tree goose

Ornith.: The Bernicle-goose (q. v.). "It has also been called tree - goose , from the belief that it originated from old and decayed trees." -Ripley & Danas Amer. Cyclop., viii. 187. tree-gra hopper, s. Entom.: Meconema varia. IMG:content-1390.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1391.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1392.png:[blocks in formation] as distinguished from the Flying Squirrels (Ptero- Kingsley: Geofry Hamlyn , ch. v. mys) and the Ground Squirrels (Tamias). tree-sugar, s. Sugar made from the Maple-tree. tree-swift, s . Ornith.: Az individual of the genus Dendrocheli- don. Zool .: A popular name for several of the Hylide. Used without a qualifying epithet, it is equivalent to tree-frog (q. v.). With a qualifying epithet it is limited to particular species. Hyla versicolor is the Changeable Tree-toad, Trachycephalus lichen a- tus is the Lichened, and T. marm or at us the Mar- bled Tree-toad. tree-top, s. The top or highest part of a tree. "Reflected in the water, Every tree - top had its shadow." IMG:content-1393.png:[blocks in formation] eral to most of the great races of mankind at a cer- tain stage of mental development." ( Lubbock : Orig . Civil ., ed. 1882, p. 294.) It may have been a particu- lar kind of nature-worship, or have arisen from the animistic conception prevailing among the races of low culture at the present day, that trees were the residences or embodiments of spirits or deities. Tree-worship was a peculiarly Can a an it ish cult, as is proved by the frequent mention of it in the Old Testament, and the stern denunciations of it show that the Jews, from time to time, lapsed into the nature-worship of their neighbors (Deut. xii, 3, xiv. 21; Judges vi. 25; 1 Kings xiv. 23, xv. 13, xviii. 19; 2 Kings xvii. 10, xxiii; Isa. lvii. 5; Jer. xvii. 2; Ezek. superhuman beings attached to individual trees, roaming in the forest, the analogues of which still and sylvan deities-dryads, fauns, and satyrs live in folk-tales as elves and fairies. [GROVE, II.] Tree-worship, in some form or other in Southern Asia, still composes an important part of Buddhist practice, though it is not recognized by Buddhistic sacred literature. The famous Bo tree, grown from a branch of the tree sent by Asoka to Ceylon in the third century B. C., till its destruc. tion in October, 1887, received the worship of pilgrims, who came in you sands to do it reverence and offer prayer before it. (Cf. Athe- nœum , Nov. 12, 1887, pp. 639, 640.) Fergu on ( Tree and Serpent Worship, pa im .) also shows what a "While thus through all the stages thou hast pushed Of treeship -first a seedling hid in gra ; Then twig, then sapling." Cowper: Yardley Oak. tre-fal-lōw, v . t . [THRIFALLOW.] tre-fle, s . [TREFOIL.] Fort.: A mine with three chambers like a trefoil. trěf-lee, a . [Fr. tréfte =trefoil (q. v.).] sometimes borne treffee, that is, with trefoils i uing from the IMG:content-1394.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1395.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1396.png:[blocks in formation] a thunderbolt, a wound, and suff. -ites.] Palæont.: A genus of Meandrospongidse, with one species from the Upper Cretaceous rocks. trê-ma-dic-ty-on, s. [Gr. trēma =a hole, and diktyon a net.] Palæontology : A genus of Hexactinellid Sponges, from the Upper Jura ic. Geog.: A small town situated on the north side of Cardigan Bay, in Carnarvonshire. Geol.: Sedgwick's name for the upper beds of the Cam brian formation, corresponding to part of Bar- rande's Primordial zone. They were first met with at Tremadoc, and next traced to Dolgelly. Dr. Hicks found and carefully examined them at St. David's promontory and Ramsey Island, in South Wales; and finally Mr. Call away showed that the Shineton shale of Shropshire was of the same age, dark earthy flags and sandstones, with least eighty-four fo il species, those of North somewhat differing from those of South Wales. Many new genera of Trilobites appear: Crinoidea, Asteroidea, Lamellibranch i at a, and Cephalopod a are met with for the first time. In North Wales there are nine Pteropods, mostly of the genus Theca, and Phyllopod Crustacea have been found. trē-măn-drā'-çě-æ, s. pl . [Modern Latin tre- mandr(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceæ .] Bot .: Poreworts; an order of hypogynous exogens, alliance Sap in dales. Slender heath-like plants, generally with glandular hairs. Leaves alternate, or whorled, exstipulate, with axillary one-flowered pedicels; flowers in most species large, showy; the base, equal, valvate in æstivation; petals the same number, large, deciduous, involute in æstiva- tion; stamens eight or ten; anthers two or four- celled, opening by a pore at the apex; styles one or two; ovary two-celled, each cell with one to three pendulous ovules. Fruit capsular, two-valved, two- celled; seeds with a hooked appendage at the apex. Natives of Australia. Genera three, species sixteen. ( Lindley .) trê-ma-nō-tus, s . [Greek trēma a hole, and notos the back.] 2. Music: A trill or shake. trěm-blěr, s. [Eng. trembl (e), v.; -er.] 1. Ord . Lang .: One who trembles. "Not one poor trembler only fear betrays." Byron: An Occasional Prologue . "As thus I strol'd along the street, Such gangs and parcels did I meet Of these quaint primitive di emblers In old Queen Be ' days call'd Tremblers , For their sham shaking and their shivering." Ward: Hudibras Redivivus. Zool.: Flukes, Suctorial Worms; an order of the cla Annelid a, with two groups, Distoma and Poly- stoma. Leaf-like parasites, for the most part internal, but some external, provided with one or more ventral suckers, a mouth and alimentary canal, but no anus or body cavity; integument of the adult not ciliated; sexes generally united in one individual. They are the Sterelmintha of Owen, and were included by Cuvier in his Paren- chymatous Intestinal Worms. The intestinal canal is often much branched, and po e es but one external opening, usually at the bottom of the anterior suctorial disc, and serving both as an oral and anal aperture. A water-vascular system is B. As adj .: Shaking, as with fear, cold, or the present, consisting of two lateral ve els, generally like. opening on the surface by a common excretory pore. The nervous system consists of two pharyngeal ganglia. The young may be developed directly into the adult, or may pa through a complicated meta- morphosis, varying in different cases (REDIA]; and one of the early stages of their existence is often pa ed in the interier of fresh-water mollusks, whence they are transferred to a vertebrate host. In their adult state they occupy the most varied IMG:content-1397.png:[blocks in formation] trembling-poplar, s. Bot.: Populus tremula, the Aspen (q. v.). trembling-tree, s. Bot.: Populus trepid a ; an American tree, about forty feet high, akin to the Aspen, of which some botanists consider it to be only a variety. It has a sub-orbiculate leaf, with an abruptly acuminate point, and two glands at its base; young leaves silky on the upper surface, old ones glabrous. trěm-bling-ly, adv . [Eng. trembling ; -ly .] In a trembling manner; so as to shake; tremulously. "We must come tremblingly before him."- Bp . Hall : Devout Soul, § 22. trěm-blör-ēş, s. pl. [TREMBELORES.] *trěm-e-făc-tion, s. [Lat. tremefactus , pr. par. of tremefacio =to cause to shake or tremble: tremo =to tremble, and facio =to make.] The act or state of trembling; agitation, tremor.