Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TEETH-ING, n.

The operation or process of the first growth of teeth, or the process by which they make their way through the gums, called dentition.

TEETH-ING, ppr.

Breeding teeth; undergoing dentition.

TEG'U-LAR, a. [L. tegula, a tile, from tego, to cover or make close.]

Pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile; consisting of tiles.

TEG'U-LAR-LY, adv.

In the manner of tiles on a roof. Kirwan.

TEG'U-MENT, n. [L. tegumentum, from tego, to cover.]

A cover or covering; seldom used except in reference to the covering of a living body. [See Integument.]

TEG-U-MENT'A-RY, a.

Pertaining to teguments, or consisting of teguments.

TEH-HEE, n.

A sound made in laughing.

TEH-HEE, v.i.

To laugh. [A cant word.]

TEIL, or TEIL-TREE, n. [L. tilia; Ir. teile.]

The lime-tree, otherwise called the linden.

TEINDS, n.

In Scotland, tithes.

TEIN'O-SCOPE, n.

An instrument called also the prism telescope, formed by combining prisms so that the chromatic aberration of the light is corrected, and the linear dimensions of objects seen through them increased or diminished. Brande.

TEINT, n. [Fr. teint, from teindre, L. tingo, to dye.]

Color; tinge. [See Tint.]

TEL'A-MON, n. [Gr. τλαω, to bear up.]

In architecture, a figure of a man supporting an entablature.

TEL'A-RY, a. [L. tela, a web.]

1. Pertaining to a web.
2. Spinning webs; as, a telary spider. [Little used.] Brown.

TEL'E-GRAPH, n. [Gr. τηλε, at a distance, and γραφω, to write.]

A machine for communicating intelligence from a distance by various signals or movements previously agreed on; which signals represent letters, words or ideas which can be transmitted from one station to another, as far as the signals can be seen. This machine was invented by the French about the year 1793 or 1794, and is now adopted by other nations. Cyc. Electro-magnetic telegraph, an instrument or apparatus for communicating words or language to a distance by the use of electricity.

TEL-E-GRAPH'IC, a.

1. Pertaining to the telegraph; made by a telegraph; as, telegraphic movements or signals; telegraphic art.
2. Communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic intelligence.

TEL-E-GRAPH'IC-AL-LY, adv.

By the telegraph.

TEL-EG'RA-PHY, n.

The art or practice of communicating intelligence by a telegraph.

TEL-E-O-LOG'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to teleology.

TEL-E-OL'O-GY, n. [Gr. τελος, end, and λογος, discourse.]

The science of the final causes of things.

TE'LE-O-SAU-RUS, n. [Gr. τελειος, perfect, complete, and σαυρα, a lizard.]

A genus of fossil Saurians, with long and narrow snouts. St. Hilaire.

TEL-E-PHON'IC, a. [Gr. τηλε and φωνη.]

Far sounding; that propels sound a great distance.

TEL'E-SCOPE, n. [Fr. from Gr. τελος, end, or τηλε, at a distance, probably the latter, and σκοπεω, to see; It. and Sp. telescopio.]

An optical instrument employed in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies. It assists the eye chiefly in two ways; first, by enlarging the visual angle under which a distant object is seen, and thus magnifying that object; and secondly, by collecting and conveying to the eye a larger beam of light than would enter the naked organ, and thus rendering objects distinct and visible which would otherwise be indistinct or invisible. Its essential parts are, the object glass, which collects the beam of light and forms an image of the object, and the eye glass, which is a microscope by which the image is magnified. D. Olmsted.

TEL'E-SCOPE-SHELL, n.

In conchology, a species of Turbo with plane, striated and numerous spires. Cyc.

TEL-E-SCOP'IC, or TEL-E-SCOP'IC-AL, a.

1. Pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope; as, a telescopic view.
2. Seen or discoverable only by a telescope; as, telescopic stars.