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TiiECA, in Botany, the Latin word for a cell, fheath, or 

 cafe, is ufed occafionally by fome botanifls in their dcfcrip- 

 tions of feed-vcflols ; and cfpccially by Acliarius, fur thoie 

 minute vertical panJlel cells, in the diflv of the fliields or 

 tuberclus of a Lichen., in which its feeds ai'e lodged. See 



LiCHENES and PfiZlZA. 



THECHES, in ulncient Geography, a mountain of Afia, 

 ill Annenia, according to Xcnophon, who fays that the 

 Greeks, after leaving Gymnias, arrived on the fifth day at 

 the facred mountain called Thecljes, and from thence they 

 for the iirft time perceived the Euxinc fea, whicli occafioncd 

 loud exclamations of joy. 



THECUA, a town of PaleRine, in the tribe of Juda ; 

 fituated 12 miles S. of Jerufalem, according to Eufebius 

 and Jerome. Jofephus fays that it was in the vicinity of 

 Herodium. See Tekoa. 



THEDINGHAUSEN, in Geography, a town of Ger- 

 many, in the county of Hoya ; J 2 miles N.N.W. of 

 Hoya. 



THEDO, in Ichthyology, a name given by Figulus and 

 others to tlie trout. 



THEFT, FuRTUM, in La-u, an unlawful, felonious 

 taking away another man's moveable and perfonal goods, 

 againft the owner's will, with an intent to ileal them. See 

 Larceny. 



Open theft from the perfon, or in the prefence of the 

 owner, is properly called robbery ; which fee. 



THEFTBOTE, the receiving of a man's goods again 

 from a thief, or ether amends, by way of compofition, and 

 to prevent profecution, that the felon may efcape un- 

 puniihed ; the punifhment of which is now fine and im- 

 prifonment. 



This is frequently called compounding of felony. By 

 25 Geo. II. c. 36. even to adv:'rtife a I'eward for the re- 

 turn of things llolen, with no queftions afked, or words 

 to the fame nnport, fubjefts the advertifer and the printer 

 to a forfeiture of 5c/. each. 



THEIFENEGE, in Geography, a town of Cai'inthia ; 

 3 miles N.E. of Wolfsberg. 



THEIMSDORF, a town of Lufatia ; 6 miles E. of 

 Rothehburg. 



THEINRED, in Biography, precentor of the monaf- 

 tery of Dover, and author oi a treatife on niuCc, in Latin, 

 preferved among the MSS. of the Bodleian Librai-y, in 

 three books, written about the year 1 37 1. 



The iirft book treats of mufical proportion ; " De Pro- 

 portionibus Muficorum Sonorum." This is a very early 

 treatife upon haiinonics, in which, when he fpeaks of the major 

 and minor femitone, and of the different portions into which 

 they are divifible, his doftrine is dluftrated by many nu- 

 merical tables, and nice fplittings of tones into commas ; 

 " De Comatis ; alia Proportio ejufdem Comatis, &c.'' 

 which prove a temperament of the fcale to have been then in 

 ufe. 



The fecond book treats of mufical concords ; " De. Con- 

 fonantiis Muficorum Sonorum." Here, after fpccifying 

 the different kinds of concords, he informs his reader, that 

 in organifmg, major and minor thirds, as well as fixths, are 

 admiffible in fucceflion. 



The third book contains diagrams and fcales innumerable 

 of different fpecics of oftave, in a literal notation. No 

 mufical charafters, or examples of praftical mufic in com- 

 mon notes, appear throughout the treatife. 



The praifes beftowed by Pits, Bale, Tanner, and others 

 on Theinred, whofe name is fometimes written Thaured, and 

 Thinred, make it neceffary to acquaint fuch of our readers 

 as may be inclined to take the trouble of examining this 



traft ihemfelvfs, that, like many other mufical wrirings of 

 the middle and lower ages, it but ill rewards the ditidgcjy 

 of an entire and careful pcrufal ; for after pcrfeverance has 

 vanquifhed the abbreviations, and the barbarifm and ob- 

 fcurily of the Latin, the vain fpeculations and ufelefs divi- 

 fions of the fcale, with which this work fo much abounds, 

 and whicli could have been but of fmall utility to pratlical 

 mufic, at the time when it was written, are fuch, that now, 

 fince the theory of found is fo much better underilood and 

 explained by the writings of Galileo, Merfeniius, Holder, 

 Smith, and many others ; our old countryman, Theinred, 

 may henceforth remain peaceably on his flielf, without much 

 lofs to the art or fcience of mufic. Bodl. 842. I. De 

 legitimis ordinibus Pentachordorum et Tetraciiordorum, 

 Pr. Quoniam Muficorum de his Cantibns frequens eil di- 

 ftinftio, S;c. 46 folios, fmall fize. \Val\hcr in his Lexi- 

 con calls this work a Pliccnix. 



THEIOCRUS, in the Materia Medico of the yiucients, 

 a name given by fome to the melanteria. 



The name theiocriis fignifies only fulphur-coloured, and 

 was at firft ufed with the name of vitriol, as cxpreffive of 

 the difference of this kind from others ; but in time it be- 

 came common to ufe it alone. 



THEISM. See Deism. 



THEISOA, or Thisoa, in ^indent Geography, a town 

 of the Peloponnefus, in Arcadia. 



THEIUM, a town of Greece, in Athamenia. 



THEIUS, a river of the Peloponnefus, in Arcadia, 

 which difcharged itfelf into the Alphseus. 



THEKA, in Botany, the Malabar name of the Teak 

 tree, retalnL-d as generic by Jtiflieu. See Tectona. 



THEKUPH.E. See Tekuph.^. 



THELA, in Botany, fo named by Loureiro, Cochinch. 

 119, from (.!,>.>•, a nipple, in allufion to the little glandular 

 prominences which cover the calyx, apf>ears, by his de- 

 fcription, to be the fame genus with the Linnasan Plum- 

 B.tco. See that article. 



THELARY, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan,. in 

 Bah.nr ; 1 8 miles S. W. of Bahar. 



THELBALANA, in jincient Geography, a town of 

 Afia, in the Greater Armenia. Ptol. 



THELBENCANA, a town of Afia, in Babylonia, on 

 an ai"m of the Euphrates. 



THELDA, a town of Afia, in Mefopotan^ia, on the 

 banks of the Euphrates. Ptol. 



THELE, a word ufed by fome to exprefs the nipple, 

 and by others for the whole breaft. 



THELEB0.(E, in u^ncient Geography, a people of 

 Epirus, in Acarnania, vvho paffed into Italy, and efta- 

 bliihed themfelves in the ifland of Caprea. 



THELEBOLUS, in Botany, from Or,x-n, a nipple, and 

 ^a>,o:, a cajl, or throw, becaufe the little veficle, lodging 

 the feeds, refembles a nipple, and is thrown off with a de- 

 gree of elafticity. The name was originally written Thelta- 



bolus, but the above is juftly preferred Tode Mecklcnb. 



V. I. 41. Perf. Syn. 116. — Clafs and order, Cryptcgomia 

 Fungi. Nat. Ord. Fungi angiocarpi. 



Eff. Ch. Receptacle cup-like, fomewhat globofe, en- 

 tire at the edge, difcharging a papillary, nearly naked, 

 feed-veffel, 



I. 'T\\. flercoretu. Small Nipple-fungus. Pe-l. n. I. 

 Tode n. I. t. 7. f. 56. — Found by Tode on the dung of 

 fwine, after rainy weather in June and July. He compares 

 it to the roe of fi(h in appearance, and to poppy-feed 

 nearly in fize. Tlie colour is a tawny yellow. Each in- 

 dividual is globular, attached at the bottom by capillary 

 roots, and crowned with a fmall papillary tubercle, of a 



