Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: TWO-PENCE – TYM'PA-NY
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TWO-PENCE, n.
A small coin. Shak.
TWO-PEN-NY, a.
Of the value of two-pence.
TWO-PET-AL-ED, a.
Dipetalous; having two perfectly distinct petals.
TWO'-PLI-ED, a. [two, and Fr. plier, L. plico.]
Double; consisting of two thicknesses, as cloth.
TWO-SEED-ED, a.
In botany, dispermous; containing two seeds, as a fruit; having two seeds. Martyn.
TWO-TIP-PED, a.
Bilabiate; divided in such a manner as to resemble the two lips when the mouth is more or less open.
TWO-TONGU-ED, a.
Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.
TWO-VALV-ED, a.
Bivalvular, as a shell, pod or glume.
TY-CHON'IC, a.
Pertaining to Tycho Brahe, or designating his system of astronomy. Wilberforce.
TYE, n.
- A knot. [See Tie.]
- A bond; an obligation. By the soft tye and sacred name of friend. Pope.
- In ships, a runner or short thick rope.
TYE, v.t. [See Tie, the more usual orthography, and Tying.]
To bind or fasten.
TY'ER, n.
One who ties or unites. Fletcher.
TY'GER, n. [See TIGER.]
TY'ING, ppr. [See Tie and Tye.]
Binding; fastening. [As this participle must be written with y, it might be well to write the verb tye.]
TYKE, n.
A dog; or one as contemptible as a dog. Shak.
TYM'BAL, n. [F. timbale; It. taballo; Sp. timbal. M is probably not radical. It is from beating, Gr. τυπτω.]
A kind of kettle drum. A tymbal's sound were better than my voice. Prior.
TYM'PAN, n. [L. tympanum. See Tympeal.]
- A drum; hence, the barrel or hollow part of the ear behind the membrane of the tympanum. Hooper.
- The area of a pediment; also, the part of a pedestal called the trunk or dye. Cyc.
- The panel of a door.
- A triangular space or table in the corners or sides of an arch, usually enriched with figures. Cyc.
- Among printers, a frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put, in order to be laid on the form to be impressed.
TYM-PA-NITES, n.
In medicine, a flatulent distention of the belly; tympany. Cyc.
TYM-PAN-IT'IC, a.
Relating to tympany or tympanites; affected with tympany or tympanites.
TYMPAN-IZE, v.i.
To act the part of a drummer.
TYM'PAN-IZE, v.t.
To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum.
TYM'PA-NIZ-ED, pp.
Stretched, as a skin over the head of a drum.
TYM'PA-NIZ-ING, ppr.
Stretching, as a skin over the head of a drum.
TYM'PA-NUM, n.
- The drum of the ear. [See Tympan.]
- In mechanics, a wheel placed round an axis. Cyc.
TYM'PA-NY, n.
A flatulent distention of the belly. [See Timpanites.]