Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Meinert's name for the chief piercing organ of the dipterous moth; the hypopharynx.

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  • In the course of the campaign Caesar's captors became his captives and recognizing the man who had spared his life, Caesar made him one of his personal attendants and permitted him to bear arms — a privilege not allowed to any but Roman soldiers — and thus the name Taliaferro originated from the Latin "telum" — a dart — and "ferro" — to bear.

    A History of Caroline County, Virginia 1924

  • The little javelin doration in the Greek text, so iaculum or telum in Latin is just the sort of weapon to have been thrown by Romes light infantry.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • The little javelin doration in the Greek text, so iaculum or telum in Latin is just the sort of weapon to have been thrown by Romes light infantry.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • The little javelin doration in the Greek text, so iaculum or telum in Latin is just the sort of weapon to have been thrown by Romes light infantry.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • The little javelin doration in the Greek text, so iaculum or telum in Latin is just the sort of weapon to have been thrown by Romes light infantry.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • 'Tis [3721] fortunae telum, non culpae, fortune's fault, not mine.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • “Dextra mihi Deus, et telum quod missile libro, Nunc adsint!”

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • The _telum_ of 12 should be taken to be a spear, since _mittere_ never seems to be used of arrows.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _ 53, 'Peroraturus "stricturum se lucubrationis suae telum" minabatur; lenius comtiusque scribendi genus adeo contemnens, ut Senecam, tum maxime placentem, "commissiones meras" componere, et

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Others say the name is an alteration of Telia, from _telum_, a dart, alluding to the use of the wood.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

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