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And when in service your best days are spent. 
In time you may command a regiment. Dryden. 
Age; part of duration distinct from other parts.—The way 
to please being to imitate nature, the poets and the painters, 
in ancient tunes, and in the best ages, have studied her. 
Dryden. —Past time.—I was the man in th’ moon when time 
was. Shakspcare. —Early time. In this sense time seems, 
as Mr. Bagshaw also has observed, barbarously employed 
like plenty for plentiful , Ray writes timely enough : 
“ Many words, had they come timely enough, might have 
been useful to me.” Pref. to his Collect, of Eng. Words.— 
Stanley at Bosworth field, shough he came time enough to 
save his life, yet he staid long enough to endanger it. Ba¬ 
con. —Time considered as affording opportunity. 
Time is lost, which never will renew, 
While we too far the pleasing path pursue, 
Surveying nature. Dryden. 
Particular quality of some part of duration. 
Comets, importing change of times and states. 
Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky. Shakspeare. 
Particular time. 
Give order, that no sort of person 
Have, any time, recourse unto the princes. Shakspcare. 
Hour of childbirth.—She intended to stay till delivered; 
for she was within one month of her time. Clarendon. — 
Repetition of any thing, or mention with reference to repe¬ 
tition.—Four times he cross’d the car of night. Milton.— 
Musical measure. 
Music do I hear ! 
Ha, ha! keep time. How sour sweet music is 
When time is broke, and no proportion kept. Shakspcare. 
To TIME, v. a. To adapt to the time; to bring or do 
at a proper time.—A man’s conviction should be strong, 
and so well timed, that worldly advantages may seem to 
have no share in it. Addison. —To regulate as to time. 
To the same purpose old Epopeus spoke. 
Who overlook’d the oars, and tim'd the stroke. Addison. 
To measure harmonically. 
He was a thing of blood, whose every motion 
Was tim'd with dying cries. Shakspeare. 
TI'MEFUL, ad). Seasonable; timely; early.—If this 
arch-politician find in his pupils any remorse, any feeling of 
God’s future judgments, he persuades them that God hath so 
great need of men’s souls, that he will accept them at any 
time, and upon any condition; interrupting, by his vigilant 
endeavours, all offer of timeful return towards God. Ram 
legh. 
TI'MEKEEPER, or Ti'mepiece, s . A watch or clock 
that keeps good time. Ash .—Messieurs Wales and Bailey 
made observations on Drake’s Island to ascertain the latitude 
and longitude, and for putting the time-pieces or watches in 
motion. Cook. 
TI'MELESS, adj. Unseasonable; done at an improper 
time. 
Nor fits it to prolong the heavenly feast 
Timeless, indecent, but retire to rest. Pope. 
Untimely; immature ; done before the proper time. 
A pack of sorrows, which would press you down. 
If unprevented, to your timeless grave. Shakspeare. 
Endless. 
[They] headlong rush 
To timeless night and chaos, whence they rose. Young. 
TI'MELESSLY, adv. Before the natural time; unseason¬ 
ably. 
O fairest flower, no sooner blown but blasted. 
Soft silken primrose, fading tunelessly. Milton. 
TI'MELINESS, s. The state or circumstance of being 
timely. Scott. 
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TIMELKAM, a small town of Upper Austria, on the river 
Ager; 3 miles west of Vocklabruck. 
TI'MELY, adj. Seasonable ; sufficiently early. 
The west glimmers with streaks of day, 
Now spurs the lated traveller apace 
To gain the timely inn. Shakspeare. 
Keeping measure, time, or tune. Not in use. 
And many bards, that to the trembling chord 
Can tune their timely voices cunningly. Spenser. 
TI'MELY, adv. Early ; soon. 
The beds i’ th’ East are soft, and thanks to you, 
That call’d me timelier than my purpose hither. 
Shakspeare. 
TI'MEPLEASER, s. One who complies with prevailing 
opinions whatever they be. 
Scandal, Ihe suppliants for the people, call them 
Timepleascrs, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shakspeare. 
TIMERYCOTTA, a town and fortress of the south of 
India, province of the Carnatic, and district of Palnaud. 
Six miles distant from this place is a cataract of 60 feet high, 
from which the water falls into a basin 120 feet in breadth, 
the banks of which are ornamented with a number of small 
Hindoo temples. Lat. 16.35. N. long. 79. 25. E. 
TI'MESERVER, s. One who meanly complies with 
present power.—That which politics and time-servers do for 
earthly advantages, we will do for spiritual. Bp. Hall. 
TI'MESERVING, s. Mean compliance with present 
power.—If such by trimming and timeserving, which are 
but two words for the same thing, abandon the church of 
England; this will produce confusion. South. 
Tl'MID, adj. [; timidus, Lat.] Fearful; timorous; want¬ 
ing courage; wanting boldness.—Poor is the triumph o’er 
the timid hare. Thomson. 
TIMl'DITY, s. [iimidite, Fr.; timiditas, Lat.] Fearful¬ 
ness; timorousness; habitual cowardice. 
Thus in the field the royal host did stand, 
None fainting under base timiditie, 
But ready bent to use of their running hand 
Against the force of forren enemie. Mir. for Mag. 
TIMISCOUATA, a lake of Canada, in Cornwallis county, 
22 miles in length, by the average breadth three quarters of 
a mile, encompassed in all directions by lofty mountains 
covered with thick wood almost down to its margin. To 
this lake there is a portage from the St. Lawrence, by means 
of which the communication is carried on between Quebec 
and Halifax, a distance of 627 miles. 
TI'MIST, s. One who complies with the times; a time¬ 
server.—A timist is a noun adjective of the present tense. 
He hath no more of a conscience than fear, and his religion 
is not his but the prince’s. He reverenceth a courtier’s ser¬ 
vant’s servant. Overbury. —One who keeps time in music. 
—Guardini was an excellent timist. Dr. Burney. 
TIMMIA. This name is applied to a genus of mosses by 
Hedwig. 
TIMMISKAMAIN LAKE, in Lower Canada, is about 30 
miles long, and 10 broad, having several small islands. Its 
waters empty into Utawas river, by a short and narrow 
channel, 30 miles north of the north part of Nepissing lake. 
The Indians named Timmisicamaings reside round this 
lake. 
TIMOLEON, a distinguished example of patriotism and 
attachment to liberty, was of noble parentage, and a native 
of Corinth. See Corinth. 
TIMQLIN, a village of Ireland, in the county of Kildare, 
near which are the ruins of Moone abbey; 29 miles south¬ 
west of Dublin. 
T1MON, the Philiasian, a disciple of Pyrrho, flourished in 
the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus, and lived to the age of 
ninety years. At an early age he visited Megara, for the 
advantage of Stilpo’s instructions in dialectics, and afterwards 
removed to Elea, where he became a hearer of Pyrrho. He 
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