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Spanish Main, near the Mosquito shore. Lat. 11, 17. N. 
long. 82. 55. W. 
TWO SPOTS, small islands in the bay of Honduras, 
surrounded with rocks. Lat. 16. 40. N. long. 88. 20. W. 
TWO THOUSAND MILE CREEK, a small river which 
falls into the Missouri, 2000 miles, as its name imports, from 
the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi. It is a 
bold stream, with a bed about 30 yards wide. 
TWO'PENCE, s. A small coin valued at twice a penny; 
—You all shew like gilt twopences to me. Shakspeare. 
TWO'TONGUED, adj. Double-tongued; deceitful.—I 
hate the two-tongu'd hypocrite. Sandys. 
TWUNT, a seaport in the eastern part of Algiers, defended 
by a fort; 30 miles north-west of Tlemsan. 
TWY, a river of Wales, in Cardiganshire, which runs 
into the Irish channel, near the town of Cardigan. 
TWYCROSS, a parish of England, in Leicestershire; 43- 
miles west-by-north of Market Bosworth. 
TWYFORD, a hamlet of England, in Wiltshire; 5 miles 
east-north-east of Reading.—2. A hamlet in Buckingham¬ 
shire ; 5 miles south-west-by-south of Buckingham.—3. A 
hamlet in Derbyshire; 5§ miles south-south-west of Derby. 
—4. A hamlet in Leicestershire; 6 miles south-by-west 
of Melton Mowbray.—5. A hamlet in the parish of North 
Wytham, Lincolnshire.—6. A parish in Norfolk ; 5£ miles 
west-north-west of Reepham.—7. A parish in Southampton- 
shire; 3 miles south of Winchester. Population 880. 
TWYFORD, East, a hamlet of England, in the parish 
of Willesden, Middlesex, 
TWYFORD, West, a parish of England, in Middlesex, 
consisting of only one farm-house; 10 miles west-north¬ 
west of St. Paul’s, London. 
TWYNEHOLME, a parish of Scotland, in the Stewartry 
of Kircudbright. It is oblong in its form; 9 miles in length 
by 2 in breadth. Population 740. 
TWYWELL, a parish of England, in Northamptonshire; 
33 miles west of Thrapston. 
TYAHTATOOA BAY, a bay on the coast of Owhyhee, 
one of the Sandwich Island. Lat. 19. 37. N. long. 203. 
54. E. 
TYBEE, an island near the coast of Georgia, at the mouth 
of the Savannah. A light-house 80 feet high, stands on 
this island. Lat. 32. N. long. 81. 10. W. 
TYE, a river of the United States, in Virginia, which 
runs into James’ river. Lat. 37.30. N. long. 79. 8. W. 
To TYE, v. a. To bind.—-See Tie. 
TYE, s. [See Tie.] A knot ; a bond or obligation. 
Lay your 
Command upon me; to the which my duties 
Are with a most indissoluble tye 
For ever knit. Shakspeare. 
TYEMOCHTEE, a river of the United States, in Ohio, 
which runs into the Sandusky; 12 miles below Upper 
Sandusky. 
TY'ER, s. One who unites; one who joins.—Hymen, 
the tyer of hearts already ty’d. P. Fletcher. 
TYFERY, a small flat island in the Eastern seas; 45 miles 
west of Gilolo. Lat. 1. 6. N. long. 126. 28. E. 
TYGART’S VALLEY RIVER, a river of the United 
States, in Virginia, which flows through Randolph county, 
and unites with Buchanan river. 
TY'GER, s. See Felis. 
TYGER, a river of the United States, in South Carolina, 
which runs south-east, and unites with Broad river; 5 miles 
above the Ennoree. 
TYGER’S CREEK, a river of the United States, in Ken¬ 
tucky, which runs into the Ohio. Lat, 38.22. N. long. 
83. W. 
TYGER’S CREEK, a river of the United States, in Louis¬ 
iana, which runs into the Missouri; 276 miles west of the 
Mississippi. 
TYGER ISLAND, a small island in the Pacific ocean, at 
She entrance of the bay of Amapalla. Lat. 13. 10. N. 
TYGERS’ ISLANDS, a cluster of small islands and 
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shoals in the Eastern seas; 30 miles east from the island of 
Saleyer. 
TYGERS’ ISLAND, a small island in the Chinese sea, 
near the coast of Chiampa. Lat. 40. 47. N. long. 107. 
45. E. 
TYGERS’ ISLAND, a small island in the Chinese sea, 
near the coast of Cochin-china. Lat. 16. 51. N. long. 
106. 13. E. 
TYHE'E. [See Tehbe.] In some old dictionaries it is 
tyhee or tihee. 
TYKE, s. Tyke in Scottish still denotes a dog, or one as 
contemptible and vile as a dog, and from thence perhaps 
comes teague. —See Tike.- —Base tyke, call’st thou me 
host ? now, by this hand, I swear I scorn the term. Shak¬ 
speare. 
TYKOCZIN, a small town of Poland, on the river 
Narew; 100 miles north-east of Warsaw, and 17 west of 
Balystock. It is defended by a fortified castle, and has 
2800 inhabitants. 
TYLDESLEY, a township of England, in Lancashire; 
61 miles from Newton. Population 3492. 
TYLER, a county of the United States, in the north¬ 
west part of Virginia, formed in 1814, from a part of 
Ohio county. 
TYLERS, Great and Little, two small islands in the 
gulf of Finland; the first in lat. 59. 50. N. long. 27.12. E.; 
the second in lat. 59. 48. N. long. 26. 54. E. 
TYLN, a hamlet of England, in Nottinghamshire; 2 
miles north of East Redford. 
TY'MBAL, s. [tymbal, French.] A kind of kettle-drum. 
Yet gracious charity ! indulgent guest! 
Were not thy power exerted in my breast; 
My speeches would send up unheeded pray’r: 
The scorn of life would be but wild despair: 
A tymbal' s sound were better than my voice. 
My faith were form, my eloquence were noise; Prior. 
TYMBARK, a market town of Austrian Poland ; 27 miles 
south-south-east of Moscow. 
TY'MPAN, s. [tympanum , Lat.] A drum; a timbrel. 
Cot grave, and Ainsworth .—A frame belonging to the print¬ 
ing-press, covered with parchment, on which the sheets are 
laid to be printed. Cotgrave, and Chambers .—The pannel 
of a pillar or door. 
TYMPANI'TES, s. [Tv/Airai/iTyf, Gr.] That particular 
sort of dropsy that swells the belly up like a drum, and is 
often cured by tapping.— SeePATHOLOGY. 
Tympanites, which we call the drum, 
A wind. B. Jonson. 
To TY'MPANIZE, v. n. To act the part of a drummer. 
Coles. 
To TY'MPANIZE, v. a. To stretch as the skin over the 
body of a drum.—If this be not to be sawn asunder as Esay, 
stoned as Jeremy, made a drum or tympanized, as other 
saints of God were. Oley. 
TY'MPANUM, s. [Latin.] A drum ; a part of the ear, so 
called from its resemblance to a drum.—The three little bones 
in meatu auditorio, by firming the tympanum, are a great 
help to the hearing. Wiseman. 
TY'MPANY, s. [from tympanum, Lat.] A kind of ob¬ 
structed flatulence that swells the body like a drum; the 
wind dropsy.—The air is so rarified in this kind of dropsical 
tumour, as makes it hard and tight like a drum, and from 
thence it is called a tympany. Arbuthnot. 
TYNAN, a small neat village of Ireland, in the county 
of Armagh, pleasantly situated on an eminence, near a 
river of the same name; 65 miles north-north-west of 
Dublin. 
TYNE, a considerable river of England, the chief river 
in the county of Northumberland. It consists of two 
branches, the North and South Tyne. The former com¬ 
mences on the borders of Scotland, and in its course receives 
the Reed below Bellingham. The South Tyne rises behind 
Crossfell, and is joined by the Nent, the Tippal, and the 
Allen. The two branches unite near Nether Warden, above 
Hexham, 
