The tutelage whereof, as those past worlds did please,

Some to Minerva gave, and some to Hercules.

Drayton. According to the traditions of the magicians, the tutelary spirits will not remove at common appellations, but at the proper names of things whereunto they are protectors.

Browne.

If one in the possession of lands die, and leave a minor to succeed him, his tutelage belongeth to the king. Drummond.

Temperance, that virtue without pride, and fortune without envy, that gives indolence of body, with an equality of mind; the best guardian of youth and support of old age, the precept of reason, as well as religion, and physician of the soul as well as the body; the tutelur goddess of health, and uniTemple. These tutelar genii who presided over the several people committed to their charge, were watchful over Dryden.

versal medicine of life.

them.

Ye tutelar gods, who guard this royal fabric!

TUTOR, n. s. & v. a. TUTORAGE, n. s. TU'TORESS.

Rowe.

Lat. tutor; Fr. tuteur. One who has the care of another's learning and morals; a teacher or instructor: to instruct; treat with superiority or haughtiness: tutoress is the feminine noun substantive: tutorage, the authority or solemnity of a tutor.

When nobles are the tailors' tutors; No hereticks burnt but wenches suitors. Shakspeare. He cannot be a perfect man,

Not being tried and tutored in the world.

Id.

The cock has his spurs, and he strikes his feet inward with singular strength and order; yet he does not this by any syllogistical method, but is merely tutored by instinct.

Hale.

Fidelia shall be your tutoress. Moore's Foundling. His body thus adorned, he next designed With liberal arts to cultivate his mind: He sought a tutor of his own accord, And studied lessons he before abhorred. Dryden. I take a review of my little boys mounted upon hobby-horses, and of little girls tutoring their babies.

Addison.

A primitive Christian, that coming to a friend to teach him a psalm, began, I said I will look to my ways, that I offend not with my tongue : upon which he stopt his tutor, saying, This is enough, if I learn it. Government of the Tongue. No science is so speedily learned by the noblest genius without a tutor.

Watts. And, what still more his staggering virtue tried, His mother, tutoress of that virtue, died. Harte. TUTOR, in the civil law, is one chosen to look to the persons and estates of children, left by their fathers and mothers in their minority. The different kinds of tutory established among the Romans, and the powers and duties of tutors, are described in Inst. Leg. 1. T. XIII. sect 1. and 2, to which the reader is referred. See also the article GUARDIAN.

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TUTSBURY, a parish of Staffordshire, on the Don River over which is a neat stone-bridge, has an ancient castle, belonging to the earls of Derby, which was formerly one of the most noted in England. The church is a large massive building. In the town are several chapels for dissenters, and an excellent free-school. A market was once held here, but is discontinued. The chief business of the place is wool-combing, and a cotton manufactory. Fairs, February 14th, August 15th, and December 1st. Six miles north by west of Burton and 134 from London.

TUTTY, an argillaceous ore of zinc, found in Persia, formed on cylindrical moulds into tubulous pieces, like the bark of a tree, and baked to a moderate hardness; generally of a brownish color, and full of small protuberances on the outside, smooth and yellowish within, some times whitish, and sometimes with a bluish cast. Like other argillaceous bodies, it becomes harder in a strong fire; and after the zinc has been revived and dissipated by inflammable additions, or extracted by acids, the remaining earthy matter affords an aluminous salt, with sulphuric acids. Tutty is celebrated as an ophthalmic, and frequently employed as such in unguents and collyria. See PHARMACY.

TUY, an ancient town of Galicia, Spain, the chief place of a district, stands on the summit of a rising ground, at the foot of which flows the Minho. It has always been fortified, and is considered one of the keys of the kingdom on the side of Portugal, standing within cannon-shot of Valença. It has good ramparts and a citadel: its streets are regular and neatly paved, and the environs and public walks are pleasant. It has little trade, except contraband intercourse with Portugal: but is a bishop's see, and has an audienza or court for the administration of civil affairs. The militia of Galicia has its rendezvous here. Inhabitants 4000.

TUY, a river of the Caraccas, in the province of Venezuela, which falls into the ocean thirty leagues east of the port of Guaira.

TUZ, n. s. Welch tusz. A lock or tuft of

The twanging bows

rhetorick.

There's one, the best in all my quiver, Twang! through his very heart and liver.

South.

Prior.

make to sound.

Id.

To

A freeman of London has the privilege of disturbing a whole street with twanking of a brass kettle.

Addison.

Dryden.

"TWAS. Contracted from it was. If he asks who bid thee, say 'twas I. TWATTLE, v. n. Teut. schwatzen. To prate; to gabble; to chatter.

It is not for every twattling gossip to undertake. L'Estrange.

TWAY. For TWAIN.

Gyon's angry blade so fierce did play
On the other's helmet, which as Titan shone,
That quite it clove his plumed crest in tway.

Spencer. TWEAG, v. a. & Į Written tweag by SkinTWEAK. [n. s. ner, but tweak by other writers. Germ. twacken. To pinch; squeeze betwixt the fingers: a squeeze; a state of perplexity. Who calls me villain, breaks my pate across, Tweaks me by the nose.

To rouse him from lethargick dump, He tweaked his nose.

Shakspeare.

Butler.

Arbuthnot.

This put the old fellow in a rare tweague.

Look in their face, they tweaked your nose.

Swift. TWEDDELL (John), an accomplished traveller, was born June 1st, 1769, at Threepwood, near Hexham in Northumberland, of which county his father, Francis Tweddell, esq., was a magistrate. He was educated at Harforth school, Yorkshire, under Dr. Parr, and lastly at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship in 1792. Distinguished very much at the university, several of his compositions were published by him in 1794, under the title of Prolusiones Juveniles. On quitting Cambridge, he became a student of the Middle Temple, but subsequently resolved to travel. After remaining abroad nearly four years, having explored Switzerland, the north of Europe, and various parts of the east, he died prematurely at Athens on the 25th of July 1799. As it was known that he had amassed large materials for publication, the learned looked anxiously for them; but, although his manuscripts were officially placed in the

custody of the British ambassador at Constantinople, none of them ever came to the hands of his friends! A volume of his Remains, consisting of a selection from his letters, a republication of his Prolusiones Juveniles, and a memoir appeared in 1815, edited by his brother, the Rev.

Robert Tweddell.

TWEED, a river of Scotland, which rises in the south-west corner of the county of Peebles, from Tweedswell, 1500 feet above the level of the sea, near where the counties of Peebles, Dumfries, and Lanark join. It takes a course nearly northeast, and is then joined by the Lyne about three, and the Manor about two miles above Peebles, where it is further increased by Eddlestone water, by the Leithan, near Inverleithan, and the Quair on the opposite side; when, running nearly east, its stream is augmented by the Ettrick three miles below Selkirk, the Gala one mile and a half below Galashiels, the Leader at Drygrange-bridge, and the Teviot at Kelso. A few miles below Kelso it leaves Roxburghshire, and forms for many miles the boundary between England and Scotland, until it falls into the German Ocean at the town of Berwick-uponTweed. During this part of its course, it receives, four miles below Kelso, the Eden, the Till at Tillmouth, and the Whittadder about five or six miles from its mouth. The Tweed abounds with trout and salmon: it is a celebrated pastoral stream, and gives name to many beautiful Scottish melodies.

TWEE'DLE, v. a. Belg. tevedelen, from vedel, a violin.-Thomson. To handle lightly. Used of awkward fiddling.

A fidler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service.

TWEEZERS, n. s. Fr. etuy.

He found Elisha plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he with the twelfth. 1 Kings xix. 9. Bids out with the plough. Plough-monday, next after that twelfthtide, Tusser's Husbandry. Thou has beat me out twelve several times. Shakspeare. Coriolanus.

I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence.

Shakspeare. I would wish no other revenge, from this rhyming judge of the twelvepenny gallery. Dryden.

On his left hand twelve reverend owls did fly : So Romulus, 'tis sung, by Tyber's brook, Presage of sway from twice six vultures took.

Why was not I the twentieth by descent From a long restive race of droning kings?

Dryden. At least nineteen in twenty of these perplexing words might be changed into easy ones. Swift.

The TWENTY-FOUR PERGUNNAS, is a considerable district of Bengal, adjoining the southern limit of Calcutta, and was the first territory of any extent the British possessed in Bengal, being ceded to them by the nabob Jaffier Ali Khan, immediately after the revolution of 1757. It contains above 880 square miles, and constitutes one of the Bengal collectorships. It has a judicial establishment of its own, the European members of which reside in Calcutta; and is subordinate to a court of appeal at Calcutta. Fulta and Beninpore are the principal towns. TWICE, adv. Sax. zpigio; Belg. twees. Two times; doubly.

Upon his crest he struck him so, That twice he reeled, ready twice to fall.

Spenser.

Life is tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. Shakspeare. Twice-born Bacchus burst the thunderer's thigh. Creech. He twice essayed to cast his son in gold; Twice from his hands he dropped the forming mould. Dryden.

TWID'LE, v. a. Commonly written TWEEDLE, which see. To touch lightly. A low word. With my fingers upon the stupe, I pressed close upon it, and twidled it in, first one side, then the other. Wiseman.

TWIG, n. s. Sax. tpig, gigga; Belgic TWIG'GEN, adj. Stwyg. A small shoot of a branch; a switch tough and long made of twigs.

Canst thou with a weak angle strike the whale, His huge jaw with a twig or bulrush bore? Sandys. I'll beat the knave into a twiggen bottle.

Shakspeare.

The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides, and so had the Venetians. Raleigh. They chose the fig-tree, such as spread her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root.

Milton.

Milton's Paradise Lost. When the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves. Trip no more in twilight ranks. When the sun was down,

They just arrived by twilight at a town.

Milton. Id.

Dryden.

forded us only the twilight of probability, suitable to In the greatest part of our concernment he has afour state of mediocrity.

Locke.

O'er the twilight groves, and dusky caves, Long-sounding isles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose.

Pope.

Our sins lay on the king; he must bear all,
O hard condition, and twinborn with greatness! Id.
He that is approved in this offence,
Though he bad twinned with me both at a birth,
Shall lose me.
Id. Othello.
They came twins from the womb, and still they live
As if they would go twins too to the grave. Otway.
The divided dam

Runs to the summons of her hungry lamb ;
But, when the twin cries halves, she quits the first.
Cleaveland.

No weight of birth did on one side prevail, Two twins less even lie in Nature's scale. Cowley. If that moment of the time of birth be of such moment, whence proceedeth the great difference of the constitutions of twins, which, though together born, have strange and contrary fortunes?

Drummond.

Fair Leda's twins, in time to stars decreed, One fought on foot, one curb'd the fiery steed.

Dryden.

TWINE, v. a., v. n. & n.s. Saxon tpinan; Belg. twynan. To twist or complicate so as to unite, or form one body or substance out of two or more: to unite itself; convolve; wind: a twisted thread; convolution.

Thou shalt make an hanging of blue, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.

Exodus xxvi. 36. Friends now fast sworn, who twine in love Unseparable, shall, within this hour, On a dissention of a doit, break out To bitterest enmity.

O friends!

Shakspeare.

And tear the twinkling stars from trembling sky. Fairfax.

God comprises all the good we value in the creatures, as the sun doth the light that twinkles in the Boyle.

stars.

The star of love,

I come, I come; the least twinkle had brought me to thee. Dryden's Don Sebastian. That twinkles you to fair Almeyda's bed. Dryden. The action, passion, and manners of so many persons in a picture, are to be discerned in the twinkling of an eye, if the sight could travel over so many different objects all at once.

Id.

The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L'Estrange. These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes which have large apertures. Newton.

TWIRL, v. a., v. n., & n. s. From whirl. To turn or move round quickly; revolve with quickness; rotation; circular motion; twist.

Wool and raw silk by moisture incorporate with other thread: especially if there be a little wreathing, as appeareth by the twisting and twirling about of spindles. Bacon. Dextrous damsels twirl the sprinkling mop. Gay. See ruddy maids,

Some taught with dextrous hand to twirl the wheel. Dodsley.

The twirl on this is different from that of the others; this being an heterostropha, the twirls turning from the right hand to the left.

Woodward on Fossils.

TWISS (Richard), an English tourist, after a journey to Scotland, went successively to Holland, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Bohemia. He spent several years in travelling through these countries, and returned to England in 1770: two years after he took a voyage to Portugal and Spain, and in 1775 went to Ireland. At the period of the Revolution he revisited France, and returning home devoted the latter part of his life to literature and the arts, particularly music. His works are Travels through Spain and Portugal in 1772 and 1773; 1775, 4to., translated into French and German; A Tour in Ireland in 1775; 1776, 8vo. ;

in which the freedom of the author's animadver

sions provoked the wrath of the Hibernians, and occasioned the publication of An Heroic Epistle from Donna Teresa Pinna y Ruiz of Murcia to R. Twiss, with Notes by Himself; Dublin, 1776, 8vo.: Anecdotes of the Game of Chess; A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792; 1793, 8vo.; and Miscellanies; 1805, 2 vols, 8vo. He died at an advanced age in 1821.

TWIT, v. a. Saxon expiran. flout; reproach.

To sneer;

When approaching the stormy stowers We mought with our shoulders bear off the sharp

showers,

And sooth to saine, nought seemeth sike strife, That shepherds so twiten each other's life. Spenser. When I protest true loyalty to her,

She twits me with my falsehood to my friend. Shakspeare. This these scoffers twitted the Christians with. Tillotson.

Æsop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what's amiss. L'Estrange.

Galen bled his patients, till by fainting they could bear no longer; for which he was twitted in his own timo. Baker

Blackmore.

Thomson. TWITTLETWATTLE, n. s. A ludicrous reduplication of twattle. Tattle; gabble. A vile word.

Insipid twittletwattles, frothy jests, and jingling witticisms, inure us to a misunderstanding of things.

"TWIXT, A contraction of betwixt. Twilight, short arbiter 'twiat day and night.

Id.

Milton. TWIST, v. a., v. N., & Į Saxon gerpiran; TWISTER, n. s. [n. s. Belg. twisten. To form by complication or convolution: be contorted or involved: any thing made in this way the agent or instrument of twisting. Do but despair

And, if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread
That ever spider twisted from her womb
Will strangle thee,

Shakspeare. When avarice twists itself, not only with the practice of men, but the doctrines of the church; when ecclesiastics dispute for money, the mischief seems fatal. Decay of Piety.

Addison.

In an ileus, commonly called the twisting of the guts, is a circumvolution or insertion of one part of the gut within the other. Arbuthnot on Aliments. Either double it into a pyramidical, or twist it into a serpentine form.

Pope.

When a twister a twisting will twist him a twist, For the twisting of his twist he three twines doth in. twist;

But if one of the twines of the twist do untwist,
The twine that untwisteth untwisteth the twist.
Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between,
He twirls with his twister the two in a twine;

Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine,
He twitcheth the twine he had twined in twain.
The twain that, in twining before in the twine,
As twins were intwisted, he now doth untwine,
'Twixt the the twain intertwisting a twine more be-

tween,

He twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine. Wallis.

TWO, adj.

Two EDGED, Two'FOLD, TWO'HANDED, Two LEGGED, TWOP'ENCE, n. s.

TWO'SHAPED.

Sax. zpu; Goth. twai. One and one: two edged and the other compounds seem to explain themselves.

A proselyte you make twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Matt. xxiii. 15. Through mirksom air her ready way she makes, Her twofold team, of which two black as pitch, And two were brown, yet each to each unlike Did softly swim away. Faerie Queene.

Our prayer against sudden death importeth a twofold desire, that death when it cometh may give us some convenient respite; or, if that be denied us of God, yet we may have wisdom to provide always before-hand. You all shew like gilt twopences to me.

Hooker.

Shakspeare.

Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate,
O thou! the earthly author of my blood,
Doth now with twofold vigour lift me up,
To reach at victory above my head,
Add proof unto mine armour.

Id.

Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which bears the better temper; Between two horses, which doth bear him best; Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye, I have some shallow spirit of judgment.

Id.