TERGIVERSATION Ter`gi*ver*sa"tion, n. Etym: [L. tergiversario: cf. F. tergiversation.]
1. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall.
2. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service. Clarendon.
TERGIVERSATOR
Ter"gi*ver*sa`tor, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
TERGUM Ter"gum, n.; pl. Terga. Etym: [L., the back.] (Zoöl.) (a) The back of an animal. (b) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal. (c) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.
TERIN
Te"rin, n. Etym: [F. tarin, Prov. F. tairin, térin, probably from the
Picard tère tender.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the
European siskin. Called also tarin.
TERM
Term, n. Etym: [F. terme, L. termen, -inis, terminus, a boundary
limit, end; akin to Gr. Thrum a tuft, and cf. Terminus, Determine,
Exterminate.]
1. That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary. Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries. Bacon.