]> Ta&stress;my a Sort of Stuff.Te&stress;llersin the Exchequer4 Officers, whose business is to receive all Monies doe to the Crown, and to throw down a Bill through a Pipe into the Tally-Court, where it is received by the Auditor's Clerks, who write the Words of the Bill upon the Tally.Te&stress;rrae-filiusi. e. the Son of the Eartha Scholar in the University of Oxford, appointed to make jesting and satyrical Speeches, as the Prevaricator does at the Commencement at Cambridge.Thinking a general Name for an Act or Operation of the Mind, Cogitations which bear several Names according to their various Modes, as When an Idea recurs to the Mind, without the Object being present it is called Remembrance. When the Mind seeks after it, and it is brought again into View, it is called Recollection. When an Idea is held long in the Mind under attentive Consideration, it is called Contemplation. When Ideas float in the Mind, without Regard or Reflection, it is called a Revery. When Ideas are taken express Notice of, and as it were register'd in the Memory, it is called Attention. And when the Mind fixes an Idea in View, and considers it on all Sides, it is called Study and Intention. Thi&stress;rdendeal a liquid Measure containing about three Pints. ThorŠor they represent him as a King, the Laplanders represent him by the Stump of a Tree, and offer Sacrifice to him, which Sacrifice is usually a Rain-Deer. From him Thursday takes its Name, q.d. Thor's-day. Thripples the same in an ox-team, as cart-ladders are in horse-teams. Thrithing Trithingšrišing the third part of a county or wapentakes, such as are the divisions, called Laths in Kent; Rapes in Sussex, and Ridings in Yorkshire. Tin-worm a small red worm, round and having many legs, resembling a hog-louse, that creeps in the grass, and posions those beasts that happen to eat it. Tithing-Men a man out of every ten families. In the time of the English Saxons every hundred in England was divided into ten districts or tithings; every tithing was made up of ten friburgs, and each friburg of ten families; and within every such tithing there were tithing-men to examin and determine all lesser causes between villages and neighbours, but they were to refer all greater matters to superior courts. Towertowr or torra, turris, tour, torre a place of defence. Hollow Towerin Fortification a rounding made of the remainder of a Brisure. to join the Courtin to the Orillon. Towersin Coat Armour being parts of cities and castles plac'd within walls may represent the constancy, magnanimity and generosity of men who freely expose their bodies for the defence of their country. Tow&stress;ering long soughtin Cattle a disease which proceeds from leanness. Traintrainer to bring up, to instruct. Trainin Watch-work the number of beats which a watch makes in an hour. Transpa&stress;rent Bodieswith Philosophers or diaphanous bodies, are such whose pores are all right, and nearly perpendicular to the plane of their surface, so as to let the rays of light pass freely through them, without being refracted; whereas the pores of opacous bodies are in a crooked oblique position, by which means the beams of light cannot pass freely through them, but are variously refracted and lost. Trinity-House a kind of college at Deptford, pertaining to a company or corporation of antient masters of ships, &ersand;c. who have a power, by the king's charter, to take cognisance of all those who destroy sea-marks, and redress their doings, and also to correct the faults of sailors, &ersand;c. and to take care of several other matters belonging to navigation; to examine young officers, &ersand;c. Trundle-tail a draggle-tailed wench. Twivil a carpenter's tool, for making mortise-holes.