Word Meanings - PROPERTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.

Thalassic
Of or pertaining to the sea; -- sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom.
Thenceforward
From that time onward; thenceforth.
Threat
The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.
Thermidor
The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vendemiaire.
Thrush
Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.
Think
To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
THEANTHROPICTHEANTHROPICAL
Partaking of, or combining, both divinity and humanity. [R.] The gorgeous and imposing figures of his [Homer's] theanthropic sytem. Gladstone.
Thallous
Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the thallic compounds.
Thitsee
The varnish tree of Burmah (Melanorrhoea usitatissima).
Theogonist
A writer on theogony.
Three-lobed
Having three lobes.
Thermogen
Caloric; heat; regarded as a material but imponderable substance.
Thulia
Oxide of thulium.
Thionine
An artificial red or violet dyestuff consisting of a complex sulphur derivative of certain aromatic diamines, and obtained as a dark crystalline powder; -- called also phenylene violet.
THERMO
A combining form from Gr. qe`rmh heat, qermo`s hot, warm; as in thermochemistry, thermodynamic.
Thank
A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural.
Thomsonite
A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.
Theomachist
One who fights against the gods; one who resists God of the divine will.
Threnetic
Alt. of Threnetical
Thermoscope
An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential t

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