TY'P HON, the evil genius of Egyptian mythology. According to Sir G. Wilkin son they seem to have acknowledged two deities, who answered to the description given by the Greeks of Typho. " Ono who was the brother of Netpe, and op posed to his brother Osiris, as the bad to the good principle; the other bearing the name of Typho, and answering to that part of his eh racier which represents hint as the opponent of Bores :" the true evil genius Ombte, whom the Greeks seem to confound with Typhn. " ile is figured under the human form, having the head of a quadruped, with square topped ears, which some might have supposed to represent an ass wit It clipped ears, if the entire animal did not too frequently occur to prevent this erroneous conclusion." In his Egyptian names is " Ombte," in which Sir O. Wilkinson thinks he trace.; a connection with An tocus, the son of Earth. There appears to have been a general propensity to erase his figure and titles from the monu ments at some remote epoch.
TY'll ANT, one who exercises arbitrary excessive power. A monarch or other
ruler who, by or cruel punish ment, or the demand of nnreasr.nable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law does not authorize, and which are repugnant to the dictates of huManity.—The word tyrant, in its original signification, mere ly meant an absolute ruler ; but the abuse of the office led to a different ap plication of the word.
? the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel of the nlphabet, is generally pro nounced nearly like eu shortened or blended; as in annuity, enumerate, m ate, duke, rule, infuse. some words, as in bull, pull, ull, the sound of u is that of the Italian u, the French nu, hut short ened. Its other sound is beard in tun, run, rub, snub, .Fe.
UllIQU1TA MANS, in evelesiastical history, a sect of Lutherans who sprung, up in Germany about the year 1590, and maintained that the body of Jesus Christ is (ubigue) omnipresent, or in every place at the same time.