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Ticino River: river, tributary of the Po River, rising in the Swiss part of the Alpilepoutine (mountains) near Novena Pass, Switz., at about 8,000 feet (2,440 m) and draining an area of 2,790 square miles (7,226 square km), mostly in Italy. The ...
tick: any of the roughly 825 species of invertebrates of the suborder Ixodida, within the order Parasitiformes, subclass Acari (sometimes Acarina, or Acarida).
Tickell, Thomas: English verse writer and man of letters who is, however, best remembered for the quarrel involving his translation of the first book of Homer's Iliad in 1715, which appeared contemporaneously with that of Alexander Pope. Joseph Addison's reported description of ...
ticker: high-speed means of reporting information on securities transactions. It provides the stock symbol, number of shares, and price of each transaction; these are transmitted to tickers at brokerage houses. The first stock ticker, which printed transactions on a long ribbon ...
Ticknor, George: American author and educator who helped modernize the curriculum at Harvard University.
tickseed: any ornamental summer-blooming plant of the genus Coreopsis of the family Asteraceae, consisting of about 100 species of annual and perennial herbs native to North America. Members of the genus have flower heads with yellow disk flowers and yellow, pink, ...
Ticlio: mountain pass of the Cordillera Central of the Peruvian Andes, about 60 mi (100 km) northeast of Lima, through the highest part of which (La Cima), at an elevation of 15,807 ft (4,818 m), passes the main line of the ...
Ticonderoga: unincorporated village and town (township), Essex county, northeastern New York, U.S., at the north outlet (La Chute River) of Lake George where it drains into Lake Champlain. Located on an ancient Indian portage, its name is derived from the Iroquois ...
tidal flat: level muddy surface bordering an estuary, alternately submerged and exposed to the air by changing tidal levels. The tidal waters enter and leave a tidal flat through fairly straight major channels, with minor channels serving as tributaries as well as ...
tidal friction: in astronomy, strain produced in a celestial body (such as the Earth or Moon) that undergoes cyclic variations in gravitational attraction as it orbits, or is orbited by, a second body. Friction occurs between water tides and sea bottoms, particularly ...
tidal power: electricity produced by turbines operated by tidal flow. Many ideas for harnessing the tides were put forward in the first half of the 20th century, but no scheme proved technically and economically feasible until the development by French engineers of ...
tide: any of the cyclic deformations of one astronomical body caused by the gravitational forces exerted by others. The most familiar are the periodic variations in sea level on the Earth that correspond to changes in the relative positions of the ...
Tidewater: natural region in eastern Virginia, U.S., comprising a low-lying alluvial plain on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay between the Atlantic Ocean and the Fall Line (a line marking the junction between the hard rocks of the Appalachians and the ...
Tidore Island: one of the Moluccas (Maluku) islands, east-central Indonesia. With an area of 45 square miles (116 square km), Tidore lies off the western coast of central Halmahera and forms part of Maluku Utara provinsi (North Moluccas province). ...
tie rubbing: imprint taken from calligraphy engraved on stone or wood. The practice emerged in the Tang dynasty (618-907) as a method of studying the style of earlier calligraphers and developed into an important related art form in itself. The rubbings served ...
tie-dyeing: method of dyeing by hand in which coloured patterns are produced in the fabric by gathering together many small portions of material and tying them tightly with string before immersing the cloth in the dyebath. The dye fails to penetrate ...
Tieck, Ludwig: versatile and prolific writer and critic of the early Romantic movement in Germany. He was a born storyteller, and his best work has the quality of a Marchen (fairy tale) that appeals to the emotions rather than the intellect.
Tiel: gemeente (commune), Gelderland provincie, central Netherlands, on the Waal River, west-southwest of Arnhem. Chartered in 1200, Tiel developed as a medieval port and market town and became a member of the Hanseatic League. The town now has a horticultural school, ...
Tiele, Cornelis Petrus: Dutch theologian and scholar, whose influence on the comparative study of religion, which in his time was only beginning, was very great.
Tien Lake: lake lying to the south of K'un-ming in Yunnan sheng (province), China. Tien Lake lies in the largest group of Yunnanese lake basins, in the eastern part of the province, to the south of the Liang-wang Mountain Range, which ...
Tien Shan: great mountain system of Central Asia. Its name is Chinese for "Celestial Mountains." Stretching about 1,500 miles (2,500 kilometres) from west-southwest to east-northeast, it mainly straddles the border between China and Kyrgyzstan and bisects the ancient territory of Turkistan. It ...
Tientsin: city and province-level shih (municipality), located to the east of Hopeh Province, at the northeastern extremity of the North China Plain. After Shanghai and Peking, it is the third largest municipality of China and, after Shanghai, the ...
Tientsin Massacre: (June 21, 1870), in Tientsin, China, violent outbreak of Chinese xenophobic sentiment that nearly precipitated international warfare and signaled the end of the "cooperative policy" between China and the Western treaty powers. Before the incident, rumours circulated in Tientsin that ...
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista: great Italian painter of the 18th century. His luminous, poetic frescoes (e.g., "The Banquet of Anthony and Cleopatra," before 1750), while extending the tradition of Baroque ceiling decoration, epitomize the lightness and elegance of the Rococo period (see ).
Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico: son of the Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; he was a talented genre painter, especially of scenes from contemporary life and the popular theatre (as in the decorations of his villa at Zianigo, Italy, now in the Civico Museo Correr, ...
Tiergarten: district of Berlin, Germany, on the Spree River. Before World War II the district was Berlin's diplomatic quarter and the site of the War Ministry. It includes the famous 630-acre (255-hectare) Tiergarten Park, a deer preserve until the 18th century. ...
Tierra Blanca: city, southern Veracruz state, south central Mexico, in the Gulf of Mexico lowland, in the Rio Papaloapan Valley, near the border of Oaxaca state, at an elevation of 200 ft (60 m) above sea level. Its climate is hot and ...
Tierra del Fuego: provincia, southern Argentina, consisting of the eastern half of the triangular island of Tierra del Fuego (Spanish: "Land of Fire"), lying between the Strait of Magellan (north) and Beagle Channel (south) at the southern extremity of South America. Argentina also ...
Tierra del Fuego: archipelago, at the southern extremity of South America. In shape the main island, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan, is a triangle with its base on Beagle Channel. The total area is 28,473 sq mi (73,746 sq ...
tietaja: the principal religious specialist of the Baltic Finns, functioning in the tradition of the Finno-Ugric shaman. Operating in a more complex, agricultural society than his more primitive counterparts, such as the Sami noiade, who worked in a hunting and fishing ...
Tiete River: Sao Paulo estado ("state"), southeastern Brazil, rising in the Serra do Mar, just east of Sao Paulo city, and flowing in a northwesterly direction for about 700 miles (1,130 km) before joining the Parana River at Ilha Grande, just above ...
Tiffany, Charles Lewis: American jeweler who made a specialty of importing historic gems, jewelry, and art works.
Tiffany, Louis Comfort: American painter, craftsman, philanthropist, decorator, and designer, internationally recognized as one of the greatest forces of the Art Nouveau style, who made significant contributions to the art of glassmaking.
Tiffin: city, seat (1824) of Seneca county, north-central Ohio, U.S., on the Sandusky River, 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Toledo. Fort Ball, a military depot of the War of 1812, occupied a site on the river's north bank (marked by ...
Tigellinus, Ofonius: the Roman emperor Nero's chief adviser from 62 to 68, notorious for the influence his cruelty and debauched behaviour had upon the emperor.
tiger: largest member of the cat family (Felidae), rivaled only by the lion (P. leo) in strength and ferocity. Ranging from the Russian Far East through parts of North Korea, China, India, and Southeast Asia to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, ...
tiger beetle: any member of the approximately 2,000 species of the insect family Cicindelidae (order Coleoptera). The name derives from their voracious eating habits. The larva lives in a vertical burrow, which is sometimes as much as 0.67 m (2 feet) deep. ...
tiger moth: any of the nocturnal moths of the cosmopolitan family Arctiidae (order Lepidoptera), containing more than 3,500 species. Many have furry or hairy larvae (caterpillars) called woolly bears. Most adults have thick bodies and wings coloured white, orange, or green. When ...
tiger shark: (Galeocerdo cuvieri), large, potentially dangerous shark of the family Carcharhinidae. It is noted for its voracity and inveterate scavenging, as well as its reputation as a man-eater. The tiger shark is found worldwide in warm oceans, from the shoreline to ...
tiger snake: (Notechis scutatus), Australian member of the cobra family, Elapidae. The snake's venom, which contains a blood-clotting agent as well as a nerve paralyzer, is often fatal to humans. Before striking, the tiger snake flattens its head and neck, cobra fashion.
tiger-flower: any of about 12 species of the genus Tigridia, plants native from Mexico to Chile and once prized by the Aztecs for the chestnut flavour of bulblike structures (corms). They belong to the iris family (Iridaceae).
tigereye: semiprecious quartz gem displaying chatoyancy, a vertical luminescent band like that of a cat's eye. Veins of parallel, blue asbestos (crocidolite) fibres are first altered to iron oxides and then replaced by silica. The gem has a rich yellow to ...
tigerfish: any of several fishes so named on the basis of their pugnacity when caught, their fiercely predaceous habits, or their appearance. In African freshwaters, tigerfishes of the genus Hydrocynus (sometimes Hydrocyon) are admired game fishes of the characin family, Characidae ...
Tigerman, Stanley: prominent American architect and activist best known for his work in Chicago.
tigerware: 16th- and 17th-century German stoneware having a brown, mottled glaze, and made in the Rhenish centres of Cologne and Frechen, Ger. Tigerware was imported to England and imitated there in the different medium of delft, or tin-glazed earthenware; the imitations ...
Tighina: city, Moldova. Tighina lies along the right bank of the Dniester River below its confluence with the Bac (Byk). A settlement has existed on the site since the 2nd century BC. It came successively under the rule of Kiev, Moldavia, ...
Tiglath-pileser I: one of the greatest of the early kings of Assyria (reigned c. 1115-c. 1077 BC).
Tiglath-pileser II: king of Assyria (c. 965-c. 932 BC). He apparently ruled effectively, as a successor addressed him by a title reserved for mighty monarchs. Otherwise, little is known of the period other than that Assyria was beginning to emerge from its ...
Tiglath-pileser III: king of Assyria (745-727 BC) who inaugurated the last and greatest phase of Assyrian expansion. He subjected Syria and Palestine to his rule, and later (729 or 728) he merged the kingdoms of Assyria and Babylonia.
tigon: offspring of a tiger and a lioness. The tigon, or tiglon, is a zoo-bred hybrid, as is the liger, the product of the reverse mating of a lion with a tigress.
Tigranes II The Great: king of Armenia from 95 to 55 BC, under whom the country became for a short time the strongest state in the Roman East.