Name Report For First Name TORN:
TORN
First name TORN's origin is English. TORN means "from the thom tree". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with TORN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of torn.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with TORN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with TORN - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming TORN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES TORN AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH TORN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (orn) - Names That Ends with orn:
thorn aethelbeorn bjorn claiborn melborn usbeorn welborn sanborn osborn dearborn beornRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rn) - Names That Ends with rn:
caliburn edern padarn vortigern gwern ashburn rayburn ahern eachthighearn kern bern fern lavern rhearn alburn bourn brarn clayburn elvern hern kearn melburn osburn rayhurn reyhurn severn sherbourn stearn welburn arn wellburn washburn stern reyburn radburn milburn farn chadburn burn bradburn albern kentigern ahearn bearn trahern coburn vern wilburnNAMES RHYMING WITH TORN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (tor) - Names That Begins with tor:
tor toran torben torean toren torence torey torht torhte tori toriana torie torin torio torion torley tormaigh tormey tormod toro torr torra torran torrance torrans torree torrence torrey torri torrian torrie torry tortain toru tory torynRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (to) - Names That Begins with to:
toai toan toba tobechukwu tobey tobiah tobias tobie tobin tobrecan tobrytan toby tobyn tocho tochtli tod todd toft togquos tohias tohopka tohy toibe toirdealbach toirdealbhach toireasa tokala tolan toland toli tolinka tolland tolman toltecatl tolucan tom toman tomas tomasina tomasine tomek tomeo tomi tomik tomkin tomlin tommie tommy tonalnan tonasha tonauac tonda tong toni tonia tonia-javae tonio tonisha tony tonya tonye tooantuh tosh toshaNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TORN:
First Names which starts with 't' and ends with 'n':
taban tagan taidhgin taliesin tallon talon tamryn tamsin tamtun tan tanton taralynn taran taregan tarin tarleton taron tarrin taryn tarynn taveon tavin tavion tavon taylan taylon tayson teagan tedman tedmun teegan tegan teigan teimhnean teiran telamon telen tellan temman tempeltun templeton tennyson teon tepiltzin tepin teremun teriann terilynn terran terrin terron terryn teryn tevin teyacapan teyen teyrnon thain than tharen thawain thegn theon theron therron theyn thomasin thompson thoraldtun thornton thorntun thuan thurstan thurston thurstun tiala-ann tien tiernan tilden tilian tillman tilman tilton timon timun tin tlazohtzin traian traveon travion travon tredan treddian treffen tremain trennen trenten trentin trenton treowemanEnglish Words Rhyming TORN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TORN AS A WHOLE:
| attorney | noun (n.) A substitute; a proxy; an agent. |
| noun (n.) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact. | |
| noun (n.) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law. | |
| verb (v. t.) To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy. |
| attorneyism | noun (n.) The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys. |
| attorneyship | noun (n.) The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another. |
| attornment | noun (n.) The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. |
| betorn | adjective (a.) Torn in pieces; tattered. |
| contorniate | noun (n.) Alt. of Contorniate |
| noun (n.) A species of medal or medallion of bronze, having a deep furrow on the contour or edge; -- supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors. |
| gastornis | noun (n.) A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin. |
| notornis | noun (n.) A genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct. |
| odontornithes | noun (n. pl.) A group of Mesozoic birds having the jaws armed with teeth, as in most other vertebrates. They have been divided into three orders: Odontolcae, Odontotormae, and Saururae. |
| ritornelle | noun (n.) Alt. of Ritornello |
| ritornello | noun (n.) A short return or repetition; a concluding symphony to an air, often consisting of the burden of the song. |
| noun (n.) A short intermediate symphony, or instrumental passage, in the course of a vocal piece; an interlude. |
| tornado | noun (n.) A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone. |
| tornaria | noun (n.) The peculiar free swimming larva of Balanoglossus. See Illust. in Append. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TORN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (orn) - English Words That Ends with orn:
| acorn | noun (n.) The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule. |
| noun (n.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head. | |
| noun (n.) See Acorn-shell. |
| adorn | noun (n.) Adornment. |
| adjective (a.) Adorned; decorated. | |
| verb (v. t.) To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. |
| althorn | noun (n.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. |
| amelcorn | noun (n.) A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice. |
| avercorn | noun (n.) A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers. |
| alpenhorn | noun (n.) Alt. of Alphorn |
| alphorn | noun (n.) A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube. |
| barleycorn | noun (n.) A grain or "corn" of barley. |
| noun (n.) Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. |
| baseborn | adjective (a.) Born out of wedlock. |
| adjective (a.) Born of low parentage. | |
| adjective (a.) Vile; mean. |
| basset horn | adjective (a.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves. |
| () The corno di bassetto. |
| bicorn | adjective (a.) Alt. of Bicornous |
| bighorn | noun (n.) The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis / Caprovis montana). |
| blackthorn | noun (n.) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe. |
| noun (n.) A species of Crataegus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges. |
| boxthorn | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum. |
| buckthorn | noun (n.) A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus. |
| capricorn | noun (n.) The tenth sign of zodiac, into which the sun enters at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic. |
| noun (n.) A southern constellation, represented on ancient monuments by the figure of a goat, or a figure with its fore part like a fish. |
| careworn | adjective (a.) Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face. |
| cavicorn | adjective (a.) Having hollow horns. |
| clavicorn | noun (n.) One of the Clavicornes. |
| adjective (a.) Having club-shaped antennae. See Antennae |
| coehorn | noun (n.) A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men. |
| cohorn | noun (n.) See Coehorn. |
| corn | noun (n.) A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome. |
| noun (n.) A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain. | |
| noun (n.) The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats. | |
| noun (n.) The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing. | |
| noun (n.) A small, hard particle; a grain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder. | |
| verb (v. t.) To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses. | |
| verb (v. t.) To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one. |
| deadborn | adjective (a.) Stillborn. |
| dearborn | noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with curtained sides. |
| dorn | noun (n.) A British ray; the thornback. |
| earthborn | adjective (a.) Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human. |
| adjective (a.) Relating to, or occasioned by, earthly objects. |
| firstborn | adjective (a.) First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted. |
| footworn | adjective (a.) Worn by, or weared in, the feet; as, a footworn path; a footworn traveler. |
| foreworn | adjective (a.) Worn out; wasted; used up. |
| forlorn | noun (n.) A lost, forsaken, or solitary person. |
| noun (n.) A forlorn hope; a vanguard. | |
| verb (v. t.) Deserted; abandoned; lost. | |
| verb (v. t.) Destitute; helpless; in pitiful plight; wretched; miserable; almost hopeless; desperate. | |
| () of Forlese |
| forworn | adjective (a.) Much worn. |
| freeborn | adjective (a.) Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom. |
| frorn | adjective (p. a.) Frozen. |
| greenhorn | noun (n.) A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. |
| hagborn | adjective (a.) Born of a hag or witch. |
| hartshorn | noun (n.) The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer. |
| noun (n.) Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts. |
| hawthorn | noun (n.) A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed. |
| haythorn | noun (n.) Hawthorn. |
| hedgeborn | adjective (a.) Born under a hedge; of low birth. |
| hellborn | adjective (a.) Born in or of hell. |
| highborn | adjective (a.) Of noble birth. |
| homeborn | adjective (a.) Native; indigenous; not foreign. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the home or family. |
| horn | noun (n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed. |
| noun (n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed. | |
| noun (n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout. | |
| noun (n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias). | |
| noun (n.) Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn | |
| noun (n.) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape. | |
| noun (n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. | |
| noun (n.) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty. | |
| noun (n.) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids. | |
| noun (n.) The pointed beak of an anvil. | |
| noun (n.) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg. | |
| noun (n.) The Ionic volute. | |
| noun (n.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. | |
| noun (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. | |
| noun (n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped. | |
| noun (n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form. | |
| noun (n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn. | |
| noun (n.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride. | |
| noun (n.) An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to wear horns; to cuckold. |
| inborn | adjective (a.) Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions. |
| inkhorn | noun (n.) A small bottle of horn or other material formerly used for holding ink; an inkstand; a portable case for writing materials. |
| adjective (a.) Learned; pedantic; affected. |
| itworn | adjective (p. a.) Worn, wrought, or stamped in. |
| krummhorn | noun (n.) Alt. of Krumhorn |
| krumhorn | noun (n.) A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.). |
| adjective (a.) A reed stop in the organ; -- sometimes called cremona. |
| lamellicorn | noun (n.) A lamellicorn insect. |
| adjective (a.) Having antennae terminating in a group of flat lamellae; -- said of certain coleopterous insects. | |
| adjective (a.) Terminating in a group of flat lamellae; -- said of antennae. |
| lanthorn | noun (n.) See Lantern. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TORN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (tor) - Words That Begins with tor:
| tor | noun (n.) A tower; a turret. |
| noun (n.) High-pointed hill; a rocky pinnacle. |
| torbernite | noun (n.) A mineral occurring in emerald-green tabular crystals having a micaceous structure. It is a hydrous phosphate of uranium and copper. Called also copper uranite, and chalcolite. |
| torc | noun (n.) Same as Torque, 1. |
| torch | noun (n.) A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame. |
| noun (n.) A flashlight. |
| torchbearer | noun (n.) One whose office it is to carry a torch. |
| torcher | noun (n.) One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch. |
| torchlight | noun (n.) The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession. |
| torchwood | noun (n.) The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves. |
| torchwort | noun (n.) The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper. |
| tore | noun (n.) The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. |
| noun (n.) Same as Torus. | |
| noun (n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane. | |
| noun (n.) The solid inclosed by such a surface; -- sometimes called an anchor ring. | |
| (imp.) of Tear | |
| () imp. of Tear. |
| toreador | noun (n.) A bullfighter. |
| toret | noun (n.) A Turret. |
| noun (n.) A ring for fastening a hawk's leash to the jesses; also, a ring affixed to the collar of a dog, etc. |
| toreumatography | noun (n.) A description of sculpture such as bas-relief in metal. |
| toreumatology | noun (n.) The art or the description of scupture such as bas-relief in metal; toreumatography. |
| toreutic | adjective (a.) In relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal. |
| torgoch | noun (n.) The saibling. |
| torilto | noun (n.) A species of Turnix (Turnix sylvatica) native of Spain and Northen Africa. |
| torinese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Turin; collectively, the people of Turin. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Turin. |
| torment | noun (n.) An engine for casting stones. |
| noun (n.) Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind. | |
| noun (n.) That which gives pain, vexation, or misery. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pain; to distress; to afflict. | |
| verb (v. t.) To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put into great agitation. |
| tormenting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Torment |
| adjective (a.) Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream. |
| tormenter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor. |
| noun (n.) An executioner. |
| tormentful | adjective (a.) Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. |
| tormentil | noun (n.) A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea. |
| tormentise | noun (n.) Torture; torment. |
| tormentor | noun (n.) One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. |
| noun (n.) An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. |
| tormentress | noun (n.) A woman who torments. |
| tormentry | noun (n.) Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain. |
| tormina | noun (n. pl.) acute, colicky pains; gripes. |
| torminous | adjective (a.) Affected with tormina; griping. |
| torose | adjective (a.) Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences. |
| torosity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being torose. |
| torous | adjective (a.) Torose. |
| torpedinous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a torpedo; resembling a torpedo; exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid. |
| torpedo | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical. |
| noun (n.) An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up. | |
| noun (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal. | |
| noun (n.) An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object. | |
| noun (n.) An automobile with a torpedo body. | |
| verb (v. t.) to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo. |
| torpent | adjective (a.) Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid. |
| torpescence | noun (n.) The quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity. |
| torpid | adjective (a.) Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb. |
| adjective (a.) Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. | |
| adjective (a.) An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat. | |
| adjective (a.) The Lenten rowing races. |
| torpidity | noun (n.) Same as Torpidness. |
| torpidness | noun (n.) The qualityy or state of being torpid. |
| torpifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Torpify |
| torpitude | noun (n.) Torpidness. |
| torpor | noun (n.) Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness. |
| noun (n.) Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties. |
| torporific | adjective (a.) Tending to produce torpor. |
| torquate | adjective (a.) Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck. |
| torquated | adjective (a.) Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain. |
| torque | noun (n.) A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons. |
| noun (n.) That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces. | |
| noun (n.) A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis. |
| torqued | adjective (a.) Wreathed; twisted. |
| adjective (a.) Twisted; bent; -- said of a dolphin haurient, which forms a figure like the letter S. |
| torques | noun (n.) A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar. |
| torrefaction | noun (n.) The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied. |
| torrefying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Torrefy |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TORN:
English Words which starts with 't' and ends with 'n':
| tabefaction | noun (n.) A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease. |
| tabellion | noun (n.) A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy. |
| tableman | noun (n.) A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. |
| tablespoon | noun (n.) A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc. |
| tabularization | noun (n.) The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation. |
| tabulation | noun (n.) The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics. |
| taciturn | adjective (a.) Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak. |
| tacksman | noun (n.) One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee. |
| tactician | noun (n.) One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager. |
| taction | noun (n.) The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency. |
| tagliacotain | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him. |
| taguan | noun (n.) A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long. |
| tahitian | noun (n.) A native inhabitant of Tahiti. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean. |
| tailpin | noun (n.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe. |
| tain | noun (n.) Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors. |
| tairn | noun (n.) See Tarn. |
| talapoin | noun (n.) A small African monkey (Cercopithecus, / Miopithecus, talapoin) -- called also melarhine. |
| noun (n.) A Buddhist monk or priest. |
| talesman | noun (n.) A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded. |
| taliacotian | adjective (a.) See Tagliacotian. |
| taliation | noun (n.) Retaliation. |
| talion | noun (n.) Retaliation. |
| talisman | noun (n.) A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence. |
| noun (n.) Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases. |
| tallyman | noun (n.) One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks. |
| noun (n.) One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade. |
| talon | noun (n.) The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey. |
| noun (n.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth. | |
| noun (n.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee. | |
| noun (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt. |
| tamarin | noun (n.) Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus. |
| tambourin | noun (n.) A tambourine. |
| noun (n.) An old Provencal dance of a lively character, common on the stage. |
| tamburin | noun (n.) See Tambourine. |
| tamilian | noun (a. & n.) Tamil. |
| tamkin | noun (n.) A tampion. |
| tampan | noun (n.) A venomous South African tick. |
| tampeon | noun (n.) See Tampion. |
| tampion | noun (n.) A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use. |
| noun (n.) A plug for upper end of an organ pipe. |
| tampon | noun (n.) A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine. |
| verb (v. t.) To plug with a tampon. |
| tampoon | noun (n.) The stopper of a barrel; a bung. |
| tan | noun (n.) See Picul. |
| noun (n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark. | |
| noun (n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan. | |
| noun (n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan. | |
| noun (n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water. | |
| noun (n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin. | |
| adjective (a.) Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown. | |
| verb (v. i.) To get or become tanned. | |
| verb (v. t.) To thrash or beat; to flog; to switch. |
| tangun | noun (n.) A piebald variety of the horse, native of Thibet. |
| tannin | noun (n.) Same as Tannic acid, under Tannic. |
| tantalization | noun (n.) The act of tantalizing, or state of being tantalized. |
| tapayaxin | noun (n.) A Mexican spinous lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; -- called also horned toad. |
| tappen | noun (n.) An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation. |
| tarbogan | noun (n. & v.) See Toboggan. |
| tardation | noun (n.) The act of retarding, or delaying; retardation. |
| tarditation | noun (n.) Tardiness. |
| tarin | noun (n.) The siskin. |
| tarlatan | noun (n.) A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses. |
| tarn | noun (n.) A mountain lake or pool. |
| tarpan | noun (n.) A wild horse found in the region of the Caspian Sea. |
| tarpaulin | noun (n.) A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof composition, used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats, etc. |
| noun (n.) A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar. |
| tarpon | noun (n.) Same as Tarpum. |
| tarragon | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring vinegar. |
| tartan | noun (n.) Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern. |
| noun (n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib. |
| tartarean | adjective (a.) Alt. of Tartareous |
| tartarian | noun (n.) The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Tartaric |
| tasmanian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically (Ethnol.), in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct. |
| tatterdemalion | noun (n.) A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. |
| tauromachian | noun (n.) A bullfighter. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to bullfights. |
| tautoousian | adjective (a.) Alt. of Tautoousious |
| tavern | noun (n.) A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities. |
| tavernman | noun (n.) The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler. |
| taxaspidean | adjective (a.) Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; -- said of certain birds. |
| taxation | noun (n.) The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue. |
| noun (n.) The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost. | |
| noun (n.) Tax; sum imposed. | |
| noun (n.) Charge; accusation. |
| taxicorn | noun (n.) One of a family of beetles (Taxicornes) whose antennae are largest at the tip. Also used adjectively. |
| teaspoon | noun (n.) A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes. |
| teen | noun (n.) Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. |
| noun (n.) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose. |
| teetan | noun (n.) A pipit. |
| tegmen | noun (n.) A tegument or covering. |
| noun (n.) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura. | |
| noun (n.) One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Tectrices. |
| teguexin | noun (n.) A large South American lizard (Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin. |
| teleostean | noun (n.) A teleostean fish. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the teleosts. |
| teleozoon | noun (n.) A metazoan. |
| telerythin | noun (n.) A red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds. |
| tellen | noun (n.) Any species of Tellina. |
| tellurian | noun (n.) A dweller on the earth. |
| noun (n.) An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the earth. |
| telson | noun (n.) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca. |
| temeration | noun (n.) Temerity. |
| tempean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Temple, a valley in Thessaly, celebrated by Greek poets on account of its beautiful scenery; resembling Temple; hence, beautiful; delightful; charming. |
| temporization | noun (n.) The act of temporizing. |
| temptation | noun (n.) The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction. |
| noun (n.) The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil. | |
| noun (n.) That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil. |
| ten | noun (n.) The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects. |
| noun (n.) A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X. | |
| adjective (a.) One more than nine; twice five. |
| tenaillon | noun (n.) A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions. |
| tenderloin | noun (n.) A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles. |
| noun (n.) A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in beef or pork. It consists of the psoas muscles. | |
| noun (n.) In New York City, the region which is the center of the night life of fashionable amusement, including the majority of the theaters, etc., centering on Broadway. The term orig. designates the old twenty-ninth police precinct, in this region, which afforded the police great opportunities for profit through conniving at vice and lawbreaking, one captain being reported to have said on being transferred there that whereas he had been eating chuck steak he would now eat tenderlion. Hence, in some other cities, a district largely devoted to night amusement, or, sometimes, to vice. |
| tendon | noun (n.) A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. |
| tendron | noun (n.) A tendril. |
| tenon | noun (n.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk. |
| verb (v. t.) To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber. |
| tenonian | adjective (a.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist. |
| tension | adjective (a.) The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx. |
| adjective (a.) Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort. | |
| adjective (a.) The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain. | |
| adjective (a.) The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight. | |
| adjective (a.) A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness. | |
| adjective (a.) Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air. | |
| adjective (a.) The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area. | |
| () The pressure or tension of a confined body of vapor. The pressure of a given saturated vapor is a function of the temperature only, and may be measured by introducing a small quantity of the substance into a barometer and noting the depression of the column of mercury. |
| tentation | noun (n.) Trial; temptation. |
| noun (n.) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments. |
| tepefaction | noun (n.) Act of tepefying. |
| terapin | noun (n.) See Terrapin. |
| terebration | noun (n.) The act of terebrating, or boring. |
| tergiversation | noun (n.) The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. |
| noun (n.) Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. |
| terin | noun (n.) A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also tarin. |
| termination | noun (n.) The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities. |
| noun (n.) That which ends or bounds; limit in space or extent; bound; end; as, the termination of a line. | |
| noun (n.) End in time or existence; as, the termination of the year, or of life; the termination of happiness. | |
| noun (n.) End; conclusion; result. | |
| noun (n.) Last purpose of design. | |
| noun (n.) A word; a term. | |
| noun (n.) The ending of a word; a final syllable or letter; the part added to a stem in inflection. |
| tern | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera. |
| adjective (a.) Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate. | |
| adjective (a.) That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together; especially, a prize in a lottery resulting from the favorable combination of three numbers in the drawing; also, the three numbers themselves. |
| ternion | adjective (a.) The number three; three things together; a ternary. |
| terpin | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance regarded as a hydrate of oil of turpentine. |
| terpsichorean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Terpsichore; of or pertaining to dancing. |
| terrapin | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food. |
| terreen | noun (n.) See Turren. |
| terreplein | noun (n.) The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate. |
| noun (n.) An embankment of earth with a broad level top, which is sometimes excavated to form a continuation of an elevated canal across a valley. |
| tertian | noun (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day. |
| noun (n.) A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun. | |
| adjective (a.) Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever. |
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