Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

1. A knot. [See Tie.]
2. A bond; an obligation. By the soft tye and sacred name of friend. Pope.
3. 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.]

1. A drum; hence, the barrel or hollow part of the ear behind the membrane of the tympanum. Hooper.
2. The area of a pediment; also, the part of a pedestal called the trunk or dye. Cyc.
3. The panel of a door.
4. A triangular space or table in the corners or sides of an arch, usually enriched with figures. Cyc.
5. 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.

1. The drum of the ear. [See Tympan.]
2. In mechanics, a wheel placed round an axis. Cyc.

TYM'PA-NY, n.

A flatulent distention of the belly. [See Timpanites.]