terry (teri)

[Origin obscure.] 1. A textile fabric of wool or silk, woven like velvet, but with the loops uncut. The furniture was in green terry , the carpet a harsh, brilliant tapestry. Howells , Annie Kilburn, xi. 2. In rope - making, an open reel. E. H. Knight. - Terry poplin. See poplin. - Terry velvet, uncut velvet. terror. [Rare.] They, terror'd with these words, demand his name. Heywood , Hierarchy of Angels, p. 515. terror-breathing (ter' or-bre" Thing), a. Inspiring terror; terrifying. [Rare.] Through the stern throat of terror - breathing war. Drayton, Mortimer to Queen Isabel. terror-haunted (ter'or-hän"ted), a. Haunted with terror; subject to visitations of extreme of territory; as to territory. territoried (ter'i-to-rid), a. [ territory (ter'i-to-ri), n.; pl. territories (-riz), [ within the bounds or belonging to the jurisdiction of any sovereign, state, city, or other body; any separate tract of land as belonging to a state; dominion; sometimes, also, a domain or piece of land belonging to an individual. But if thou linger in my territories Longer than swiftest expedition Will give thee time to leave our royal court, By heaven! my wrath shall far exceed the love I ever bore my daughter or thyself. Shak., T. G. of V., iii. 1. 163. Those who live thus mewed up within their own contracted territories , and will not look abroad beyond the boundaries that chance, conceit, or lazine has set to their inquiries. Locke, Conduct of the Understanding, § 3. Gentlemen, I thought the deck of a Ma achusetts ship was as much the territory of Ma achusetts as the floor on which we stand. Emerson, West Indian Emancipation. 2. Any extensive tract, region, district, or domain: as, an unexplored territory in Africa. From hence being brought to a subterranean territorie of cellars, the courteous friars made us taste a variety of excellent wines. Evelyn, Diary, May 21, 1645. 3. [ cap.] In the United States, an organized division of the country, not admitted to the complete rights of Statehood (see state, 13). Its gov. ernment is conducted by a governor, judges, and other officers appointed from Washington, aided by a Territorial legislature. Each Territory sends one delegate to Congre , who has a voice on Territorial matters, but cannot vote. Territories are formed by act of Congre . When a Territory has sufficient population to entitle it to one representative in the National House of Representatives, it is usually admitted by act of Congre to the Union as a State. Nearly all the States (except the original thirteen) have pa ed through the Territorial condition. There are now (1898) three organized Territories - New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma; and there are also two unorgan ized Territories - the Indian Territory and Alaska. Several countries of Spanish America have a system of Territories analogous to that of the United States. The territory is an infant state, dependent only till it is able to walk by itself. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 351. The nation has never regretted delay in erecting a ter The Nation, Jan. 28, 1886. ritory into a state. Cell territory, in an at. and physiol., the range of extracellular substance supposed to be influenced by each individual cell of any ti ue. Virchow. - Territory of a Judge, in Scots law, the district over which a judge's jurisdiction extends in causes and in judicial acts proper to him, and beyond which he has no judicial authority. = Syn. 1 and 2. Quarter, province.