Ty-all
Ty´-all, n. Something serving to tie or secure. [Obs.] Latimer.
Tychonic
Ty•chon´ic, a. Of or pertaining to Tycho Brahe, or his system of astronomy.
Tye, n.
1. A knot; a tie. [R.] See Tie.
2. (Naut.) A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered.
3. (Mining) A trough for washing ores. Knight.
Tye, v. t. See Tie, the proper orthography.
Tying
Ty´ing, n. (Mining) The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.
Tymbal
Tym´bal, n. [F. timbale, Sp. timbal; cf. atabal; probably of Arabic origin. Cf. Atabal, Timbrel.] A kind of kettledrum. [Written also trimbal.]
"A tymbal’s sound were better than my voice." Prior.
Tymp, n. [Cf. Tympan.] (Blast Furnace) A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the archway in which the dam stands.
Tympan
Tym´pan, n. [F., fr. tympanum a kettledrum, a panel of a door. See Tympanum, and cf. Tymp.]
1. A drum. [Obs.]
2. (Arch.) A panel; a tympanum.
3. (Print.) 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. Tympan sheet (Print.), a sheet of paper of the same size as that to be printed, pasted on the tympan, and serving as a guide in laying the sheets evenly for printing. W. Savage.
Tympanic
Tym•pan´ic ( 277), a. [See Tympanum.]
1. Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as a tympanic membrane.
2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the tympanum. Tympanic bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which incloses a part of the tympanum and supports the tympanic membrane. — Tympanic membrane. (Anat.) See the Note under Ear.
Tympanist
Tym´pa•nist, n. [L. tympaniste, Gr. .] One who beats a drum. [R.]
Tympanitis
Tym•pa•ni´tis, n. [NL. See Tympanum, and -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the lining membrane of the middle ear.
Tympanize
Tym´pa•nize, v. i. [L. tympanizare to beat a drum, Gr. .] To drum. [R.] Coles.
Tympanize
Tym´pa•nize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tympanized p. pr. & vb. n. Tympanizing ] To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum. [Obs.] "Tympanized, as other saints of God were." Oley.
Tympano
Tym´pa•no, n. ; pl. Tympani (#). [It. timpano. See Tympanum.] (Mus.) A kettledrum; — chiefly used in the plural to denote the kettledrums of an orchestra. See Kettledrum. [Written also timpano.]
Tympanum
Tym´pa•num, n. ; pl. E. Tympanums (#), L. Tympana (#). [L., a kettledrum, a drum or wheel in machines, the triangular area in a pediment, the panel of a door, Gr.,, fr. to strike, beat. See Type, and cf. Timbrel.]
1. (Anat.) (a) The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear. (b) A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.
2. (Zoöl.) One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.
3. (Arch.) (a) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table. (b) The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.
4. (Mech.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, — used for raising water, as for irrigation.
Tympany
Tym´pa•ny, n. [Gr., fr. a kettledrum. See Tympanites.]
1. (Med.) A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites. Fuller.
2. Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. "Thine ’s a tympany of sense." Dryden.
"A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence." De Quincey.
Tynd, v. t. [See Tine to shut in.] To shut; to close. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Tyne, v. i. To become lost; to perish. [Obs.] Spenser.
Tyne, n. [See Tine a prong.] (Zoöl.) A prong or point of an antler.
Tyne, n. [See Teen, n. ] Anxiety; tine. [Obs.] "With labor and long tyne." Spenser.
Tyny
Ty´ny, a. [See Tiny.] Small; tiny. [Obs.]
Typal
Typ´al, a. Relating to a type or types; belonging to types; serving as a type; typical. Owen.
Type, n. [F. type; cf. It. tipo, from L. typus a figure, image, a form, type, character, Gr. the mark of a blow, impression, form of character, model, from the root of to beat, strike; cf. Skr. tup to hurt.]
1. The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.
"The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings,
Short blistered breeches, and those types of travel." Shak.
2. Form or character impressed; style; semblance.
"Thy father bears the type of king of Naples." Shak.
3. A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; — correlative to antitype.
"A type is no longer a type when the thing typified comes to be actually exhibited." South.
4. That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities; the representative. Specifically: (a) (Biol.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals; hence, the ideal representation of a species, genus, or other group, combining the essential characteristics; an animal or plant possessing or exemplifying the essential characteristics of a species, genus, or other group. also a group or division of animals having a certain typical or characteristic structure of body maintained within the group.
"Since the time of Cuvier and Baer … the whole animal kingdom has been universally held to be divisible into a small number of main divisions or types." Haeckel. (b) (Fine Arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; esp., the design on the face of a medal or a coin. (c) (Chem.) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived. The fundamental types used to express the simplest and most essential chemical relations are hydrochloric acid, HCl; water, H2O; ammonia, NH3; and methane, CH4.
5. (Typog.) (a) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing. (b) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed. Type are mostly made by casting type metal in a mold, though some of the larger sizes are made from maple, mahogany, or boxwood. In the cut, a is the body; b, the face, or part from which the impression is taken; c, the shoulder, or top of the body; d, the nick (sometimes two or more are made), designed to assist the compositor in distinguishing the bottom of the face from the top; e, the groove made in the process of finishing, — each type as cast having attached to the bottom of the body a jet, or small piece of metal (formed by the surplus metal poured into the mold), which, when broken off, leaves a roughness that requires to be removed. The fine lines at the top and bottom of a letter are technically called ceriphs, and when part of the face projects over the body, as in the letter f, the projection is called a kern. The type which compose an ordinary book font consist of Roman CAPITALS, small capitals, and lower-case letters, and Italic CAPITALS and lower-case letters, with accompanying figures, points, and reference marks, — in all about two hundred characters. Including the various modern styles of fancy type, some three or four hundred varieties of face are made. Besides the ordinary Roman and Italic, some of the most important of the varieties are — Old English. Black Letter. Old Style. French Elzevir. Boldface. Antique. Clarendon. Gothic. Typewriter. Script. The smallest body in common use is diamond; then follow in order of size, pearl, agate, nonpareil, minion, brevier, bourgeois (or two-line diamond), long primer (or two-line pearl), small pica (or two-line agate), pica (or two-line nonpareil), English (or two-line minion), Columbian (or two-line brevier), great primer (two-line bourgeois), paragon (or two-line long primer), double small pica (or two-line small pica), double pica (or two-line pica), double English (or two-line English), double great primer (or two-line great primer), double paragon (or two-line paragon), canon (or two-line double pica). Above this, the sizes are called five-line pica, six-line pica, seven-line pica, and so on, being made mostly of wood. The following alphabets show the different sizes up to great primer. Brilliant . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Diamond . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Pearl … abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Agate … abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Nonpareil … abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Minion … abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Brevier … abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Bourgeois . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Long primer … abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Small pica . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Pica … . . abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz English … abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Columbian … abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Great primer … abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz The foregoing account is conformed to the designations made use of by American type founders, but is substantially correct for England. Agate, however, is called ruby, in England, where, also a size intermediate between nonpareil and minion is employed, called emerald. Point system of type bodies (Type Founding), a system adopted by the type founders of the United States by which the various sizes of type have been so modified and changed that each size bears an exact proportional relation to every other size. The system is a modification of a French system, and is based on the pica body. This pica body is divided into twelfths, which are termed "points," and every type body consist of a given number of these points. Many of the type founders indicate the new sizes of type by the number of points, and the old names are gradually being done away with. By the point system type founders cast type of a uniform size and height, whereas formerly fonts of pica or other type made by different founders would often vary slightly so that they could not be used together. There are no type in actual use corresponding to the smaller theoretical sizes of the point system. In some cases, as in that of ruby, the term used designates a different size from that heretofore so called. 1 American 9 Bourgeois &bar; &bar; 1½ German &bar;.5> 2 Saxon 10 Long Primer &bar; &bar; 2½ Norse &bar;.5> 3 Brilliant 11 Small Pica &bar; &bar; 3½ Ruby 12 Pica &bar;.5> &bar; 4 Excelsior &bar; 4½ Diamond 14 English &bar;.5> &bar; 5 Pearl 16 Columbian &bar; &bar; 5½ Agate &bar;.5> 6 Nonpareil 18 Great Primer &bar; &bar; 7 Minion &bar; 8 Brevier 20 Paragon &bar; &bar; Diagram of the "points" by which sizes of Type are graduated in the "Point System". Type founder, one who casts or manufacture type. — Type foundry, Type foundery, a place for the manufacture of type. — Type metal, an alloy used in making type, stereotype plates, etc., and in backing up electrotype plates. It consists essentially of lead and antimony, often with a little tin, nickel, or copper. — Type wheel, a wheel having raised letters or characters on its periphery, and used in typewriters, printing telegraphs, etc. — Unity of type (Biol.), that fundamental agreement in structure which is seen in organic beings of the same class, and is quite independent of their habits of life. Darwin.
Type, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Typed p. pr. & vb. n. Typing.]
1. To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure. [R.] White (Johnson).
2. To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify. [R.]
"Let us type them now in our own lives." Tennyson.
Typesetting
Type´set•ting, n. The act or art of setting type.
Typewrite
Type´write, v. t. & i. To write with a typewriter. [Recent]
Typhoid
Ty´phoid, a. [ Typhus + - oid: cf. F. typhoïde, Gr. . See Typhus.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as typhoid symptoms. Typhoid fever, a disease formerly confounded with typhus, but essentially different from the latter. It is characterized by fever, lasting usually three or more weeks, diarrhaea with evacuations resembling pea soup in appearance, and prostration and muscular debility, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer’s glands. The virus, or contagion, of this fever is supposed to be a microscopic vegetable organism, or bacterium. Called also enteric fever. See Peyer’s glands. — Typhoid state, a condition common to many diseases, characterized by profound prostration and other symptoms resembling those of typhus.
Typhomania
Ty•pho•ma´ni•a, n. [NL. See Typhus, and Mania.] (Med.) A low delirium common in typhus fever.
Typhon
Ty´phon, n. [Gr., and . See Typhoon.] (Class. Mythol.)
1. According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but later identified with him. By modern writers, Typhon is identified with the Egyptian Set, who represents physical evil. Encyc. Brit.
2. A violent whirlwind; a typhoon. [Obs.]
"The circling typhon whirled from point to point." Thomson.
Typhoon
Ty•phoon´, n. [Earlier tuffoon, tuffon, Pg. tufão, Ar. tufan a violent storm; probably fr. Gr. tyfw^n, tyfw^s, a violent whirlwind, that rushes upward from the earth, whirling clouds of dust (cf. Typhus); or perhaps from Chin. t’ai-fung a cyclonic wind.] A violent whirlwind; specifically, a violent whirlwind occurring in the Chinese seas.
Typhous
Ty´phous, a. [Cf. F. typheux.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to typhus; of the nature of typhus.
Typhus
Ty´phus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. smoke, cloud, stupor arising from fever; akin to to smoke, Skr. dhpa smoke.] (Med.) A contagious continued fever lasting from two to three weeks, attended with great prostration and cerebral disorder, and marked by a copious eruption of red spots upon the body. Also called jail fever, famine fever, putrid fever, spottled fever, etc. See Jail fever, under Jail.
Typical
Typ´ic•al, a. [L. typicus, Gr., from type: cf. F. typique. See Type.]
1. Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.
"The Levitical priesthood was only typical of the Christian." Atterbury.
2. (Nat. Hist.) Combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group; as a typical genus. — Typ´ic•al•ly, adv. — Typ´ic•al•ness, n.
Typification
Typ•i•fi•ca´tion, n. The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.
Typifier
Typ´i•fi•er, n. One who, or that which, typifies. Bp. Warburton.
Typify
Typ´i•fy, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Typified p. pr. & vb. n. Typifying.] [ Type + -fy.] To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.
"Our Savior was typified, indeed, by the goat that was slain, and the scapegoat in the wilderness." Sir T. Browne.
Typist
Typ´ist, n. A person who operates a typewriting machine; a typewriter.
Typo
Ty´po, n. [An abbreviation of typographer.] A compositor. [Colloq.]
Typocosmy
Typ´o•cos•my, n. [Gr. type + the world.] A representation of the world. [R.]
Typographer
Ty•pog´ra•pher ( 277), n. [Cf. F. typographe. See Typography.] A printer. T. Warton. { Ty•po•graph´ic ( 277), Ty•po•graph´ic•al ( 277), } a. [Cf. F. typographique.]
1. Of or pertaining to the act or act of representing by types or symbols; emblematic; figurative; typical. [Obs.] Johnson.
2. Of or pertaining to typography or printing; as the typographic art. — Ty•po•graph´ic•al•ly, adv.
Tyran
Ty´ran, n. [See Tyrant.] A tyrant. [Obs.]
"Lordly love is such a tyran fell." Spenser.
Tyranness
Ty´ran•ness, n. A female tyrant. [Obs.] "That proud tyranness." Spenser. Akenside. { Ty•ran´nic ( 277), Ty•ran´nic•al } a. [L. tyrannicus, Gr. : cf. F. tyrannique. See Tyrant.] Of or pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; unjustly severe in government; absolute; imperious; despotic; cruel; arbitrary; as a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government. "A power tyrannical." Shak.
"Our sects a more tyrannic power assume." Roscommon.
"The oppressor ruled tyrannic where he durst." Pope. — Ty•ran´nic•al•ly, adv. — Ty•ran´nic•al•ness, .
Tyrannicidal
Ty•ran´ni•ci•dal, a. Of or pertaining to tyrannicide, or the murder of a tyrant. Booth.
Tyrannish
Tyr´an•nish, a. Like a tyrant; tyrannical. [Obs.] "The proud tyrannish Roman." Gower.
Tyrannize
Tyr´an•nize, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Tyrannized p. pr. & vb. n. Tyrannizing ] [Cf. F. tyranniser, Gr. to take the part of tyrants.] To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices.
Tyranny
Tyr´an•ny, n. [OE. tirannye, OF. tirannie, F. tyrannie; cf. It. tirannia; Gr.,, L. tyrannis. See Tyrant.]
1. The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.
""Sir," would he [Seneca] say, "an emperor mote need
Be virtuous and hate tyranny."" Chaucer.
2. Cruel government or discipline; as the tyranny of a schoolmaster.
3. Severity; rigor; inclemency.
"The tyranny of the open night’s too rough
For nature to endure." Shak.
Tyrant
Ty´rant, v. i. To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; to tyrannical. [Obs.] Fuller.
Tyre, [Tamil tayir.] Curdled milk. [India]
Tyre, n. & v. Attire. See 2d and 3d Tire. [Obs.]
Tyre, v. i. To prey. See 4th Tire. [Obs.]
Tyrian
Tyr´i•an, a. [L. Tyrius, from Tyrus Tyre, Gr. .]
1. Of or pertaining to Tyre or its people.
2. Being of the color called Tyrian purple.
"The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye." Pope. Tyrian purple, or Tyrian dye, a celebrated purple dye prepared in ancient Tyre from several mollusks, especially Ianthina, Murex, and Purpura. See the Note under Purple, n. , 1, and Purple of mollusca, under Purple, n.
Tyrociny
Ty´ro•cin•y, n. [L. tirocinium first service or trial, fr. tiro. See Tyro.] The state of being a tyro, or beginner; apprenticeship. [Obs.] Blount.
Tyronism
Ty´ro•nism, n. The state of being a tyro, or beginner. [Written also tironism.]
Tyrotoxicon
Tyr•o•tox´i•con, n. [NL., fr. Gr. cheese + . See Toxic.] (Physiol. Chem.) A ptomaine discovered by Vaughan in putrid cheese and other dairy products, and producing symptoms similar to cholera infantum. Chemically, it appears to be related to, or identical with, diazobenzol.
Tysonite
Ty´son•ite, n. [After S. T. Tyson.] (Min.) A fluoride of the cerium metals occurring in hexagonal crystals of a pale yellow color. Cf. Fluocerite.
Tystie
Ty´stie, n. [Cf. Icel. þeisti, Norw. teiste.] (Zoöl.) The black guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]