TELEGRAPHICAL
Tel`e*graph"ic*al, a.
Defn: Telegraphic.
— Tel`e*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
TELEGRAPHIST
Te*leg"ra*phist, n.
Defn: One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.
TELEGRAPHONE
Te*leg"ra*phone, n. [Gr. th e far + -graph + sound.]
Defn: An instrument for recording and reproducing sound by local magnetization of a steel wire, disk, or ribbon, moved against the pole of a magnet connected electrically with a telephone receiver, or the like.
TELEGRAPHOSCOPE
Tel`e*graph"o*scope, n. [Gr. th e far + -graph + -scope.]
Defn: An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny holes that form the image.
TELEGRAPH PLANT
Telegraph plant.
Defn: An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.