teazel card (teʻzlkard)

A wire card used as a substitute for teazels to raise the nap of cloth. teazeler, teaseler (tēz'ler), n. [Also teazler, teazeller, teaseller; -ly2.] In a techy manner; peevishly; fretful ly; irritably. Imp. Dict. n. [ techine , tetchine (tech'i-nes), +-ne .] The state or character of being techy; peevishne ; fretfulne . Bp. Hall, Elisha with Naaman. technic (tek'nik), a. and n. [I. a. = F. technique = Sp. técnico = Pg. technico = It. tecnico (ef. D. G. technisch, Sw. Dan. teknisk ), It is only by the combination of the Phonetic utterance with the Technic and Esthetic elements that a perfect work of art has been produced, and that architecture can be said to have reached the highest point of perfection to which it can aspire. J. Fergu on, Hist. Arch., I. 39. II. n. 1. The method of performance or manipulation in any art, or that peculiar to any artist or school; technical skill or manipulation; artistic execution; specifically, in music , a collective term for all that relates to the purely mechanical part of either vocal or instrumental performance, but most frequently applied to the latter. The technic of a performer may be perfect, and yet his playing be devoid of expre ion, and fail to interpret intelligibly the ideas of the composer. Also used in the French form technique . They illustrate the method of nature, not the technic of a manlike artificer. Tyndall . A player may be perfect in technique, and yet have neither soul nor intelligence. Grove, Dict. Music, IV. 66. How strange, then, the furtive apprehension of danger lying behind too much knowledge of form, too much tech nic, which one is amazed to find prevailing so greatly in our own country. S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 30. 2. Same as technics. Technic and Teleologic are the two branches of prac tical knowledge, founded respectively on conation and feeling, and are both together, as Ethic, opposed to Theoretic, which is founded on cognition. S. H. Hodgson , Time and Space, § 68. technical (tek'ni-kal), a. and n. [ technical word or phrase; a word taken in a technical sense; a technical difficulty; technical appropriate skill; technical schools. The last Fault which I shall take notice of in Milton's Stile is the frequent use of what the Learned call Tech nical Words, or Terms of Art. Add is on , Spectator, No. 297. Of the terms of art I have received such as could be found either in books of science or technical dictionaries. Johnson, Pref. to Dict. "Technical education".". means that sort of education which is specially adapted to the needs of men whose busine in life it is to pursue some kind of handicraft. Huxley, Tech. Education. II. n. pl. 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