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The quality or state of being time-serving; a truckling line of conduct. "Time-serving ne and malice."- North: Life of Lord Guilford, i. 2. IMG:content-1141.png:[blocks in formation] *tim'-Id-ous, a . [Lat. timid us timid (q. v.).] Timid, fearful, timorous. "Fortune th' audacious doth juvare, But lets the timidous miscarry." time-le , a. [Eng. time , s.; -le .] 1. Unseasonable; done at an improper time; out machine, in which the stroke of the needle, the of season. Revenge the blood of innocents That Guise hath slain by treason of his heart, And brought by murder to their timele ends." Marlowe: Edward II ., i. 1. shuttle, and the feed take place nece arily in an exact sequence. The manner and the purpose of his treasons." Shakesp.: Richard III . , iii. 5. IMG:content-1142.png:[blocks in formation] in which a certain amount of property is requisite as a qualification for office. It also signified a gov ernment which formed a sort of mean between aris- tocracy and oligarchy, when the ruling cla es, composed of the best and noblest citizens, struggled for preeminence between themselves. "Timocracy [is] a term made use of by some Greek writers, especially Aristotle, to signify a peculiar form of constitution: but there are two different senses in which it is thus used, corresponding to the different meanings of the [Greek] word, timé , a price, or honor, from which it is derived. According to the first, it represents a state in which the qualification for office is a certain amount of property; in the latter, it is a kind of mean between aristocracy and oligarchy, when the ruling cla , who are still the best and noblest citizens, struggle for preěmi. nence amongst themselves." - Brande & Cox. IMG:content-1143.png:[blocks in formation] Timothy-gra younger women (v. 1-16), the Christian functionaries called elders (17), slaves (vi. 1-2), the rich (17-19), and what should be his conduct in the office which he held in trust (20-21). Eusebius summed up the verdict of Christian antiquity in placing the first epistle to Timothy among the Homologoumena. Modern rationalistic critics, from Schmidt and Schleiermacher to Renan, have denied its authenticity, of which, however, there have been powerful defenders. Various dates have been a igned it; one of the most probable is A. D. 56. (2) The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy: New Test. Canon : An epistle written by St. Paul after he had become a prisoner (i. 8) in Rome (17), in bonds (ii. 9), who had been at least once jud i cially examined and been required to make his "answer" (iv. 16), a crisis which, however, ended in his being "delivered out of the mouth of the lion" [Nero(?)] (iv. 17). Commencing by expre ing his love Timothy and his earnest desire to see him (i. 1-5), he exhorts him to steadfastne in the faith (6-18), to hardine and unworldline (ii. 1-7), to the avoidance of frivolous and entangling questions, to purity (ii. 8-23), and to meekne under provocation (24-26). His counsels are all the more fervent that many have deserted him for heresy or the world (i. 15, ii. 17, 18, iv. 10); and he foresaw that a general impatience of sound doctrine was destined to appear (iii. 1-17, iv. 1-4). A certain air of sadne pervades the epistle, but the writer looks forward to his probably near martyrdom in tranquil trust in his Redeemer whom he had served so long and so well (iv. 6-8). He closes with sundry greetings and with the benediction. The evidence for the authenticity of the epistle is the same as that for the previous letter. Two dates a igned it are A. D. 63, and July or August A. D. 65. It seems to have been the last of St. Paul's epistles. IMG:content-1144.png:[blocks in formation] PLATE.] 2. Fig .: A slang term for money. "And is this all! And I have seen the whole, Cathedral, chapel, nunnery, and graves! 'Tis scantly worth the tin , upon my soul." Blackie : Lays of Highlands and Islands, p. 30. II. Technically : 1. Chem.: Stannum. A tetrad metallic element, Symb. Su; at. wt. 118; specific gravity, 728; found in the state of oxide in tin-stone, in Cornwall, and also in Saxony, Bohemia, and Malacca. To obtain the metal, the ore is first crushed to a powder, washed to free it from earthy impurities, and roasted in a reverberatory furnace to expel sulphur and arsenic. It is then strongly heated with coal or charcoal, and the metal thus obtained cast into blocks. When pure it is a white metal with a high metallic luster, is soft and malleable, and may be beaten into thin leaves (tinfoil). At a temperature of 200 it becomes brittle, at 228° it fuses, and when raised to a white heat it enters into ebullition, and burns with a brilliant white light. When rubbed, it evolves a peculiar odor, and when bent backward and forward emits a peculiar crackling noise. It di olves in hydrochloric, nitric, and sulphuric acids. Tin forms two well-defined cla es of compounds, viz., the stannous, in which it is bivalent, and the stannic, in which it is quadrivalent. It also forms an intermediate cla called stannoso-stannic compounds. 2. History & Comm .: The tin-mines of Cornwall have been worked from a very remote period. The Phoenicians probably obtained the metal from the Scilly Isles, the Romans did so from Spain. Tin has been discovered in Pennsylvania, Mi ouri, California, Dakota, and other States of the Union, but not in sufficient quantities to tempt capital to 4100 engage in mining it, with the exception of Dakota, where the Illinois Steel Mill Company have large interests. The chief tin-producing countries of the world are the following, arranged in the order of importance: England, about 10,000 tons a year; Malacca, 8,500 tons; Australia, 6,000 tons; Banca, 4,000 tons; and Bill it on, 3,000 tons. The two last named places are islands of the Dutch East Indies. Tin is much used as a covering to other metals, as iron and copper. (WHITE-IRON, TINFOIL.] 3. Min .: Stated to have been found in Siberia with gold, and also in Bolivia; but it is still a doubtful native element. 4. Pharm.: Tin-salts have been experimentally administered, though rarely, in some nervous affections, as epilepsy and chorea. By the Hindoo native doctors they are given chiefly for urinary affections. B. As adj .: Made of tin; as, a tin pot, a tin can is ter, . ter Tin-ore Ca iterite , Stannine ; tin-oxide and tin-pyrites= Stannine; tin-stone Ca iterite. tin-dichloride, s. Chem.: SnCl2. Stannous chloride. A gray resinous-looking substance, obtained in the anhydrous state by distilling a mixture of calomel and powdered tin. It is fusible below redne , and volatile at a higher temperature. tin-dioxide, s. Chem.: SnO2. Stannic oxide. A white amorphous powder prepared by heating tin, or tin monoxide, in contact with air. It is very insoluble, not being attacked by acids even in the concentrated state. tin-gla , *tin-gla e, s. *1. An old name for pewter or solder. 2. The gla makers' name for bismuth. tin-glaze, 8. Pottery: An opaque glaze or enamel, having oxide of tin as a basis, used upon majolica-ware and other fine pottery.