Tertiary (a.) Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
Tertiary (a.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
Tertiary (a.) Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills.
Tertiaries (pl. ) of Tertiary
Tertiary (n.) A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third.
Tertiary (n.) The Tertiary era, period, or formation.
Tertiary (n.) One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Tertiate (v. t.) To do or perform for the third time.
Tertiate (v. t.) To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to ascertain its strength.
Terutero (n.) The South American lapwing (Vanellus Cayennensis). Its wings are furnished with short spurs. Called also Cayenne lapwing.
Terza rima () A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.
Terzetto (n.) A composition in three voice parts; a vocal (rarely an instrumental) trio.
Tesselar (a.) Formed of tesserae, as a mosaic.
Tessellata (n. pl.) A division of Crinoidea including numerous fossil species in which the body is covered with tessellated plates.
Tessellated (imp. & p. p.) of Tessellate
Tessellating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tessellate
Tessellate (v. t.) To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
Tessellate (a.) Tessellated.
Tessellated (a.) Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement.
Tessellated (a.) Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf.
Tessellation (n.) The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed.
Tesserae (pl. ) of Tessera
Tessera (n.) A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes.
Tesseraic (a.) Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated.
Tesseral (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, tesserae.
Tesseral (a.) Isometric.
Tessular (a.) Tesseral.
Test (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Test (n.) Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
Test (n.) Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
Test (n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
Test (n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
Test (n.) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Test (n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
Tested (imp. & p. p.) of Test
Testing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Test
Test (v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
Test (v. t.) To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
Test (v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
Test (n.) A witness.
Test (v. i.) To make a testament, or will.
Tests (pl. ) of Testa
Testae (pl. ) of Testa
Test (n.) Alt. of Testa
Testa (n.) The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.
Testa (n.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.
Testable (a.) Capable of being tested or proved.
Testable (a.) Capable of being devised, or given by will.
Testacea (n. pl.) Invertebrate animals covered with shells, especially mollusks; shellfish.
Testacean (n.) Onr of the Testacea.
Testaceography (n.) The science which treats of testaceans, or shellfish; the description of shellfish.
Testaceology (n.) The science of testaceous mollusks; conchology.
Testaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to shells; consisted of a hard shell, or having a hard shell.
Testaceous (a.) Having a dull red brick color or a brownish yellow color.
Testacy (n.) The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.
Testament (n.) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.
Testament (n.) One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter.
Testamental (a.) Of or pertaining to a testament; testamentary.
Testamentary (a.) Of or pertaining to a will, or testament; as, letters testamentary.
Testamentary (a.) Bequeathed by will; given by testament.
Testamentary (a.) Done, appointed by, or founded on, a testament, or will; as, a testamentary guardian of a minor, who may be appointed by the will of a father to act in that capacity until the child becomes of age.
Testamentation (n.) The act or power of giving by testament, or will.
Testamentize (v. i.) To make a will.
Testamur (n.) A certificate of merit or proficiency; -- so called from the Latin words, Ita testamur, with which it commences.
Testate (a.) Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate.
Testate (n.) One who leaves a valid will at death; a testate person.
Testation (n.) A witnessing or witness.
Testator (n.) A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.
Testatrix (n.) A woman who makes and leaves a will at death; a female testator.
Teste (n.) A witness.
Teste (n.) The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; -- said of a writ, deed, or the like.
Tester (n.) A headpiece; a helmet.
Tester (n.) A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb.
Tester (n.) A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.
Tester (n.) An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.
Testern (n.) A sixpence; a tester.
Testern (v. t.) To present with a tester.
Testes (n.) pl. of Teste, or of Testis.
Testicardines (n. pl.) A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.
Testicle (n.) One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.
Testicond (a.) Having the testicles naturally concealed, as in the case of the cetaceans.
Testicular (a.) Of or pertaining to the testicle.
Testiculate (a.) Shaped like a testicle, ovate and solid.
Testiculate (a.) Having two tubers resembling testicles in form, as some species of orchis.
Testiere (n.) A piece of plate armor for the head of a war horse; a tester.
Testif (a.) Testy; headstrong; obstinate.
Testification (n.) The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God.
Testificator (n.) A testifier.
Testifier (n.) One who testifies; one who gives testimony, or bears witness to prove anything; a witness.
Testified (imp. & p. p.) of Testify
Testifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Testify
Testify (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration, verbal or written, to establish some fact; to give testimony for the purpose of communicating to others a knowledge of something not known to them.
Testify (v. i.) To make a solemn declaration under oath or affirmation, for the purpose of establishing, or making proof of, some fact to a court; to give testimony in a cause depending before a tribunal.
Testify (v. i.) To declare a charge; to protest; to give information; to bear witness; -- with against.
Testify (v. t.) To bear witness to; to support the truth of by testimony; to affirm or declare solemny.
Testify (v. t.) To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact.
Testify (adv.) In a testy manner; fretfully; peevishly; with petulance.
Testimonial (a.) A writing or certificate which bears testimony in favor of one's character, good conduct, ability, etc., or of the value of a thing.
Testimonial (a.) Something, as money or plate, presented to a preson as a token of respect, or of obligation for services rendered.
Testimonial (a.) Relating to, or containing, testimony.