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TEBHUNE 304 TERMINI ALBERT PAYSOK TERHUNE the press. She contributed extensively to numerous magazines, was for several years the editor of "Babyhood" and "The Home Maker"; conducted departments in "Wide Awake" and "St. Nicholas"; and served on the editorial staff of the Chicago "Tribune." Her publications in- clude: "The Story of Mary Washing- ton"; "A Gallant Fight"; "A Story With- out a Moral"; "Where Ghosts Walk" (1910); "The Long Lane" (1915). TERM, a limit; a boundary; a bound; a confine; the extremity of anything; that which limits its extent. The linuta- tion of an estate; or, rather, the whole time or duration of the holding of an estate. The time in which a court is held or open for the trial of causes. The time during which instruction is regular- ly given to students in universities and colleges. A word or expression ; the word by which a thing is expressed ; that which fixes or determines ideas; a word or ex- pression that denotes something peculiar to an art. The subject or predicate of a proposition in logic. In algebra, a member of a compound quantity. In the plural, conditions; propositions stated or promises made, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the con- tract and bind the parties. TERMES. See Termites. TERMINALIA, in Roman antiquities, a festival celebrated annually on Feb. 23, in honor of Terminus, the god of boun- daries. It was then usual for peasants to assemble near the principal landmarks which separated their fields, and, after they had crowned them with garlands and flowers, to make libations of milk and wine, and to sacrifice a lamb or a young pig. The public festival was cele- brated at the sixth milestone on the road to Laurentum, because at one time that was the limit of Roman territory. In botany (as a pseudo-singular), the typical genus of Tertninalese. Trees and shrubs with alternate leaves, usually crowded at the end of the branches. From the tropics of Asia and America. T. chebula is a large and valuable tree, 80 to 100 feet high, growing in India and Burma. The fruit is ellipsoid or obovoid and five-ribbed, from three-quarters of an inch to an inch and a quarter in length. The pounded rind gives the black myrobalan. The bark of the tree is used for tanning and dyeing. There are often galls on it, which are also used for dye- ing. Another of the myrobalans is T. belerica, 60 or 80 feet high. It grows in India. The leaves and the fruit are used for tanning and dyeing. Other In- dian species said to be used for tanning and dyeing are T. arjuna, T. catappa, T. citrina, T. paniculata, and T. tomen- tosa. The fruits of T. catappa, some- times called the almond, are eaten; so are the kernels of T. chebula, which, however, if taken in large quantities, produce intoxication. A gum like gum arabic is exuded from its bark. T. che- bula was believed by the old Hindus to be alterative and tonic. The fruits of T. belerica are astringent and laxative; the other Indian species are also medic- inal. The milky juice of T. benzoin becomes fragrant on being dried. It is burnt in churches in Mauritius as a kind of incense. A drastic resin flows from T. argentea, a Brailian species. The root of T. latifolia is given in Jamaica in diar- rhoea. The bark of T, alata is astringent and antifebrile. The wood of T. tomen- tosa, when polished, resembles walnut, and has been used in India for making stethoscopes. TERMINI, a seaport on the N. coast of Sicily; 23 miles E. S. E. of Palermo. The industries are tunny and sardine fishing. The ancient Thermae Himeren- ses here was founded by the Carthagi- nians in 408 B. c, after the destruction of the Greek city of Himera. Under the Roman rule it flourished through its baths. Of these some fragments still exist, as well as of a theater, an aque- duct, etc. Pop. about 21,000.