Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

HomeT › Tiele – Tobit

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.

← TobagoTobol →