Tcloth (tekloth)

A plain cotton cloth manufactured in Great Britain for the India and China markets: so called from a large letter T stamped on it. T-cro (tē krôs), n. A tau-cro . Te. In chem., the symbol for tellurium. teal (tē), n. [First used in E. about the middle of the 17th century, in two forms: ( a ) tea, the a, tay, tey, tee (at first pronounced tā, riming with obey (Pope, 1711), pay (Gay, 1720), in accordance with the spelling, later tē, 1745, etc.); = F. thé = Sp.te, formerly tea = It. tè = D. G. thee = Sw. Dan. te = NGr. τέϊ ( NL.the a ), prob., through Malay te, teh, tapering toward both ends; the flowers are white, and about 11 inches broad. The cultivated plant is of a more contracted habit, with smaller, more obtuse, and leathery leaves. The plant is known to grow wild in upper A am, the form there found having sometimes been distinguished as Thea A amica, forming, with its varieties, A am tea. The A am plant is much superior to the Chinese, and the teas most plant- ed are hybrids of the two. The Chinese tea has two varie- ties, formerly distinguished as Thea Bohea and T. virid is , black and green tea; but either kind of tea can be made from either plant. China is the great seat of tea-culture; but tea is also extensively grown in Japan, having been Branch with Flowers of Tea ( Camellia the if era , var. Bohea ). a , leaf, showing the nervation. C Branch with Flowers of Tea ( Camellia the if era , var. virid is ), a, leaf, showing the nervation; b, capsule, showing the loculicidal dehiscence; c, a seed. introduced in the reign of Saga Tennō (A. D. 810-23), also in India and Java. Promising experiments have been made in Madagascar, Natal, Jamaica, etc. In the United States it can be grown succe fully in the South and in California; but the cost of labor has thus far prevented its economic succe . 3. An infusion of the prepared leaves of the tea plant, used as a beverage, in Great Britain and America commonly with the addition of a little milk or sugar, or both, in continental Europe often with a little spirit, in Ru ia with lemon, and in China and neighboring countries without any admixture. Its action is stimulating and invigorating, and, owing to the presence of tannin, more or le astringent. Its main quality depends upon the alkaloid thein; the leaf contains also volatile oils, which give it its fragrance, and some other substances. Exce ive use, especially of green tea, affects the nervous system unfavorably. While tea contains but trifling nutriment, it is held to retard the waste of the ti ues and diminish the need of food. That excellent and by all physicians approved China drink called by the Chineans Teha , and by other nations tay, alias tee , is sold at the Sultana Head Coffee House, Mercurius Politic us , Sept. 30, 1658. London. I did send for a cup of tee , a China drink, of which I had never drank before. Pepys , Diary, Sept. 28, 1660. Tea ! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid; thou female-tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate. Cibber, Lady's Last Stake, i. 1. 4. A similar infusion of the leaves, roots, etc., of various other plants, used either medicinally or as a beverage: generally with a qualifying word. See phrases below.-5. The evening meal, at which tea is usually served; also, an afternoon entertainment at which tea is served: as, a five o'clock tea. See high tea, under high. After an early tea , the little country-girl strayed into Hawthorne , Seven Gables, vi. the garden. This is rather a large affair to be talked over between so young as to be still covered with down. A third group you and me after five-o'clock tea, Alicia, over a dying fire. of teas is known as the scented, generally of poorer quality, tea A tea in the north country depends for distinction, not on its solids or its savouries, but on its sweets. Mrs. Humphry Ward , Robert Elsmere, ii. 6. Urine. Gay, Trivia, ii. 297. -Aby in i an tea, the leaves of Catha edulis, which are stimulant, anti soporific, and anti narcotic, and used by the Arabs to produce wakefulne . - Algerian tea, the flowers of Paronychia argentea and P. cap it at a (P. nivea ), used to make a medicinal tea in Algiers, thence imported into France and considerably used under the name the arabe.-Appal a chi an tea. See Appal a chi an and yaupon. - Arabian tea, the Aby in i an or sometimes the Algerian tea.A am tea. See def. 2. - Australian tea. See tea tree.-Ayapana tea, a tea made from ayapana, or the plant itself. See ayapana. - Barbary tea. See Lycium. -Bencoolen tea, Leptospermum ( Glaphyria ) nitidum, its leaves used in infusion by the Malays. - Black tea, See def. 1.-Blue Mountain tea. See Solidago. - Bohea tea. See def. 1.-Botany Bay tea, Smilax glycyphylla. See Smilax.-Bourbon tea. Same as faam tea.- Brazil or Brazilian tea. Same as gervao; also, same as mate4. Breast tea, an infusion composed of althea 8 parts, coltsfoot-leaves 4 parts, Ru ian glycyrrhiza 3 parts, anise 2 parts, mullen 2 parts, and orris 1 part. - Brick tea. See brick-tea.-Brou a tea, Vaccinium Arctostaphylos, used at Brou a.-Bush tea, the dried leaves and tops of the leguminous shrub Cyclopia gen is to ides, which are of a tealike fragrance, and used in infusion at the Cape of Good Hope to promote expectoration. - Cambric tea, a mixture of hot milk and water, given to children. - Camphor tea, a solution made by pouring boiling water on a lump of camphor.- Canada tea, a decoction of the leaves of Gaultheria procumbens. - Canary tea, Sida rhombi folia. See Sida. Carolina tea. Same as youpon. Ceylon tea. See Elæodendron. - Clumsy tea. See clumsy. Coffee or coffee-leaf tea, the leaves of the coffee-plant, long used in decoction in the Eastern Archipelago. They contain a good amount of caffein, but accompanied by an unpleasant senna-like odor. - Cold tea, spirituous liquors. [Slang.]-Congou tea. See def. 1, and Congou.-English breakfast tea, a name given in the United States to the brand of tea known as souchong. - Faam or fah am tea. See fah am.-Green tea. See def. 1.- Gunpowder tea. See gunpowder, and def. 1, above. - Hottentot's tea. See Helichrysum.- Hyson skin tea. See def. 1.- Hyson tea. See def. 1.- Imperial tea. See def. 1.- Jersey tea. Same as New Jersey tea. See below. - Jesuit's tea (a) See Psoralea. (b) Same as mate 4. - Kafir tea. See He lichrysum.-Labrador tea. See Ledum. - Lemon-gra tea. See lemon - gra . Malay tea. Same as Bencoolen tea. See above. - Marsh-tea. See Ledum. - Mexican tea. (a) See Mexican. (b) See Psoralea. - Mountain tea. Same as tea - berry. - New Jersey tea, a low shrub, Ceanothus American us, of eastern North America. Its leaves were used as a substitute for tea during the American revolution, and the manufacture has been revived in Pennsylvania. See Ceanothus and redroot. -New Zealand tea, Leptospermum scoparium. See tea-tree. Oolong tea. See def. 1.-Oswego tea, the bee-balm, Monarda didyma, the leaves of which emit a pleasant mint-like odor, and are said to po e tonic, stomachic, and deobstruent virtues. - Pagle tea, an infusion of the dried flowers of the cowslip, having a narcotic property, drunk in some counties of England.Paraguay tea. Same as mate4. Pearl-tea. Same as gunpowder tea. See def. 1. Pectoral tea. Same as breast tea.- Pekoe tea. See def. 1.-Phaskomylia tea. See apple - bearing sage, under sage2. - Popayan tea, Miconia ( Melas tom a ) theezans. Pu-erh tea, a tea forming an article of commerce in China near the frontier of Burma, said to be used as an aid to digestion. It appears to be from a plant not very different from the wild A am tea plant. Sage tea, an infu sion of the common sage, used as a mild tonic, astrin- Paraguay Tea ( Ilex Paraguay gent, and aromatic: before the introduction of Chinese ens is). tea considerably used as a beverage in England. -St. Bartholomew's tea. Same as mate4. - St. Germain tea, a medicinal mixture composed of alcoholic extract of senna 16, sambucus flowers 10, anise 5, fennel 5, pota ium bitartrate 3 parts. St. Helena tea, a shrubby plant, Franke nia portulacæfolia, of St. Helena. - Saloop tea. Same as sa afras tea. Sa afras tea. See sa afras. - Scented tea, tea which has been scented by intermixture with odoriferous flowers, and again separated by sifting. Sealed tea, a kind of coarse tea exported from China. It is pre ed compactly into sealed packages weighing about three pounds each.- Souchong tea. See def. 1 and English breakfast tea, above. - South Sea tea, a misnomer of the yaupon.-Surinam tea, a plant of the genus Lantana, species of which are used as tea.-Sweet tea. See Smilax, 1.-Swi tea, an infusion of several herbs of the genus Achillea, especially A. moschata, A. atrata, A. nana, and A. nobilis, common in the Swi Alps.Tea family, the order Ternstræmiacea, to which the tea-plant belongs. - Teamster's tea, a name of Ephedra antisyphilitic a. Also whorehouse tea. - Tea of heaven, an article prepared in Japan from the leaves of Hy drangea serrata ( H. Thunbergi ). -Theezan tea, Sage retia kay tea. See def. 1. - West Indian tea, a shrubby herb, Capraria biflora of the Scrophularineæ, found in tropical America and Africa, also called goatweed and sweet weed. Its leaves are considerably used as tea in the West Indies. - Wild tea, the lead-plant, Amorpha canescens. - Willow tea, the prepared leaves of a species of willow grown in the neighborhood of Shanghai, and used as a substitute for tea by the poorer cla es. - Wood tea, a decoction made from guaiacum-wood, sa afras, on on is-root, and licorice-root. See Sage retia . - To face tea. See facel . - Twan