Time and Time Keepers
Adam Thompson, 12mo., London, 1847.
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These 10 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Time and Time Keepers, Timing Screws, Timothy Grass.
Timing Screws
Quarter screws of a compensation balance. TOMPION, THOMAS. Born in 1638 and died in 1713. He was buried in Westminister Abbey.
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Timothy Grass
a valuable fodder grass. It is so called from Timothy Hanson, who carried the seed from Europe to Maryland about 1720. It seems to be native in New England , but it was probably introduced at an early date from Europe. In that section it was formerly called Herd's grass, from the name of a New Hampshire farmer who introduced its culture. In Snowbound Whittier speaks of shaking down "Herd's grass for the cows." It is a tall grass, affording excellent pasture; and forage as well, if cut early, before the stalks become too hard. It is called cat-tail, from the shape of its spikes, and Herd's grass. It is frequently sowed with red clover from a notion that a combined growth will be heavier than if the land were sowed to either plant alone. See Blue Grass
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Timrod
HENRY, an poet; born in Charleston, S. C., Dec. 8, 1829. His only volume of "Poems" was published in 1860; reprinted and edited with memoir by Paul H. Hayne, 1873. He died in Columbia, S. C., Oct. 6, 1867.
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Timæus of Locris
The earliest known writer on the doctrines of magic. The Timœan theory of God, the Universe, and the World-soul is thus set forth by Büsching : "God shaped the eternal unformed matter by imparting to it His being. The inseparable united itself with the separable; the unvarying with the variable; and, moreover, in the harmonic conditions of the Pythagorean system. To comprehend all things better, infinite space was imagined as divided into three portions, which are, the centre, the circumference, and the intermediate space. The centre is most distant from the highest God, who inhabits the circumference; the space between the two contains the celestial spheres. When God descended to impart His being, the emanations from Him penetrated the whole of heaven, and filled the same with imperishable bodies. Its power decreased with the distance from the source, and lost itself gradually in our world in minute portions, over which matter was still dominant. From this proceeds the continuous change of being and decay below the moon, where the power of matter predominates; from this, also, arise the circular movements of the heaven and the earth, the various rapidities of the stars, and the peculiar motion of the planets. By the union of God with matter, a third being was created, namely, the world-soul, which vitalizes and regulates all things, and occupies the space between the centre and the circumference."
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Tin Enamel
A pottery enamel consisting principally of tin oxide. The Saracens first used it to embellish their pottery-ware, but the Italians were finally successful in discovering the secret of its production, and used the enamel on their famed Majolica ware about the year 1600. See ENAMEL.
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Tin-foil
The best tin-foil for mirrors, etc., is made from pure tin by rolling or beating. Commoner kinds are composed of tin, zinc, and lead in varying proportions, and are made by allowing the fluid metal to flow down an inclined plane covered with canvas. See LEAD.
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Tin-plate
The thin iron plates for this purpose are usually made from the best charcoal-iron, the surface of which is made chemically clean by pickling in hot diluted hydrochloric acid. They are then washed and annealed in closed iron boxes, passed two or three times through the rolls to polish the surface and cause them to take less tin, again annealed and pickled, and subsequently washed with sand and running water, which leaves them clean and bright for tinning. The plates are now put singly into a pot of melted grease, then into the tin-pot, containing the bath of molten tin, covered with grease; from this they are passed to another vessel with two compartments, called the washpot, in both of which compartments is melted tin also, well covered with grease, like the first. The tin in this pot is purer than that contained in the tin-pot. They are then lifted out of compartment No. 1, wiped with a long hempen brush on both sides, and again dipped--in compartment No. 2 this time, out of which it comes shining, to be at once transferred in an upright position to a pot of liquid grease, the temperature of which is maintained no higher than will keep the tin in contact with the oil in a liquid state, allowing the superfluous tin to run off, and spreading the remainder equally on the surface of the iron. See TIN; TINNING.
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Tincture
in chemistry, the finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a menstruum; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the menstruum. In heraldry, the name given to the colors, metals, or tints used for the field or ground of an emblazoned shield, including the two metals or and argent, or gold and silver, the several colors, and the furs. In pharmacy, a colored solution of some animal or vegetable principle. Tinctures are very numerous, commencing with the tincture of aconite and the tincture of aloes. Different menstrua are employed; chiefly rectified spirit, proof spirit, com- , and spirit pound spirit of ammonia of ether.
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Tindal
MATTHEW, an English deist; born in Devonshire, England, in 1653; studied at Lincoln and Exeter Colleges, Oxford; graduated B.A. in 1676; and was elected Fellow of All Souls in 1678. In opinions he was first High Church, then Roman Catholic (1685); next Low Church, and finally Rationalist. His chief work, "Christianity as Old as the Creation, or the Gospel a Republication of the Religion of Nature," was published anonymously in 1730. The argument of the book is that Christianity, as far as it is true, must be the religion of nature; for as God is unchangeable, so is human nature. He attacks many of the statements in Scripture, especially those bearing on Jewish history in the ordinary rationalistic manner; but he does not explicitly deny the truth of the Christian revelation. Of Tindal's other works the following are the most important: "Four Discourses of Obedience to the Supreme Powers" (1694); "Rights of the Christian Church Asserted" (1706); "New High Church Turned Old Presbyterian" (1709); "A High Church Catechism" (1710). He died in Oxford, Aug. 16, 1733.
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