tack hammer	a light hammer for driving tacks.	
tack, smarter than a	very intelligent; smart; quick-witted. Variation of sharp as a tack.	
tacks, get down to	a variation of get down to brass tacks meaning to begin the most important work or business; get started on the most important things to talk about or know.	
Tacoma	a seaport in western Washington state, in the United States.	
t-a-d	thrice a day. A variation of the Latin phrase tres in die (three times a day) commonly used in prescriptions.	
'tain't	(dialect) contraction of it ain't: it is not.	
take his finger off his number	stop watching something closely, resulting in a blunder. A variation of lose one's number, with reference to a lottery number or some other number by or with which one may be identified, as an army number.	
take your finger off your number	stop watching something closely, resulting in a blunder. A variation of lose one's number, with reference to a lottery number or some other number by or with which one may be identified, as an army number.	
taken (one's) finger off of (one's) number	stopped watching something closely, resulting in a blunder. A Variation of lose one's number, with reference to a lottery number or some other number by or with which one may be identified, as an army number.	
takes his finger off his number	stops watching something closely, resulting in a blunder. A variation of lose one's number, with reference to a lottery number or some other number by or with which one may be identified, as an army number.	
taking one's finger off one's number	ceasing to watch something closely, resulting in a blunder. A variation of lose one's number, with reference to a lottery number or some other number by or with which one may be identified, as an army number.	
Tallahassee	a city in and the capital of the state of Florida, USA. 	
tallyman	a recorder or scorekeeper.	
tampions	a plug or stopper put in the muzzle of a gun not in use.	
Tanganyika	the United Republic of Tanzania, a country located in east Africa by the Indian Ocean.	
tangle foot	tangle one's feet or stumble.	
tanglefoot	(slang) an intoxicating beverage, especially whiskey.
with feet tangled up; interlaced or intertwined in a complicated and confused manner; matted, mixed up confusedly.	
tanglefooted	with feet tangled up; interlaced or intertwined in a complicated and confused manner; matted, mixed up confusedly.	
tangle-footed	having tangled feet or stumbling Used figuratively in the lecture.	
tantastical	a made‑up word for an item.	
Tao	a way of knowing how to know. The literal translation of the word is knowingness. It is an ancestor to the word Scientology. The Tao te Ching (ca. 529 B.C.) was the book on this subject written by Lao-tse (604-531 B.C.), one of the great philosophers of China.	
Taoism	a Chinese religion and philosophy based on the doctrines of Lao-tse (604-531 B.C.). Tao means a way of knowing how to know. The literal translation of the word Tao is knowingness.	
tape in	(gunnery) get the range of (a position); hence, to hit and silence (a target).	
taped	(slang) for certain; under control.
(informal) under full control, knowledge or understanding
(colloquial) sized up, ascertained or understood fully.	
taping	(colloquial) sizing up, ascertaining or understanding fully.	
Tar Baby	a tar doll, set up by a roadside, which so irritates Br'er Rabbit by its unresponsiveness that he strikes it until he is stuck tight. From the book Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings (1880) by Joel Chandler Harris, 1848-1908, American journalist and author. It is a book of folk tales told by Uncle Remus, an aging Negro servant, whose stories are based on traditional fables of his race. Many of the characters, such as Br'er (Brother) Rabbit, are animals endowed with human qualities.
See also Br'er Rabbit in this glossary.	
tar grenade	a glass container filled with tar (an inflammable liquid) that is dispersed when the glass is thrown and smashed.	
Tarleton, Major	Sir Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833), British army officer in the American Revolution. Tarleton arrived in America in 1775, and fought in various battles through 1780. In 1781, Tarleton was sent to South Carolina to stop the American general Daniel Morgan. Morgan skillfully arranged to have his militia seem to run away, as they often did, but this time it was planned. Tarleton fell into the trap. Before it was over, Tarleton had lost over 600 men and Morgan had lost very few. Tarleton returned to England in 1782.	
Tartar	(slang) a person hard to beat or surpass in skill; champion. After members of any of various tribes who, originally under the leadership of Genghis Khan, overran Asia and much of eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
Tarzan of the Apes	a story by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875‑1950) which first appeared in 1914. It featured Tarzan who was the son of an English nobleman, abandoned in Africa in his infancy. He was brought up by apes, learned to speak their language and went through a long series of breathless adventures. Millions of copies of the Tarzan books have been sold, innumerable films have been made of his adventures and he has long been a comic‑strip favorite.	
Tasmanian	of or having to do with Tasmania, a triangular-shaped island south of the eastern mainland of Australia. Used humorously in reference to the fact that E-Meters have never been made in Tasmania.	
Tasmanian Sea	a reference to the Tasman Sea, the part of the South Pacific Ocean between southeast Australia and western New Zealand.	
Taxas	humorous pronunciation of Texas, a state in the southwestern United States.	
taximeter flag	a small flag on an automatic device which shows the amount of fare owed in a taxi cab. It sticks up, stating "for hire," to attract attention and is pushed down when the meter is activated.	
Taylor & Sanford's	a made-up name for a company.	
Taylor & Sudrow's	a made-up name for a company.	
TB	abbreviation for tuberculosis, an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs.	
technique XZ 77-hup	a made-up name for a technique.	
Technirama	(trademark) a process developed in the mid-1950s by the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation for producing wide-screen motion pictures with excellent Definition and clarity.	
Teddy boy	(informal) a rebellious British youth who, in the 1950s and early 1960s, wore the dress of the reign of Edward VII. Teddy is a nickname for Edward.
See also Edwardian period in this glossary.	
Teddy boys	(informal) rebellious British youths who, in the 1950s and early 1960s, wore the dress of the reign of Edward VII.
See also Edwardian period in this glossary.	
Teeter, Lucky	a made‑up name.	
teeth in it, has	is effective or forceful.	
teeth in of, kick the living	a variation of the phrase beat the living daylights out of, meaning "to defeat or thrash thoroughly."	
teeth in, kicking (one's)	giving (one) abrupt, often humiliating setbacks.	
teeth of, in the	so as to face or confront; straight into or against.	
teeth of, into the	directly and forcefully against.	
teeth on, cut (one's)	(informal) gain experience from (something); learn from. Derived from reference to a child whose teeth are just beginning to appear (i.e., beginning to cut through the gums).	
teeth out, spitting (one's)	(colloquial) expressing vehement anger; raging. A variation of spitting blood.	
teeth, have (someone or something) by the	(slang) have control of. A variation of have (someone or something) by the tail.	
teeth, in the	so as to face or confront; straight into or against.	
teeth, kick in the	an abrupt and often humiliating setback.	
teeth, lying in (one's)	telling lies in an open and unashamed manner.	
teeth, take the bit in (one's)	be obstinately self-willed; make up one's mind not to yield. When a horse has a mind to run away, he catches the bit between his teeth and the driver no longer has control over him.	
Tel & Tel	shares of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a company founded in 1885 to build long distance Telephone lines in the United States. It has become the largest communication company in the world.	
telegraph pole, wrap (someone) around a	(slang) tangle up or confuse (someone). Taken from the US West where a tangled-up man in a confused Condition was likened to a Person, horse or cow who had run into a telegraph pole and gotten wrapped around it. It infers the situation or person needs to be untangled and straightened out.	
telegraph poles, wrap (something) around a couple of	(slang) tangle up or confuse (something). Taken from the US West where a tangled-up man in a confused Condition was likened to a person, horse or cow who had run into a telegraph pole and gotten wrapped around it. It infers the situation or person needs to be untangled and straightened out.	
telegraph poles, wrapped (one) around four	(slang) tangled up or confused (one). Taken from the US West where a tangled-up man in a confused Condition was likened to a person, horse or cow who had run into a telegraph pole and gotten wrapped around it. It infers the situation or person needs to be untangled and straightened out. 	
telegraph poles, wrapped around a few	(slang) tangled up or confused. Taken from the US West where a tangled‑up man in a confused condition was likened to a person, horse or cow who had run into a telegraph pole and gotten wrapped around it. It infers the situation or person needs to be untangled and straightened out.	
telegraph poles, wrapping (someone) around very many	(slang) tangling up or confusing (someone). From the US West where a tangled-up man in a confused condition was likened to a person, horse or cow who had run into a telegraph pole and gotten wrapped around it. It infers the situation or person needs to be untangled and straightened out.	
Telesurance	the name of a business at the time of this lecture.	
telling, there's no	it is impossible to find out or know about (something).	
Telstar	either of two experimental communications satellites, used between 10 July 62 and May 65, to amplify and relay various signals, especially television, across the oceans.	
Ten Commandments	(Bible) the ten laws forming the fundamental moral code of Israel, given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.	
Tesla, Nikola	(1856-1943) American electrical engineer and inventor, born in Austria-Hungary. He emigrated in 1884 to the US. In 1888 he designed the first practical system of generating and transmitting alternating current for electric power. He is recognized as one of the outstanding pioneers in the electric-power field.	
Tetragrammaton	the four Hebrew letters usually transliterated (represented in the corresponding characters of another alphabet) as YHWH or JHVH (Yahweh or Jehovah) and used as a biblical proper name for God.	
tex boonk	a made‑up word.	
Texas	a state in the southwest United States on the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican border.
See also Gulf in this glossary.	
Texas, University of	an accredited, coeducational, state-Controlled institution occupying approximately 1,100 acres. The main campus is located in Austin, Texas.	
textbook	derived from, dependent upon or typical of a textbook.	
Thacker, Ray	a staff member at HASI London at the time of this lecture.	
Thames	the longest river in England, flowing generally eastward across southern England and through London to the North Sea.	
Thames Water Board	an official body controlling the Thames River, the principal river of England. The board controls the navigation, use and conservation of the river water, etc.	
thar	a variant of there.	
thatagirl	(slang) an exclamation of encouragement or admiration. (A corruption of "that's the girl," this expression is also seen as "that's a girl" and "attagirl.")	
that-a-girl	(slang) an exclamation of encouragement or admiration.	
that's a boy	(slang) an exclamation of encouragement or admiration. (A corruption of "that's the boy," this expression is also seen as "thataboy" and "attaboy.")	
that's a girl	(slang) an exclamation of approval or encouragement. (A corruption of "that's the girl," this expression is also seen as "thatagirl.")	
that's-that-ed	(informal) settled; decided. A variation of the phrase that's that.	
that-un	(dialect) that one.	
The boy stood on the burning deck	a humorous reference to the poem Casablanca by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) about the death of the son of a French naval captain in 1798. The ship that they were on caught fire while the boy was on watch, and the father was burnt to death. The boy stood by his post until the ship blew up:
"The boy stood on the burning deck,
Whence all but he had fled.
The flame that licked the battle's wreck
Shown round him o'er the dead.
The flames rolled on;
he would not go
Without his father's word."
There have been many corruptions of this poem by anonymous authors.	
Thebes	a city in ancient Egypt which was the royal residence and site where kings and nobles were entombed in great splendor in crypts cut into the cliffs on the west bank of the Nile. The cities which now occupy parts of its site are famous for the magnificent ruins of temples, statues and tombs.	
thee	(archaic) you.	
them	(dialect) a nonstandard way of saying those.	
theory of relativity	a theory proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein. Although complete understanding of this theory requires a knowledge of the most exotic branches of mathematics, these are some of its basic points:
(1)	Time is not an absolute. The faster a body moves, the slower its clock runs. A minute on Earth may pass in fifty-nine seconds or sixty-one seconds on planets traveling at speeds different from that of Earth.
(2)	the speed of light remains constant in all frames of reference. Whether you are moving toward a light source or away from it, the light will still reach you at the same speed (186,000 miles per second).
(3)	All motion is relative. Therefore, there can be no such thing as absolute rest.
(4)	Moving bodies acquire mass as they increase in speed. The faster a body travels, the heavier it becomes. As a body approaches the speed of light, it adds mass very rapidly. If it were to reach the speed of light, its mass would become infinite. If this were true it could be seen that no body could ever travel faster than the speed of light. The additional weight acquired by an accelerating body would make penetration of the light barrier impossible.
(5)	Mass and energy are mutually convertible.
See also Einstein in this glossary.	
theosophist	one who believes in or supports theosophy, any system of philosophy or religion that claims to have a special insight into the divine nature through spiritual self-development.	
theosophy	any system of philosophy or religion that claims to have a special insight into the divine nature through spiritual self-development.	
Theosophy Society	a reference to the Theosophical Society, an organization founded in 1875, one of the purposes of which was "to investigate the unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in man." Though numerically small at first, the Society has grown into an international body organized in over fifty countries, with international headquarters in India.	
thereunto	to that matter, circumstance, etc.	
Thermofax	(trademark) a copy made through a process for copying documents by means of infrared radiation using heat-sensitive paper.	
thin air, out of	out of nothing or from nowhere.	
thingamabob	(informal) a gadget or other thing for which the speaker does not know or has forgotten the name.	
thingamagooge	(informal) a thing which is difficult to classify or whose name has been forgotten or is not known. A Variation of thingamabob.	
thingamagubbit	(informal) a thing which is difficult to classify or whose name has been forgotten or is not known. A variation of thingamabob.	
Thinker	reference to the bronze statue The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. It depicted a seated man supporting his chin on his wrist and arm on his knee.
See also Rodin in this glossary.	
thirteen states	reference to the original thirteen British colonies that became the United States in 1776. These were Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Virginia.	
This Is Your Life	a semidocumentary‑style television show of the 1950s and early 1960s, in which the lives of show‑business personalities who appeared as guests were relived through the testimonies of friends and family.	
This Was Your Life Mabel	a reference to a semidocumentary-style television show of the 1950s and early 1960s called "This Is Your Life," in which the lives of show-business personalities who appeared as guests were relived through the testimonies of friends and family.	
Thomas	a Scientology staff member at the time of this lecture	
Thompson, Commander	Joseph Thompson (1874-1943), a commander in the US Navy Medical Corps who studied with Sigmund Freud in Vienna and was a friend of L. Ron Hubbard when Ron was a boy.	
Thornville	a town in central Ohio (a northeastern state in the United States), in the vicinity of Columbus.	
thou	(archaic) the one spoken to; you.	
Thoughtport	a made-up name for a location.	
three and six	short for three shillings, six pence. A shilling is a former British monetary unit equal to 1/20 of a pound, and a pence is British for penny.	
three sheets to the wind	(slang) drunk. From the fact that a drunken person is as helpless and disorganized as a sailboat with its sheets (sails) flying and hence its course and movement entirely out of control.	
three-card monte	(cards) a gambling game in which the players are shown three cards and bet that they can identify one particular card of the three, as stipulated by the dealer, after the cards have been moved around face down by the dealer.	
throat cut, getting (one’s)	bringing about (one's) ruin.	
throat, at (someone's)	attacking (someone) with great anger. Used figuratively in some lectures. A variation of flying at (someone's) throat.	
throat, cut (one’s)	bring about (one’s) own ruin.	
throat, cut (one's)	bring about (one's) own ruin.	
throat, cutting (their)	bringing about (their) ruin.	
throat, force (something) down (someone's)	(informal) force (someone) to agree to or accept (something).	
throat, shove (something) down (someone's)	(informal) force (someone) to agree to or accept (something). 	
Throgmagog	a term coined by LRH to mean something an individual unknowingly mocks up that will give him all kinds of advice and tell him what to do; an automatic regulator of one's destiny so an individual doesn't have to take responsibility for anything that happens to him.
a made-up name for a god.	
throttle on the floorboard, put the	(figurative) go at maximum speed.	
thrumming	sounding with a repeated monotonous hum, as a string or an instrument when strummed.	
thuggee	reference to a thug: a member of a former religious organization in India that murdered and robbed.	
thumb, rule of	general or approximate principle, procedure or rule based on experience or practice as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.	
thumb, stand out like a sore	be very conspicuous or obvious.	
thunderstrucking	causing sudden amazement, terror or the like; making one greatly amazed, astonished, terrified or confounded.	
thunk	a humorous variation of "think."	
Thus Spake Zarathustra	a philosophical narrative written by Friedrich Nietzsche, in which the ancient Persian philosopher Zarathustra is used as a mouthpiece for the author's views. The work is written in quasi-biblical style, and develops Nietzsche's doctrine of the superman.
See also Nietzsche in this glossary.	
thy	(archaic) your.	
thyself	(archaic) yourself.	
tibiosis of the filamoriasis	a made-up name for a disease.	
tick-tock	(colloquial) a clock.	
Tide	brand name of a laundry detergent produced in the US and promoted as making white clothes very white.	
tie into	(informal) attack physically or with words; begin to hit or criticize.	
Tiffany's	a large store founded in New York City (1837) by Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812‑1902). It specializes in jewelry, glassware and china. Purchases of European crown jewels gave the store its reputation for selling only the best of jewelry.	
Tiger Moth	a light military aircraft produced in the early 1900s by the de Havilland Aircraft Company Ltd., UK.	
tigerbat	a made‑up word.	
tight spot	(figurative) an unfruitful, embarrassing, disastrous or dangerous situation from which one will have difficulty extracting oneself or succeeding; a situation in which one needs assistance, luck or all one's ingenuity to extract oneself or succeed; a potentially disastrous situation.	
tightrope	a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing. Used figuratively in the lecture.	
tightwire	a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which aerialists perform feats of balancing. Used figuratively in some lectures.	
Timbuktu	a town in west Africa, near the Niger River. The name Timbuktu is used to mean any faraway place.	
Time magazine	a weekly news magazine in the United States, cofounded by Henry Luce in 1923. Time has a history of presenting biased articles, tailored to fit the editorial slant of the magazine.	
time stream	(figurative) the continuous flow of time.	
Times	short for New York Times: one of the largest circulating newspapers in the United States, published in New York.	
Times Square	the heart of the New York City theater district, formed by the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue between Forty-second and Forty-fourth Streets.	
Times, The	one of the best-known newspapers of England. It is published in London and was founded in 1785.	
Timur Lenk	(1335-1405) Mongol conqueror and great-great-grandson of Genghis Khan. He conquered great parts of Russia, Persia, India and central Asia. He was noted chiefly for his savage exploits, despite his promotion of art and science. Timur Lenk literally means "Timur the Lame."	
Tinny-Tin	nickname for Quentin.
See also Quentin in this glossary.	
Tipperary	a city in Ireland which is well known chiefly because of the song "Tipperary" which was popular with the English-speaking Allies in World War I. The song started with the line "It's a long way to Tipperary." It became one of the ballads of World War I after British troops began to sing it, although the song itself had nothing to do with the war.	
'tisn't	(colloquial) contraction of it isn't.	
Titanic	a British luxury ocean liner, thought to be unsinkable, which sank on its first voyage in 1912 after running into an iceberg in the north Atlantic Ocean.	
Titans	(mythology) gods who ruled the universe until they were overthrown by Zeus, the supreme god of the ancient Greeks.	
titwillow	a made‑up word for an item.	
tizzybum	a made‑up word.	
To be or not to be	a quote from Hamlet, a play written by William Shakespeare (1564-1616):
"To be, or not to be-that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles . .
See also Stratford-on-Avon in this glossary.	
toaster, cleaner than a	(colloquial) a variation of clean as a whistle, completely and entirely clean; without fault or error. A toaster is an electric appliance for toasting bread which is often nickel-plated or made of aluminum and very shiny.	
Tobruk	a small port in northeastern Libya, in north Africa, about 75 miles west of the Egyptian border. Site of several major World War II battles between German troops led by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and the British.
See also Rommel in this glossary.	
toe in the door, get (one's)	(colloquial) gain entrance into something (e.g., an organization, group, activity, etc.), especially something into which such entrance is difficult to obtain. A variation of get one's foot in the door.	
toe the mark	be very careful to do just what one is supposed to do; obey the rules and do one's duties.	
tolahedron	a made-up word for a geometric shape.	
Tom and Jerry cartoons	short American cartoons featuring a mean-minded, accident‑prone cat named Tom and his adversary, a mouse named Jerry. The original cartoons, drawn by William Hanna and Joe Barbera, were in production from 1937 and known for their excessive violence along with their humor and impossible situations (such as To being brutally bashed over the head, instantly recovering his vivacity, and continuing on despite any and all odds). The cartoon also appeared in comic books from the 1940s on.	
tong hatchet	a small ax with a short handle used by a hired Chinese assassin who is a member of a Chinese tong, an association or secret society of Chinese in the US, who are frequently associated with underworld criminal activity.	
tongue-between-the-teeth	immediately sorry for what one has said. A Variation of bite (one's) tongue off	
too too	(slang) excessively polite, stylish or affected.	
took (one) by storm	captured (one) by a sudden or very bold attack.	
took (one’s) finger off (one’s) button	a Variation of take (one's) finger off (one's) number.
See taken (one's) finger off of (one’s) number in this glossary.	
took my finger off my number	stopped watching something closely, resulting in a blonder. A Variation of lose one's number, with reference to a lottery number or some other number by or with which one may be identified, as an army number.	
tools of the trade	(law) instruments or devices necessary to one's profession or occupation.	
tooth and toenail	a variation of tooth and nail, in good earnest, with one's utmost power; as though biting and scratching.	
toothpicks	(slang) swords.	
tootle-gun	a made-up word for a type of gun. A tootle is the sound made by tooting on a flute or the like.	
top dog	the one in the most desirable position; most important; best; most competent; most desired; having the best reputation for success.	
Top of the Mark	the name of a cocktail lounge (in existence since 1926) located on the top floor of the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco.	
top-dog	of the most desirable position; most important; best; most competent; most desired; having the best reputation for success.	
Topsy	in the book, Uncle Toms Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a young black slave girl whose ignorance and unconscious humor provide comic relief Her replies to questioning such as: "Never was born" and "I 'spect I grow'd," have made her a symbol of spontaneity and aimless development.
See also Uncle Toms Cabin in this glossary.	
Torquemadas	people like Tomas de Torquemada (1420‑1498), first Grand Inquisitor of Spain. The Spanish Inquisition, established under Ferdinand and Isabella in 1478, was centralized by Torquemada after his appointment in 1483 as Grand Inquisitor. He gained the reputation, partly deserved, partly exaggerated, of great cruelty in his conduct of the Spanish Inquisition, which reportedly was responsible for the burning of some two thousand persons between 1481 and 1504.	
totem pole	(figurative) a symbol of a hierarchy (group of persons or things arranged in order of rank, grade, class, etc.). Literally, a totem pole is a pole on which some Native Americans carved totems—figures of animals, plants or other objects in nature that had a special relationship to a person, family or clan and serving as symbols for that person or group. The totem pole usually stood in front of a house or shelter.	
Tower	the Tower of London, a fortress made up of several buildings on the Thames River in London, England, and serving in historic times as a palace, prison, place of execution, etc.	
Town and County Planning	reference to a British agency, Town and Country Planning, which administers town‑planning laws, including such things as the architectural features of buildings and zoning.	
Town and County Planning Commission	reference to a British agency, Town and Country Planning, which administers town-planning laws, including such things as the architectural features of buildings and zoning.	
Toynbee	Arnold Joseph (1889-1975), English historian, educated at Oxford. He achieved his greatest fame for his monumental work, A Study of History, an investigation into the growth, development and decay of civilizations. He believed in the theory that the course of history is controlled by psychic rather than materialistic forces.	
Trafalgar Square	one of the main public squares in London, named after the battle of Trafalgar, in which Lord Horatio Nelson's British fleet overwhelmingly defeated a large fleet of French and Spanish ships. Trafalgar Square has in it a 168-foot-tall monument to Lord Nelson.	
transcendentalism	any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by a study of the processes of thought, not from experience.	
transorbital leukotomy	(psychiatry) an operation in which the patient is electrically shocked while an ordinary dime store ice pick is thrust into each eye and shoved up to rip the brain apart.	
transorbital migrations	a coined phrase from transmigration, the passing of a soul at death into another body and orbital, of, belonging to, or of the nature of an orbit (especially of a heavenly body).	
trap gun	a gun used in trapshooting (the sport of shooting at clay pigeons or disks, sprung into the air from traps).	
traveling ovals	a continuous connected, overlapping series of ovals about the size of an uppercase letter O, which is done as a writing exercise.	
Treasure Island	the name of the island with buried treasure in the book Treasure Island, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883.
See also Long John Silver in this glossary.	
Treasury Department	a department of the US federal government having general responsibility for setting federal fiscal policy (the policy of a government in controlling its own expenditures and taxation). It controls the printing of money and includes within it the Internal Revenue Service (a division of the Treasury Department responsible for assessment and collection of federal taxes).	
tree, run (someone) up the	caused (someone) to become irrational or hysterical; maddened (someone). A variation of the phrase drove (someone) up the wall.	
tricks of the trade	pieces of expert knowledge; smart, quick or skillful ways of working at a trade or job.	
trigged out	put into a good Condition made strong; made sound.	
trigger guard	a part of a gun (such as a handgun or rifle) designed to help keep the weapon from accidental firing by protecting the trigger from being bumped or snagged. It is usually in the form of a curved piece of metal which goes around and beneath the trigger itself.	
trillennia	a coined word meaning a very large number of years.	
Tristram, Sir	the main character in The Book of Sir Tristam of Lyoness. Sir Tristam was one of the most valiant knights of the Round Table.	
troop	(British military) carry (the flag or colors) in a ceremonial way before troops.	
Troy	an ancient city in Asia Minor (ca. 1200 B.C.), site of the Trojan War—a ten-year war waged against Troy by the Greeks to recover the Greek king's wife, Helen, who had been abducted by Paris, a Trojan.	
truck	(nautical) a circular or square piece of wood fixed on the head of a mast or the top of a flagstaff, usually comaining small holes for signal halyards (ropes fitted with clips for hoisting flags).	
truck light	(US Navy) a signaling light at the top of a mast.	
True Confession	a magazine containing sensational articles about supposedly real persons and their problems.	
True Romances	a magazine containing sensational articles about supposedly real persons and their romances.	
True Story	a magazine started in 1919 which was devoted to the personal narratives of plain people, telling of their problems and how they solved them.	
Truman	Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd president of the United States (1945-1953). In 1951, during the Korean War, Truman had a dispute with General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur, who commanded the troops of the United Nations, wanted to use American air power to attack the People's Republic of China. Truman refused, fearing that an American attack on China would bring the Soviet Union into the war. When MacArthur criticized Truman's decision publicly, Truman declared MacArthur insubordinate, and removed him as commanding general.
See also North Korean in this glossary.	
Truman, Harry	Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd president of the United States (1945-1953).	
Truman, Mr.	Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd president of the United States (1945-1953). In 1951, during the Korean War, Truman had a dispute with General Douglas MacArthur. MacArthur, who commanded the troops of the United Nations, wanted to use American air power to attack the People's Republic of China. Truman refused, fearing that an American attack on China would bring the Soviet Union into the war. When MacArthur criticized Truman's decision publicly, Truman declared MacArthur insubordinate and removed him as commanding general.	
trumbosis powder	a made-up name for a powder.	
try (something) on for size	(colloquial) find out how (something) suits one or how much one likes (something).	
TT Model 650s	a racing motorcycle that was produced by Triumph Motors in England. It was an abbreviation for Tourist Trophy (the name of the model). 650 indicates the size of the engine (650 cc).	
Tucson	a large city in southeastern Arizona (a state in the southwestern United States), in a desert surrounded by mountains.	
tums	brand name of a chewable digestive aid which comes in small white round tablets.
a made-up word.	
Turk	a cruel, brutal, and domineering man. A name applied to anyone having qualities sometimes attributed to the Turks.	
Turk's-head	a type of ornamental knot tied by winding small cord around a larger rope, used especially by sailors.	
turn over hell, heaven and everything else	do all that can be done. A variation of the phrase move heaven and earth.	
Turnbull, Ross	a Melbourne staff member at the time of this lecture.	
turret	a mounting fitted to the front of a camera and carrying several lenses, any of which can be brought into use by rotating the mounting.	
Twain, Mark	pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American author and humorist. He wrote numerous books and papers including The Second Advent, a satire of conventional pieties and a short story called The Holy Children, a satire on the conventional Christian views.	
Tweetie Candies	a made‑up name.	
twelfth or thirteenth commandment	(Bible) a humorous reference to the Ten Commandments, the commandments engraved on stone tablets and given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.	
twelve-pass express highway	a divided highway with twelve lanes for high-speed, through traffic, with controlled access and generally with overpasses or underpasses at intersections.	
Twentieth Century Limited	a famous American passenger train which ran between New York and Chicago and other northern cities in the United States.	
twigs	a made‑up name for a meter read.	
twilight zone	an ill-defined area between two distinct conditions, categories, etc., usually comprising certain features of both; an indefinite boundary.	
twist	a dance performed by couples and characterized by strongly rhythmic turns and twists of the arms, legs and torso.	
twist, the	a dance performed by couples and characterized by strongly rhythmic turns and twists of the arms, legs and torso.	
twisteroo	a coined word from twist (an irregular bend; a crook; a kink) and -eroo (a humorous slang suffix added to nouns).	
twistosis	a made-up name for a disease. From twist and -osis, a suffix meaning an abnormal or diseased condition.	
twitchenin'	(colloquial) a variation of twitching, jerking or jumping.	
two-bit	(slang) inferior or unimportant; small time. From the US slang word two-bits, a quarter of a dollar.	
two-house system	a legislative system in which there are two assemblies (or houses) of legislators. Examples are the House of Representatives and the Senate in the United States congress, and the House of Commons and House of Lords in Great Britain's parliament.	
Tyler's	a wine, beer and spirits merchant as well as a catering Service in East Grinstead, England at the time of this lecture.	
typhoid fever	an infectious, often fatal, febrile (feverish) disease characterized by intestinal inflammation and ulceration, caused by the typhoid bacillus, which is usually introduced with food or drink.	
Tyrrhenian Sea	a branch of the Mediterranean between the western coast of Italy and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily. It is sometimes called the Tuscan Sea.