Tegmentum Teg·men"tum noun ; plural Tegmenta . [ Latin , a covering.] (Anat.) A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.

Teguexin Te·guex"in noun (Zoology) A large South American lizard ( Tejus teguexin ). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin .

Tegula Teg"u·la noun ; plural Tegulæ . [ Latin , a tile, dim. from tegere to cover.] (Zoology) A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.

Tegular Teg"u·lar adjective [ Late Latin tegularis , from Latin tegula a tile. See Tile .] Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement. -- Teg"u*lar*ly , adverb

Tegulated Teg`u·la"ted adjective Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor. Fairholt.

Tegument Teg"u·ment noun [ Latin tegumentum , from tegere to cover. See Thatch , noun , and confer Detect , Protect .] 1. A cover or covering; an integument.

2. Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.

Tegumentary Teg`u·men"ta·ry adjective [ Confer French tégumentaire .] Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.

Teil Teil noun [ Old French teil , til , Latin tilia .] (Botany) The lime tree, or linden; -- called also teil tree .

Teind Teind noun [ Confer Icelandic tīund . See Tithe .] A tithe. [ Scot.] Jamieson.

Teine Teine noun See Teyne . [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Teinland Tein"land noun (O. Eng. Law) Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. Burrill.

Teinoscope Tei"no·scope noun [ Greek ... to extend + -scope .] (Physics) An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope . Sir D. Brewster.

Teint Teint noun [ French teint , teinte . See Tint .] Tint; color; tinge, See Tint . [ Obsolete]

Time shall . . . embrown the teint .

Dryden.

Teinture Tein"ture noun [ French See Tincture .] Color; tinge; tincture. [ Obsolete] Holland.

Tek Tek noun (Zoology) A Siberian ibex.

Tel-el-Amarna Tel`-el-A·mar"na noun [ Arabic , hill of Amarna.] A station on the Nile, midway between Thebes and Memphis, forming the site of the capital of Amenophis IV., whose archive chamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of tablets (called the Tel-el-Amarna, or the Amarna, tablets ) was found here, forming the Asiatic correspondence ( Tel-el-Amarna letters ) of Amenophis IV. and his father, Amenophis III., written in cuneiform characters. It is an important source of our knowledge of Asia from about 1400 to 1370 b. c. .

Telamones Tel`a·mo"nes noun plural [ Latin , plural of telamo or telamon , Greek ... a bearer, from ... to bear.] (Architecture) Same as Atlantes .

Telangiectasis Tel·an`gi·ec"ta·sis noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... end + ... vessel + ... extension.] (Medicine) Dilatation of the capillary vessels.

Telangiectasy Tel·an`gi·ec"ta·sy noun (Medicine) Telangiectasis.

Telarly Te"lar·ly adverb In a weblike manner. [ Obsolete] " Telarly interwoven." Sir T. Browne.

Telary Te"la·ry adjective [ Late Latin telaris , from Latin tela a web. See Toil a snare.] Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary. "Pictures of telary spiders." Sir T. Browne.

Telautogram Tel·au"to·gram noun A message transmitted and recorded by a teleautograph.

Telautograph Tel·au"to·graph noun [ Greek th^le far + autograph .] A facsimile telegraph for reproducing writing, pictures, maps, etc. In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits. In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to move a pen as the pencil moves. -- Tel`au*tog"ra*phist noun

Tele-iconograph Tel`e-i·con"o·graph noun [ Greek th^le far + iconograph .] 1. An instrument essentially the same as the telemetrograph.

2. A form of facsimile telegraph.

Telechirograph Tel`e·chi"ro·graph noun [ Greek th^le far + chei`r , cheiro`s , hand + -graph .] An instrument for telegraphically transmitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror.

Teledu Tel"e·du noun (Zoology) An East Indian carnivore ( Mydaus meliceps ) allied to the badger, and noted for the very offensive odor that it emits, somewhat resembling that of a skunk. It is a native of the high mountains of Java and Sumatra, and has long, silky fur. Called also stinking badger , and stinkard .

Telega Te·le"ga noun [ Russian telyega .] A rude four-wheeled, springless wagon, used among the Russians.

Telegony Te·leg"o·ny noun [ Greek th^le far + root of Greek ... to be born.] (Biol.) The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent to his own, begotten of the same mother by another father. -- Te*leg"o*nous adjective

Telegram Tel"e·gram noun [ Greek ... far + - gram .] A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.

» "A friend desires us to give notice that he will ask leave, at some convenient time, to introduce a new word into the vocabulary. It is telegram , instead of telegraphic dispatch , or telegraphic communication ." Albany [ N. Y.] Evening Journal (April 6, 1852).

Telegrammic Tel`e·gram·mic adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram; laconic; concise; brief. [ R.]

Telegraph Tel"e·graph noun [ Greek ... far, far off (cf. Lithuanian toli ) + -graph : confer French télégraphe . See Graphic .] An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.

» The instruments used are classed as indicator , type- printing , symbol-printing , or chemical-printing telegraphs , according as the intelligence is given by the movements of a pointer or indicator, as in Cooke & Wheatstone's (the form commonly used in England), or by impressing, on a fillet of paper, letters from types, as in House's and Hughe's, or dots and marks from a sharp point moved by a magnet, as in Morse's, or symbols produced by electro-chemical action, as in Bain's. In the offices in the United States the recording instrument is now little used, the receiving operator reading by ear the combinations of long and short intervals of sound produced by the armature of an electro- magnet as it is put in motion by the opening and breaking of the circuit, which motion, in registering instruments, traces upon a ribbon of paper the lines and dots used to represent the letters of the alphabet. See Illustration in Appendix.

Acoustic telegraph . See under Acoustic . -- Dial telegraph , a telegraph in which letters of the alphabet and numbers or other symbols are placed upon the border of a circular dial plate at each station, the apparatus being so arranged that the needle or index of the dial at the receiving station accurately copies the movements of that at the sending station. -- Electric telegraph , or Electro- magnetic telegraph , a telegraph in which an operator at one station causes words or signs to be made at another by means of a current of electricity, generated by a battery and transmitted over an intervening wire. -- Facsimile telegraph . See under Facsimile . -- Indicator telegraph . See under Indicator . -- Pan-telegraph , an electric telegraph by means of which a drawing or writing, as an autographic message, may be exactly reproduced at a distant station. - - Printing telegraph , an electric telegraph which automatically prints the message as it is received at a distant station, in letters, not signs. -- Signal telegraph , a telegraph in which preconcerted signals, made by a machine, or otherwise, at one station, are seen or heard and interpreted at another; a semaphore. -- Submarine telegraph cable , a telegraph cable laid under water to connect stations separated by a body of water. -- Telegraph cable , a telegraphic cable consisting of several conducting wires, inclosed by an insulating and protecting material, so as to bring the wires into compact compass for use on poles, or to form a strong cable impervious to water, to be laid under ground, as in a town or city, or under water, as in the ocean. -- Telegraph plant (Botany) , a leguminous plant ( Desmodium gyrans ) native of the East Indies. The leaflets move up and down like the signals of a semaphore.

Telegraph Tel"e·graph transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Telegraphed ; present participle & verbal noun Telegraphing .] [ French télégraphier .] To convey or announce by telegraph.

Telegraph plant Telegraph plant An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans) , whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.

Telegrapher Te·leg"ra·pher noun One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.

Telegraphic Tel`e·graph"ic adjective [ Confer French télégraphique .] Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.

Telegraphical Tel`e·graph"ic·al adjective Telegraphic. -- Tel`e*graph"ic*al*ly , adverb

Telegraphist Te·leg"ra·phist noun One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.

Telegraphone Te·leg"ra·phone noun [ Greek th^le far + -graph + ... sound.] An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.

Telegraphoscope Tel`e·graph"o·scope noun [ Greek th^le far + -graph + -scope .] An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image.

Telegraphy Te·leg"ra·phy noun [ Confer French télégraphie .] The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy .

Telehydrobarometer Tel`e·hy`dro·ba·rom"e·ter noun [ Greek th^le far + hydrobarometer .] An instrument for indicating the level of water in a distant tank or reservior.

Telelectric Tel`e·lec"tric adjective [ Greek th^le far + electric .] (Electricity) Of or pertaining to transmission, as of music, to a distance by electricity.

Telelectroscope Tel`e·lec"tro·scope noun [ Greek th^le far + electro- + -scope .] Any apparatus for making distant objects visible by the aid of electric transmission.

Telemechanic Tel`e·me·chan"ic adjective [ Greek th^le far + mechanic .] Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. -- Tel`e*mech"a*nism noun

Telemeteorograph Tel`e·me`te·or"o·graph noun [ Greek th^le far + meteorograph .] Any apparatus recording meteorological phenomena at a distance from the measuring apparatus, as by electricity or by compressed air; esp., an apparatus recording conditions at many distant stations at a central office. -- Tel`e*me`te*or*o*graph"ic adjective

Telemeter Te·lem"e·ter noun [ Greek ... far + - meter .] An instrument used for measuring the distance of an object from an observer; as, a telescope with a micrometer for measuring the apparent diameter of an object whose real dimensions are known.

Telemeter Te·lem"e·ter noun An apparatus for recording at a distant station the indications of physical instruments such as the thermometer, galvanometer, etc.

Telemetrograph Tel`e·met"ro·graph noun [ Greek th^le far + me`tron measure + -graph .] A combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawing and measuring distant objects. -- Tel`e*me*trog"ra*phy noun -- Tel`e*met`ro*graph"ic adjective

Telemotor Tel`e·mo"tor noun [ Greek th^le far + motor .] (Nautical) A hydraulic device by which the movement of the wheel on the bridge operates the steering gear at the stern.

Telenergy Tel·en"er·gy noun [ Greek th^le far + energy .] Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; -- applied to mediumistic phenomena. -- Tel`en*er"gic adjective

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