Flowering Plant of 
Timothean 
Timothean (ti-mo'the-an), 11. [< L. Timotlieus, 
<Gr. Ti/i66eof, Timotheus (>E. Timothy), + -an.'] 
One of a sect of Alexandrian Monophysites 
founded by Timotheus .&Uurus in the fifth cen- 
tury. 
timothy (tim'o-thi), . [Abbr. of timotlnj- 
i/nixy.] Same as timothy-grass. 
timothy-grass (tim'o-thi-gras), . [So called 
from Timothy Hanson, 
who carried the seed from 
New York to the Carolinas 
about 1720.] One of the 
most valuable of all fod- 
der-grasses, Phleum pra- 
tense, otherwise known as 
cattail or herd's-grass. it 
is native in parts of the Old 
World, also in the northeastern 
United States, though as a cul- 
tivated plant supposed to be in- 
troduced. It varies in height 
from one foot to three or more, 
according to the soil. Though 
somewhat hard and coarse when 
fully ripe, it is highly nutritious, 
and well relished by stock, if cut 
in flower or immediately after. 
It is often planted with clover ; 
but the two do not ripen at the 
same time. It is the favorite 
and prevailing meadow-grass 
through a large part of the 
United States. 
timous (ti'mus), a. [Also 
less prop., but in So. legal 
use commonly, timeous; < 
time 1 + -ous. Prob. sug- 
<rp<jro/1 hvuwmi/vijie rinlit Timothy-Brass tPhltmn 
gesie i uywrongous, rigni- f ra ,t nsfl ., 2 , the Sbicate in- 
eOMS,where-O!(S,-e-OW*isan florescence; <!, the empty 
accommodation of a diff. Blllraesi 4 ' afloret - 
suffix.] Timely; seasonable. [Obsolete and 
rare, except in Scottish legal and commercial 
phraseology.] 
By a wise and timous inquisition, the peccant humours 
and humourists may be discovered, purged, or cut off. 
Bacon. 
timously (ti'mus-li), adv. [Also less prop, ti- 
meously ; < timous + -ly' 2 .] In a timous man- 
ner; seasonably; in good time. [Obsolete and 
rare, except in Scottish legal and commercial 
phraseology.] 
If due care be had, to follow timeously the advise of an 
honest and experienced physician, a period certainly may 
be brought about to most chronical distempers. 
Cheyne, On Health, p. 174. (Latham.) 
Your warning is timeously made. 
J. Owen, Evenings with Skeptics, II. 432. 
timpani, timpanet, n. See tympan. 
timpano (timpa-no ),.; pi. timpani (-ni). [It.: 
see tympan.'] An orchestral kettledrum : usu- 
ally in the plural. Also, less correctly, tym- 
pano. 
timpanoust, . See tympanous. 
timpanum, n. See tympanum. 
timpanyt, n. See tympany. 
tim-whisky (tim'hwis"ki), n. [< tim (origin ob- 
scure perhaps a jocose use of Tim, a familiar 
name) + whisky!. ~] A light one-horse chaise 
without a head. Also tint-whiskey. 
A journey to Tyburn in a tim-whisky and two would 
have concluded your travels. Foote, The Cozeners, i. 
It is not like the difference between a Baptist and an 
Anabaptist, which Sir John Danvers said is much the same 
as that between a Whiskey and a Tim-Whiskey that is 
to say, no difference at all. 
Southey, The Doctor, interchapter xiv. 
tin (tin), n. and a. [Early mod. E. tinne, tynnc; 
< ME. tin, < AS. tin = MD. ten, D. tin = MLG. 
tin, ten, LG. tinn = OHG. MHG. zin, G. einn = 
Icel. tin = Sw. tenn = Dan. tin; root unknown. 
The Ir. tinne is from E., and the F. etain is of 
other origin, = Ir. stan = W. ystaen = Bret. 
stean, < L. stannum, tin: see stannum.'] I. n. 
1. Chemical symbol, Sn (stannum); atomic 
weight, 118.8. A metal nearly approaching 
silver in whiteness and luster, highly mallea- 
ble, taking a high polish, fusing at 442 F., and 
having a specific gravity of about 7.3. it is 
inferior to all the other so-called useful metals, excepting 
lead, in ductility an* tenacity ; but, owing to the fact 
that it is but little affected by the atmosphere at ordinary 
temperature, it is extensively used for culinary vessels 
especially in the form of tin-plate, which is sheet-iron 
coated with tin, the former metal giving the strength 
and the latter the desired agreeable luster and color 
and the necessary resistance to oxidation under the con- 
ditions to which vessels used in cooking are ordinarily 
exposed. (See tin-plate.) Tin forms part of several very 
important alloys, especially bronze, and also pewter and 
Britannia metal, both formerly extensively used, but now 
of less importance. Native tin occurs, if at all (which has 
not been definitely ascertained), in very small quantity, 
and is certainly of no economical importance. The sul- 
phuret of tin (tin pyrites, or stannine, a mixture of the 
isomorphous sulphurets of tin, iron, copper, and zinc) is 
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found in various localities, but nowhere in abundance, and 
it is of no importance as an ore. All the tin of commerce 
is obtained from the dioxid, the cassiterite of the mineral- 
ogist and the tinstone of the miner. This metal has, how- 
ever, been found in various rare minerals in small quan- 
tity, as also in some mineral waters and in a few meteorites. 
Tinstone is a mineral resisting decomposition in a remark- 
able degree, hence fragments mechanically separated from 
veinstone or rock containing it remain in the debris un- 
changed in character, and like gold they can be separated 
by washing from the sands or gravel in which they occur : 
this operation in the case of tin ore is usually called 
atreaming. The ore of tin is remarkable in that it oc- 
curs quite frequently disseminated through granite or 
greisen (a metamorphosed granitoid rock), in the form 
of stockwork deposits, and not concentrated into regu- 
lar veins ; it is also very generally accompanied by cer- 
tain minerals, especially wolfram, schorl, topaz, and lithia 
mica. Tin is not a very generally distributed metal, and 
the regions producing it in considerable quantity are few 
in number. Cornwall, the Malayan peninsula, the islands 
of Banca and Billiton, and Australia furnish the principal 
supply of this metal, of which the annual consumption 
has within the past few years been about 40,000 tons. The 
value of tin has been of late about twice that of copper and 
from four to five times that of lead. Tin is chemically re- 
lated to the metals titanium, zirconium, and thorium, and 
also to the non-metallic element silicon. 
I found many stones wherein I plainly perceived the 
mettall of tinne. Coryat, Crudities, I. 92. 
2. Collectively, thin plates of iron covered 
with tin. See tin-plate. 
O see na thou yon bonny bower, 
It 's a cover'd o'er wi' tin ? 
The Lass of Loraroyan (Child's Ballads, II. 108). 
3. A pot, pan, or other utensil made of tin, or 
of iron covered with tin; especially, in Great 
Britain, such a vessel prepared for preserving 
meats, fruits, etc. ; a can : as, milk-tins. 
Many were foolish enough to leave behind what few 
possessions they had, such as tattered blankets, shelter 
poles, cooking tins, etc. The Century, XL. 611. 
4. Money. [Slang.] 
When there 's a tick at Madame Carey's there is no tin 
for Chaffing Jack. Disraeli, Sybil, v. 10. 
The old woman, when any female, old or young, who had 
no tin, came into the kitchen, made up a match for her 
with some man. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 310. 
Black tin, tin ore dressed and ready for smelting. [Corn- 
wall, Eng.] Butter of tin. See bviteri. Cry of tin, a 
peculiar crackling sound emitted by a bar of tin when it is 
bent. Inside tin. See inside. Jew's tin. See Jew. 
Nitrate Of tin, an artisans' name for a hydrate of tin 
tetrachlorid : used as a mordant, and obtained by dissolv- 
ing tin in aqua regia. Also called oxymuriate of tin. 
Prusslate of tin. Same as tin-pulp. Salt of tin, a 
name given by dyers and calico-printers to protochlorid 
of tin, which is extensively used as a mordant and for the 
purpose of deoxidizing indigo and the peroxids of iron 
and manganese. Slabs of tin. See slaW. Sparable 
tin. See sparable. Tin-glazed wares. See stannif- 
erous wares, under ware*. Tin pyrites, stannine. 
Toad's-eye tin, a massive variety of tinstone or cassit- 
erite, occurring in small reniform shapes with concen- 
tric radiate structure. 
II. a. Made of or from tin; made of iron 
covered with tin: as, tin plates; a tin vessel. 
Tin kitchen, (a) Same as !>i<ti-tt oven (which see, under 
oven). (6) A child s toy. Tin spirits. See spirit. 
tin (tin), v. t.; pret. and pp. tinned, ppr. tin- 
ning. [< tin, n.] 1. To cover or overlay with 
tin ; coat with tin. 
The work is divided into ten books, of which the first 
treats of soups and pickles, and amongst other things 
shows that sauce-pans were tinned before the time of 
Pliny. W. Kiny, Art of Cookery, letter ix. 
2. To put up, pack, or preserve in tins; can: 
as, to tin condensed milk ; to tin provisions. 
In practice there are several processes of tinning food, 
but the general method adopted is everywhere uniform in 
principle. Encye. Brit., XIX. 708. 
tinaget, n. [< Sp. tinaja, a jar: see tinaja.'] A 
large earthenware jar. 
It is not nnknowne vnto you, my brethren, howe John 
of Fadilia passed this way, and howe his souldiers have 
left me neuer a henne, hane eaten me a fliech of bacon, 
[and] haue drunke out a whole linage of wine. 
Quevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 241. 
Tinamidse (ti-nam'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Tina- 
mus + -idee.] The only family of dromsBogna- 
thous carinate birds, taking name from the ge- 
nus Tinamus, and peculiar to South America; 
the tinamous. The structure of the skull and espe- 
cially of the bony palate is unique among carinate birds, 
and resembles that of ratite birds (see Dromseognathir) ; 
but the sternum has a very large keel, like that of galli- 
naceous birds, and in many other respects the tinamous 
are related to the Gattinee, with which they used to be 
classed. There are many anatomical peculiarities. The 
tail is quite short, or even entirely concealed by the cov- 
erts: whence a synonym of the family, Crypturidse, and 
the ordinal or subordinal name Crypturi. The species, 
about 50 in number, are referred to several genera Ti- 
namus and Crypturus, the two largest, with Nothocemts, 
Rhynchotus, Nothura, Taoniscus, Tinamotis, and Eudromia 
(or Calopezus). See tinamau, and cuts under Crypturus, 
drom&ognathous, Rhynchotus, tinamou, and Tinamus. 
Tinamomorphae(tma-mo-m6r'fe), n.pl. [NL., 
< Tinamus + Gr. ftop^, form.] The Tinumidee 
rated as a superfamily. 
tinchel 
tinamou (tin'a-mo), n. [= Dan. tiiianiu, < F. 
tinamou; from a S. Amer. name.] A South 
American dromseognathous carinate bird ; any 
member of the Tinamidse, resembling a gallina- 
ceous or rasorial bird, and playing the part of 
one in the countries it inhabits, where the true 
grouse are entirely wanting. These birds are 
called partridges by sportsmen, and some of them are 
known by the native name ynambu, as lihyncJtotits rvfes- 
eens. the largest and one of the best-known species. The 
Crested Tinamou (Caloprztts elcgans}. 
smallest is the pygmy tinamou, Taoniscus nanus, about 6 
inches long. The martineta is a crested tinamou, Calope- 
zus elegans. See also cuts under Crypturus, Rhynchotus, 
dromxognathous, and Tinamus. 
Tinamus (tin'a-mus), n. [NL. (Latham, 1790), < 
F. tinamou.'] The name-giving genus of Ti- 
Tinamou (7'inttmlts brasilietisis). 
tiamidee, formerly including all these birds, now 
restricted to such large species as T. major or 
brasiliensis, about 18 inches long. 
tin-bath (tin'bath), w. See 6a|l. 
tin-bound (tin'bound), v. t. To mark the boun- 
daries of, preparatory to mining tin a pro- 
cess by which an undertaker sets up a legal 
right to mine the unworked tin under a piece 
of waste land, on paying royalty to the owner: 
as, to tin-bound a claim. [Cornwall, Eng.] 
In Cornwall this is called tin-bounding, from the setting 
out of the working by bounds, which is the adventurer's 
first step towards establishing his claim. 
F. Pollock, Land Laws, p. 50. 
tin-bound (tin'bouud), n. Same as bound 1 , 3. 
Tinea (ting'ka), n. [NL. (Cuvier), < LL. tinea, 
a small fish identified as the tench : see tench.'] 
1. A genus of cyprinoid fishes ; the tenches. 
See cut under tench. 2. [Z. c.] A fish of this 
genus. 
tincal, tinkal (ting'kal), n. [< Malay tingkal, 
Hind, and Pers. Mftcarjutte Skt. tankana, borax.] 
Borax in its crude or unrefined state: so called 
in commerce. It is an impure sodium tetraborate or 
pyroborate, consisting of small crystals of a yellowish 
color, and is unctuous to the feel. It is employed in re- 
fining metals. 
tinchel, tinchill (tin'chel, tin'chil), . [< 
Gael. Ir. timchioll, circuit, compass; as adv. 
and prep., around, about.] In Scotland, 
a circle of sportsmen who, by surrounding a 
