typewriting

& a. A. As subst.: The act or art of producing letters and words with a type-writer; the work done with a type-writer. "All kinds of documents copied in type -writing. Good type-writing is easy to read." -Notes & Queries, Nov. 19, 1887. (Advt.) "This kind of work will be especially cultivated in a ociation with other branches of the type- writing art."London Daily News . type-written, a. Produced or copied by means of a type-writer (q. v.). IMG:content-1635.png:[blocks in formation] Pathol .: A term proposed by Dr. T. K. Chambers for any variety of typhus-fever (q. v.). typh-poison, s . (TYPHINE.] tỹ phạ, s. [Lat. typha; Gr. typhe =a cat's tail. See def.] Bot.: Reedmace, Cat's tail, or Bulrush. Spikes cylindrical, perianth consisting only of hairs, stamens monadelphous, anthers somewhat wedge shaped, ovaries stalked, fruit minute, seed cylindrical, testa striate. Known species six or eight, from temperate and tropical countries. In India the typhas are used for mat-making and stuffing chairs, and the fiber of T. an gust i folia has been tried succe fully for paper-manufacture. Elephants are fond of an Indian species, T. elephant ina , whence the name, and its roots bind the soil. In Europe the pollen of the Typhas is sometimes used like that of Lycopodium in the manufacture of fireworks. Mixed with water it forms a kind of bread eaten in Scinde, Western Australia, and New Zealand. The rhizomes abound in starch, and are used in Kashmir as food. They are somewhat astringent and diuretic, and are given in Eastern Asia in dysentery, gonorrhea, gonorrhea, and the measles. The down of the ripe fruit has been applied in India, like medicated cotton-wool, to ulcers and wounds. ty-phā-çě-æ, s. pl . [Mod. Lat. typh (a); Latin fem. pl. adj. suff.- aceœ .] Bot.: Typhads or Bulrushes; an order of Endogens, alliance Arales. Herbaceous plants growing in marshes or ditches. Rootstock creeping, stem without nodes, leaves rigid, ensiform, with parallel veins, spathe none. Flowers in cylindrical spikes or heads, moncæcio us, the males uppermost; sepals reduced to three or more scales, or even to a bundle of hairs; corolla none. Males: Stamens three or six; filaments long, sometimes monadelphous. Females: Styles short; stigmas simple; ovary one rarely two celled; fruit dry, indehiscent, one-celled, one-sceded, made angular by mutual pre ure. They are found chiefly in the northern hemisphere and the temperate parts. Known genera two, Typha and Sparganium (q. v.), species thirteen ( Lindley ), twelve J. Hooker ). ty-phăd, s . [Lat. typh (a); Eng. suff. -ad.] Bot. ( pl .): The Typhacese. ( Lindley .) typh-i-a, s. [TYPHUS.) Pathol .: Typhoid-fever (q. v.).