=Tests of Chastity.= Alasnam’s mirror; the brawn or boar’s head; drinking-horns (see ARTHUR’S DRINKING-HORN; SIR CRADOCK AND THE DRINKING-HORN); Florimel’s girdle; grotto of Ephesus; the test mantle; oath on St. Antony’s arm was held in supreme reverence because it was believed that whoever took the oath falsely would be consumed by “St. Antony’s fire” within the current year; the trial of the sieve. =Tests of Fidelity.= Canacê’s mirror; Gondibert’s emerald ring. The corsned or “cursed mouthful,” a piece of bread consecrated by exorcism, and given to the “suspect” to swallow as a test. “May this morsel choke me if I am guilty,” said the defendant, “but turn to wholesome nourishment if I am innocent.” Ordeals, combats between plaintiff and defendant, or their representatives. =Tête Bottée=, Philippe de Commines [_Cum.min_], politician and historian (1445-1509). You, Sir Philippe des Comines [_sic_] were at a hunting-match with the duke, your master; and when he alighted, after the chase, he required your services in drawing off his boots. Reading in your looks some natural resentment, ... he ordered you to sit down in turn, and rendered you the same office ... but ... no sooner had he plucked one of your boots off than he brutally beat it about your head ... and his privileged fool, Le Gloirieux, ... gave you the name of _Tête Bottée_.--Sir W. Scott, _Quentin Durward_, xxx. (time, Edward IV.). =Te´thys=, daughter of Heaven and Earth, the wife of Ocean and mother of the river-gods. In poetry it means the sea generally. The golden sun above the watery bed Of hoary Têthys raised his beamy head. Hoole’s _Ariosto_, viii. By the earth-shaking Neptune’s mace [_trident_], And Têthy’s grave majestic pace. Milton, _Comus_, 870 (1634). =Tetrachor´don=, the title of one of Milton’s books about marriage and divorce. The word means “the four strings;” and refers to the four chief places in Scripture which bear on the subject of marriage. A book was writ of late called _Tetrachordon_. Milton, _Sonnet_, x. =Teucer=, son of Telămon of Salămis, and brother of Telamon Ajax. He was the best archer of all the Greeks at the siege of Troy. I may, like a second Teucer, discharge my shafts from behind the shield of my ally.--Sir W. Scott. =Teufelsdroeckh= (_Herr_), pronounce _Toi.felz.drurk_; an eccentric German professor and philosopher. The object of this satire is to expose all sorts of shams, social as well as intellectual.--Carlyle, _Sartor Resartus_ (1849).