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full irvonaftery of the female reform at Avila, in 1562, and 

 Raving extended her plan tc the rclii^ious males of the order, 

 ihe founded in 1568 the monaftery of Dorvello, which was 

 iU origin of the more rigid, or barefooted, Carmelites. Her 

 ■ieal and affidiiity enabled iK-r to found thirty religious 

 houfes of the reform, fourteen for men and fixteen for 

 women ; and after her death it extended through all the 

 C'athohc countries of Chriftcndom. Tcrcfa died at Alva in 

 Oftober 1582, in the 68th year of her age. She was 

 canonized by Gn'gory XV. in 1621 ; and afterwards be- 

 came the patron faint of Spain. See Carmelites. 



Tere-sa, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the province 

 of Valencia ; 10 miles N.W. of Segorbe. 



TERESSA. See Teruessa. 



TERETES, in Horfes, one of the three forts of worms 

 which in/eft the bodies of them, and which are very trouble- 

 fome and injurious. See AscA rides, Bots, and Worms. 



This fort of worm, which is found in horfes, refembles the 

 common earth-worms in many refpefts, being only (harper 

 at both ends, callous towards the middle, and they do not 

 contraft or dilate themfelves fo eafily. Some of thefe, which 

 have been feen to come from horfes, hinder them from thriv- 

 ing till they are diflodged by proper remedies. 



TE RET RUM, in Surgery. See Terebra. 



TERFEZ, in Natural Hijlory, the name given by the 

 Africans to the truffles found in the defarts of Numidia, 

 and other places in that part of the world, in great 

 abundance. 



Thefe are much more delicately tailed than the European 

 truffles, and are white on the outfide. They are called by 

 fome of the Africans kema, and by the Arabian writers 

 cantha and camahe. 



TERFOWA, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the 

 kingdom of Tunis ; 1 20 miles S. of Tunis. 



TERFOWY, a town of Nubia ; 150 miles S. of Syene. 

 N. lat. 21° 40'. E. long. 34=5'. 



TERGA, a town of Morocco, on the Morbeya; 90 

 miles N. of Morocco. 



Terga. See Hair. 



TERGARRY, a town of Hindooftan, in Bednore ; 14 

 miles S.E. of Simogu. 



TERGAZA, in /Indent Geography, a town of Africa, 

 which was one of thofe which Manhus took pofleffion of 

 in the third Punic war, and which he pillaged. 



TERGESTE. See Trieste. 



TERGESTICUS Sinus, a gulf of Italy, on the coaft 

 of the Adriatic fea. It took its name from the town 

 Tergcfle, which was fituated there. 



TERGIFOETOUSPLANTS.fuchasbeartheir feeds on 

 the backfides of their leaves : fuch are the capillaries. See 

 Capillary. 



TERGIL, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in 

 the province of Erzerum ; 30 miles E. of Palu. 



TERGIS, in ^Indent Geography, a town of Africa, in 

 Libya, on the confines of Ethiopia. 



TERGISONUS, a river of Italy, in Venetia, N. of the 

 river Padus. 



TER-GOUD, or Ter-gouw, in Geography. See GouD. 



TERGOVITZ, or Tergovista, a town and capital of 

 Walachia, where the waiwode has a palace ; 64 miles S.E. 

 of Hermenftadt. N. lat. 45° 3'. E. long. 25" 29'. 



TERHALTEN, a fmall ifland near the coaft cf Terra 

 del Fuego. S. lat. 55° 20*. 



TERHEY, a town of HoUand ; 10 miles W. of Delft. 



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

 iMefopotamia, on the banks of the Euphrates. Ptolemy. 



TERINA, a town of Italy, upon the weftern coaft of 

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Br\itium, and in the northern part of the gulf Hipponium. — 

 Alfo, a town of Afia, fituated in the mountains W. of 

 Moxoun6. 



TERIUM, a town of Macedonia, in Pieria. 



TERKAT, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in 

 the government of Sivas ; 20 miles N.W. of Tocat. 



TERKELA, a river of Africa, which joins the Tafilet, 

 20 miles S. of Togda. 



TERKI. See Terek. 



Terki. See Turkin. 



TERKIRI, a lake of Thibet, about 80 miles long and 

 25 broad. N. lat. 32°- E. long. 91° 14'. 



TERKUL, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the Ural, 

 at Uralflc, in the government of Caucafus. 



TERLIZZI, a town of Naples, in the province of Bari ; 

 7 miles S.E. of Trani. 



TERLON, a river of France, which runs into the 

 Sambre, about 3 miles below Landrecy. 



TERM, Terminus, the extreme of any thing, or that 

 which bounds and limits its extent. See Extreme. 



Term, in Geometry, is fometimes ufed for a point, fome- 

 times for a line, &c. A line is the term of a fuperficies, 

 and a fuperficies of a folid. 



This is what the fchools call terminus quantitatis. 



Term, in Laiv, fignifies a boundary, or limitation of time, 

 or eftate. 



In this fenfe we fay, a leafe for term of life, for term of 

 years, &c. 



Terms, Termes, Termini, in ylrchitedure, denote a 

 kind of ftatues, or columns, adorned at top with the figure 

 of a man's, woman's, or fatyr's head, as a capital ; and the 

 lower part ending in a kind of (heath, or fcabbard. See 

 Hermes. 



Some write the word thermes, from Hermes, a name the 

 Greeks gave the god Mercury ; whofe ftatue, made after 

 this manner, was placed in feveral of the crofs ways in the 

 city of Athens, &c. Others bring the etymology of the 

 word from the Roman god Terminus, the protedlor of land- 

 marks ; whofe ftatue (made without hands or feet, that he 

 might not change his place) was ufed to be planted at the 

 bounds of lands, to feparate them. 



Terms are fometimes ufed as confoles, and fuftain enta- 

 blatures ; and fometimes as ftatues, to adorn gardens. Of 

 thefe termini, the architefts make great variety ; viz. angelic, 

 rujlic, marine, double, in bujl, &c. 



Terms, Miliary, termini mi/iares, among the ancient 

 Greeks, were the heads of certain divinities, placed on 

 fquare land-marks of ftone, or on a kind of ftieath, to mark 

 the feveral ftadia, &c. in the roads. Thefe are what Plautus 

 calls lares viahs. 



They were ufually dedicated to Mercury, whom the 

 Greeks believed to prefide over the highways. 



Some of them were reprefented with four heads, fuch as 

 we ftill fee in Rome, at the end of the Fabrician bridge ; 

 which is hence called ^on/c eli quattro capi. It is known that 

 Mercury was thus reprefented, and alfo called by the Latins 

 Mercurius quadrijrons ; as being fuppofed the firft who in- 

 vented the ufe of letters, mufic, wreftling, and geometry. 

 See Hermes. 



Terms are alfo ufed for the feveral times or feafons of 

 the year, in which the tribunals, or courts of judicature, are 

 open to all who think fit to complain of wrong, or to feek 

 their rights by due courfe of law, or action ; and during 

 which the courts in Weftminfter-hall fit and give judgment. 

 But the high court of parliament, the chancery, and inferior 

 courts, do not obferve the terms ; only the courts of king's 

 bench, common pleas, and exchequer, which are the liigheft 



courts 



