Honeycomb tetter(Med.), favus.Moist tetter(Med.), eczema.Scaly tetter(Med.), psoriasis.Tetter berry(Bot.), the white bryony.

Tetter
(Tet"ter), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tettered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tettering.] To affect with tetter. Shak.

Tetterous
(Tet"ter*ous) a. Having the character of, or pertaining to, tetter.

Tetter-totter
(Tet"ter-tot`ter) n. [See Teeter.] A certain game of children; seesaw; — called also titter- totter, and titter-cum-totter.

Tetterwort
(Tet"ter*wort`) n. (Bot.) A plant used as a remedy for tetter, — in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.

Tettigonian
(Tet`ti*go"ni*an) n. [Gr. dim. of a kind of grasshopper.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.

Tettish
(Tet"tish) a. [Cf. Testy.] Captious; testy. [Written also teatish.] [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Tettix
(||Tet"tix) n. [NL., fr. Gr. a kind of grasshopper.]

1. (Zoöl.) The cicada. [Obs. or R.]

2. (Zoöl.) A genus of small grasshoppers.

Tetty
(Tet"ty) a. Testy; irritable. [Obs.] Burton.

Teufit
(Teu"fit) n. (Zoöl.) The lapwing; — called also teuchit. [Prov. Eng.]

Teuk
(Teuk) n. (Zoöl.) The redshank. [Prov. Eng.]

Teuton
(Teu"ton) n.; pl. E. Teutons L. Teutones [L. Teutones, Teutoni, the name of a Germanic people, probably akin to E. Dutch. Cf. Dutch.]

1. One of an ancient German tribe; later, a name applied to any member of the Germanic race in Europe; now used to designate a German, Dutchman, Scandinavian, etc., in distinction from a Celt or one of a Latin race.

2. A member of the Teutonic branch of the Indo- European, or Aryan, family.

Teutonic
(Teu*ton"ic) a. [L. Teutonicus, from Teutoni, or Teutones. See Teuton.]

1. Of or pertaining to the Teutons, esp. the ancient Teutons; Germanic.

2. Of or pertaining to any of the Teutonic languages, or the peoples who speak these languages.

Teutonic languages, a group of languages forming a division of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family, and embracing the High German, Low German, Gothic, and Scandinavian dialects and languages. - - Teutonic order, a military religious order of knights, established toward the close of the twelfth century, in imitation of the Templars and Hospitalers, and composed chiefly of Teutons, or Germans. The order

Tetrylene
(Tet"ryl*ene) n. [Tetra- + ethylene.] (Chem.) Butylene; — so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule.

Tetter
(Tet"ter) n. [OE. teter, AS. teter, tetr; akin to G. zitter, zittermal, OHG. zittaroch, Skr. dadru, dadruka, a sort of skin disease. &radic63, 240.] (Med.) A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes.


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