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Tinker's-dam

A wall, generally of clay, formed around a joint, etc., for the purpose of retaining the solder in close contact with the work to be soldered.

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Tinstone

See TIN. Titanium usually occurs as a gray, heavy, iron-like sand, which burns brightly in the air and is converted into titanic acid, or in prismatic crystals. In many of its reactions it closely resembles tin. Titanic acid is used for imparting a yellow tint to porcelain glazes, and for the manufacture of artificial teeth. Ores containing titanic iron are supposed to produce an excellent quality of steel.

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Tintoretto

tin-to-ret'to (1518-1594), a Venetian painter. He was a native of Venice. His father was a dyer, in Italian, a tintoretto, by trade. The young Tintoretto studied with Titian. It is considered that he had a knowledge of color from his father's trade and a knowledge of drawing from Michelangelo. He painted so rapidly as to gain the name of Il Furioso or the madman. His paintings are represented in the galleries of Florence, Madrid, London, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Paris, and especially in Venice, his native state. Paradise, in the palace of the Doges, has the honor of being the largest oil painting known. Ruskin gave Tintoretto place among the world's great painters, but this is not the popular verdict. See Titian ; Michelangelo

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Tinworth

GEORGE, an English artist in terra-cotta; born in London, England, Nov. 5, 1843. He was the son of a poor wheelwright, and while working in his father's shop took to wood carving of his own accord. In 1861 he found opportunity to get lessons in an art school at Lambeth, and in 1864 entered the Royal Academy schools. He soon began exhibiting figures and groups of figures at the Royal Academy, and in 1867 obtained a permanent appointment in the great Doulton art pottery. The works by which he became famous were mainly terra-cotta panels with groups of figures in high relief illustrating scenes from sacred history, which happily combine grace, strength, and divinity with originality of design, dramatic effectiveness, and devout feeling. An important example is the reredos in York Minster, with 28 terra-cotta panels.

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Tipula

the crane fly, the typical genus of Tipulide. The antennæ have all the articulations, but the first almost cylindrical; the second globular. About 50 species are known from Europe. T. oleracea is the very common species called by children daddy long-legs. It is about an inch long, hoary brown, with four brown streaks on the thorax; the legs brownish-yellow, the thighs, tibiæ, and tarsi blackish toward their ends. It deposits about 300 shining black eggs in or on the ground. The larvæ, called grubs and leather-jackets, are dingy gray or brownish worms destitute of feet; they feed on the roots of grasses and other plants, and are often very destructive. When full grown they are an inch or an inch and a half long. The change to the

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Tiraboschi

GIROLAMO (tē-räbos'kē), an Italian historian of literature; born in Bergamo, Italy, Dec. 28, 1731. He wrote a celebrated "History of Italian Literature" (14 vols., 1770- 1782), a work of wonderful erudition, accuracy, and completeness, extending from the first beginnings of modern culture in Italy down to the 18th century, and dealing with every branch of literature. Among his other writings are: "Historical Memoirs of Modena" (4 vols., 1793-1794). He died in Modena, June 3, 1794.

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Tirailleur

a name originally applied in France during the Revolution of 1792 to light-armed bodies, who were thrown out from the main body to bring on an action, cover an attack, or generally to annoy or deceive the enemy; a skirmisher, a sharpshooter.

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Tire

an iron band around the fellies of a wheel. The circular continuous tire is of American origin. In Europe tires were till lately generally made in sections arranged to break joints with the fellies. The rim tire is expanded by heating, and then shrunk on so as to tightly compress the wheel, and bolted; in the sectional tire, bolts only are relied on to hold the parts together. Steel railway tires are always of the former kind. India-rubber wheel tires, solid and pneumatic, are used on bicycles, automobiles, ambulances, light vehicles, and steam fire engines, for the purpose of decreasing the jar on the vehicle, and as a means of : increasing the tractive adherence.

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Tirebuck

WILLIAM EDWARDS, the Office of Marine; then, in 1898, became minister of state of Prussia. In 1911 he was made lord high admiral, and it was as such that he had the power to ALFRED VON TIRPITZ develop the submarine branch of the German navy. After the failure of his submarine policy, în 1917, he was compelled to resign and retired into the obscurity of private life.

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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. an English writer; born in Liverpool, England, in 1854. For some years connected with the Liverpool "Mail" and "Yorkshire Post," he afterward devoted himself to writing novels; the most popular are: "Saint Margaret" (1888); "Dorrie" (1891); "Sweetheart Gwen" (1893); "Miss Grace of All Souls" (1895); "Meg of the Scarlet Foot" (1898); "The White Woman" (1899). His other writings include "Dante Gabriel Rossetti" (1882), and "Great Minds in Art" (1888). He belonged to the "Liverpool group" of English authors, including Hall Caine, William Watson, and Richard Le Gallienne.

or TYREE pupa state takes place underground; the pupa itself has respiratory tubes. A smaller species, T. hortulana, is common in gardens. The largest species in Europe is the great crane fly, T. gigantea, an inch and a quarter in length. TIPULIDÆ, crane flies, a family of Nemocera. Antennæ longer than the head, with 13 or more joints, rarely pectinated. Compound eyes, rounded or oval; ocelli none. Front of the head beaked, proboscis short, fleshy; palpi four-jointed; abdomen and legs long and slender; wings with numerous veins, : some of them cross veins. The larvæ of most species live in rotten wood; a few are aquatic. Distribution world-wide.

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