typhloid (tifloid)

[ sector bearing letters in relief on its periphtyphlology (tif-lol'ō-ji), n. [ , speak: see- ology . The sum and in some type-writers. type-write (tīp'rīt), v . t . and i. To print or re- produce by means of a type-writer; practise type-writing. [Recent.] type-writer (tip'rī"ter), n. 1. A machine for mechanical writing, operated by hand, and printing one letter, or combination of letters, at a time, by the impre of type adapted to the purpose. There are now several distinct types of these machines.-2. An operator on a typewriting machine; one who prints characters on -Automatic paper by means of a type-writer. - Automat type-writer telegraph. See telegraph. type-writing (tip'riting), n. The proce of printing letter by letter by the use of a typewriter; also, work done by this proce . Typha (tī'fä), n. [NL. (Tournefort, 1700; earlier by Lobel, 1576), family, by its linear anthers, stalked ovary, and dry indehiscent fruit. There are 13 species, natives of freshwater swamps in both tropical and temperate They are smooth herbs with strong creep ing rootstocks from which grow erect unbranched and often tall and robust stems with a submerged base. The leaves are chiefly radical, long and linear, spongy, and at first somewhat fleshy and watery. The monœcio us flowers form a cylindrical term i nal spadix, the upper part of which is staminate and deciduous; both parts are partly covered in the bud by very perishable thin spathaceous bracts. The long-stalked minute Cattail ( Typha latifolia). fruit is produced in great abundance, over 60,000 to the average spike in the common species; each fruit contains a single seed, and is surrounded near the base by twenty to forty long slender white hairs which expand at maturity, aiding in dispersion by the wind. The plant usually reaches from 5 to 9 feet high; in California T. Doming ens is sometimes reaches 18 feet, including an inflorescence of 3 feet; in the common T. latifolia the handsome dark rusty-brown fertile part of the spike is usually from 5 to 8 inches long, sometimes 14, and is much used for rustic decoration. The abundant mealy pollen is made into bread in India and New Zealand; it is inflammable, and has been used as a substitute for tinder and for matches. The powdered flowers have been used for poultices, and the farinaceous a, the spadix, with male flowers above and female ones below; d, a male flower; c, a female flower. rootstocks are considered astringent and diuretic in east ern Asia. The long leaves are much used in central New York to make chair-bottoms, and are elsewhere woven into mats and baskets. Three species occur in the United States, of which T. latifolia, with four-grained pollen, and T. an gust i folia, with single-grained pollen, are widely distributed throughout the northern parts of both hemispheres; the latter is in the United States more local and largely maritime, and often shows a distinct interval between the male and female divisions of the spike. The other and larger species, T. Doming ens is, occurs in the West Indies, Mexico, Texas, California, and the Argentine Republic. For T. elephant in a, see elephant - gra ; for the others, cattail, reed - mace, and reree; and compare marsh beetle and dunche - down. They are also commonly known as flag and as bulrush.