Terpsichore (terpsikore)

[ in sichore, fem. τερψίχορος, delighting in Τερψιχόρος, delight dance, Terpsichorean (terpsi-kō-re'an), a. and n. [ II. n. [1. c.] A dancer. [Colloq.] Terpsiphone (terp-si-fō'nē), n . [NL. (C. W. L. Gloger, 1827), τέρψις , enjoyment, delight, + φωνή, voice.] Agenus of Old World Muscicapidæ . The leading species is the celebrated paradise flycatcher, T. paradise a , remarkable for the singular development of the tail. This bird was originally figured and described more than a century ago by Edwards, who called it the pied bird of paradise. It was long mistaken for a bird of Africa, as by Levaillant, who figured it under the name siphone paradise a) male; feParadise Flycatcher ( Terp male in background. tchitrec-bé (the original of Le on's genus Tchi trea); it has also been placed in the larger genera Muscicapa , Muscipeta , and Muscivora of the early writers of the present century. It is native of India and Ceylon. The adult male is chiefly pure-white and black, with glo y steel green head, throat, and crest; the bill is blue, the mouth is yellow, and the eyes are brown. The total length is about 17 inches, of which 12 or 13 inches belong to the two middle tail feathers, the tail with this exception being and going somewhat sidewise. It differed from curvets chiefly in that the horse did not step so high. It is much noticed in the horse-market literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I rid first a Spanish Horse, a light Bay, called Le Super be, a beautiful horse. He went in corvets forwards, backwards, sideways,... and went Terra a Terra Perfectly. The second Horse I Rid was another Spanish head; no Horse ever went Terra a Terra like him, so just, a Brown-Bay with a White star in his Fore Cavendish (Earl of Newcastle), New Method of Dre ing [Horses (1667), Preface. Terra cariosa, tripoli or rottenstone. - Terra di Siena. See sienna. Terra firm a, firm or solid earth; dry land, in opposition to water; mainland or continent, in to insular territories. - Terra incognita, an unknown or unexplored region. - Terra Japonica (Ja pan earth'), gambier: formerly supposed to be a kind of earth from Japan. Terra merit a, turmeric. - Terra nera (It., 'black earth'), a native unctuous pigment, used by the ancient artists in fresco, oil, and tempera painting. Terra nobilist, an old name for the diamond. - Terra orellana. Same as arnotto , 2. - Terra ponderosa, barytes or heavy-spar. - Terra sigillata, or terra Lemnia, Lemnian earth. See under Lemnian . Terra verde (It., 'green earth'), either of two kinds of native green earth used as pigments in painting one obtained near useful in landscape-painting in oil, is a silicious earth colored by the protoxid of iron, of which it contains about 20 per cent. Also terre verte.