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- English Word Thalline Definition Consisting of a thallus.
- English Word Thalline Definition An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.
- English Word Thallious Definition See Thallous.
- English Word Thallium Definition A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7.
- English Word Thallogen Definition One of a large class or division of the vegetable kingdom, which includes those flowerless plants, such as fungi, algae, and lichens, that consist of a thallus only, composed of cellular tissue, or of a congeries of cells, or even of separate cells, and never show a distinction into root, stem, and leaf.
- English Word Thalloid Definition Resembling, or consisting of, thallus.
- English Word Thallophyte Definition Same as Thallogen.
- English Word Thallous Definition Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the thallic compounds.
- English Word Thallus Definition A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.
- English Word Thammuz Definition Alt. of Tammuz
- English Word Thamnophile Definition A bush shrike.
- English Word Thamyn Definition An Asiatic deer (Rucervus Eldi) resembling the swamp deer; -- called also Eld's deer.
- English Word Than Definition A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that you should want.
- English Word Than Definition Then. See Then.
- English Word Thanage Definition The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom.
- English Word Thanatoid Definition Deathlike; resembling death.
- English Word Thanatology Definition A description, or the doctrine, of death.
- English Word Thanatopsis Definition A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death.
- English Word Thane Definition A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place.
- English Word Thanedom Definition The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage.