thairm

[THARM.) A small gut; catgut, fiddle string. ( Scotch.) "When I am tired of scraping thairm or singing ballants."- Scott: Red gauntlet, letter xi. thăl-ăm-en-çěph ́-a-lăn, s. [Greek thalamos =a bed-chamber, and engkephalon =the brain.] Embryol.: A cerebral rudiment corresponding to the thalami optic i and the third ventricle of the brain. ( Huxley .) thăl-a-me-phor-us, thăl-a-me-phor-os ( pl . thăl-a-me-phor-i, thăl-a-me-phor-61, 8. [Mod. Gr.thalamēphoros : thalame =an ark, a shrine, and phoros =bearing.] Egyptian Antiq .: A kneeling figure supporting a shrine or inscribed tablet. These statues probably represent priests and initiated women who carried about in proce ions the statues of the gods. It was usual for such proce ions to stand still from time to time, when the priests, kneeling probably, presented to the people the images of the deities, either to be worshiped or ki ed. ( Herod ., ii. 48, 49; see also Mont faucon: Diar . Ital . , p. 361.) "Statues of this cla are now commonly called Pas top hori or Thal am ephori." - Library Entertaining Knowledge: Egyptian Antiquities, Thalamephorus.