Tiele – Tobit
Tiele
CORNELIS PETRUS, a Dutch theologian; born in Leyden, Netherlands, Dec. 16, 1830. He studied at the university there and at the Remonstrants' seminary at Amsterdam, and became Remonstrant pastor at Rotterdam (1856), professor in the seminary translated to Leyden (1873), and Professor of the TIERNAN an-Assyrian History" (1886-1887); etc.
He died in 1902.
Tigrisoma
in orinthology, a genus , a genus cal America and Western Africa. Bill sometimes chin, naked; legs feathered almost to the rather shorter than hexagonal. curved; anterior scales reticulate or outer; outer; claws short, stout, regularly hexagonal.
Tilefish
a fish discovered accidentally by fishermen trawling for cod near fish, weighing from 10 to 30 pounds.
Nantucket. It is a brilliantly colored
Tilmatura
in ornithology, sparkling tails; a genus of Trochilidæ, with one species, T. duponti, from Guatemala.
Wings rather short and somewhat sickleshaped; tail feathers pointed, the outermost narrow toward the tip, which is curved inward.
Tilmus
in pathology, a picking of the bedclothes, through through cerebral excitement, toward the conclusion of any serious disease. It is a very unfavorable symptom.
Tindale
WILLIAM. See TYNDALE.
Tippecanoe
a river of Indiana, which rises in the N. part of the State, flows W. S. W. and S. 200 miles, and empties into the Wabash 10 miles above Lafayette. It is famous for the battle TIPPOO SAHIB fought near its mouth, Nov. 7, 1811, in which the Indians, under Tecumseh's brother, the prophet, were defeated by General Harrison.
Tiree
or TYREE, an island of the Hebrides, belonging to Argyleshire. It is about 14 miles long, and reaches 6 in breadth, is generally low, flat, and fertile, but has several heights of 400 feet. Agriculture and fishing are the leading industries. : :
TIREBUCK TISCHENDORF
Tirnova
a town of Bulgaria, on the Jantra; 35 miles S. S. E. of Sistova; amid strange limestone rocks. It became in 1235 the seat of the Bulgarian patriarch, and has more than once served as the capital. Dyeing is carried on, silk and coarse cloth are manufactured. Pop. about 15,000.
Tissandier
GASTON (te-songdyã'), a French aeronaut and chemist; born in Paris, France, Nov. 21, 1843.
Besides textbooks of chemistry, he wrote for the "Library of Wonders," volumes on "Water," "Coal," "Fossils," "Photography"; in collaboration with Glaisher and Flammarion, "Aerial Voyages." He died Nov. 21, 1899.
Titular Bishop
a title substituted by Pope Leo XIII, for the older one of bishop in partibus infidelium.
Tobit
in the Apocrypha, a book generally placed between II Esdras and commissioner appointed by the governor. pious man, Tobit by name, resident in Thisbe in Naphthali, was taken captive Judith, and containing 14 chapters. A pious man, Tobit by name, resident in Assyria, and located in Nineveh.