technoiogy

[Gr. technc =art; suff.- ology.] That branch of knowledge which deals with the various industrial arts; the science or systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, as of weaving, spinning, metallurgy, or the like. "There were not any further e ays made in technology for above fourscore years; but all men acquiesced in the common grammar." -Twell; Examination of Grammar. (Preface, p. 17.) těch -ý, a. [TETCHY.] Peevish, fretful, irritable. tě cô-ma, s. [Mexican tecomaxochitl =one of the species.] Bot .: A genus of Bignoniaceae. Calyx campanulate, five-toothed; corolla with a campanulate throat and a five-lobed bilabiate limb; stamens didynamous. Erect trees, shrubs, or scandent plant, with unequally pinnate or simple digitate leaves; flowers yellow or flesh-colored, in terminal panicles. Tecoma radicans , from the Southern States of the Union, is a favorite climber in European gardens. The leaves have nine acuminate, serrate leaflets. The roots of T.stans and T.speciosa are diuretic. T. impetiginosa abounds in tannin; the bark is bitter and mucilaginous, and is used in lotions and baths in inflammation of the joints and debility. The bark of T. ipe is used in Brazil as a gargle in ulcers of the mouth. T. undulata , an evergreen shrub from the north west of India, produces gorgeous orange-colored blo oms in April; its leaves are used as cattle-fodder.