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- English Word Tempering Definition The process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for various purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article, when heated to redness, in cold water or other liquid, to give an excess of hardness, and then reheating it gradually until the hardness is reduced or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil.
- English Word Tempering Definition of Temper
- English Word Tempest Definition An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
- English Word Tempest Definition Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
- English Word Tempest Definition A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
- English Word Tempest Definition To disturb as by a tempest.
- English Word Tempest Definition To storm.
- English Word Tempestive Definition Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers.
- English Word Tempestivily Definition The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness.
- English Word Tempestuous Definition Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.
- English Word Templar Definition One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.
- English Word Templar Definition A student of law, so called from having apartments in the Temple at London, the original buildings having belonged to the Knights Templars. See Inner Temple, and Middle Temple, under Temple.
- English Word Templar Definition One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars.
- English Word Templar Definition Of or pertaining to a temple.
- English Word Template Definition Same as Templet.
- English Word Temple Definition A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
- English Word Temple Definition The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
- English Word Temple Definition One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place.
- English Word Temple Definition A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India.
- English Word Temple Definition The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.
- English Word Temple Definition Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church.
- English Word Temple Definition Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides.
- English Word Temple Definition To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god.
- English Word Templed Definition Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple.
- English Word Templet Definition A gauge, pattern, or mold, commonly a thin plate or board, used as a guide to the form of the work to be executed; as, a mason's or a wheelwright's templet.
- English Word Templet Definition A short piece of timber, iron, or stone, placed in a wall under a girder or other beam, to distribute the weight or pressure.
- English Word Tempo Definition The rate or degree of movement in time.
- English Word Temporal Definition Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.
- English Word Temporal Definition Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.
- English Word Temporal Definition Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.