| 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 sectsect262264 and also sectsect153 156 169 172 176 178180 |
| Ta: | To take |
| Taas: | A heap See Tas |
| Tab: | The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle |
| Tabacco: | Tobacco |
| Tabanus: | A genus of blood sucking flies including the horseflies |
| Tabard: | 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 |
| Tabarder: | One who wears a tabard |
| Tabaret: | A stout silk having satin stripes used for furniture |
| Tabascosauce: | A kind of very pungent sauce made from red peppers |
| Tabasheer: | 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 |
| Tabbinet: | A fabric like poplin with a watered surface |
| Tabby: | A kind of waved silk usually called watered silk manufactured like taffeta but thicker and stronger The watering is given to it by calendering |
| Tabby: | Having a wavy or watered appearance as a tabby waistcoat |
| Tabby: | To water to cause to look wavy by the process of calendering to calender as to tabby silk mohair ribbon etc |
| Tabefaction: | A wasting away a gradual losing of flesh by disease |
| Tabefy: | To cause to waste gradually to emaciate |
| Tabellion: | A secretary or notary under the Roman empire also a similar officer in France during the old monarchy |
| Taber: | Same as Tabor |
| Taberd: | See Tabard |
| Tabernacle: | A slightly built or temporary habitation especially a tent |
| Tabernacle: | To dwell or reside for a time to be temporary housed |
| Tabernacular: | Of or pertaining to a tabernacle especially the Jewish tabernacle |
| Tabes: | Progressive emaciation of the body accompanied with hectic fever with no wellmarked local symptoms |
| Tabescent: | Withering or wasting away |
| Tabetic: | Of or pertaining to tabes of the nature of tabes affected with tabes tabid |
| Tabid: | Affected by tabes tabetic |
| Tabific: | Producing tabes wasting tabefying |
| Tabinet: | See Tabbinet |
| Tablature: | 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 |
| Table: | A smooth flat surface like the side of a board a thin flat smooth piece of anything a slab |
| Table: | To form into a table or catalogue to tabulate as to table fines |
| Table: | To live at the table of another to board to eat |
| Tableau: | A striking and vivid representation a picture |
| Tableauvivant: | Same as Tableau n 2 |
| Tablebook: | A tablet a notebook |
| Tablecloth: | A cloth for covering a table especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes etc are set on for meals |
| Tabledhte: | A common table for guests at a hotel an ordinary |
| Tableland: | A broad level elevated area of land a plateau |
| Tableman: | A man at draughts a piece used in playing games at tables See Table n 10 |
| Tablement: | A table |
| Tabler: | One who boards |
| Tablespoon: | A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table distinguished from teaspoon dessert spoon etc |
| Tablespoonful: | 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 |
| Tablet: | A small table or flat surface |
| Tableware: | Ware or articles collectively for use during meals including for example dishes plates bowls knives forks and spoons |
| Tablework: | Typesetting of tabular nmatter or the type matter set in tabular form |
| Tabling: | A forming into tables a setting down in order |
| Tabloid: | A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals or of food etc |
| Tabloid: | Compressed or condensed as into a tabloid administrated in or as in tabloids or small condensed bits as a tabloid form of imparting information |
| Taboo: | 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 |
| Taboo: | 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 |
| Taboo: | Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia New Zealand etc and forbidden to certain persons or uses hence prohibited under severe penalties interdicted as food places words customs etc may be taboo |
| Tabor: | A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife both being played by the same person |
| Tabor: | To play on a tabor or little drum |
| Tabor: | To make a sound with a tabor |
| Taborer: | One who plays on the tabor |
| Taboret: | A small tabor |
| Taborine: | A small shallow drum a tabor |
| Taborite: | 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 |
| Tabour: | See Tabor |
| Tabouret: | Same as Taboret |
| Tabrere: | A taborer |
| Tabret: | A taboret |
| Tabu: | See Taboo |
| Tabula: | A table a tablet |
| Tabular: | Having the form of or pertaining to a table in any of the uses of the word |
| Tabularization: | The act of tabularizing or the state of being tabularized formation into tables tabulation |
| Tabularize: | To tabulate |
| Tabulata: | An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples |
| Tabulate: | To form into a table or tables to reduce to tables or synopses |
| Tabulation: | The act of forming into a table or tables as the tabulation of statistics |
| Tac: | A kind of customary payment by a tenant a word used in old records |
| Tacamahac: | A bitter balsamic resin obtained from tropical American trees of the genus Elaphrium Elaphrium tomentosum and Elaphrium Tacamahaca and also from East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum also the resinous exhudation of the balsam poplar |
| Tacaud: | The bib or whiting pout |
| Tacautac: | The parry which is connected with a riposte also a series of quick attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point |
| Tace: | The cross or church of St Antony See Illust 6 under Cross n |
| Tace: | See Tasse |
| Tacet: | It is silent a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement |
| Tache: | Something used for taking hold or holding a catch a loop a button |
| Tache: | A spot stain or blemish |
| Tachhydrite: | 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 |
| Tachina: | Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied genera Their larv are external parasites of other insects |
| Tachistoscope: | An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures It is used in studying the range of attention or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression |
| Tachograph: | A recording or registering tachometer also its autographic record |
| Tachometer: | An instrument for measuring the velocity or indicating changes in the velocity of a moving body or substance |
| Tachometry: | Measurement by a tachometer the science or use of tachometers |
| Tachydidaxy: | A short or rapid method of instructing |
| Tachyglossa: | A division of monotremes which comprises the spiny anteaters of Australia and New Guinea See Illust under Echidna |
| Tachygraph: | An example of tachygraphy esp an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript |
| Tachygrapher: | One who writes shorthand a stenographer esp an ancient Greek or Roman notary |
| Tachygraphic: | Of or pertaining to tachygraphy written in shorthand |
| Tachygraphy: | The art or practice of rapid writing shorthand writing stenography |
| Tachylyte: | A vitreous form of basalt so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible |
| Tachymeter: | An instrument esp a transit or theodolite with stadia wires for determining quickly the distances bearings and elevations of distant objects |
| Tachymetry: | The science or use of the tachymeter |
| Tachyscope: | An early form of animatedpicture machine devised in 1889 by Otto Ansch81tz of Berlin in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel |
| Tacit: | Done or made in silence implied but not expressed silent as tacit consent is consent by silence or by not interposing an objection |
| Taciturn: | Habitually silent not given to converse not apt to talk or speak |
| Taciturnity: | Habitual silence or reserve in speaking |
| Tack: | A stain a tache |
| Tack: | A small short sharppointed nail usually having a broad flat head |
| Tack: | To fasten or attach |
| Tack: | 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 |
| Tacker: | One who tacks |
| Tacket: | A small broadheaded nail |
| Tackey: | See Tacky |
| Tacking: | A union of securities given at different times all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim |
| Tackle: | Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights consisting of a rope and pulley blocks sometimes the rope and attachments as distinct from the block in which case the full appratus is referred to as a block and tackle |
| tackle: | An act of tackling4 as brought down by a tackle by a lineman |
| Tackle: | To supply with tackle |
| Tackled: | Made of ropes tacked together |
| Tackling: | Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel as cordage sails etc |
| Tacksman: | One who holds a tack or lease from another a tenant or lessee |
| Tacky: | Sticky adhesive raw said of paint varnish etc when not well dried |
| Tacky: | Dowdy shabby or neglected in appearance unkempt |
| Tacky: | An illconditioned illfed or neglected horse also a person in a like condition |
| Taconic: | 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: | The sense of touch feeling |
| Tactable: | Capable of being touched tangible |
| Tactful: | Full of tact characterized by a discerning sense of what is right proper or judicious |
| Tactic: | Of or pertaining to military or naval tactics hence pertaining to or characterized by planning or maneuvering for the short term contrasted with strategic planning for the long term |
| Tactic: | See Tactics |
| Tactician: | One versed in tactics hence a skillful maneuverer an adroit manager |
| Tactics: | 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 |
| 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 |
| Tactility: | The quality or state of being tactile perceptibility by touch tangibleness |
| Taction: | The act of touching touch contact tangency |
| Tactless: | Destitute of tact |
| Tactual: | Of or pertaining to the sense or the organs of touch derived from touch |
| Tadpole: | 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 |
| Tdium: | See Tedium |
| Tael: | 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 |
| Taen: | p p of Ta to take or a contraction of Taken |
| Tnia: | A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man See Tapeworm |
| Tniacide: | A remedy to destroy tapeworms |
| Tniada: | Same as Tnioidea |
| Tniafuge: | A remedy to expel tapeworms |
| Tniasis: | Ill health due to tnia or tapeworms |
| Tniata: | A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long ribbonlike body The Venuss girdle is the most familiar example |
| Tnidium: | The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the trache of insects See Illust of Trachea |
| Tnioglossa: | 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 freshwater |
| Tnioglossate: | Of or pertaining to the Tnioglossa |
| Tnioid: | Ribbonlike shaped like a ribbon |
| Tnioidea: | The division of cestode worms which comprises the tapeworms See Tapeworm |
| Tniola: | One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medus |
| Tniosomi: | An order of fishes remarkable for their long and compressed form The ribbon fishes are examples See Ribbon fish under Ribbon |
| Tafferer: | See Taffrail |
| Taffeta: | 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 |
| Taffrail: | The upper part of a ships stern which is flat like a table on the top and sometimes ornamented with carved work the rail around a ships stern |
| Taffy: | A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans |
| Tafia: | A variety of rum |
| Tag: | Any slight appendage as to an article of dress something slight hanging loosely specifically a direction card or label |
| Tag: | To fit with or as with a tag or tags |
| Tag: | To follow closely as it were an appendage often with after as to tag after a person |
| Tag: | A childs play in which one runs after and touches another and then runs away to avoid being touched |
| Tagal: | One of a Malayan race mainly of central Luzon next to the Visayans the most numerous of the native peoples of the Philippines Nearly all are Christians and many are highly educated |
| Tagalog: | Any member of a certain tribe which is one of the leading and most civilized of those native of the Philippine Islands |
| Tagbelt: | Same as Tagsore |
| Tagday: | A day on which contributions to some public or private charity or fund are solicited promiscuously on the street and tags given to contributors to wear as an evidence of their having contributed Such solicitation is now subject to legal restriction in various places |
| Tagger: | One who or that which appends or joins one thing to another |
| Taglet: | A little tag |
| Taglia: | A peculiar combination of pulleys |
| Tagliacotain: | Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi a Venetian surgeon as the Tagliacotian operation a method of rhinoplasty described by him |
| Taglioni: | A kind of outer coat or overcoat said to be so named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers |
| Taglock: | An entangled lock as of hair or wool |
| Tagnicate: | The whitelipped peccary |
| Tagrag: | The lowest class of people the rabble Cf Rag tag and bobtail under Bobtail |
| Tagsale: | A sale of usually used items such as furniture clothing household items or bricabrac conducted by one or a small group of individuals at a location which is not a normal retail establishment |
| Tagsore: | Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces called also tagbelt |
| Tagtail: | A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored |
| Taguan: | A large flying squirrel Pteromys petuarista Its body becomes two feet long with a large bushy tail nearly as long |
| Taguicati: | The whitelipped peccary |
| Taha: | The African rufousnecked weaver bird Hyphantornis texor |
| Tahaleb: | A fox Vulpes Niloticus of Northern Africa |
| Tahitian: | Of or pertaining to Tahiti an island in the Pacific Ocean |
| Tahr: | Same as Thar |
| Tai: | Designating or pertaining to the chief linguistic stock of IndoChina including the peoples of Siamese and Shan speech It includes the Thai language |
| Tai: | A member of one of the tribes of the Tai stock |
| Tail: | Limitation abridgment |
| Tail: | Limited abridged reduced curtailed as estate tail |
| Tail: | The terminal and usually flexible posterior appendage of an animal |
| Tail: | To follow or hang to like a tail to be attached closely to as that which can not be evaded |
| Tail: | To hold by the end said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support with in or into |
| Tailage: | See Tallage |
| Tailbay: | 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 Casebay |
| Tailblock: | A block with a tail See Tail 9 |
| Tailboard: | 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: | Having a tail having such a tail or so many tails chiefly used in composition as bobtailed longtailed etc |
| Tailing: | The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall |
| Taille: | A tally an account scored on a piece of wood |
| Tailless: | Having no tail |
| Taillie: | Same as Tailzie |
| Tailor: | One whose occupation is to cut out and make mens garments also one who cuts out and makes ladies outer garments |
| Tailor: | To practice making mens clothes to follow the business of a tailor |
| Tailoress: | A female tailor |
| Tailoring: | The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress |
| Tailormade: | Made by a tailor or according to a tailors fashion said specif of womens garments made with certain closeness of fit simplicity of ornament etc |
| Tailpiece: | A piece at the end an appendage |
| Tailpin: | The center in the spindle of a turning lathe |
| Tailrace: | See Race n 6 |
| Tailstock: | The sliding block or support in a lathe which carries the dead spindle or adjustable center The headstock supports the live spindle |
| Tailwater: | Water in a tailrace |
| Tailzie: | An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off and an arbitrary one substituted |
| Tain: | Thin tin plate also tin foil for mirrors |
| Taint: | A thrust with a lance which fails of its intended effect |
| Taint: | To thrust ineffectually with a lance |
| Taint: | To injure as a lance without breaking it also to break as a lance but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner |
| Taint: | 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 |
| Taint: | To be infected or corrupted to be touched with something corrupting |
| Taint: | Tincture hue color tinge |
| Taint: | Aphetic form of Attaint |
| Taintless: | Free from taint or infection pure |
| Taintlessly: | In a taintless manner |
| Tainture: | Taint tinge difilement stain spot |
| Taintworm: | A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva |
| Taiping: | Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one HungSiuChuen a halfreligious halfpolitical enthusiast attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the Taiping rebellion incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864 |
| Taira: | Same as Tayra |
| Tairn: | See Tarn |
| Tait: | 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 |
| Tajau: | The common or collared peccary |
| TajMahal: | A marble mausoleum built at Agra India by the Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife In beauty of design and rich decorative detail it is one of the best examples of Saracenic architecture and specifically of Mogul architecture |
| Take: | Taken |
| Take: | In an active sense To lay hold of to seize with the hands or otherwise to grasp to get into ones hold or possession to procure to seize and carry away to convey |
| Take: | 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 |
| Take: | That which is taken such as the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch or the amouont of money collected during one event as the boxoffice take |
| Takein: | Imposition fraud |
| Taken: | p p of Take |
| Takeoff: | An imitation especially in the way of caricature used with of or on as the comedian did a hilarious takeoff on the president |
| Takeoff: | to begin a leap from a surface or a flight into the air especially of a bird or an airplane to leave the ground and begin to fly as flight CA123 took off on schedule at 300 PM |
| Takeoff: | To remove as from the surface or outside to remove from the top of anything as to take off a load to take off ones hat coat or other article of clothing to take off a coat of paint from a surface |
| takeover: | The acquisition of ownership of one company by another company usually by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock or by exchanging stock of the purchasing company for that of the purchased company It is a hostile takeover if the management of the company being taken over is opposed to the deal A hostile takeover is sometimes organized by a corporate raider |
| Taker: | One who takes or receives one who catches or apprehends |
| taketheheat: | To be assigned or to accept the blame for some misdeed as Mary broke the vase but she acted innocent and young Johnny had to take the heat |
| Takeup: | 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 |
| Taking: | Apt to take alluring attracting |
| Taking: | The act of gaining possession a seizing seizure apprehension |
| Takingoff: | Removal murder See To take off c under Take v t |
| Talapoin: | A small African monkey Cercopithecus talapoin or Miopithecus talapoin called also melarhine |
| Talapoin: | A Buddhist monk or priest |
| Talaria: | Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury |
| Talbot: | A sort of dog noted for quick scent and eager pursuit of game |
| Talbotype: | Same as Calotype |
| Talc: | 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 |
| Talcose: | Of or pertaining to talc composed of or resembling talc |
| Talcum: | Same as Talc |
| Tale: | See Tael |
| Tale: | That which is told an oral relation or recital any rehearsal of what has occured narrative discourse statement history story |
| Tale: | To tell stories |
| Talebearer: | One who officiously tells tales one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence scandal etc and makes mischief |
| Talebearing: | Telling tales officiously |
| Talebearing: | The act of informing officiously communication of sectrts scandal etc maliciously |
| Taled: | A kind of quadrangular piece of cloth put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues |
| Taleful: | Full of stories |
| Talegalla: | A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey See Brush turkey |
| Talent: | Among the ancient Greeks a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 min or 6000 drachm The Attic talent as a weight was about 57 lbs avoirdupois as a denomination of silver money its value was 9c243 15s sterling or about 1180 |
| Talented: | Furnished with talents possessing skill or talent mentally gifted |
| Tales: | 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 |
| Talesman: | A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded |
| Taleteller: | One who tells tales or stories especially in a mischievous or officious manner a talebearer a telltale a tattler |
| Talewise: | In a way of a tale or story |
| Taliacotian: | See Tagliacotian |
| Taliation: | Retaliation |
| Talion: | Retaliation |
| Talipes: | The deformity called clubfoot See Clubfoot |
| Talipot: | 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 fanshaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions and when cut into strips as a substitute for writing paper |
| Talisman: | 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 |
| Talismanic: | Of or pertaining to a talisman having the properties of a talisman or preservative against evils by occult influence magical |
| Talk: | To utter words esp to converse familiarly to speak as in familiar discourse when two or more persons interchange thoughts |
| Talk: | To speak freely to use for conversing or communicating as to talk French |
| Talk: | 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 |
| Talkative: | Given to much talking |
| Talker: | One who talks especially one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably a conversationist |
| Talking: | That talks able to utter words as a talking parrot |
| Tall: | 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 |
| Tallage: | A certain rate or tax paid by barons knights and inferior tenants toward the public expenses |
| Tallage: | To lay an impost upon to cause to pay tallage |
| Tallboy: | A kind of longstemmed wineglass or cup |
| Tallier: | One who keeps tally |
| Tallis: | Same as Tallith |
| Tallith: | An undergarment worn by orthodox Jews covering the chest and the upper part of the back It has an opening for the head and has tassels called zizith on its four corners |
| Tallness: | The quality or state of being tall height of stature |
| Tallow: | The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting |
| Tallow: | To grease or smear with tallow |
| Tallower: | An animal which produces tallow |
| Tallowface: | One who has a sickly pale complexion |
| Tallowfaced: | Having a sickly complexion pale |
| Tallowing: | The act or art of causing animals to produce tallow also the property in animals of producing tallow |
| Tallowish: | Having the qualities of tallow |
| Tallowy: | Of the nature of tallow resembling tallow greasy |
| Tallwood: | Firewood cut into billets of a certain length |
| Tally: | 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 |
| Tally: | To score with correspondent notches hence to make to correspond to cause to fit or suit |
| Tally: | To be fitted to suit to correspond to match |
| Tally: | Stoutly with spirit |
| Tallyho: | The huntsmans cry to incite or urge on his hounds |
| Tallyman: | One who keeps the tally or marks the sticks |
| Talma: | A kind of large cape or short full cloak forming part of the dress of ladies |
| Talmud: | The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch |
| Talmudic: | Of or pertaining to the Talmud contained in the Talmud as Talmudic Greek Talmudical phrases |
| Talmudism: | The teachings of the Talmud or adherence to them |
| Talmudist: | One versed in the Talmud one who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud |
| Talmudistic: | Resembling the Talmud Talmudic |
| Talon: | The claw of a predaceous bird or animal especially the claw of a bird of prey |
| Talook: | 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 |
| Talookdar: | A proprietor of a talook |
| Talpa: | A genus of small insectivores including the common European mole |
| Talus: | The astragalus |
| Talus: | A slope the inclination of the face of a work |
| Tamability: | The quality or state of being tamable tamableness |
| Tamable: | Capable of being tamed subdued or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness |
| Tamale: | A Mexican dish made of crushed corn cornmeal mixed with minced meat seasoned with red pepper dipped in oil and steamed |
| Tamandu: | A small anteater Tamandua tetradactyla native of the tropical parts of South America |
| Tamanoir: | The antbear |
| Tamarack: | The American larch also the larch of Oregon and British Columbia Larix occidentalis See Hackmatack and Larch |
| Tamaric: | A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk or perhaps some kind of heath |
| Tamarin: | Any one of several species of small squirrellike South American monkeys of the genus Midas especially Midas ursulus |
| Tamarind: | 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 widespreading branches the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches The leaves are small and finely pinnated |
| Tamarisk: | 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 Tamarix mannifera is the source of one kind of manna |
| Tambac: | See Tombac |
| Tambour: | A kind of small flat drum a tambourine |
| Tambour: | To embroider on a tambour |
| Tamboura: | A stringed musical instrument resembling a lute but lacking frets with a small round body and a long neck used to produce an accompaniment for singing called also tambur tambour and tampur |
| Tambourin: | A tambourine |
| Tambourine: | A small drum especially a shallow drum with only one skin played on with the hand and having bells at the sides a timbrel |
| Tambourine: | A South American wild dove Tympanistria tympanistria mostly white with blacktiped wings and tail Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous |
| Tambreet: | The duck mole |
| Tamburin: | See Tambourine |
| Tame: | To broach or enter upon to taste as a liquor to divide to distribute to deal out |
| Tame: | Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness accustomed to man domesticated domestic as a tame deer a tame bird |
| Tame: | To reduce from a wild to a domestic state to make gentle and familiar to reclaim to domesticate as to tame a wild beast |
| Tameable: | Tamable |
| Tameless: | Incapable of being tamed wild untamed untamable |
| Tamely: | In a tame manner |
| Tameness: | The quality or state of being tame |
| Tamer: | One who tames or subdues |
| Tamerlane: | A Tatar conquerer also called Timur or Timour tTimur Bey also TimurLeng Timur the Lame which was corrupted to Tamerlane He was born in Central Asia 1333 died 1405 Though he claimed descent from Jenghiz Khan it is believed that he was in fact descended from a follower of the Khan He became a ruler about 1370 of a realm whose capital was Samarkand conquered Persia Central Asia and in 1398 a great part of India including Delhi waged war with the Turkish Sultan Bajazet I Beyazid whom he defeated at Ancyra in 1402 and took prisoner and died while preparing to invade China He is the Tamerlaine of the plays |
| Tamias: | A genus of ground squirrels including the chipmunk |
| Tamil: | Of or pertaining to the Tamils or to their language |
| Tamil: | One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India |
| Tamilian: | Tamil |
| Tamine: | A kind of woolen cloth tammy |
| Tamis: | A sieve or strainer made of a kind of woolen cloth |
| Tamkin: | A tampion |
| Tammy: | A kind of woolen or woolen and cotton cloth often highly glazed used for curtains sieves strainers etc |
| Tamoshanter: | A kind of Scotch cap of wool worsted or the like having a round flattish top much wider than the band which fits the head and usually having a tassel in the center |
| Tamoxifen: | a chemical compound C26H29NO which is nonsteroidal but physiogically active as an estrogen antagonist It is used to treat postmenopausal breast cancer Chemically it is 1pdimethylaminoethoxyphenyltrans12diphenylbut1ene It can be obtained as a white crystalline powder |
| Tamp: | 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 |
| Tampan: | A venomous South African tick |
| Tampeon: | See Tampion |
| Tamper: | One who tamps specifically one who prepares for blasting by filling the hole in which the charge is placed |
| Tamper: | To meddle to be busy to try little experiments as to tamper with a disease |
| Tamperer: | One who tampers one who deals unfairly |
| Tampicofiber: | A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name |
| Tamping: | 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 |
| Tampion: | A wooden stopper or plug as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance when not in use |
| Tampoe: | The edible fruit of an East Indian tree Baccaurea Malayana of the Spurge family It somewhat resembles an apple |
| Tampon: | A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage absorb secretions as from menstruation or for the application of medicine |
| Tampon: | To plug with a tampon |
| Tampoon: | The stopper of a barrel a bung |
| Tamtam: | A kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries called also tomtom |
| Tamul: | Tamil |
| Tamworth: | One of a longestablished English breed of large pigs They are red often spotted with black with a long snout and erect or forwardly pointed ears and are valued as bacon producers |
| Tan: | See Picul |
| Tan: | 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 |
| Tan: | Of the color of tan yellowishbrown |
| Tan: | 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 |
| Tan: | To get or become tanned |
| Tana: | Same as Banxring |
| Tanager: | Any one of numerous species of brightcolored 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 |
| Tanagrine: | Of or pertaining to the tanagers |
| Tanagroid: | Tanagrine |
| Tanak: | a term used among Jews for the Hebrew Bible the Old Testament |
| Tanate: | An Asiatic wild dog Canis procyonoides native of Japan and adjacent countries It has a short bushy tail Called also raccoon dog |
| Tandem: | One after another said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another instead of abreast |
| Tandem: | A team of horses harnessed one before the other |
| Tandemcart: | A kind of twowheeled vehicle with seats back to back the front one somewhat elevated |
| Tandemengine: | A steam engine having two or more steam cylinders in line with a common piston rod |
| Tandemsystem: | same as Cascade system |
| Tang: | A coarse blackish seaweed Fuscus nodosus |
| Tang: | 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 |
| Tang: | A sharp twanging sound an unpleasant tone a twang |
| Tang: | A dynasty in Chinese history from a d 618 to 905 distinguished by the founding of the Imperial Academy the Hanlin by the invention of printing and as marking a golden age of literature |
| Tang: | To cause to ring or sound loudly to ring |
| Tang: | To make a ringing sound to ring |
| Tangalung: | An East Indian civet Viverra tangalunga |
| Tangelo: | A hybrid between the tangerine orange and the grapefruit or pomelo also the fruit |
| Tangence: | Tangency |
| Tangency: | The quality or state of being tangent a contact or touching |
| Tangent: | 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 |
| Tangent: | Touching touching at a single point |
| Tangental: | Tangential |
| Tangential: | Of or pertaining to a tangent in the direction of a tangent |
| Tangentially: | In the direction of a tangent |
| Tangentspoke: | A tension spoke of a bicycle or similar wheel secured tangentially to the hub |
| Tangentwheel: | A worm or worm wheel a tangent screw |
| Tangerine: | 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 |
| Tangfish: | The common harbor seal |
| Tanghinia: | The ordeal tree See under Ordeal |
| Tangibility: | The quality or state of being tangible |
| Tangible: | Perceptible to the touch tactile palpable |
| Tangle: | 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 |
| Tangle: | To be entangled or united confusedly to get in a tangle |
| Tangle: | Any large blackish seaweed especially the Laminaria saccharina See Kelp |
| Tanglefish: | The sea adder or great pipefish of Europe |
| Tanglingly: | In a tangling manner |
| Tangly: | Entangled intricate |
| Tango: | A difficult dance in twofour time characterized by graceful posturing frequent pointing positions and a great variety of steps including the cross step and turning steps The dance is of Spanish origin and is believed to have been in its original form a part of the fandango |
| Tangram: | 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: | The tenrec |
| Tangun: | A piebald variety of the horse native of Thibet |
| Tangwhaup: | The whimbrel |
| Tanier: | An aroid plant Caladium sagittfolium the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies |
| Tanist: | In Ireland a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle elected by a family under the system of tanistry |
| Tanistry: | In Ireland a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate to which he was admitted by election |
| Tanite: | A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement used for making grinding wheels slabs etc |
| Tank: | A small Indian dry measure averaging 240 grains in weight also a Bombay weight of 72 grains for pearls |
| Tank: | A large basin or cistern an artificial receptacle for liquids |
| Tanka: | A kind of boat used in Canton It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women Called also tankia |
| Tankage: | The act or process of putting or storing in tanks |
| Tankard: | A large drinking vessel especially one with a cover |
| Tankia: | See Tanka |
| Tankling: | A tinkling |
| Tankship: | A vessel fitted with tanks for the carrying of oil or other liquid in bulk called also tanker A tank ship of very large capacity is called a supertanker |
| Tanktop: | a sleeveless and collarless shirt with wide shoulder straps and no front opening often closefitting and lowcut |
| Tankwarfare: | combat between tanks of opposing armies |
| Tanling: | One tanned by the sun |
| Tannable: | That may be tanned |
| Tannage: | A tanning the act operation or result of tanning |
| Tannate: | A salt of tannic acid |
| Tanner: | One whose occupation is to tan hides or convert them into leather by the use of tan |
| Tanner: | A sixpence |
| Tannery: | A place where the work of tanning is carried on |
| Tannic: | Of or pertaining to tan derived from or resembling tan as tannic acid |
| Tannier: | See Tanier |
| Tannigen: | A compound obtained as a yellowish gray powder by the action of acetyl chloride or acetic anhydride or ordinary tannic acid It is used as an intestinal astringent and locally in rhinitis and pharyngitis |
| Tannin: | Same as Tannic acid under Tannic |
| Tanning: | The art or process of converting skins into leather See Tan v t 1 |
| Tanrec: | Same as Tenrec |
| Tansy: | Any plant of the composite genus Tanacetum The common tansy Tanacetum vulgare has finely divided leaves a strong aromatic odor and a very bitter taste It is used for medicinal and culinary purposes |
| Tant: | A small scarlet arachnid |
| Tantalate: | A salt of tantalic acid |
| Tantalic: | 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 |
| Tantalism: | A punishment like that of Tantalus a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable tantalization |
| Tantalite: | A heavy mineral of an ironblack color and submetallic luster It is essentially a tantalate of iron |
| Tantalization: | The act of tantalizing or state of being tantalized |
| Tantalize: | 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 |
| Tantalizer: | One who tantalizes |
| Tantalizingly: | In a tantalizing or teasing manner |
| Tantalum: | A rare nonmetallic element found in certain minerals as tantalite samarskite and fergusonite and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steelgray by burnishing Symbol Ta Atomic weight 1820 Formerly called also tantalium |
| Tantalus: | 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 |
| Tantamount: | Equivalent in value signification or effect |
| Tantamount: | To be tantamount or equivalent to amount |
| Tantivy: | Swiftly speedily rapidly a foxhunting term as to ride tantivy |
| Tantivy: | A rapid violent gallop an impetuous rush |
| Tantivy: | To go away in haste |
| Tantra: | A ceremonial treatise related to Puranic and magic literature esp one of the sacred works of the worshipers of Sakti |
| Tantrism: | The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras |
| Tantrum: | A whim an affected air |
| Tanyard: | An inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on a tannery |
| Tanystomata: | A division of dipterous insects in which the proboscis is large and contains lancelike mandibles and maxill The horseflies and robber flies are examples |
| Taoism: | One of the popular religions of China sanctioned by the state |
| Taotai: | In China an official at the head of the civil and military affairs of a circuit which consists of two or more fu or territorial departments called also by foreigners intendant of circuit Foreign consuls and commissioners associated with taotais as superintendants of trade at the treaty ports are ranked with the taotai |
| Tap: | 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 |
| Tap: | A gentle or slight blow a light rap a pat |
| Tap: | To strike a gentle blow |
| Tap: | A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn |
| Tap: | To pierce so as to let out or draw off a fluid as to tap a cask a tree a tumor a keg of beer etc |
| Tapa: | A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry sometimes called also kapa |
| Tapadera: | One of the leather hoods which cover the stirrups of a Mexican saddle |
| Tapayaxin: | A Mexican spinous lizard Phrynosoma orbiculare having a head somewhat like that of a toad called also horned toad |
| Tape: | A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like as curtains tied with tape |
| Tape: | To furnish with tape to fasten tie bind or the like with tape |
| Tapedeck: | an electroinic device for recording and playing back sounds on magnetic tape usually it needs to be connected to an amplifier system for playback |
| Tapeline: | A painted tape marked with linear dimensions as inches feet etc and often inclosed in a case used for measuring |
| Taper: | A small wax candle a small lighted wax candle hence a small light |
| Taper: | Regularly narrowed toward the point becoming small toward one end conical pyramidical as taper fingers |
| Taper: | To become gradually smaller toward one end as a sugar loaf tapers toward one end |
| Taper: | To make or cause to taper |
| Taperecorder: | an electroinic device for recording and playing back sounds on magnetic tape it often has an integrated microphone amplifier and speaker and in such cases requires no additional equipment other than the magnetic tape for recording or playback |
| Taperecording: | a recording of sound or video on magnetic tape |
| Tapered: | Lighted with a taper or tapers as a tapered choir |
| Tapering: | Becoming gradually smaller toward one end |
| Taperness: | The quality or state of being taper tapering form taper |
| Tapestry: | 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: | To adorn with tapestry or as with tapestry |
| Tapestrybeetle: | A small black dermestoid beetle Attagenus piceus whose larva feeds on tapestry carpets silk fur flour and various other goods |
| Tapet: | Worked or figured stuff tapestry |
| Tapeti: | A small South American hare Lepus Braziliensis |
| Tapetum: | 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 |
| Tapeworm: | Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Tnia 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 larv 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 |
| Taphouse: | A house where liquors are retailed |
| Taphrenchyma: | Same as Bothrenchyma |
| Tapinage: | A lurking or skulking |
| 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 |
| Tapir: | Any one of several species of large oddtoed 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 |
| Tapiroid: | Allied to the tapir or the Tapir family |
| Tapis: | Tapestry formerly the cover of a council table |
| Tapis: | To cover or work with figures like tapestry |
| Tapiser: | A maker of tapestry an upholsterer |
| Tapish: | To lie close to the ground so as to be concealed to squat to crouch hence to hide ones self |
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