(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:43:11

Tel*lu"ri*an (?), a. [L. tellus, -uris, the earth.]

Of or pertaining to the earth.

De Quincey.

 

© Webster 1913.

Tel*lu"ri*an, n.

1.

A dweller on the earth.

De Quincey.

2.

An instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons.

[Written also tellurion.]

 

© Webster 1913.

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