English English Dictionary

The office or employment of a teller.

A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells.

of Tell

Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech.

Telling tales; babbling.

One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.

A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.

A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.

A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.

A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.

The tattler. See Tattler.

Of or pertaining to the earth.

A salt of telluric acid.

A telluride.

Combined or impregnated with tellurium; tellurized.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.

Of or pertaining to the earth.

A dweller on the earth.

An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons.

Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.