tycoon (tik on)

[Also taikun, taicoon; however, seems IMG:content-1171.png:[blocks in formation] + ἔγχος , a spear.] spear.] A genus of minute para tyloti, Plural of tylotus. [ sitic nematoid worms, of the family Anguillulidæ , tylotic (ti-lot'ik), a. [ tylosis (-at-) + -ic.] Of Some of them do much damage to crops, as the wheat or relating to tylosis. worm, T. tritici , which causes the disease called ear - cockle tylotoxea (ti-lō-tok'sē-ä), n.; pl. tylotoxeæ (-ē). and purples , and T. devastatrix , the stem-eelworm of clover. Some of these worms were early known as vibrios , and they were formerly placed in the more comprehensive genus Anguillula . tyler, n. An obsolete or archaic form of tiler . Tylerism (tī'lèr-izm), n. [ Tyler (see defs.) + -ism.] 1. A phase of New England Calvin ism named from Dr. Bennet Tyler of Connecticut (1783-1858). It reaffirmed the positions of the older Calvin ism concerning divine sovereignty, as against the positions of Taylor ism. Out of Dr. Tyler's controversy with Dr. Taylor of New Haven grew the theological semi- nary now at Hartford, Connecticut. 2. In U. S. politics, the methods of President Tyler. See Tylerize . Tylerize (ti'ler-īz), v. i.; pret. and pp. Tyler See timbal . -ize .] In U. S. politics , to follow the example tymbal on of President Tyler (1841-5), who turned against the Whig party, to which he owed his office; ice: tymbal . become a renegade to one's party while hold- ing an office conferred by it. greatne .] The title by which the shoguns of Japan were known to foreigners from the sign- ing of the treaty negotiated in 1854 by Commo- dore Matthew Perry, on behalf of the United States, and Iyesada, the shogun and supposed tyli, n. Plural of tylus . ing, or trying to return, to office and power. They might either a ail and unseat the Administration, or else per- suade the Executive to Tylerize . The Nation, I. 227. Mitford, Tales of Old Japan, p. 5.