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AdulteressAdulteress A*dul"ter*ess, n. [Fem. from L. adulter. Cf.
Advoutress.]
1. A woman who commits adultery.
2. (Script.) A woman who violates her religious engagements.
--James iv. 4. BrachypteresBrachypteres Bra*chyp"te*res, n.pl. [NL. See Brachyptera. ]
(Zo["o]l.)
A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins. By-interest
By-interest By"-in`ter*est, n.
Self-interest; private advantage. --Atterbury.
C teresSucker Suck"er (s[u^]k"[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by
which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere
to other bodies.
2. A suckling; a sucking animal. --Beau. & Fl.
3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a
pump basket. --Boyle.
4. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string
attached to the center, which, when saturated with water
and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth
surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure,
with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be
thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a
plaything.
6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of
a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment
from the body of the plant.
7. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any one of numerous species of North American
fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family
Catostomid[ae]; so called because the lips are
protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of
little value as food. The most common species of the
Eastern United States are the northern sucker
(Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C.
teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the
chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of
the large Western species are called buffalo fish,
red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
(b) The remora.
(c) The lumpfish.
(d) The hagfish, or myxine.
(e) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus)
closely allied to the kingfish
(a); -- called also bagre.
8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
They who constantly converse with men far above
their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if
thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker,
no branch. --Fuller.
9. A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang]
10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. [Slang, U.S.]
11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.]
Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp,
Cherry, etc.
Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking.
Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump.
Sucker tube (Zo["o]l.), one of the external ambulacral
tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker
and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See
Spatangoid. Cateress
Cateress Ca"ter*ess, n.
A woman who caters. --Milton.
Compound interest 2. Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility;
share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has
parted with his interest in the stocks.
3. Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a
selfish benefit; profit; benefit.
Divisions hinder the common interest and public
good. --Sir W.
Temple.
When interest calls of all her sneaking train.
--Pope.
4. Premium paid for the use of money, -- usually reckoned as
a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on
ten thousand dollars.
They have told their money, and let out Their coin
upon large interest. --Shak.
5. Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent
for what is given or rendered.
You shall have your desires with interest. --Shak.
6. The persons interested in any particular business or
measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the
cotton interest.
Compound interest, interest, not only on the original
principal, but also on unpaid interest from the time it
fell due.
Simple interest, interest on the principal sum without
interest on overdue interest. Compound interestCompound Com"pound, a. [OE. compouned, p. p. of compounen. See
Compound, v. t.]
Composed of two or more elements, ingredients, parts;
produced by the union of several ingredients, parts, or
things; composite; as, a compound word.
Compound substances are made up of two or more simple
substances. --I. Watts.
Compound addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division (Arith.), the addition, subtraction, etc., of
compound numbers.
Compound crystal (Crystallog.), a twin crystal, or one
seeming to be made up of two or more crystals combined
according to regular laws of composition.
Compound engine (Mech.), a form of steam engine in which
the steam that has been used in a high-pressure cylinder
is made to do further service in a larger low-pressure
cylinder, sometimes in several larger cylinders,
successively.
Compound ether. (Chem.) See under Ether.
Compound flower (Bot.), a flower head resembling a single
flower, but really composed of several florets inclosed in
a common calyxlike involucre, as the sunflower or
dandelion.
Compound fraction. (Math.) See Fraction.
Compound fracture. See Fracture.
Compound householder, a householder who compounds or
arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be
included in his rents. [Eng.]
Compound interest. See Interest.
Compound larceny. (Law) See Larceny.
Compound leaf (Bot.), a leaf having two or more separate
blades or leaflets on a common leafstalk.
Compound microscope. See Microscope.
Compound motion. See Motion.
Compound number (Math.), one constructed according to a
varying scale of denomination; as, 3 cwt., 1 qr., 5 lb.;
-- called also denominate number.
Compound pier (Arch.), a clustered column.
Compound quantity (Alg.), a quantity composed of two or
more simple quantities or terms, connected by the sign +
(plus) or - (minus). Thus, a + b - c, and bb - b, are
compound quantities.
Compound radical. (Chem.) See Radical.
Compound ratio (Math.), the product of two or more ratios;
thus ab:cd is a ratio compounded of the simple ratios a:c
and b:d.
Compound rest (Mech.), the tool carriage of an engine
lathe.
Compound screw (Mech.), a screw having on the same axis two
or more screws with different pitch (a differential
screw), or running in different directions (a right and
left screw).
Compound time (Mus.), that in which two or more simple
measures are combined in one; as, 6-8 time is the joining
of two measures of 3-8 time.
Compound word, a word composed of two or more words;
specifically, two or more words joined together by a
hyphen. Disinterest
Disinterest Dis*in"ter*est, p. a.
Disinterested. [Obs.]
The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest
and even. --Jer. Taylor.
Disinterest
Disinterest Dis*in"ter*est, n.
1. What is contrary to interest or advantage; disadvantage.
[Obs.] --Glanvill.
2. Indifference to profit; want of regard to private
advantage; disinterestedness. [Obs.] --Johnson.
Disinterest
Disinterest Dis*in"ter*est, v. t.
To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.]
--Feltham.
DisinterestedDisinterested Dis*in"ter*est*ed, a. [Cf. Disinteressed.]
Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage;
free from selfish motive; having no relation of interest or
feeling; not biased or prejudiced; as, a disinterested
decision or judge.
The happiness of disinterested sacrifices. --Channing.
Syn: Unbiased; impartial; uninterested; indifferent. Disinterestedly
Disinterestedly Dis*in"ter*est*ed*ly, adv.
In a disinterested manner; without bias or prejudice.
Disinterestedness
Disinterestedness Dis*in"ter*est*ed*ness, n.
The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality.
That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of
which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes
found in woman. --Macaulay.
Disinteresting
Disinteresting Dis*in"ter*est*ing, a.
Uninteresting. [Obs.] ``Disinteresting passages.' --Bp.
Warburton.
Fruiteress
Fruiteress Fruit"er*ess, n.
A woman who sells fruit.
Halteres
Halteres Hal*te"res, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? weights used in
jumping, fr. ? to leap.] (Zo["o]l.)
Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.
Hysteresis
Hysteresis Hys`te*re"sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? to be behind, to
lag.] (Physics)
A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces
acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or
internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a
condition previously induced, observed in magnetism,
thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity.
InteressInteress In"ter*ess, v. t. [See Interest, v. t.]
To interest or affect. [Obs.] --Hooker. Interesse
Interesse In"ter*esse, n.
Interest. [Obs.] --Spenser.
InterestedInterested In"ter*est*ed, a. [See Interest, v. t.]
1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion
excited; as, an interested listener.
2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in
consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an
interested witness. Interestedness
Interestedness In"ter*est*ed*ness, n.
The state or quality of being interested; selfishness.
--Richardson.
Interesting
Interesting In"ter*est*ing, a.
Engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite,
interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story;
interesting news. --Cowper.
Interestingly
Interestingly In"ter*est*ing*ly, adv.
In an interesting manner.
Interestingness
Interestingness In"ter*est*ing*ness, n.
The condition or quality of being interesting. --A. Smith.
LateresLater La"ter, n.; pl. Lateres. [L.]
A brick or tile. --Knight. Macropteres
Macropteres Ma*crop"te*res, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? long + ?
feather, wing.] (Zo["o]l.)
A division of birds; the Longipennes.
Marine interest Marine engine (Mech.), a steam engine for propelling a
vessel.
Marine glue. See under Glue.
Marine insurance, insurance against the perils of the sea,
including also risks of fire, piracy, and barratry.
Marine interest, interest at any rate agreed on for money
lent upon respondentia and bottomry bonds.
Marine law. See under Law.
Marine league, three geographical miles.
Marine metal, an alloy of lead, antimony, and mercury, made
for sheathing ships. --Mc Elrath.
Marine soap, cocoanut oil soap; -- so called because, being
quite soluble in salt water, it is much used on shipboard.
Marine store, a store where old canvas, ropes, etc., are
bought and sold; a junk shop. [Eng.] PateresfamiliasPaterfamilias Pa`ter*fa*mil`i*as, n.; pl. Pateresfamilias.
[L., fr. pater father + familias, gen. of familia family.]
(Rom. Law)
The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an
estate; one who is his own master. Plateresque
Plateresque Plat`er*esque", a. [Sp. resco, from plata silver.]
(Arch.)
Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural
ornaments.
PorteressPorteress Por"ter*ess, n.
See Portress.
Meaning of Teres from wikipedia
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teres in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Teres may
refer to:
Teres I, the
first king of the
Odrysian state of
Thrace (reigned 475-445 BC)
Teres II...
- The
teres minor (Latin
teres meaning 'rounded') is a narrow,
elongated muscle of the
rotator cuff. The
muscle originates from the
lateral border and adjacent...
- muscles. It is a
thick but
somewhat flattened muscle. The
teres major muscle (from
Latin teres,
meaning "rounded") is
positioned above the
latissimus dorsi...
- to the elbow. The
pronator teres is
innervated by the
median nerve and
nerve roots C6 and C7. To
stimulate the
pronator teres, a
signal begins in the precentral...
-
Papilionanthe teres,
formerly Vanda teres and Ple.
teres in the
horticultural trade is an
orchid species with many
variations found in many
parts of South-East...
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Teres I (Ancient Gr****: Τήρης,
Ancient Gr****: [
tɛ́ːrɛːs];
reigned 460–445 BC) was the
first king of the
Odrysian kingdom of Thrace.
Thrace had nominally...
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Tere Bin (lit. 'Without You') may
refer to:
Tere Bin (Atif
Aslam song), a song by Atif
Aslam from the 2006
Indian film Bas Ek Pal
Tere Bin (Rabbi Shergill...
- role in the
evaluation of
pronator teres syndrome is unclear. If the EMG or the MRI are
abnormal for the
pronator teres muscle and the
flexor carpi radialis...
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Teres II or
Teres III (Ancient Gr****: Τήρης, romanized:
Tḗrēs) was a king of the
Odrysians in
Thrace from 351 BC to 341 BC. The
variation in numbering...
- Look up
tere in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Tere may
refer to:
Tere Garcia de
Madero (born 1946),
Mexican politician Tere Gilbert, New
Zealand early...
