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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Version published 1913
by the C. & G. Merriam Co.
Springfield, Mass.
Under the direction of
Noah Porter, D.D., LL.D.
T.
T (t), the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal
consonant. With the letter h it forms the digraph th, which has two
distinct sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide to Pronunciation,
§§262-264, and also §§153, 156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180.
The letter derives its name and form from the Latin, the form of the
Latin letter being further derived through the Greek from the
Phœnician. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian. It is
etymologically most nearly related to d, s, th; as in tug, duke; two,
dual, L. duo; resin, L. resina, Gr. "rhti`nh, tent, tense, a., tenuous,
thin; nostril, thrill. See D, S.
T bandage (Surg.), a bandage shaped like the letter T, and used
principally for application to the groin, or perineum. — T cart, a kind
of fashionable two seated wagon for pleasure driving. — T iron. (a) A
rod with a short crosspiece at the end, — used as a hook. (b) Iron in
bars, having a cross section formed like the letter T, — used in
structures. — T rail, a kind of rail for railroad tracks, having no
flange at the bottom so that a section resembles the letter T. — T
square, a ruler having a crosspiece or head at one end, for the purpose
of making parallel lines; — so called from its shape. It is laid on a
drawing board and guided by the crosspiece, which is pressed against
the straight edge of the board. Sometimes the head is arranged to be
set at different angles. — To a T, exactly, perfectly; as, to suit to a
T. [Colloq.]
Ta (?), v. t. To take. [Obs. or Scot.] Cursor Mundi.
Used by Chaucer to represent a peculiarity of the Northern dialect.
Taas (?), n. A heap. See Tas. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tab (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] 1. The flap or latchet of a shoe
fastened with a string or a buckle.
2. A tag. See Tag, 2.
3. A loop for pulling or lifting something.
4. A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of
ladies' bonnets.
5. A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of
pendent squares forming an edge or border.
Ta*bac"co (?), n. Tobacco. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
||Ta*ba"nus (?), n. [L., horsefly.] (Zoöl.) A genus of blood sucking
||flies, including the horseflies.
||
Tab"ard (?), n. [OE. tabard, tabart; cf. Sp. & Pg. tabardo, It.
tabarro, W. tabar, LGr. &?;, LL. tabardum.] A sort of tunic or mantle
formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor
it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this
the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds. [Spelt also
taberd.]
In a tabard he [the Plowman] rode upon a mare.
Chaucer.
Tab"ard*er (?), n. 1. One who wears a tabard.
2. A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England,
whose original dress was a tabard. Nares.
Tab"a*ret (?), n. [Cf. Tabby.] A stout silk having satin stripes, —
used for furniture.
Tab`a*sheer" (?), n. [Per. tabshr: cf. Skr. tvakkshr, tvakshr.] A
concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or
chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a
medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and
various other diseases.
Tab"bi*net (?), n. [Cf. Tabby.] A fabric like poplin, with a watered
surface. [Written also tabinet.]
Tab"by (?), n.; pl. Tabbies (#). [F. tabis (cf. It. tabì, Sp. & Pg.
tabí, LL. attabi), fr. Ar. 'attb, properly the name of a quarter of
Bagdad where it was made, the quarter being named from the prince
Attab, great grandson of Omeyya. Cf. Tobine.] 1. A kind of waved silk,
usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and
stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
2. A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal
proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes
as hard as rock. Weale.
3. A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
4. An old maid or gossip. [Colloq.] Byron.
Tab"by (?), a. 1. Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby
waistcoat. Pepys.
2. Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.
Tabby moth (Zoöl.), the grease moth. See under Grease.
Tab"by, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabbied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tabbying (?).]
To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to
calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.
Tab`e*fac"tion (?), n. [See Tabefy.] A wasting away; a gradual losing
of flesh by disease.
Tab"e*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabefied (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tabefying (?).] [L. tabere to waste away + -fy: cf. L. tabefacere to
melt.] To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate. [R.] Harvey.
Ta*bel"lion (?), n. [L. tabellio, fr. tabella a tablet, a writing,
document, dim. of tabula a board: cf. F. tabellion. See Table.] A
secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in
France during the old monarchy.
Ta"ber (?), v. i. Same as Tabor. Nahum ii. 7.
Tab"erd (?), n. See Tabard.
Tab"er*na*cle (?), n. [F., fr. L. tabernaculum, dim. of taberna nut.
See Tabern.] 1. A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a
tent.
Dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob.
Heb. xi. 9.
Orange trees planted in the ground, and secured in winter with a wooden
tabernacle and stoves.
Evelyn.
2. (Jewish Antiq.) A portable structure of wooden framework covered
with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the
Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship. Ex. xxvi.
3. Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.
Acts xv. 16.
4. Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.
Shortly I must put off this my tabernacle.
2 Pet. i. 14.
5. Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things
was deposited or kept. Specifically: —
(a) The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated
elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
(b) A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or
sculpture.
(c) Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially
architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the
like.
(d) A tryptich for sacred imagery.
(e) A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.
6. (Naut.) A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that
the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
Feast of Tabernacles (Jewish Antiq.), one of the three principal
festivals of the Jews, lasting seven days, during which the people
dwelt in booths formed of the boughs of trees, in commemoration of the
habitation of their ancestors in similar dwellings during their
pilgrimage in the wilderness. — Tabernacle work, rich canopy work like
that over the head of niches, used over seats or stalls, or over
sepulchral monuments. Oxf. Gloss.
Tab"er*na*cle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tabernacled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tabernacling (?).] To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary
housed.
He assumed our nature, and tabernacled among us in the flesh.
Dr. J. Scott.
Tab`er*nac"u*lar (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to a tabernacle,
especially the Jewish tabernacle.
2. Formed in latticework; latticed. T. Warton.
3. Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low. "Horribly
tabernacular." De Quincey.
||Ta"bes (t"bz), n. [L., a wasting disease.] (Med.) Progressive
||emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no
||well-marked local symptoms.
||
||Tabes dorsalis (dôr*s"ls) [NL., tabes of the back], locomotor ataxia;
||— sometimes called simply tabes. — ||Tabes mesenterica (&?;) [NL.,
||mesenteric tabes], a wasting disease of childhood characterized by
||chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery,
||attended with caseous degeneration.
||
Ta*bes"cent (?), a. [L. tabescens wasting, p. pr. of tabescere.]
Withering, or wasting away.
Ta*bet"ic (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of
tabes; affected with tabes; tabid. — n. One affected with tabes.
Tab"id (?), a. [L. tabidus: cf. F. tabide. See Tabes.] (Med.) Affected
by tabes; tabetic.
In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative.
Arbuthnot.
— Tab"id*ly, adv. — Tab"id*ness, n.
{ Ta*bif"ic (?), Ta*bif"ic*al (?), } a. [Tabes + L. facere to make.]
(Med.) Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying.
Tab"inet (?), n. See Tabbinet. Thackeray.
Tab"la*ture (?), n. [Cf. F. tablature ancient mode of musical notation.
See Table.] 1. (Paint.) A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece
comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a
picture in general. Shaftesbury.
2. (Mus.) An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and
other signs instead of by notes.
The chimes of bells are so rarely managed that I went up to that of Sir
Nicholas, where I found who played all sorts of compositions from the
tablature before him as if he had fingered an organ.
Evelyn.
3. (Anat.) Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as,
the tablature of the cranial bones.
Ta"ble (?), n. [F., fr. L. tabula a board, tablet, a painting. Cf.
Tabular, Taffrail, Tavern.] 1. A smooth, flat surface, like the side of
a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
A bagnio paved with fair tables of marble.
Sandys.
2. A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on
which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet; pl. a
memorandum book. "The names . . . written on his tables." Chaucer.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto
the first, and I will write upon these tables the words that were in
the first tables, which thou brakest.
Ex. xxxiv. 1.
And stand there with your tables to glean The golden sentences.
Beau. & Fl.
3. Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or
the like, may be produced. "Painted in a table plain." Spenser.
The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which, with that other of the
Infanta taking leave of Don Philip, is a most incomparable table.
Evelyn.
St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a poor peasant.
Addison.
4. Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement
which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or
systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in
one group; a scheme; a schedule. Specifically: —
(a) (Bibliog.) A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the
principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a
table of contents.
(b) (Chem.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a
list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities,
symbols, etc.
(c) (Mach.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many
particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures,
currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following
some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain
other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are
taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines,
tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables;
astronomical tables, etc.
(d) (Palmistry) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which
appear on the inside of the hand.
Mistress of a fairer table Hath not history for fable.
B. Jonson.
5. An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the
like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for
a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working.
We may again Give to our tables meat.
Shak.
The nymph the table spread.
Pope.
6. Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare;
entertainment; as, to set a good table.
7. The company assembled round a table.
I drink the general joy of the whole table.
Shak.
8. (Anat.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact
bone, separated by diploë, in the walls of the cranium.
9. (Arch.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of
stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it
decorative. See Water table.
10. (Games) (a) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and
draughts are played. (b) One of the divisions of a backgammon board;
as, to play into the right-hand table. (c) pl. The games of backgammon
and of draughts. [Obs.] Chaucer.
This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, That, when he plays at
tables, chides the dice.
Shak.
11. (Glass Manuf.) A circular plate of crown glass.
A circular plate or table of about five feet diameter weighs on an
average nine pounds.
Ure.
12. (Jewelry) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious
stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
13. (Persp.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and
perpendicular to the horizon; — called also perspective plane.
14. (Mach.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is
fastened.
Bench table, Card table, Communion table, Lord's table, etc. See under
Bench, Card, etc. — Raised table (Arch. & Sculp.), a raised or
projecting member of a flat surface, large in proportion to the
projection, and usually rectangular, — especially intended to receive
an inscription or the like. — Roller table (Horology), a flat disk on
the arbor of the balance of a watch, holding the jewel which rolls in
and out of the fork at the end of the lever of the escapement. — Round
table. See Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. — Table anvil, a small
anvil to be fastened to a table for use in making slight repairs. —
Table base. (Arch.) Same as Water table. — Table bed, a bed in the form
of a table. — Table beer, beer for table, or for common use; small
beer. — Table bell, a small bell to be used at table for calling
servants. — Table cover, a cloth for covering a table, especially at
other than mealtimes. — Table diamond, a thin diamond cut with a flat
upper surface. — Table linen, linen tablecloth, napkins, and the like.
— Table money (Mil. or Naut.), an allowance sometimes made to officers
over and above their pay, for table expenses. — Table rent (O. Eng.
Law), rent paid to a bishop or religious, reserved or appropriated to
his table or housekeeping. Burrill. — Table shore (Naut.), a low, level
shore. — Table talk, conversation at table, or at meals. — Table
talker, one who talks at table. — Table tipping, Table turning, certain
movements of tables, etc., attributed by some to the agency of departed
spirits, and by others to the development of latent vital or spriritual
forces, but more commonly ascribed to the muscular force of persons in
connection with the objects moved, or to physical force applied
otherwise. — Tables of a girder or chord (Engin.), the upper and lower
horizontal members. — To lay on the table, in parliamentary usage, to
lay, as a report, motion, etc., on the table of the presiding officer,
— that is, to postpone the consideration of, by a vote. — To serve
tables (Script.), to provide for the poor, or to distribute provisions
for their wants. Acts vi. 2. — To turn the tables, to change the
condition or fortune of contending parties; — a metaphorical expression
taken from the vicissitudes of fortune in gaming. — Twelve tables (Rom.
Antiq.), a celebrated body of Roman laws, framed by decemvirs appointed
450 years before Christ, on the return of deputies or commissioners who
had been sent to Greece to examine into foreign laws and institutions.
They consisted partly of laws transcribed from the institutions of
other nations, partly of such as were altered and accommodated to the
manners of the Romans, partly of new provisions, and mainly, perhaps,
of laws and usages under their ancient kings. Burrill.
<! p. 1467 !>
Ta"ble (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tableed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tableing
(?).] 1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table
fines.
2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.]
Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation.
Bacon.
3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] Milton.
4. (Carp.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate
scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
5. To lay or place on a table, as money. Carlyle.
6. In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a
formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till
called for, or indefinitely.
7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
8. (Naut.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in
order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
Ta"ble, v. i. To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. [Obs.]
"He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts."
South.
||Ta`bleau" (?), n.; pl. Tableaux (#). [F., dim. fr. L. tabula a
||painting. See Table.] 1. A striking and vivid representation; a
||picture.
||
2. A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the
proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and
motionless.
||Ta`bleau" vi`vant" (?); pl. Tableaux vivants (#). [F.] Same as
||Tableau, n., 2.
||
Ta"ble*book` (?), n. A tablet; a notebook.
Put into your tablebook whatever you judge worthy.
Dryden.
Ta"ble*cloth` (?), n. A cloth for covering a table, especially one with
which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.
||Ta"ble d'hôte" (t"bl' dt`); pl. Tables d'hôte (#). [F., literally,
||table of the landlord.] A common table for guests at a hotel; an
||ordinary.
||
Ta"ble-land` (?), n. A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.
The toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon the shining
table-lands To which our God himself is moon and sun.
Tennyson.
Ta"ble*man (?), n.; pl. Tablemen (&?;). A man at draughts; a piece used
in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. [R.] Bacon.
Ta"ble*ment (?), n. (Arch.) A table. [Obs.]
Tablements and chapters of pillars.
Holland.
Ta"bler (?), n. 1. One who boards. [Obs.]
2. One who boards others for hire. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Ta"ble*spoon` (?), n. A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the
table; — distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
Ta"ble*spoon`ful (?), n.; pl. Tablespoonfuls (&?;). As much as a
tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually
reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.
Ta"blet (?), n. [F. tablette, dim. of table. See Table.] 1. A small
table or flat surface.
2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or
engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.]
4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book.
5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn
as a preservative against the plague.
6. (Pharm.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of
dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat
squares; — called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round
or rounded form.
Ta"ble*ware` (?), n. Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.
Ta"bling (?), n. 1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
2. (Carp.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores
or projections, as in shipbuilding.
3. (Naut.) A broad hem on the edge of a sail. Totten.
4. Board; support. [Obs.] Trence in English (1614).
5. Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10. [Obs.]
Tabling house, a gambling house. [Obs.] Northbrooke.
Ta*boo" (?), n. A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or
approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, — an
interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the
islands of Polynesia; interdiction. [Written also tabu.]
Ta*boo", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabooed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tabooing.] To
put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict
approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a
sanctuary for criminals. [Written also tabu.]
Ta"bor (?), n. [OF. tabor, tabour, F. tambour; cf. Pr. tabor, tanbor,
Sp. & Pg. tambor, atambor, It. tamburo; all fr. Ar. & Per. tamb&?;r a
kind of lute, or giutar, or Per. tabr a drum. Cf. Tabouret, Tambour.]
(Mus.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both
being played by the same person. [Written also tabour, and taber.]
Ta"bor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tabored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Taboring.]
[Cf. OF. taborer.] [Written also tabour.] 1. To play on a tabor, or
little drum.
2. To strike lightly and frequently.
Ta"bor, v. t. To make (a sound) with a tabor.
Ta"bor*er (?), n. One who plays on the tabor. Shak.
Tab"o*ret (?), n. [Dim. of tabor. Cf. Tabret.] (Mus.) A small tabor.
[Written also tabouret.]
Tab"o*rine (?), n. [OF. tabourin, F. tambourin. See Tabor, and cf.
Tambourine.] (Mus.) A small, shallow drum; a tabor.
Ta"bor*ite (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of certain Bohemian reformers who
suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; — so called from Tabor,
a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their
struggles.
Ta"bour (?), n. & v. See Tabor.
Tab"ou*ret (?), n. [F., dim. of OF. tabor, tabour, drum. See Tabor.] 1.
Same as Taboret.
2. A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; —
so called from its resemblance to a drum.
3. An embroidery frame. Knight.
Right of the tabouret, the privilege of sitting on a tabouret in the
presence of the severeign, formerly granted to certain ladies of high
rank at the French court.
Tab"rere (?), n. A taborer. [Obs.] Spenser.
Tab"ret (?), n. A taboret. Young.
Ta*bu" (?), n. & v. See Taboo.
||Tab"u*la (?), n.; pl. Tabulæ (#). [L.] 1. A table; a tablet.
||
2. (Zoöl.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of
certain corals and hydroids.
Tabula rasa (&?;) [L.], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the
mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without;
— a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory
opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.
Tab"u*lar (?), a. [L. tabularis, fr. tabula a board, table. See Table.]
Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of
the word). Specifically: —
(a) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.
(b) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated.
Woodward.
(c) Set in squares. [R.]
(d) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.
(e) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right
ascension.
Tabular difference (Math.), the difference between two consecutive
numbers in a table, sometimes printed in its proper place in the table.
— Tabular spar (Min.), wollastonite.
Tab`u*lar*i*za"tion (?), n. The act of tabularizing, or the state of
being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.
Tab"u*lar*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabularized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tabularizing (?).] To tabulate.
||Tab`u*la"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tabulatus floored.] (Zoöl.) An
||artificial group of stony corals including those which have
||transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and
||Favosites are examples.
||
Tab"u*late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tabulating.] [L. tabula a table. See Tabular.] 1. To form into a table
or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.
A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be
tabulated, and put in figures.
I. Taylor.
2. To shape with a flat surface.
Tab`u*la"tion (?), n. The act of forming into a table or tables; as,
the tabulation of statistics.
Tac (?), n. [Cf. Tack, n., 4.] (O. Eng. Law) A kind of customary
payment by a tenant; — a word used in old records. Cowell. Burrill.
{ Tac"a*ma*hac` (?), Tac`a*ma*ha"ca (?), } n. 1. A bitter balsamic
resin obtained from tropical American trees of the genus Elaphrium (E.
tomentosum and E. Tacamahaca), and also from East Indian trees of the
genus Calophyllum; also, the resinous exhudation of the balsam poplar.
2. (Bot.) Any tree yielding tacamahac resin, especially, in North
America, the balsam poplar, or balm of Gilead (Populus balsamifera).
Ta*caud" (?), n. [Cf. F. tacaud. See Tomcod.] (Zoöl.) The bib, or
whiting pout. [Prov. Eng.]
Tace (?), n. The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6),
under Cross, n. Mollett.
Tace, n. See Tasse. Fairholt.
||Ta"cet (?), v. impers. [L., it is silent, 3d pers.pr. of tacere to be
||silent.] (Mus.) It is silent; — a direction for a vocal or
||instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.
||
Tache (?), n. [See Tack a kind of nail.] Something used for taking hold
or holding; a catch; a loop; a button. [Obs.] Ex. xxvi. 6.
Tache, n. [F. tache spot. See Techy.] A spot, stain, or blemish. [Obs.]
Warner.
Tach*hy"drite (?), n. [Gr. tachy`s quick + "y`dwr water. So named from
its ready deliquescence.] (Min.) A hydrous chloride of calcium and
magnesium occurring in yellowish masses which rapidly deliquesce upon
exposure. It is found in the salt mines at Stassfurt.
||Tach"i*na (?), n.; pl. Tachinæ (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, for &?;
||swift.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to
||Tachina and allied genera. Their larvæ are external parasites of
||other insects.
||
Ta*chom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?; swiftness, speed (fr. tachy`s quick) +
-meter: cf. F. tachomètre.] An instrument for measuring the velocity,
or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance.
Specifically: —
(a) An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a
river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is
turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by
clockwork.
(b) An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving
shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum which is
driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves a
pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial.
(c) (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood; a
hæmatachometer.
Tach"y*di*dax`y (?), n. [Gr. tachy`s quick + &?; teaching.] A short or
rapid method of instructing. [R.]
||Tach`y*glos"sa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. tachy`s quick + &?; tongue.]
||(Zoöl.) A division of monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters
||of Australia and New Guinea. See Illust. under Echidna.
||
{ Tach`y*graph"ic (?), Tach`y*graph"ic*al (?), } a. [Cf. F.
tachygraphique.] Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.
Ta*chyg"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. tachy`s quick + -graphy: cf. F.
tachygraphie.] The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing;
stenography. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
Tach"y*lyte (?), n. [Gr. tachy`s quick + &?; to dissolve.] (Min.) A
vitreous form of basalt; — so called because decomposable by acids and
readily fusible.
Tac"it (?), a. [L. tacitus, p. p. of tacere to be silent, to pass over
in silence; akin to Goth. þahan to be silent, Icel. þegja, OHG. dagn:
cf. F. tacite. Cf. Reticent.] Done or made in silence; implied, but not
expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not
interposing an objection. — Tac"it*ly, adv.
The tacit and secret theft of abusing our brother in civil contracts.
Jer. Taylor.
Tac"i*turn (?), a. [L. taciturnus: cf. F. taciturne. See Tacit.]
Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak. —
Tac"i*turn*ly, adv.
Syn. — Silent; reserved. Taciturn, Silent. Silent has reference to the
act; taciturn, to the habit. A man may be silent from circumstances; he
is taciturn from disposition. The loquacious man is at times silent;
one who is taciturn may now and then make an effort at conversation.
Tac`i*tur"ni*ty (?), n. [L. taciturnitas: cf. F. taciturnité.] Habilual
silence, or reserve in speaking.
The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the
company of strangers.
V. Knox.
The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense.
Macaulay.
Tack (?), n. [From an old or dialectal form of F. tache. See Techy.] 1.
A stain; a tache. [Obs.]
2. [Cf. L. tactus.] A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack. [Obs.
or Colloq.] Drayton.
Tack, n. [OE. tak, takke, a fastening; akin to D. tak a branch, twig,
G. zacke a twig, prong, spike, Dan. takke a tack, spike; cf. also Sw.
tagg prickle, point, Icel. tg a willow twig, Ir. taca a peg, nail,
fastening, Gael. tacaid, Armor. & Corn. tach; perhaps akin to E. take.
Cf. Attach, Attack, Detach, Tag an end, Zigzag.] 1. A small, short,
sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.
2. That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t.,
3. Macaulay.
Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time.
Bp. Burnet.
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3. (Naut.) (a) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners
of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship);
also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to
the boom. (b) The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened;
the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see
Illust. of Sail). (c) The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim
of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; — the former when
she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run
of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.
4. (Scots Law) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let,
for hire; a lease. Burrill.
5. Confidence; reliance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Tack of a flag (Naut.), a line spliced into the eye at the foot of the
hoist for securing the flag to the halyards. — Tack pins (Naut.),
belaying pins; — also called jack pins. — To haul the tacks aboard
(Naut.), to set the courses. — To hold tack, to last or hold out.
Milton.
Tack (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tacked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tacking.]
[Cf. OD. tacken to touch, take, seize, fix, akin to E. take. See Tack a
small nail.] 1. To fasten or attach. "In hopes of getting some
commendam tacked to their sees." Swift.
And tacks the center to the sphere.
Herbert.
2. Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by
stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to
tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to
tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.
3. In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append;
— often with on or to. Macaulay.
4. (Naut.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing
closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails
so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her
former course.
In tacking, a vessel is brought to point at first directly to windward,
and then so that the wind will blow against the other side.
Tack, v. i. (Naut.) To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the
position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her
direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack,
v. t., 4.
Monk, . . . when he wanted his ship to tack to larboard, moved the
mirth of his crew by calling out, "Wheel to the left."
Macaulay.
Tack"er (?), n. One who tacks.
Tack"et (?), n. [Dim. of tack a small nail.] A small, broad-headed
nail. [Scot.] Jamieson.
Tack"ey (?), a. & n. See Tacky.
Tack"ing, n. (Law) A union of securities given at different times, all
of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can
interpose his claim. Bouvier.
The doctrine of tacking is not recognized in American law. Kent.
Tac"kle (?; sometimes improperly pronounced ?, especially by seamen),
n. [OE. takel, akin to LG. & D. takel, Dan. takkel, Sw. tackel; perhaps
akin to E. taw, v.t., or to take.] 1. Apparatus for raising or lowering
heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the
rope and attachments, as distinct from the block.
2. Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved
or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly,
specifically, weapons. "She to her tackle fell." Hudibras.
In Chaucer, it denotes usually an arrow or arrows.
3. (Naut.) The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase
where more than one block is used.
Fall and tackle. See the Note under Pulley. — Fishing tackle. See under
Fishing, a. — Ground tackle (Naut.), anchors, cables, etc. — Gun
tackle, the apparatus or appliances for hauling cannon in or out. —
Tackle fall, the rope, or rather the end of the rope, of a tackle, to
which the power is applied. — Tack tackle (Naut.), a small tackle to
pull down the tacks of the principal sails. — Tackle board, Tackle post
(Ropemaking), a board, frame, or post, at the end of a ropewalk, for
supporting the spindels, or whirls, for twisting the yarns.
Tac"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tackled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tackling.]
[Cf. LG. takeln to equip. See Tackle, n.] 1. To supply with tackle.
Beau. & Fl.
2. To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a
horse into a coach or wagon. [Colloq.]
3. To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his
antagonist; a dog tackles the game.
The greatest poetess of our day has wasted her time and strength in
tackling windmills under conditions the most fitted to insure her
defeat.
Dublin Univ. Mag.
Tac"kled (?), a. Made of ropes tacked together.
My man shall be with thee, And bring thee cords made like a tackled
stair.
Shak.
Tac"kling, n. (Naut.) 1. Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel,
as cordage, sails, etc.
2. Instruments of action; as, fishing tackling. Walton.
3. The straps and fixures adjusted to an animal, by which he draws a
carriage, or the like; harness.
Tacks"man (?), n.; pl. Tacksmen (&?;). (Scots Law) One who holds a tack
or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee. Sir W. Scott.
The tacksmen, who formed what may be called the "peerage" of the little
community, must be the captains.
Macaulay.
Tack"y (?), a. [Cf. Techy, Tack a spot.] Sticky; adhesive; raw; — said
of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried. [U. S.]
Ta*con"ic (?), a. (Geol.) Designating, or pertaining to, the series of
rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were
once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong
to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian.
Tact (?), n. [L. tactus a touching, touch, fr. tangere, tactum, to
touch: cf. F. tact. See Tangent.] 1. The sense of touch; feeling.
Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well
as sight?
Southey.
Now, sight is a very refined tact.
J. Le Conte.
2. (Mus.) The stroke in beating time.
3. Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception
or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required
by circumstances.
He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of
Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness
worthy of Mazarin.
Macaulay.
A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much as the tact of her
sex surpassed the tact of ours.
Macaulay.
Tac"ta*ble (?), a. Capable of being touched; tangible. [R.] "They
[women] being created to be both tractable and tactable." Massinger.
{ Tac"tic (?), Tac"tic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;. See tactics.] Of or
pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics. — Tac"tic*al*ly,
adv.
Tac"tic (?), n. See Tactics.
Tac*ti"cian (?), n. [Cf. F. tacticien.] One versed in tactics; hence, a
skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.
Tac"tics (?), n. [Gr. &?;, pl., and &?; (sc. &?;, sing., fr. &?; fit
for ordering or arranging, fr. &?;, &?;, to put in order, to arrange:
cf. F. tactique.] 1. The science and art of disposing military and
naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval
evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of
battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.
2. Hence, any system or method of procedure.
Tac"tile (?), a. [L. tactilis, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch: cf. F.
tactile.] Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch;
perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as,
tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets." Beaumont.
"Tactile qualities." Sir M. Hale.
Tactile sense (Physiol.), the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See
Touch.
The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the
skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm.
H. N. Martin.
Tac*til"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. tactilité.] The quality or state of being
tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.
Tac"tion (?), n. [L. tactio, from tangere, tactum, to touch.] The act
of touching; touch; contact; tangency. "External taction."
Chesterfield.
Tact"less (?), a. Destitute of tact.
Tac"tu*al (?), a. [See Tact.] (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the sense,
or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.
In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over
the entire body.
Tyndall.
Tad"pole` (?), n. [OE. tadde toad (AS. tdie, tdige) + poll; properly, a
toad that is or seems all head. See Toad, and Poll.] 1. (Zoöl.) The
young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by
means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and
has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or
purwiggy.
2. (Zoöl.) The hooded merganser. [Local, U. S.]
Tadpole fish. (Zoöl.) See Forkbeard (a).
||Tæ"di*um (?), n. [L.] See Tedium.
||
Tael (?), n. [Malay ta&?;l, a certain weight, probably fr. Hind. tola,
Skr. tul a balance, weight, tul to weigh.] A denomination of money, in
China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty
cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third. [Written also tale.]
{ Taen (?), or Ta'en }, p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of
Taken. [Poetic & Scot.] Burns.
||Tæ"ni*a (?), n.; pl. Tæniæ (#). [L., a ribbon, a tapeworm.] 1.
||(Zoöl.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common
||tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.
||
2. (Anat.) A band; a structural line; — applied to several bands and
lines of nervous matter in the brain.
3. (Arch.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze,
separating it from the architrave.
||Tæ*ni"a*da (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Tænioidea.
||
||Tæ`ni*a"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. taenia a ribbon.] (Zoöl.) A
||division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike
||body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.
||
||Tæ*nid"i*um (?), n.; pl. Tænidia (#). [NL., dim. fr. L. taenia a
||ribbon.] (Zoöl.) The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the
||tracheæ of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.
||
||Tæ`ni*o*glos"sa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a ribbon + &?; a
||tongue.] (Zoöl.) An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which
||the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of
||teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and
||fresh-water.
||
Tæ`ni*o*glos"sate (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Tænioglossa.
Tæ"ni*oid (?), a. [Tænia + -oid.] 1. Ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon.
2. (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to Tænia.
||Tæ`ni*oi"de*a (?), n. pl. (Zoöl.) The division of cestode worms which
||comprises the tapeworms. See Tapeworm.
||
||Tæ*ni"o*la (?), n.; pl. Tæniolæ (#). [L., dim. of taenia a ribbon.]
||(Zoöl.) One of the radial partitions which separate the internal
||cavities of certain medusæ.
||
||Tæ`ni*o*so"mi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; ribbon + &?; body.]
||(Zoöl.) An order of fishes remarkable for their long and compressed
||form. The ribbon fishes are examples. See Ribbon fish, under Ribbon.
||
Taf"fer*er (?), n. (Naut.) See Taffrail.
{ Taf"fe*ta (?), Taf"fe*ty (?), } n. [F. taffetas, It. taffetà, from
Per. tftah, originally, twisted, woven, from tftan to twist, to spin.]
A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called
watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk
goods, from the 16th century to modern times.
Lined with taffeta and with sendal.
Chaucer.
Taff"rail (?), n. [D. tafereel a panel, picture, fr. tafel table, fr.
L. tabula. See Table.] (Naut.) The upper part of a ship's stern, which
is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved
work; the rail around a ship's stern. [Written also tafferel.]
Taf"fy (?), n. [Prov. E. taffy toffy.] 1. A kind of candy made of
molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans.
[Written also, in England, toffy.]
2. Flattery; soft phrases. [Slang]
Taf"i*a (?), n. [Cf. F. & Sp. tafia, It. taffia; fr. Malay tfa a spirit
distilled from molasses. Cf. Ratafia.] A variety of rum. [West Indies]
Tag (?), n. [Probably akin to tack a small nail; cf. Sw. tagg a
prickle, point, tooth.] 1. Any slight appendage, as to an article of
dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction
card, or label.
2. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace,
to stiffen it.
3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
4. Something mean and paltry; the rabble. [Obs.]
Tag and rag, the lowest sort; the rabble. Holinshed.
5. A sheep of the first year. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Tag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tagged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tagging (?).] 1.
To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
He learned to make long-tagged thread laces.
Macaulay.
His courteous host . . . Tags every sentence with some fawning word.
Dryden.
2. To join; to fasten; to attach. Bolingbroke.
3. To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of
tag. See Tag, a play.
Tag, v. i. To follow closely, as it were an appendage; — often with
after; as, to tag after a person.
Tag, n. [From Tag, v.; cf. Tag, an end.] A child's play in which one
runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being
touched.
Tag"belt` (?), n. (Far.) Same as Tagsore. [Obs.]
Tag"ger (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, appends or joins one thing
to another.
2. That which is pointed like a tag.
Hedgehogs' or procupines' small taggers.
Cotton.
3. pl. Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge. Knight.
4. A device for removing taglocks from sheep. Knight.
Tag"let (?), n. A little tag.
||Tagl"ia (?), n. [It., a cutting, a pulley, from tagliare to cut. See
||Tailor.] (Mech.) A peculiar combination of pulleys. Brande & C.
||
Tagl`ia*co"tain (?), a. (Surg.) Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a
Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of
rhinoplasty described by him. [Also Taliacotian, and Tagliacozzian.]
Tagl*io"ni (?), n. A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; — said to be so
named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers.
He ought certainly to exchange his taglioni, or comfortable greatcoat,
for a cuirass of steel.
Sir W. Scott.
Tag"lock` (?), n. An entangled lock, as of hair or wool. Nares.
Tag"ni*cate (?), n. (Zoöl.) The white-lipped peccary.
Tag"-rag` (?), n. & a. [See Tag an end, and Rag.] The lowest class of
people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail.
If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man.
Shak.
Tag"sore` (?), n. (Far.) Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool
from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; — called also
tagbelt. [Obs.]
Tag"tail` (?), n. 1. A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.
2. A person who attaches himself to another against the will of the
latter; a hanger-on.
Tag"u*an (?), n. [From the native name in the East Indies.] (Zoöl.) A
large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet
long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.
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Ta`gui*ca"ti (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoöl.) The white-lipped
peccary.
Ta"ha (?), n. The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis
texor).
Ta*ha"leb (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoöl.) A fox (Vulpes
Niloticus) of Northern Africa.
Ta*hi"ti*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the
Pacific Ocean. — n. A native inhabitant of Tahiti.
Tahr (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Thar.
Tail (?), n. [F. taille a cutting. See Entail, Tally.] (Law)
Limitation; abridgment. Burrill.
Estate in tail, a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an estate limited
to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded; —
called also estate tail. Blackstone.
Tail, a. (Law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
Tail, n. [AS. tægel, tægl; akin to G. zagel, Icel. tagl, Sw. tagel,
Goth. tagl hair. √59.] 1. (Zoöl.) The terminal, and usually flexible,
posterior appendage of an animal.
The tail of mammals and reptiles contains a series of movable vertebræ,
and is covered with flesh and hairs or scales like those of other parts
of the body. The tail of existing birds consists of several more or
less consolidated vertebræ which supports a fanlike group of quills to
which the term tail is more particularly applied. The tail of fishes
consists of the tapering hind portion of the body ending in a caudal
fin. The term tail is sometimes applied to the entire abdomen of a
crustacean or insect, and sometimes to the terminal piece or pygidium
alone.
2. Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape
or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those tails
that hang on willow trees.
Harvey.
3. Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, — as
opposed to the head, or the superior part.
The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail.
Deut. xxviii. 13.
4. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
"Ah," said he, "if you saw but the chief with his tail on."
Sir W. Scott.
5. The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or
date; the reverse; — rarely used except in the expression "heads or
tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding
some point by its fall.
6. (Anat.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
7. (Bot.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is
formed of the permanent elongated style.
8. (Surg.) (a) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which
does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more
painful than a complete incision; — called also tailing. (b) One of the
strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or
more times.
9. (Naut.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be
lashed to anything.
10. (Mus.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or
downward from the head; the stem. Moore (Encyc. of Music).
11. pl. Same as Tailing, 4.
12. (Arch.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate
or tile.
13. pl. (Mining) See Tailing, n., 5.
Tail beam. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece. — Tail coverts (Zoöl.), the
feathers which cover the bases of the tail quills. They are sometimes
much longer than the quills, and form elegant plumes. Those above the
quills are called the upper tail coverts, and those below, the under
tail coverts. — Tail end, the latter end; the termination; as, the tail
end of a contest. [Colloq.] — Tail joist. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece. —
Tail of a comet (Astron.), a luminous train extending from the nucleus
or body, often to a great distance, and usually in a direction opposite
to the sun. — Tail of a gale (Naut.), the latter part of it, when the
wind has greatly abated. Totten. — Tail of a lock (on a canal), the
lower end, or entrance into the lower pond. — Tail of the trenches
(Fort.), the post where the besiegers begin to break ground, and cover
themselves from the fire of the place, in advancing the lines of
approach. — Tail spindle, the spindle of the tailstock of a turning
lathe; — called also dead spindle. — To turn tail, to run away; to
flee.
Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out another way; but
all was to return in a higher pitch.
Sir P. Sidney.
Tail, v. t. 1. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached
closely to, as that which can not be evaded. [Obs.]
Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed,
continued uncanceled, and was called on the next Parliament.
Fuller.
2. To pull or draw by the tail. [R.] Hudibras.
To tail in or on (Arch.), to fasten by one of the ends into a wall or
some other support; as, to tail in a timber.
Tail, v. i. 1. (Arch.) To hold by the end; — said of a timber when it
rests upon a wall or other support; — with in or into.
2. (Naut.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; — said of a
vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
Tail on. (Naut.) See Tally on, under Tally.
Tail"age (?), n. (O. Eng. Law) See Tallage.
Tail"-bay` (?), n. 1. (Arch.) One of the joists which rest one end on
the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and
the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.
2. The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
Tail"block` (?), n. (Naut.) A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
Tail"board` (?), n. The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which
can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.
Tailed (?), a. Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails;
— chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.
Snouted and tailed like a boar.
Grew.
Tail"ing (?), n. 1. (Arch.) The part of a projecting stone or brick
inserted in a wall. Gwilt.
2. (Surg.) Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).
3. Sexual intercourse. [Obs.] Chaucer.
4. pl. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and
winnowing; chaff.
5. pl. (Mining) The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail
of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure
whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails. Pryce.
Taille (?), n. [F. See Tally, Tailor.] 1. A tally; an account scored on
a piece of wood. [Obs.]
Whether that he paid or took by taille.
Chaucer.
2. (O. F. Law) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord,
upon his subjects.
The taille, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example of
those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the farmer,
which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm.
A. Smith.
3. (Mus.) The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the
tenor viol or viola.
Tail"less (?), a. Having no tail. H. Spencer.
Tail"lie (?), n. (Scots Law) Same as Tailzie.
Tai"lor (?), n. [OF. tailleor, F. tailleur, fr. OF. taillier, F.
tailler to cut, fr. L. talea a rod, stick, a cutting, layer for
planting. Cf. Detail, Entail, Retail, Tally, n.] 1. One whose
occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts
out and makes ladies' outer garments.
Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou wert a man's tailor.
Shak.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) The mattowacca; — called also tailor herring. (b) The
silversides.
3. (Zoöl.) The goldfish. [Prov. Eng.]
Salt-water tailor (Zoöl.), the bluefish. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett. —
Tailor bird (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and
East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied
genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves
together to form nests. The common Indian species are O. longicauda,
which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green,
and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor bird (O.
coronatus), which has the top of the head golden yellow and the back
and wings pale olive-green.
Tai"lor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tailored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tailoring.]
To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
These tailoring artists for our lays Invent cramped rules.
M. Green.
Tai"lor*ess, n. A female tailor.
Tai"lor*ing, adv. The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
Tail"piece` (?), n. 1. A piece at the end; an appendage.
2. (Arch.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor
framing. See Illust. of Header.
3. (Print.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up
the space, or at the end of a book. Savage.
4. A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a
violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
Tail"pin" (?), n. (Mach.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.
Tail"race` (?), n. 1. See Race, n., 6.
2. (Mining) The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are
conducted away.
Tail"stock` (?), n. The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which
carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports
the live spindle.
Tail"-wa`ter (?), n. Water in a tailrace.
Tail"zie (-z or -y), n. [F. tailler to cut. See Tail a limitation.]
(Scots Law) An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of
succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted. [Written also
tailzee.]
Tain (?), n. [OE. tein, teyne; cf. Icel. teinn a twig, akin to AS. tn,
Goth. tains.] Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors. Knight.
Taint (?), n. [Cf. F. atteinte a blow, bit, stroke. See Attaint.] 1. A
thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. [Obs.]
This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath.
Chapman.
2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken;
also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or
unscientific manner. [Obs.]
Taint, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tainted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tainting.] To
thrust ineffectually with a lance. [Obs.]
Taint, v. t. 1. To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to
break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
[Obs.]
Do not fear; I have A staff to taint, and bravely.
Massinger.
2. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting. [Obs.]
They tainted each other on the helms and passed by.
Ld. Berners.
Taint, v. t. [F. teint, p. p. of teindre to dye, tinge, fr. L. tingere,
tinctum. See Tinge, and cf. Tint.] 1. To imbue or impregnate with
something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or
poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid
substance taint the air.
2. Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.
Shak.
Syn. — To contaminate; defile; pollute; corrupt; infect; disease;
vitiate; poison.
Taint (?), v. i. 1. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with
something corrupting.
I can not taint with fear.
Shak.
2. To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in
warm weather.
Taint, n. 1. Tincture; hue; color; tinge. [Obs.]
2. Infection; corruption; deprivation.
He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint, which it was
beyond the power of medicine to remove.
Macaulay.
3. A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
Taint"less, a. Free from taint or infection; pure.
Taint"less*ly, adv. In a taintless manner.
Tain"ture (?), n. [F. teinture. See Taint to stain, and cf. Tincture.]
Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. [R.] Shak.
Taint"worm` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A destructive parasitic worm or insect
larva.
Tai"ra (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Tayra.
Tairn (?), n. See Tarn. Coleridge.
Tait (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian
marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long
muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and
insects. Called also noolbenger.
{ Ta*jaç"u, Ta*jas"su } (?), n. [Pg. tajaçú, from Braz. tayaçú a hog or
swine.] (Zoöl.) The common, or collared, peccary.
Take (?), obs. p. p. of Take. Taken. Chaucer.
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Take, v. t. [imp. Took (?); p. p. Takend (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Taking.]
[Icel. taka; akin to Sw. taga, Dan. tage, Goth. tkan to touch; of
uncertain origin.] 1. In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with
the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or
possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey. Hence,
specifically: —
(a) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or
control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to
capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a
ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize;
— said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.
This man was taken of the Jews.
Acts xxiii. 27.
Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take; Not that themselves are
wise, but others weak.
Pope.
They that come abroad after these showers are commonly taken with
sickness.
Bacon.
There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine
yield blood.
Shak.
(b) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to
engage; to interest; to charm.
Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Prov. vi. 25.
Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience.
Wake.
I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features,
— a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, —
which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her
companions.
Moore.
(c) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse
to; as, to take the road to the right.
Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was
taken.
1 Sam. xiv. 42.
The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for
the destroying . . . of sinners.
Hammond.
(d) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it
takes so much cloth to make a coat.
This man always takes time . . . before he passes his judgments.
I. Watts.
(e) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to
take picture of a person.
Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
Dryden.
(f) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a
good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting
happiness and misery.
Tillotson.
(g) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self;
to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or
experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a
resolution; — used in general senses, limited by a following
complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take
the liberty to say.
(h) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
(i) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he
took the book to the bindery.
He took me certain gold, I wot it well.
Chaucer.
(k) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; — with from; as, to take the
breath from one; to take two from four.
2. In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to
acknowledge; to accept. Specifically: —
(a) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or
reject; to admit.
Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer.
Num. xxxv. 31.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore.
1 Tim. v. 10.
(b) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to
swallow; as, to take food or wine.
(c) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to
take a hedge or fence.
(d) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate;
to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.
(e) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to
allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to
understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to
suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's
motive; to take men for spies.
You take me right.
Bacon.
Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the science
love of God and our neighbor.
Wake.
[He] took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a
disguise.
South.
You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
Tate.
(f) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to
submit to; to enter into agreement with; — used in general senses; as,
to take a form or shape.
I take thee at thy word.
Rowe.
Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . . Not take the mold.
Dryden.
To be taken aback, To take advantage of, To take air, etc. See under
Aback, Advantage, etc. — To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to
aim. — To take along, to carry, lead, or convey. — To take arms, to
commence war or hostilities. — To take away, to carry off; to remove;
to cause deprivation of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away
the votes of bishops. "By your own law, I take your life away." Dryden.
— To take breath, to stop, as from labor, in order to breathe or rest;
to recruit or refresh one's self. — To take care, to exercise care or
vigilance; to be solicitous. "Doth God take care for oxen?" 1 Cor. ix.
9. — To take care of, to have the charge or care of; to care for; to
superintend or oversee. — To take down. (a) To reduce; to bring down,
as from a high, or higher, place; as, to take down a book; hence, to
bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down pride, or
the proud. "I never attempted to be impudent yet, that I was not taken
down." Goldsmith. (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion. (c) To
pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold.
(d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the
time he utters them. — To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect,
and Fire. — To take ground to the right or to the left (Mil.), to
extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops, to the right
or left. — To take heart, to gain confidence or courage; to be
encouraged. — To take heed, to be careful or cautious. "Take heed what
doom against yourself you give." Dryden. — To take heed to, to attend
with care, as, take heed to thy ways. — To take hold of, to seize; to
fix on. — To take horse, to mount and ride a horse. — To take in. (a)
To inclose; to fence. (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to
comprehend. (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail
or furl; as, to take in sail. (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to
deceive. [Colloq.] (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will
take in water. (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]
For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in.
Chapman.
(g) To receive into the mind or understanding. "Some bright genius can
take in a long train of propositions." I. Watts. (h) To receive
regularly, as a periodical work or newspaper; to take. [Eng.] — To take
in hand. See under Hand. — To take in vain, to employ or utter as in an
oath. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." Ex.
xx. 7. — To take issue. See under Issue. — To take leave. See Leave,
n., 2. — To take a newspaper, magazine, or the like, to receive it
regularly, as on paying the price of subscription. — To take notice, to
observe, or to observe with particular attention. — To take notice of.
See under Notice. — To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a
judicial manner. — To take off. (a) To remove, as from the surface or
outside; to remove from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to
take off one's hat. (b) To cut off; as, to take off the head, or a
limb. (c) To destroy; as, to take off life. (d) To remove; to
invalidate; as, to take off the force of an argument. (e) To withdraw;
to call or draw away. Locke. (f) To swallow; as, to take off a glass of
wine. (g) To purchase; to take in trade. "The Spaniards having no
commodities that we will take off." Locke. (h) To copy; to reproduce.
"Take off all their models in wood." Addison. (i) To imitate; to mimic;
to personate. (k) To find place for; to dispose of; as, more scholars
than preferments can take off. [R.] Bacon. — To take on, to assume; to
take upon one's self; as, to take on a character or responsibility. —
To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue the measures
of one's own choice. — To take order for. See under Order. — To take
order with, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.] Bacon. — To take
orders. (a) To receive directions or commands. (b) (Eccl.) To enter
some grade of the ministry. See Order, n., 10. — To take out. (a) To
remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct. (b) To draw out; to
remove; to clear or cleanse from; as, to take out a stain or spot from
cloth. (c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent. (d) To
put an end to; as, to take the conceit out of a man. (e) To escort; as,
to take out to dinner. — To take over, to undertake; to take the
management of. [Eng.] Cross (Life of G. Eliot). — To take part, to
share; as, they take part in our rejoicing. — To take part with, to
unite with; to join with. — To take place, root, sides, stock, etc. See
under Place, Root, Side, etc. — To take the air. (a) (Falconry) To seek
to escape by trying to rise higher than the falcon; — said of a bird.
(b) See under Air. — To take the field. (Mil.) See under Field. — To
take thought, to be concerned or anxious; to be solicitous. Matt. vi.
25, 27. — To take to heart. See under Heart. — To take to task, to
reprove; to censure. — To take up. (a) To lift; to raise. Hood. (b) To
buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large amount; to take up money
at the bank. (c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. Ezek. xix. 1.
(d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to replace; as, to
take up raveled stitches; specifically (Surg.), to fasten with a
ligature. (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take up
the time; to take up a great deal of room. (f) To take permanently.
"Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts . . . took up their rest
in the Christian religion." Addison. (g) To seize; to catch; to arrest;
as, to take up a thief; to take up vagabonds. (h) To admit; to believe;
to receive. [Obs.]
The ancients took up experiments upon credit.
Bacon.
(i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate.
One of his relations took him up roundly.
L'Estrange.
(k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in continuous
succession.
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous
tale.
Addison.
(l) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or manage; as, to
take up the quarrels of our neighbors; to take up current opinions.
"They take up our old trade of conquering." Dryden. (m) To comprise; to
include. "The noble poem of Palemon and Arcite . . . takes up seven
years." Dryden. (n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of
assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. Ps. xxvii. 10. (o) To
collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take up a contribution.
"Take up commodities upon our bills." Shak. (p) To pay and receive; as,
to take up a note at the bank. (q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an
adjustment of parts; as, to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also,
to make tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack thread
in sewing. (r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a
quarrel. [Obs.] Shak. — To take up arms. Same as To take arms, above. —
To take upon one's self. (a) To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon
himself to assert that the fact is capable of proof. (b) To appropriate
to one's self; to allow to be imputed to, or inflicted upon, one's
self; as, to take upon one's self a punishment. — To take up the
gauntlet. See under Gauntlet.
Take (?), v. i. 1. To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the
natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was
inoculated, but the virus did not take. Shak.
When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.
Bacon.
In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh, but is
overcome . . . before it work any manifest effect.
Bacon.
2. To please; to gain reception; to succeed.
Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And hint he writ it, if
the thing should take.
Addison.
3. To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to
proceed; to go; — usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed,
took to the hedge.
4. To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does
not take well.
To take after. (a) To learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he
takes after a good pattern. (b) To resemble; as, the son takes after
his father. — To take in with, to resort to. [Obs.] Bacon. — To take
on, to be violently affected; to express grief or pain in a violent
manner. — To take to. (a) To apply one's self to; to be fond of; to
become attached to; as, to take to evil practices. "If he does but take
to you, . . . you will contract a great friendship with him." Walpole.
(b) To resort to; to betake one's self to. "Men of learning, who take
to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of
the world." Addison. — To take up. (a) To stop. [Obs.] "Sinners at last
take up and settle in a contempt of religion." Tillotson. (b) To
reform. [Obs.] Locke. — To take up with. (a) To be contended to
receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with; as, to take up
with plain fare. "In affairs which may have an extensive influence on
our future happiness, we should not take up with probabilities." I.
Watts. (b) To lodge with; to dwell with. [Obs.] L'Estrange. — To take
with, to please. Bacon.
Take, n. 1. That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish
captured at one haul or catch.
2. (Print.) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
Take"-in` (?), n. Imposition; fraud. [Colloq.]
Tak"en (?), p. p. of Take.
Take"-off` (?), n. An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
Tak"er (tk"r), n. One who takes or receives; one who catches or
apprehends.
Take"-up` (?), n. (Mach.) That which takes up or tightens;
specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack
thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
Tak"ing (?), a. 1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting.
Subtile in making his temptations most taking.
Fuller.
2. Infectious; contageous. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
— Tak"ing*ly, adv. — Tak"ing*ness, n.
Tak"ing, n. 1. The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure;
apprehension.
2. Agitation; excitement; distress of mind. [Colloq.]
What a taking was he in, when your husband asked who was in the basket!
Shak.
3. Malign influence; infection. [Obs.] Shak.
Tak"ing-off` (?), n. Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take,
v. t.
The deep damnation of his taking-off.
Shak.
Tal"a*poin (tl"*poin), n. (Zoöl.) A small African monkey
(Cercopithecus, or Miopithecus, talapoin) — called also melarhine.
||Ta*la"ri*a (?), n. pl. [L., from talaris pertaining to the ankles,
||fr. talus ankle.] (Class. Myth.) Small wings or winged shoes
||represented as fastened to the ankles, — chiefly used as an attribute
||of Mercury.
||
Tal"bot (?), n. A sort of dog, noted for quick scent and eager pursuit
of game. [Obs.] Wase (1654).
The figure of a dog is borne in the arms of the Talbot family, whence,
perhaps, the name.
Tal"bo*type (?), n. (Photog.) Same as Calotype.
Talc (?), n. [F. talc; cf. Sp. & It. talco, LL. talcus; all fr. Ar.
talq.] (Min.) A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish,
or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous
silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular
variety.
Indurated talc, an impure, slaty talc, with a nearly compact texture,
and greater hardness than common talc; — called also talc slate.
{ Tal*cose" (?), Talc"ous (?), } a. [Cf. F. talqueux.] (Min.) Of or
pertaining to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc.
Tale (?), n. See Tael.
Tale, n. [AS. talu number, speech, narrative; akin to D. taal speech,
language, G. zahl number, OHG. zala, Icel. tal, tala, number, speech,
Sw. tal, Dan. tal number, tale speech, Goth. talzjan to instruct. Cf.
Tell, v. t., Toll a tax, also Talk, v. i.] 1. That which is told; an
oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative;
discourse; statement; history; story. "The tale of Troy divine."
Milton. "In such manner rime is Dante's tale." Chaucer.
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
Ps. xc. 9.
2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration;
a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or
stated.
The ignorant, . . . who measure by tale, and not by weight.
Hooker.
And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthornn in the dale.
Milton.
In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
Carew.
3. (Law) A count or declaration. [Obs.]
To tell tale of, to make account of. [Obs.]
Therefore little tale hath he told Of any dream, so holy was his heart.
Chaucer.
Syn. — Anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation; account;
legend; narrative.
Tale (?), v. i. To tell stories. [Obs.] Chaucer. Gower.
Tale"bear`er (?), n. One who officiously tells tales; one who
impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc.,
and makes mischief.
Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to
inflame her resentment.
Macaulay.
Tale"bear`ing, a. Telling tales officiously.
Tale"bear`ing, n. The act of informing officiously; communication of
sectrts, scandal, etc., maliciously.
Ta"led (?), n. (Jewish Antiq.) A kind of quadrangular piece of cloth
put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues. Crabb.
Tale"ful (?), a. Full of stories. [R.] Thomson.
||Tal`e*gal"la (?), n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of Australian birds which
||includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.
||
Tal"ent (?), n. [F., fr. L. talentum a talent (in sense 1), Gr. &?; a
balance, anything weighed, a definite weight, a talent; akin to &?; to
bear, endure, &?;, L. tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure.
See Thole, v. t., Tolerate.] 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and
a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic
talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.
Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five hundred talents.
Jowett (Thucid.).
2. Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it
was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93&?;
lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously
estimated at from £340 to £396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. For
gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels.
3. Inclination; will; disposition; desire. [Obs.]
They rather counseled you to your talent than to your profit.
Chaucer.
4. Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or
capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in
business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably
originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30).
He is chiefly to be considered in his three different talents, as a
critic, a satirist, and a writer of odes.
Dryden.
His talents, his accomplishments, his graceful manners, made him
generally popular.
Macaulay.
Syn. — Ability; faculty; gift; endowment. See Genius.
Tal"ent*ed, a. Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent;
mentally gifted. Abp. Abbot (1663).
This word has been strongly objected to by Coleridge and some other
critics, but, as it would seem, upon not very good grounds, as the use
of talent or talents to signify mental ability, although at first
merely metaphorical, is now fully established, and talented, as a
formative, is just as analogical and legitimate as gifted, bigoted,
moneyed, landed, lilied, honeyed, and numerous other adjectives having
a participal form, but derived directly from nouns and not from verbs.
||Ta"les (?), n. [L., pl. of talis such (persons).] (Law) (a) pl.
||Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the
||courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors
||regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. Blount.
||Blackstone. (b) syntactically sing. The writ by which such persons
||are summoned.
||
Tales book, a book containing the names of such as are admitted of the
tales. Blount. Craig. — ||Tales de circumstantibus [L.], such, or the
like, from those standing about.
Tales"man (?), n.; pl. Talesmen (&?;). (Law) A person called to make up
a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded. Wharton.
Tale"tell`er (?), n. One who tells tales or stories, especially in a
mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.
Tale"wise` (?), adv. In a way of a tale or story.
Tal"ia*co`tian (?), a. See Tagliacotian.
Tal`i*a"tion (?), n. Retaliation. [Obs.]
Just heav'n this taliation did decree.
Beaumont.
Ta"li*on (?), n. [F., fr. L. talio, perh. fr. talis such. Cf.
Retaliation.] Retaliation. [R.] Holinshed.
||Tal"i*pes (?), n. [NL., fr. L. talus an ankle + pes, pedis, a foot;
||cf. L. talipedare to be weak in the feet, properly, to walk on the
||ankles.] (Surg.) The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.
||
Several varieties are distinguished; as, Talipes varus, in which the
foot is drawn up and bent inward; T. valgus, in which the foot is bent
outward; T. equinus, in which the sole faces backward and the patient
walks upon the balls of the toes; and T. calcaneus (called also talus),
in which the sole faces forward and the patient walks upon the heel.
Tal"i*pot (?), n. [Hind. tlpt the leaf of the tree.] (Bot.) A beautiful
tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the
Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a
crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as
fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a
substitute for writing paper.
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Tal"is*man (?), n.; pl. Talismans (#). [Sp., from Ar. tilism, tilsam, a
magical image, pl. tilsamn, fr. Gr. &?; tribute, tax, LGr., an
initiation, incantation, from &?; to complete, perform, to play taxes,
to make perfect, to initiate, especially in the mysteries, fr. &?;
completion, end.] 1. A magical figure cut or engraved under certain
superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which
wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image,
of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic
stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its
influence.
2. Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in
averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert
diseases. Swift.
{ Tal`is*man"ic (?), Tal`is*man"ic*al (?), } a. [Cf. F. talismanique.]
Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or
preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.
Talk (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Talked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Talking.]
[Cf. LG. talk talk, gabble, Prov. G. talken to speak indistinctly; or
OD. tolken to interpret, MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak
indistinctly, Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t&?;lka to
interpret, t&?;lkr an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter,
tulkanti, tulkti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate to interpret, to talk
about; or perhaps fr. OE. talien to speak (see Tale, v. i. & n.).] 1.
To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar
discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and
so following, but I will not eat with you.
Shak.
2. To confer; to reason; to consult.
Let me talk with thee of thy judgments.
Jer. xii. 1.
3. To prate; to speak impertinently. [Colloq.]
To talk of, to relate; to tell; to give an account of; as, authors talk
of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. "The natural histories of
Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage
done." Addison. — To talk to, to advise or exhort, or to reprove
gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. [Colloq.]
Talk, v. t. 1. To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating;
as, to talk French.
2. To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of
conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.
3. To consume or spend in talking; — often followed by away; as, to
talk away an evening.
4. To cause to be or become by talking. "They would talk themselves
mad." Shak.
To talk over. (a) To talk about; to have conference respecting; to
deliberate upon; to discuss; as, to talk over a matter or plan. (b) To
change the mind or opinion of by talking; to convince; as, to talk over
an opponent.
Talk, n. 1. The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual
discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation,
or the mutual converse of two or more.
In various talk the instructive hours they passed.
Pope.
Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical phrases, was too
commonly made up of oaths and curses.
Macaulay.
2. Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.
I hear a talk up and down of raising our money.
Locke.
3. Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.
Syn. — Conversation; colloquy; discourse; chat; dialogue; conference;
communication. See Conversation.
Talk"a*tive (?), a. Given to much talking.
Syn. — Garrulous; loquacious. See Garrulous.
— Talk"a*tive*ly, adv. — Talk"a*tive*ness, n.
Talk"er (?), n. 1. One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his
power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.
There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different
ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick.
Macaulay.
2. A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a
boaster; a braggart; — used in contempt or reproach. Jer. Taylor.
Talk"ing, a. 1. That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.
2. Given to talk; loquacious.
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and
whispering lovers made.
Goldsmith.
Tall (?), a. [Compar. Taller (?); superl. Tallest.] [OE. tal seemly,
elegant, docile (?); of uncertain origin; cf. AS. un- tala, un-tale,
bad, Goth. untals indocile, disobedient, uninstructed, or W. & Corn.
tal high, Ir. talla meet, fit, proper, just.] 1. High in stature;
having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and
comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in
proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.
Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall.
Milton.
2. Brave; bold; courageous. [Obs.]
As tall a trencherman As e'er demolished a pye fortification.
Massinger.
His companions, being almost in despair of victory, were suddenly
recomforted by Sir William Stanley, which came to succors with three
thousand tall men.
Grafton.
3. Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive. [Obs. or
Slang] B. Jonson.
Syn. — High; lofty. — Tall, High, Lofty. High is the generic term, and
is applied to anything which is elevated or raised above another thing.
Tall specifically describes that which has a small diameter in
proportion to its height; hence, we speak of a tall man, a tall
steeple, a tall mast, etc., but not of a tall hill. Lofty has a special
reference to the expanse above us, and denotes an imposing height; as,
a lofty mountain; a lofty room. Tall is now properly applied only to
physical objects; high and lofty have a moral acceptation; as, high
thought, purpose, etc.; lofty aspirations; a lofty genius. Lofty is the
stronger word, and is usually coupled with the grand or admirable.
{ Tal"lage (?), Tal"li*age (?), } n. [F. taillage. See Taille, and cf.
Tailage.] (O. Eng. Law) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights,
and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also
tailage, taillage.]
When paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage; when by cities
and burghs, tallage; when upon lands not held by military tenure,
hidage. Blackstone.
Tal"lage, v. t. To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.
Tal"li*er (?), n. One who keeps tally.
Tall"ness (?), n. The quality or state of being tall; height of
stature.
Tal"low (?), n. [OE. taluh, talugh; akin to OD. talgh, D. talk, G.,
Dan. and Sw. talg, Icel. tlgr, tlg, tlk; and perhaps to Goth. tulgus
firm.] 1. The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds,
separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
The solid consistency of tallow is due to the large amount of stearin
it contains. See Fat.
2. The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain
plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the
sheep and ox kinds.
Tallow candle, a candle made of tallow. — Tallow catch, a keech. See
Keech. [Obs.] — Tallow chandler, one whose occupation is to make, or to
sell, tallow candles. — Tallow chandlery, the trade of a tallow
chandler; also, the place where his business is carried on. — Tallow
tree (Bot.), a tree (Stillingia sebifera) growing in China, the seeds
of which are covered with a substance which resembles tallow and is
applied to the same purposes.
Tal"low, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tallowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tallowing.]
1. To grease or smear with tallow.
2. To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow
sheep.
Tal"low*er (?), n. An animal which produces tallow.
Tal"low-face` (?), n. One who has a sickly, pale complexion. Shak.
Tal"low-faced` (?), a. Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
Tal"low*ing, n. The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow;
also, the property in animals of producing tallow.
Tal"low*ish, a. Having the qualities of tallow.
Tal"low*y (?), a. Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
Tall"wood` (?), n. [Cf. Tally.] Firewood cut into billets of a certain
length. [Obs.] [Eng.]
Tal"ly (?), n.; pl. Tallies (#). [OE. taile, taille, F. taille a
cutting, cut tally, fr. tailler to cut, but influenced probably by
taillé, p. p. of tailler. See Tailor, and cf. Tail a limitation,
Taille, Tallage.] 1. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or
scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books,
sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
In purshasing and selling, it was once customary for traders to have
two sticks, or one stick cleft into two parts, and to mark with a score
or notch, on each, the number or quantity of goods delivered, — the
seller keeping one stick, and the purchaser the other. Before the use
of writing, this, or something like it, was the only method of keeping
accounts; and tallies were received as evidence in courts of justice.
In the English exchequer were tallies of loans, one part being kept in
the exchequer, the other being given to the creditor in lieu of an
obligation for money lent to government.
2. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on
wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.
3. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
They were framed the tallies for each other.
Dryden.
4. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a
tally in a game.
5. A tally shop. See Tally shop, below.
Tally shop, a shop at which goods or articles are sold to customers on
account, the account being kept in corresponding books, one called the
tally, kept by the buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the
seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement.
The trade thus regulated is called tally trade. Eng. Encyc. — To strike
tallies, to act in correspondence, or alike. [Obs.] Fuller.
Tal"ly, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tallied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tallying.]
[Cf. F. tialler to cut. See Tally, n.] 1. To score with correspondent
notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit.
They are not so well tallied to the present juncture.
Pope.
2. (Naut.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or
outboard. W. C. Russell.
Tally on (Naut.), to dovetail together.
Tal"ly (?), v. i. 1. To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.
I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel.
Addison.
Your idea . . . tallies exactly with mine.
Walpole.
2. To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.
Tally on (Naut.), to man a rope for hauling, the men standing in a line
or tail.
Tal"ly (?), adv. [See Tall, a.] Stoutly; with spirit. [Obs.] Beau. &
Fl.
Tal"ly*ho` (?), interj. & n. 1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on
his hounds.
2. A tallyho coach.
Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
Tal"ly*man (?), n.; pl. Tallymen (&?;). 1. One who keeps the tally, or
marks the sticks.
2. One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade.
Tal"ma (?), n.; pl. Talmas (#). [Prob. so called from Talma, a French
actor.] (a) A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of
the dress of ladies. (b) A similar garment worn formerly by gentlemen.
Tal"mud (?), n. [Chald. talmd instruction, doctrine, fr. lamad to
learn, limmad to teach.] The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law
not comprised in the Pentateuch.
The Talmud consists of two parts, the Mishna, or text, and the Gemara,
or commentary. Sometimes, however, the name Talmud is restricted,
especially by Jewish writers, to the Gemara. There are two Talmuds, the
Palestinian, commonly, but incorrectly, called the Talmud of Jerusalem,
and the Babylonian Talmud. They contain the same Mishna, but different
Gemaras. The Babylonian Talmud is about three times as large as the
other, and is more highly esteemed by the Jews.
{ Tal*mud"ic (?), Tal*mud"ic*al (?), } a. [Cf. F. talmudique.] Of or
pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as, Talmudic Greek;
Talmudical phrases. Lightfoot.
Tal"mud*ist (?), n. [Cf. F. talmudiste.] One versed in the Talmud; one
who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.
Tal`mud*is"tic (?), a. Resembling the Talmud; Talmudic.
Tal"on (?), n. [F., heel, spur, LL. talo, fr. L. talus the ankle,
heel.] 1. The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw
of a bird of prey. Bacon.
2. (Zoöl.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the
face of an elephant's tooth.
3. (Arch.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the
top; — usually called an ogee.
When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.
4. The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot
the bolt. Knight.
{ Ta*look", Ta*luk" } (?), n. [Ar. ta'lluq.] A large estate; esp., one
constituting a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of
which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public
revenue due from it. [India]
{ Ta*look"dar, Ta*luk"dar } (?), n. [Hind., fr. Per. ta'lluqdr.] A
proprietor of a talook. [India]
||Tal"pa (?), n. [L., mole.] (Zoöl.) A genus of small insectivores
||including the common European mole.
||
||Ta"lus (?), n.; pl. Tali (#). [L., the ankle, the ankle bone.] 1.
||(Anat.) The astragalus.
||
2. (Surg.) A variety of clubfoot (Talipes calcaneus). See the Note
under Talipes.
Ta"lus, n. [F.] 1. (Fort.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a
work.
2. (Geol.) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a
precipice.
Tam`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being tamable;
tamableness.
Tam"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from
wildness or savage ferociousness. - - Tam"a*ble*ness, n.
Ta*man"du (?), n. [Sp., from the native name: cf. F. tamandua.] (Zoöl.)
A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts
of South America.
It has five toes on the fore feet, an elongated snout, small ears, and
short woolly hair. Its tail is stout and hairy at the base, tapering,
and covered with minute scales, and is somewhat prehensile at the end.
Called also tamandua, little ant-bear, fourmilier, and cagouare. The
collared, or striped, tamandu (Tamandua bivittata) is considered a
distinct species by some writers, but by others is regarded as only a
variety.
Ta`ma*noir" (?), n. (Zoöl.) The ant-bear.
Tam"a*rack (?), n. (Bot.) (a) The American larch; also, the larch of
Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and
Larch. (b) The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc.
It is a small tree with fine- grained wood.
Tam"a*ric (?), n. [L. tamarice. See Tamarisk.] A shrub or tree supposed
to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath. [Obs.]
He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good
shall come.
Jer. xvii. 6 (Douay version).
Tam"a*rin (?), n. [From the native name in Cayenne.] (Zoöl.) Any one of
several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the
genus Midas, especially M. ursulus.
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Tam"a*rind (?), n. [It. tamarindo, or Sp. tamarindo, or Pg. tamarindo,
tamarinho, from Ar. tamarhind, literally, Indian date; tamar a dried
date + Hind India: cf. F. tamarin. Cf. Hindu.] (Bot.) 1. A leguminous
tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other
tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The
trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide-spreading branches; the
flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are
small and finely pinnated.
2. One of the preserved seed pods of the tamarind, which contain an
acid pulp, and are used medicinally and for preparing a pleasant drink.
Tamarind fish, a preparation of a variety of East Indian fish with the
acid pulp of the tamarind fruit. — Velvet tamarind. (a) A West African
leguminous tree (Codarium acutifolium). (b) One of the small black
velvety pods, which are used for food in Sierra Leone. — Wild tamarind
(Bot.), a name given to certain trees somewhat resembling the tamarind,
as the Lysiloma latisiliqua of Southern Florida, and the Pithecolobium
filicifolium of the West Indies.
Tam"a*risk (?), n. [L. tamariscus, also tamarix, tamarice, Skr. tamla,
tamlaka, a tree with a very dark bark; cf. tamas darkness: cf. F.
tamarisc, tamarix, tamaris.] (Bot.) Any shrub or tree of the genus
Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have
minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian
species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna.
Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree (Tamarix orientalis) which
produces an incrustation of salt.
Tam"bac (?), n. (Metal.) See Tombac. [Obs.]
Tam"bour (?), n. 1. (Mus.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
2. A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a
tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth
that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame;
— called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
3. (Arch.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d).
4. (Fort.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space
before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is
arranged like a stockade.
5. (Physiol.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic
membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected
by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the
movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
Tam"bour, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamboured (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tambouring.] To embroider on a tambour.
Tam`bou`rin" (?), n. [F. See Tambourine.] 1. A tambourine. [Obs.]
2. (Mus.) An old Provençal dance of a lively character, common on the
stage.
Tam`bour*ine" (?), n. [F. tambourin; cf. It. tamburino. See Tambour,
and cf. Tamborine.] A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only
one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a
timbrel.
Tam"breet (?), n. (Zoöl.) The duck mole.
Tam`bu*rin" (?), n. See Tambourine. Spenser.
Tame (?), v. t. [Cf. F. entamer to cut into, to broach.] To broach or
enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal
out. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the
poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his
covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.
Fuller.
Tame, a. [Compar. Tamer (?); superl. Tamest.] [AS. tam; akin to D. tam,
G. zahm, OHG. zam, Dan. & Sw. tam, Icel. tamr, L. domare to tame, Gr.
&?;, Skr. dam to be tame, to tame, and perhaps to E. beteem. √61. Cf.
Adamant, Diamond, Dame, Daunt, Indomitable.] 1. Reduced from a state of
native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic;
as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
Tame slaves of the laborious plow.
Roscommon.
3. Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid;
as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
Syn. — Gentle; mild; meek. See Gentle.
Tame, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Taming.] [AS.
tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G. zähmen, OHG. zemmen,
Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See Tame, a.] 1. To reduce from a wild to
a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to
domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and
stubbornness.
Macaulay.
2. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions
of youth.
Tame"a*ble (?), a. Tamable. Bp. Wilkins.
Tame"less, a. Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable. Bp.
Hall. — Tame"less*ness, n.
Tame"ly, adv. In a tame manner.
Tame"ness, n. The quality or state of being tame.
Tam"er (?), n. One who tames or subdues.
||Ta"mi*as (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a distributer.] (Zoöl.) A genus of
||ground squirrels, including the chipmunk.
||
Ta"mil (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
[Written also Tamul.]
Ta"mil, n. [Written also Tamul.] 1. (Ethnol.) One of a Dravidian race
of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.
2. The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages.
See Dravidian, a.
Ta*mil"i*an (?), a. & n. Tamil.
{ Tam"ine (?), Tam"i*ny (?), } n. [Cf. F. tamis a sort of sieve. Cf.
Stamin, Temse.] A kind of woolen cloth; tammy.
Tam"is (?), n. [F., a kind of sieve.] 1. A sieve, or strainer, made of
a kind of woolen cloth.
2. The cloth itself; tammy.
Tamis bird (Zoöl.), a Guinea fowl.
Tam"kin (?), n. A tampion. Johnson (Dict.).
Tam"my (?), n.; pl. Tammies (&?;). 1. A kind of woolen, or woolen and
cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, — used for curtains, sieves,
strainers, etc.
2. A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis.
Tamp (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tamping.]
[Cf. F. tamponner to plug or stop. See Tampion.] 1. In blasting, to
plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole
bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from
being misdirected.
2. To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so
as to make a smooth place.
Tam"pan (?), n. (Zoöl.) A venomous South African tick. Livingstone.
Tam"pe*on (?), n. See Tampion. Farrow.
Tamp"er (?), n. 1. One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for
blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
2. An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
Tam"per (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tampered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tampering.] [A corruption of temper.] 1. To meddle; to be busy; to try
little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
'T is dangerous tampering with a muse.
Roscommon.
2. To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
3. To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.
Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert.
Hudibras.
Tam"per*er (?), n. One who tampers; one who deals unfairly.
{ Tam*pi"co fi"ber or fi"bre (?) }. A tough vegetable fiber used as a
substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle
are both used under this name.
Tamp"ing (?), n. 1. The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of
filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose
of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.
2. The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1.
Tamping iron, an iron rod for beating down the earthy substance in
tamping for blasting.
Tam"pi*on (?), n. [F. tampon, tapon, tape, of Dutch or German origin.
See Tap a pipe or plug, and cf. Tamp, Tampop, Tompion.] [Written also
tampeon, and tompion.] 1. A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or
other piece of ordnance, when not in use.
2. (Mus.) A plug for upper end of an organ pipe.
Tam"poe (?), n. (Bot.) The edible fruit of an East Indian tree
(Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an
apple.
Tam"pon (?), n. [F. See Tampion.] (Surg.) A plug introduced into a
natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage,
or for the application of medicine.
Tam"pon, v. t. (Surg.) To plug with a tampon.
Tam"poon (?), n. [See Tampion.] The stopper of a barrel; a bung.
Tam"-tam` (?), n. [Hind.; of imitative origin.] (Mus.) (a) A kind of
drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; — called
also tom- tom. (b) A gong. See Gong, n., 1.
Ta"mul (?), a. & n. Tamil.
Tan (?), n. [Chin.] See Picul.
Tan, n. [F. tan, perhaps fr. Armor. tann an oak, oak bar; or of
Teutonic origin; cf. G. tanne a fir, OHG. tanna a fir, oak, MHG. tan a
forest. Cf. Tawny.] 1. The bark of the oak, and some other trees,
bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; — so called both
before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
2. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
3. A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands
covered with tan.
Tan bed (Hort.), a bed made of tan; a bark bed. — Tan pickle, the
liquor used in tanning leather. — Tan spud, a spud used in stripping
bark for tan from trees. — Tan stove. See Bark stove, under Bark. — Tan
vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.
Tan, a. Of the color of tan; yellowish- brown.
Black and tan. See under Black, a.
Tan, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tanned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tanning.] [F.
tanner, LL. tannare. See Tan, n.] 1. To convert (the skin of an animal)
into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak
or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic
acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered
firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
The essential result in tanning is due to the fact that the tannins
form, with gelatins and albuminoids, a series of insoluble compounds
which constitute leather. Similar results may be produced by the use of
other reagents in place of tannin, as alum, and some acids or
chlorides, which are employed in certain processes of tanning.
2. To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun;
as, to tan the skin.
Tan (?), v. i. To get or become tanned.
Ta"na (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Banxring.
Tan"a*ger (?), n. [NL. tanagra, probably fr. Brazilian tangara.]
(Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds
belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager
(Piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird (Piranga rubra) are
common species of the United States.
Tan"a*grine (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the tanagers.
Tan"a*groid (?), a. [Tanager + - oid.] (Zoöl.) Tanagrine.
||Ta*na"te (?), n. (Zoöl.) An Asiatic wild dog (Canis procyonoides),
||native of Japan and adjacent countries. It has a short, bushy tail.
||Called also raccoon dog.
||
Tan"dem (?), adv. & a. [L. tandem at length (of time only), punningly
taken as meaning, lengthwise.] One after another; — said especially of
horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.
Tan"dem, n. A team of horses harnessed one before the other. "He drove
tandems." Thackeray.
Tandem engine, a compound steam engine having two or more steam
cylinders in the same axis, close to one another. — Tandem bicycle or
tricycle, one for two persons in which one rider sits before the other.
Tang (tng), n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. tang seaweed, Sw. tång,
Icel. þang. Cf. Tangle.] (Bot.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus
nodosus). Dr. Prior.
Tang sparrow (Zoöl.), the rock pipit. [Prov. Eng.]
Tang, n. [Probably fr. OD. tanger sharp, tart, literally, pinching;
akin to E. tongs. √59. See Tong.] 1. A strong or offensive taste;
especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as,
wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
2. Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.
Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny.
Fuller.
A cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics.
Jeffrey.
3. [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. tangi a projecting point; akin
to E. tongs. See Tongs.] A projecting part of an object by means of
which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything
resembling a tongue in form or position. Specifically: —
(a) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which
is inserted into the handle.
(b) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the
barrel is secured to the stock.
(c) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
(d) The tongue of a buckle. [Prov. Eng.]
Tang, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Twang. This word has become confused
with tang tatse, flavor.] A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone;
a twang.
Tang, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tanged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tanging.] To
cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
Let thy tongue tang arguments of state.
Shak.
To tang bees, to cause a swarm of bees to settle, by beating metal to
make a din.
Tang, v. i. To make a ringing sound; to ring.
Let thy tongue tang arguments of state.
Shak.
Tan"ga*lung (?), n. (Zoöl.) An East Indian civet (Viverra tangalunga).
Tan"gence (?), n. Tangency. [R.]
Tan"gen*cy (?), n. The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or
touching.
Tan"gent (?), n. [L. tangens, - entis, p. pr. of tangere to touch; akin
to Gr. &?; having seized: cf. F. tangente. Cf. Attain, Contaminate,
Contingent, Entire, Tact, Taste, Tax, v. t.] (Geom.) A tangent line
curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line
tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given
line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a
radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under
Function.
Artificial, or Logarithmic, tangent, the logarithm of the natural
tangent of an arc. — Natural tangent, a decimal expressing the length
of the tangent of an arc, the radius being reckoned unity. — Tangent
galvanometer (Elec.), a form of galvanometer having a circular coil and
a short needle, in which the tangent of the angle of deflection of the
needle is proportional to the strength of the current. — Tangent of an
angle, the natural tangent of the arc subtending or measuring the
angle. — Tangent of an arc, a right line, as ta, touching the arc of a
circle at one extremity a, and terminated by a line ct, passing from
the center through the other extremity o.
Tan"gent, a. [L. tangens, - entis, p. pr.] Touching; touching at a
single point; specifically (Geom.) meeting a curve or surface at a
point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or
surface; — said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line
tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces.
Tangent plane (Geom.), a plane which touches a surface in a point or
line. — Tangent scale (Gun.), a kind of breech sight for a cannon. —
Tangent screw (Mach.), an endless screw; a worm.
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Tan*gen"tal (?), a. (Geom.) Tangential.
Tan*gen"tial (?), a. (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the
direction of a tangent.
Tangential force (Mech.), a force which acts on a moving body in the
direction of a tangent to the path of the body, its effect being to
increase or diminish the velocity; — distinguished from a normal force,
which acts at right angles to the tangent and changes the direction of
the motion without changing the velocity. — Tangential stress. (Engin.)
See Shear, n., 3.
Tan*gen"tial*ly, adv. In the direction of a tangent.
Tan"ger*ine` (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A kind of orange, much
like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to
have been produced in America from the mandarin. [Written also
tangierine.]
Tang"fish` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The common harbor seal. [Prov. Eng.]
||Tan*ghin"i*a (?), n. [NL.] (Bot.) The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal.
||
Tan`gi*bil"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. tanggibilité.] The quality or state of
being tangible.
Tan"gi*ble (?), a. [L. tangibilis, fr. tangere to touch: cf. F.
tangible. See Tangent.] 1. Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
Bacon.
2. Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the
mind; real; substantial; evident. "A tangible blunder." Byron.
Direct and tangible benefit to ourselves and others.
Southey.
— Tan"gi*ble*ness, n. — Tan"gi*bly, adv.
Tan"gle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tangled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tangling
(?).] [A frequentative fr. tang seaweed; hence, to twist like seaweed.
See Tang seaweed, and cf. Tangle, n.] 1. To unite or knit together
confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it
difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
2. To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.
"Tangled in amorous nets." Milton.
When my simple weakness strays, Tangled in forbidden ways.
Crashaw.
Tan"gle, v. i. To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a
tangle.
Tan"gle, n. 1. [Cf. Icel. þöngull. See Tang seaweed.] (Bot.) Any large
blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.
Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean.
C. Kingsley.
2. [From Tangle, v.] A knot of threads, or other thing, united
confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl;
as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also
figuratively.
3. pl. An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are
attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances,
— used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures
living at the bottom of the sea.
Blue tangle. (Bot.)See Dangleberry. — Tangle picker (Zoöl.), the
turnstone. [Prov. Eng.]
Tan"gle*fish` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The sea adder, or great pipefish of
Europe.
Tan"gling*ly (?), adv. In a tangling manner.
Tan"gly (?), a. 1. Entangled; intricate.
2. Covered with tangle, or seaweed.
Prone, helpless, on the tangly beach he lay.
Falconer.
Tan"gram (?), n. [Cf. Trangram.] A Chinese toy made by cutting a square
of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown
in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways,
so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used
in primary schools as a means of instruction.
Tangue (?), n. (Zoöl.) The tenrec.
Tan"gun (?), n. (Zoöl.) A piebald variety of the horse, native of
Thibet.
Tang"whaup (?), n. (Zoöl.) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.]
Tan"i*er (?), n. (Bot.) An aroid plant (Caladium sagittæfolium), the
leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. [Written also
tannier.]
Tan"ist (?), n. [Ir. tanaiste, tanaise, second, the second person in
rank, the presumptive or apparent heir to a prince.] In Ireland, a lord
or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family,
under the system of tanistry.
This family [the O'Hanlons] were tanists of a large territory within
the present county of Armagh.
M. A. Lower.
Tan"ist*ry (?), n. [See Tanist.] In Ireland, a tenure of family lands
by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was
admitted by election.
The primitive intention seems to have been that the inheritance should
descend to the oldest or most worthy of the blood and name of the
deceased. This was, in reality, giving it to the strongest; and the
practice often occasioned bloody feuds in families, for which reason it
was abolished under James I.
Ta"nite (?), n. A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of
cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.
Tank (?), n. A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in
weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls. Simmonds.
Tank, n. [Pg. tanque, L. stangum a pool; or perhaps of East Indian
origin. Cf. Stank, n.] A large basin or cistern; an artificial
receptacle for liquids.
Tank engine, a locomotive which carries the water and fuel it requires,
thus dispensing with a tender. — Tank iron, plate iron thinner than
boiler plate, and thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron. — Tank
worm (Zoöl.), a small nematoid worm found in the water tanks of India,
supposed by some to be the young of the Guinea worm.
Tan"ka (?), n. (Naut.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25
feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia. S. W.
Williams.
Tank"ard (?), n. [OF. tanquart; cf. OD. tanckaert; of uncertain
origin.] A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover.
Marius was the first who drank out of a silver tankard, after the
manner of Bacchus.
Arbuthnot.
Tan"ki*a (?), n. (Naut.) See Tanka.
Tank"ling (?), n. A tinkling. [Obs.]
Tan"ling (?), n. One tanned by the sun. [R.]
Hot summer's tanlings and The shrinking slaves of winter.
Shak.
Tan"na*ble (?), a. That may be tanned.
Tan"nage (?), n. A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning.
[R.]
They should have got his cheek fresh tannage.
R. Browning.
Tan"nate (?), n. [Cf. F. tannate.] (Chem.) A salt of tannic acid.
Tan"ner (?), n. One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them
into leather by the use of tan.
Tan"ner*y (?), n.; pl. Tanneries (#). [Cf. F. tannerie.] 1. A place
where the work of tanning is carried on.
2. The art or process of tanning. [R.] Carlyle.
Tan"nic (?), a. Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling,
tan; as, tannic acid.
Tannic acid. (Chem.) (a) An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow
amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste, and forming
with ferric salts a bluish-black compound, which is the basis of common
ink. Called also tannin, and gallotannic acid. (b) By extension, any
one of a series of astringent substances resembling tannin proper,
widely diffused through the vegetable kingdom, as in oak bark, willow,
catechu, tea, coffee, etc.
Tan"ni*er (?), n. (Bot.) See Tanier.
Tan"nin (?), n. [Cf. F. tannin.] (Chem.) Same as Tannic acid, under
Tannic.
Tan"ning, n. The art or process of converting skins into leather. See
Tan, v. t., 1.
Tan"rec (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Tenrec.
Tan"sy (?), n. [OE. tansaye, F. tanaise; cf. It. & Sp. tanaceto, NL.
tanacetum, Pg. atanasia, athanasia, Gr. 'aqanasi`a immortality, fr.
'aqa`natos immortal; 'a priv. + qa`natos death.] 1. (Bot.) Any plant of
the composite genus Tanacetum. The common tansy (T. vulgare) has finely
divided leaves, a strong aromatic odor, and a very bitter taste. It is
used for medicinal and culinary purposes.
2. A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose
water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked with butter in a shallow
dish. [Obs.] Pepys.
Double tansy (Bot.), a variety of the common tansy with the leaves more
dissected than usual. — Tansy mustard (Bot.), a plant (Sisymbrium
canescens) of the Mustard family, with tansylike leaves.
Tant (?), n. [Cf. Taint tincture.] (Zoöl.) A small scarlet arachnid.
Tan"ta*late (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of tantalic acid.
Tan*tal"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tantalum; derived from,
or containing, tantalum; specifically, designating any one of a series
of acids analogous to nitric acid and the polyacid compounds of
phosphorus.
Tan"ta*lism (?), n. [See Tantalize.] A punishment like that of
Tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good
which is not attainable; tantalization. Addison.
Is not such a provision like tantalism to this people?
Josiah Quincy.
Tan"ta*lite (?), n. [Cf. F. tantalite.] (Min.) A heavy mineral of an
iron-black color and submetallic luster. It is essentially a tantalate
of iron.
Tan`ta*li*za"tion (?), n. The act of tantalizing, or state of being
tantalized. Gayton.
Tan"ta*lize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tantalized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tantalizing (?).] [From Tantalus: cf. F. tantaliser.] To tease or
torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but
continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of
reach; to tease; to torment.
Thy vain desires, at strife Within themselves, have tantalized thy
life.
Dryden.
Syn. — To tease; vex; irritate; provoke. — Tantalize, Disappoint. To
disappoint is literally to do away with what was (or was taken to be)
appointed; hence the peculiar pain from hopes thus dashed to the
ground. To tantalize, a much stronger term, describes a most
distressing form of disappointment, as in the case of Tantalus, the
Phrygian king. To tantalize is to visit with the bitterest
disappointment — to torment by exciting hopes or expectations which can
never be realized.
Tan"ta*li`zer (?), n. One who tantalizes.
Tan"ta*li`zing*ly (?), adv. In a tantalizing or teasing manner.
Tan"ta*lum (?), n. [NL. So named on account of the perplexity and
difficulty encounterd by its discoverer (Ekeberg) in isolating it. See
Tantalus.] (Chem.) A rare nonmetallic element found in certain
minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a
dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing. Symbol Ta. Atomic
weight 182.0. Formerly called also tantalium.
Tan"ta*lus (?), n. [L., from Gr. Ta`ntalos.] (Gr. Myth.) 1. A Phrygian
king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst
of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he
attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden
with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his
hand to grasp them.
2. (Zoöl.) A genus of wading birds comprising the wood ibises.
Tantalus's cup (Physics), a philosophical toy, consisting of a cup,
within which is the figure of a man, and within the figure a siphon,
the longer arm of which passes down through the bottom of the cup, and
allows the escape of any liquid that may be poured in, when it reaches
as high as the bend of the siphon, which is just below the level of the
mouth of the figure in the cup.
Tan"ta*mount` (?), a. [F. tant so much (L. tantus) + E. amount.]
Equivalent in value, signification, or effect.
A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right.
Hallam.
The certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to
ruin.
De Quincey.
Tan"ta*mount`, v. i. To be tantamount or equivalent; to amount. [Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.
Tan*tiv"y (?), adv. [Said to be from the note of a hunting horn.]
Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; — a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy.
Tan*tiv"y, n. A rapid, violent gallop; an impetuous rush. Cleverland.
Tan*tiv"y, v. i. To go away in haste. [Colloq.]
Tan"trum (?), n. A whim, or burst of ill-humor; an affected air.
[Colloq.] Thackeray.
Tan"yard` (?), n. An inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried
on; a tannery.
||Tan`y*stom"a*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; to stretch + &?;, &?;,
||mouth.] (Zoöl.) A division of dipterous insects in which the
||proboscis is large and contains lancelike mandibles and maxillæ. The
||horseflies and robber flies are examples.
||
Ta"o*ism (?), n. One of the popular religions of China, sanctioned by
the state. — Ta"o*ist, a. & n.
Tap (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tapped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tapping.] [F.
taper to strike; of Teutonic origin; cf. dial. G. tapp, tapps, a blow,
tappe a paw, fist, G. tappen to grope.] 1. To strike with a slight or
gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one
with the hand or a cane.
2. To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.
Tap, n. [Cf. F. tape. See Tap to strike.] 1. A gentle or slight blow; a
light rap; a pat. Addison.
2. A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in
repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
3. pl. (Mil.) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all
lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, — usually given about
a quarter of an hour after tattoo. Wilhelm.
Tap, v. i. To strike a gentle blow.
Tap, n. [AS. tæppa, akin to D. tap, G. zapfen, OHG. zapfo, Dan. tap,
Sw. tapp, Icel. tappi. Cf. Tampion, Tip.] 1. A hole or pipe through
which liquor is drawn.
2. A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like;
a faucet.
3. Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of
liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap. [Colloq.]
4. A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
[Colloq.]
5. (Mech.) A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut,
consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as
to have cutting edges.
On tap. (a) Ready to be drawn; as, ale on tap. (b) Broached, or
furnished with a tap; as, a barrel on tap. — Plug tap (Mech.), a
screw-cutting tap with a slightly tapering end. — Tap bolt, a bolt with
a head on one end and a thread on the other end, to be screwed into
some fixed part, instead of passing through the part and receiving a
nut. See Illust. under Bolt. — Tap cinder (Metal.), the slag of a
puddling furnace.
Tap, v. t. 1. To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to
tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.
2. Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap
telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the
treasury.
3. To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing. Shak.
He has been tapping his liquors.
Addison.
4. (Mech.) To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool
called a tap; as, to tap a nut.
||Ta"pa (?), n. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the
||inner bark of the paper mulberry; — sometimes called also kapa.
||
||Ta`pa*yax"in (?), n. (Zoöl.) A Mexican spinous lizard (Phrynosoma
||orbiculare) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; — called also
||horned toad.
||
Tape (?), n. [AS. tæppe a fillet. Cf. Tapestry, Tippet.] 1. A narrow
fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for
strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
2. A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a
tapeline; as, a steel tape.
Red tape. See under Red. — Tape grass (Bot.), a plant (Vallisneria
spiralis) with long ribbonlike leaves, growing in fresh or brackish
water; — called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in Maryland, wild
celery. — Tape needle. See Bodkin, n., 4.
Tape"line` (?), n. A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as
inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, — used for measuring.
Ta"per (?), n. [AS. tapur, tapor, taper; cf. Ir. tapar, W. tampr.] 1. A
small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
Get me a taper in my study, Lucius.
Shak.
2. A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated
object; as, the taper of a spire.
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Ta"per (?), a. [Supposed to be from taper, n., in allusion to its
form.] Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one
end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
Ta"per, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tapered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tapering.] To
become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward
one end.
Ta"per, v. t. To make or cause to taper.
Ta"pered (?), a. Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.
[R.] T. Warton.
Ta"per*ing (?), a. Becoming gradually smaller toward one end. —
Ta"per*ing*ly, adv.
Ta"per*ness, n. The quality or state of being taper; tapering form;
taper. Shenstone.
Tap"es*try (?), n.; pl. Tapestries (#). [F. tapissere, fr. tapisser to
carpet, to hang, or cover with tapestry, fr. tapis a carpet, carpeting,
LL. tapecius, fr. L. tapete carpet, tapestry, Gr. &?;, &?;. Cf. Tapis,
Tippet.] A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or
other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial
and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also
applied to different kinds of embroidery.
Tapestry carpet, a kind of carpet, somewhat resembling Brussels, in
which the warp is printed before weaving, so as to produce the figure
in the cloth. — Tapestry moth. (Zoöl.) Same as Carpet moth, under
Carpet.
Tap"es*try, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tapestried (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tapestrying.] To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.
The Trosachs wound, as now, between gigantic walls of rock tapestried
with broom and wild roses.
Macaulay.
Tap"et (?), n. [L. tapete. See Tapestry.] Worked or figured stuff;
tapestry. [R.] Spenser.
Tap"e*ti (?), n.; pl. Tapetis (#). [Braz.] (Zoöl.) A small South
American hare (Lepus Braziliensis).
||Ta*pe"tum (?), n. [NL., from L. tapete a carpet, a tapestry.] (Anat.)
||An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many
||animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make
||the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of
||pigmented epithelium of the choroid.
||
Tape"worm` (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms
belonging to Tænia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and
composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those
toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the
anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The
head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more
suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and
sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines
of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvæ (see Cysticercus)
live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another
animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its
intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.
Three species are common parasites of man: the pork tapeworm (Tænia
solium), the larva of which is found in pork; the beef tapeworm (T.
mediocanellata), the larva of which lives in the flesh of young cattle;
and the broad tapeworm (Bothriocephalus latus) which is found chiefly
in the inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Europe and Asia. See
also Echinococcus, Cysticercus, Proglottis, and 2d Measles, 4.
Tap"house` (?), n. A house where liquors are retailed.
||Taph*ren"chy*ma (?), n. [Gr. &?; a trench + enchyma, as in
||parenchyma.] (Bot.) Same as Bothrenchyma.
||
Tap"i*nage (?), n. [See Tapish.] A lurking or skulking. [Obs.] Gower.
Tap`i*o"ca (?), n. [Braz. tapioka: cf. Pg., Sp. & F. tapioca.] A
coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly
changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava.
It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava.
Ta"pir (?), n. [Braz. tapy'ra: cf. F. tapir.] (Zoöl.) Any one of
several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus,
Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper
lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short,
close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the
fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.
The best-known species are the Indian tapir (Tapirus Indicus), native
of the East Indies and Malacca, which is black with a broad band of
white around the middle, and the common American tapir (T. Americanus),
which, when adult, is dull brown. Several others species inhabit the
Andes and Central America.
Tapir tiger (Zoöl.), the wallah.
Ta"pir*oid (?), a. [Tapir + - oid.] (Zoöl.) Allied to the tapir, or the
Tapir family.
Ta"pis (?), n. [F. See Tapestry.] Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a
council table.
On, or Upon, the tapis, on the table, or under consideration; as, to
lay a motion in Parliament on the tapis.
Tap"is (?), v. t. To cover or work with figures like tapestry. [R.]
Holland.
Tap"is*er (?), n. [F. tapissier.] A maker of tapestry; an upholsterer.
[R.] Chaucer.
Tap"ish (?), v. i. [F. se tapir to squat.] To lie close to the ground,
so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self.
[Written also tappis, tappish, tappice.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
As a hound that, having roused a hart, Although he tappish ne'er so
soft.
Chapman.
Tap"lash` (?), n. Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
The taplash of strong ale and wine.
Taylor (1630).
Tap"lings (?), n. pl. The strong double leathers by which the two parts
of a flail are united. Halliwell.
||Ta*po"a ta"fa (?). (Zoöl.) A small carnivorous marsupial (Phascogale
||penicillata) having long, soft fur, and a very long tail with a tuft
||of long hairs at the end; — called also brush-tailed phascogale.
||
Tap"pen (?), n. An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the
intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.
Tap"per (?), n. (Zoöl.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus
minor); — called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred
woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. [Prov. Eng.]
Tap"pes*ter (?), n. [See Tapster.] A female tapster. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tap"pet (?), n. (Mach.) A lever or projection moved by some other
piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, with a
view to produce change or regulate motion. G. Francis.
Tappet motion, a valve motion worked by tappets from a reciprocating
part, without an eccentric or cam, — used in steam pumps, etc.
{ Tap"pice (?), Tap"pis (?) }, v. i. See Tapish.
Tap"pit hen` (?). 1. A hen having a tuft of feathers on her head.
[Scot.] Jamieson.
2. A measuring pot holding one quart (according to some, three quarts);
— so called from a knob on the lid, thought to resemble a crested hen.
[Scot.] Jamieson.
Tap"room` (?), n. A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom.
The ambassador was put one night into a miserable taproom, full of
soldiers smoking.
Macaulay.
Tap"root` (?), n. (Bot.) The root of a plant which penetrates the earth
directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.
Tap"ster (?), n. [AS. tæppestre a female tapster. See Tap a plug, pipe,
and -ster.] One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor.
Ta"qua-nut` (?), n. (Bot.) A Central American name for the ivory nut.
Tar (?), n. [Abbrev. from tarpaulin.] A sailor; a seaman. [Colloq.]
Swift.
Tar, n. [OE. terre, tarre, AS. teru, teoru; akin to D. teer, G. teer,
theer, Icel. tjara, Sw. tjära, Dan. tiære, and to E. tree. √63. See
Tree.] A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of
wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the
temperature and material employed in obtaining it.
Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary. — Mineral tar (Min.), a kind of soft
native bitumen. — Tar board, a strong quality of millboard made from
junk and old tarred rope. Knight. — Tar water. (a) A cold infusion of
tar in water, used as a medicine. (b) The ammoniacal water of gas
works. — Wood tar, tar obtained from wood. It is usually obtained by
the distillation of the wood of the pine, spruce, or fir, and is used
in varnishes, cements, and to render ropes, oakum, etc., impervious to
water.
Tar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tarred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tarring.] To smear
with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.
To tar and feather a person. See under Feather, v. t.
Tar"a*nis (?), n. [L. taranis, from the Celtic; cf. W. & Corn. taran
thunder.] (Myth.) A Celtic divinity, regarded as the evil principle,
but confounded by the Romans with Jupiter.
Tar`an*tass" (?), n. [Russ. tarantas'.] A low four-wheeled carriage
used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which
run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are
taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.
Tar`an*tel"la (?), n. [It.] (Mus.) (a) A rapid and delirious sort of
Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; — so
called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the
poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in
Apulia. (b) Music suited to such a dance.
Tar"ant*ism (?), n. [It. tarantismo: cf. F. tarentisme. See Tarantula.]
(Med.) A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an
uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the
bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by
protracted dancing to appropriate music. [Written also tarentism.]
Ta*ran"tu*la (?), n.; pl. E. Tarantulas (#), L. Tarantulæ (#). [NL.,
fr. It. tarantola, fr. L. Tarentum, now Taranto, in the south of
Italy.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of large spiders, popularly
supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species
(Tarantula apuliæ). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are
large species of Mygale. [Written also tarentula.]
Tarantula killer, a very large wasp (Pompilus formosus), which captures
the Texan tarantula (Mygale Hentzii) and places it in its nest as food
for its young, after paralyzing it by a sting.
Ta*ran"tu*la`ted (?), a. Bitten by a tarantula; affected with
tarantism.
Tar*bog"an (?), n. & v. See Toboggan.
Tar*boosh" (?), n. [Ar. tarb&?;sh; perhaps from Per. sar-posh
headdress: cf. F. tarbouch.] A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern
nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other
stuff to make a turban. See Fez.
Tar*da"tion (?), n. [L. tardatio, fr. tardare, tardatum, to retard,
delay, fr. tardus slow.] The act of retarding, or delaying;
retardation. [Obs.]
||Tar`di*gra"da (?), n. pl. [NL. See Tardigrade, a.] 1. (Zoöl.) A tribe
||of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness
||of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.
||
2. (Zoöl.) An order of minute aquatic arachnids; — called also bear
animalcules, sloth animalcules, and water bears.
Tar"di*grade (?), a. [L. tardigradus; tardus slow + gradi to step: cf.
F. tardigrade.] 1. Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced. [R.] G.
Eliot.
2. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Tardigrada.
Tar"di*grade, n. (Zoöl.) One of the Tardigrada.
Tar"di*gra`dous (?), a. Moving slowly; slow-paced. [Obs.] Sir T.
Browne.
Tar"di*ly (?), adv. In a tardy manner; slowly.
Tar"di*ness, n. The quality or state of being tardy.
Tar`di*ta"tion (?), n. Tardiness. [Obs.]
To instruct them to avoid all snares of tarditation, in the Lord's
affairs.
Herrick.
Tar"di*ty (?), n. [L. tarditas.] Slowness; tardiness. [R.] Sir K.
Digby.
||Tar"do (?), a. [It.] (Mus.) Slow; — a direction to perform a passage
||slowly.
||
||Tar"do, n. [Sp., slow, L. tardus.] (Zoöl.) A sloth.
||
Tar"dy (?), a. [Compar. Tardier (?); superl. Tardiest.] [F. tardif, fr.
(assumed) LL. tardivus, fr. L. tardus slow.] 1. Moving with a slow pace
or motion; slow; not swift.
And check the tardy flight of time.
Sandys.
Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave.
Prior.
2. Not being inseason; late; dilatory; — opposed to prompt; as, to be
tardy in one's payments. Arbuthnot.
The tardy plants in our cold orchards placed.
Waller.
3. Unwary; unready. [Obs.] Hudibras.
4. Criminal; guilty. [Obs.] Collier.
Syn. — Slow; dilatory; tedious; reluctant. See Slow.
Tar"dy, v. t. To make tardy. [Obs.] Shak.
Tare (?), obs. imp. of Tear. Tore.
Tare, n. [Cf. Prov. E. tare brisk, eager, OE. tarefitch the wild
vetch.] 1. A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; — alleged by
modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel.
Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it
tares?
Matt. xiii. 27.
The "darnel" is said to be the tares of Scripture, and is the only
deleterious species belonging to the whole order.
Baird.
2. (Bot.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the
genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder.
Tare, n. [F. tare; cf. Pr., Sp., Pg., & It. tara; all fr. Ar. tarah
thrown away, removed, fr. taraha to reject, remove.] (Com.) Deficientcy
in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask,
bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence,
the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the
seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag,
etc.
Tare, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tared (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Taring.] To
ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).
Tared (?), a. (Chem.) Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard
weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.
Ta*ren"te (?), n. [Cf. F. tarente.] (Zoöl.) A harmless lizard of the
Gecko family (Platydactylus Mauritianicus) found in Southern Europe and
adjacent countries, especially among old walls and ruins.
Tar"ent*ism (?), n. See Tarantism.
Ta*ren"tu*la (?), n. See Tarantula.
Targe (?), n. [F. Cf. Target.] A shield or target. [Obs. or Poetic] "A
buckler on a targe." Chaucer.
Tar"get (?), n. [OF. targette, dim. of OF. & F. targe, of Teutonic
origin; cf. AS. targe, OD. targie, G. zarge a frame, case, border, OHG.
zarga, Icel. targa shield.] 1. A kind of small shield or buckler, used
as a defensive weapon in war.
2. (a) A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the
accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile. (b) The pattern or
arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark;
as, he made a good target.
3. (Surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
4. (Railroad) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its
position, or for use as a signal.
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Tar"get*ed (?), a. Furnished, armed, or protected, with a target.
Tar`get*eer" (?), n. One who is armed with a target or shield. [Written
also targetier.]
Tar"gum (?), n.; pl. Targums (#). Heb. Targumim (#). [Chald. targm
interpretation, fr. targm to interpret. Cf. Truchman, and Dragoman.] A
translation or paraphrase of some portion of the Old Testament
Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect.
Tar"gum*ist, n. The writer of a Targum; one versed in the Targums.
Tar"iff (?), n. [F. tarif; cf. Sp. & Pg. tarifa, It. tariffa; all fr.
Ar. ta'rf information, explanation, definition, from 'arafa, to know,
to inform, explain.] 1. A schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed
by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a
revenue tariff; a protective tariff; Clay's compromise tariff. (U. S.
1833).
The United States and Great Britain impose no duties on exports; hence,
in these countries the tariff refers only to imports.
2. The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a
tariff of two cents a pound.
3. Any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of
fees, or of railroad fares. Bolingbroke.
Tar"iff, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tariffed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tariffing.]
To make a list of duties on, as goods.
Tar"in (?), n. [F.] (Zoöl.) The siskin. [Prov.]
Tar"ing (?), n. (Zoöl.) The common tern; — called also tarret, and
tarrock. [Prov. Eng.]
Tar"la*tan (?), n. A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for
dresses.
Tarn (?), n. [OE. terne, Icel. tjörn.] A mountain lake or pool.
A lofty precipice in front, A silent tarn below.
Wordsworth.
Tar"nish (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tarnished (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tarnishing.] [F. ternir, fr. OHG. tarnen to darken, to conceal, hide;
akin to OS. dernian to hide, AS. dernan, dyrnan, OHG. tarni hidden, OS.
derni, AS. derne, dyrne. Cf. Dern, a., and see -ish.] To soil, or
change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the
air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster
of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish
the purity of color. "Tarnished lace." Fuller. Used also figuratively;
as, to tarnish one's honor.
Syn. — To sully; stain; dim.
Tar"nish, v. i. To lose luster; to become dull; as, gilding will
tarnish in a foul air.
Till thy fresh glories, which now shine so bright, Grow stale and
tarnish with our daily sight.
Dryden.
Tar"nish, n. 1. The quality or state of being tarnished; stain; soil;
blemish.
2. (Min.) A thin film on the surface of a metal, usually due to a
slight alteration of the original color; as, the steel tarnish in
columbite.
Tar"nish*er (?), n. One who, or that which, tarnishes.
Ta"ro (?), n. [From the Polynesian name.] (Bot.) A name for several
aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia
macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large
ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked
and used for food in tropical countries.
Tar"ot (?), n. [F.; cf. It. tarocco.] A game of cards; — called also
taroc. Hoyle.
Tar"pan (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoöl.) A wild horse found in
the region of the Caspian Sea.
Tar*pau"lin (?), n. [Tar + palling a covering, pall to cover. See Pall
a covering.] 1. A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof
composition, used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats,
etc.
2. A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by
sailors and others.
3. Hence, a sailor; a seaman; a tar.
To a landsman, these tarpaulins, as they were called, seemed a strange
and half-savage race.
Macaulay.
Tar"pon (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Tarpum.
Tar"pum (?), n. (Zoöl.) A very large marine fish (Megapolis Atlanticus)
of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It often becomes six
or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a
staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also tarpon,
sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and jewfish.
Tar"quin*ish (?), a. Like a Tarquin, a king of ancient Rome; proud;
haughty; overbearing.
Tar"race (?), n. See Trass. [Obs.]
Tar"ra*gon (?), n. [Sp. taragona, Ar. tarkh&?;n; perhaps fr. Gr. &?; a
dragon, or L. draco; cf. L. dracunculus tarragon. Cf. Dragon.] (Bot.) A
plant of the genus Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in France for
flavoring vinegar.
Tar"ras (?), n. See Trass. [Obs.]
Tarre (?), v. t. [OE. tarien, terien, to irritate, provoke, AS. tergan
to pull, pluck, torment; probably akin to E. tear, v.t. √63. Cf. Tarry,
v.] To set on, as a dog; to incite. [Obs.] Shak.
Tar"ri*ance (?), n. The act or time of tarrying; delay; lateness.
[Archaic] Shak.
And after two days' tarriance there, returned.
Tennyson.
Tar"ri*er (?), n. One who, or that which, tarries.
Tar"ri*er, n. (Zoöl.) A kind of dig; a terrier. [Obs.]
Tar"rock (?), n. [Greenland tattarock.] (Zoöl.) (a) The young of the
kittiwake gull before the first molt. (b) The common guillemot. [Prov.
Eng.] (c) The common tern.
Tar"ry (?), a. [From Tar, n.] Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like
tar.
Tar"ry (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tarried (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tarrying.]
[OE. tarien to irritate (see Tarre); but with a change of sense
probably due to confusion with OE. targen to delay, OF. targier, fr.
(assumed) LL. tardicare, fr. L. tardare to make slow, to tarry, fr.
tardus slow. Cf. Tardy.] 1. To stay or remain behind; to wait.
Tarry ye for us, until we come again.
Ex. xxiv. 14.
2. To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter.
Come down unto me, tarry not.
Gen. xic. 9.
One tarried here, there hurried one.
Emerson.
3. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.
Tarry all night, and wash your feet.
Gen. xix. 2.
Syn. — To abide; continue; lodge; await; loiter.
Tar"ry, v. t. 1. To delay; to defer; to put off. [Obs.]
Tarry us here no longer than to-morrow.
Chaucer.
2. To wait for; to stay or stop for. [Archaic]
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the
grinding.
Shak.
He plodded on, . . . tarrying no further question.
Sir W. Scott.
Tar"ry, n. Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.] E. Lodge.
Tar"sal (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the tarsus (either of the
foot or eye). — n. A tarsal bone or cartilage; a tarsale.
Tarsal tetter (Med.), an eruptive disease of the edges of the eyelids;
a kind of bleareye.
Tar"sal (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Tercel. [Obs.]
||Tar*sa"le (?), n.; pl. Tarsalia (#). [NL.] (Anat.) One of the bones
||or cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating
||with the metatarsals.
||
Tarse (?), n. [Cf. Tassel, Tiercel.] (Falconry) The male falcon.
Tarse (?), n. [Cf. F. tarse.] (Anat.) tarsus.
Tar*sec"to*my (?), n. [Tarsus + Gr. &?; to cut out.] (Surg.) The
operation of excising one or more of the bones of the tarsus.
Tar"sel (?), n. A male hawk. See Tercel. [Obs.]
||Tar"si (?), n., pl. of Tarsus.
||
{ ||Tar"si*a (?), ||Tar`si*a*tu"ra (?), } n. [It.] A kind of mosaic in
woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in
which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes,
landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying
pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of
walnut wood.
Tar"si*er (?), n. [Cf. F. tarsier.] See Tarsius.
||Tar"si*us (?), n. [NL. See Tarsus.] (Zoöl.) A genus of nocturnal
||lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a long tail, and
||very long proximal tarsal bones; — called also malmag, spectral
||lemur, podji, and tarsier.
||
Tar"so- (?). A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection
with, or relation to, the tarsus; as, tarsometatarsus.
Tar`so*met`a*tar"sal (?), a. (Anat.) (a) Of or pertaining to both the
tarsus and metatarsus; as, the tarsometatarsal articulations. (b) Of or
pertaining to the tarsometatarsus.
||Tar`so*met`a*tar"sus (?), n.; pl. Tarsometatarsi (#). [NL.] (Anat.)
||The large bone next the foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by
||the union of the distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus.
||
Tar*sor"rha*phy (?), n. [Tarsus + Gr. "rafh` seam, fr. &?; to sew.]
(Surg.) An operation to diminish the size of the opening between
eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices.
Tar*sot"o*my (?), n. [Tarsus + Gr. &?; to cut.] (Surg.) The operation
of cutting or removing the tarsal cartilages.
Tar"sus (?), n.; pl. Tarsi (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; the flat of the foot,
the edge of the eyelid. Cf. 2d Tarse.] 1. (Anat.) (a) The ankle; the
bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and
the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones. (b) A plate of dense
connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; —
called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.
2. (Zoöl.) The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists
of form two to five joints.
Tart (?), a. [AS. teart. √63. Cf. Tear, v. t.] 1. Sharp to the taste;
acid; sour; as, a tart apple.
2. Fig.: Sharp; keen; severe; as, a tart reply; tart language; a tart
rebuke.
Why art thou tart, my brother?
Bunyan.
Tart, n. [OE. tarte, F. tarte; perhaps originally the same word as
tourte, LL. torta, fr. L. tortus, p. p. of torquere to twist, bend,
wind, because tarts were originally made of a twisted shape. Cf.
Torture, n.] A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry,
containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.
Tar"tan (?), n. [F. tiretane linsey- woolsey, akin to Sp. tiritaña a
sort of thin silk; cf. Sp. tiritar to shiver or shake with cold.]
Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various
colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of
tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.
MacCullummore's heart will be as cold as death can make it, when it
does not warm to the tartan.
Sir W. Scott.
The sight of the tartan inflamed the populace of London with hatred.
Macaulay.
Tar"tan, n. [F. tartane, or Sp., Pg., or It. tartana; all perhaps of
Arabic origin.] (Naut.) A small coasting vessel, used in the
Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a
bowsprit with staysail or jib.
Tar"tar (?), n. [F. tartre (cf. Pr. tartari, Sp., Pg., & It. tartaro,
LL. tartarum, LGr. &?;); perhaps of Arabic origin.] 1. (Chem.) A
reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of
crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar,
tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing,
as a mordant for woolen goods; — called also argol, wine stone, etc.
2. A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary
mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.
Cream of tartar. (Chem.) See under Cream. — Tartar emetic (Med. Chem.),
a double tartrate of potassium and basic antimony. It is a poisonous
white crystalline substance having a sweetish metallic taste, and used
in medicine as a sudorific and emetic.
Tar"tar (?), n. 1. [Per. Ttr, of Tartar origin.] A native or inhabitant
of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly
Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; — written
also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar.
2. A person of a keen, irritable temper.
To catch a tartar, to lay hold of, or encounter, a person who proves
too strong for the assailant. [Colloq.]
Tar"tar, a. Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
Tar"tar, n. [Cf. F. tartare.] See Tartarus. Shak.
Tar"tar*a`ted (?), a. (Chem.) Tartrated.
{ Tar*ta"re*an (?), Tar*ta"re*ous (?), } a. [L. tartareus: cf. F.
tartaréen.] Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.
Tar*ta"re*ous, a. [Cf. 1st Tartarous.] 1. Consisting of tartar; of the
nature of tartar.
2. (Bot.) Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are
tartareous.
{ Tar*ta"ri*an (?), Tar*tar"ic (?), } a. Of or pertaining to Tartary in
Asia, or the Tartars.
Tartarian lamb (Bot.), Scythian lamb. See Barometz.
Tar*ta"ri*an (?), n. (Bot.) The name of some kinds of cherries, as the
Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.
Tar*tar"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from, or
resembling, tartar.
Tartaric acid. (a) An acid widely diffused throughout the vegetable
kingdom, as in grapes, mountain-ash berries, etc., and obtained from
tartar as a white crystalline substance, C2H2(OH)2.(CO2H)2, having a
strong pure acid taste. It is used in medicine, in dyeing, calico
printing, photography, etc., and also as a substitute for lemon juice.
Called also dextro-tartaric acid. (b) By extension, any one of the
series of isomeric acids (racemic acid, levotartaric acid, inactive
tartaric acid) of which tartaric acid proper is the type.
Tar"tar*ine (?), n. (Old Chem.) Potassium carbonate, obtained by the
incineration of tartar. [Obs.]
Tar"tar*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tartarized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tartarizing (?).] [Cf. F. tartariser.] (Chem.) To impregnate with, or
subject to the action of, tartar. [R.]
Tartarized antimony (Med. Chem.), tartar emetic.
Tar"tar*ize (?), v. t. To cause to resemble the Tartars and their
civilization, as by conquest.
Tar"tar*ous (?), a. [Cf. F. tartareux.] Containing tartar; consisting
of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous.
Tar"tar*ous (?), a. Resembling, or characteristic of, a Tartar;
ill-natured; irritable.
The Tartarous moods of common men.
B. Jonson.
Tar"ta*rum (?), n. (Chem.) See 1st Tartar.
Tar"ta*rus (tär"t*rs), n. [L., from Gr. Ta`rtaros.] (Class. Myth.) The
infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades
as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of
punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the
name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in
general.
Tar"ta*ry (?), n. Tartarus. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Tar*ti"ni's tones` (?). [From Tartini, an Italian violinist, who
discovered them in 1754.] See the Note under Tone.
Tart"ish (?), a. Somewhat tart.
Tart"let (?), n. A small tart. V. Knox.
Tart"ly, adv. In a tart manner; with acidity.
Tart"ness, n. The quality or state of being tart.
Syn. — Acrimony; sourness; keenness; poignancy; severity; asperity;
acerbity; harshness. See Acrimony.
Tar*tral"ic (?), a. [From Tartar the chemical compound.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white amorphous
deliquescent substance, C8H10O11; — called also ditartaric, tartrilic,
or tartrylic acid.
Tar*tram"ate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of tartramic acid.
Tar*tram"ic (?), a. [Tarto- + amic.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or
designating, an acid which is the primary acid amide derivative of
tartaric acid.
Tar*tram"ide (?), n. [Tarto- + amide.] (Chem.) An acid amide derivative
of tartaric acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Tar"trate (?), n. [Cf. F. tartrate.] (Chem.) A salt of tartaric acid.
Tar"tra`ted (?), a. (Med. Chem.) Containing, or derived from, tartar;
combined with tartaric acid.
Tar"tra*zine (?), n. [Tartaric + hydrazine.] (Chem.) An artificial
dyestuff obtained as an orange-yellow powder, and regarded as a phenyl
hydrazine derivative of tartaric and sulphonic acids.
Tar*trel"ic (?), a. [From Tartar the chemical compound.] (Chem.) Of,
pertaining to, or designating, an anhydride, C4H4O5, of tartaric acid,
obtained as a white crystalline deliquescent substance.
Tar"tro-. A combining form (also used adjectively) used in chemistry to
denote the presence of tartar or of some of its compounds or
derivatives.
Tar"tro*nate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of tartronic acid.
Tar*tron"ic (?), a. [Tartro- + malonic.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or
designating, an organic acid (called also hydroxy malonic acid)
obtained, by reducing mesoxalic acid, as a white crystalline substance.
Tar"tro*nyl (?), n. [Tartronic + - yl.] (Chem.) A hypothetical radical
constituting the characteristic residue of tartronic acid and certain
of its derivatives.
Tar`tro*vin"ic (?), a. [Tartro- + vinic.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or
designating, a certain acid composed of tartaric acid in combination
with ethyl, and now called ethyltartaric acid.
{ Tar*tuffe", Tar*tufe" } (?), n. [F. tartufe.] A hypocritical devotee.
See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
{ Tar*tuff"ish, Tar*tuf"ish, } a. Like a tartuffe; precise;
hypocritical. Sterne.
Tar"weed` (?), n. (Bot.) A name given to several resinous-glandular
composite plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia,
Hemizonia, and Madia.
Tas (?), n. [F.] A heap. [Obs.] "The tas of bodies slain." Chaucer.
Tas, v. t. To tassel. [Obs.] "A purse of leather tassed with silk."
Chaucer.
Tas"co (?), n. [Cf. Sp. tasconio.] A kind of clay for making melting
pots. Percy Smith.
Ta*sim"er (t*sm"*tr), n. [Gr. ta`sis stretching, extension (from
tei`nein to stretch) + -meter.] (Physics) An instrument for detecting
or measuring minute extensions or movements of solid bodies. It
consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming
part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by
the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be
measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which
variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used
for measuring minute changes of temperature. T. A. Edison.
Task (tsk), n. [OE. taske, OF. tasque, F. tâche, for tasche, LL. tasca,
taxa, fr. L. taxare to rate, appraise, estimate. See Tax, n. & v.] 1.
Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or
amount.
Ma task of servile toil.
Milton.
Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close.
Longfellow.
2. Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
His mental powers were equal to greater tasks.
Atterbury.
To take to task. See under Take.
Syn. — Work; labor; employment; business; toil; drudgery; study;
lesson; stint.
Task, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tasked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tasking.] 1. To
impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or
duty to.
There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.
Dryden.
2. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
3. To charge; to tax, as with a fault.
Too impudent to task me with those errors.
Beau. & Fl.
Task"er (?), n. 1. One who imposes a task.
2. One who performs a task, as a day-laborer. [R.]
3. A laborer who receives his wages in kind. [Scot.]
Task"mas`ter (?), n. One who imposes a task, or burdens another with
labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11.
All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's
eye.
Milton.
Task"work` (?), n. Work done as a task; also, work done by the job;
piecework.
Tas"let (?), n. [See Tasse a piece of armor.] A piece of armor formerly
worn to guard the thighs; a tasse.
Tas*ma"ni*an (tz*m"n*an), a. Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van
Diemen's Land. — n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically
(Ethnol.), in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited
Tasmania, but is now extinct.
Tasmanian cider tree. (Bot.) See the Note under Eucalyptus. — Tasmanian
devil. (Zoöl.) See under Devil. — Tasmanian wolf (Zoöl.), a savage
carnivorous marsupial; — called also zebra wolf. See Zebra wolf, under
Wolf.
Tasse (?), n. [OF. tassette.] A piece of armor for the thighs, forming
an appendage to the ancient corselet.
Usually the tasse was a plate of iron swinging from the cuirass, but
the skirts of sliding splints were also called by this name.
Tas"sel (?), n. (Falconry) A male hawk. See Tercel.
Tas"sel, n. [See Teasel.] A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a
teasel.
Tas"sel, n. [OE., a fastening of a mantle, OF. tassel a fastening,
clasp, F. tasseau a bracket, Fr. L. taxillus a little die, dim. of
talus a die of a longish shape, rounded on two sides and marked only on
the other four, a knuckle bone.] 1. A pendent ornament, attached to the
corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of
loose threads or cords.
2. The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent.
And the maize field grew and ripened, Till it stood in all the splendor
Of its garments green and yellow, Of its tassels and its plumage.
Longfellow.
3. A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between
the leaves.
4. (Arch.) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of
plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; — rarely
used in the United States.
Tassel flower (Bot.), a name of several composite plants of the genus
Cineraria, especially the C. sconchifolia, and of the blossoms which
they bear.
Tas"sel, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tasseled (?) or Tasselled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tasseling or Tasselling.] To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize
tassels.
Tas"sel, v. t. To adorn with tassels. Chaucer.
Tas"set (?), n. [See Tasse.] A defense for the front of the thigh,
consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the
lower edge of the corselet.
Tast"a*ble (tst"*b'l), a. Capable of worthy of being tasted; savory;
relishing.
Taste (tst), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tasting.] [OE.
tasten to feel, to taste, OF. taster, F. tater to feel, to try by the
touch, to try, to taste, (assumed) LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare to touch
sharply, to estimate. See Tax, v. t.] 1. To try by the touch; to
handle; as, to taste a bow. [Obs.] Chapman.
Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find.
Chaucer.
2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor
of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used
figuratively.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine.
John ii. 9.
When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity
or remorse.
Gibbon.
3. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
I tasted a little of this honey.
1 Sam. xiv. 29.
4. To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience;
to undergo.
He . . . should taste death for every man.
Heb. ii. 9.
5. To partake of; to participate in; — usually with an implied sense of
relish or pleasure.
Thou . . . wilt taste No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary.
Milton.
Taste, v. i. 1. To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little
only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine.
2. To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the
specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular
quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes
of garlic.
Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason Shall to the king taste of
this action.
Shak.
3. To take sparingly.
For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
Dryden.
4. To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to
taste of nature's bounty. Waller.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Shak.
Taste, n. 1. The act of tasting; gustation.
2. A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to
the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means
of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter
taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste.
3. (Physiol.) The one of the five senses by which certain properties of
bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact
with the organs of taste.
Taste depends mainly on the contact of soluble matter with the terminal
organs (connected with branches of the glossopharyngeal and other
nerves) in the papillæ on the surface of the tongue. The base of the
tongue is considered most sensitive to bitter substances, the point to
sweet and acid substances.
4. Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; — formerly with of, now with
for; as, he had no taste for study.
I have no taste Of popular applause.
Dryden.
5. The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human
performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity,
proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly
in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.
6. Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance
with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in
bad taste.
7. Essay; trial; experience; experiment. Shak.
8. A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tasted or eaten;
a bit. Bacon.
9. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
Syn. — Savor; relish; flavor; sensibility; gout. — Taste, Sensibility,
Judgment. Some consider taste as a mere sensibility, and others as a
simple exercise of judgment; but a union of both is requisite to the
existence of anything which deserves the name. An original sense of the
beautiful is just as necessary to æsthetic judgments, as a sense of
right and wrong to the formation of any just conclusions on moral
subjects. But this "sense of the beautiful" is not an arbitrary
principle. It is under the guidance of reason; it grows in delicacy and
correctness with the progress of the individual and of society at
large; it has its laws, which are seated in the nature of man; and it
is in the development of these laws that we find the true "standard of
taste."
What, then, is taste, but those internal powers, Active and strong, and
feelingly alive To each fine impulse? a discerning sense Of decent and
sublime, with quick disgust From things deformed, or disarranged, or
gross In species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state,
nor culture, can bestow, But God alone, when first his active hand
Imprints the secret bias of the soul.
Akenside.
Taste of buds, or Taste of goblets (Anat.), the flask-shaped end organs
of taste in the epithelium of the tongue. They are made up of modified
epithelial cells arranged somewhat like leaves in a bud.
Taste"ful (?), a. 1. Having a high relish; savory. "Tasteful herbs."
Pope.
2. Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste;
tasty; as, a tasteful drapery.
— Taste"ful*ly, adv. — Taste"ful*ness, n.
Taste"less, a. 1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.
2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless
age. Orrery.
3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of
drapery.
— Taste"less*ly, adv. — Taste"less*ness, n.
Tast"er (?), n. 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes
food or drink to ascertain its quality.
Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat.
Dryden.
2. That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a
cheese taster, or the like.
3. (Zoöl.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem
of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but
are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.
Tast"i*ly (?), adv. In a tasty manner.
Tast"ing, n. The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste;
the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.
||Tas"to (?), n. [It.] (Mus.) A key or thing touched to produce a tone.
||
||Tasto solo, single touch; — in old music, a direction denoting that
||the notes in the bass over or under which it is written should be
||performed alone, or with no other chords than unisons and octaves.
||
Tast"y (?), a. [Compar. Tastier (?); superl. Tastiest.] 1. Having a
good taste; — applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5.
2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as,
tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
Tat (?), n. [Hind. tt.] Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the
Corchorus olitorius, or jute. [India]
Tat, n. [Hind. tatt&?;.] (Zoöl.) A pony. [India]
Ta*tau"pa (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoöl.) A South American
tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).
Tatch (?), n. [F. tache spot. See Techy.] A spot or stain; also, a
trick. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
Tath (?), obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ta, to take.
Tath, n. [Prov. E.; of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. ta&?; dung, ta&?;a the
grass of a manured pasture, te&?;ja to manure. √58. Cf. Ted.] 1. Dung,
or droppings of cattle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
2. The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings of cattle in a
pasture. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Tath, v. t. To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them
to lie upon it. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Ta*tou" (?), n. [Cf. Tatouay.] (Zoöl.) The giant armadillo (Priodontes
gigas) of tropical South America. It becomes nearly five feet long
including the tail. It is noted for its burrowing powers, feeds largely
upon dead animals, and sometimes invades human graves.
Tat"ou*ay (?), n. [Of Brazilian origin; cf. Pg. tatu, F. tatou.]
(Zoöl.) An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts
of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of
small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and
tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are
very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo.
Tat"ou*hou (?), n. [Cf. Tatouay.] (Zoöl.) The peba.
Tatt (?), v. t. & i. To make (anything) by tatting; to work at tatting;
as, tatted edging.
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||Tat"ta (?), n. [Hind. &?;a&?;&?;, tt.] A bamboo frame or trellis hung
||at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to
||trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters. [India]
||
Tat"ter (?), n. One who makes tatting. Caulfield & S. (Doct. of
Needlework).
Tat"ter (?), n. [Icel. tötur, töttur, pl. tötrar, &?;öttrar; cf. Norw.
totra, pl. totror, LG. taltern tatters. √240.] A rag, or a part torn
and hanging; — chiefly used in the plural.
Tear a passion to tatters, to very rags.
Shak.
Tat"ter, v. t. [p. p. Tattered (?).] To rend or tear into rags; — used
chiefly in the past participle as an adjective.
Where waved the tattered ensigns of Ragfair.
Pope.
Tat`ter*de*mal"ion (?), n. [Tatter + OF. desmaillier to break the
meshes of, to tear: cf. OF. maillon long clothes, swadding clothes, F.
maillot. See Tatter, and Mail armor.] A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin.
L'Estrange.
Tat"ting (?), n. A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a
peculiar stitch.
Tatting shuttle, the shuttle on which the thread used in tatting is
wound.
Tat"tle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tattled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tattling
(?).] [Akin to OE. tateren, LG. tateln, D. tateren to stammer, and
perhaps to E. titter.] 1. To prate; to talk idly; to use many words
with little meaning; to chat.
The tattling quality of age, which is always narrative.
Dryden.
2. To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a talebearer; as, a
tattling girl.
Tat"tle, n. Idle talk or chat; trifling talk; prate.
[They] told the tattle of the day.
Swift.
Tat"tler (?), n. 1. One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells
tales. Jer. Taylor.
2. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers
belonging to the genus Totanus.
The common American species are the greater tattler, or telltale (T.
melanoleucus), the smaller tattler, or lesser yellowlegs (T. flavipes),
the solitary tattler (T. solitarius), and the semipalmated tattler, or
willet. The first two are called also telltale, telltale spine,
telltale tattler, yellowlegs, yellowshanks, and yelper.
Tat"tler*y (?), n. Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.
Tat"tling (?), a. Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales. —
Tat"tling*ly, adv.
Tat*too" (?), n. [Earlier taptoo, D. taptoe; tap a tap, faucet + toe
to, shut (i. e., the taps, or drinking houses, shut from the
soldiers).] (Mil.) A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at
night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their
quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp.
The Devil's tattoo. See under Devil.
Tat*too", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tattooed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tattooing.]
[Of Polynesian origin; cf. New Zealand ta to tattoo, tatu puncturation
(in Otaheite).] To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter,
so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out.
Tat*too", n.; pl. Tattoos (&?;). An indelible mark or figure made by
puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures; —
a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in
ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations,
especially by sailors.
Ta*tu" (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Tatou.
Ta*tu"si*id (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any armadillo of the family Tatusiidæ, of
which the peba and mule armadillo are examples. Also used adjectively.
Tau (?), n. [Gr. tay^ the letter τ (English T).] (Zoöl.) The common
American toadfish; — so called from a marking resembling the Greek
letter tau (τ).
Tau cross. See Illust. 6, of Cross.
Taught (?), a. See Taut. Totten.
Taught, imp. & p. p. of Teach. [AS. imp. thte, p. p. getht.] See Teach.
Taunt (?), a. [Cf. OF. tant so great, F. tant so much, L. tantus of
such size, so great, so much.] (Naut.) Very high or tall; as, a ship
with taunt masts. Totten.
Taunt (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Taunting.]
[Earlier, to tease; probably fr. OF. tanter to tempt, to try, for
tenter. See Tempt.] To reproach with severe or insulting words; to
revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
When I had at my pleasure taunted her.
Shak.
Syn. — To deride; ridicule; mock; jeer; flout; revile. See Deride.
Taunt, n. Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting
invective.
With scoffs, and scorns, and contemelious taunts.
Shak.
With sacrilegious taunt and impious jest.
Prior.
Taunt"er (?), n. One who taunts.
Taunt"ing, a. & n. from Taunt, v.
Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection.
Burke.
Taunt"ing*ly, adv. In a taunting manner.
Taunt"ress (?), n. A woman who taunts.
Taur (?), n. [L. Taurus.] The constellation Taurus. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Tau`ri*cor"nous (?), a. [L. tauricornis; taurus a bull + cornu a horn.]
(Zoöl.) Having horns like those of a bull. Sir T. Browne.
Tau`ri*dor" (?), n. [See Toreador.] A bullfighter; a toreador. Sir W.
Scott.
Tau"ri*form (?), a. [L. tauriformis; taurus a bull + -form: cf. F.
tauriforme.] Having the form of a bull.
Tau"rine (?), a. [L. taurinus, fr. taurus a bull. See Taurus.] (Zoöl.)
Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.
Tau"rine (?), n. [So named because it was discovered in the bile of the
ox. See Taurus.] (Physiol. Chem.) A body occurring in small quantity in
the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in
the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid,
from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It
crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially
characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur, being chemically
amido-isethionic acid, C2H7NSO3.
Tau`ro*cho"late (?), n. (Physiol. Chem.) A salt of taurocholic acid;
as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile.
Tau`ro*chol"ic (?), a. [Taurine + cholic.] (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining
to, or designating, a conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid) composed
of taurine and cholic acid, present abundantly in human bile and in
that of carnivora. It is exceedingly deliquescent, and hence appears
generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water and alcohol.
It has a bitter taste.
{ Tau"ro*col (?), Tau`ro*col"la (?), } n. [NL. taurocolla, fr. Gr.
tayro`kolla; tay^ros a bull + ko`lla glue: cf. F. taurocolle.] Glue
made from a bull's hide.
Tau`ro*ma"chi*an (?), a. [See Tauromachy.] Of or pertaining to
bullfights. — n. A bullfighter.
Tau*rom"a*chy (?), n. [Gr. tayromachi`a; tay^ros bull + ma`chh fight.]
Bullfighting.
||Tau"rus (t"rs), n. [L., akin to Gr. tay^ros, and E. steer. See Steer
||a young ox.] 1. (Astron.) (a) The Bull; the second in order of the
||twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of
||April; — marked thus [] in almanacs. (b) A zodiacal constellation,
||containing the well- known clusters called the Pleiades and the
||Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright
||Aldebaran.
||
2. (Zoöl.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.
Tau*ryl"ic (?), a. [L. taurus a bull + E. phenylic.] (Chem.) Pertaining
to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat cattle, and
probably identical with cresol.
Taut (?), a. [Dan. tæt; akin to E. tight. See Tight.] 1. (Naut.) Tight;
stretched; not slack; — said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.
2. Snug; close; firm; secure.
Taut hand (Naut.), a sailor's term for an officer who is severe in
discipline.
Tau`te*gor"ic*al (?), a. [Gr. &?;, for &?; &?; the same + &?; to speak.
Cf. Allegory.] Expressing the same thing with different words; —
opposed to allegorical. [R.] Coleridge.
Tau"to*chrone (?), n. [Gr. &?;, for &?; &?; the same + &?; time: cf. F.
tautochrone.] (Math.) A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending
along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest
point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as,
an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.
Tau*toch"ro*nous (?), a. (Math.) Occupying the same time; pertaining
to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone.
Tau*tog" (?), n. [The pl. of taut, the American Indian name, translated
by Roger Williams sheep's heads, and written by him tautaúog.] (Zoöl.)
An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the
Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black,
more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also
blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll. [Written also
tautaug.]
Tau`to*log"ic (?), a. Tautological.
Tau`to*log"ic*al (?), a. [Cf. F. tautologique.] Involving tautology;
having the same signification; as, tautological expression. —
Tau`to*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Tautological echo, an echo that repeats the same sound or syllable many
times.
Tau*tol"o*gist (?), n. One who uses tautological words or phrases.
Tau*tol"o*gize (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tautologized (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Tautologizing (?).] To repeat the same thing in different words.
Tau*tol"o*gous (?), a. [Gr. &?;; &?;, for &?; &?; the same + &?; to
speak.] Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological. [R.]
Tooke.
Tau*tol"o*gy (?), n. [L. tautologia, Gr. &?;: cf. F. tautologie.]
(Rhet.) A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless
repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation
of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in
the following lines: —
The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings
on the day.
Addison.
Syn. — Repetition. — Tautology, Repetition. There may be frequent
repetitions (as in legal instruments) which are warranted either by
necessity or convenience; but tautology is always a fault, being a
sameness of expression which adds nothing to the sense or the sound.
Tau`to*mer"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Relating to, or characterized by,
tautomerism.
Tau*tom"er*ism (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?;, for &?; &?; the same + &?; part.]
(Chem.) The condition, quality, or relation of metameric substances, or
their respective derivatives, which are more or less interchangeable,
according as one form or the other is the more stable. It is a special
case of metamerism; thus, the lactam and the lactim compounds exhibit
tautomerism.
{ Tau`to*ou"si*an (?), Tau`to*ou"si*ous (?), } a. [Gr. &?;; &?;, for
&?; &?; the same + &?; being, essence.] Having the same essence; being
identically of the same nature. [R.] Cudworth.
Tau`to*phon"ic*al (?), a. Pertaining to, or characterized by,
tautophony; repeating the same sound.
Tau*toph"o*ny (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?;, for &?; &?; the same + &?; voice.]
Repetition of the same sound.
Tau`to*zon"al (?), a. [Gr. &?;; &?;, for &?; &?; the same + E. zonal.]
(Crystallog.) Belonging to the same zone; as, tautozonal planes.
Tav"ern (?), n. [OE. taverne, F. taverne, from L. taberna a hut, booth,
tavern. Cf. Table, Tabernacle.] A public house where travelers and
other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a
hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell
liquor in small quantities.
Tav"ern*er (?), n. [F. tavernier, L. tabernarius.] One who keeps a
tavern. Chaucer. Camden.
Tav"ern*ing, n. A feasting at taverns. [Obs.] "The misrule of our
tavernings." Bp. Hall.
Tav"ern*man (?), n.; pl. Tavernmen (&?;). The keeper of a tavern; also,
a tippler. [Obs.]
Taw (?), n. Tow. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Taw, v. t. [Cf. Tew to tow, Tow, v. t.] To push; to tug; to tow. [Obs.]
Drayton.
Taw (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tawed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tawing.] [OE.
tawen, tewen, AS. twian to prepare; cf. D. touwen, Goth. twa order,
taujan to do, and E. tool. √64. Cf. 1st Tew, Tow the coarse part of
flax.] 1. To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to
beat; to scourge. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
2. To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids,
for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other
agents, for softening and bleaching them.
Taw, n. [Cf. AS. tw instrument.] 1. A large marble to be played with;
also, a game at marbles.
2. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
[Colloq. U. S.]
Taw"dri*ly (?), adv. In a tawdry manner.
Taw"dri*ness, n. Quality or state of being tawdry.
A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness
of dress.
Richardson.
Taw"dry (?), a. [Compar. Tawdrier (?); superl. Tawdriest.] [Said to be
corrupted from Saint Audrey, or Auldrey, meaning Saint Ethelreda,
implying therefore, originally, bought at the fair of St. Audrey, where
laces and gay toys of all sorts were sold. This fair was held in Isle
Ely, and probably at other places, on the day of the saint, which was
the 17th of October.] 1. Bought at the festival of St. Audrey. [Obs.]
And gird in your waist, For more fineness, with a tawdry lace.
Spenser.
2. Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an
excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry
dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.
He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers.
Spectator.
Taw"dry, n.; pl. Tawdries (&?;). A necklace of a rural fashion, bought
at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general. [Obs.]
Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them tawdries for their
necks.
Drayton.
Taw"er (?), n. One who taws; a dresser of white leather.
Taw"er*y (?), n. A place where skins are tawed.
Taw"ni*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being tawny.
Taw"ny (?), a. [Compar. Tawnier (?); superl. Tawniest.] [F. tanné, p.
p. of tanner to tan. See Tan, v. t. & n. Cf. Tenné.] Of a dull
yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt;
as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion. "A leopard's tawny and
spotted hide." Longfellow.
Taws (?), n. [See Taw to beat.] A leather lash, or other instrument of
punishment, used by a schoolmaster. [Written also tawes, tawis, and
tawse.] [Scot.]
Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn.
Ramsay.
Tax (?), n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to
feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to
touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task, Taste.] 1. A charge, especially a
pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority. Specifically: —
(a) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of
a government.
A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most
rapacious.
Macaulay.
(b) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls,
lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on
carriages, and the like. Taxes are annual or perpetual, direct or
indirect, etc.
(c) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its
expenses.
2. A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or
service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
3. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time
or health.
4. Charge; censure. [Obs.] Clarendon.
5. A lesson to be learned; a task. [Obs.] Johnson.
Tax cart, a spring cart subject to a low tax. [Eng.]
Syn. — Impost; tribute; contribution; duty; toll; rate; assessment;
exaction; custom; demand.
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Tax (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taxed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Taxing.] [Cf.
F. taxer. See Tax, n.] 1. To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes;
to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money
from for the support of government.
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are
taxed by government.
Franklin.
2. (Law) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to
tax the cost of an action in court.
3. To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; — often followed by with,
rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.
I tax you, you elements, with unkindness.
Shak.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
Dryden.
Fear not now that men should tax thine honor.
M. Arnold.
Tax`a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being taxable;
taxableness.
Tax"a*ble (?), a. 1. Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the
assessment of taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable commodities.
2. (Law) That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff
of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs.
— Tax"a*ble*ness, n. — Tax"a*bly, adv.
Tax`as*pid"e*an (?), a. [Gr. ta`xis an arrangement + &?;, &?;, shield.]
(Zoöl.) Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular
and arranged in regular rows; — said of certain birds.
Tax*a"tion (?), n. [F. taxation, L. taxatio a valuing, estimation, from
L. taxare. See Tax.] 1. The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes,
as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a
corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of
revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.
2. (Law) The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost.
3. Tax; sum imposed. [R.] Daniel.
4. Charge; accusation. [Obs.] Shak.
Tax"el (?), n. (Zoöl.) The American badger.
||Tax`e*op"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; (?) + -poda.] (Paleon.)
||An order of extinct Mammalia found in the Tertiary formations.
||
Tax"er (?), n. 1. One who taxes.
2. One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread,
and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed. [Camb.
Univ., Eng.] [Written also taxor.]
Tax"gath`er*er (?), n. One who collects taxes or revenues. —
Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
Tax"i*arch (?), n. [Gr. &?; and &?;; &?; a division of an army, a
brigade (from &?; to arrange, array) + to rule.] (Gr. Antiq.) An
Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army.
Milford.
Tax"i*corn (?), n. [L. taxus a yew + cornu a horn: cf. F. taxicorne.]
(Zoöl.) One of a family of beetles (Taxicornes) whose antennæ are
largest at the tip. Also used adjectively.
Tax`i*der"mic (?), a. [Cf. F. taxidermique.] Of or pertaining to the
art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals.
Tax"i*der`mist (?), n. A person skilled in taxidermy.
Tax"i*der`my (?), n. [Gr. ta`xis an arranging, arrangement (fr.
ta`ssein to arrange) + &?; a skin, from &?; to skin: cf. F. taxidermie.
See Tactics, Tear, v. t.] The art of preparing, preserving, and
mounting the skins of animals so as to represent their natural
appearance, as for cabinets.
Tax"ine (?), n. [L. taxus a yew.] (Chem.) A poisonous alkaloid of
bitter taste extracted from the leaves and seeds of the European yew
(Taxus baccata). Called also taxia.
||Tax"is (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ta`xis a division or arrangement, fr.
||ta`ssein to arrange.] (Surg.) Manipulation applied to a hernial
||tumor, or to an intestinal obstruction, for the purpose of reducing
||it. Dunglison.
||
Tax"less, a. Free from taxation.
Tax*ol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. ta`xis arrangement + -logy.] (Biol.) Same as
Taxonomy.
Tax`o*nom"ic (tks`*nm"k), a. Pertaining to, or involving, taxonomy, or
the laws and principles of classification; classificatory.
Tax*on"o*mist (tks*n"*mst), n. One skilled in taxonomy.
Tax*on"o*my (-m), n. [Gr. ta`xis an arrangement, order + no`mos a law.]
That division of the natural sciences which treats of the
classification of animals and plants; the laws or principles of
classification.
Tax"or (?), n. [NL.] Same as Taxer, n., 2.
Tax"pay`er (?), n. One who is assessed and pays a tax.
Tay"ra (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoöl.) A South American
carnivore (Galera barbara) allied to the grison. The tail is long and
thick. The length, including the tail, is about three feet. [Written
also taira.]
Ta"zel (?), n. (Bot.) The teasel. [Obs.]
||Taz"za (?), n. [It.] An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat,
||shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles.
||
T" cart` (?). See under T.
||Tcha*wy"tcha (?), n. (Zoöl.) The quinnat salmon. [Local, U. S.]
||
Tea (t), n. [Chin. tsh, Prov. Chin. te: cf. F. thé.] 1. The prepared
leaves of a shrub, or small tree (Thea, or Camellia, Chinensis). The
shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to some extent into
some other countries.
Teas are classed as green or black, according to their color or
appearance, the kinds being distinguished also by various other
characteristic differences, as of taste, odor, and the like. The color,
flavor, and quality are dependent upon the treatment which the leaves
receive after being gathered. The leaves for green tea are heated, or
roasted slightly, in shallow pans over a wood fire, almost immediately
after being gathered, after which they are rolled with the hands upon a
table, to free them from a portion of their moisture, and to twist
them, and are then quickly dried. Those intended for black tea are
spread out in the air for some time after being gathered, and then
tossed about with the hands until they become soft and flaccid, when
they are roasted for a few minutes, and rolled, and having then been
exposed to the air for a few hours in a soft and moist state, are
finally dried slowly over a charcoal fire. The operation of roasting
and rolling is sometimes repeated several times, until the leaves have
become of the proper color. The principal sorts of green tea are
Twankay, the poorest kind; Hyson skin, the refuse of Hyson; Hyson,
Imperial, and Gunpowder, fine varieties; and Young Hyson, a choice kind
made from young leaves gathered early in the spring. Those of black tea
are Bohea, the poorest kind; Congou; Oolong; Souchong, one of the
finest varieties; and Pekoe, a fine-flavored kind, made chiefly from
young spring buds. See Bohea, Congou, Gunpowder tea, under Gunpowder,
Hyson, Oolong, and Souchong. K. Johnson. Tomlinson.
"No knowledge of . . . [tea] appears to have reached Europe till after
the establishment of intercourse between Portugal and China in 1517.
The Portuguese, however, did little towards the introduction of the
herb into Europe, and it was not till the Dutch established themselves
at Bantam early in 17th century, that these adventurers learned from
the Chinese the habit of tea drinking, and brought it to Europe."
Encyc. Brit.
2. A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a
common beverage.
3. Any infusion or decoction, especially when made of the dried leaves
of plants; as, sage tea; chamomile tea; catnip tea.
4. The evening meal, at which tea is usually served; supper.
Arabian tea, the leaves of Catha edulis; also (Bot.), the plant itself.
See Kat. — Assam tea, tea grown in Assam, in India, originally brought
there from China about the year 1850. — Australian, or Botany Bay, tea
(Bot.), a woody clambing plant (Smilax glycyphylla). — Brazilian tea.
(a) The dried leaves of Lantana pseodothea, used in Brazil as a
substitute for tea. (b) The dried leaves of Stachytarpheta mutabilis,
used for adulterating tea, and also, in Austria, for preparing a
beverage. — Labrador tea. (Bot.) See under Labrador. — New Jersey tea
(Bot.), an American shrub, the leaves of which were formerly used as a
substitute for tea; redroot. See Redroot. — New Zealand tea. (Bot.) See
under New Zealand. — Oswego tea. (Bot.) See Oswego tea. — Paraguay tea,
mate. See 1st Mate. — Tea board, a board or tray for holding a tea set.
— Tea bug (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect which injures the tea plant by
sucking the juice of the tender leaves. — Tea caddy, a small box for
holding tea. — Tea chest, a small, square wooden case, usually lined
with sheet lead or tin, in which tea is imported from China. — Tea clam
(Zoöl.), a small quahaug. [Local, U. S.] — Tea garden, a public garden
where tea and other refreshments are served. — Tea plant (Bot.), any
plant, the leaves of which are used in making a beverage by infusion;
specifically, Thea Chinensis, from which the tea of commerce is
obtained. — Tea rose (Bot.), a delicate and graceful variety of the
rose (Rosa Indica, var. odorata), introduced from China, and so named
from its scent. Many varieties are now cultivated. — Tea service, the
appurtenances or utensils required for a tea table, — when of silver,
usually comprising only the teapot, milk pitcher, and sugar dish. — Tea
set, a tea service. — Tea table, a table on which tea furniture is set,
or at which tea is drunk. — Tea taster, one who tests or ascertains the
quality of tea by tasting. — Tea tree (Bot.), the tea plant of China.
See Tea plant, above. — Tea urn, a vessel generally in the form of an
urn or vase, for supplying hot water for steeping, or infusing, tea.
Tea, v. i. To take or drink tea. [Colloq.]
Tea"ber`ry (?), n. (Bot.) The checkerberry.
Teach (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taught (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Teaching.]
[OE. techen, imp. taughte, tahte, AS. t&?;cean, imp. t&?;hte, to show,
teach, akin to tcn token. See Token.] 1. To impart the knowledge of; to
give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown,
or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit
impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to
teach morals.
If some men teach wicked things, it must be that others should practice
them.
South.
2. To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the
studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of
studies; as, to teach a child or a class. "He taught his disciples."
Mark ix. 31.
The village master taught his little school.
Goldsmith.
3. To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish.
I shall myself to herbs teach you.
Chaucer.
They have taught their tongue to speak lies.
Jer. ix. 5.
This verb is often used with two objects, one of the person, the other
of the thing; as, he taught me Latin grammar. In the passive
construction, either of these objects may be retained in the objective
case, while the other becomes the subject; as, I was taught Latin
grammar by him; Latin grammar was taught me by him.
Syn. — To instruct; inform; inculcate; tell; guide; counsel; admonish.
See the Note under Learn.
Teach (?), v. i. To give instruction; to follow the business, or to
perform the duties, of a preceptor.
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.
Chaucer.
The priests thereof teach for hire.
Micah iii. 11.
Teach"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also,
willing to receive instruction; docile.
We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased, and teachable, to learn our
religion from the Word of God.
I. Watts.
Teach"a*ble*ness, n. Willingness to be taught.
Teache (?), n. [Cf. Ir. teaghaim, Gael. teasaich, to heat.] (Sugar
Works) One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated
in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series. Ure.
Teach"er (?), n. 1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or
occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.
2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the
gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
The teachers in all the churches assembled.
Sir W. Raleigh.
Teach"ing, n. The act or business of instructing; also, that which is
taught; instruction.
Syn. — Education; instruction; breeding. See Education.
Teach"less, a. Not teachable. [R.] Shelley.
Tea"cup` (?), n. A small cup from which to drink tea.
Tea"cup`ful (?), n.; pl. Teacupfuls (&?;). As much as a teacup can
hold; enough to fill a teacup.
{ Tead, Teade } (?), n. [L. taeda, teda.] A torch. [Obs.] "A burning
teade." Spenser.
Tea"gle (?), n. [Cf. Tackle.] A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a
crane; a lift. [Prov. Eng.]
Teague (?), n. [Cf. W. taeog, taeawg, adj., rustic, rude, n., a vassal,
villain, pleasant, clown, Ir. th&?;atach rural, boorish.] An Irishman;
— a term used in contempt. Johnson.
Teak (?), n. [Malayalm tekku.] (Bot.) A tree of East Indies (Tectona
grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly
valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the
tree. [Written also teek.]
African teak, a tree (Oldfieldia Africana) of Sierra Leone; also, its
very heavy and durable wood; — called also African oak. — New Zeland
teak, a large tree (Vitex littoralis) of New Zeland; also, its hard,
durable timber.
Tea"ket`tle (?), n. A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea,
coffee, etc.
Teal (?), n. [OE. tele; akin to D. teling a generation, production,
teal, telen to breed, produce, and E. till to cultivate. The English
word probably once meant, a brood or flock. See Till to cultivate.]
(Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the
genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is
handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the
wings.
The common European teal (Anas crecca) and the European blue-winged
teal, or garganey (A. querquedula or A. circia), are well-known
species. In America the blue-winged teal (A. discors), the green-winged
teal (A. Carolinensis), and the cinnamon teal (A. cynaoptera) are
common species, valued as game birds. See Garganey.
Goose teal, a goslet. See Goslet. — Teal duck, the common European
teal.
Team (?), n. [OE. tem, team, AS. teám, offspring, progeny, race of
descendants, family; akin to D. toom a bridle, LG. toom progeny, team,
bridle, G. zaum a bridle, zeugen to beget, Icel. taumr to rein, bridle,
Dan. tömme, Sw. töm, and also to E. tow to drag, tug to draw. √64. See
Tug, and cf. Teem to bear.] 1. A group of young animals, especially of
young ducks; a brood; a litter.
A team of ducklings about her.
Holland.
2. Hence, a number of animals moving together.
A long team of snowy swans on high.
Dryden.
3. Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same
vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like. "A team
of dolphins." Spenser.
To take his team and till the earth.
Piers Plowman.
It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of
cattle could be procured from some neighboring farm to tug them out of
the slough.
Macaulay.
4. A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang;
especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a
match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.
5. (Zoöl.) A flock of wild ducks.
6. (O. Eng. Law) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a
lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his
bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is,
goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto. Burrill.
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Team (?), v. i. To engage in the occupation of driving a team of
horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods,
etc.; to be a teamster.
Team, v. t. To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber. [R.]
Thoreau.
Teamed (?), a. Yoked in, or as in, a team. [Obs.]
Let their teamed fishes softly swim.
Spenser.
Team"ing (?), n. 1. The act or occupation of driving a team, or of
hauling or carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team.
2. (Manuf.) Contract work. [R.] Knight.
Team"ster (?), n. One who drives a team.
Team"work` (?), n. Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done
by personal labor.
Tea"pot` (?), n. A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from
which it is poured into teacups.
Tea"poy (?), n. [Hind. tipi; Hind. tin there + Per. pe foot.] An
ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding
tea.
Tear (tr), n. [AS. teár; akin to G. zärhe, OHG. zahar, OFries. & Icel.
tr, Sw. tår, Dan. taare, Goth. tagr, OIr. dr, W. dagr, OW. dacr, L.
lacrima, lacruma, for older dacruma, Gr. da`kry, da`kryon, da`kryma.
√59. Cf. Lachrymose.] 1. (Physiol.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid
secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and
diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and
facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the
lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or
other causes, it overflows the lids.
And yet for thee ne wept she never a tear.
Chaucer.
2. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a
solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
Let Araby extol her happy coast, Her fragrant flowers, her trees with
precious tears.
Dryden.
3. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. [R.]
"Some melodous tear." Milton.
Tear is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds;
as, tear-distilling, tear-drop, tear- filled, tear-stained, and the
like.
Tear (târ), v. t. [imp. Tore (tr), ((Obs. Tare) (târ); p. p. Torn
(trn); p. pr. & vb. n. Tearing.] [OE. teren, AS. teran; akin to OS.
farterian to destroy, D. teren to consume, G. zerren to pull, to tear,
zehren to consume, Icel. tæra, Goth. gataíran to destroy, Lith. dirti
to flay, Russ. drate to pull, to tear, Gr. de`rein to flay, Skr
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