=Turquoise= (2 _syl._), a blue material found in Persia, the exact nature of which is not known. Sundry virtues are attached to it: (1) It indicates by its hue the state of the wearer’s health; (2) it indicates by its change of lustre if any peril awaits the wearer; (3) it removes animosity between the giver and the receiver; (4) it is a potent love-charm, and hence Leah gave a turquoise ring to Shylock “when he was a bachelor,” in order to make him propose to her. =Tur´veydrop= (_Mr._), a selfish, self-indulgent, conceited dancing-master, who imposes on the world by his majestic appearance and elaborate toilette. He lives on the earnings of his son (named Prince, after the prince regent), who reveres him as a perfect model of “deportment.”--C. Dickens, _Bleak House_ (1852). =Tuscan Poet= (_The_), Ludovico Ariosto, born at Reggio, in Modena (1474-1533). Noted for his poem entitled _Orlando Furioso_. The Tuscan poet doth advance The frantic paladin of France. Drayton, _Nymphidia_ (1563-1631). =Tutivillus=, the demon who collects all the fragments of words omitted, mutilated, or mispronounced by priests in the performance of religious services, and stores them up in that “bottomless” pit which is “paved with good intentions.”--Langland, _Visions of Piers Plowman_, 547 (1362); and the _Townley Mysteries_, 310, 319, etc. =Twangdillo=, the fiddler, in Somerville’s _Hobbinol_, a burlesque poem in three cantos. Twangdillo had lost one leg and one eye by a stroke of lightning on the banks of the Ister, but was still merry-hearted. He tickles every string to every note; He bends his pliant neck, his single eye Twinkles with joy, his active stump beats time. _Hobbinol_, or _The Rural Games_, i. (1740). =Tweedledum and Tweedledee.= In the time of George III. the musical world was divided between the parties holding by the German Händel and the Italian Bononcini. The prince of Wales supported Händel, the duke of Marlborough stood for Bononcini. Some say, compared to Bononcini, That mynherr Handel’s but a ninny; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle; Strange all this difference should be ’Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. J. Byrom (1691-1763).