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the beit, and are now called male toafels ; they are molll) 

 ufed in the drefling and preparing of ftockings and coverlets ; 

 tlie fmaller kind, properly called the fulh-rs' or drapers^ 

 teafels, and fometimes the female tcaicl, are ufed in tlie pre- 

 paration of the finer ftufts, as cloths, rateens, &c. The 

 Imaller kind fometimes, called linnots heads, are ufed to draw 

 out the knap from the coai-fer (luffs, as bays, &c. 



The leaves of the common wild teafel dried, and given in 

 powder or infufion, have been commended by fome as a 

 powerful remedy againft flatufes or crudities in the (lomach. 

 TEATE, Chif.ti, in ylnci'r.t Geography, a town of Italy, 

 in Samnium, feated on a mountain, at a fmall diftance from 

 the Adriatic gulf. It was the capital of the people called 

 Marrucini. Ptol. In the Itinerary of Antonine, this town 

 is marked on the route from Rome to Hadria, by tiie Va- 

 lerian way. 



TEATHE, in Agriculture, 3. term applied to the dung of 

 cattle in feeding off green crops ; or which, in a more par- 

 ticular fenfe, fignifies the foil or improvement left upon the 

 pafture lands in feeding them with live-flock, or the fertil- 

 izing effedls which are produced on them, in confequence of 

 fuch cattle or other live-ilock being foddered upon them with 

 any fort of food, whether fuch improvements be caufed by 

 their dung, urine, treading, breath, perfpiration, wai'mth of 

 their bodies, or other fimilar caufes. It is a term much made 

 ufe of in the hiifbandry of Norfolk. 



TEATHING, the praftice of eating turnips, or other 

 fuch matters, off, upon young wheat crops, or in other 

 ways, in the early fpring months, by livc-ftock, as (lieep and 

 bullocks. It is often written lathing by farmers. 



It is a fnigular hu(bandry, which the v>'riter of the Nor- 

 folk Agricultural Report met with on entering the diflrift 

 of Fleg, in coming from Yarmouth. It confills in carting 

 turnips on to wheat in February and March ; they call it 

 pull and thronv on wheat, eating them on that crop by fhcep 

 and bullocks, if Iheep are kept ; if not, by bullocks alone. 



The outfield grafs-land in fome of the fheep diftrifts in 

 the northern parts of the ifland, which are inclofed in a tem- 

 porary manner, and intended to be broken up for tillage, ai-e 

 fometimes teathed, by confining black cattle and (heep upon 

 them in fomething of the fold manner. 



TEATINOS, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Pacific 

 ocean, between the ifland of Chiloe and the coaft of Chili. 

 S. lat. 43° 35'. 



TEATS, Sore, in Neat Cattle, an affeftion m thofe of 

 the cow-kind, to which fome are much more fubjeft than 

 others ; efpeciiiUy fuch as have newly or lately calved. When 

 the teats of thefe animals are affefted during the fummer 

 months, they often become ulcerated, and by the tcazing of 

 the flies, the cattle ;u-e rendered difficult to be milked : they 

 alfo become a very great nuifance at the periods of milking, 

 as the difcharges from them are apt, without much attention, 

 to pafs between the fingers of the operator into the milk -pail, 

 and fpoil the milk. 



The affeftion is caufed by inflammation, irritation, and 

 too much diftention of the parts by the milk. 



In order to the removal of it, the milk fliould be firfl fre- 

 quently drawn, and the parts well waflied with foft foap and 

 warm water ; after which, a fubfl:ance compofed of elder 

 ointment and wax melted together, to which is then added 

 a little alum and fugar of lead, in fine powder, may be ufed 

 to the parts after milking at night and in the morning ; or a 

 weak folution of white vitriol and a little fugar of lead, in 

 foft water, may be made ufe of in the fame way, in fome 

 cafes, with more advantage. The addition of a httle affa- 

 foetida, and fuch hke lubftances, in powder, is, it is faid, be- 

 neficial in the fummer feafon in driving away the flies. 



TEC 



Great care is to be taken to keep tlic teats as clean an 

 poffible during the time of cure. 



TEBALA, in Geography, a town of Arabia, in the pro- 

 vince of Hedsjas ; 128 miles S.S.E. of Mecca. 



TEBALDEO, Antonio, in Biography, an Italian poet, 

 was born at Ferrara in 1463. Although brought up to the 

 medical profeffion, he cliiefly devoted himfih" to poetry, and 

 it was his cullom to accompany his verfcs with his lute. Of 

 thefe, which were much admired, a coUeftion was pubhihed 

 by his coufin Jacopo, in 1499, and often reprinted. In 

 Latm verfe he fuccecded better than in tiiofe of his native 

 language ; and it is faid, that pope Leo X. gave him 500 

 gold ducats for a finglc epigram. After the death of Leo, 

 whofe favour lie enjoyed, he was reduced to the neceflity of 

 bfgging 30 florins of cardinal Bembo. He died at Rome in 

 the year 1537. Specimens of his compofitions in both lan- 

 guages are given in Mr. Rofcoe's Life of Leo X. Gen. 

 Biog. 



TEBECRIT, in Geography, a town of Algiers, near tlie 

 Mediterranean ; 2 miles from Ned Roma. 



TEBELBELT, a town of Africa, in the country of 

 Tafilet ; 100 miles S. of Sugulmefla. 



TEBENDA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 the interior of Pontus Galaticus. Ptolemy. 



T'E.YiJ.'^T A.,\nGeography,A town of Africa, in the kin^ 

 dom of Tunis, on the borders of Algiers, wlierc are found 

 feveral beautiful ruins. It was anciently very fl;rong ; but, 

 in the year 1057, was laid wade by MuUy Mahomet. Te- 

 befta is well fupplied with water, and the environs abound 

 in almonds and nuts ; 130 miles S.S.W. of Tunis. 



TEBET, or Thevet, the fourth month of the civil year 

 of the Hebrews, and the tenth of their ecclcfiaflical year. It 

 anfwered to part of our December and January, and lias but 

 twenty-nine days. The fecond day of this month is tiie lail 

 of the oftave of the dedication of the temple, after it .was 

 purified by Judas Maccabeus. See i Mace. iv. 59. John, 

 X. 22. 



The tenth day of this month is obferved by the Jews as a 

 faft, in memory of the fiege of Jerufalem by Nebuchadnez- 

 zar, in the ninth year of Zedekiah. 



TEBIQUARl, in Geography, a river of South America, 

 which rifes in S. lat. 27'', and joins the Iquay, to form the 



Rio Grande, in S. lat. 30" 55' Alfo, a river of South 



America, which runs into the Paraguay, 8 miles below 

 Affumption. 



TEBOOA. See Hood's IJland. 



TEBSEN, a town of Egypt, on the Nile ; 16 miles N. 

 of Cairo. 



TEBUC. See Tahuk. 



TEBUHASAN, a town of Africa; 15 miles S.E. of 

 Sugulmeffa. 



TEC A LA, a town of European Turkey, in Theffaly ; 

 30 miles W. of Lariffa. 



TECALETH, a town of Morocco ; 1 2 1 miles W.N.W. 

 of Morocco. 



TECALIA, in Ancient Geography, a town in the northern 

 part of Germany. Ptolemy. 



TECEUT, or Teciieit, in Geography, a town of Africa, 

 in the country of Sus, fituated in a fertile foil, abounding 

 with grain, dates, figs, grapts, and fugar-canes. Here is 

 a manufafture of Morocco It-ather ; 150 miles S.W. of 

 Morocco. 



TECH, a river of France, which rifes in the Pyrenees, 

 and runs into the Mediterranean, near Elne. 



TECHE, a river of Louifiana, which connefts with the 

 Vermillion ; and thefe arc the principal rivers of the Atta- 

 kapas. Their general courfcs are nearly the fame to the 



lake 



