Tempering (n.) The process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for various purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article, when heated to redness, in cold water or other liquid, to give an excess of hardness, and then reheating it gradually until the hardness is reduced or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil.
Tempest (n.) An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
Tempest (n.) Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
Tempest (n.) A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
Tempest (v. t.) To disturb as by a tempest.
Tempest (v. i.) To storm.
Tempestive (a.) Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers.
Tempestivily (n.) The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness.
Tempestuous (a.) Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.
Templar (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.
Templar (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.
Templar (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.
Templar (a.) Of or pertaining to a temple.
Template (n.) Same as Templet.
Temple (n.) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
Temple (n.) The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
Temple (n.) One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place.
Temple (n.) A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India.
Temple (n.) The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.
Temple (n.) Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church.
Temple (n.) Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides.
Temple (v. t.) To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god.
Templed (a.) Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple.
Templet (n.) A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.
Templet (n.) A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.
Tempo (n.) The rate or degree of movement in time.
Temporal (a.) Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.
Temporal (n.) Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.
Temporal (n.) Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.
Temporal (n.) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Temporalities (pl. ) of Temporality
Temporality (n.) The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity.
Temporality (n.) The laity; temporality.
Temporality (n.) That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and the like; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Temporally (adv.) In a temporal manner; secularly.
Temporalness (n.) Worldliness.
Temporalty (n.) The laity; secular people.
Temporalty (n.) A secular possession; a temporality.
Temporaneous (a.) Temporarity.
Temporarily (adv.) In a temporary manner; for a time.
Temporariness (n.) The quality or state of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity.
Temporary (a.) Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief.
Temporist (n.) A temporizer.
Temporization (n.) The act of temporizing.
Temporized (imp. & p. p.) of Temporize
Temporizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Temporize
Temporize (v. t.) To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
Temporize (v. t.) To delay; to procrastinate.
Temporize (v. t.) To comply; to agree.
Temporizer (n.) One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer.
Temporizingly (adv.) In a temporizing or yielding manner.
Temporo- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the temple, or temporal bone; as, temporofacial.
Temporo-auricular (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the ear; as, the temporo-auricular nerve.
Temporofacial (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face.
Temporomalar (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve.
Temporomaxillary (a.) Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.
Temps (n.) Time.
Tempse (n.) See Temse.
Tempted (imp. & p. p.) of Tempt
Tempting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tempt
Tempt (v. t.) To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.
Tempt (v. t.) To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce.
Tempt (v. t.) To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate.
Tempt (v. t.) To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.
Temptability (n.) The quality or state of being temptable; lability to temptation.
Temptable (a.) Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted.
Temptation (n.) The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.
Temptation (n.) The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil.
Temptation (n.) That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil.
Temptationless (a.) Having no temptation or motive; as, a temptationless sin.
Temptatious (a.) Tempting.
Tempter (n.) One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil.
Tempting (a.) Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures.
Temptress (n.) A woman who entices.
Temse (n.) A sieve.
Temulence (n.) Alt. of Temulency
Temulency (n.) Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness.
Temulent (a.) Intoxicated; drunken.
Temulentive (a.) Somewhat temulent; addicted to drink.
Ten (a.) One more than nine; twice five.
Ten (n.) The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.
Ten (n.) A symbol representing ten units, as 10, x, or X.
Tenability (n.) The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness.
Tenable (a.) Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.
Tenableness (n.) Same as Tenability.
Tenace (n.) The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand.
Tenacious (a.) Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
Tenacious (a.) Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
Tenacious (a.) Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.
Tenacious (a.) Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.
Tenacious (a.) Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
Tenacious (a.) Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.
Tenacity (n.) The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
Tenacity (n.) That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
Tenacity (n.) That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
Tenacity (n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
Tenacula (pl. ) of Tenaculum
Tenaculums (pl. ) of Tenaculum
Tenaculum (n.) An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like.
Tenacy (n.) Tenaciousness; obstinacy.