English language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; English literature; Readers; Recitations
TO'RTURE, _s._ torments judicially inflicted; pain by which guilt is
punished, or confession extorted
TO'RTURE, _v.a._ punish with tortures; torment
TOUR, _s._ (pronounced _toor_) a journey for pleasure
TOU'RIST, _s._ one who travels for pleasure
TO'WARD, _prep._ in a direction to; near to
TOW'ER, _s._ high building; fortress; an elevation
TRADI'TIONAL, _a._ delivered by tradition
TRA'GEDY, _s._ any mournful or dreadful event
TRA'GIC, _a._ mournful, calamitous
TRA'GI-CO'MEDY, _s._ a drama compounded of merry and serious things
TRAIN, _v.a._ draw along; entice; educate
TRA'NQUIL, _a._ quiet; peaceful
TRANQUI'LLITY, _a._ quietness; peace; freedom from trouble or annoyance
TRANSA'CT, _v.a._ manage; negotiate; perform
TRANSA'CTION, _s._ negotiation; management
TRA'NSIENT, _a._ short; momentary
TRANSI'TION, _s._ removal; passage from one to another; change
TRANSMI'T, _v.a._ send from one place to another
TRANSPA'RENT, _a._ clear; translucent
TRA'VEL, _s._ journey; labour; toil
TRA'VEL, _v.n._ make travels; move; go
TRA'VERSE, _v.a._ to cross; to lay athwart; to cross by way of
opposition; to wander over
TREA'CHEROUS, _a._ faithless; guilty of deserting or betraying
TREA'CHERY, _s._ perfidy; breach of faith
TREA'SURER, _s._ one who has the care of money; one who has the charge
of treasure
TRE'LLIS, _s._ a structure of iron, wood, or osier, the parts crossing
each other like a lattice
TREME'NDOUS, _a._ dreadful; horrible
TRE'MOUR, _s._ the state of trembling or quivering
TRE'MULOUS, _a._ trembling; fearful; quivering
TREPIDA'TION, _s._ fear; terror; hurry; confused haste; terrified flight
TRI'ANGLE, _s._ a figure of three angles
TRIBU'NAL, _s._ the seat of a judge; a court of justice
TRI'BUTE, _s._ payment in acknowledgment; subjection
TRI'PLE, _a._ threefold; treble
TRI'UMPH, _s._ victory; conquest
TRIU'MPHANT, _a._ victorious; celebrating a victory
TRO'PHY, _s._ something shown or treasured up in proof of victory
TRO'UBLE, _v.n._ disturb; afflict; tease; disorder
TRU'NCATE, _v.a._ maim; cut short
TRU'NNIONS, _s._ the knobs or bunchings of a gun, that bear it on the
checks of a carriage
TUBE, _s._ a pipe; a long hollow body
TU'BULAR, _a._ resembling a pipe or trunk
TUMU'LTUOUS, _a._ uproarious; noisy
TU'NIC, _s._ part of the Roman dress, natural covering; tunicle
TU'NNEL, _s._ funnel; shaft of a chimney; passage underground
TU'RBAN, _s._ the covering worn by the Turks on their heads
TU'RPITUDE, _s._ shamefulness; baseness
TY'RANNY, _s._ severity; rigour
TY'RANT, _s._ an absolute monarch governing imperiously; a cruel and
severe master; an oppressor
U'LTIMATE, _a._ intended as the last resort
UNABA'TED, _part._ not lessened in force or intensity
UNACCOU'NTABLE, _a._ not explicable; not to be solved by reason; not
subject
UNA'LTERABLE, _a._ unchangeable; immutable
UNAPRROA'CHED, _a._ inaccessible
UNAWA'RE, _ad._ unexpectedly; without thought
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