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* TINEA. 301 TINTERN ABBEY. M icrosporon furfur if. probably the cause of linca rirsicolor. The treatment consists of freiiueut bathing with strong soap, hyposulpliite of soda applications, or the use of bichloride of mercury, salicylic acid, sulphur, and glycerin. The prog- nosis is good. TINEIDjE. See Leaf-JIixer. TINEL, tc'nel', Edgar (1854—). A Belgian pianist and composer, born at Sinay. In 1803 he became a pupil at the Brussels Conservatory, and ten years later he received the first prize for pianoforte and published four nocturnes for solo voice with pianoforte. In 1877 he won the Gi-and Prix with his cantata Kloklc Roeland. He succeeded Lcmniens as director of the Institute for Sacred Music at Mechlin, in 1881, and in 1888 produced the oratorio Franciscus, which gave him fame. In 1889 he Was appointed in- spector of the State music schools of Belgium and in 1896 became professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Brussels Conservatory. He produced a Grand Mass of the Holy Virfiin of Lourdes for five parts ; Te Deum for four-part mixed choir with organ; Alleluia for four equal voices with the organ; the music drama Godoleva (1896) ; motets and sacred songs. He also published Le chant grcgorien, tlicoric sommaire de son execution (1895). TINGHAI, ting'hl'. The chief town of the island of Chusan (q.v.), China. TINGITID.ffi. See Lace-Bug. TINGUAITE, tin'gwait (named from Sierra de Tingua, Brazil ). An igneous rock of gran- ular or porphyritie texture, characterized by the mineral combination alkali feldspar, nephe- line, and aegerine, or a>gerine-augite. It is a rock of very limited distribution, but generally occurs in dikes associated with nepheline syenite, to which it is genetically and chemically related. TINGITIANE, tIn-gT'e-a'na. A brown people in northern Luzon. See Philippine Isl.>'ds. TINITIAN. A Malay-Negrito people in Pala- wan. See Philippine Islands. TINKER-BIRD, or Tinker Baebet. See Coppersmith. TINKER'S ROOT. See Feverwort. TINNE, te'na' (Athapascan, people). A col- lective term sometimes used as synonymous with Athapascan stock (q.v.), but more usually em- ployed to designate the tribes of that stock re- siding in the Canadian northwest, exclusive of the Kuchin (q.v.). In this restricted sense it includes the Sarsee, Taculli, Sicauni, Nehaunee, Leaver, Hare, i_ lii|ipeayan. Montagnais, Slave, aad others, who number in all about 12.000, chiefly on the waters of the LTpper Yukon, Upper IVIaekenzie, Upper Fraser, Peace River, Atha- basca River, and the lakes connected with them. TINNE, tin'na. Alexine (18.39-69). A Dutch exjiloror in Africa, born at The Hague. In 1856 she visited Palestine. Syria, and Egv'pt, and hav- ing definitely removed to Cairo in 1861. started for the Upper Xile in .January,. 1862, and reached Oondokoro in September, hut was compelled by sickness to return to Khartum. In February, 186.3, she set out with an enormous train on a second expedition, with Bahr-el-Ghazal for its goal, in which Henglin and Steudner ( 1852- 03) participated and which advanced as far as Dembo in the Bongo country, Steudner and iliss Tiiine's mother having snccundied to the climate, the expedition returned to Khartum in -March, 1804, Its results were described in the Transactions of the Historical tSociettj of Lanca- shire, etc., vol. xvi. (Liverpool, 1804). In 1805 .lexine Tinnc visited Crete, tjreeec, and Italy, went to Algiers in 180G, traveled through the I'rench Sahara in 1808, and in January, 1809, started with a strong retinue for the interior, in- tending to penetrate to the Xile via Bornu. De- tained by sickness at ilurzuk, she then proceeded toward Ghat by invitation of the Tuareg chief Ikhenukhen, but, was assassinated by the Tuaregs escorting her, on August 1st. Consult : Henglin, in I'eterinanns MiUcilungcn, Eryiinzunysheft 13 ((iotha, 1865) ; and id., lleise in das Gebiet des Wcissrn. yil, rtc. (Leipzig, 1809). TINNEVEL'LI or TINAVELLY. The capital of a district of Madras, British India, 99 miles southwest of JIadura, on the left bank of the Tambraparni River (Jlap: India, C 7), It is connected with Palamcotta on the opposite bank by a handsome bridge. The most striking edifice is the Siva temple. There are two col- leges, and the town has long been an important centre for Protestant missions. Cotton goods are extensively manufactured. Tinnevelli be- came a British possession in 1801. Population, in 1901, 40.409. TINNI'TUS ATJRIUM (Lat., ringing of the ears). Ringing in the ears. In most cases it is an unimportant symptom, depending on some local temporary affection of the ear, or on some disturbance of the digestive system ; but as it is also a common symptom of organic dis- ease of the auditory nerve, it may indicate a dangerous condition, or may be a prelude to complete deafness. It may be a symptom of neurasthenia (q.v.), and may occur in a number of diseases. Hence, although commonly of no consequence, it is a symptom that, especially if permanent, must be carefully watched. It may be readily induced for a few hours by a large dose of quinine or of the salicylates. TINOCERAS. A huge proboscidean, allied to Corypliodon, Dinoceras and L'intatherium, found fossil in the Middle Eocene (Bridges) formations of Wyoming. Its most prominent characteristic was the long, narrow, somewhat quadrangular skull, bearing six great protuber- ances, one pair on the nasal bones pointing for- wai'd, a second outward-bending pair on the up- ]ier jaw-bones (maxillaries), and a third over the eyes (on the parietals), where there was a semicircular upright crest of bone. These pro- tuberances seem not to have been covered with ordinary horn. The typical species is Tinoceras iiiyens, described by Marsh, Dinocerata, a Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals (Washington. 1884), TINOS, te'n6s. One of the Cyclades. See Tkxos. TINTERN ABBEY, One of the most beau- tiful monastic ruins in England, It is situated in a green meadow on tlic right bank of the River Wye, nine miles below Jlonmouth. on the spot where Theodoric. British King of Glamor- gan, was said to have fallen in battle against the heathen Saxons, A.n. 600. The abbey was founded in 1131 for Cistercian monks by Walter de Clare;