Chapter 1714

Ter"ri*er , n. 1. [F. terrier , chien terrier , from terre the earth, L. terra ; cf. F. terrier a burrow, LL. terrarium a hillock (hence the sense, a mound thrown up in making a burrow, a burrow). See Terrace , and cf. Terrier , 2.] (Zo\'94l.) One of a breed of small dogs, which includes several distinct subbreeds, some of which, such as the Skye terrier and Yorkshire terrier, have long hair and drooping ears, while others, at the English and the black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth hair and upright ears.

&hand; Most kinds of terriers are noted for their courage, the acuteness of their sense of smell, their propensity to hunt burrowing animals, and their activity in destroying rats, etc. See Fox terrier , under Fox .

2. [F. terrier , papier terrier , LL. terrarius liber , i.e., a book belonging or pertaining to land or landed estates. See Terrier , 1, and cf. Terrar .] (Law) (a) Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like. (b) In modern usage, a book or roll in which the lands of private persons or corporations are described by their site, boundaries, number of acres, or the like. [Written also terrar .]

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Ter*rif"ic (?) , a. [L. terrificus ; fr. terrere to frighten + facere to make. See Terror , and Fact .] Causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form; a terrific sight.

Terrifical <Xpage=1489>

Ter*rif"ic*al (?) , a. Terrific. [R.]

Terrifically <Xpage=1489>

Ter*rif"ic*al*ly , adv. In a terrific manner.

Terrify <Xpage=1489>

Ter"ri*fy (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Terrified (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Terrifying (?) .] [L. terrere to frighten + -fy : cf. F. terrifier , L. terrificare . See Terrific , and -fy .] 1. To make terrible. [Obs.]

If the law, instead of aggravating and terrifying sin, shall give out license, it foils itself. Milton.

2. To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten.

When ye shall hear of wars . . . be not terrified . Luke xxi. 9.

Terrigenous <Xpage=1489>

Ter*rig"e*nous (?) , a. [L. terrigena , terrigenus ; terra the earth + genere , gignere , to bring forth.] Earthborn; produced by the earth.

Territorial <Xpage=1489>

Ter`ri*to"ri*al (?) , a. [L. territorialis : cf. F. territorial .] 1. Of or pertaining to territory or land; as, territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction.

2. Limited to a certain district; as, right may be personal or territorial .

3. Of or pertaining to all or any of the Territories of the United States, or to any district similarly organized elsewhere; as, Territorial governments .

Territorialize <Xpage=1489>

Ter`ri*to"ri*al*ize (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Territorialized (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Territorializing (?) .] 1. To enlarge by extension of territory.

2. To reduce to the condition of a territory.

Territorially <Xpage=1489>

Ter`ri*to"ri*al*ly , adv. In regard to territory; by means of territory.

Territored <Xpage=1489>

Ter"ri*to*red (?) , a. Possessed of territory. [R.]

Territory <Xpage=1489>

Ter"ri*to*ry (?) , n. ; pl. Territories (#) . [L. territorium , from terra the earth: cf. F. territoire . See Terrace .] 1. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.

He looked, and saw wide territory spread Before him -- towns, and rural works between. Milton.

2. The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company .

3. In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.

Terror <Xpage=1489>

Ter"ror (?) , n. [L. terror , akin to terrere to frighten, for tersere ; akin to Gr. <?/ to flee away, dread, Skr. tras to tremble, to be afraid, Russ. triasti to shake: cf. F. terreur . Cf. Deter .] 1. Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright.

Terror seized the rebel host. Milton.

2. That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.

Those enormous terrors of the Nile. Prior.

Rulers are not a terror to good works. Rom. xiii. 3.

There is no terror , Cassius, in your threats. Shak.

&hand; Terror is used in the formation of compounds which are generally self-explaining: as, terror -fraught, terror -giving, terror -smitten, terror -stricken, terror -struck, and the like.

King of terrors , death. Job xviii. 14 . -- Reign of Terror . (F. Hist.) See in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Syn. -- Alarm; fright; consternation; dread; dismay. See Alarm .

Terrorism <Xpage=1489>

Ter"ror*ism (?) , n. [Cf. F. terrorisme .] The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.

Jefferson.

<-- 2. The practise of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals. -->

Terrorist <Xpage=1489>

Ter"ror*ist , n. [F. terroriste .] One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.

Burke.

<-- 2. One who commits terrorism{2}. -->

Terrorize <Xpage=1489>

Ter"ror*ize (?) , v. t. [Cf. F. terroriser .] To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation.

Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.

Terrorless <Xpage=1489>

Ter"ror*less , a. Free from terror.

Poe.

Terry <Xpage=1489>

Ter"ry (?) , n. A kind of heavy colored fabric, either all silk, or silk and worsted, or silk and cotton, often called terry velvet , used for upholstery and trimmings.

Tersanctus <Xpage=1489>

Ter*sanc"tus (?) , n. [L. ter thrice + sanctus holy.] (Eccl.) An ancient ascription of praise (containing the word "Holy" -- in its Latin form, " Sanctus " -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion .

Terse <Xpage=1489>

Terse (?) , a. [ Compar. Terser (?) ; superl. Tersest .] [L. tersus , p.p. of tergere to rub or wipe off.] 1. Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. [Obs.]

Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne.

2. Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. [R. & Obs.] "Your polite and terse gallants."

Massinger.

3. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style .

Terse , luminous, and dignified eloquence. Macaulay.

A poet, too, was there, whose verse Was tender, musical, and terse . Longfellow.

Syn. -- Neat; concise; compact. Terse , Concise . Terse was defined by Johnson "cleanly written", i. e. , free from blemishes, neat or smooth. Its present sense is "free from excrescences," and hence, compact , with smoothness, grace, or elegance, as in the following lones of Whitehead: -

"In eight terse lines has Ph\'91drus told (So frugal were the bards of old) A tale of goats; and closed with grace, Plan, moral, all, in that short space."

It differs from concise in not implying, perhaps, quite as much condensation, but chiefly in the additional idea of "grace or elegance."

-- Terse"ly , adv. -- Terse"ness , n.

Tersulphide <Xpage=1489>

Ter*sul"phide (?) , n. [Pref. ter- + sulphide .] (Chem.) A trisulphide.

Tersulphuret <Xpage=1489>

Ter*sul"phu*ret (?) , n. [Pref. ter- + sulphuret .] (Chem.) A trisulphide. [R.]

Ter-tenant <Xpage=1489>

Ter"-ten`ant (?) , n. See Terre-tenant .

Tertial <Xpage=1489>

Ter"tial (?) , a. & n. [From L. tertius third, the tertial feathers being feathers of the third row. See Tierce .] (Zo\'94l.) Same as Tertiary .

Tertian <Xpage=1489>

Ter"tian (?) , a. [L. tertianus , from tertius the third. See Tierce .] (Med.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever .

Tertian <Xpage=1489>

Ter"tian , n. [L. tertiana (sc. febris ): cf. OF. tertiane .] 1. (Med.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.

2. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.

Tertiary <Xpage=1489>

Ter"ti*a*ry (?) , a. [L. tertiarius containing a third part, fr. tertius third: cf. F. tertiaire . See Tierce .] 1. Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word .

Trench.

2. (Chem.) Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt . Cf. Primary , and Secondary . <-- specifically, an organic compound in which teh carbon atom attached to the eponymic functional group has three carbon atoms attached to it; as, tertiary butyl alcohol, (CH3)3C.OH . -->

3. (Geol.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.

4. (Zo\'94l.) Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills.

Tertiary age . (Geol.) See under Age , 8. -- Tertiary color , a color produced by the mixture of two secondaries. "The so-called tertiary colors are citrine , russet , and olive. " Fairholt . -- Tertiary period . (Geol.) (a) The first period of the age of mammals, or of the Cenozoic era. (b) The rock formation of that period; -- called also Tertiary formation . See the Chart of Geology . -- Tertiary syphilis (Med.) , the third and last stage of syphilis, in which it invades the bones and internal organs.

Tertiary <Xpage=1489>

Ter"ti*a*ry , n. ; pl. Tertiaries (<?/) . 1. (R. C. Ch.) A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries ; the Dominican tertiaries ; the Carmelite tertiaries . See Third Order , under Third .

Addis & Arnold.

2. (Geol.) The Tertiary era, period, or formation.

3. (Zo\'94l.) One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust . of Bird .

Tertiate <Xpage=1489>

Ter"ti*ate (?) , v. t. [L. tertiatus , p.p. of tertiare to do for the third time, fr. tertius the third.] 1. To do or perform for the third time. [Obs. & R.]

Johnson.

2. (Gun.) To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.

Terutero <Xpage=1489>

Ter`u*ter"o (?) , n. [Probably so named from its city.] (Zo\'94l.) The South American lapwing ( Vanellus Cayennensis ). Its wings are furnished with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing .

Terza rima <Xpage=1489>

Ter"za ri"ma (?) . [It., a third or triple rhyme.] A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.

Terzetto <Xpage=1489>

Ter*zet"to (?) , n. [It., dim. of terzo the third, L. tertius . See Tierce .] (Mus.) A composition in three voice parts; a vocal (rarely an instrumental) trio.

Tesselar <Xpage=1489>

Tes"sel*ar (?) , a. [L. tessella a small square piece, a little cube, dim. of tessera a square piece of stone, wood, etc., a die.] Formed of tesser\'91, as a mosaic.

Tessellata <Xpage=1489>

Tes`sel*la"ta (?) , n. pl. [NL. See Tessellate .] (Zo\'94l.) A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates.

Tessellate <Xpage=1489>

Tes"sel*late (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tessellated (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tessellating .] [L. tessellatus tessellated. See Tessellar .] To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.

The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the fashion of France. Macaulay.

Tessellate <Xpage=1489>

Tes"sel*late (?) , a. [L. tesselatus .] Tessellated.

Tessellated <Xpage=1489>

Tes"sel*la`ted (?) , a. 1. Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement .

2. (Bot. & Zo\'94l.) Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf .

Tessellation <Xpage=1489>

Tes`sel*la"tion (?) , n. The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.

J. Forsyth.

Tessera <Xpage=1489>

Tes"se*ra (?) , n. ; pl. Tesser\'91 (#) . [L., a square piece, a die. See Tessellar .] A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes.

Fairholt.

Tesseraic <Xpage=1489>

Tes`se*ra"ic (?) , a. Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated. [Obs.]

Sir R. Atkyns (1712).

Tesseral <Xpage=1489>

Tes"se*ral (?) , a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesser\'91.

2. (Crystallog.) Isometric.

Tessular <Xpage=1489>

Tes"su*lar (?) , a. (Crystallog.) Tesseral.

Test <Xpage=1489>

Test (?) , n. [OE. test test, or cupel, potsherd, F. t\'88t , from L. testum an earthen vessel; akin to testa a piece of burned clay, an earthen pot, a potsherd, perhaps for tersta , and akin to torrere to patch, terra earth (cf. Thirst , and Terrace ), but cf. Zend tasta cup. Cf. Test a shell, Testaceous , Tester a covering, a coin, Testy , T\'88te-\'85-t\'88te .] 1. (Metal.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

Our ingots, tests , and many mo. Chaucer.

2. Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test . "Bring me to the test ."

Shak.

3. Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love .

Each test every light her muse will bear. Dryden.

4. That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.

Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Pope.

5. Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.

Our test excludes your tribe from benefit. Dryden.

6. Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

Who would excel, when few can make a test Betwixt indifferent writing and the best? Dryden.

7. (Chem.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.

Test act (Eng. Law) , an act of the English Parliament prescribing a form of oath and declaration against transubstantiation, which all officers, civil and military, were formerly obliged to take within six months after their admission to office. They were obliged also to receive the sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England. Blackstone . -- Test object (Optics) , an object which tests the power or quality of a microscope or telescope, by requiring a certain degree of excellence in the instrument to determine its existence or its peculiar texture or markings. -- Test paper . (a) (Chem.) Paper prepared for use in testing for certain substances by being saturated with a reagent which changes color in some specific way when acted upon by those substances; thus, litmus paper is turned red by acids, and blue by alkalies, turmeric paper is turned brown by alkalies, etc. (b) (Law) An instrument admitted as a standard or comparison of handwriting in those jurisdictions in which comparison of hands is permitted as a mode of proving handwriting. -- Test tube . (Chem.) (a) A simple tube of thin glass, closed at one end, for heating solutions and for performing ordinary reactions. (b) A graduated tube.

Syn. -- Criterion; standard; experience; proof; experiment; trial. -- Test , Trial . Trial is the wider term; test is a searching and decisive trial . It is derived from the Latin testa (earthen pot), which term was early applied to the fining pot , or crucible , in which metals are melted for trial and refinement. Hence the peculiar force of the word, as indicating a trial or criterion of the most decisive kind.

I leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his commediation. Shak.

Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of fortune, Like purest gold, that tortured in the furnace, Comes out more bright, and brings forth all its weight. Addison.

Test <Xpage=1489>

Test , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tested ; p. pr. & vb. n. Testing .] 1. (Metal.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

2. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.