TIMUR

b. 1353, d. 1405, a Tartar tieftain who iu 1370 became ruler of the strict round Samarkand, and Ister yaquered almost the whole of Central sia. iis campaigns were marked by reat omy and bloodshed, but his en- — of learning at his capital, and, oe him to have been not tterly devoid of civilized qualities. Ile mquered Porsia, the greater part of ndia, defeated and took prisoner at nzora, in Asia Minor, Bajazet L, Suitan Tarkey, and at his death his territories stended from Moscow to the Great Wall | China. Tin, a soft white mctal used lergely in xe making of alloys such as bronze, pewter, Britannia-metal, gun-metal, ctc. he principal ore from which it is exacted is tin-stone, a compound of tin nd oxygen. ‘The Cornish tin mines, once ell known, are now nearly exhausted, Cc | Peninsula being the chic! mrce of England's supply. Large cmares ore used in the preparation of o-plato. [s. 300]