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said of certain reptiles of a former group Trrr- 
1. A lamelli- teretipronator (ter"e-ti-pro-na'tor), . [< L. 
Teredo, family feres (teret-), round, + pronalor,] The round 
teredo (te-re'do), n. [< L. teredo, < Gr. rept/Auv, 
a worm that gnaws wood, etc., a moth, < reipui 
= L. lerere, rub: see terebra.] 
branch mollusk of tho genus 
Terfdinidie; the ship-worm, T. narnlix, ronspic- pronating muscle of the forearm; the pronator 
nous for the destruction which it occasions radii teres. See jrroiiator. Cones, 1887. 
to ships and submerged wood, by perforating teretiscapularis(ter"e-ti-skap-u-la'ris), . ; pi. 
them in all directions in order to establish teretisoaplares (-iez). [NL., < L. teres (teret-), 
terete, + gcafHuariS.] The gi'eater terete mus- 
cle of the shoulder-blade, commonly called teres 
major. See teres. Cones, 1887. 
Teretistris (ter-e-tis'tris), n. [NL. (C'abanis, 
1855), < Gr. Teperi&iv, whistle: often misspelled 
Teretristis.] A genus of American warblers, or 
Miiiotiltidse, peculiar to Cuba, and of 2 species, 
T. fcrnandinse, (Lembeye) and T. fonisi (Gund- 
lach), respectively of the western and eastern 
parts of the island. They are small and plain- 
colored birds, 4f inches long, 
teretoust (ter'e-tus), a. [< L. teres (teret-), 
round, smooth, + -ous.] Same as terete. 
Teretous, or long round leaves. 
Sir T. Browne, Garden of Cyrus, iv. 
[ME. terften, < AS. tearflian, roll 
about, a freq. form, prob. connected with terve.] 
To roll about ; wallow. titratim/mi. 
headed nails into the timber, the rust from which spreads terga n. Plural of tergum 
and prevents the animal from settling. It is said to have 
been originally imported from tropical climates; but it has 
now become an inhabitant of most harbors. (See also cut 
a habitation. It is a worm-shaped grayish-white ani- 
mal, most of whose length is owing to the elongation 
of the united siphons or breathing-tubes conveying wa- 
ter to the gills. Tin- 
two valves of the shell 
are small. The vis- 
cera are mainly con- 
tained within the 
valves. In excavating 
in the wood (the shell is 
the boring-instrument) 
every individual is care- 
ful to avoid the tube 
formed by its neighbor, 
and often a very thin 
leaf of wood alone is left 
between the cavities, 
which are lined with a 
calcareous incrustation. Piece of Wood Perforated by Teredos. 
Many methods are ill tcrttet V / 
use to protect ships, piers, etc., from this destructive ani- !* _ ' _ 
mal, such as copper sheathing, treating with creosote or 
corrosive sublimate, or driving numbers of short broad- 

under ship-worm.) T. gigantea is a species found in the 
East Indies in shallow water, where it bores into the 
hardened mud. 
2. [cap.] [NL. (Linnseus, 1758).] The typical 
genus of Teredinidse, including T. navalis, the 
common teredo or ship-worm. See def. 1. Also 
called Septaria. 3. Any disease in plants pro- 
duced by the boring of insects. Lindley, Gloss. 
terek (ter'ek), n. A kind of sandpiper, Terelcia 
einerea. 
(ter'gal), a. [< L. tergum, back, + -al.] 
i. Of or pertaining to the back in general ; dor- 
sal: notseal: the opposite of sternal or rentral. 
Specifically 2. In entom., of or pertaining to a 
notum, tergum, or tergite. 3. In echinoderms, 
dorsal in the sense of aboral ; coronal : the op- 
posite of rentral or oral : as, the tergal plates of 
a starfish. 4. In trilobites, of or pertaining to 
the axis or tergum. See cut under Trilobita. 
Tergal facet, the smooth dorsal anterior surface of 
the somite of a crustacean, over which the posterior un- 
der surface of a preceding somite glides in flexion and ex- 
tension of the abdomen. 
Terekia (te-re'ki-a), . [NL. (Bonaparte, 1838), . 
also Terechia (Bonaparte, 1841), < terek, a na- tergant (ter gant), a. [Heraldic K, < L. Ac- 
tive name.] A genus of scolopacine birds, con- fl"<', back: see tergum.} In her., turning the 
taining only the terek sandpiper, T. einerea, back toward the spectator. See recursant. Also 
resembling the greenshank and some other tat- ter ff l(t>t t- 
tiers, and having the bill somewhat recurved, tergatet, . An obsolete form of target. 
This bird is very widely distributed, visiting in its migra- He pulled a tergate from one of his souldiours, and cast- 
tions nearly all parts of the Old World, and breeding in ynge it in to the water, standynge on it, with his spere 
conuaied hym selfe with the streme. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Oovernour, i. 17. 
tergeminate (ter-jem'i-nat),a. [< L. ter, thrice, 
+ gemiuatus. doubled: see Geminate.] Thrice 
double : specifically applied in botany to a com- 
pound leaf haying at the base a pair of leaflets 
and then forking, with a pair on each branch, 
as in Calliandra tergemhia. 
tergeminous (ter-jem'i-nus), a. [< L. tergemi- 
nus, threefold, triple, < tin; thrice, + gemimts, 
born at the same time, twin : see gcmiiii.] Ter- 
gemiuate. 
tergiant (ter'ji-ant), a. In her., same as tergaitt. 
tergiferous (ter-jif'e-rus), a. [< L. tergum, 
back, + ferre = E. beni-i : see -ferous.] Carry- 
ing or bearing on the back ; dorsigerous or dor- 
siferous. 
tergite (ter'jit), . [< L. tergum, the back, + 
-ifc 2 .] The tergum, dorsum. or back of one 
of the_ somites or segments of an articulated 
Consists 
ese be- 
imay 
/.-/'- \ omuw i"_r i iu-1 , OB in tnc uepuaioiiiorax oi a crustacean 
3 rez), n. [NL. (sc. wmmtlns), a round tergitic (ter-jit'ik), a. [< terqite + -ic ] Ter- 
muscle, < L. teres, round, smooth : see terete.] gal or dorsal, as a sclerite; of or pertaining to 
A terete muscle ; specifically, one of two te- a tergite. 
from tergiversate (ter'ji-ver-sat), r. 
high latitudes of Asia and Europe. It may be recognized 
in any plumage by the wholly white axillaries, largely 
white secondaries, and absence of any white on the prima- 
ridge of the humerus. Teres minor (lesser teres) a nius- 
le lying along the outer border of the infraspinatus, to 
which it is closely connected and near which it Is Inserted 
into the greater tuberosity of the humerus 
Teresian (t-re'si-an), n. [< Teresa (see def ) 
- -inn.] One of a branch of the Carmelites 
founded by Saint Teresa in 1562 
terett, a. See terete. 
terete (te-ref), a. [Formerly also teret; = Sp 
terete, < L. teres (teret-), round, smooth, < terere 
rub: see terebra, trite.] Slender and smooth! 
with a circular transverse section ; cylindrical 
or slightly tapering. See cut under petiole. 
Ito^riSta* ' ' ' ad th ,f m ['"<> stars] round and teret 
Fotherby, Atheomastix (1622), p. 326 
Terete pronator. Same as teretipronator 
teretial(te-re'shal), a. [< terete + -ial.] Same 
tereticaudateaer''fi ?f' 
make use of shifts or subterfuges. 
Who also, as if he were conscious that his assumentum 
to the Platonick theology were not so defensible a thing 
doth himself sometime, as it were, tergiversate and decline 
it, by equivocating in the word Henades, taking them for 
the ideas, or the intelligible gods before mentioned. 
Cudworth, Intellectual System, II. 361. 
tergiversation (ter"ji-ver-sa'shon), n. [< F. 
. . , a shifting, evasion, lit. a turning of one's 
back, < tergirersari, pp. tergiversatus, turn one's 
back: see tergiversate.] 1. The act of tergiver- 
sating; a shirting; shift; subterfuge ; evasion. 
Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as 
Being freer from passions and tergiversation. 
Abp. Bramhall. (Johnson.) 
2. The act of changing one's opinions or of 
ereticaudateaer''fi 6M5t\ , r/ T ' . g ones opnons or o 
term 
The colonel, after all his tcrfjirrrxntion, lost his life in 
the king's service. Clarendon. 
tergiversator (ter'ji-ver-sa-tor), n. [= F. ter- 
giversotew = Pg. tergirersador, < L. tergiversa- 
lur. one who hangs back, a laggard, < iergii-er- 
sari, turn one's back: see tergiversate.] One 
who practises tergiversation, 
tergiverset (ter'ji-vers), . '. [< F. tergiverser 
= Sp. Pg. tergivcrsar = It. tergiversare, < L. 
tergiversari, turn one's back, decline, refuse, 
evade, shift, < tergum, back, + vermiri, turn : see 
verse.] To turn one's back ; tergiversate. 
The Briton never tertrivers'd, 
But was for adverse drubbing. 
Saint George for Etujlaml. ii. 
tergolateral (ter-go-lat'e-ral), a. [< L. tergum, 
back, + latus (later-), sicie, "+ -a I.] Of or per- 
taining to the tergum and the lateral plates of 
a cirriped. Dancin, Cirripedia, Int., p. 5. 
tergorhabdite (ter-go-rab'dlt), , [< L. tergum, 
back, + Gr. /M/Mof, rod, + -ite'*.] In entom., 
one of the pieces primarily forming the upper 
or tergal surface of an insect's abdomen. La- 
caze-Duthiera applied this name to the lower pair of plates 
forming the ovipositor of a female insect ; they are modi- 
fied tergal pieces of one of the abdominal rings. 
tergum (ter'gum), .; pi. terga (-ga). [NL., < 
L. tergum, back.] 1. The back, dorsum, or 
notum, especially of an arthropod. 2. The 
tergal or dorsal sclerite of one of the rings or 
somites of an arthropod or articulate animal; 
a tergite. A tergum is often composed of two lateral 
halves. In some of the thoracic segments of insects it is 
subdivided into parts called, from before backward, prse- 
smtum, scutum, scutellmn, and postscutellmn. 
3. One of the two upper or dorsal plates of the 
shell in cirripeds. See cut under Balauus. 
Terias (te'ri-as), n. [NL. (Swainson, 1821).] A 
genus of butterflies, of the family Papilioni- 
dee and subfamily Pieridinse, comprising about 
a dozen species, nearly all American. The North 
American are T. nicippe, a small bright-orange species, 
and T. Km, still smaller and lemon-yellow in color, both 
of the southern United States. Their larvae live upon 
plants of the genus Cassia. 
teriet, ' An obsolete form of torn/ 2 and tarryS. 
terint, Same as tar in. 
Thrustles, terins, and mavys. 
That songen for to wynne hem prys. 
Rmn. of the Rose, 1. 665. 
term (term), n. [Early mod. E. also tearm, ear- 
lier ternie; < ME. terme, < OF. terme, also in less 
vernacular form ter mine = Pr. terme = Sp. 
termino = Pg. termino = It. termiiio, terming = 
D. termijn = G. Sw. Dan. termiii, < L. terminus, 
OL. also tcrmo (termon-), termcn (termin-), a 
bound, boundary, limit, end, ML. (and Rom.) 
also a time, period, also a definition (?), word, 
covenant, etc. ; = Gr. ri-pfiav (rep/iov-), rip/m (rep- 
/tar-), a boundary-line, limit ; prob. akin to E. 
Annul, tram*-. From L. terminus are also ult. 
E. terminus, terminal, terminate, terming, deter- 
mine, determinate, etc., conterminous, etc.] 1 . A 
bound; a boundary; limit; the extremity of 
anything, or that which limits its extent; a 
confine; end; termination; completion. 
Here I take the to my Hue ; tac thoti non other to terme 
of line. Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 229. 
God was careful to secure us from death by removing 
the lepers from the camp, . . . and putting a term be- 
tween the living and the dead. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 885. 
At the decline of day, 
Winding above the mountain's snowy term, 
N'ew banners shone. 
Shelley, Revolt of Islam, vi. 18. 
Who does not sometimes . . . await with curious com- 
placency the speedy term of his own conversation with 
finite nature? Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 240. 
2. In geom., the extreme of any magnitude, or 
that which limits or bounds its extent : as, the 
terms of a line are points, the terms of a super- 
ficies are lines, and the terms of a solid are su- 
perficies. See also def. 9. 3f. Outcome ; final 
issue. 
Yet ought mens good endevours them conflrme, 
And guyde the heavenly causes to their constant terme 
Spenser, F. Q., III. iii. 26. 
4f. A figure of Terminus, the god of bounda- 
ries; a terminal figure. See terminus, 3. 
An arbour feigned of goldsmith's-work, the ornament 
of which was borne up with termes of satyrs. 
B. Jomon, Chloridia. 
On either side of the Gate stood a great French Terme 
of stone, aduanced vpon wodden Pedestalls. 
Dekker, Kings Entertainment (Works, ed. Pearson, I. 278). 
5. Insliip-liutldiiifi, a piece of carved work placed 
under each end of the taffrail, and extending to 
the foot-rail of the balcony. Also called ter-m- 
jnece. 6. A space or period of time to which 
limits have been set; the time orperiod through 
