(tek′səs) noun U.S.
The uppermost structure on a river steamboat, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc.; often, a row of staterooms behind the pilot house, or having the pilot house set on top of it. [from Texas; so called from the former custom of naming staterooms after the States, those of the officers being the largest]

(tek′səs) noun
A Caddo Indian.

(tek′səs)
A State in the SW United States, bordering on Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico; 267,339 square miles; capital, Austin; entered the Union Dec. 29, 1845; nicknamed Lone Star State: abbr. TX
—Tex′an noun & adjective