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T £ T 
Fretful; peevish ; apt to be angry.—MustI stand and crouch 
uuder your testy humour ? S/iakspeare. 
TETAUS, Indians of the United States, in Louisiana, 
near the sources of Red river and the Platte. Number 
8200. 
TETBURY, a market town of England, in the county of 
Gloucester, a large and respectable town, pleasantly situated 
on a rising ground, and in a healthy air, near the source of 
the river Avon. The market, which is principally for yarn, 
is held in a large market-house in the middle of the town: 
cheese, butter, &c., are sold at a smaller market-house. Tet- 
bury has a manufacture of woollen cloth, and is a consider¬ 
able thoroughfare; the direct- road from Bath and Bristol to 
Cirencester passing through the -town, as also the road from 
Gloucesterand Stroud to Bath, Devizes, Salisbury, and South¬ 
hampton. To the north of the town there is a petrifying 
spring. Market on Wednesday; 25 miles east-north-east of 
Bristol, and 99 west of London. 
TE'TCHY, adj. Froward; peevish; a corruption of 
testy or touchy. 
A grievous burthen was thy birth to me. 
Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy. Skakspeare. 
TETCOT, a parish of England, in Devonshire ; 5 miles 
south-by-west of Holsworthy. 
TETE, s. [French.] False hair; a wig worn by ladies. 
Unused .—An old baronet fell in love with a young lady of 
small fortune for her beautiful brown locks. He married her 
on a sudden : but was greatly disappointed upon seeing her 
wig or tete the next morning thrown carelessly upon her 
toilette, and her ladyship appearing at breakfast in a very 
bright red hair, a colour the old gentleman happened to 
have a particular aversion to. Graves. 
TETE-A-TETE, s. [French.] Private; applied to a 
company of only two persons. 
Long before the squire and dame 
Are tete-a-tete. Prior. 
TETELA, a town of Mexico, in the intendancy of Pue¬ 
bla, and capital of a jurisdiction of the same name, contain¬ 
ing 100 families of Mexican Indians; 60 miles south-east of 
Mexico. 
TETEROW, a small town in the north of Germany, in 
Mecklenburg-Schwerin; 15 miles east of Gastrow, and 26 
south-east of Rostock. 
TETFORD, a parish of England, in Linconshire; 6 miles 
north-east-by-east of Horncastle. 
TE'THER, s. [See Tedder,] A string by which horses 
are held from pasturing too wide. 
Hamlet is young. 
And with a larger tether may he walk 
Than may be given you. Shakspeare. 
To TE'THER, v. a. To confine with a tether 
TETHERINGTON, a village of England, in Cheshire, 
near Macclesfield.—Also a small village in Gloucestershire, 
near Tbornbury. 
TETAUROA, a small island in the South Pacific ocean, 
subject to Otaheite, composed of six or seven low islets near 
each other, not many feet above the level of the sea. The 
inhabitants are about 3000, chiefly employed in catching 
fish, which they bring to Otaheite, and exchange for bread¬ 
fruit; 24 miles north-west of Point Venus. Lat. 17. 4. S. 
long. 149. 30. W. 
TETJUSCHI, a small town of European Russia, in the 
government of Kasan, on the Wolga, with 1000 inhabitants. 
TETNANG, a small town in the south-west of Germany, 
in Wirtemberg; 19 miles east of Constance. 
TETNEY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire ; 10j miles 
north-bv-east of Louth. Population 489. 
TETON, a hamlet of England, in Northamptonshire ; 8 
miles north-north-west of Northampton. 
TETON, a river of the United States, in Louisiana, which 
runs into the Missouri; 1263 miles from the Mississippi, 
TETONS, Indians of the United States, on the Missouri, 
below the river Teton. Number 11,500. 
Von. XXIII. No. 1617. 
T E T 
TETRACERA [Te7and quadruplex cornu. 
The seed-vessel, in some species, being composed of four 
capsules, like horns], in Botany, a genus of the class poly- 
andria tetragynia, order icosandria tetragynia, of Schreb, 
natural order of rosacas (Juss.) — Generic Character. 
Calyx : perianth one-leafed, five or six parted, (five or six- 
leafed,) spreading, permanent; segments roundish, a little 
unequal. Corolla: petals three to five, or none! 1 (four or 
five) roundish, concave, inserted into the calyx. Stamina : 
filaments numerous, capillary, widening at the top, per¬ 
manent, inserted into the calyx. Anthers twin, with the 
cells disjoined. Pistil: germs three pr four, sometimes 
solitary, ovate, oblique, diverging. Styles simple, perma¬ 
nent. Stigmas obtuse. Pericarp: capsules as many (four) 
as there are germs, ovate, divaricating, opening by the 
inner side. Seeds solitary or few, surrounded' by a rayed 
aril.— Essential Character. Calyx five or six-leaved. 
Corolla four or five-petalled. Filaments widening above, 
and anther-bearing on each side. Capsules four, opening- 
on the side. Seed arilled at the base. 
I.—Flowers one-styled. 
1. Tetracera sarmentosa.—See Delima. 
2. Tetracera tomentosa.—Leaves ovate,acuminate, toothed, 
smooth above, lomentose beneath; flowers one-styled.—It is 
a native of Guiana: flowering in January. 
3. Tetracera aspera.—Leaves roundish,superband, rugged; 
flowers one-styled.—A shrub, native of Guiana, where it 
grows in woods. 
4. Tetracera dolicarpus. — Leaves oblong, acuminate, 
toothed at the end; peduncles axillary, one-flowered;flowers 
one-styled.—A shrub, native of Surinam. 
5. Tetracera stricta. — Leaves ovate-lanceolate, toothed; 
flowers terminating, one-styled; stem strict.—A shrub, native 
of Surinam. 
6. Tetracera calinea.—See Doliocarpos Calinea. 
7. Tetracera obovata.—See Mappia Guianensis. 
8. Tetracera nitida.—Leaves lanceolate-oblong, rugged, 
quite entire; flowers one-styled. Branches round, smooth; 
germ ovate, acute, smooth.—Found in the island of Trinidad. 
II. —Flowers mostly four-styled. 
9. Tetracera Euryandra.—See Euryandra. 
10. Tetracera volubilis.—Leaves very rugged, serrate; 
flowers four-styled. This has a woody stalk, rising to the 
height of twelve or fourteen feet, covered with a grey bark, 
and sending out several slender woody branches which 
twine about any neighbouring support.—Native of South 
America. 
11. Tetracera lands.—Leaves oblong, even, almost quite 
entire,acuminate; flowers terminating. Branchlets flexuose, 
with an ash-coloured bark, smooth, somewhat angular.— 
Native of the East Indies. 
12. Tetracera alnifolia.—Leaves oblong, acute, almost quite 
entire, somewhat rugged beneath; panicle terminating; 
branches round, smooth.—Native of Guiana. 
Propagation and Culture. —The seeds being procured 
from the countries where the plant naturally grows, should be 
sown in pots filled with light earth, and plunged into a 
moderate hot-bed of tanner’s-bark, where they must be 
treated in the same way as other exotic seeds from the samef 
co tint nes 
TE'TRAD, s. [ tetras , tetradis, Lat.] The numbel 
four; a collection of four things.—Four here takes place 
again in the assignment of the masculine and feminine 
numbers; whence I further conceive, that, under the num¬ 
ber of this more complex tetrad, he [Pythagoras] taught 
his disciples the mystery of the whole creation. More. 
TETRA'GONAL, adj. [re ijaymo/;, Gr.] Four square. 
—From the beginning of the disease, reckoning on unto the 
seventh day, the moon will be in a tetragonal or quadrate 
aspect, that is, four signs removed from that wherein the 
disease began ; in the fourteenth day it will be an opposite 
aspect, and at the end of the third septenary tetragonal 
again. Brovin. 
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