teleostome 
f-f 
Of, 
Skull of Pike (E sox IUCI'HS), a teleost fish, showing most of the bones. 
Upper and middle figures, side ami top views without the bones 
of the jaws; lower, side view with the bones of the jaws, (t, articular 
facet for hyomandibular bone ; x, parasphenoid ; y. basisphenoid ; 
x, alisphenoid ; V, VII, exits of fifth and seventh nerves ; i, 2, 3, bones 
apparently replacing nasals : An, angular bone ; Ar, articular ; BO. 
basioccipital ; Sfg , branchiostegal rays ; D, dentary ; F. O, exoccip. 
ital ; EpO, epiotic ; Fr, frontal ; HM, hyomandibular ; lOp, inter- 
operculum; MX, maxillary ; Mt, metapterygoid; Op, operculum : Pa, 
parietal: PI, palatoquaclrate arch ; Pmx, premaxilla: Prf. prefron- 
tal ; PrO, prootic ; PrOp, praoperculum ; PrS, presphenoid ; Ptf, 
posrfrontal ; Qu, quadrate ; SO, supra -occipital; SO/>, suboperculum ; 
SOr, suborbital; Sf, squamosal ; Sf, symplectic ; Yo. vomer. 
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action of one mind on another at a distance 
without the use of words, looks, gestures, or 
other material signs; also, the resulting men- 
tal state or affection. The assumption is that cer- 
tain extraordinary phenomena cannot be explained on any 
recognized principles of physical science. Also called 
thmiyht-trmuiference and mind -reading. [Recent. ] 
We venture to introduce the words Teljesthesia and 
Telepathy to cover all cases of impression received at a 
distance without the normal operation of the recognised 
sense organs. Proc. Soc. Pcych. Research, I. 147. 
telepheme (tel'e-fem)-, n. [< Gr. rffke, afar, + 
<%/, saying, talk: see fame*.] A telephonic 
message. [Recent.] 
We shall ask a dispensation to permit us to introduce a 
new word into the language. It is telepheme. The use 
of such phrases as "telephonic communication," "tele- 
phonic message," "news by telephone," and the like 
seems a little clumsy, and a single word expressing their 
meaning has become a desideratum. 
1C. Hiili'xtii'r, in Rochester (N. Y.) Post-Express, August 
[5th, 1882. 
Telephium (te-le'fi-um), n. [NL. (Tournefort, 
1700), a name in use among herbalists from J. 
Camerarius, 1588 ; < L. telephion, < Gr. rnAtytov, 
an herb resembling purslane, said to have been 
named from Telephus, a mythic king of Mysia 
and son of Hercules.] A genus of polypetalous 
plants, of the order Ficoidex and tribe Mollngi- 
neee. It is characterized by flowers with five petals, flve 
stamens, a three-celled ovary, becoming in fruit a three- 
angled papery pod included in the calyx, many-seeded at its 
base, and loculicidally three- to four-valved. There are one 
or, as some regard them, three species, natives of the Medi- 
terranean region. They are spreading glaucous herbs, of- 
ten from a perennial rootstock, bearing alternate twin or 
opposite leaves, which are oval or oblong and without 
nerves, and are minutely stipulate. The small white flow- 
ers form terminal cymes. T. Imperati is the tree-orpine, 
formerly sometimes cultivated. 
telephone (tel'e-fon), . [= F. telephone = G. 
telephon = Sw. Dan. telefon (all after E.) ; < Gr. 
7v)?.e, afar, + <j>uvq, voice, sound.] An instrument 
or apparatus for the transmission of sound to 
a distant point. The word is generally restricted to 
devices for the transmission of articulate speech by the 
agency of electricity. The process consists essentially of 
the transmission of electric waves or impulses which agree 
in period and phase with atmospheric waves produced by 
sound. These in turn, by means of an electromagnet, 
telephony 
the primary wire of an induction-coil. These variations 
cause corresponding induced currents to flow through the 
secondary wire, which is connected with the line. They 
are generally due to variations of resistance resulting from 
variations in pressure in carbon, as in Edison's transmitter 
(called carbon telephone), or in surface contact when hard 
carbon is used, as in Blake's transmitter. In the latter 
(see cut) the sounds are directed to the mouthpiece p, 
Skull of Perch {Percaftiruiatilis}, a teleostome. 
I, frontal ; 2, prefrontal ; 4, sphenotic ; 7, parietal ; 8, supra -occipi- 
tal ; 9, epiotic ; n, prootic ; 12, pterotic ; 17, premaxilla ; 18, maxilla ; 
19, first suborbital or lacrymal bone ; 19', chain of suhorbitals ; 20, 
nasal ; 21, one of a chain of post-temporal ossicles ; 23, hyomandibu- 
lar ; 24. ectopterygoid ; 26, quadrate ; 27, metapterygoid ; 28, oper- 
culuin ; 30, praeoperculum ; 31, symplectic ; 32, suboperculum ; 33, in- 
teroperculum ; 34, dentary ; 35, articular ; 36, angular ; 42, iimliv.il ; 
46, post-temporal, or bone connecting scapular arch with the skull. 
teleostome (tel'e-o-stom), n. [< NL. teleosto- 
mus: see teteostonious.] One of the Teleostomi; 
any true fish. 
Teleostomi (tel-e-os'to-mi), n. pi. [NL., pi. of 
teleostomns : see teleostomoiis.] A subclass or 
class of true fishes, having the arch of the up- 
per jaw formed by specialized jaw-bones (gen- 
erally both intermaxillary and supramaxillary) 
and a more or less developed set of membrane- 
bones. The group is contrasted with the selachians or 
elasmobranchs, and includes both the teleosts and the 
ganoids. Compare Selathostomi, Cyclostomi, Cirrostomt. 
teleostomous (tel-e-os'to-mus), a. [< NL. tele- 
ostonms, < Gr. reAeof, rfAtrof, complete. + oro,ua, 
mouth.] Havingthe characterof a teleostome; 
pertaining to the Teleostomi. 
teleotemporal (tel"e-o-tem'po-ral), n. [< Gr. 
TeMo(, riAeiof, complete, + L. ienipora, temples : 
see temporal?.] A bone of the scapular arch in 
fishes, otherwise called postclavicle. 
teleotrocha, n. pi. Same as telotrocha. 
teleozoic (tel"e-o-zo'ik), a. [< teleozo-on + -ic.] 
Of the character of a teleozoon ; pertaining to 
the teleozoa; metazoan: not protozoan. 
teleozoon (tel"e-o-z6'on), n. ; pi. teleozoa (-a). 
[NL., < Gr. r&eof, reAMOf, complete, + Cov, an 
animal.] A complete animal; a metazoan as 
distinguished from a protozoan organism, con- 
sisting of differentiated cells or specialized tis- 
sues. H. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., 199. 
telepathic (tel-f-path'ik), . [< telepath-y + -ic.] 
Of or pertaining to telepathy. [Recent.] 
telepathically (tel-e-path'i-kal-i), adv. In a 
telepathic manner ; by means of telepathy; ac- 
cording to the principles or doctrine of tele- 
pathy. Amer. Jour. Psycho!., I. 500. [Recent.] 
telepathist (tel'e-path-ist or te-lep'a-thist), n. 
[< telepath-y + -ist.] One who 'is versed in tel- 
epathic phenomena, or who upholds the doc- 
trine of telepathy. [Recent.] 
telepathy (tel'e-path-i or te-lep'a-thi), n. [< 
Gr. Tijte, afar, + -iraBeta, < n-dfiof , suffering, feel- 
ing (cf. sympathy).] The direct communica- 
tion of one mind with another otherwise than 
in ordinary and recognized ways ; the supposed 
Bell Telephone. 
cause vibrations of a plate or membrane, which agitate 
the air in a manner similar to the original disturbance, 
and thus reproduce the sound. As in telegraphy, a tele- 
phonic system includes a transmitter, a conducting wire, 
and a receiver. In the magneto-electric telephone the 
transmitter and receiver are identical. A thin iron disk 
is placed very near, but not quite touching, the end of a 
small bar of steel permanently magnetized, about which 
is wound a coil of thin insulated wire. One end of this 
wire is connected with the earth and the other with the 
line. The sound-waves produce vibrations in the iron 
disk, and as the magnetic field is thus subjected to rapid 
alterations, currents of electricity are induced, which are 
transmitted through the line. At the receiving end cor- 
responding changes in the magnetism of the bar of the re- 
ceiving instrument produce similar vibrations in the iron 
disk near it, which, in turn, produce sound-waves. When 
the Bell telephone is used as a transmitter, the sounds are 
directed toward the mouthpiece p, through a hole in the 
center of which the vibrations impinge on the diaphragm 
d. The consequent vibrations of the diaphragm close to 
the end of the magnet m induce currents in the coil c, 
which are transmitted to the line wires w through the ter- 
minals (. When the instrument is used as a receiver, the 
pulsatory currents passed through the coil c cause the dia- 
phragm d to vibrate and give out sounds, which are heard 
by putting p to the ear. Better results, however, are ob- 
tained by the use of a different form of transmitter, many 
varieties of which have been invented. In that most com- 
monly used the motions of the diaphragm cause variations 
in the strength of a current flowing from a battery through 
Blake's Transmitter. 
which causes the vibrations of the air to impinge on the 
diaphragm d, on the back and at the center of which rests 
the point of a spring carrying a small spherical-shaped 
piece of platinum, , which presses against acarbon block, 
b. The current, passing through the primary of the induc- 
tion-coil i, passes through the contact between the plati- 
num and the carbon, and variations in the resistance of this 
contact, due to the vibrations of the diaphragm, cause cur- 
rents to be induced in the secondary of the coil i which are 
sent into the line circuit. Any form of microphone may be 
used as a telephone transmitter. Chemical telephone, 
a telephone the receiver of which is Edison's monograph. 
Dolbear's telephone, a kind of telephone in which the 
effects are produced by electrostatic forces, and there is no 
permanent electromagnet in the receiver. The latter con- 
sists of two thin metallic plates near to but insulated from 
each other, constituting in effect a condenser. The vary- 
ing charge in this condenser, due to the action of the 
transmitting telephone, causes variations in the mutual 
attraction of the plates, and in this way the vibrations of 
the membrane of the transmitter are reproduced. Mem- 
brane telephone, a telephone using a membrane of any 
substance, but usually of thin sheet-iron, as the part acted 
upon directly by the sound-vibrations. Multipolar tel- 
ephone. Sec multi-polar. Pulslon telephone, a me- 
chanical telephone having attached to its diaphragm a 
number of vibrators for the purpose of reinforcing the 
vibrations. Telephone-harp, an instrument, used in 
connection with a telephone, to enaHe large audiences to 
distinguish musical sounds. 
telephone (tel'e-fon), v. t. and *. ; pret. and pp. 
telephoned, ppr. telephoning. [< telephone, n. 
Hence, by abbr., phone 2 .] To communicate by 
telephone. 
telephoner (tel'e-fo-ner), n. [< telephone + 
-erf.] One who uses a telephone for communi- 
cating with another. T. D. Lockwood, Elect., 
Mag., and Teleg., p. 207. 
telephonic (tel-e-fon'ik), . [=F. telephonique ; 
as telephone + -tc.] Of or relating to the tele- 
phone ; communicated by the telephone : as, a 
telephonic communication. 
telephonically (tel-e-fon'i-kal-i), adv. With 
reference to the telephone ; '"by means of the 
telephone. 
telephonist (tel'e-fo-nist), . [< telephone + 
-ist.] A person versed in telephony, or who 
uses the telephone. 
telephonograph (tel-f-fo'no-graf), n. [< tele- 
phone + Gr. ypapeiv, write.] A device for mak- 
ing a permanent record of a message received 
by telephone. 
teiephonographic (tel-e-fo-no-graf'ik), a. [< 
telcjihonograph + -ic.] Pertaining to or effect- 
ed by means of a telephonograph. Elect. Rev. 
(Eng.), XXIV. 523. 
Telephonus (tel-e-fo'nus), . [NL. (Swainson, 
1H37\ as Teloplio'nus), < Gr. rij%e, afar, + iji/jv!/, 
voice, sound.] An extensive genus of African 
shrikes, of the family Laniidee, of black, white, 
Senegal Shrike ( Telephones senegalus). 
and chestnut coloration, without any bright 
tints. Eight species of the now restricted ge- 
nus are described, among which is the Senegal 
shrike, T. setiegalus. 
telephony(tcl ; e-f6-ni), . [As tetepkone + -,i/3.] 
The operation or art of telephoning, or repro- 
