great Importance. It Occasionally, But Rarely, Occurs On The British Coasts. The Genus Throats Is Closely Allied To ...
Turanian Languages
Tura'nian Languages. In Opposition To _bran, The Name Of Their Own Country, The Persians From The Earliest Times Called The Countries Lying To The N. Of It Turan, And This Name Is Still Frequently Used As Synonymous With Turkistan. The Term Turanian Derived From It Has Been Adopted By Philologists, ...
Turf Laws
Turf Laws. The Laws Concerning The Ancient Pastime Of Horse-racing Are Sub Divided Into Those Affecting Races, Wagers, And Betting-houses, For Which Last, See Bet Ting. 1. As To Racing, It Has Sometimes Been Populaily Believed That The Public Have A Right To Trespass On Lands To Attend Or To ...
Turin
Turin (augusta Taurinorum, Bodincomages, Colon In Tdrino), A City Of Northern Italy, Formerly Capital Of Piedmont, Then Of The Kingdom Of Italy, Is Situated Near The Confluence Of The Po And The Dora Ripaira. 45° 5' N. Lot,. 7° 42' E. Long. Its Pop. At The Beginning Of This Century ...