English English Dictionary

Private; confidential; familiar.

Face to face; privately or confidentially; familiarly.

A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead.

A large African antelope (Alcelaphus tora). It has widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.

of Tete-de-pont

A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.

To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits.

of Tether

of Tether

A tunicate.

A division of Tunicata including the common attached ascidians, both simple and compound. Called also Tethioidea.

A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored.

A combining form or prefix signifying four, as in tetrabasic, tetrapetalous.

A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting four proportional or combining parts of the substance or ingredient denoted by the term to which it is prefixed, as in tetra-chloride, tetroxide.

Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monacid base; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by bases; quadribasic; -- said of certain acids; thus, normal silicic acid, Si(OH)4, is a tetrabasic acid.

Same as Pyroboric.

An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species are found in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras, etc.

Of or pertaining to the Tetrabranchiata.

One of the Tetrabranchiata.

Composed of four carpels.