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  • English Word Tellina Definition A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells.
  • English Word Telling Definition of Tell
  • English Word Telling Definition Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.
  • English Word Telltale Definition Telling tales; babbling.
  • English Word Telltale Definition One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.
  • English Word Telltale Definition A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.
  • English Word Telltale Definition A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
  • English Word Telltale Definition A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.
  • English Word Telltale Definition A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.
  • English Word Telltale Definition The tattler. See Tattler.
  • English Word Tellural Definition Of or pertaining to the earth.
  • English Word Tellurate Definition A salt of telluric acid.
  • English Word Telluret Definition A telluride.
  • English Word Tellureted Definition Combined or impregnated with tellurium; tellurized.
  • English Word Tellurhydric Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.
  • English Word Tellurian Definition Of or pertaining to the earth.
  • English Word Tellurian Definition A dweller on the earth.
  • English Word Tellurian Definition An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons.
  • English Word Telluric Definition Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.
  • English Word Telluric Definition Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric acid.
  • English Word Telluride Definition A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.
  • English Word Tellurism Definition An hypothesis of animal magnetism propounded by Dr. Keiser, in Germany, in which the phenomena are ascribed to the agency of a telluric spirit or influence.
  • English Word Tellurite Definition A salt of tellurous acid.
  • English Word Tellurite Definition Oxide of tellurium. It occurs sparingly in tufts of white or yellowish crystals.
  • English Word Tellurium Definition A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with metals, as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite, with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight 125.2.
  • English Word Tellurize Definition To impregnate with, or to subject to the action of, tellurium; -- chiefly used adjectively in the past participle; as, tellurized ores.
  • English Word Tellurous Definition Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or containing, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with telluric compounds; as, tellurous acid, which is analogous to sulphurous acid.
  • English Word Telodynamic Definition Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.
  • English Word Teloogoo Definition See Telugu.
  • English Word Telotrocha Definition An annelid larva having telotrochal bands of cilia.