Tongeren, municipality, Flanders Region, northeastern Belgium. It lies along the Geer (Jaar) River, northwest of Liège. Important in Roman times as Aduatuca Tungrorum, capital of the Germanic Tungri tribe, it was the centre of a revolt against Rome in 54 bc. Tongeren is the oldest city in Belgium

Hui, an official nationality of China, composed of nearly 10 million people. The Hui are Chinese Muslims (i.e., neither Turkic nor Mongolian) who have intermingled with the Han Chinese throughout China but are relatively concentrated in western China—in the provinces or autonomous regions of

Chinese music: Classification of instruments: …large, so-called bronze drum (tonggu), which is of special interest because of its widespread archaeological distribution throughout Southeast Asia. The sounds of the drum are also intriguing, as are the designs inscribed on its bronze head and the frog figurines that often grace the head’s rim. Han dynasty military…

Tongguan, town, eastern Shaanxi sheng (province), north-central China. It is situated on the south bank of the Huang He (Yellow River), just below its confluence with the Wei River where the Huang bends to the east and opposite the town of Fenglingdu in Shanxi province. The town is located in an

Sea of Japan, marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded by Japan and Sakhalin Island to the east and by Russia and Korea on the Asian mainland to the west. Its area is 377,600 square miles (978,000 square km). It has a mean depth of 5,748 feet (1,752 metres) and a maximum depth of

Ch’ŏndogyo, (“Eastern Learning”), indigenous Korean religion that combines elements of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, and Roman Catholicism. There is no concept of eternal reward in Ch’ŏndogyo, because its vision is limited to bringing righteousness and peace to the world. Toward this

Donghak Uprising, (1894) Korean mass revolt that sparked the first Sino-Japanese War (1894–95). Despite being persecuted for it, impoverished Koreans turned increasingly to Donghak (“Eastern Learning”; see Cheondogyo), a syncretic, nationalistic religion that opposed Western culture and espoused

Tonghua, city, southwestern Jilin sheng (province), northeastern China. It is situated in the valley of the Hun River in the densely forested Changbai Mountains—an area well known from early times for the manufacture of various forest products and for ginseng (a medicinal preparation made from an

Beijing: The early empires: …time that a waterway, the Tonghui Canal, was dug and connected to the Grand Canal, so that boats transporting tribute rice from the provinces south of the Yangtze could sail into one of the new lakes inside the city. Dadu, which had magnificent imperial palaces and treasures drawn from every…

Austronesian languages: Polynesian languages: …are divided into two branches, Tongic (Tongan and Niue) and Nuclear Polynesian (the rest). Nuclear Polynesian in turn contains Samoic-Outlier and Eastern Polynesian. Maori and Hawaiian, two Eastern Polynesian languages that are separated by some 5,000 miles of sea, appear to be about as closely related as Dutch and German.…

Zhu Xi: Life: …resulting work, known as the Tongjian gangmu (“Outline and Digest of the General Mirror”), basically completed in 1172, was not only widely read throughout eastern Asia but also served as the basis for the first comprehensive history of China published in Europe, J.-A.-M. Moyriac de Mailla’s Histoire générale de la…

Phuket: island, southern Thailand. The island lies in the Andaman Sea, off the west coast of peninsular Thailand. Phuket city, located in the southeastern portion of the island, is a major port and commercial centre. Its harbour exports tin, rubber, charcoal, lumber, and fish products south…

Tonkin, northern Vietnam during the French colonial period. The term Tonkin was never officially used by the Vietnamese to describe their country. Tonkin was centred on the densely populated and intensively cultivated Red River delta. It lay north of the Ma River, Ninh Binh being its southernmost

Tongliao, city, eastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, northeastern China. It is situated on the east bank of the Xiliao River on the western edge of the Northeast (Manchurian) Plain. Tongliao was originally the centre of the Barin tala horse pastures, which were established in the 17th century

Tongling, city and industrial centre, southern Anhui sheng (province), eastern China. It is located on the southeast bank of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) between Anqing and Wuhu. Tongling grew into an industrial city of consequence only in the second half of the 20th century, but it has been a

Hou Hsiao-hsien: …semiautobiographical film Tongnian wangshi (1985; A Time to Live, a Time to Die) is the coming-of-age story of a young man raised in Taiwan under circumstances similar to Hou’s own. Hou also found his true voice in making films set against the backdrop of Taiwanese history, such as Lianlian fengchen…

Korea: The international power struggle and Korea’s resistance: …a political organization called the Independence Club (Dongnip Hyeophoe). He also published a daily newspaper named Tongnip sinmun (“The Independent”) as a medium for awakening the populace to the importance of sovereignty and civil rights. On the urging of the Dongnip Hyeophoe, the king returned to his palace and declared…

pansori: Styles and schools of performance: …be grouped into three categories: dongpyeonje (“east-side singing school”), seopyeonje (“west-side singing school”), and junggoje (“middle-high singing school”). Dongpyeonje is associated with the eastern Jeolla region (in southwestern South Korea) and particularly with the singers Song Heung-Nok, Jeong Chun-Pung, and Kim Sejong. Hallmarks of the style include a deep controlled…

Shanxi: Transportation: The longest of these, the Tongpu trunk line, runs from Datong to Fenglingdu, in the southwestern corner of the province. Other trunk lines pass through the province, notably the line from Beijing to Baotou, and additional branchlines connect the main lines with more recently opened industrial and mining sites. Major…

Tongeren, municipality, Flanders Region, northeastern Belgium. It lies along the Geer (Jaar) River, northwest of Liège. Important in Roman times as Aduatuca Tungrorum, capital of the Germanic Tungri tribe, it was the centre of a revolt against Rome in 54 bc. Tongeren is the oldest city in Belgium

hand tool: Tongs, pincers, and pliers: Tongs, pincers, tweezers, and pliers have the common task of holding or gripping objects so that they may be handled more easily. The early use of fire created a new problem, that of handling hot coals. Two sticks probably served as…

Tongsa, town, fortress, and monastery, central Bhutan. It lies in the Himalayas on the Tongsa (or Mangde) River, about 5,500 feet (1,700 m) above sea level. It was the headquarters of the first hereditary maharaja of Bhutan and the historic seat of power over central and eastern Bhutan. The dzong

origins of agriculture: Korea: …bp were discovered at the Tongsamdong site, near Pusan in southern South Korea. By 4000 bp rice appears to have been introduced from China.

Xuzhou, city, northwestern Jiangsu sheng (province), eastern China. It is located in a gap in the southern portion of the Shandong Hills that constitutes a southwestern extension of the North China Plain. Through this gap flows the Feihuang River (in a former riverbed of the Huang He [Yellow

Zhou Dunyi: In the longer treatise entitled Tongshu (“Explanatory Text”), Zhou’s restatement and reinterpretation of Confucian doctrines laid the basis for the ethics of later Neo-Confucianism. According to Zhou, the sage, or superior man, reacts to external phenomena according to the principles of propriety, humanity, righteousness, wisdom, faithfulness, and tranquillity. Zhou viewed…

Tougué, town, north-central Guinea, western Africa, on the Fouta Djallon plateau. It is a trading centre (rice, millet, oranges, cattle, and goats) among the Fulani (Peul) people in a savanna region. Bauxite deposits have been discovered south of the town. Pop. (latest est.)

tongue, in most vertebrates, an organ, capable of various muscular movements, located on the floor of the mouth. In some animals (e.g., frogs) it is elongated and adapted to capturing insect prey. The tongues of certain reptiles function primarily as sensory organs, whereas cats and some other

speech disorder: Loss of tongue: …loss of the tongue (true aglossia) from injury or surgery is often amazingly well compensated. Patients can learn to use residual portions of a tongue stump as well as other oral structures to substitute for the missing tongue; indeed, some persons without a tongue have relearned to speak so well…

Serapias: … is commonly known as the tongue orchid. It has a reddish lip, lance-shaped leaves, and a stem up to 30 cm (12 inches) long. The heart-flowered serapias (S. cordigera) has purple flowers with blackish purple lips that often have a tonguelike lobe. S. stenopetala features pale yellow flowers and is…

Tongue River, river rising on the eastern slopes of the Bighorn Mountains just west of Sheridan, Wyo., U.S., and flowing northeastward for 246 miles (396 km) to join the Yellowstone River at Miles City, Mont. From elevations of 8,000–10,000 feet (2,400–3,000 m), it drops to low, rugged mountains

tonguefish, any of the small marine flatfishes of the family Cynoglossidae, found in the tropics, especially in Asia. Tonguefish are flattened, drop-shaped flatfish with small eyes, both on the left side of the head, and with long dorsal and anal fins that join with the tail fin. Most tonguefish

tongue twister, word or group of words made difficult to articulate by a close sequence of similar consonantal sounds. Tongue twisters are often passed on for generations, becoming a rich part of folklore. Two widely known English-language twisters are “She sells sea shells beside the seashore” and

tongue-tie, congenital shortening of the flap of mucous membrane (frenum) beneath the tongue, a condition that sometimes interferes with protrusion of the tongue. The name comes from the belief, of folk origin, that the anomaly is the cause of speaking or feeding difficulties. Medical studies

tonguefish, any of the small marine flatfishes of the family Cynoglossidae, found in the tropics, especially in Asia. Tonguefish are flattened, drop-shaped flatfish with small eyes, both on the left side of the head, and with long dorsal and anal fins that join with the tail fin. Most tonguefish

instrumentation: Wind techniques: Flutter tonguing (produced by a rapid rolling movement of the tongue) is possible on most wind instruments; so are many other tonguing techniques that affect the quality of sound in orchestration.

Tongva, any of two, or possibly three, dialectally and culturally related Indigenous North American groups who historically spoke a language of Uto-Aztecan stock and lived in the lowlands, along the seacoast, and on islands in southern California at the time of Spanish colonization. The Tongva

Li Zhizao: …Ricci translated his arithmetic primer Epitome arithmeticae practicae (1585; “Selected Arithmetic Methods”) as Tongwen suanzhi (1614). This book systematically introduced European-style mathematical notation, while Li included complementary elements from traditional Chinese mathematics. Li also wrote a short treatise on geometry dictated by Ricci. Together with the Portuguese Jesuit Francisco Furtado…

Tongwenguan, first institution in China for the study of Western thought and society. The Tongwenguan was originally established in 1862 to teach Western languages and thereby free Chinese diplomats from reliance on foreign interpreters. In 1866 the study of astronomy and mathematics was added to

Tongyeong, city and port, South Gyeongsang do (province), southeastern South Korea. The city was created in 1995 when Chungmu city was combined with Tongyeong county. Until it was made a municipality in 1955, Chungmu was called Tongyeong, deriving its name from Tongjeyeong, which in Old Korean

Tongzhi was the reign name (niaohao) of the eighth emperor (reigned 1861–1874/75) of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12), during whose reign occurred a short revitalization of the beleaguered Qing government, known as the Tongzhi Restoration. Ascending the throne at the age of five (six by Chinese

Zheng Qiao: He wrote the Tongzhi (“General Treatises”), a famous institutional history of China from its beginnings through the Tang dynasty (618–907). In this work he discussed subjects such as philology, phonetics, and the development of families and clans, none of which had been systematically explored before. Zheng’s method and…

Toni Morrison: Legacy: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019) is a documentary about her life and career.

Tonian Period, earliest of the three periods of the Neoproterozoic Era, extending from 1 billion to approximately 720 million years ago. It immediately followed the Stenian Period of the Mesoproterozoic Era (which lasted from 1.2 billion to 1 billion years ago) and was succeeded by the Cryogenian

tonic, in music, the first note (degree) of any diatonic (e.g., major or minor) scale. It is the most important degree of the scale, serving as the focus for both melody and harmony. The term tonic may also refer to the tonic triad, the chord built in thirds from the tonic note (as C–E–G in C

nervous system disease: Muscle tone: When the physician flexes or extends the joints in a normal, relaxed limb, a certain resistance, known as tone, is detected. This resistance decreases whenever the reflex arc is damaged (usually at the level of the peripheral motor or sensory nerve), but it…

tonic immobility, unlearned, reflexive, and reversible behavioral state in animals characterized by extreme motor inhibition (an almost complete suspension of immediate and automatic actions in response to a stimulus), which may make an animal appear lifeless. Animals may enter this state under

Georg Ernst Stahl: Teachings in medicine: …place to what he called tonic motion (“motus tonicus”), a contractive and relaxative movement of body parts or tissues that played a key role in metabolism—although, as always, he saw anima as the agent that directed the motion. The participation of anima in physiology and pathology thus made the living…

solmization: …the most prominent being tonic sol-fa, developed about 1850 in England by John Curwen. Tonic sol-fa emphasizes the relation of the notes to one another and to the tonic, or key note (do in major scales, la in minor scales). If the key changes, do (or la) shifts to a…

solmization: …the most prominent being tonic sol-fa, developed about 1850 in England by John Curwen. Tonic sol-fa emphasizes the relation of the notes to one another and to the tonic, or key note (do in major scales, la in minor scales). If the key changes, do (or la) shifts to a…

epilepsy: Generalized-onset seizures: …to by the older term grand mal, are commonly known as convulsions. A person undergoing a convulsion loses consciousness and falls to the ground. The fall is sometimes preceded by a shrill scream caused by forcible expiration of air as the respiratory and laryngeal muscles suddenly contract. After the fall,…

Noël Coward: Other successes included Tonight at Eight-thirty (1936), a group of one-act plays performed by Coward and Gertrude Lawrence, with whom he often played. He rewrote (with help from director David Lean and two others) one of the short plays, Still Life, as the film Brief Encounter (1945). Present…

Adrienne Rich: Later collections: …the Labyrinth (2007) and in Tonight No Poetry Will Serve (2011) continue to experiment with form and include more reflective passages on Rich’s sharp observations on the cultural climate of the day. Later Poems: Selected and New, 1971–2012 (2012) is a posthumous sampling of her oeuvre that includes 10 previously…

The Tonight Show, long-running American late-night television talk show. Airing since 1954 on NBC, it is the standard against which others of its genre are judged. The show has won multiple Emmy Awards. (Read Steve Allen’s Britannica essay on The Tonight Show.) Except for a brief (and unpopular)

The Tonight Show, long-running American late-night television talk show. Airing since 1954 on NBC, it is the standard against which others of its genre are judged. The show has won multiple Emmy Awards. (Read Steve Allen’s Britannica essay on The Tonight Show.) Except for a brief (and unpopular)

The Tonight Show, long-running American late-night television talk show. Airing since 1954 on NBC, it is the standard against which others of its genre are judged. The show has won multiple Emmy Awards. (Read Steve Allen’s Britannica essay on The Tonight Show.) Except for a brief (and unpopular)

Italian literature: Luigi Pirandello: …si recita a soggetto (1930; Tonight We Improvise). This was a way of transferring the dissociation of reality from the plane of content to that of form, thereby achieving an almost perfect unity between ideas and dramatic structure. Pirandello’s plays, including perhaps his best, Enrico IV (1922; Henry IV), often…

History of film: Introduction of color: …replaced by mechanized tinting and toning. Tinting colored all the light areas of a picture and was achieved by immersing a black-and-white print in dye or by using colored film base for printing. The toning process involved chemically treating film emulsion to color the dark areas of the print. Each…

Prussian blue: …blue has a reddish tint; toning blue is dull, with a strong red tone. All these pigments are chemically similar, differences in shade arising from variations in particle size and details of the manufacturing process.

Tonio Kröger, novella by Thomas Mann, originally published in German in 1903. The partially autobiographical work explores the problem of the artist who, in his devotion to his craft, confronts the antithesis of spirit and life. From earliest childhood Tonio Kröger is aware of his separation from

Jaan Tõnisson was an Estonian statesman, lawyer, newspaper editor, and civic leader who opposed Russian (tsarist and communist) domination of his country. In 1905, after a revolution had broken out in Russia, Tõnisson founded the National Liberal Party in Estonia and in 1906 sat in the first

Kieta: Two settlements, Toniva and Nairovi, located just outside of Kieta, are considered part of that town. They grew after an increase of mining activity in the area. Nearby are the towns of Panguna and Arawa.

Tonk, city, eastern Rajasthan state, northwestern India. It lies on the slopes of a small hill range just south of a bend in the Banas River. The old walled town, which was the capital of the princely state of Tonk, was founded in 1643. Just south are the fort and newer sectors. The princely state

Amazon River: Agriculture and forestry: Other trees, such as the coumarou, or tonka bean (Dipteryx odorata), yield perfumes, flavourings, and pharmaceutical ingredients. However, the rubber and Brazil nut trees produce more-valuable commodities. The rubber tree, for example, has been one of the reasons for the intense penetration and exploitation of the forest. It gave rise…

Tonkawa, North American Indian tribe of what is now south-central Texas. Their language is considered by some to belong to the Coahuiltecan family and by others to be a distinct linguistic stock in the Macro-Algonquian phylum. Satellite groups of the Tonkawa included the Ervipiame, Mayeye, and

Tonkin, northern Vietnam during the French colonial period. The term Tonkin was never officially used by the Vietnamese to describe their country. Tonkin was centred on the densely populated and intensively cultivated Red River delta. It lay north of the Ma River, Ninh Binh being its southernmost

history of Southeast Asia: Transformation of state and society: Some, like the Tonkin Free School in Vietnam (1907), were closed by the colonial regimes, their staffs and pupils hounded by police; others, like the many so-called “wild schools” in Indonesia in the 1930s, were much too numerous to do away with altogether, but they were controlled as…

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, resolution put before the U.S. Congress by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 5, 1964, during the Vietnam War. Johnson presented it as a response to two allegedly unprovoked attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the U.S. destroyers Maddox

snub-nosed monkey: The Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (R. avunculus) is the smallest and has a long tail and long, slender fingers and toes. It is black above and strikingly white below and around the face, with the face itself being dark greenish with prominent brick-red lips. This species is…

Gulf of Tonkin, northwest arm of the South China Sea, bounded by China (north and east), Hainan Island (east), and northern Vietnam (west). The gulf is 300 miles (500 km) long, 150 miles (250 km) wide, and up to 230 feet (70 metres) deep. The main shipping route is via the Hainan Strait, between

Viet-Muong languages: Northern Vietnamese, centred in Hanoi, is the basis for the official form of Vietnamese. Central Vietnamese, centred in Hue, and Southern Vietnamese, centred in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), differ from the Northern norm in having fewer tones and in modifying certain consonants. All three…

Inoue Yasushi: …other successes are the novel Tonkō (1959; Tun-huang), which re-created 11th-century China and centred on the Buddhist treasure troves hidden in the Tun-huang (Dunhuang) caves, as well as Hyōheki (1956; “Wall of Ice”), Futo (1963; Wind and Waves), and Saiiki monogatari (1969; Journey Beyond Samarkand). His short stories are collected…

Japanese music: Early evidence: …a flute—as well as a tonkori zither with two to five strings. It is unlike the zither on the lap of the earlier tomb figure in both its shape and playing position, being held like a banjo and played open-stringed with both hands. The surviving shamanism of the Ainu has…

plasma: The development of plasma physics: In 1929 he and Lewi Tonks, another physicist working in the United States, used the term to designate those regions of a discharge in which certain periodic variations of the negatively charged electrons could occur. They called these oscillations plasma oscillations, their behaviour suggesting that of a jellylike substance.…

Tonle Sap: …the dry season by the Sab River (Tônlé Sab) across the Véal Pôc plain southeastward to the Mekong River. Called by the French Grand Lac (“Great Lake”), the lake is fed by numerous erratic tributaries and also by the Srêng and Sên rivers, which are perennial northern tributaries.

Tonle Sap, natural floodplain reservoir, central Cambodia. The lake is drained during the dry season by the Sab River (Tônlé Sab) across the Véal Pôc plain southeastward to the Mekong River. Called by the French Grand Lac (“Great Lake”), the lake is fed by numerous erratic tributaries and also by

gastropod: Classification: Superfamily Doliacea (Tonnacea) Generally tropical predators on echinoderms; often burrow in sand; includes helmet shells (Cassidae), tun shells (Doliidae), frog shells (Bursidae), triton shells (Cymatiidae), and fig shells (Ficidae); frog and triton shells often live in rocky areas; most species large in

tonnage, in shipping, the total number of tons registered or carried or the total carrying capacity. Gross tonnage (GT) is calculated from the formula GT = K1V, where V is the volume of a ship’s enclosed spaces in cubic metres and K1 is a constant calculated by K1 = 0.2 + 0.02 log10 V. The

tonnage and poundage, customs duties granted since medieval times to the English crown by Parliament. Tonnage was a fixed subsidy on each tun (cask) of wine imported, and poundage was an ad valorem (proportional) tax on all imported and exported goods. Though of separate origin, they were granted

stagecraft: Renaissance costume: …skirt and named it the tonneler. Each item of costume was decorated with a profusion of curved ornaments, flowers, vines, and animal and human forms.

stagecraft: Renaissance costume: …skirt and named it the tonneler. Each item of costume was decorated with a profusion of curved ornaments, flowers, vines, and animal and human forms.

hotel dieu: …13th century), and that of Tonnerre (c. 1300).

voršud: The tõnni-vakk of the Estonians (also a Finno-Ugric people) was a similar object of worship. The vakkas, or “cases,” were kept by families and in some cases collectively by a village. They contained offerings to St. Antony, to whom sacrifices of sheep and oxen were made…

gastropod: Classification: …sand; includes helmet shells (Cassidae), tun shells (Doliidae), frog shells (Bursidae), triton shells (Cymatiidae), and fig shells (Ficidae); frog and triton shells often live in rocky areas; most species large in size. Suborder Neogastropoda (Stenoglossa) Carnivorous or scavengers with rachiglossate (with 3 denticles)

Ferdinand Tönnies was a German sociologist whose theory reconciled the organic and social-contract conceptions of society. A teacher at the University of Kiel from 1881, Tönnies was best known for Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (1887; Community and Society, 1957). He was well known in Great Britain

Ferdinand Tönnies was a German sociologist whose theory reconciled the organic and social-contract conceptions of society. A teacher at the University of Kiel from 1881, Tönnies was best known for Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (1887; Community and Society, 1957). He was well known in Great Britain

Tono-Bungay, novel by H.G. Wells, serialized in the English Review and published in book form in New York in 1908. Considered one of his most successful attempts at a social novel in the vein of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Wells’s tale is a panoramic view of an unravelling

eye disease: Ophthalmological examination: …by an instrument called a tonometer. This instrument is designed specifically to measure the tension or pressure that exists within the eyeball. Many types of tonometers are used, each of which has unique advantages and disadvantages.

tonos, concept in ancient Greek music, pertaining to the placement of scale patterns at different pitches and closely connected with the notion of octave species (q.v.). Through transposition of the Greater Perfect System (comprising two octaves descending from the A above middle C to the second A

Carl Stumpf: …he began experiments for his Tonpsychologie, 2 vol. (1883–90; “Tone Psychology”), completed in the course of professorships at the Universities of Prague (1879), Halle (1884), and Munich (1889). This work was important not only for reporting the results of his experiments but also for revising concepts of psychophysics, which attempts…

Hanoi, city, capital of Vietnam. The city is situated in northern Vietnam on the western bank of the Red River, about 85 miles (140 km) inland from the South China Sea. In addition to being the national capital, Hanoi is also a province-level municipality (thanh pho), administered by the central

Tønsberg, town, southeastern Norway, at the head of Tønsbergfjorden. Considered to be the oldest town in Norway, Tønsberg was founded c. ad 871 and became an important trading centre. In the 13th century King Håkon Håkonsson built his castle, Tønsberghus, there. The town was destroyed by fire in

Magnus VI: …the church by concluding the Concordat of Tønsberg with Archbishop Jon the Red. The concordat, which made the church essentially independent and increased its revenue and prestige, remained an important basis of Norwegian ecclesiastical law for the next two centuries.

tonsil, small mass of lymphatic tissue located in the wall of the pharynx at the rear of the throat of humans and other mammals. In humans, the term is used to designate any of three sets of tonsils, most commonly the palatine tonsils. These are a pair of oval-shaped masses protruding from each

diphtheria: Types of diphtheria: In faucial diphtheria, the most common type, the infection is limited mostly to the tonsillar region; most patients recover if properly treated with diphtheria antitoxin. In the most fatal form, nasopharyngeal diphtheria, the tonsillar infection spreads to the nose and throat structures, sometimes completely covering them…

tonsil: …infection, and surgical removal (tonsillectomy) is required. Usually, children are more prone to tonsillitis than adults, for the structures tend to degenerate and decrease in size as one gets older.

tonsillitis, inflammatory infection of the tonsils caused by invasion of the mucous membrane by microorganisms, usually hemolytic streptococci bacteria or viruses. The symptoms are sore throat, difficulty in swallowing, fever, malaise, and enlarged lymph nodes on both sides of the neck. The

Jacob Tonson was a publisher in London who issued (1697) John Dryden’s translation of Virgil, believed to be the first English publishing venture to earn considerable money for the author. He also published anthologies of poetry edited by Dryden (from 1684); the same writer’s Fables Ancient and

Cuthbert Tunstall was a prelate, bishop of London (1522–30) and of Durham (1530–52 and 1553–59), who was a leading conservative in the age of the English Reformation. He wrote an excellent arithmetic textbook, De arte supputandi libri quattuor (1522) and a treatise on the Eucharist in which he

tonsure, in various religions, a ceremony of initiation in which hair is clipped from the head as part of the ritual marking one’s entrance into a new stage of religious development or activity. Tonsure has been used in both the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox churches on occasions of

Henri de Tonty was an Italian-born explorer and colonizer, companion of the Sieur de La Salle during his North American explorations. Henri, the son of Lorenzo de Tonti, the Neapolitan financier who devised the tontine life insurance plan, joined the French army in 1668. Nine years later he lost