TIER
First name TIER's origin is Irish. TIER means "regal". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with TIER below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of tier.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with TIER and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming TIER
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES TİER AS A WHOLE:
tierra gautier portier tiernay tierney tiernanNAMES RHYMING WITH TİER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ier) - Names That Ends with ier:
gauthier xabier ogier codier sofier alexavier chevalier colier collier didier frasier frazier javier rainier ranier squier xavier zavier bruhier napier olivierRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (er) - Names That Ends with er:
clover hesper iskinder fajer mountakaber nader saber shaker taher abdul-nasser kadeer kyner vortimer yder ager ander iker usk-water fleischaker kusner molner bleecker devisser schuyler vanderveer an-her djoser narmer neb-er-tcher acker archer brewster bridger camber denver gardner jasper miller parker taburer tanner tucker turner wheeler witter symer dexter jesper oliver fearcher keller lawler rainer rutger auster christopher homer kester lysander meleager philander teucer helmer aleksander abeer amber cher claefer easter ember ester esther eszter ginger gwenyver heather hester jennyfer jennyverNAMES RHYMING WITH TİER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (tie) - Names That Begins with tie:
tiebout tien tienette tieshaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ti) - Names That Begins with ti:
tia tiahna tiala-ann tiane tianna tiarchnach tiarni tiauna tibalt tibault tibbot tibelda tibelde tibeldi tibeldie tiberia tiffanie tiffany tiffney tighe tighearnach tigris tihalt tihkoosue tikva tila tiladene tilda tilden tilford tilian tillman tilly tilman tilton tim timmy timo timon timoteo timothea timothia timothy timun tin tina tinashe tinotenda tintagel tioboid tionna tiphanie tiponi tipper tira tirell tiresias tiridates tirzah tisa tisiphone titania titi titia tito titos titus tityus tiva tivona tiwesdaegNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TİER:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 'r':
taber tabor tahir tahurer taillefer tamar tamir taylar tayler taylor taysir teamhair telfer telfor telfour teodor tesar thacher thacker thatcher thaxter thor thour thunder tor torr tournour treabhar trevor tripper tudor tupper tyger tylar tyler tylorEnglish Words Rhyming TIER
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TİER AS A WHOLE:
benitier | noun (n.) A holy-water stoup. |
condottiere | noun (n.) A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, who sold his services, and those of his followers, to any party in any contest. |
cottier | noun (n.) In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. |
courtier | noun (n.) One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court. |
noun (n.) One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters. |
courtiery | noun (n.) The manners of a courtier; courtliness. |
compotier | noun (n.) A dish for holding compotes, fruit, etc. |
emptier | noun (n.) One who, or that which, empties. |
(compar.) of Empty. |
entierty | noun (n.) See Entirety. |
flibustier | noun (n.) A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster. |
frontier | noun (n.) That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization. |
noun (n.) An outwork. | |
adjective (a.) Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town. | |
adjective (a.) Of or relating to a frontier. | |
verb (v. i.) To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on. |
frontiered | adjective (p. a.) Placed on the frontiers. |
floatiersman | noun (n.) A man living on the frontier. |
metier | noun (n.) Calling; vocation; business; trade. |
pitier | noun (n.) One who pities. |
portiere | noun (n.) A curtain hanging across a doorway. |
puttier | noun (n.) One who putties; a glazier. |
rentier | noun (n.) One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like. |
ruttier | noun (n.) A chart of a course, esp. at sea. |
sabotiere | noun (n.) A kind of freezer for ices. |
saltier | noun (n.) See Saltire. |
testiere | noun (n.) A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester. |
tier | noun (n.) One who, or that which, ties. |
noun (n.) A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. | |
verb (v. t.) A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater. |
tierce | noun (n.) A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons. |
noun (n.) A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment. | |
noun (n.) The third tone of the scale. See Mediant. | |
noun (n.) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major. | |
noun (n.) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward. | |
noun (n.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour. | |
adjective (a.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon. |
tiercel | noun (n.) Alt. of Tiercelet |
tiercelet | noun (n.) The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk. |
tiercet | noun (n.) A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TİER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ier) - English Words That Ends with ier:
accompanier | noun (n.) He who, or that which, accompanies. |
acetifier | noun (n.) An apparatus for hastening acetification. |
acidifier | noun (n.) A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc. |
amplifier | noun (n.) One who or that which amplifies. |
applier | noun (n.) He who, or that which, applies. |
arquebusier | noun (n.) A soldier armed with an arquebus. |
atelier | noun (n.) A workshop; a studio. |
bandolier | noun (n.) A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt. |
noun (n.) One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried. |
barrier | noun (n.) A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy. |
noun (n.) A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach. | |
noun (n.) A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd. | |
noun (n.) An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack. | |
noun (n.) Any limit or boundary; a line of separation. |
basifier | noun (n.) That which converts into a salifiable base. |
beautifier | noun (n.) One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful. |
bier | noun (n.) A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave. |
noun (n.) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth. |
bombardier | noun (n.) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. |
noun (n.) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery. |
brasier | noun (n.) Alt. of Brazier |
noun (n.) Alt. of Brazier |
brazier | noun (n.) An artificer who works in brass. |
noun (n.) A pan for holding burning coals. | |
noun (n.) Same as Brasier. |
brevier | noun (n.) A size of type between bourgeois and minion. |
brier | noun (n.) Alt. of Briar |
burier | noun (n.) One who, or that which, buries. |
boulevardier | noun (n.) A frequenter of a city boulevard, esp. in Paris. |
cahier | noun (n.) A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers. |
noun (n.) A memorial of a body; a report of legislative proceedings, etc. |
cancelier | noun (n.) Alt. of Canceleer |
verb (v. i.) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. |
cannonier | noun (n.) A man who manages, or fires, cannon. |
carrier | noun (n.) One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger. |
noun (n.) One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster. | |
noun (n.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel. |
cashier | noun (n.) One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company. |
verb (v. t.) To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust. | |
verb (v. t.) To put away or reject; to disregard. |
cavalier | noun (n.) A military man serving on horseback; a knight. |
noun (n.) A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant. | |
noun (n.) One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament. | |
noun (n.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts. | |
adjective (a.) Gay; easy; offhand; frank. | |
adjective (a.) High-spirited. | |
adjective (a.) Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I. |
certifier | noun (n.) One who certifies or assures. |
chandelier | noun (n.) A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling. |
noun (n.) A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers. |
chevalier | noun (n.) A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. |
noun (n.) A member of certain orders of knighthood. |
chiffonier | noun (n.) Alt. of niere |
clarifier | noun (n.) That which clarifies. |
noun (n.) A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works. |
classifier | noun (n.) One who classifies. |
clavier | noun (n.) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium. |
clothier | noun (n.) One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. |
noun (n.) One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes. |
codifier | noun (n.) One who codifies. |
collier | noun (n.) One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal. |
noun (n.) A vessel employed in the coal trade. |
colombier | noun (n.) A large size of paper for drawings. See under Paper. |
columbier | noun (n.) See Colombier. |
complier | noun (n.) One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper. |
confrier | noun (n.) A confr/re. |
copier | noun (n.) One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber. |
noun (n.) An imitator; one who imitates an example; hence, a plagiarist. |
cordelier | noun (n.) A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans. |
noun (n.) A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris. |
cosier | noun (n.) A tailor who botches his work. |
courier | noun (n.) A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public business. |
noun (n.) An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way. |
cozier | noun (n.) See Cosier. |
crier | noun (n.) One who cries; one who makes proclamation. |
noun (n.) an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier. |
crosier | noun (n.) The pastoral staff of a bishop (also of an archbishop, being the symbol of his office as a shepherd of the flock of God. |
croupier | noun (n.) One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes. |
noun (n.) One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman. |
crozier | noun (n.) See Crosier. |
crucifier | noun (n.) One who crucifies; one who subjects himself or another to a painful trial. |
cuirassier | noun (n.) A soldier armed with a cuirass. |
noun (n.) In modern armies, a soldier of the heaviest cavalry, wearing a cuirass only when in full dress. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TİER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (tie) - Words That Begins with tie:
tiebar | noun (n.) A flat bar used as a tie. |
tiebeam | noun (n.) A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof. |
tietick | noun (n.) The meadow pipit. |
tiewig | noun (n.) A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up; also, a wig tied upon the head. |
tienda | noun (n.) In Cuba, Mexico, etc., a booth, stall, or shop where merchandise is sold. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TİER:
English Words which starts with 't' and ends with 'r':
tabarder | noun (n.) One who wears a tabard. |
noun (n.) A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard. |
tabasheer | noun (n.) A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases. |
tabernacular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle. |
adjective (a.) Formed in latticework; latticed. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low. |
tabler | noun (n.) One who boards. |
noun (n.) One who boards others for hire. |
tabor | noun (n.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person. |
verb (v. i.) To play on a tabor, or little drum. | |
verb (v. i.) To strike lightly and frequently. | |
verb (v. t.) To make (a sound) with a tabor. |
taborer | noun (n.) One who plays on the tabor. |
tabour | noun (n. & v.) See Tabor. |
tabular | adjective (a.) Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word). |
adjective (a.) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock. | |
adjective (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. | |
adjective (a.) Set in squares. | |
adjective (a.) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics. | |
adjective (a.) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension. |
tachometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance. |
noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork. | |
noun (n.) An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum which is driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial. | |
noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood; a haematachometer. |
tacker | noun (n.) One who tacks. |
tafferer | noun (n.) See Taffrail. |
tagger | noun (n.) One who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another. |
noun (n.) That which is pointed like a tag. | |
noun (n.) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge. | |
noun (n.) A device for removing taglocks from sheep. |
tahr | noun (n.) Same as Thar. |
tailor | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments. |
noun (n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring. | |
noun (n.) The silversides. | |
noun (n.) The goldfish. | |
verb (v. i.) To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor. |
taker | noun (n.) One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends. |
talebearer | noun (n.) One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief. |
taleteller | noun (n.) One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler. |
talker | noun (n.) One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist. |
noun (n.) A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. |
tallier | noun (n.) One who keeps tally. |
tallower | noun (n.) An animal which produces tallow. |
talookdar | noun (n.) Alt. of Talukdar |
talukdar | noun (n.) A proprietor of a talook. |
tamanoir | noun (n.) The ant-bear. |
tambour | noun (n.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine. |
noun (n.) A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work. | |
noun (n.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d). | |
noun (n.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade. | |
noun (n.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery. | |
verb (v. t.) To embroider on a tambour. |
tamer | noun (n.) One who tames or subdues. |
tamper | noun (n.) One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed. |
noun (n.) An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron. | |
verb (v. i.) To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. | |
verb (v. i.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing. | |
verb (v. i.) To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery. |
tamperer | noun (n.) One who tampers; one who deals unfairly. |
tanager | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager (Piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird (Piranga rubra) are common species of the United States. |
tanier | noun (n.) An aroid plant (Caladium sagittaefolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. |
tanner | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan. |
noun (n.) A sixpence. |
tannier | noun (n.) See Tanier. |
tantalizer | noun (n.) One who tantalizes. |
taper | noun (n.) A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light. |
noun (n.) A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire. | |
adjective (a.) Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers. | |
verb (v. i.) To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end. | |
verb (v. t.) To make or cause to taper. |
tapir | noun (n.) Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use. |
tapiser | noun (n.) A maker of tapestry; an upholsterer. |
tapper | noun (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. |
tappester | noun (n.) A female tapster. |
tapster | noun (n.) One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor. |
tar | noun (n.) A sailor; a seaman. |
noun (n.) A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it. | |
verb (v. t.) To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth. |
targeteer | noun (n.) One who is armed with a target or shield. |
tarnisher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, tarnishes. |
tarrier | noun (n.) One who, or that which, tarries. |
noun (n.) A kind of dig; a terrier. |
tarsier | noun (n.) See Tarsius. |
tartar | noun (n.) A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc. |
noun (n.) A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime. | |
noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar. | |
noun (n.) A person of a keen, irritable temper. | |
noun (n.) See Tartarus. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars. |
tasimer | noun (n.) An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature. |
tasker | noun (n.) One who imposes a task. |
noun (n.) One who performs a task, as a day-laborer. | |
noun (n.) A laborer who receives his wages in kind. |
taskmaster | noun (n.) One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. |
taster | noun (n.) One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality. |
noun (n.) That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like. | |
noun (n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. |
tatter | noun (n.) One who makes tatting. |
noun (n.) A rag, or a part torn and hanging; -- chiefly used in the plural. | |
verb (v. t.) To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective. |
tattler | noun (n.) One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales. |
noun (n.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus. |
taunter | noun (n.) One who taunts. |
taur | noun (n.) The constellation Taurus. |
tauridor | noun (n.) A bullfighter; a toreador. |
taverner | noun (n.) One who keeps a tavern. |
tawer | noun (n.) One who taws; a dresser of white leather. |
taxer | noun (n.) One who taxes. |
noun (n.) One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed. |
taxgatherer | noun (n.) One who collects taxes or revenues. |
taxor | noun (n.) Same as Taxer, n., 2. |
taxpayer | noun (n.) One who is assessed and pays a tax. |
teacher | noun (n.) One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. |
noun (n.) One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination. |
teamster | noun (n.) One who drives a team. |
tear | noun (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids. |
noun (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins. | |
noun (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. | |
noun (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure. | |
noun (n.) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass. | |
verb (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh. | |
verb (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions. | |
verb (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home. | |
verb (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair. | |
verb (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate. | |
verb (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily. | |
verb (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave. |
tearer | noun (n.) One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence. |
teaseler | noun (n.) One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth. |
teaser | noun (n.) One who teases or vexes. |
noun (n.) A jager gull. | |
noun (n.) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open. |
teazer | noun (n.) The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works. |
tedder | noun (n.) A machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying. |
noun (n.) Same as Tether. | |
verb (v. t.) Same as Tether. |
teemer | noun (n.) One who teems, or brings forth. |
teetotaler | noun (n.) One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks. |
tegular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement. |
telegrapher | noun (n.) One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist. |
telemeter | noun (n.) An instrument used for measuring the distance of an object from an observer; as, a telescope with a micrometer for measuring the apparent diameter of an object whose real dimensions are known. |
noun (n.) An apparatus for recording at a distant station the indications of physical instruments such as the thermometer, galvanometer, etc. |
teleosaur | noun (n.) Any one of several species of fossil suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebrae. |
telethermometer | noun (n.) An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise. |
teller | noun (n.) One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. |
noun (n.) One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. | |
noun (n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks. | |
noun (n.) One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc. |
telpher | noun (n.) A contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity. |
noun (n.) Specif., the equipment or apparatus used in a system of electric transportation by means of carriages which are suspended on an overhead conductor, as of wire. |
temper | noun (n.) The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar. |
noun (n.) Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. | |
noun (n.) Disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper. | |
noun (n.) Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper. | |
noun (n.) Heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense. | |
noun (n.) The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel. | |
noun (n.) Middle state or course; mean; medium. | |
noun (n.) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar. | |
verb (v. t.) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm. | |
verb (v. t.) To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel. | |
verb (v. t.) To govern; to manage. | |
verb (v. t.) To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use. | |
verb (v. i.) To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity. | |
verb (v. i.) To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable. |
temperer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water. |
templar | noun (n.) One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple. |
noun (n.) A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple. | |
noun (n.) One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a temple. |
temporizer | noun (n.) One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer. |
temporomalar | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve. |
tempter | noun (n.) One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. |
tender | noun (n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse. |
noun (n.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. | |
noun (n.) A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. | |
noun (n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest. | |
noun (n.) Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract. | |
noun (n.) The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation. | |
noun (n.) Regard; care; kind concern. | |
superlative (superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit. | |
superlative (superl.) Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. | |
superlative (superl.) Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate. | |
superlative (superl.) Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic. | |
superlative (superl.) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. | |
superlative (superl.) Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of. | |
superlative (superl.) Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild. | |
superlative (superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain. | |
superlative (superl.) Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject. | |
superlative (superl.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel. | |
verb (v. t.) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt. | |
verb (v. t.) To offer in words; to present for acceptance. | |
verb (v. t.) To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value. |
tenor | noun (n.) A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career. |
noun (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding. | |
noun (n.) Stamp; character; nature. | |
noun (n.) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument. | |
noun (n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary. | |
noun (n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it. |
tensor | noun (n.) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense. |
noun (n.) The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor. |
tentacular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles. |
tenter | noun (n.) One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman. |
noun (n.) A kind of governor. | |
noun (n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square. | |
verb (v. i.) To admit extension. | |
verb (v. t.) To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters. |
tenthmeter | noun (n.) Alt. of Tenthmetre |
tentmaker | noun (n.) One whose occupation it is to make tents. |
tenuiroster | noun (n.) One of the Tenuirostres. |
tepor | noun (n.) Gentle heat; moderate warmth; tepidness. |
tergiversator | noun (n.) One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion. |
termer | noun (n.) One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to practice tricks, to carry on intrigues, or the like. |
noun (n.) One who has an estate for a term of years or for life. |
terminator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, terminates. |
noun (n.) The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon. |
terminer | noun (n.) A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer. |
termor | noun (n.) Same as Termer, 2. |
terrar | noun (n.) See 2d Terrier, 2. |
terrier | noun (n.) An auger or borer. |
noun (n.) 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. | |
noun (n.) 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. | |
noun (n.) 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. |
terror | noun (n.) Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright. |
noun (n.) That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear. |
tesselar | adjective (a.) Formed of tesserae, as a mosaic. |