قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

Threefold; thrice-paired.

Carrying or bearing upon the back.

The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.

The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.

Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change.

One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.

The back of an animal.

The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal.

One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.

A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also tarin.

That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.

The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life.

In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms.

A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.

A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration

The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years.

A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation.

The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes.

The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.