T is the twentieth letter of the English Alphabet, and a close consonant. It represents a close joining of the end of the tongue to the root of the upper teeth, as may be perceived by the syllables at, et, ot, ut, in attempting to pronounce which, the voice is completely intercepted. It is therefore numbered among the mutes, or close articulations, and it differs from d chiefly in its closeness; for in pronouncing ad, ed, we perceive the voice is not so suddenly and entirely intercepted, as in pronouncing at and et. T by itself has one sound only, as in take, turn, bat, bolt, smite, bitter. So we are accustomed to speak; but in reality, t can be hardly said to have any sound at all. Its use, like that of all mute articulations, is to modify the manner of uttering the vocal sound which precedes or follows it.
When t is followed by h, as in think and that, the combination really forms a distinct sound for which we have no single character. This combination has two sounds in English; aspirated, as in think, and vocal, as in that.
The letters ti, before a vowel, and unaccented, usually pass into the sound of sh, as in nation, motion, partial substantiate; which are pronounced nashon, moshon, parshal, substanshate. In the case, t loses entirely its proper sound or use, and being blended with the subsequent letter, a new sound results from the combination, which is in fact a simple sound. In a few words, the combination ti has the sound of the English ch, as in Christian, mixtion, question.
T, as an abbreviation, stands for theologia; as, S.T.D. sanctoe theologioe doctor, doctor of divinity. In ancient monuments and writings, T is an abbreviature, which stands for Titus, Titius or Tullius. As a numeral, T, among the Latins, stood for 160, and with a dash over the top, T, for 160, 000.
In music, T is the initial of tenor, vocal and instrumental; of tacet, for silence, as adagio tacet, when a person is to rest during the whole movement. In concertos and symphonies, it is the initial of tutti, the whole band, after a solo. It sometimes stands for tr. or trillo, a shake.
AZ'ERIT, 'TA,
TAB'ARD, noun A short gown; a herald's coat. [Not used in the U. States.]
TAB'ARD, n. A short gown; a herald's coat. [Not used in the U. States.]
TAB'ARDER, noun One who wears a tabard.
TABASHEER, noun A persian word signifying a concretion found in the joints of the bamboo, said by Dr. Russel to be the juice of the plant thickened and hardened; by others, to be pure silex. It is highly valued in the E. Indies as a medicine, for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, etc.
TAB'BIED, participle passive Watered; made wavy.
TAB'BY, adjective [See the Noun.] Brinded; brindled; diversified in color; as a tabby cat.
TAB'BY, noun
1. A kind of waved silk, usually watered. It is manufactured like taffeta, but is thick and stronger. The watering is given to it by the calendar.
2. A mixture of stone of shells and mortar, which becomes hard as a rock; used in Morocco.
TAB'BY, verb transitive To water or cause to look wavy; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribin, etc. This is done by a calendar without water.
TAB'BYING, noun The passing of stuffs under a calendar to give them a wavy appearance.
TABEFAC'TION, noun [Latin tabeo, to waste, and facio, to make. See Tabefy.] A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.
TAB'EFY, verb intransitive [Heb. to pine] To consume; to waste gradually; to lose flesh. [Little used.]
TABERD. [See Tabard.]
TAB'ERNACLE, noun [Latin tabernaculum, a tent, from taberna, a shop or shed, from tabula, a board; or rather from its root. See Table.]
1. A tent. Numbers 24:5. Matthew 17:4.
2. A temporary habitation.
3. Among the Jews, a movable building, so contrived as to be taken to pieces with ease and reconstructed, for the convenience of being carried during the wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness. It was of a rectangular figure, thirty cubits long, ten broad, and ten high. The interior was divided into two rooms by a vail or curtain, and it was covered with four different spreads or carpets.
It is also applied to the temple. Psalms 15:1.
4. A place of worship; a sacred place.
5. Our natural body. 2 Corinthians 5:1. 2 Peter 1:13.
6. God's gracious presence, or the tokens of it. Revelation 21:3.
7. An ornamented chest placed on Roman catholic altars as a receptacle of the ciborium and pyxis.
TAB'ERNACLE, verb intransitive To dwell; to reside for a time; to be housed; as we say, Christ tabernacled in the flesh.
TABERNAC'ULAR, adjective Latticed.
TAB'ID, adjective [Latin tabidus, from tabeo, to waste.] Wasted by disease; consumptive.
In tabid persons, milk is the best restorative.
TAB'IDNESS, noun State of being wasted by disease; consumptiveness.
TAB'LATURE, noun [from table.] Painting on walls and ceilings; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design.
1. In music, the expression of sounds or notes of composition by letters of the alphabet or ciphers, or other characters not used in modern music. In a stricter sense, the manner of writing a piece for the lute, theorbo, guitar, base viol, or the like; which is done by writing on several parallel lines, (each of which represents a string of the instrument, ) certain letters of the alphabet, referring to the frets on the neck of the instrument, each letter directing how some note is to be sounded.
2. In anatomy, a division or parting of the skull into two tables.
TA'BLE, noun [Latin tabula.]
1. A flat surface of some extent, or a thing that has a flat surface; as a table of marble.
2. An article of furniture, consisting usually of a frame with a surface of boards or of marble, supported by legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as for holding dishes of meat, for writing on, etc.
The nymph the table spread.
3. Fare or entertainment of provisions; as, he keeps a good table
4. The persons sitting at table or partaking of entertainment.
I drink to th' general joy of the whole table
5. A tablet; a surface on which any thing is written or engraved. The ten commandments were written on two tables of stone. Exodus 32:15.
Written--not on tables of stone, but on fleshly tables of the heart. 2 Corinthians 3:3.
6. A picture, or something that exhibits a view of any thing on a flat surface.
Saint Anthony has a table that hangs up to him from a poor peasant.
7. Among Christians, the table or Lord's table is the sacrament, or holy communion of the Lord's supper.
8. The altar of burnt-offering. Malachi 1:7.
9. In architecture, a smooth, simple member or ornament of various forms, most usually in that of a long square.
10. In perspective, a plain surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon. It is called also perspective plane.
11. In anatomy, a division of the cranium or skull. The cranium is composed of two tables or lamins, with a cellular structure between them, called the meditallium or diploe.
12. In the glass manufacture, a circular sheet of finished glass, usually about four feet in diameter, each weighing from ten to eleven pounds. Twelve of these are called a side or crate of glass.
13. In literature, an index; a collection of heads or principal matters contained in a book, with references to the pages where each may be found; as a table of contents.
14. A synopsis; many particulars brought into one view.
15. The palm of the hand.
Mistress of a fairer table
Hath not history nor fable.
16. Draughts; small pieces of wood shifted on squares.
We are in the world like men playing at tables.
17. In mathematics, tables are systems of numbers calculated to be ready for expediting operations; as a table of logarithms; a multiplication table
18. Astronomical tables, are computations of the motions, places and other phenomena of the planets, both primary and secondary.
19. In chimistry, a list or catalogue of substances or their properties; as a table of known acids; a table of acidifiable bases; a table of binary combinations; a table of specific gravities.
20. In general, any series of numbers formed on mathematical or other correct principles.
21. A division of the ten commandments; as the first and second tables. The first table comprehends our more immediate duties to God; the second table our more immediate duties to each other.
22. Among jewelers, a table diamond or other precious stone, is one whose upper surface is quite flat, and the sides only cut in angles.
23. A list or catalogue; as a table of stars.
Raised table in sculpture, an embossment in a frontispiece for an inscription or other ornament, supposed to be the abacus of Vitruvius.
Round table Knights of the round table are a military order instituted by Arthur, the first king of the Britons, adjective D. 516.
Twelve Tables, the laws of the Romans, so called probably, because engraved on so many tables.
To turn the tables, to change the condition or fortune of contending parties; a metaphorical expression taken from the vicissitudes of fortune in gaming.
To serve tables, to provide for the poor; or to distribute provisions for their wants. Acts 6:2.
TA'BLE, verb intransitive To board; to diet or live at the table of another. Nebuchadnezzar tabled with the beasts.
TA'BLE, verb transitive To form into a table or catalogue; as, to table fines. In England, the chirographer tables the fines of every county, and fixes a copy in some open place of the court.
1. To board; to supply with food.
2. To let one piece of timber into another by alternate scores or projections from the middle.
TA'BLED, participle passive Formed into a table.
TA'BLER, noun One who boards.
TA'BLES, noun plural A board used for backgammon.
TAB'LET, noun A small table or flat surface.
1. Something flat on which to write, paint, draw or engrave.
Through all Greece the young gentlemen learned to design on tablets of boxen wood.
The pillar'd marble, and the tablet brass.
2. A medicine in a square form. Tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
A solid kind of electuary or confection, made of dry ingredients, usually with sugar, and formed into little flat squares; called also lozenge and troche.
TA'BLING, participle present tense Boarding; forming into a table; letting one timber into another by scores.
TA'BLING, noun A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
1. The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in ship-building.
2. In sail-making, a broad hem made on the skirts of sails by turning over the edge of the canvas, and sewing it down.
TABOO', noun In the isles of the Pacific, a word denoting prohibition or religious interdict, which is of great force among the inhabitants.
TABOO', verb transitive To forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach or use; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals. Tabooed ground is held sacred and inviolable.
TA'BOR, noun [Eng. tap.] A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife.
TA'BOR, verb intransitive To strike lightly and frequently.
Her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, taboring upon their breasts. Nahum 2.
1. To play on a tabor or little drum.
TA'BORER, noun One who beats the tabor.
TAB'ORET, noun [from tabor.] A small tabor.
TAB'ORIN, noun A tabor; a small drum.
TAB'RERE, noun A taborer.
TAB'RET, noun [See Tabor.] A tabor. 1 Samuel 18:6.
TAB'ULAR, adjective [Latin tabularis, from tabula, table.]
1. In the form of a table; having a flat or square surface.
2. Having the form of lamina or plates.
3. Set down in tables; as a tabular list of substances.
4. Set in squares.
Tabular crystal, one in which the prism is very short.
Tabular spar, in mineralogy, a species of limestone, generally of a grayish white color. It occurs either massive or crystallized, in rectangular four sides tables.
Tabular spar is the schaalstein of Werner, and the prismatic augite of Jameson.
TAB'ULATE, verb transitive To reduce to tables or synopses.
1. To shape with a flat surface.
TAB'ULATED, participle passive Having a flat or square flat surface; as a tabulated diamond.
TACAMAHAC', noun A tree of a sweet fragrance, planted in gardens as an ornament. It is of the genus Populus, [P.balsamifera.]
1. A resin brought from America in large oblong masses wrapped in flag leaves, of a light brown color, and an aromatic smell between that of lavender and must. It is obtained from the Fagara octandra, and it is said also, from the Populus balsamifera.
TACAMAHAC'A
TA'CE, from Latin taceo, a term used in Italian music, directing to be silent.
TA'CE, from L. taceo, a term used in Italian music, directing to be silent.
TA'CET, in music, is used when a vocal or instrumental part is to be silent during a whole movement.
TACH
TACHE, noun [See Tack.] Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button. It is found in Scripture, but I believe is not now used in discourse or writing. Exodus 26:6.
TACHE, n. [See Tack.] Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button. It is found in Scripture, but I believe is not now used in discourse or writing. Ex.26.
TACHYG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. quick, and to write.] The art or practice of quick writing. [We now use stenography, and shorthand writing.
TAC'IT, adjective [Latin tacitus, from taceo, to be silent, that is, to stop, or to close. See Tack.] Silent; implied, but not expressed. tacit consent is consent by silence, or not interposing an objection. So we say, a tacit agreement or covenant of men to live under a particular government, when no objection or opposition is made; a tacit surrender of a part of our natural rights; a tacit reproach, etc.
TAC'ITLY, adverb Silently; by implication; without words; as, he tacitly assented.
TAC'ITURN, adjective [Latin taciturnus.] Habitually silent; not free to converse; not apt to talk or speak.
TACITURN'ITY, noun [Latin taciturnitas, from taceo, to be silent.]
Habitual silence or reserve in speaking.
Too great loquacity, and too great taciturnity by fits.
TACK, verb transitive [Gr. to set, place, ordain.]
1. To fasten; to attach. In the solemn or grave style, this word now appears ludicrous; as, to get a commendam tacked to their sees.
--And tack the center to the sphere.
2. To unite by stitching together; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another. [In the familiar style, this word is in good use.]
3. To fasten slightly by nails; as, to tack on a board or shingle.
TACK
TACHE, noun A spot. [Not used.]
TACK, noun A small nail.
1. A rope used to confine the foremost lower corners of the courses and stay-sails, when the wind crosses the ship's course obliquely; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom. Hence,
2. The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of the courses. Hence,
3. The course of a ship in regard to the position of her sails; as the starboard tack or larboard tack; the former when she is close-hauled with the wind on her starboard, the latter when close hauled with the wind on her larboard.
To hold tack to last or hold out.
TACK of a flag, a line spliced into the eye at the bottom of the tabling, for securing the flag to the halliards.
TACK, verb intransitive To change the course of a ship by shifting the tacks and position of the sails from one side to the other.
TACK, noun In rural economy, a shelf on which cheese is dried. [Local.]
TACK of land, the term of a lease. [Local.]
TACK'ER, noun One who tacks or makes an addition.
TACK'ET, noun A small nail.
TACK'ING, participle present tense Changing a ship's course.
TACK'LE, noun
1. A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and blocks, called a pulley.
2. Instruments of action; weapons.
She to her tackle fell.
3. An arrow.
4. The rigging and apparatus of a ship.
Tackle-fall, the rope, or rather the end of the rope of a pulley, which falls and by which it is pulled.
Ground-tackle, anchors, cables, etc.
Gun-tackle, the instruments for hauling cannon in or out.
Tack-tackle, a small tackle to pull down the tacks of the principal sails.
TACK'LE, verb transitive To harness; as, to tackle a horse into a gig, sleigh, coach or wagon. [A legitimate and common use of the word in America.]
1. To seize; to lay hold of; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game. This is a common popular use of the word in New England, though not elegant. But it retains the primitive idea, to put on, to fall or throw on. [See Attack.]
2. To supply with tackle
TACK'LED, participle passive Harnessed; seized.
1. Made of ropes tacked together.
My man shall
Bring thee cords, made like a tackled stair.
TACK'LING, participle present tense Harnessing; putting on harness; seizing; falling on.
TACK'LING, noun Furniture of the masts and yards of a ship, as cordage, sails, etc.
1. Instruments of action; as fishing tackling
2. Harness; the instruments of drawing a carriage.
TACKS'MAN, noun One who holds a tack or lease of land from another; a tenant or lessee. [Local.]
TACT, noun [Latin tactus, from tango, [for tago, ] to touch.]
1. Touch; feeling; formerly, the stroke in beating time in music.
2. Peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment.
TAC'TIC
TAC'TICAL, adjective [See Tactics.] Pertaining to the art of military and naval dispositions for battle, evolutions, etc.
TACTI'CIAN, noun [See Tactics.] One versed in tactics.
TAC'TICS, noun [Gr. to set, to appoint.] See Tack.]
1. The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle and performing military and naval evolutions. In the most extensive sense, tactics la grande tactique of the French, comprehends every thing that relates to the order, formation and disposition of armies, their encampments, etc.
2. The art of inventing and making machines for throwing darts, arrows, stones and other missile weapons.
TAC'TIL, adjective [Latin tactilis, from tango, to touch.] Tangible; susceptible of touch; that may be felt; as tactile sweets; tactile qualities.
TAC'TILE
TACTIL'ITY, noun Tangibleness; perceptibility of touch.
TAC'TION, noun [Latin tactio, tango, to touch.] The act of touching; touch.
TADOR'NA, noun A name of the shel-drake, vulpanser, or borough-duck.
TAF'ELSPATH, noun A lamellar mineral of a yellowish grey or rose white, forming masses of prisms interlaced in the gang, chiefly lime and silex.
TAF'FEREL, noun The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work.
TAF'FETA, noun A fine smooth stuff of silk, having usually a remarkable gloss. Taffetas are of all colors.
TAG, noun [Latin digitus.]
1. A metallic point put to the end of a string.
2. Something mean and paltry; as tag-rag people. [Vulgar.]
3. A young sheep. [Local.]
TAG, verb transitive To fit with a point; as, to tag lace.
1. To fit one thing to another; to append to.
His courteous host
TAGs every sentence with some fawning word.
2. To join or fasten.
TAG, noun A play in which the person gains who tags, that is, touches another. This was a common sport among boys in Connecticut formerly, and it may be still. The word is inserted here for the sake of the evidence it affords of the affinity of languages, and of the original orthography of the Latin tango, to touch, which was tago. This vulgar tag is the same word; the primitive word retained by the common people. It is used also as a verb, to tag [See Touch.]
TAIL, noun
1. The part of an animal which terminates its body behind. In many quadrupeds, the tail is a shoot or projection covered with hair. In fowls, the tail consists of feathers, or is covered with them, which serve to assist in the direction of their flight. In fishes the tail is formed usually by a gradual sloping of the body, ending in a fin. The tail of a fish may assist the animal in steering, but its principal use is to propel the fish forward. It is the instrument of swimming.
2. The lower part, noting inferiority.
The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail Deuteronomy 28:13.
3. Any thing hanging long; a catkin.
4. The hinder part of any thing.
5. In anatomy, that tendon of a muscle which is fixed to the movable part.
6. In botany, the tail of a seed, is a downy or feathery appendage to certain seeds, formed of the permanent elongated style.
7. Horse's tail among the Tartars and Chinese, is an ensign or flag; among the Turks, a standard borne before the grand visier, bashaws and the sangiacs. For this purpose, it is fitted to a half-pike with a gold button, and is called toug. There are bashaws of one, two and three tails.
8. In heraldry, the tail of a hart.
9. In music, the part of a note running upwards or downwards.
10. The extremity or last end; as the tail of a storm.
TAIL of a comet, a luminous train which extends from the nucleus in a direction opposite to the sun.
To turn tail is to run away; to flee.
TAIL of a lock, on a canal, the lower end, or entrance into the lower pond.
TAIL-piece, of a violin, is a piece of ebony attached to the end of the instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
TAIL, noun In law, an estate in tail is a limited fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded. Estates tail are general or special; general, where lands and tenements are given to one, and to the heirs of his body begotten; special, where the gift is restrained to certain heirs of the donee; s body, as to his heirs by a particular woman names. See Entail.]
TAIL, verb transitive To pull by the tail
TA'ILAGE
TA'ILED, adjective Having a tail.
TA'ILED, a. Having a tail.
TA'ILINGS, noun plural [from tail.] The lighter parts of grain blown to one end of the heap in winnowing. [Local.]
TA'ILOR, noun One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments.
TA'ILOR, verb intransitive To practice making men's clothes.
TA'ILORESS, noun a female who makes garments for men.
TA'ILORING, noun The business of a tailor.
TAINT, verb transitive [Latin tingo; Gr. to dye, literally to dip, primarily to thrust, the sense of Latin tango; and n not being radical, the real word is tego or tago, coinciding with Eng. duck; hence its sense in extinguo. See Dye, Attaint and Tinge.]
1. To imbue or impregnate, as with some extraneous matter which alters the sensible qualities of the substance.
The spaniel struck
Stiff by the tainted gale--
2. More generally, to impregnate with something odious, noxious or poisonous; as, putrid substances taint the air.
3. To infect; to poison. The breath of consumptive lungs is said to taint sound lungs.
4. To corrupt, as by incipient putrefaction; as tainted meat.
5. To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
We come not by the way of accusation
To taint that honor every good tongue blesses.
6. To corrupt, as blood; to attaint. [Not in use.] [See Attaint.]
TAINT, verb intransitive To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
I cannot taint with fear.
1. To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
Meat soon taints in warm weather.
TAINT, noun Tincture; stain.
1. Infection; corruption; depravation. Keep children from the taint of low and vicious company.
2. A stain; a spot; a blemish on reputation.
3. An insect; a kind of spider.
TA'INTED, participle passive Impregnated with something noxious, disagreeable to the senses or poisonous; infected; corrupted; stained.
TA'INTFREE, adjective [taint and free.] Free from taint or guilt.
TA'INTING, participle present tense Impregnating with something foul or poisonous; infecting; corrupting; staining.
TA'INTLESS, adjective Free from taint or infection; pure.
TA'INTURE, noun [Latin tinctura.] Taint; tinge; defilement; stain; spot. [Not much used.]
TAJACU
TAJASSU, noun The peccary or Mexican hog.
TAKE, verb transitive preterit tense took; participle passive taken. [Latin doceo. This word seems to be allied to think, for we say, I think a thing to be so, or I take
it to be so. It seems also to be allied to Sax.teogan, to draw, to tug, Latin duco; for we say, to take a likeness, and to draw a likeness. We use taking also for engaging, attracting. We say, a child takes to his mother or nurse, and a man takes to drink; which seem to include attaching and holding. We observe that take and teach are radically the same word.]
1. In a general sense, to get hold or gain possession of a thing in almost any manner, either by receiving it when offered, or by using exertion to obtain it. take differs from seize, as it does not always imply haste, force or violence. It more generally denotes to gain or receive into possession in a peaceable manner, either passively or by active exertions. Thus,
2. To receive what is offered.
Then I took the cup at the Lord's hand. Jeremiah 25:9.
3. To lay hold of; to get into one's power for keeping.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge. Deuteronomy 24:4.
4. To receive with a certain affection of mind. He takes it in good part; or he takes it very ill.
5. To catch by surprise or artifice; to circumvent.
Men in their loose unguarded hours they take
Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.
6. To seize; to make prisoner. The troops entered, slew and took three hundred janizaries.
This man was taken of the Jews. Acts 23:10.
7. To captivate with pleasure; to engage the affections; to delight.
Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. Proverbs 6:25.
Cleombrotus was to taken with this prospect, that he had no patience.
8. To get into one's power by engines or nets; to entrap; to ensnare; as, to take foxes with traps; to take fishes with nets, or with hook and line.
9. To understand in a particular sense; to receive as meaning. I take your meaning.
You take me right.
Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the sincere love to God and our neighbor.
10. To exact and receive.
TAKE no usury of him or increase. Leviticus 25:36.
11. To employ; to occupy. The prudent man always takes time for deliberation, before he passes judgment.
12. To agree to; to close in with; to comply with.
I take thee at thy word.
13. To form and adopt; as, to take a resolution.
14. To catch; to embrace; to seize; as, to take one by the hand; to take in the arms.
15. To admit; to receive as an impression; to suffer; as, to take a form or shape.
Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command;
Now take the mold--
16. To obtain by active exertion; as, to take revenge or satisfaction for an injury.
17. To receive; to receive into the mind.
They took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus. Acts 4:13.
It appeared in his face that he took great contentment in this our question.
18. To swallow, as meat or drink; as, to take food; to take a glass of wine.
19. To swallow, as medicine; as, to take pills; to take stimulants.
20. To choose; to elect. take which you please. But the sense of choosing, in this phrase, is derived from the connection of take with please. So we say, take your choice.
21. To copy.
Beauty alone could beauty take so right.
22. To fasten on; to seize. The frost has taken the corn; the worms have taken the vines.
Wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him, and he foameth-- Mark 9:1.
23. To accept; not to refuse. He offered me a fee, but I would not take it.
Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. Numbers 35:31.
24. To adopt.
I will take you to me for a people. Exodus 6:7
25. To admit.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. 1 Timothy 5:1.
26. To receive, as any temper or disposition of mind; as, to take shame to one's self; to take delight; to take pride or pleasure.
27. To endure; to bear without resentment; or to submit to without attempting to obtain satisfaction. He will take an affront from no man. Cannot you take a jest?
28. To draw; to deduce.
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.
29. To assume; as, I take the liberty to say.
30. To allow; to admit; to receive as true, or not disputed; as, to take a thing for granted.
31. To suppose; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand. This I take to be the man's motive.
He took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in disguise.
You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl.
32. To seize; to invade; as, to be taken with a fever.
33. To have recourse to; as, the sparrow takes a bush; the cat takes a tree. [In this sense, we usually say, the bird takes to a bush, the squirrel takes to a tree.]
34. To receive into the mind.
Those do best, who take material hints to be judged by history.
35. To hire; to rent; to obtain possession on lease; as, to take a house or farm for a year.
36. To admit in copulation.
37. To draw; to copy; to paint a likeness; as a likeness taken by Reynolds.
38. To conquer and cause to surrender; to gain possession of by force or capitulation; as, to take an army, a city or a ship.
39. To be discovered or detected. He was taken in the very act.
40. To require or be necessary. It takes so much cloth to make a coat.
To take away, to deprive of; to bereave; as a bill for taking away the votes of bishops.
By your own law I take your life away.
1. To remove; as, to take away the consciousness of pleasure.
To take care, to be careful; to be solicitous for.
Doth God take care for oxen? 1 Corinthians 9:9.
1. To be cautious or vigilant.
To take care of, to superintend or oversee; to have the charge of keeping or securing.
To take a course, to resort to; to have recourse to measures.
The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for the destroying of sinners.
To take one's own course, to act one's pleasure; to pursue the measures of one's own choice.
To take down, to reduce; to bring lower; to depress; as, to take down pride, or the proud.
1. To swallow; as, to take down a potion.
2. To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold.
3. To write; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them.
To take from, to deprive of.
I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee. 1 Samuel 17:17.
1. To deduct; to subtract; as, to take one number from another.
2. To detract; to derogate.
To take heed, to be careful or cautious.
TAKE heed what doom against yourself you give.
To take heed to, to attend to with care. take heed to thy ways.
To take hold, to seize; to fix on.take in, to inclose; to fence.
1. To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.
2. To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail.
3. To cheat; to circumvent; to gull. [Not elegant.]
4. To admit; to receive; as, a vessel will take in more water. The landlord said he could take in no more lodgers.
5. To win by conquest. [Not in use.]
6. To receive into the mind or understanding.
Some bright genius can take in a long train of propositions.
To take in hand, to undertake; to attempt to execute any thing. Luke 1:25.
To take notice, to observe; or to observe with particular attention.
1. To show by some act that observation is made; to make remark upon. He heard what was said, but took no notice of it.
To take oath, to swear with solemnity, or in a judicial manner.
To take off, to remove, in various ways; to remove from the top of any thing; as, to take off a load; to take off one's hat, etc.
1. To cut off; as, to take off the head or a limb.
2. To destroy; as, to take off life.
3. To remove; to invalidate; as, to take off the force of an argument.
4. To withdraw; to call or draw away.
Keep foreign ideas from taking off the mind from its present pursuit.
5. To swallow; as, to take off a glass of wine.
6. To purchase; to take from in trade.
The Spaniards having no commodities that we will take off--
7. To copy.
TAKE off all their models in wood.
8. To imitate; to mimic.
9. To find place for; as more scholars than preferments can take off.
To take off from, to lessen; to remove in part. This takes off from the deformity of vice.
To take order with, to check. [Not much used.]
To take out, to remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct.
1. To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as, to take out a stain or spot from cloth; to take out an unpleasant taste from wine.
To take part, to share. take part in our rejoicing.
To take part with, to unite with; to join with.
To take place, to happen; to come, or come to pass.
1. To have effect; to prevail.
Where arms take place, all other pleas are vain.
To have effect; to prevail.
Where arms take place, all other pleas are vain.
To take effect, to have the intended effect; to be efficacious.
To take root, to live and grow; as a plant.
1. To be established; as principles.
To take up, to lift; to raise.
1. To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large amount; to take up money at the bank.
2. To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. Ezekiel 19:1.
3. In surgery, to fasten with a ligature.
4. To engross; to employ; to engage the attention; as, to take up the time.
5. To have final recourse to.
Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts took up their rest in the christian religion.
6. To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief; to take up vagabonds.
7. To admit.
The ancients took up experiments upon credit.
8. To answer by reproof; to reprimand.
One of his relations took him up roundly.
9. To begin where another left off.
Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale.
10. To occupy; to fill; as, to take up a great deal of room.
11. To assume; to carry on or manage for another; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors.
12. To comprise; to include.
The noble poem of Palemon and Arcite--takes up seven years.
13. To adopt; to assume; as, to take up current opinions.
They take up our old trade of conquering.
14. To collect; to exact a tax.
15. To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank.
To take up arms,
To take arms, To begin war; to begin resistance by force.
To take upon, to assume; to undertake. He takes upon himself to assert that the fact is capable of proof.
1. To appropriate to; to admit to be imputed to; as, to take upon one's self a punishment.
TAKE side, to join one of two differing parties; to take an interest in one party.
To take to heart, to be sensibly affected by; to feel any thing sensibly.
To take advantage of, to catch by surprise; or to make use of a favorable state of things to the prejudice of another.
To take the advantage of, to use any advantage offered.
To take air, to be divulged or made public; to be disclosed; as a secret.
To take the air, to expose one's self to the open air.
To take a course, to begin a certain direction or way of proceeding.
To take leave, to bid adieu or farewell.
To take breath, to rest; to be recruited or refreshed.
To take aim, to direct the eye or a weapon to a particular object.
To take along, to carry, lead or convey.
To take a way, to begin a particular course or direction.
TAKE, verb intransitive To move or direct the course; to resort to, or to attach one's self; to betake one's self. The fox being hard pressed took to the hedge. My friend has left his music and taken to books.
The defluxion taking to his breast, wasted his lungs.
1. To please; to gain reception. The play will not take unless it is set off with proper scenes.
Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake,
And hint he writ it, if the thing should take
2. To have the intended or natural effect.
In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh.
3. To catch; to fix, or be fixed. He was inoculated, but the infection did not take
When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise.
To take after, to learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes after a good pattern.
1. To resemble; as, the son takes after his father.
To take in with, to resort to.
To take for, to mistake; to suppose or think one thing to be another.
The lord of the land took us for spies. Genesis 42:33.
TAKE on, to be violently affected; as, the child takes on at a great rate.
1. To claim, as a character.
I take not on me here as a physician.
To take to, to apply to; to be fond of; to become attached to; as, to take to books; to take to evil practices.
1. To resort to; to betake to.
Men of learning who take to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of the world.
To take up, to stop.
Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of all religion. [Not in use.]
1. To reform. [Not in use.]
To take up with, to be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; 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.
1. To lodge; to dwell. [Not in use.]
To take with, to please. The proposal takes well with him.
TAKEN, ta'kn. participle passive of take. Received; caught; apprehended; captivated, etc.
TA'KER, noun One that takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.
1. One that subdues and causes to surrender; as the taker of captives or of a city.
TA'KING, participle present tense Receiving; catching; getting possession; apprehending.
1. adjective Alluring; attracting.
TA'KING, noun The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.
1. Agitation; distress of mind.
What a taking was he in, when your husband asked what was in the basket?
TA'KINGNESS, noun The quality of pleasing.
TALAPOIN', noun In Siam, a priest, or one devoted to religion; also, a species of monkey.
TAL'BOT, noun A sort of dog, noted for his quick scent and eager pursuit of game. [The figure of a dog is said to be borne in the arms of the talbot family.]
TALC noun A species of magnesian earth, consisting of broad flat smooth lamins or plates, unctuous to the touch, of a shining luster, translucent, and often transparent. By the action of fire, the lamins open a little, the fragment swells, and the extremities are with difficulty fused into a white enamel. When rubbed with resin, talck acquires positive electricity. Its prevailing colors are white, apple-green and yellow.
Of this mineral, Jameson's sixth subspecies of rhomboidal mica, there are two kinds, common and indurated.
TALCK
TALCK'ITE, noun A species of talck of a loose form.
TALCK'OUS, adjective Talcky. [But talcous or talckous is ill formed.]
TALCK'Y, adjective Like talck; consisting of talck; as a talcky feel; a talcky substance.
1. Containing talck.
TALE, noun [See Tell.] A story; a narrative; the rehearsal of a series of events or adventures, commonly some trifling incidents; or a fictitious narrative; as the tale of a tub. Marmontel's tales; idle tales. Luke 24:11.
We spend our years as a tale that is told Psalms 90:9.
1. Oral relation.
2. Reckoning; account set down. Exodus 5:8.
In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
3. Number reckoned.
--The ignorant who measure by tale not be weight.
4. A telling; information; disclosure of any thing secret.
Birds--are aptest by their voice to tell tales what they find.
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood. Ezekiel 22:9.
5. In law, a count or declaration. [Tale, in this sense, is obsolete.]
6. In commerce, a weight for gold and silver in China and other parts of the E. Indies; also, a money of account. In China, each tale is 10 maces=100 candareens-1000 cash.
TALE, verb intransitive To tell stories.
TA'LEBEARER, noun [tale and bear.] A person who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently communicates intelligence or anecdotes, and makes mischief in society by his officiousness.
Where there is no talebearer the strife ceaseth. Proverbs 26:20.
TA'LEBEARING, adjective Officiously communicating information.
TA'LEBEARING, noun The act of informing officiously; communication of secrets maliciously.
TA'LEFUL, adjective Abounding with stories.
TAL'ENT, noun [Latin talentum; Gr. to bear, allied to Latin tollo. The word is said to have originally signified a balance or scales.]
1. Among the ancients, a weight, and a coin. The true value of the talent cannot well be ascertained, but it is known that it was different among different nations. The Attic talent the weight, contained 60 Attic minae, or 6000 Attic drachmae, equal to 56 pounds, eleven ounces, English troy weight. The mina being reckoned equal to f3 4s.7d. sterling, or fourteen dollars and a third nearly, the talent was of the value of f193 15s sterling, about $861 dollars. Other computations make it f225 sterling.
The Romans had the great talent and the little talent; the great talent is computed to be equal to f99 6s. 8d. sterling, and the little talent to f75 sterling.
2. talent among the Hebrews, was also a gold coin, the same with a shekel of gold; called also stater, and weighing only four drachmas.
But the Hebrew talent of silver, called cicar, was equivalent to three thousand shekels, or one hundred and thirteen pounds, ten ounces and a fraction, troy weight.
3. Faculty; natural gift or endowment; a metaphorical application of the word, said to be borrowed from the Scriptural parable of the talents. Matthew 25:24.
He is chiefly to be considered in his three different talents, as a critic, a satirist, and a writer of odes.
'Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts.
4. Eminent abilities; superior genius; as, he is a man of talents.
[Talent, in the singular, is sometimes used in a like sense.]
5. Particular faculty; skill. He has a talent at drawing.
6. [Sp. talante, manner of performing any thing, will, disposition.] Quality; disposition.
TAL'ENTED, adjective Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talents.
TA'LES, noun [Latin talis, plural tales ] In law, tales de circumstantibus, spectators in court, from whom the sheriff is to select men to supply any defect of jurors who are impaneled, but who may not appear, or may be challenged.
TA'LETELLER, noun One who tells tales or stories.
Talionis, lex talionis, [Latin] in law, the law of retaliation. [See Retaliate.]
TAL'ISMAN, noun
1. A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; or it is the seal, figure, character or image of a heavenly sign, constellation or planet, engraven on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence. The talismans of the Samothracians were pieces of iron, formed into images and set in rings, etc. They were held to be preservatives against all kinds of evils.
Talismans are of three kinds, astronomical, magical and mixed. Hence,
2. Something that produces extraordinary effects; as a talisman to destroy diseases.
TALISMAN'IC, adjective Magical; having the properties of a talisman or preservative against evils by secret influence.
TALK, verb intransitive tauk.
1. 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; but I will not eat with you.
In Aesop's time
When all things talk'd, and talk'd in rhyme.
I will come down and talk with thee. Numbers 11:17.
Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way? Luke 24:14.
2. To prate; to speak impertinently.
3. To talk of, to relate; to tell; to give account. 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.
So shall I talk of thy wondrous works. Psalms 119:27.
4. To speak; to reason; to confer.
Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. Jeremiah 12:1.
To talk to, in familiar language, to advise or exhort; or to reprove gently. I will talk to my son respecting his conduct.
TALK, noun tauk. Familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered by one person in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.
Should a man full of talk be justified? Job 11:2.
In various talk th' instructive hours they past.
1. Report; rumor.
I hear a talk up and down of raising money.
2. Subject of discourse. This noble achievement is the talk of the whole town.
3. Among the Indians of North America, a public conference, as respecting peace or war, negotiation and the like; or an official verbal communication made from them to another nation or its agents, or made to them by the same.
TALK, a mineral. [See Talck.]
TALKATIVE, adjective tauk'ativ. Given to much talking; full of prate; loquacious; garrulous. One of the faults of old age is to be talkative
TALKATIVENESS, noun tauk'ativness. Loquacity; garrulity; the practice or habit of speaking much in conversation.
TALKER, noun tauk'er. One who talks; also, a loquacious person, male or female; a prattler.
1. A boaster.
TALKING, participle present tense tauk'ing. Conversing; speaking in familiar conversation. Matthew 17:3.
1. adjective Given to talking; loquacious; as talking age.
TALKING, noun tauk'ing. The act of conversing familiarly; as foolish talking Ephesians 5:4.
TALL, adjective [Eng. dally; Latin tollo.]
1. High in stature; long and comparatively slender; applied to a person, or to a standing tree, mast or pole. tall always refers to something erect, and of which the diameter is small in proportion to the highth. We say, a tall man or woman, a tall boy for his age; a tall tree, a tall pole, a tall mast; but we never say, a tall house or a tall mountain. The application of the word to a palace or its shadow, in Waller, is now improper.
Dark shadows cast, and as his palace tall
2. Sturdy; lusty; bold. [Unusual.]
TAL'LAGE
TAL'LIAGE, noun Anciently, a certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights and inferior tenants, towards the public expenses. When it was paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage; when by cities and burghs, talliage; when upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage.
TAL'LAGE, verb transitive To lay an impost.
TAL'LIAGE, noun Literally, a share; hence, a tax or toll.
TALL'NESS, noun Highth of stature. [See Tall.]
TAL'LOW, noun A sort of animal fat, particularly that which is obtained from animals of the sheep and ox kinds. We speak of the tallow of an ox or cow, or of sheep. This substance grows chiefly about the kidneys and on the intestines. The fat of swine we never call tallow but lard or suet. I see in English books, mention is made of the tallow of hogs, [See Cyclopedia, article Tallow; ] but in America I never heard the word thus applied. It may be applied to the fat of goats and deer. The fat of bears we call bear's grease. tallow is applied to various uses, but chiefly to the manufacture of candles.
TAL'LOW, verb transitive To grease or smear with tallow
1. To fatten; to cause to have a large quantity of tallow; as, to tallow sheep.
TAL'LOWED, participle passive Greased or smeared with tallow.
1. Made fat; filled with tallow.
TAL'LOWER, noun An animal disposed to form tallow internally.
TAL'LOWING, participle present tense Greasing with tallow.
1. Causing to gather tallow; a term in agriculture.
TAL'LOWING, noun The act, practice or art of causing animals to gather tallow; or the property in animals of forming tallow internally; a term in agriculture.
TAL'LOWISH, adjective Having the properties or nature of tallow.
TAL'LOWY, adjective Greasy, having the qualities of tallow.
TAL'LY, noun
1. A piece of wood on which notches or scores are cut, as the marks of number. In purchasing and selling, it is 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 are received as evidence in courts of justice. In the English exchequer are 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. One thing made to suit another.
They were framed the tallies for each other.
TAL'LY, verb transitive To score with correspondent notches; to fit; to suit; to make to correspond.
They are not so well tallied to the present juncture.
1. In seamanship, to pull aft the sheets or lower corners of the main and fore-sail.
TAL'LY, verb intransitive To be fitted; to suit; to correspond.
I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel.
TALL'Y, adverb Stoutly; with spirit.
TAL'LYING, participle present tense Fitting to each other; making to correspond.
1. Agreeing; corresponding.
2. Hauling aft the corners of the main and fore-sail.
TAL'LYMAN, noun [tally and man.] One who sells for weekly payment.
1. One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.
TAL'MUD, noun The body of the Hebrew laws, traditions and explanations; or the book that contains them. The talmud contains the laws, and a compilation of expositions of duties imposed on the people, either in Scripture, by tradition, or by authority of their doctors, or by custom. It consists of two parts, the Mischna, and the Gemara; the former being the written law, the latter a collection of traditions and comments of Jewish doctors.
TAL'MUDIC
TALMU'DICAL, adjective Pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as talmudic fables.
TALMU'DICAL, a. Pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as Talmudic fables.
TAL'MUDIST, noun One versed in the Talmud.
TALMUDIST'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Talmud; resembling the Talmud.
TAL'ON, noun
1. The claw of a fowl.
2. In architecture, a kind of molding, concave at the bottom, and convex at the top. When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon It is usually called by workmen an ogee, or O G, and by authors an upright or inverted cymatium.
TA'LUS, noun [Latin talus the ankle.] In anatomy, the astragalus, or that bone of the foot which is articulated to the leg.
1. In architecture, a slope; the inclination of any work.
2. In fortification, the slope of a work, as a bastion, rampart or parapet.
TA'MABLE, adjective [from tame.] That may be tamed; capable of being reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness; that may be subdued.
TA'MABLENESS, noun The quality of being tamable.
TAM'ARIN, noun A small monkey of South America, with large ears; the great eared monkey, (Simia midas.)
TAM'ARIND, noun A tree, a native of the East Indies, and of Arabia and Egypt. It is cultivated in both the Indies for the sake of its shade and for its cooling, grateful acid fruit, the pulp of which, mixed with boiled sugar, is imported into northern countries. The stem of the tree is lofty, large, and crowned with wide spreading branches; the flowers are in simple clusters, terminating the short lateral branches.
TAM'ARINDS, noun plural The preserved seed-pods of the tamarind, which abound with an acid pulp.
TAM'ARISK, noun A tree or shrub of the genus Tamarix, of several species.
TAM'BAC, noun A mixture of gold and copper, which the people value more highly than gold itself.
TAM'BOR, noun
1. A small drum, used by the Biscayans as an accompaniment to the flageolet.
2. In architecture, a term applied to the Corinthian and composite capitals, which bear some resemblance to a drum. It is also called the vase, and campana, or the bell.
3. A little box of timber work covered with a ceiling, within the porches of certain churches.
4. A round course of stones, several of which form the shaft of a pillar, not so high as a diameter.
5. In the arts, a species of embroidery, wrought on a kind of cushion or spherical body, which is properly the tambor and so names from its resemblance to a drum.
TAM'BOR, verb transitive To embroider with a tambor
TAM'BORIN, noun
1. A small Drum.
2. A lively French dance, formerly in vogue in operas.
TAME, adjective
1. That has lost its native wildness and shyness; mild; accustomed to man; domestic; as a tame deer; a tame bird.
2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
And you, tame slaves of the laborious plow.
3. Spiritless; unanimated; as a tame poem. [Not elegant nor in use.
TAME, verb transitive [Latin domo; Heb. to be silent, dumb.]
1. To reclaim; to reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; as, to tame a wild beast.
2. To civilize; as, to tame the ferocious inhabitants of the forest.
3. To subdue; to conquer; to depress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
4. To subdue; to repress; as wildness or licentiousness.
The tongue can no man tame James 3:8.
TA'MED, participle passive Reclaimed from wildness; domesticated; made gentle; subdued.
TA'MELESS, adjective Wild; untamed; untamable. [Not much used.]
TA'MELY, adverb With unresisting submission; meanly; servilely; without manifesting spirit; as, to submit tamely to oppression; to bear reproach tamely
TA'MENESS, noun The quality of being tame or gentle; a state of domestication.
1. Unresisting submission; meanness in bearing insults or injuries; want of spirit.
TA'MER, noun One that tames or subdues; one that reclaims from wildness.
TA'MING, participle present tense Reclaiming from a wild state; civilizing; subduing.
TAM'INY
TAM'KIN, noun A stopper. [See Tampion.]
TAM'MY noun A woolen stuff.
TAM'PER, verb intransitive To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; , as to tamper with a disease.
1. To meddle; to have to do with without fitness or necessity.
'Tis dangerous tamp'ring with a muse.
2. To deal; to practice secretly.
Others tamper'd
For Fleetwood, Desborough and Lambert.
TAM'PERING, participle present tense Meddling; dealing; practicing secretly.
TAM'PERING, noun The act of meddling or practicing secretly.
TAMP'ING, noun [allied probably to tame, dam, stem, stamp, etc.]
The matter that is driven into the hole bored into any thing for blasting. The powder being first put into the hole, and a tube for a conductor of the fire, the hole is rammed to fullness with brick-dust or other matter. This is called tamping
TAM'PION
TAM'POE, noun A fruit of the East Indies, somewhat resembling an apple. It is eaten by the natives, and called sometimes mangoustan, though a different fruit and less agreeable to the taste.
TAM'POE, n. A fruit of the East Indies, somewhat resembling an apple. It is eaten by the natives, and called sometimes mangoustan, though a different fruit and less agreeable to the taste.
TAM'TAM, noun A large flat drum used by the Hindoos.
TAN, verb transitive
1. In the arts, to convert animal skins into leather by steeping them in an infusion of oak or some other bark, by which they are impregnated with tannin, an astringent substance which exists in several species of bark, and thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree, impervious to water.
2. To make brown; to imbrown by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
His face all tann'd with scorching sunny rays.
TAN, noun The bark of the oak, etc. bruised and broken by a mill for tanning hides. It bears this name before and after it has been used. tan after being used in tanning, is used in gardening for making hotbeds; and it is also made into cakes and used as fuel.
TAN'-BED, noun [tan and bed.] In gardening, a bed made of tan; a bark bed.
TANG, noun [Gr. rancor; rancid.]
1. A strong taste; particularly, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
2. Relish; taste. [Not elegant.]
3. Something that leaves a sting or pain behind.
She had a tongue with a tang
4. Sound; tone. [Not in use.]
TANG, verb intransitive To ring with. [Not in use.]
[This may be allied to ding, dong.]
TAN'GENT, noun [Latin tangens, touching. See Touch.]
In geometry, a right line which touches a curve, but which when produced, does not cut it. In trigonometry, the tangent of an arc, is a right line touching the arc at one extremity, and terminated by a second passing through the other extremity.
TANGIBIL'ITY, noun [from tangible.] The quality of being perceptible to the touch or sense of feeling.
TAN'GIBLE, adjective [from Latin tango, to touch.]
1. Perceptible by the touch; tactile.
2. That may be possessed or realized.
TAN'GLE, verb transitive
1. To implicate; to unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to ravel the knot.
2. To ensnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in the folds of dire necessity.
Tangled in amorous nets.
3. To embroil; to embarrass.
When my simple weakness strays,
Tangled in forbidden ways.
[Entangle, the compound, is the more elegant word.]
TAN'GLE, verb intransitive To be entangled or united confusedly.
TAN'GLE, noun A knot of threads or other things united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; as hair or yarn in tangled.
1. A kind of sea weed.
TAN'IST, noun [Gr. a lord, to be powerful or able; Latin teneo.]
Among the descendants of the Celts in Ireland, a lord, or the proprietor of a tract of land; a governor or captain. This office or rank was elective, and often obtained by purchase or bribery.
TAN'ISTRY, noun In Ireland, a tenure of lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, and to this 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 wars in families.
TANK, noun A large bason or cistern; a reservoir of water.
TANK'ARD, noun A large vessel for liquors, or a drinking vessel, with a cover.
Marius was the first who drank out of a silver tankard after the manner of Bacchus.
TAN'LING, noun One tanned or scorched by the heat of the sun.
TAN'NED, participle passive [from tan.] converted into leather. [See Tan.]
1. Darkened by the rays of the sun.
TAN'NER, noun One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
TAN'NERY, noun The house and apparatus for tanning.
TAN'NIERS, noun A variety of the arum esculentum, an esculent root.
TAN'NIN, noun The chimical name of that astringent substance contained in vegetables, particularly in the bark of the oak and chestnut, and in gall-nut; the substance used to change raw hides into leather.
TAN'NING, participle present tense Converting raw hides into leather.
TAN'REC, noun A quadruped of the Indies, larger than a rat.
TAN'SY, noun s as z. [Latin tanacetum.] A plant of the genus Tanacetum, of many species. It is extremely bitter to the taste, and used for medicinal and culinary purposes.
TANT, noun A small spider with two eyes and eight long legs, and of an elegant scarlet color.
TAN'TALISM, noun [See Tantalize.] The punishment of Tantalus, a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable.
Is not such a provision like tantalism to this people?
TAN'TALITE, noun The ore of tantalum or columbium, a newly discovered metal. It is an iron black color, sometimes with a tinge of blue. It is imbedded in angular pieces, from the size of a pea to that of a hazel-nut.
TANTALIZA'TION, noun The act of tantalizing.
TAN'TALIZE, verb transitive [from Tantalus, in fable, who was condemned for his crimes to perpetual hunger and thirst, with food and water near him which he could not reach.]
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 tantaliz'd thy life.
TAN'TALIZED, participle passive Teased or tormented by the disappointment of the hope of good.
TAN'TALIZER, noun One that tantalizes.
TAN'TALIZING, participle present tense Teasing or tormenting by presenting to the view some unattainable good.
TAN'TALUM, noun Columbium, the metal obtained from tantalite, newly discovered.
TANT'AMOUNT, adjective [Latin tantus, so much, and amount.] Equal; equivalent in value or signification; as a sum tantamount to all our expenses. Silence is sometimes tantamount to consent.
TAN'TIVY, adverb [Latin tanta vi.] To ride tantivy is to ride with great speed.
TANT'LING, noun [See Tantalize.] One seized with the hope of pleasure unattainable.
TAP, verb transitive To strike with something small, or to strike a very gentle blow; to touch gently; as, to tap one with the hand; to tap one on the shoulder with a cane.
TAP, verb intransitive To strike a gentle blow. He tapped at the door.
TAP, verb transitive
1. To pierce or broach a cask, and insert a tap
2. To open a cask and draw liquor.
3. To pierce for letting out a fluid; as, to tap a tumor; to tap a dropsical person.
4. To box, or bore into; as, to tap a maple tree to obtain the sap for making sugar.
TAP, noun A gentle blow; a slight blow with a small thing.
She gives her right hand woman a tap on the shoulder.
1. A spile or pipe for drawing liquor from a cask.
TAPE, noun A narrow fillet or band; a narrow piece of woven work, used for strings and the like; as curtains tied with tape
TA'PER, noun A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle, or a small light.
Get me a taper in my study, Lucius.
TA'PER, adjective [supposed to be from the form of a taper ]
Regularly narrowed towards the point; becoming small towards one end; conical; pyramidical; as taper fingers.
TA'PER, verb intransitive To diminish or become gradually smaller towards one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers towards a point.
TA'PER, verb transitive To make gradually smaller in diameter.
TA'PERING, participle present tense Making gradually smaller.
1. adjective Becoming regularly smaller in diameter towards one end; gradually diminishing towards a point.
TA'PERNESS, noun The state of being taper.
TAP'ESTRY, noun [Latin tapes, tapestry ] A kind of woven hangings of wool and silk, often enriched with gold and silver, representing figures of men, animals, landscapes, etc.
TA'PET, noun [supra.] Worked or figured stuff.
TAPETI, noun An American animal of the hare kind.
TA'PIR, noun A quadruped of S. America, about 6 feet long and 3 l/2 high, resembling a hog in shape, with a short movable proboscis. It frequents the water, like the hippopotamus.
TA'PIS, noun Tapestry. Upon the tapis under consideration, or on the table.
TAP'PED, participle passive Broached; opened.
TAP'PING, participle present tense Broaching; opening for the discharge of a fluid.
TAP'-ROOT, noun [tap and root.] The main root of a plant, which penetrates the earth directly downwards to a considerable depth.
TAP'STER, noun One whose business is to draw ale or other liquor.
T'AR, noun [Eng. tare, in commerce.]
1. A thick resinous substance of a dark brown or black color, obtained from pine and fir trees, by burning the wood with a close smothering heat.
Tar inspissated is called pitch, and is much used in ships and cordage.
2. A sailor; so called form his tarred clothes.
T'AR, verb transitive To smear with tar; as, to tar ropes.
1. To tease; to provoke. [Not in use.]
TARA'BE, noun A large parrot with a red head.
TARAN'TULA, noun A species of spider, the Aranea tarantula so called, it is said, from Tarentum in Apulia, where this animal is mostly found; a venomous insect, whose bite gives name to a new disease, called tarantismus. This is said to be cured by music.
TARAN'TULATE, verb transitive To excite or govern emotions by music.
TAR'AQUIRA, noun A species of American lizard.
TARA'REAN, adjective Pertaining to Tartary, in Asia.
Tartaric acid, the acid of tartar.
TARA'REOUS, adjective Hellish; pertaining to Tartarus.
TARDA'TION, noun [Latin tardo. See Tardy.] The act of retarding or delaying. [Not used. We use for this, retardation.]
T'ARDIGRADE
T'ARDIGRADOUS, adjective [Latin tardigradus; tardus, slow, and gradus, step.]
Slow-paced; moving or stepping slowly.
T'ARDIGRADE, noun The tardigrades are a genus of edentate quadrupeds, including the genus Bradypus or sloth.
T`ARDIGRADOUS, a. [L. tardigradus; tardus, slow, and gradus, step.]
Slow-paced; moving or stepping slowly.
T'ARDILY, adverb [from tardy.] Slowly; with slow pace or motion.
T'ARDINESS, noun [from tardy.] Slowness; or the slowness of motion or pace.
1. Unwillingness; reluctance manifested by slowness.
2. Lateness; as the tardiness of witnesses or jurors in attendance; the tardiness of students in attending prayers or recitation.
T'ARDITY, noun [Latin tarditas.] Slowness; tardiness. [Not used.]
T'ARDY, adjective [Latin tardus.]
1. Slow; with a slow pace or motion.
And check the tardy flight of time.
2. Late; dilatory; not being in season.
The tardy plants in our cold orchards plac'd
You may freely censure him for being tardy in his payments.
3. Slow; implying reluctance.
Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave.
4. Unwary. [Not in use.]
5. Criminal. [Not in use.]
T'ARDY, verb intransitive To delay. [Not in use.]
TARE, noun [I know not the origin of this word. See the next word.]
1. A weed that grows among corn.
Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13:36.
2. In agriculture, a plant of the vetch kind, of which there are two sorts, the purple flowered spring or summer tare and the purple-flowered wild or winter tare It is much cultivated in England for fodder.
TARE, noun
1. In commerce, deficiency in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag or other thing containing the commodity, and which is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity from the weight or quantity of a commodity sold in a cask, chest, bag or the like, which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, chest or bag; or the abatement may be on the price of the commodity sold. When the tare is deducted, the remainder is called the net or neat weight.
TARE, verb transitive To ascertain or mark the amount of tare
TARE, old preterit tense of tear. WE now use tore.
TA'RED, participle passive Having the tare ascertained and marked.
T'ARGE, for target, is obsolete.
T'ARGET, noun
1. A shield or buckler of a small kind, used as a defensive weapon in war.
2. A mark for the artillery to fire at in their practice.
T'ARGETED, adjective Furnished or armed with a target.
T'ARGETEE'R, noun One armed with a target.
T'ARGUM, noun A translation or paraphrase of the sacred Scriptures in the Chaldee language or dialect. Of these the targum of Jonathan, and that of Onkelos, are held in most esteem by the Jews.
T'ARGUMIST, noun The writer of a Targum.
TAR'IF, noun
1. Properly, a list or table of goods with the duties or customs to be paid for the same, either on importation or exportation, whether such duties are imposed by the government of a country, or agreed on by the princes or governments of two countries holding commerce with each other.
2. A list or table of duties or customs to be paid on goods imported or exported.
TAR'IF, verb transitive To make a list of duties on goods.
TAR'IN, noun A bird of the genus Fringilla, kept in cages for its beauty and fine notes; the citrinella.
TA'RING, participle present tense Ascertaining or marking the amount of tare.
T'ARN, noun A bog, a marsh; a fen.
T'ARNISH, verb transitive
1. To sully; to soil by an alteration induced by the air, or by dust and the like; to diminish or destroy luster; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the brightness or beauty of color.
2. To diminish or destroy the purity of; as to tarnish reputation or honor.
T'ARNISH, verb intransitive To lose luster; to become dull; as, polished substances of gilding will tarnish in the course of time. Metals tarnish by oxydation.
T'ARNISHED, participle passive Sullied; having lost its brightness by oxydation, or by some alteration induced by exposure to air, dust and the like.
Gold and silver, when tarnished resume their brightness by setting them over certain lyes. Copper and pewter, etc. tarnished recover their luster with tripoli and potashes.
T'ARNISHING, participle passive Sullying; losing brightness.
T'ARPAU'LIN, noun [from tar.] A piece of canvas well daubed with tar, and used to cover the hatchways of a ship to prevent rain or water from entering the hold.
1. A sailor; in contempt.
TAR'RACE
TAR'RAGON, noun A plant of the genus Artemisia, (A. dracunculus, ) celebrated for perfuming vinegar in France.
TAR'RAGON, n. A plant of the genus Artemisia, (A. dracunculus, ) celebrated for perfuming vinegar in France.
TAR'RASS
T'ARRED, participle passive Smeared with tar.
T`ARRED, pp. Smeared with tar.
TAR'RIANCE, noun [from tarry.] A tarrying; delay; lateness. [Not in use.]
TAR'RIER, noun A dog. [See Terrier.]
1. [from tarry.] One who tarries or delays.
T'ARRING, participle present tense Smearing with tar.
TAR'ROCK, noun A sea fowl of the genus Larus or gull kind, the Latin tridactylus. It is of the size of the common pigeon, and is remarkable for having no hind toe, but in lieu of it a small protuberance.
TAR'RY, verb intransitive [Latin taurus, a bull.]
1. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.
Tarry all night and wash your feet. Genesis 19:2.
2. To stay behind. Exodus 12:39.
3. To stay in expectation; to wait.
Tarry ye here for us, till we come again to you. Exodus 24:14.
4. To delay; to put off going or coming; to defer.
Come down to me, tarry not. Genesis 45:9.
5. To remain; to stay.
He that telleth lies, shall not tarry in my sight. Psalms 101:7.
TAR'RY, verb transitive To wait for.
I cannot tarry dinner. [Not in use.]
T'ARRY, adjective [from tar.] Consisting of tar, or like tar.
TAR'RYING, participle present tense Staying; delaying.
TAR'RYING, noun Delay. Psalms 40:17.
[This word is in respectable use.]
T'ARSEL, noun A kind of hawk.
T'ARSUS, noun That part of the foot to which the leg is articulated, the front of which is called the instep.
T'ART, adjective
1. Acid; sharp to the taste; acidulous; as a tart apple.
2. Sharp; keen; severe; as a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke.
T'ART, noun [Latin tortus, twisted; and this may be the primary sense of tar, acid, sharp, and hence this noun, something acid or made of acid fruit.] A species of pie or pastry, consisting of fruit baked on paste.
T'ARTAN, noun A small coasting vessel with one mast and a bowsprit, and the principal sail, which is very large, extended by a lateen-yard.
T'ARTAR, noun
1. An acid concrete salt, formed from wines completely fermented, and adhering to the sides of the casks in the form of a hard crust. It is white or red, the white being most esteemed. In its crude state, it is much used as a flux in the assaying of ores.
Tartar is a supertartrate of potash; that is, a compound of tartaric acid and potash, having the acid in excess.
2. A person of a keen irritable temper.
3. A native of Tartary; a corruption of Tatar.
T'ARTAR, noun [Latin Tartarus.] Hell. [Not in use.]
TARTA'REAN
TARTA'REOUS, adjective Consisting of tartar; resembling tartar, or partaking of its properties.
TARTA'REOUS, a. Consisting of tartar; resembling tartar, or partaking of its properties.
TARTAR'IC
T'ARTARIN, noun [from tartar.] Fixed vegetable alkali or potash.
T`ARTARIN, n. [from tartar.] Fixed vegetable alkali or potash.
T'ARTARINATED, adjective Combined with tartarin.
T'ARTARIZE, verb transitive To impregnate with tartar; to refine by means of the salt of tartar.
T'ARTARIZED, participle passive Impregnated with tartar; refined by tartar.
T'ARTARIZING, participle present tense Impregnating with tartar; refining by means of the salt of tartar.
T'ARTAROUS, adjective Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities.
T'ARTARUM, noun A preparation of tartar, called petrified tartar.
T'ARTISH, adjective [from tart.] Somewhat tart.
T'ARTLY, adverb Sharply; with acidity.
1. Sharply; with poignancy; severely; as, to reply or rebuke tartly
2. With sourness of aspect.
T'ARTNESS, noun Acidity; sharpness to the taste; as the tartness of wine or fruit.
1. Sharpness of language or manner; poignancy; keenness; severity; as the tartness of rebuke.
T'ARTRATE'ARTRITE, noun [from tartar.] A salt formed by the combination of tartarous or tartaric acid with a base; as tartrite of potash; tartrite of soda.
T'ARTUFFISH, adjective Precise; formal. [Not in use.]
T'ASK, noun
1. Business imposed by another, often a definite quantity or amount of labor. Each man has his task When he has performed his task his time is his own. Exodus 5:14.
2. Business; employment.
His mental powers were equal to greater tasks.
3. Burdensome employment.
To take to task to reprove; to reprimand; as, to take one to task for idleness.
T'ASK, verb transitive
1. To impose a task; to assign to one a definite amount of business or labor.
2. To burden with some employment; to require to perform.
There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.
T'ASKED, participle passive Required to perform something.
T'ASKER, noun One that imposes a task.
T'ASKING, participle present tense Imposing a task on; requiring to perform.
T'ASKMASTER, noun [task and master.] One who imposes a task, or burdens with labor. Sinful propensities and appetites are men's most unrelenting taskmasters. They condemn us to unceasing drudgery, and reward us with pain, remorse and poverty. Next to our sinful propensities, fashion is the most oppressive taskmaster
1. One whose office is to assign tasks to others. Exodus 1:3.
TAS'SEL, noun
1. A sort of pendant ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains and the like, ending in loose threads.
2. A small ribbon of silk sewed to a book, to be put between the leaves.
3. In building, tassels are the pieces of boards that lie under the mantle-tree.
4. A burr. [See Teasel.]
5. A male hawk; properly terzol.
TAS'SELED, adjective Furnished or adorned with tassels; as the tasseled horn.
TAS'SES, noun plural Armor for the thighs; appendages to the ancient corslet, consisting of skirts of iron that covered the thighs. They were fastened to the cuirass with hooks.
TASTABLE, adjective [from taste.] That may be tasted; savory; relishing.
TASTE, verb transitive
1. To perceive by means of the tongue; to have a certain sensation in consequence of something applied to the tongue, the organ of taste; as, to taste bread; to taste wine; to taste a sweet or an acid.
2. To try the relish of by the perception of the organs of taste
3. To try by eating a little; or to eat a little.
Because I tasted a little of this honey. 1 Samuel 14:43.
4. To essay first.
5. To have pleasure from.
6. To experience; to feel; to undergo.
That he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. Hebrews 2:9.
7. To relish intellectually; to enjoy.
Thou, Adam, wilt taste no pleasure.
8. To experience by shedding, as blood.
When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse.
TASTE, verb intransitive To try by the mouth; to eat or drink; or to eat or drink a little only; as, to taste of each kind of wine.
1. To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the quality or flavor is distinguished; as, butter tastes of garlic; apples boiled in a brass-kettle, sometimes taste of brass.
2. To distinguish intellectually.
Scholars, when good sense describing,
Call it tasting and imbibing.
3. To try the relish of any thing. taste of the fruits; taste for yourself.
4. To be tinctured; to have a particular quality or character.
Ev'ry idle, nice and wanton reason
Shall, to the king, taste of this action.
5. To experience; to have perception of.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
6. To take to be enjoyed.
Of nature's bounty men forbore to taste
7. To enjoy sparingly.
For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
8. To have the experience or enjoyment of.
They who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and the good word of God. Hebrews 6:4.
TASTE, noun The act of tasting; gustation.
1. A particular sensation excited in an animal by the application of a substance to the tongue, the proper organ; as the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste
2. The sense by which we perceive the relish of a thing. This sense appears to reside in the tongue or its papillae. Men have a great variety of tastes. In the influenza of 1790, the taste for some days, was entirely extinguished.
3. Intellectual relish; as, he had no taste of true glory.
I have no taste
Of popular applause.
[Note. In this use, the word is now followed by for. 'He had no taste for glory.' When followed by of, the sense is ambiguous, or rather it denotes experience, trial.]
4. Judgment; discernment; nice perception, or 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 lettres. taste is not wholly the gift of nature, nor wholly the effect of art. It depends much on culture. We say, a good taste or a fine taste
5. Style; manner, with respect to what is pleasing; as a poem or music composed in good taste
6. Essay; trial; experiment. [Not in use.]
7. A small portion given as a specimen.
8. A bit; a little piece tasted or eaten.
TASTED, participle passive Perceived by the organs of taste; experienced.
TASTEFUL, adjective Having a high relish; savory; as tasteful herbs.
1. Having good taste.
TASTEFULLY, adverb With good taste.
TASTELESS, adjective Having no taste; insipid; as tasteless fruit.
1. Having no power of giving pleasure; as tasteless amusements.
2. Having no power to perceive taste. [Not used.]
3. Having no intellectual gust. [Little used.]
TASTELESSNESS, noun Want of taste or relish; insipidness; as the tastelessness of fruit.
1. Want of perception of taste. [Not in use.]
2. Want of intellectual relish. [Not in use.]
TASTER, noun One who tastes.
1. One who first tastes food or liquor.
Thy tutor be thy taster e'er thou eat.
2. A dram cup.
TASTILY, adverb With good taste.
TASTING, participle present tense Perceiving by the tongue.
1. Trying; experiencing; enjoying or suffering.
TASTING, noun The art of perceiving by the tongue.
1. The sense by which we perceive of distinguish savors; or the perception of external objects through the instrumentality of the tongue or organs of taste.
TASTY, adjective Having a good taste, or nice perception of excellence; applied to persons; as a tasty lady.
1. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
TAT'TER, verb transitive To rend or tear into rags. [Not used except in the participle.]
TAT'TER, noun A rag, or a part torn and hanging to the thing; chiefly used in the plural, tatters.
TATTERDEMA'LION, noun A ragged fellow.
TAT'TERED, participle passive or adjective Rent; torn; hanging in rags; as a tattered garment.
Where wav'd the tatter'd ensigns of Rag-fair.
TAT'TLE, verb intransitive
1. To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning.
Excuse it by the tattling quality of age, which is always narrative.
2. To tell tales; to communicate secrets; as a tattling girl.
TAT'TLE, noun Prate, idle talk or chat; trifling talk.
They told the tattle of the day.
TAT'TLER, noun One who tattles; an idle talker; one that tells tales.
TAT'TLING, participle present tense Talking idly; telling tales.
1. adjective Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales.
TATTOO', noun [Eng. tap.] A beat of drum at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp.
TATTOO', verb transitive [In the South Sea isles.] To prick the skin, and stain the punctured spots with a black substance, forming lines and figures upon the body. In some isles, the inhabitants tattoo the face, in others only the body. The same practice exists among other rude nations.
TATTOO', noun Figures on the body made by punctures and stains in lines and figures.
TATTOO'ED, participle passive Marked by stained lines and figures on the body.
TATTOO'ING, participle present tense Marking with various figures by stained lines.
TAU, noun The toad fish of Carolina, a species of Gadus.(G.tau.)
1. A species of beetle; also, a species of moth, (Phalena; ) also, a kind of fly, (Musca.)
TAUGHT, adjective taut. [from the root of tight.] Stretched; not slack.
TAUGHT, preterit tense and participle passive of teach. pronoun taut. [Latin doctus.]
Experience taught him wisdom. He has been taught in the school of experience.
T'AUNT, verb transitive
1. To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid.
When I had at my pleasure taunted her--
2. To exprobrate; to censure.
Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase, and taunt my faults.
T'AUNT, noun Upbraiding words; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.
With sacrilegious taunt and impious jest.
T'AUNTED, participle passive Upbraided with sarcastic or severe words.
T'AUNTER, noun One who taunts, reproaches or upbraids with sarcastic or censorious reflections.
T'AUNTING, participle present tense Treating with severe reflections; upbraiding.
T'AUNTINGLY, adverb With bitter and sarcastic words; insultingly; scoffingly.
TAUR'ICORNOUS, adjective [Latin taurus, a bull, and cornu, horn.]
Having horns like a bull.
TAUR'IFORM, adjective [Latin taurus, a bull, and form.]
Having the form of a bull.
TAUR'US, noun [Latin] The bull; one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the second in order, or that next to Aries. This constellation, according to the British catalogue, contains 141 stars.
TAUTOLOG'IC
TAUTOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Tautology.] Repeating the same thing; having the same signification; as a tautological expression or phrase.
Tautological echo, an echo that repeats the same sound or syllable many times.
TAUTOLOG'ICAL, a. [See Tautology.] Repeating the same thing; having the same signification; as a tautological expression or phrase.
Tautological echo, an echo that repeats the same sound or syllable many times.
TAUTOL'OGIST, noun One who uses different words or phrases in succession to express the same sense.
TAUTOL'OGIZE, verb intransitive To repeat the same thing in different words.
TAUTOL'OGY, noun [Gr. the same, and word or expression.]
A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of a thing in different words or phrases; or a representation of any thing as the cause, condition of consequence of itself, as in the following lines.
The dawn in overcast, the morning low'rs,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day.
TAV'ERN, noun [Latin taberna; tab, the root of table, a board.]
A house licensed to see liquors in small quantities, to be drank on the spot. In some of the United States, tavern is synonymous with inn or hotel, and denotes a house for the entertainment of travelers, as well as for the sale of liquors, licensed for that purpose.
TAV'ERNER
TAV'ERNING, noun A feasting at taverns.
TAV'ERNING, n. A feasting at taverns.
TAW, verb transitive To dress white leather or alum leather; to dress and prepare skins in white, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats and kids, for gloves and the like.
TAW, noun A marble to be played with.
TAW'DRILY, adverb In a tawdry manner.
TAW'DRINESS, noun [from tawdry.] Tinsel in dress; excessive finery; ostentatious finery without elegance.
A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress.
TAW'DRY, adjective Very fine and showy in colors without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; as a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.
He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers.
TAW'DRY, noun A slight ornament.
TAW'ED, participle passive Dressed and made white, as leather.
TAW'ER, noun A dresser of white leather.
TAW'ING, participle present tense Dressing, as white leather.
TAW'ING, noun The art and operation of preparing skins and forming them into white leather.
TAW'NY, adjective Of a yellowish dark color, like things tanned, or persons who are sun-burnt; as a tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny sons of Numidia; the tawny lion.
TAX, noun [Latin taxo, to tax ]
1. A rate or sum of money assessed on the person or property of a citizen by government, for the use of the nation or state. Taxes, in free governments, are usually laid upon the property of citizens according to their income, or the value of their estates. tax is a term of general import, including almost every species of imposition on persons or property for supplying the public treasury, as tolls, tribute, subsidy, excise, impost, or customs. But more generally, tax is limited to the sum laid upon polls, lands, houses, horses, cattle, professions and occupations. So we speak of a land tax a window tax a tax on carriages, etc. Taxes are annual or perpetual.
2. A sum imposed on the persons and property of citizens to defray the expenses of a corporation, society, parish or company; as a city tax a county tax a parish tax and the like. So a private association may lay a tax on its members for the use of the association.
3. That which is imposed; a burden. The attention that he gives to public business is a heavy tax on his time.
4. Charge; censure.
5. Task.
TAX, verb transitive [Latin taxo.]
1. To law, impose or assess upon citizens a certain sum of money or amount of property, to be paid to the public treasury, or to the treasury of a corporation or company, to defray the expenses of the government or corporation, etc.
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly, than we are taxed by government.
2. To load with a burden or burdens.
The narrator--never taxes our faith beyond the obvious bounds of probability.
3. To assess, fix or determine judicially, as the amount of cost on actions in court; as, the court taxes bills of cost.
4. To charge; to censure; to accuse; usually followed by with; as, to tax a man with pride. He was taxed with presumption.
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
[To tax of a crime, is not in use, nor to tax for. Both are now improper.]
TAX'ABLE, adjective That may be taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as taxable estate. By the laws of some states, polls are taxable after the age of seventy.
1. That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff or defendant in a suit; as taxable costs.
TAXA'TION, noun [Latin taxatio.] A taxing; the act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes on the subjects of a state by government, or on the members of a corporation or company by the proper authority. taxation is probably the most difficult subject of legislation.
1. Tax; sum imposed. [Little used.]
He daily such taxations did exact--
2. Charge; accusation. [Little us
3. The act of taxing or assessing a bill of cost.
TAX'ED, participle passive Rated; assessed; accused.
TAX'ER, noun One who taxes.
1. In Cambridge, two officers chosen yearly to see the true gauge of weights and measures observed.
TAX'IARCH, noun [Gr. order, and chief.] An Athenian military officer commanding a taxis or battalion.
TAX'IDERMY, noun [Gr. order, and skin.] The art of preparing and preserving specimens of animals.
TAX'ING, participle present tense Imposing a tax; assessing, as a bill of cost; accusing.
TAX'ING, noun The act of laying a tax; taxation. Luke 2:2.
TAXON'OMY, noun [Gr. order, and law.] Classification; a term used by a French author to denote the classification of plants.