texture (tekstur)

[F. texture = Pr. tex ura, tezura = Sp. Pg. textura = It. testura, God made them coats of skin, which, though a natural habit unto all before the invention of texture , was something more unto Adam. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 25. His high throne, which, under state Of richest texture spread, at the upper end Was placed in regal lustre. Milton , P. L., Χ. 446. Others, apart far in the gra y dale, their humble texture weave. Thomson, Spring, 1. 641. 3. The peculiar or characteristic disposition of the threads, strands, or the like which make up a textile fabric: as, cloth of loose texture.4. By extension, the peculiar disposition of the constituent parts of any body-its make, consistence, etc.; structure in general. In the next place, it seems to be pretty well agreed that there is something also in the original frame or tex ture of every man's mind which, independently of all exterior and subsequently intervening circumstances, and even of his radical frame of body, makes him liable to be differently affected by the same exciting causes from what another man would be. th. A common English digraph. See T1. Th. 1. An abbreviation of Thursday.-2. In chem., the symbol for thorium. -th1. [ formative, the more recent examples, like blowth, spilth, being chiefly poetical. The words in which it occurs are mostly old, and accordingly often differ somewhat, in their modern form, from the modern form of the original adjective or verb, as filth from foul, drouth from dry, etc. In many cases the relation of the noun in th to its original verb is more remote, and is to be explained by the history of the particular word, as in death from the original form of die, ruth from rue, etc. In certain positions the th becomes -t, and sometimes-d. Some modern forms in -t coexist with forms in -th, as drought, height, beside the now archaic drouth, highth; and in some -t has replaced the earlier -th, as in sight. In many nouns -th is of other, and often obscure, origin, as in north, south, both, etc. -th2. [Also -eth; an adj. formative (orig. identical with the superl. suffix-t, in -es - t ), used to form ordinal from cardinal numerals: see the etymologies of the ordinals concerned.] A suffix ( -eth after a vowel) used in forming ordinal from cardinal numerals, tieth thirtie as in fourth, fourth, fifth, sixth, etc., twen Bentham , Introd. to Morals and Legislation, vi. 29. or it will grow lax and spongy in texture for want O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 231. -th ent indicative of verbs, as in singeth, hopeth, etc., or hath, doth, etc. It remains in archaic use, in poetical and scriptural language, the ordinary modern Anglo-Saxon use it was often con fiddle English and Angie com tracted with a preceding radical dort into -t, as fint for findeth, sit for siteth, sitteth, etc. thalt, adv. A Middle English variant of thol. tha2+, pron. An obsolete form of the1 and they1. thaar, n. See thar3.