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calling the same substance sometimes the sulphur, and 
sometimes the mercury of a body. Locke. 
TECHNICALLY, adv. In a technical manner.—The 
first professed English satirist, to speak technically , is 
bishop Joseph Hall. Warton. 
TECHNOLOGY, s. and Greek.] A 
description or discourse upon arts.—There were not any 
further essays made in technology for above fourscore years ; 
but all men acquiesced in the common grammar. Twells. 
TE'CHY, adj. [for touchy , that is, inclination to be 
touched with whatever is said or done. Ray. Often 
written tetchy, which see.] Peevish; fretful; irritable; 
easily made angry; froward. 
I cannot come to Cressid but by Pandar, 
And he is as techy to be woo’d to woo. 
As she is stubborn-chaste against all suit. Shakspeare . 
TECKLENBURG, a small town of Prussian Westphalia ; 
17 miles north-north-east of Munster, and 11 west-south-west 
of Osnabruck. It contains 900 inhabitants, and is the chief 
place of a county, which came to Prussia in the 17th century, 
and is now included in the government of Munster. 
TECLA, St., a town of the province and government of 
Buenos Ayres, situate at the source of the river Piray-mini. 
TECLA, St., a fort of the province and government of 
Buenos Ayres, situate on the Sierra de St. Ignacio, which 
constitutes the boundary between Buenos Ayres and Brazil. 
Lat. 31. 16. 8. S. long. 54. 14. 24. W. 
TECOCUILCO, a town of Mexico, and the capital of a 
district of the same name. Its population consists of 340 
families of Indians, mulattoes, and mestizoes; 223 miles 
south-east of Mexico. Lat. 17. 24. N. long. 96. 13. W. 
TECOLUTLA, a river of Mexico, in the intendancy of 
Mexico, which falls into the Gulf of Mexico, in lat. 21. N. 
long. 95. 50. W. 
TECOMACHALCO, a river of Mexico, which rises in the 
mountains to the west of the city of Mexico, and running 
from east to west, enters the lakes in the valley of Mexico. 
TECORIONA, a settlement of Mexico, in the province of 
Ostimuri, on the shore of the river Hiaqui. 
TECORIPA, a settlement of Mexico, in the province of 
Sonora. 
TECRIT, a town of Irak Arabi, in the province of Mosul, 
on the western bank of the Tigris. It is thought to be the 
Birtha or Vitra of the ancients, described as a very strong 
fortress, and said to have been founded by Alexander the 
Great. It was a considerable town in 1393, when it was 
faken by Timur. It contains now only five or six hundred 
houses, with two coffee-houses; but the ruins are very exten¬ 
sive. Lat. 34. 37. N. long. 42. 37. E. 
TECTONA ['iWowoc, structura, opus fabrile, so named 
from the use of this noble tree in building.], in Botany, a 
genus of the class pentandria, order monogynia, natural or¬ 
der of vitices (Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx: peri¬ 
anth one-leafed, bell-shaped, half-five-cleft, permanent; 
segments ovate, from upright spreading, obtuse. Corolla 
one-petalled, funnel-form, length of the calyx. Tube short. 
Border five-cleft; segments spreading, ovate, externally to- 
mentose. Stamina: filaments five, inserted into the orifice, 
of the tube of the corolla, very short. Anthers globular, 
grooved, standing out. Pistil: germ superior, ovate, very 
villose, girt with a short pitcher-shaped gland. Style fili¬ 
form, erect, a little longer than the calyx. Stigma obtuse, 
two or three-toothed. Pericarp : drupe subglobular, depressed, 
four-lobed, rounded-four-cornered, hirsute, corky-spongy, 
juiceless, within the calyx now large, inflated, membrana¬ 
ceous, veined, concealed. Seed: nut subglobular, termi¬ 
nated by a round tubercle, four-ribbed, four-celled ; axis 
bony, hollow within. Kernels compressed.— Essential Cha¬ 
racter. Corolla five-cleft. Stigma toothed. Drupe dry, 
spongy, within the inflated calyx. Nut three-celled. 
1. Tectona grandis, teak-wood, or Indian oak.—Trunk 
erect, growing to an immense size; bark ash-coloured. 
Branches cross-armed, numerous, spreading; young shoots 
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four-sided; sides channelled. Leaves opposite, spreading, 
ovate, a little scolloped, above scabrous, beneath covered 
with soft white down ; larger at a distance from the flowers, 
and on young trees from twelve to twenty-four inches long, 
and from eight to sixteen broad. Panicle terminating, very 
large, cross-armed; divisions dichotomous, with a sessile 
fertile flower in each cleft; the whole covered with a hoary, 
farinaceous substance. Flowers small, white, very nume¬ 
rous, fragrant.—Native of the vast forests in Java and Cey¬ 
lon, Malabar, Coromandel, Pegu, Ava, the confines of Co- 
chinchina and Cambodia, fcc. On the coast of Coromandel 
it flow'ers in the hot season ; and the seed is ripe in August 
and September. Lord Cornwallis and Colonel Kyd begun 
some time ago to introduce it Into Bengal, where it thrives well. 
The wood of this tree has by long experience been found 
to be the most useful timber in Asia: it is light, easily worked, 
and at the same time both strong and durable : that which 
grows near the banks of the Godavery is beautifully veined, 
and very closely grained ; it is particularly fit for furniture, 
gun-carriages, &c., where small timber is wanted. For 
ship-building the teak is reckoned superior to many sorts 
of wood, being light, strong, and very durable, either in or 
out of the water. Pegu produces the largest quantity; the 
large rivers there enable the natives to bring it down to the 
sea-ports from the interior mountainous parts of the country 
where it grows, at a cheap rate, which enables them to sell 
it lower than in any other part of India. 
TECTO'NIC, adj. [reKloviKoq, Gr.] Pertaining to build¬ 
ing. Bailey. 
TECULET, a town of Africa, in the empire of Morocco, 
situated near the coast of the Atlantic, on the edge of a 
mountain ; 15 miles east of Mogodor, and 99 north-west of 
Morocco. 
To TED, v. a. [ceaban, Saxon, to prepare.'] To spread 
abroad new-mown grass, in orderto make it into hay. 
The smell of grain, or tedded grass or kine. 
Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound. Milton. 
TEDBOURNE, St. Mary, a parish of England, in De¬ 
vonshire; 4[ miles south-south-west of Crediton. Popula¬ 
tion 580. 
TED'DER, or Te'ther, s. [ tudder , Dutch; tiudt, 
a rope, Icelandic.] A rope with which a horse is tied in 
the field that he may not pasture too wide. [ teigher , Erse.] 
—Any thing by which one is restrained.—We live joyfully, 
going abroad within our tedder. Bacon. 
To TE'DDER, v. a. To tie up; to restrain. Though 
it is nut required that we should be always teddered to a 
formal solemn praying; yet by our mental meditations, and 
our ejaculatory emissions of the heart and mind, we may 
go far to the compleating the Apostle’s counsel. Fcltham. 
TEDDESLEY, a hamlet of England, in Staffordshire; 2 
miles east-north-east of Penkridge. 
TEDDINGTON, a parish of England, in Middlesex, 
situated on the banks of the Thames, near Hampton. In the 
neighbourhood are many handsome villas. Population 732 ; 
14 miles south-west-by-west of St. Paul’s, London. 
TEDDINGTON, a parish of England, in Oxfordshire; 
5 miles from Thame. 
TEDDINGTON, a hamlet of England, in Worcester¬ 
shire ; 94 miles south-west of Evesham. 
TE DE'UM, s. An hymn of the church, so called from the 
two first words of the Latin. 
The choir. 
With all the choicest music of the kingdom. 
Together sung te deum. Shakspeare. 
TEDIEN, a river of Persia, which runs into the Caspian 
Sea ; 20 miles west of Zaweh. 
TEDIF, a town of Syria, in the pachalic of Aleppo. Here 
is a Jewish synagogue ; and the inhabitants have a tradition 
that one of the minor prophets resided here. On a hill near 
this town are some sepulchres and aqueducts cut in the rock ; 
21 miles east of Aleppo. 
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