Vocabulary : Tergeminate to Term

Tergeminate : Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.
Tergeminous : Threefold; thrice-paired.
Tergiferous : Carrying or bearing upon the back.
Tergite : The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.
Tergiversate : To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.

Tergiversation : The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. ;; Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change.
Tergiversator : One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
Tergum : The back of an animal. ;; The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal. ;; One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.
Terin : A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also tarin.
Term : That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary. ;; The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life. ;; In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms. ;; A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid. ;; A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration ;; The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years. ;; A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation. ;; The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes. ;; The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice. ;; A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited

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