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LEFT TEBCENTENNIAL EXPOSITION 301 TEBEBBATELLA which the first Virginian immigrants had ^^ o^iuuic m ^.v/lu, to live. An Arts and Crafts Village water and in alcohol showed colonial articles in fabrics, woods and metals. American history from the date of the Jamestown settlement was portrayed. A large Convention Hall was erected in a central position and an Au- ditorium where meetings and musical festivals were held and attended by great numbers. Over $1,500,000 was contrib- uted by the Government, $50,000 of the sum being devoted to the erection of a monument commemorating the settle- ment. ly soluble in cold, very soluble in hot water and in alcohol. TERCE, one of the two legal life rents in the law of Scotland, being a real right constituted without covenant, or sasine. By it a widow, who has not accepted any special provision, is enti- tled to the life rent of one-third of her husband's heritable (real) estate, pro- vided the marriage has lasted for a year and a day, or has produced a living child. If special provision is gi'anted by a hus- band to his wife by any antenuptial or postnuptial contract or other deed, the wife shall be thereby excluded from her terce, unless the contrary be provided in the same deed. The life rent bears its proportion of burdens affecting the estate. The mansion house is not sub- ject to the right of terce. TERCEIRA, an island of the Atlantic, one of the Azores; greatest length, 20 miles; average breadth, 13 miles; area, 223 square miles. The soil possesses great natural fertility, and heavy crops of grain, pulse, etc., and abundance of oranges, lemons, and other fruits are produced; capital, Angra. Pop. about 50,000. TERCINE, in botany, Mirbel's name for what he considered a third coating of some seeds, internal to the secun- dine and primine. It is really only a layer of the primine or secundine, or the secundine itself. Called by Malpi- ghi the chorion. TERCY, FRANCOIS, a French poet; born in Lons-le-Saulnier, Jura, about 1774. He wrote: "Epithalamium of Na- poleon and Marie Louise" (1810) ; "Birth of the King of Rome" (1811); "Death of Louis XVI.," an idyl in the ancient style (1816) ; "Death and Apotheosis of Marie Antoinette" (1817); "Death of Louis XVIII." (1818). He died in Le Mans, Oct. 1, 1841. TEREBAMIC ACID, in chemistry, H ) formula, CHuNOs^ (CiHIo.)" [ q ; tere- bamide prepared by heating terebic acid in ammonia gas to 140-160°. It is slight- ■T TEREBEIiLA, in surgery, a trepan or trephine. In zoology, the typical genus of Terebellidse. TEREBINTACE^, or TEREBIN- THACEiE, in botany, an order founded by Jussieu in 1789, and including all the turpentine-bearing plants. These are now distributed among the orders Amyri- dacese, Anacardiacese, Connaracese, Xaii- thoxylacese, etc. TEREBINTH TREE, in botany, the Pistacia terebinthus, the Chio or Cyprus turpentine tree. Leaves unequally pin- nate, generally three pairs with a termi- nal one; flowers small; fruit small, dark, purple, rounded, and furrowed. The tur- pentine flows from incisions in the stem and is left to harden. A gall produced on the tree by the puncture of insects is used in dyeing, and for tanning one kind of morocco leather. TEREBRA, in zoology, the auger shell; a genus of Buccinidse.. Shell long, pointed, many whorled; aperture small; canal short; operculum pointed, nucleus apical. Animal blind, or with eyes near the summit of minute tentacles. All the shells are smooth, and ornamented with variegated spots, generally red, brown, and orange. Recent species 110, mostly tropical. Fossil 24, from the Eocene of Great Britain, France, and Chile. TEREBRALIA, in zoology, a sub- genus of Potamides. Shell pyramidal, columella with a prominent fold toward its apex, and a second less distinct one on the basal fronts of the whorls. From India and North Australia. T. telesco- phun is so abundant near Calcutta that the shells are burned for lime. TEREBRANTIA, a section of hymen- opterous insects, characterized by the possession of an anal instrument organ- ized for the perforation of the bodies of animals, or the substance of plants. The borer (terebra) is peculiar to the female, and is composed of three long and slender pieces, of which two serve as a sheath for the third. TEREBRATELLA, in zoology, a genus of Terebratulidx, with 25 species dis- tributed among several sub-genera. Shell smooth or radiately plaited; dorsal valve longitudinally impressed; hinge-line ap- proximately straight; beak with a flat- tened area on each side of the deltidium, which is incomplete, foramen large; loop attached to the septum. The genus ap- pears first in the chalk formation. Cyc— Vol. IX