*teth*

a. [ OE., fr. AS. eahtateóða; eahta eight + teóða tenth. Cf. Eighteenth, Tenth. ] Eighteenth. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. A vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor. [ 1913 Webster ]

New things produce new words, and thus Monteth
Has by one vessel saved his name from death. King. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Stearic + ethal. ] (Chem.) One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; the breast + -graph. ] (Physiol.) See Pneumatograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; chest + -meter. ] (Physiol.) An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope. M. W. Savage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sth^qos the breast + -scope: cf. F. stéthoscope. ] (Med.) An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. stéthoscopique. ] Of or pertaining to a stethoscope; obtained or made by means of a stethoscope. -- Steth`o*scop"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. One skilled in the use of the stethoscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or process of examination by the stethoscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formerly tedder, OE. tedir; akin to LG. tider, tier, Icel. tjōðr, Sw. tjūder, Dan. töir. √64. ] A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tethered p. pr. & vb. n. Tethering. ] To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits. [ 1913 Webster ]

And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A game played with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole, the object of each side being to wrap the string around the pole by striking the ball in a direction opposite to the other. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ See Tethys. ] (Zool.) A tunicate. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Tethys + Gr. e'i^dos form. ] (Zool.) A division of Tunicata including the common attached ascidians, both simple and compound. Called also Tethioidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; an oyster, or &unr_; a kind of ascidian. ] (Zool.) A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A spendthrift. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The hawthorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (Sylvia curruca). [ 1913 Webster ]