Tiger

(ti'gür.) [From L. tigris. ] (Zool.) This most beautiful,but most destructive of quadrupeds (Fig. 640), is undoubtedly, next to the Lion, also the most powerful animal of the fam. Felide. It is a native of the warmer parts of Asia, and is principally found in India and the Indian islands; though the species extends as far as China, Chinese Tartary, and the Altaic Mountains. It has all the zoological characters, prowling habits, and sanguinary propensities common to the rest of the fam.; but it is distinguished from them all by the peculiar markings of its coat. The ground color is a bright orange - yellow; the face, throat, and under side of the belly being nearly white; the whole elegantly striped by a series of transverse black Fig. 640.-HEAD OF BENGAL TIGER. bands or bars, Timocracy, which form a bold and striking contrast with the ground-color. About the face and breast the stripes are proportionally smaller than on other parts; and the markings are continued, in an annular form, upon the tail, the tip of which is black. The Tiger's Timoleon, method of seizing his prey is by concealing himself from view, and springing with a horrible roar on his victim, which he carries off, and tears to pieces, after having first partly satiated himself by sucking the blood;and such is his strength, that he is able to carry off a buffalo with seeming ease. Tilburg, (tēl'boorg,) a manuf. town of Holland, p. N. Timon, Brabant, 14 m. E.S.E. of Breda. Pop. 22,256. Tiles, (tilz.) [From A. S. ti gel. Plates of baked clay, of various shapes, according to their use, some being for Timor, roofs, some for pavements. The finer kinds of paving tiles are known as Encaustic Tiles. See ENCAUSTIC. Tile stone, (til'stōn.) (Geol.) The uppermost group of the Silurian period, consisting ofa reddish, thin-bedded, slightly micaceous sandstone, which in some places attaius a thickne of 1,000 feet. Tiliacesæ, (lil-e-a'se-e.) (Bot.) An O. of plants, all. Malvales, consisting of trees or shrubs, with alternate stipulate leaves, and usually cymose flowers. The common Lime, Linden, Ba -wood, or Pumpkin-wood, Til i a American a, a common forest-tree in the Northern and Middle States, attains a height of 80 feet. Tillage, (til'lāj.) [A. S.] (Agric.) The art, proce , or practice of cultivating the soil for the production of crops. Till a mook, (til'lah-mook,) in Oregon, a N.W. co., drained by a river of same name; C. Till a mook. Pop. 408. Tiller, (til'lür.) [A. S. tilia.] (Naut.) Alever or piece of wood fastened in the head of the rudder, by which it is moved. In small ships and boats it is called the helm. Tilsit, (til's it,) a manuf. town ofE. Pru ia, on the Niemen, 58 m. N.E. of Königsberg. Here, July 1, 1807, was concluded a treaty of peace between France and Pru ia. Pop. 15,371. Timber, (tim-bür.) [A. S.] A name for all kinds of wood to be used in Building, Carpentry, Joinery, Turning, . We also apply the word to standing trees which are suitable for these purposes. See DRY-ROT. Timbre, (tam'br.) [Fr., a stamp.] (Mus.) The characteristic quality of a voice or of a musical instrument.(Her.) The crest of an achievement surmounting a helmet. Timbuctoo, (tim-book-too',) or TOMBUCToo, an important town of W. Central Africa, near the boundary-line bet. the Soudan and the Great Desert of Sahara, and 8 m. N. of the Niger, in N. Lat. 17° 50′, W. Lon. 3° 40′. It is inhabited chiefly by Mohammedan negroes of the Ki our race, but contains also a great number of Moors who carry on an active trade, principally in salt. T. is a caravan station, on the route between Barbary and Nigritia, and is said to have become, after its foundation in 1213, the C. of a Moorish kingdom. Pop. 20,000. Time. (lim.) [From L. temp us.]. A portion of duration, whether past, present, or future; marked by certain periods or measures, chiefly by the motion and revolution of the sun.- Absolute T. is that which is considered in itself, without reference to the portion of duration to which it belongs.- Relative T. is that which is considered with reference to the termini of some specific 5N 57 interval of duration.-Apparent T. is that deduced from observations of the sun that which is shown by agood sun-dial.-Mean T. is that shown by a well regulated watch: it is not the same as that shown by a sun-dial, because the apparent motion of the sun in the heavens is not uniform. -Sidereal T. is that portion of a sidereal day which has elapsed since the transit of the first point of Aries. It represents at any moment the right ascension of whatever heavenly body is then on the meridian -Astronomical T. of the day is reckoned from the mean moon of that day, and is reckoned on to twenty-four hours in mean T.- Civil T. is mean T. applied to the purposes of civil life. The civil day commences at the midnight preceding the morn of the day, and it is divided into two parts of twelve hours each; the first twelve hours being A. M. or ante meridian (before noon); the second twelve hours being P. M. or post meridian (after noon).-(Mus.) The measure of sounds, with reference to their continuance or duration. Thus, in common T., the bar is equal in length to a semibreve, ora minim, according to the character used to indicate this T.; in triple T., it is that part of the semibreve expre ed by the fraction placed at the beginning of the staff thus 34 means three-fourths of a semibreve, or three crotchets; 12,twelve-eighths of a semibreve, or twelve quarters, . The T. is also affected by certain technical terms employed; such as allegro, presto, . (te-mok'ra-se.) [FromGr. time, an a e ment, and kratos, rule.] (Pol.) That form of government the laws of which require a certain amount of property, or position in society, to enable a citizen to hold any of the higher offices of state. (ti-mole-un.) ACorinthian, whose love of liberty made him a fratricide, and who, between the years 344 and 338 B. c., delivered all the Greek cities of Sicily from the rule of the tyrants who had usurped the government of them, and set limits to the power of the Cart hag in i ans on the island. (ti'mon.) An A then i an, called the Misanthrope, from his hating and renouncing society. He flourished in the 5th century B. c. (te'mor,) the most S.E. island of the Molucca group, in the E. Archipelago, lying E. of Floris, and S. of Band a, bet. S. Lat. 8° 16′-10° 25′, E. Lon. 125° 25′127° 10. Area, 8,820 sq. m. Surface generally mountainous, with a very fertile and productive soil. Three fourths of the island belong to the Dutch, whose chief settlement is at Coepang on the S. coast; the remaining quarter is in the hands of the Portuguese; their town,named Delly, being situated on the N. side of the island. The natives are of a mixed Malay and Austral asian negro type. Pop. 400,000. [s. 897] IMG:p0946_0.jpg:Gravür