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<p><hw>T</hw> <pr>(t&emacr;)</pr>, <def>the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant. With the letter <xex>h</xex> it forms the digraph <xex>th</xex>, which has two distinct sounds, as in <xex>th</xex>in, <xex>th</xex>en. See <xex>Guide to Pronunciation</xex>, &sect;&sect;262-264, and also &sect;&sect;153, 156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p>The letter derives its name and form from the Latin, the form of the Latin letter being further derived through the Greek from the Ph&oelig;nician. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian. It is etymologically most nearly related to <xex>d</xex>, <xex>s</xex>, <xex>th</xex>; as in <xex>t</xex>ug, <xex>d</xex>uke; <xex>t</xex>wo, <xex>d</xex>ual, L. <xex>d</xex>uo; re<xex>s</xex>in, L. re<xex>s</xex>ina, Gr. <grk>"rhti`nh</grk>, ten<xex>t</xex>, ten<xex>s</xex>e, a., <xex>t</xex>enuous, <xex>th</xex>in; nos<xex>t</xex>ril, <xex>th</xex>rill. See <er>D</er>, <er>S</er>.<br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><cs><col><b>T bandage</b></col> <fld>(Surg.)</fld>, <cd>a bandage shaped like the letter <universbold>T</universbold>, and used principally for application to the groin, or perineum.</cd> -- <col><b>T cart</b></col>, <cd>a kind of fashionable two seated wagon for pleasure driving.</cd> -- <col><b>T iron</b></col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A rod with a short crosspiece at the end, -- used as a hook.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>Iron in bars, having a cross section formed like the letter <universbold>T</universbold>, -- used in structures.</cd> -- <col><b>T rail</b></col>, <cd>a kind of rail for railroad tracks, having no flange at the bottom so that a section resembles the letter <universbold>T</universbold>.</cd> -- <col><b>T square</b></col>, <cd>a ruler having a crosspiece or head at one end, for the purpose of making parallel lines; -- so called from its shape. It is laid on a drawing board and guided by the crosspiece, which is pressed against the straight edge of the board. Sometimes the head is arranged to be set at different angles.</cd> -- <col><b>To a T</b></col>, <cd>exactly, perfectly; <as>as, to suit <ex>to a T</ex></as>.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cs><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Ta</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <def>To take.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Scot.]</mark>  <rj><au>Cursor Mundi.</au></rj><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><note>&hand_; Used by Chaucer to represent a peculiarity of the Northern dialect.</note><br/>
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<p><hw>Taas</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A heap. See <er>Tas</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Chaucer.</au></rj><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Tab</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Etymol. uncertain.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A tag. See <er>Tag</er>, 2.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>A loop for pulling or lifting something.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>6.</sn> <def>a small projecting piece of a file folder, file card, or similar sheet used in a filing system, on which a notation is written to permit convenient search for the folder, card, etc.</def><br/>
[<source>PJC</source>]</p>

<p><sn>7.</sn> <def>a bill or check for some purchase, as in a restaurant; <as>as, the salesman will pick up the <ex>tab</ex></as>.</def><br/>
[<source>PJC</source>]</p>

<p><sn>8.</sn> <def>a key on a typewriter or computer keyboard which advances the carriage or curser to the next (preset) tab position; -- used especially to type or print text or numbers in columns.</def><br/>
[<source>PJC</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Ta*bac"co</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>Tobacco.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>B. Jonson.</au></rj><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p>&Verbar;<hw>Ta*ba"nus</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[L., horsefly.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Tab"ard</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[OE. <ets>tabard</ets>, <ets>tabart</ets>; cf. Sp. &amp; Pg. <ets>tabardo</ets>, It. <ets>tabarro</ets>, W. <ets>tabar</ets>, LGr. <grk>tampa`rion</grk>, LL. <ets>tabardum</ets>.]</ety> <def>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.</def> <altsp>[Spelt also <asp>taberd</asp>.]</altsp><br/>
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<p><q>In a <qex>tabard</qex> he [the Plowman] rode upon a mare.</q> <rj><qau>Chaucer.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"ard*er</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>One who wears a tabard.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard.</def>  <rj><au>Nares.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"a*ret</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. <er>Tabby</er>.]</ety> <def>A stout silk having satin stripes, -- used for furniture.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Ta*bas"co sauce</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>. <ety>[So named after <etsep>Tabasco</etsep>, a river and state of Mexico.]</ety> <def>A kind of very pungent sauce made from red peppers.</def><br/>
[<source>Webster 1913 Suppl.</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Tab`a*sheer"</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Per. <ets>tab&amacr;sh&imacr;r</ets>: cf. Skr. <ets>tvakksh&imacr;r&amacr;</ets>, <ets>tvaksh&imacr;r&amacr;</ets>.]</ety> <def>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.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Tab"bi*net</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. <er>Tabby</er>.]</ety> <def>A fabric like poplin, with a watered surface.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>tabinet</asp>.]</altsp><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Tab"by</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Tabbies</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[F. <ets>tabis</ets> (cf. It. <ets>tab&igrave;</ets>, Sp. &amp; Pg. <ets>tab&iacute;</ets>, LL. <ets>attabi</ets>), fr. Ar. <ets>'att&amacr;b&imacr;</ets>, properly the name of a quarter of Bagdad where it was made, the quarter being named from the prince <etsep>Attab</etsep>, great grandson of Omeyya.  Cf. <er>Tobine</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A kind of waved silk, usually called <altname>watered silk</altname>, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.</def>  <rj><au>Weale.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>An old maid or gossip.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>  <rj><au>Byron.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"by</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Having a wavy or watered appearance; <as>as, a <ex>tabby</ex> waistcoat</as>.</def>  <rj><au>Pepys.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Brindled; diversified in color; <as>as, a <ex>tabby</ex> cat</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Tabby moth</b></col> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld>, <cd>the grease moth. See under <er>Grease</er>.</cd></cs><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Tab"by</hw>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Tabbied</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Tabbying</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>.]</vmorph> <def>To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; <as>as, to <ex>tabby</ex> silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.</as></def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Tab`e*fac"tion</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[See <er>Tabefy</er>.]</ety> <def>A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Tab"e*fy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Tabefied</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Tabefying</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>.]</vmorph> <ety>[L. <ets>tabere</ets> to waste away + <ets>-fy</ets>: cf. L. <ets>tabefacere</ets> to melt.]</ety> <def>To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>  <rj><au>Harvey.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*bel"lion</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>tabellio</ets>, fr. <ets>tabella</ets> a tablet, a writing, document, dim. of <ets>tabula</ets> a board: cf. F. <ets>tabellion</ets>. See <er>Table</er>.]</ety> <def>A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Ta"ber</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <def>Same as <er>Tabor</er>.</def>  <rj><au>Nahum ii. 7.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"erd</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>See <er>Tabard</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"er*na*cle</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F., fr. L. <ets>tabernaculum</ets>, dim. of <ets>taberna</ets> nut. See <er>Tabern</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Dwelling in <qex>tabernacles</qex> with Isaac and Jacob.</q> <rj><qau>Heb. xi. 9.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>Orange trees planted in the ground, and secured in winter with a wooden <qex>tabernacle</qex> and stoves.</q> <rj><qau>Evelyn.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Jewish Antiq.)</fld> <def>A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.</def>  <rj><au>Ex. xxvi.</au></rj><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.</def>  <rj><au>Acts xv. 16.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Shortly I must put off this my <qex>tabernacle</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>2 Pet. i. 14.</qau></rj><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept.</def> Specifically: --<br/>
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<p><sd>(a)</sd> <def>The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(b)</sd> <def>A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(c)</sd> <def>Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(d)</sd> <def>A tryptich for sacred imagery.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(e)</sd> <def>A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>6.</sn> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><cs><col><b>Feast of Tabernacles</b></col> <fld>(Jewish Antiq.)</fld>, <cd>one of the three principal festivals of the Jews, lasting seven days, during which the people dwelt in booths formed of the boughs of trees, in commemoration of the habitation of their ancestors in similar dwellings during their pilgrimage in the wilderness.</cd> -- <col><b>Tabernacle work</b></col>, <cd>rich canopy work like that over the head of niches, used over seats or stalls, or over sepulchral monuments.</cd> <au>Oxf. Gloss.</au></cs><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Tab"er*na*cle</hw>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Tabernacled</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Tabernacling</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>.]</vmorph> <def>To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><q>He assumed our nature, and <qex>tabernacled</qex> among us in the flesh.</q> <rj><qau>Dr. J. Scott.</qau></rj><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Tab`er*nac"u*lar</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Formed in latticework; latticed.</def>  <rj><au>T. Warton.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low.</def> &ldquo;Horribly <xex>tabernacular</xex>.&rdquo;  <rj><au>De Quincey.</au></rj><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p>&Verbar;<hw>Ta"bes</hw> <pr>(t&amacr;"b&emacr;z)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[L., a wasting disease.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><cs><col><b>&Verbar;Tabes dorsalis</b></col> <pr>(t&amacr;"b&emacr;z d&ocirc;r*s&amacr;"l&ibreve_;s)</pr> <ety>[NL., tabes of the back]</ety>, <cd>locomotor ataxia; -- sometimes called simply <xex>tabes</xex>.</cd> -- <col><b>&Verbar;Tabes mesenterica</b></col> <pr>(&unr_;)</pr> <ety>[NL., mesenteric tabes]</ety>, <cd>a wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration.</cd></cs><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Ta*bes"cent</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>tabescens</ets> wasting, p. pr. of <ets>tabescere</ets>.]</ety> <def>Withering, or wasting away.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Ta*bet"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid.</def> -- <def2><pos>n.</pos> <def>One affected with tabes.</def></def2><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><hw>Tab"id</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>tabidus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>tabide</ets>. See <er>Tabes</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Affected by tabes; tabetic.</def><br/>
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>

<p><q>In <qex>tabid</qex> persons, milk is the bset restorative.</q> <rj><qau>Arbuthnot.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p>-- <wordforms><wf>Tab"id*ly</wf>, <pos>adv.</pos> -- <wf>Tab"id*ness</wf>, <pos>n.</pos></wordforms><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>Ta*bif"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Ta*bif"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[<ets>Tabes</ets> + L. <ets>facere</ets> to make.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"inet</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>See <er>Tabbinet</er>.</def>  <rj><au>Thackeray.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"la*ture</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>tablature</ets> ancient mode of musical notation. See <er>Table</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Paint.)</fld> <def>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.</def>  <rj><au>Shaftesbury.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes.</def><br/>
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<p><q>The chimes of bells are so rarely managed that I went up to that of Sir Nicholas, where I found who played all sorts of compositions from the <qex>tablature</qex> before him as if he had fingered an organ.</q> <rj><qau>Evelyn.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; <as>as, the <ex>tablature</ex> of the cranial bones</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"ble</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F., fr. L. <ets>tabula</ets> a board, tablet, a painting.  Cf. <er>Tabular</er>, <er>Taffrail</er>, <er>Tavern</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.</def><br/>
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<p><q>A bagnio paved with fair <qex>tables</qex> of marble.</q> <rj><qau>Sandys.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet</def>; <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>a memorandum book.</def> &ldquo;The names . . . written on his <xex>tables</xex>.&rdquo;  <rj><au>Chaucer.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><q>And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two <qex>tables</qex> of stone like unto the first, and I will write upon these <qex>tables</qex> the words that were in the first <qex>tables</qex>, which thou brakest.</q> <rj><qau>Ex. xxxiv. 1.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>And stand there with your <qex>tables</qex> to glean<br/>
The golden sentences.</q> <rj><qau>Beau. &amp; Fl.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced.</def> &ldquo;Painted in a <xex>table</xex> plain.&rdquo;  <rj><au>Spenser.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><q>The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which, with that other of the Infanta taking leave of Don Philip, is a most incomparable <qex>table</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Evelyn.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>St. Antony has a <qex>table</qex> that hangs up to him from a poor peasant.</q> <rj><qau>Addison.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule.</def> Specifically: --<br/>
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<p><sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Bibliog.)</fld> <def>A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; <as>as, a <ex>table</ex> of contents</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A list of substances and their properties; especially, the a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.</def>
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<p><sd>(c)</sd> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; <as>as, <ex>tables</ex> of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity <ex>tables</ex>; interest <ex>tables</ex>; astronomical <ex>tables</ex>, etc.</as></def><br/>
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<p><sd>(d)</sd> <fld>(Palmistry)</fld> <def>The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Mistress of a fairer <qex>table</qex><br/>
Hath not history for fable.</q> <rj><qau>B. Jonson.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working.</def><br/>
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<p><q>We may again<br/>
Give to our <qex>tables</qex> meat.</q> <rj><qau>Shak.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>The nymph the <qex>table</qex> spread.</q> <rj><qau>Pope.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>6.</sn> <def>Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; <as>as, to set a good <ex>table</ex></as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>7.</sn> <def>The company assembled round a table.</def><br/>
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<p><q>I drink the general joy of the whole <qex>table</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Shak.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>8.</sn> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diplo&euml;, in the walls of the cranium.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>9.</sn> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See <er>Water table</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>10.</sn> <fld>(Games)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>One of the divisions of a backgammon board; <as>as, to play into the right-hand <ex>table</ex></as>.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>The games of backgammon and of draughts.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Chaucer.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><q>This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice,<br/>
That, when he plays at <qex>tables</qex>, chides the dice.</q> <rj><qau>Shak.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>11.</sn> <fld>(Glass Manuf.)</fld> <def>A circular plate of crown glass.</def><br/>
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<p><q>A circular plate or <qex>table</qex> of about five feet diameter weighs on an average nine pounds.</q> <rj><qau>Ure.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>12.</sn> <fld>(Jewelry)</fld> <def>The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>13.</sn> <fld>(Persp.)</fld> <def>A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also <altname>perspective plane</altname>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>14.</sn> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.</def><br/>
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<p><cs><mcol><col><b>Bench table</b></col>, <col><b>Card table</b></col>, <col><b>Communion table</b></col>, <col><b>Lord's table</b></col></mcol>, <cd>etc. See under <er>Bench</er>, <er>Card</er>, etc.</cd> -- <col><b>Raised table</b></col> <fld>(Arch. &amp; Sculp.)</fld>, <cd>a raised or projecting member of a flat surface, large in proportion to the projection, and usually rectangular, -- especially intended to receive an inscription or the like.</cd> -- <col><b>Roller table</b></col> <fld>(Horology)</fld>, <cd>a flat disk on the arbor of the balance of a watch, holding the jewel which rolls in and out of the fork at the end of the lever of the escapement.</cd> -- <col><b>Round table</b></col>. <cd>See Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.</cd> -- <col><b>Table anvil</b></col>, <cd>a small anvil to be fastened to a table for use in making slight repairs.</cd> -- <col><b>Table base</b></col>. <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <cd>Same as <er>Water table</er>.</cd> -- <col><b>Table bed</b></col>, <cd>a bed in the form of a table.</cd> -- <col><b>Table beer</b></col>, <cd>beer for table, or for common use; small beer.</cd> -- <col><b>Table bell</b></col>, <cd>a small bell to be used at table for calling servants.</cd> -- <col><b>Table cover</b></col>, <cd>a cloth for covering a table, especially at other than mealtimes.</cd> -- <col><b>Table diamond</b></col>, <cd>a thin diamond cut with a flat upper surface.</cd> -- <col><b>Table linen</b></col>, <cd>linen tablecloth, napkins, and the like.</cd> -- <col><b>Table money</b></col> <fld>(Mil. or Naut.)</fld>, <cd>an allowance sometimes made to officers over and above their pay, for table expenses.</cd> -- <col><b>Table rent</b></col> <fld>(O. Eng. Law)</fld>, <cd>rent paid to a bishop or religious, reserved or appropriated to his table or housekeeping.</cd> <au>Burrill.</au> -- <col><b>Table shore</b></col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a low, level shore.</cd> -- <col><b>Table talk</b></col>, <cd>conversation at table, or at meals.</cd> -- <col><b>Table talker</b></col>, <cd>one who talks at table.</cd> -- <mcol><col><b>Table tipping</b></col>, <col><b>Table turning</b></col></mcol>, <cd>certain movements of tables, etc., attributed by some to the agency of departed spirits, and by others to the development of latent vital or spriritual forces, but more commonly ascribed to the muscular force of persons in connection with the objects moved, or to physical force applied otherwise.</cd> -- <mcol><col><b>Tables of a girder</b></col> <it>or</it> <col><b>Tables of a chord</b></col></mcol> <fld>(Engin.)</fld>, <cd>the upper and lower horizontal members.</cd> -- <col><b>To lay on the table</b></col>, <cd>in parliamentary usage, to lay, as a report, motion, etc., on the table of the presiding officer, -- that is, to postpone the consideration of, by a vote; -- also called to <altname>table</altname> .  It is a tactic often used with the intention of postponing consideration of a motion indefinitely, that is, to kill the motion.</cd> -- <col><b>To serve tables</b></col> <fld>(Script.)</fld>, <cd>to provide for the poor, or to distribute provisions for their wants.</cd> <au>Acts vi. 2.</au> -- <col><b>To turn the tables</b></col>, <cd>to change the condition or fortune of contending parties; -- a metaphorical expression taken from the vicissitudes of fortune in gaming.</cd> -- <col><b>Twelve tables</b></col> <fld>(Rom. Antiq.)</fld>, <cd>a celebrated body of Roman laws, framed by decemvirs appointed 450 years before Christ, on the return of deputies or commissioners who had been sent to Greece to examine into foreign laws and institutions. They consisted partly of laws transcribed from the institutions of other nations, partly of such as were altered and accommodated to the manners of the Romans, partly of new provisions, and mainly, perhaps, of laws and usages under their ancient kings.</cd> <au>Burrill.</au></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"ble</hw> <pr>(t&amacr;"b'l)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Tabled</conjf> <pr>(t&amacr;"b'ld)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Tabling</conjf> <pr>(t&amacr;"bling)</pr>.]</vmorph> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; <as>as, to <ex>table</ex> fines</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q><qex>Tabled</qex> and pictured in the chambers of meditation.</q> <rj><qau>Bacon.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>To supply with food; to feed.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Milton.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <fld>(Carp.)</fld> <def>To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>To lay or place on a table, as money.</def>  <rj><au>Carlyle.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>6.</sn> <def>In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>7.</sn> <def>To enter upon the docket; <as>as, to <ex>table</ex> charges against some one</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>8.</sn> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"ble</hw>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <def>To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> &ldquo;He . . . was driven from the society of men to <xex>table</xex> with the beasts.&rdquo;  <rj><au>South.</au></rj><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>Ta`bleau"</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Tableaux</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[F., dim. fr. L. <ets>tabula</ets> a painting. See <er>Table</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A striking and vivid representation; a picture.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Solitaire)</fld> <def>The arrangement, or layout, of cards.</def><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>Ta`bleau" vi`vant"</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Tableaux vivants</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>Same as <er>Tableau</er>, <pos>n.</pos>, 2.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"ble*book`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A tablet; a notebook.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Put into your <qex>tablebook</qex> whatever you judge worthy.</q> <rj><qau>Dryden.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"ble*cloth`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.</def><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>Ta"ble d'h&ocirc;te"</hw> <pr>(t&adot_;"bl' d&omacr;t`)</pr>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Tables d'h&ocirc;te</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[F., literally, table of the landlord.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Now, commonly, a meal, usually of several preselected and fixed courses, in a restaurant, hotel, or the like, for which one pays a fixed price.  Sometimes, a meal with optional courses for which one pays a fixed price irrespective of what one orders; but the latter is usuallyt referred to as a <contr>pris fixe</contr> meal or a <contr>a la carte</contr> meal. Often used adjectively; <as>as, a <ex>table-d'h&ocirc;te</ex> meal</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"ble-land`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.</def><br/>
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<p><q>The toppling crags of Duty scaled,<br/>
Are close upon the shining <qex>table-lands</qex><br/>
To which our God himself is moon and sun.</q> <rj><qau>Tennyson.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"ble*man</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Tablemen</plw> <pr>(&unr_;)</pr>.</plu> <def>A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See <er>Table</er>, <pos>n.</pos>, 10.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>  <rj><au>Bacon.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"ble*ment</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A table.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q><qex>Tablements</qex> and chapters of pillars.</q> <rj><qau>Holland.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"bler</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>One who boards.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>One who boards others for hire.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>B. Jonson.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"ble*spoon`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from <xex>teaspoon</xex>, <xex>dessert spoon</xex>, etc.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"ble*spoon`ful</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Tablespoonfuls</plw> <pr>(&unr_;)</pr>.</plu> <def>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.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"blet</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F. <ets>tablette</ets>, dim. of <ets>table</ets>. See <er>Table</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A small table or flat surface.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>Hence, a small picture; a miniature.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>A kind of pocket memorandum book.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>A flattish cake or piece; <as>as, <ex>tablets</ex> of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>6.</sn> <fld>(Pharm.)</fld> <def>A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also <altname>lozenge</altname>, and <altname>troche</altname>, especially when of a round or rounded form.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"ble*ware`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>Ware, or articles collectively, for use during meals, including, for example, <examp>dishes</examp>, <examp>plates</examp>, <examp>bowls</examp>, <examp>knives</examp>, <examp>forks</examp>, and <examp>spoons</examp>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Table work</hw>. <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>Typesetting of tabular nmatter, or the type matter set in tabular form.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"bling</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A forming into tables; a setting down in order.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Carp.)</fld> <def>The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A broad hem on the edge of a sail.</def>  <rj><au>Totten.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>Board; support.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Trence in English (1614).</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>Act of playing at tables. See <er>Table</er>, <pos>n.</pos>, 10.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Tabling house</b></col>, <cd>a gambling house.</cd> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <au>Northbrooke.</au></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"loid</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[A table-mark.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>a newspaper with pages about half the size of a standard-sized newspaper, especially one that has relatively short or condensed articles and a large porortion of pictorial matter.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"loid</hw> <pr>(t&abreve;b"loid)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; <as>as, a <ex>tabloid</ex> form of imparting information</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>of or pertaining to a tabloid newspaper or the type of story typically contained in one, such as lurid or sensationalistic stories of scandal, crime, or violence.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*boo"</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>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.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>tabu</asp>.]</altsp><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*boo"</hw>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Tabooed</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Tabooing</conjf>.]</vmorph> <def>To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; <as>as, to <ex>taboo</ex> the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals</as>.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>tabu</asp>.]</altsp><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*boo"</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <altsp>[Written also <asp>tabu</asp> and <asp>tapu</asp>.]</altsp> <ety>[Polynesian <ets>tabu</ets>, <ets>tapu</ets>, sacred, under restriction, a prohibition.]</ety> <def>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>as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be <ex>taboo</ex></as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"bor</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[OF. <ets>tabor</ets>, <ets>tabour</ets>, F. <ets>tambour</ets>; cf. Pr. <ets>tabor</ets>, <ets>tanbor</ets>, Sp. &amp; Pg. <ets>tambor</ets>, <ets>atambor</ets>, It. <ets>tamburo</ets>; all fr. Ar. &amp; Per. <ets>tamb&unr_;r</ets> a kind of lute, or giutar, or Per. <ets>tab&imacr;r</ets> a drum.  Cf. <er>Tabouret</er>, <er>Tambour</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>tabour</asp>, and <asp>taber</asp>.]</altsp><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"bor</hw>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Tabored</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Taboring</conjf>.]</vmorph> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>taborer</ets>.]</ety> <altsp>[Written also <asp>tabour</asp>.]</altsp> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To play on a tabor, or little drum.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>To strike lightly and frequently.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"bor</hw>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <def>To make (a sound) with a tabor.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"bor*er</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>One who plays on the tabor.</def>  <rj><au>Shak.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"o*ret</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Dim. of <ets>tabor</ets>.  Cf. <er>Tabret</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A small tabor.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>tabouret</asp>.]</altsp><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"o*rine</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[OF. <ets>tabourin</ets>, F. <ets>tambourin</ets>. See <er>Tabor</er>, and cf. <er>Tambourine</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A small, shallow drum; a tabor.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"bor*ite</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from <xex>Tabor</xex>, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"bour</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. &amp; v.</pos> <def>See <er>Tabor</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"ou*ret</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F., dim. of OF. <ets>tabor</ets>, <ets>tabour</ets>, drum. See <er>Tabor</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Same as <er>Taboret</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; -- so called from its resemblance to a drum.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>An embroidery frame.</def>  <rj><au>Knight.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Right of the tabouret</b></col>, <cd>the privilege of sitting on a tabouret in the presence of the severeign, formerly granted to certain ladies of high rank at the French court.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"rere</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A taborer.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Spenser.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"ret</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A taboret.</def>  <rj><au>Young.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*bu"</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. &amp; v.</pos> <def>See <er>Taboo</er>.</def><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>Tab"u*la</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Tabul&aelig;</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[L.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A table; a tablet.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.</def><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Tabula rasa</b></col> <pr>(&unr_;)</pr> <ety>[L.]</ety>, <cd>a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of <xex>innate ideas</xex>.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"u*lar</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>tabularis</ets>, fr. <ets>tabula</ets> a board, table. See <er>Table</er>.]</ety> <def>Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word).</def> Specifically: --<br/>
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<p><sd>(a)</sd> <def>Having a flat surface; <as>as, a <ex>tabular</ex> rock</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(b)</sd> <def>Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Nodules . . . that are <qex>tabular</qex> and plated.</q> <rj><qau>Woodward.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sd>(c)</sd> <def>Set in squares.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
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<p><sd>(d)</sd> <def>Arranged in a schedule; <as>as, <ex>tabular</ex> statistics</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(e)</sd> <def>Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; <as>as, <ex>tabular</ex> right ascension</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Tabular difference</b></col> <fld>(Math.)</fld>, <cd>the difference between two consecutive numbers in a table, sometimes printed in its proper place in the table.</cd> -- <col><b>Tabular spar</b></col> <fld>(Min.)</fld>, <cd>wollastonite.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab`u*lar*i*za"tion</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab"u*lar*ize</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Tabularized</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Tabularizing</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>.]</vmorph> <def>To tabulate.</def><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>Tab`u*la"ta</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. L. <ets>tabulatus</ets> floored.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera <gen>Pocillopora</gen> and Favosites are examples.</def>
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<p><hw>Tab"u*late</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Tabulated</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Tabulating</conjf>.]</vmorph> <ety>[L. <ets>tabula</ets> a table. See <er>Tabular</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.</def><br/>
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<p><q>A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be <qex>tabulated</qex>, and put in figures.</q> <rj><qau>I. Taylor.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>To shape with a flat surface.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tab`u*la"tion</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The act of forming into a table or tables; <as>as, the <ex>tabulation</ex> of statistics</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. <er>Tack</er>, <pos>n.</pos>, 4.]</ety> <fld>(O. Eng. Law)</fld> <def>A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records.</def>  <rj><au>Cowell. Burrill.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>Tac"a*ma*hac`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Tac`a*ma*ha"ca</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A bitter balsamic resin obtained from tropical American trees of the genus <gen>Elaphrium</gen> (<spn>Elaphrium tomentosum</spn> and <spn>Elaphrium Tacamahaca</spn>), and also from East Indian trees of the genus <gen>Calophyllum</gen>; also, the resinous exhudation of the balsam poplar.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Any tree yielding tacamahac resin, especially, in North America, the balsam poplar, or balm of Gilead (<spn>Populus balsamifera</spn>).</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*caud"</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>tacaud</ets>. See <er>Tomcod</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>The bib, or whiting pout.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>Tac`-au-tac"</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F., fr. <ets>riposter du tac au tac</ets> to parry (where <ets>tac</ets> imitates the sound made by the steel).]</ety> <fld>(Fencing)</fld> <def>The parry which is connected with a riposte; also, a series of quick attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tace</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See <xex>Illust.</xex> (6), under <er>Cross</er>, <pos>n.</pos></def>  <rj><au>Mollett.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tace</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>See <er>Tasse</er>.</def>  <rj><au>Fairholt.</au></rj><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>Ta"cet</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. impers.</pos> <ety>[L., it is silent, 3d pers.pr. of <ets>tacere</ets> to be silent.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>It is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tache</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[See <er>Tack</er> a kind of nail.]</ety> <def>Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Ex. xxvi. 6.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tache</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F. <ets>tache</ets> spot. See <er>Techy</er>.]</ety> <def>A spot, stain, or blemish.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Warner.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tach*hy"drite</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>tachy`s</grk> quick + <grk>"y`dwr</grk> water.  So named from its ready deliquescence.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A hydrous chloride of calcium and magnesium occurring in yellowish masses which rapidly deliquesce upon exposure.  It is found in the salt mines at <city>Stassfurt</city>.</def><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>Tach"i*na</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Tachin&aelig;</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>tachino`s</grk>, for <grk>tachy`s</grk> swift.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to <gen>Tachina</gen> and allied genera.  Their larv&aelig; are external parasites of other insects.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*chis"to*scope</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>ta`chistos</grk>, superl. of <grk>tachy`s</grk> swift + <ets>-scope</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>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.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tach"o*graph</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>ta`chos</grk> speed + <ets>-graph</ets>.]</ety> <def>A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*chom"e*ter</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>ta`chos</grk> swiftness, speed (fr. <grk>tachy`s</grk> quick) + <ets>-meter</ets>: cf. F. <ets>tachom&egrave;tre</ets>.]</ety> <def>An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance.</def> Specifically: --<br/>
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<p><sd>(a)</sd> <def>An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current.  The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(b)</sd> <def>An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum which is driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(c)</sd> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood; a h&aelig;matachometer.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*chom"e*try</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>Measurement by a tachometer; the science or use of tachometers.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tach"y*di*dax`y</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>tachy`s</grk> quick + <grk>di`daxis</grk> teaching.]</ety> <def>A short or rapid method of instructing.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>Tach`y*glos"sa</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>tachy`s</grk> quick + <grk>glw^ssa</grk> tongue.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>A division of monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters of Australia and New Guinea. See <xex>Illust.</xex> under <er>Echidna</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tach"y*graph</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*chyg"ra*pher</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. &unr_; a fast writer.]</ety> <def>One who writes shorthand; a stenographer; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman notary.</def><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>Tach`y*graph"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Tach`y*graph"ic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>tachygraphique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*chyg"ra*phy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>tachy`s</grk> quick + <ets>-graphy</ets>: cf. F. <ets>tachygraphie</ets>.]</ety> <def>The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography.</def>  <rj><au>I. Taylor (The Alphabet).</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tach"y*lyte</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>tachy`s</grk> quick + <grk>ly`ein</grk> to dissolve.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*chym"e*ter</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>  <ety>[<ets>Tachy-</ets> + <ets>-meter</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Surveying)</fld> <def>An instrument, esp. a transit or theodolite with stadia wires, for determining quickly the distances, bearings, and elevations of distant objects.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn>  <def>A speed indicator; a tachometer.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*chym"e*try</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The science or use of the tachymeter.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Ta`chy*met"ric</wf> <pr>(#)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos></wordforms><br/>
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<p><hw>Tach"y*scope</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>tachy`s</grk> quick + <ets>-scope</ets>.]</ety> <def>An early form of animated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by <person>Otto Ansch&uuml;tz</person> of <city>Berlin</city>, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac"it</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>tacitus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>tacere</ets> to be silent, to pass over in silence; akin to Goth. <ets>&thorn;ahan</ets> to be silent, Icel. <ets>&thorn;egja</ets>, OHG. <ets>dag&emacr;n</ets>: cf. F. <ets>tacite</ets>.  Cf. <er>Reticent</er>.]</ety> <def>Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; <as>as, <ex>tacit</ex> consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection</as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Tac"it*ly</wf>, <pos>adv.</pos></wordforms><br/>
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<p><q>The <qex>tacit</qex> and secret theft of abusing our brother in civil contracts.</q> <rj><qau>Jer. Taylor.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac"i*turn</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>taciturnus</ets>: cf. F. <ets>taciturne</ets>. See <er>Tacit</er>.]</ety> <def>Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Tac"i*turn*ly</wf>, <pos>adv.</pos></wordforms><br/>
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<p><syn><b>Syn.</b> -- Silent; reserved.</syn> <usage> <er>Taciturn</er>, <er>Silent</er>. <xex>Silent</xex> has reference to the act; <xex>taciturn</xex>, to the habit.  A man may be <xex>silent</xex> from circumstances; he is <xex>taciturn</xex> from disposition.  The loquacious man is at times <xex>silent</xex>; one who is <xex>taciturn</xex> may now and then make an effort at conversation.</usage><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac`i*tur"ni*ty</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>taciturnitas</ets>: cf. F. <ets>taciturnit&eacute;</ets>.]</ety> <def>Habitual silence, or reserve in speaking.</def><br/>
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<p><q>The cause of Addison's <qex>taciturnity</qex> was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers.</q> <rj><qau>V. Knox.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>The <qex>taciturnity</qex> and the short answers which gave so much offense.</q> <rj><qau>Macaulay.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tack</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[From an old or dialectal form of F. <ets>tache</ets>. See <er>Techy</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A stain; a tache.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <ety>[Cf. L. <ets>tactus</ets>.]</ety> <def>A peculiar flavor or taint; <as>as, a musty <ex>tack</ex></as>.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Colloq.]</mark>  <rj><au>Drayton.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tack</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[OE. <ets>tak</ets>, <ets>takke</ets>, a fastening; akin to D. <ets>tak</ets> a branch, twig, G. <ets>zacke</ets> a twig, prong, spike, Dan. <ets>takke</ets> a tack, spike; cf. also Sw. <ets>tagg</ets> prickle, point, Icel. <ets>t&amacr;g</ets> a willow twig, Ir. <ets>taca</ets> a peg, nail, fastening, Gael. <ets>tacaid</ets>, Armor. &amp; Corn. <ets>tach</ets>; perhaps akin to E. <ets>take</ets>.  Cf. <er>Attach</er>, <er>Attack</er>, <er>Detach</er>, <er>Tag</er> an end, <er>Zigzag</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See <er>Tack</er>, <pos>v. t.</pos>, 3.</def>  <rj><au>Macaulay.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><q>Some <qex>tacks</qex> had been made to money bills in King Charles's time.</q> <rj><qau>Bp. Burnet.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see <xex>Illust.</xex> of <er>Ship</er>); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see <xex>Illust.</xex> of <er>Sail</er>).</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; <as>as, the starboard <ex>tack</ex>, or port <ex>tack</ex></as>; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction; <as>as, to take a different <ex>tack</ex>; -- often used metaphorically</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <fld>(Scots Law)</fld> <def>A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.</def>  <rj><au>Burrill.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>Confidence; reliance.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>  <rj><au>Halliwell.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Tack of a flag</b></col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a line spliced into the eye at the foot of the hoist for securing the flag to the halyards.</cd> -- <col><b>Tack pins</b></col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>belaying pins; -- also called <altname>jack pins</altname>.</cd> -- <col><b>To haul the tacks aboard</b></col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to set the courses.</cd> -- <col><b>To hold tack</b></col>, <cd>to last or hold out.</cd> <au>Milton.</au></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>Tack</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Tacked</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Tacking</conjf>.]</vmorph> <ety>[Cf. OD. <ets>tacken</ets> to touch, take, seize, fix, akin to E. <ets>take</ets>. See <er>Tack</er> a small nail.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To fasten or attach.</def> &ldquo;In hopes of getting some commendam <xex>tacked</xex> to their sees.&rdquo;  <rj><au>Swift.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><q>And <qex>tacks</qex> the center to the sphere.</q> <rj><qau>Herbert.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; <as>as, to <ex>tack</ex> together the sheets of a book; to <ex>tack</ex> one piece of cloth to another; to <ex>tack</ex> on a board or shingle; to <ex>tack</ex> one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.</as></def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with <xex>on</xex> or <xex>to</xex>; <as>as, to <ex>tack</ex> on a non-germane appropriation to a bill</as>.</def>  <rj><au>Macaulay.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.</def><br/>
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<p><note>&hand_; In tacking, a vessel is brought to point at first directly to windward, and then so that the wind will blow against the other side.</note><br/>
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<p><hw>Tack</hw>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>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 <er>Tack</er>, <pos>v. t.</pos>, 4.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Monk, . . . when he wanted his ship to <qex>tack</qex> to larboard, moved the mirth of his crew by calling out, &ldquo;Wheel to the left.&rdquo;</q> <rj><qau>Macaulay.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tack"er</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>One who tacks.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tack"et</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Dim. of <ets>tack</ets> a small nail.]</ety> <def>A small, broad-headed nail.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>  <rj><au>Jamieson.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tack"ey</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a. &amp; n.</pos> <def>See <er>Tacky</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tack"ing</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim.</def>  <rj><au>Bouvier.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><note>&hand_; The doctrine of <xex>tacking</xex> is not recognized in American law.</note>  <rj><au>Kent.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac"kle</hw> <pr>(?; sometimes improperly pronounced ?, especially by seamen)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[OE. <ets>takel</ets>, akin to LG. &amp; D. <ets>takel</ets>, Dan. <ets>takkel</ets>, Sw. <ets>tackel</ets>; perhaps akin to E. <ets>taw</ets>, v. t., or to <ets>take</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>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 <altname>block and tackle</altname>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved or operated; gear; <as>as, fishing <ex>tackle</ex>, hunting <ex>tackle</ex></as>; formerly, specifically, weapons.</def> &ldquo;She to her <xex>tackle</xex> fell.&rdquo;  <rj><au>Hudibras.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><note>&hand_; In Chaucer, it denotes usually an arrow or arrows.</note><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used.</def><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Fall and tackle</b></col>. <cd>See the Note under <er>Pulley</er>.</cd> -- <col><b>Fishing tackle</b></col>. <cd>See under <er>Fishing</er>, <pos>a.</pos></cd> -- <col><b>Ground tackle</b></col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>anchors, cables, etc.</cd> -- <col><b>Gun tackle</b></col>, <cd>the apparatus or appliances for hauling cannon in or out.</cd> -- <col><b>Tackle fall</b></col>, <cd>the rope, or rather the end of the rope, of a tackle, to which the power is applied.</cd> -- <col><b>Tack tackle</b></col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a small tackle to pull down the tacks of the principal sails.</cd> -- <mcol><col><b>Tackle board</b></col>, <col><b>Tackle post</b></col></mcol> <fld>(Ropemaking)</fld>, <cd>a board, frame, or post, at the end of a ropewalk, for supporting the spindels, or whirls, for twisting the yarns.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>tac"kle</hw> <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Football)</fld> <sn>1.</sn> <def>An act of tackling{4}; <as>as, brought down by a <ex>tackle</ex> by a lineman</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn>  <fld>(Football)</fld> <def>One of two linemen on a football team, occupying a position between the guard and an end; also, the position played by such a tackle.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac"kle</hw>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Tackled</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Tackling</conjf>.]</vmorph> <ety>[Cf. LG. <ets>takeln</ets> to equip. See <er>Tackle</er>, <pos>n.</pos>]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To supply with tackle.</def>  <rj><au>Beau. &amp; Fl.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; <as>as, to <ex>tackle</ex> a horse into a coach or wagon</as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; <as>as, a wrestler <ex>tackles</ex> his antagonist; a dog <ex>tackles</ex> the game.</as></def><br/>
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<p><q>The greatest poetess of our day has wasted her time and strength in <qex>tackling</qex> windmills under conditions the most fitted to insure her defeat.</q> <rj><qau>Dublin Univ. Mag.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <fld>(Football)</fld> <def>To cause the ball carrier to fall to the ground, thus ending the forward motion of the ball and the play.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>To begin to deal with; <as>as, to <ex>tackle</ex> the problem</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac"kled</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Made of ropes tacked together.</def><br/>
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<p><q>My man shall be with thee,<br/>
And bring thee cords made like a <qex>tackled</qex> stair.</q> <rj><qau>Shak.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac"kling</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage, sails, etc.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Instruments of action; <as>as, fishing <ex>tackling</ex></as>.</def>  <rj><au>Walton.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>The straps and fixures adjusted to an animal, by which he draws a carriage, or the like; harness.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tacks"man</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>Tacksmen</plw> <pr>(?)</pr>.</plu> <fld>(Scots Law)</fld> <def>One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee.</def>  <rj><au>Sir W. Scott.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><q>The <qex>tacksmen</qex>, who formed what may be called the &ldquo;peerage&rdquo; of the little community, must be the captains.</q> <rj><qau>Macaulay.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tack"y</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Cf. <er>Techy</er>, <er>Tack</er> a spot.]</ety> <def>Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried.</def> <mark>[U. S.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>Tack"y</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Etymol. uncert.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Dowdy, shabby, or neglected in appearance; unkempt.</def> <mark>[Local, U. S.]</mark><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>In poor taste; appearing cheap; gaudy; unstylish.  Broadly used to describe objects whose style is disapproved of by the speaker.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>Tactless; in poor taste; -- used to describe behavior.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tack"y</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <altsp>[Written also <asp>tackey</asp>.]</altsp> <def>An ill-conditioned, ill-fed, or neglected horse; also, a person in a like condition.</def> <mark>[Southern U. S.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*con"ic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the <etsep>Taconic</etsep> 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.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tact</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>tactus</ets> a touching, touch, fr. <ets>tangere</ets>, <ets>tactum</ets>, to touch: cf. F. <ets>tact</ets>. See <er>Tangent</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>The sense of touch; feeling.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to <qex>tact</qex> as well as sight?</q> <rj><qau>Southey.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>Now, sight is a very refined <qex>tact</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>J. Le Conte.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>The stroke in beating time.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.</def><br/>
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<p><q>He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a <qex>tact</qex> and wariness worthy of Mazarin.</q> <rj><qau>Macaulay.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>A <qex>tact</qex> which surpassed the <qex>tact</qex> of her sex as much as the <qex>tact</qex> of her sex surpassed the <qex>tact</qex> of ours.</q> <rj><qau>Macaulay.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac"ta*ble</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Capable of being touched; tangible.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> &ldquo;They [women] being created to be both tractable and <xex>tactable</xex>.&rdquo;  <rj><au>Massinger.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tact"ful</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Full of tact; characterized by a discerning sense of what is right, proper, or judicious.</def><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>Tac"tic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Tac"tic*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>taktiko`s</grk>. See <er>tactics</er>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to military or naval tactics; hence, pertaining to, or characterized by, planning or maneuvering for the short term; -- contrasted with <contr>strategic</contr>, planning for the long term.</def><br/> -- <wordforms><wf>Tac"tic*al*ly</wf>, <pos>adv.</pos></wordforms><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac"tic</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>See <er>Tactics</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac*ti"cian</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>tacticien</ets>.]</ety> <def>One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.</def>
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<p><hw>Tac"tics</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Gr. <grk>taktika`</grk> pl., and <grk>taktikh`</grk> (sc. <grk>te`chnh</grk>, sing., fr. <grk>taktiko`s</grk> fit for ordering or arranging, fr. <grk>ta`ssein</grk>, <grk>ta`ttein</grk>, to put in order, to arrange: cf. F. <ets>tactique</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into <xex>grand tactics</xex>, or the tactics of battles, and <xex>elementary tactics</xex>, or the tactics of instruction.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Hence, any system or method of procedure.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac"tile</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>tactilis</ets>, fr. <ets>tangere</ets>, <ets>tactum</ets>, to touch: cf. F. <ets>tactile</ets>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; <as>as, <ex>tactile</ex> corpuscles; <ex>tactile</ex> sensations.</as></def> &ldquo;<xex>Tactile</xex> sweets.&rdquo; <au>Beaumont.</au> &ldquo;<xex>Tactile</xex> qualities.&rdquo; <au>Sir M. Hale.</au><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Tactile</b></col><cd> sense <fld>(Physiol.)</fld>, the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See <er>Touch</er>.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><q>The delicacy of the <qex>tactile</qex> sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm.</q> <rj><qau>H. N. Martin.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac*til"i*ty</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>tactilit&eacute;</ets>.]</ety> <def>The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac"tion</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[L. <ets>tactio</ets>, from <ets>tangere</ets>, <ets>tactum</ets>, to touch.]</ety> <def>The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.</def> &ldquo;External <xex>taction</xex>.&rdquo;  <rj><au>Chesterfield.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tact"less</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Destitute of tact.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tac"tu*al</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[See <er>Tact</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.</def><br/>
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<p><q>In the lowest organisms we have a kind of <qex>tactual</qex> sense diffused over the entire body.</q> <rj><qau>Tyndall.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tad"pole`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[OE. <ets>tadde</ets> toad (AS. <ets>t&amacr;die</ets>, <ets>t&amacr;dige</ets>) + <ets>poll</ets>; properly, a toad that is or seems all head. See <er>Toad</er>, and <er>Poll</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>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 <altname>polliwig</altname>, <altname>polliwog</altname>, <altname>porwiggle</altname>, or <altname>purwiggy</altname>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>The hooded merganser.</def> <mark>[Local, U. S.]</mark><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Tadpole fish</b></col>. <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Forkbeard</er> <sd>(a)</sd>.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>T&aelig;"di*um</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>See <er>Tedium</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tael</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Malay <ets>ta&ibreve_;l</ets>, a certain weight, probably fr. Hind. <ets>tola</ets>, Skr. <ets>tul&amacr;</ets> a balance, weight, <ets>tul</ets> to weigh.]</ety> <def>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.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>tale</asp>.]</altsp><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>Taen</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <it>or</it> <hw>Ta'en</hw>  }</mhw>, <def><pos>p. p.</pos> of <er>Ta</er>, to take, or a contraction of <er>Taken</er>.</def> <mark>[Poetic &amp; Scot.]</mark>  <rj><au>Burns.</au></rj><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>T&aelig;"ni*a</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>T&aelig;ni&aelig;</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[L., a ribbon, a tapeworm.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See <er>Tapeworm</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.</def><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>T&aelig;"ni*a*cide`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> Also <hw>Te"ni*a*cide`</hw>  }</mhw>. <ety>[<ets>T&aelig;nia</ets> + <ets>-cide</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A remedy to destroy tapeworms.</def><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>T&aelig;*ni"a*da</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[NL.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>T&aelig;nioidea</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>T&aelig;"ni*a*fuge`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> Also <hw>Te"ni*a*fuge`</hw> }</mhw>. <ety>[<ets>T&aelig;nia</ets> + L. <ets>fugare</ets> to drive away.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A remedy to expel tapeworms.</def><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ &Verbar;<hw>T&aelig;*ni"a*sis</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> Also &Verbar;<hw>Te*ni"a*sis</hw> }</mhw>. <ety>[NL. See <er>T&aelig;nia</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Ill health due to t&aelig;nia, or tapeworms.</def><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>T&aelig;`ni*a"ta</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. L. <ets>taenia</ets> a ribbon.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.</def><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>T&aelig;*nid"i*um</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>T&aelig;nidia</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[NL., dim. fr. L. <ets>taenia</ets> a ribbon.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the trache&aelig; of insects. See <xex>Illust.</xex> of <er>Trachea</er>.</def><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>T&aelig;`ni*o*glos"sa</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>taini`a</grk> a ribbon + <grk>glw^ssa</grk> a tongue.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth.  It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh-water.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>T&aelig;`ni*o*glos"sate</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to the T&aelig;nioglossa.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>T&aelig;"ni*oid</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[<ets>T&aelig;nia</ets> + <ets>-oid</ets>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Like or pertaining to T&aelig;nia.</def><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>T&aelig;`ni*oi"de*a</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>The division of cestode worms which comprises the tapeworms. See <er>Tapeworm</er>.</def><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>T&aelig;*ni"o*la</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>; <plu><it>pl.</it> <plw>T&aelig;niol&aelig;</plw> <pr>(#)</pr>.</plu> <ety>[L., dim. of <ets>taenia</ets> a ribbon.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medus&aelig;.</def><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>T&aelig;`ni*o*so"mi</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. pl.</pos> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <grk>taini`a</grk> ribbon + <grk>sw^ma</grk> body.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>An order of fishes remarkable for their long and compressed form. The ribbon fishes are examples. See <cref>Ribbon fish</cref>, under <er>Ribbon</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Taf"fer*er</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>See <er>Taffrail</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>Taf"fe*ta</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <hw>Taf"fe*ty</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, }</mhw> <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F. <ets>taffetas</ets>, It. <ets>taffet&agrave;</ets>, from Per. <ets>t&amacr;ftah</ets>, originally, twisted, woven, from <ets>t&amacr;ftan</ets> to twist, to spin.]</ety> <def>A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called <xex>watering</xex>. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Lined with <qex>taffeta</qex> and with sendal.</q> <rj><qau>Chaucer.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Taff"rail</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[D. <ets>tafereel</ets> a panel, picture, fr. <ets>tafel</ets> table, fr. L. <ets>tabula</ets>. See <er>Table</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>tafferel</asp>.]</altsp><br/>
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<p><hw>Taf"fy</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Prov. E. <ets>taffy</ets> toffy.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans.</def> <altsp>[Written also, in England, <asp>toffy</asp>.]</altsp><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Flattery; soft phrases.</def> <mark>[Slang]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>Taf"i*a</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. &amp; Sp. <ets>tafia</ets>, It. <ets>taffia</ets>; fr. Malay <ets>t&amacr;f&imacr;a</ets> a spirit distilled from molasses.  Cf. <er>Ratafia</er>.]</ety> <def>A variety of rum.</def> <mark>[West Indies]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Probably akin to <ets>tack</ets> a small nail; cf. Sw. <ets>tagg</ets> a prickle, point, tooth.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>Something mean and paltry; the rabble.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Tag and rag</b></col>, <cd>the lowest sort; the rabble.</cd> <au>Holinshed.</au></cs><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>A sheep of the first year.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>  <rj><au>Halliwell.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag</hw>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Tagged</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Tagging</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>.]</vmorph> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.</def><br/>
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<p><q>He learned to make long-<qex>tagged</qex> thread laces.</q> <rj><qau>Macaulay.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>His courteous host . . . <br/>
<qex>Tags</qex> every sentence with some fawning word.</q> <rj><qau>Dryden.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>To join; to fasten; to attach.</def>  <rj><au>Bolingbroke.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See <er>Tag</er>, a play.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag</hw>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <def>To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with <xex>after</xex>; <as>as, to <ex>tag</ex> after a person</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[From <er>Tag</er>, <pos>v.</pos>; cf. <er>Tag</er>, an end.]</ety> <def>A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*gal"</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>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.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn>  <def>The language of the Tagals; Tagalog.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*ga"log</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Ethnol.)</fld> <def>Any member of a certain tribe which is one of the leading and most civilized of those native of the Philippine Islands.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn>  <def>The language of the Tagalogs. It belongs to the Malay family of languages and is one of the most highly developed members of the family.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag"belt`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Far.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Tagsore</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag day</hw>. <def>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.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag"ger</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>One who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>That which is pointed like a tag.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Hedgehogs' or procupines' small <qex>taggers</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Cotton.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.</def>  <rj><au>Knight.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>A device for removing taglocks from sheep.</def>  <rj><au>Knight.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><!-- [Colloq.] One who spray-paints a distinctive logo on a wall or other property not his own. --><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag"let</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A little tag.</def><br/>
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<p>&Verbar;<hw>Tagl"ia</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[It., a cutting, a pulley, from <ets>tagliare</ets> to cut. See <er>Tailor</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <def>A peculiar combination of pulleys.</def>  <rj><au>Brande &amp; C.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tagl`ia*co"tain</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <fld>(Surg.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to <xex>Tagliacozzi</xex>, a Venetian surgeon; <as>as, the <ex>Tagliacotian</ex> operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him</as>.</def> <altsp>[Also <asp>Taliacotian</asp>, and <asp>Tagliacozzian</asp>.]</altsp><br/>
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<p><hw>Tagl*io"ni</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; -- said to be so named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers.</def><br/>
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<p><q>He ought certainly to exchange his <qex>taglioni</qex>, or comfortable greatcoat, for a cuirass of steel.</q> <rj><qau>Sir W. Scott.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag"lock`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>An entangled lock, as of hair or wool.</def>  <rj><au>Nares.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag"ni*cate</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>The white-lipped peccary.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag"-rag`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n. &amp; a.</pos> <ety>[See <er>Tag</er> an end, and <er>Rag</er>.]</ety> <def>The lowest class of people; the rabble.  Cf. <cref>Rag, tag, and bobtail</cref>, under <er>Bobtail</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><q>If the <qex>tag-rag</qex> people did not clap him and hiss him, I am no true man.</q> <rj><qau>Shak.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag sale</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos>  <ety>[From the price <ets>tag</ets> usually attached to each item.]</ety> <def>A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.</def> <note>Frequently it is held in the private home or in a yard attached to a private home belonging to the seller.  Similar to a <cref>yard sale</cref> or <cref>garage sale</cref>.  Compare <contr>flea market</contr>, where used items are sold by many individuals in a place rented for the purpose.</note><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag"sore`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Far.)</fld> <def>Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also <altname>tagbelt</altname>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag"tail`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>A person who attaches himself to another against the will of the latter; a hanger-on.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tag"u*an</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[From the native name in the East Indies.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>A large flying squirrel (<spn>Pteromys petuarista</spn>). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.</def><br/>
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<p><!-- p. 1469 --><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta`gui*ca"ti</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[From the native name.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>The white-lipped peccary.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta"ha</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The African rufous-necked weaver bird (<spn>Hyphantornis texor</spn>).</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*ha"leb</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[From the native name.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>A fox (<spn>Vulpes Niloticus</spn>) of Northern Africa.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Ta*hi"ti*an</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean.</def> -- <def2><pos>n.</pos> <def>A native inhabitant of Tahiti.</def></def2><br/>
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<p><hw>Tahr</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Thar</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tai</hw> <pr>(t&auml;"&euptack_;)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Designating, or pertaining to, the chief linguistic stock of Indo-China, including the peoples of Siamese and Shan speech.  It includes the Thai language.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tai</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A member of one of the tribes of the Tai stock.</def></p>

<p><q>The <qex>Tais</qex> first appeared in history in Yunnan, and from thence they migrated into Upper Burma. The earliest swarms appear to have entered that tract about two thousand years ago, and were small in number.</q>  <rj><qau>Census of India, 1901.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F. <ets>taille</ets> a cutting. See <er>Entail</er>, <er>Tally</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Limitation; abridgment.</def>  <rj><au>Burrill.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Estate in tail</b></col>, <cd>a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded; -- called also <altname>estate tail</altname>.</cd> <au>Blackstone.</au></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail</hw>, <pos>a.</pos> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; <as>as, estate <ex>tail</ex></as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[AS. <ets>t&aelig;gel</ets>, <ets>t&aelig;gl</ets>; akin to G. <ets>zagel</ets>, Icel. <ets>tagl</ets>, Sw. <ets>tagel</ets>, Goth. <ets>tagl</ets> hair. &radic;59.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.</def><br/>
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<p><note>&hand_; The tail of mammals and reptiles contains a series of movable vertebr&aelig;, and is covered with flesh and hairs or scales like those of other parts of the body. The tail of existing birds consists of several more or less consolidated vertebr&aelig; which supports a fanlike group of quills to which the term <xex>tail</xex> is more particularly applied. The tail of fishes consists of the tapering hind portion of the body ending in a caudal fin. The term <xex>tail</xex> is sometimes applied to the entire abdomen of a crustacean or insect, and sometimes to the terminal piece or pygidium alone.</note><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those <qex>tails</qex> that hang on willow trees.</q> <rj><qau>Harvey.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the <ant>head</ant>, or the superior part.</def><br/>
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<p><q>The Lord will make thee the head, and not the <qex>tail</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Deut. xxviii. 13.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>A train or company of attendants; a retinue.</def><br/>
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<p><q>&ldquo;Ah,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;if you saw but the chief with his <qex>tail</qex> on.&rdquo;</q> <rj><qau>Sir W. Scott.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <def>The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression &ldquo;heads or tails,&rdquo; employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>6.</sn> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>The distal tendon of a muscle.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>7.</sn> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>8.</sn> <fld>(Surg.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also <altname>tailing</altname>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>9.</sn> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>10.</sn> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.</def>  <rj><au>Moore (Encyc. of Music).</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>11.</sn> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>Same as <er>Tailing</er>, 4.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>12.</sn> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>13.</sn> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>See <er>Tailing</er>, <pos>n.</pos>, 5.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>14.</sn> <fld>(Astronomy)</fld> <def>the long visible stream of gases, ions, or dust particles extending from the head of a comet in the direction opposite to the sun.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>15.</sn> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Rope Making)</fld> <def>In some forms of rope-laying machine, pieces of rope attached to the iron bar passing through the grooven wooden top containing the strands, for wrapping around the rope to be laid.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>16.</sn>  <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>A tailed coat; a tail coat.</def> <mark>[Colloq. or Dial.]</mark><br/>
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<p><sn>17.</sn> <fld>(A&euml;ronautics)</fld> <def>In airplanes, an airfoil or group of airfoils used at the rear to confer stability.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>18.</sn> <def>the buttocks.</def> <mark>[slang or vulgar]</mark><br/>
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<p><sn>19.</sn> <def>sexual intercourse, or a woman used for sexual intercourse; <as>as, to get some <ex>tail</ex>; to find a piece of <ex>tail</ex></as>.  See also <er>tailing{3}</er>.</def> <mark>[slang and vulgar]</mark><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Tail beam</b></col>. <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <cd>Same as <er>Tailpiece</er>.</cd> -- <col><b>Tail coverts</b></col> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld>, <cd>the feathers which cover the bases of the tail quills. They are sometimes much longer than the quills, and form elegant plumes. Those above the quills are called the <stype>upper tail coverts</stype>, and those below, the <stype>under tail coverts</stype>.</cd> -- <col><b>Tail end</b></col>, <cd>the latter end; the termination; <as>as, the <ex>tail end</ex> of a contest</as>.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col><b>Tail joist</b></col>. <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <cd>Same as <er>Tailpiece</er>.</cd> -- <col><b>Tail of a comet</b></col> <fld>(Astron.)</fld>, <cd>a luminous train extending from the nucleus or body, often to a great distance, and usually in a direction opposite to the sun.</cd> -- <col><b>Tail of a gale</b></col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>the latter part of it, when the wind has greatly abated.</cd> <au>Totten.</au> -- <col><b>Tail of a lock</b></col> (on a canal), <cd>the lower end, or entrance into the lower pond.</cd> -- <col><b>Tail of the trenches</b></col> <fld>(Fort.)</fld>, <cd>the post where the besiegers begin to break ground, and cover themselves from the fire of the place, in advancing the lines of approach.</cd> -- <col><b>Tail spindle</b></col>, <cd>the spindle of the tailstock of a turning lathe; -- called also <altname>dead spindle</altname>.</cd> -- <col><b>To turn tail</b></col>, <cd>to run away; to flee.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><q>Would she <qex>turn tail</qex> to the heron, and fly quite out another way; but all was to return in a higher pitch.</q> <rj><qau>Sir P. Sidney.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail</hw>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q>Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was <qex>tailed</qex>, continued uncanceled, and was called on the next Parliament.</q> <rj><qau>Fuller.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>To pull or draw by the tail.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>  <rj><au>Hudibras.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><cs><mcol><col><b>To tail in</b></col> <it>or</it> <col><b>To tail on</b></col></mcol> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>to fasten by one of the ends into a wall or some other support; <as>as, <ex>to tail in</ex> a timber</as>.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail</hw>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with <xex>in</xex> or <xex>into</xex>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; <as>as, this vessel <ex>tails</ex> down stream</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Tail on</b></col>. <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>See <cref>Tally on</cref>, under <er>Tally</er>.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail"age</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(O. Eng. Law)</fld> <def>See <er>Tallage</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail"-bay`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>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. <er>Case-bay</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail"block`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A block with a tail. See <er>Tail</er>, 9.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail"board`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tailed</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; <as>as, bob<ex>tailed</ex>, long<ex>tailed</ex>, etc.</as></def><br/>
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<p><q>Snouted and <qex>tailed</qex> like a boar.</q> <rj><qau>Grew.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail"ing</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.</def>  <rj><au>Gwilt.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Surg.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Tail</er>, <pos>n.</pos>, 8 <sd>(a)</sd>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>Sexual intercourse.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>  <rj><au>Chaucer.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it.  Called also <altname>tails</altname>.</def>  <rj><au>Pryce.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>6.</sn> <fld>(Elec.)</fld> <def>A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Taille</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F. See <er>Tally</er>, <er>Tailor</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q>Whether that he paid or took by <qex>taille</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Chaucer.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(O. F. Law)</fld> <def>Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects.</def><br/>
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<p><q>The <qex>taille</qex>, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm.</q> <rj><qau>A. Smith.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail"less</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Having no tail.</def>  <rj><au>H. Spencer.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail"lie</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Scots Law)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Tailzie</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tai"lor</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[OF. <ets>tailleor</ets>, F. <ets>tailleur</ets>, fr. OF. <ets>taillier</ets>, F. <ets>tailler</ets> to cut, fr. L. <ets>talea</ets> a rod, stick, a cutting, layer for planting.  Cf. <er>Detail</er>, <er>Entail</er>, <er>Retail</er>, <er>Tally</er>, <pos>n.</pos>]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Well said, good woman's <qex>tailor</qex> . . . I would thou wert a man's <qex>tailor</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>Shak.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The mattowacca; -- called also <altname>tailor herring</altname>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The silversides.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>The goldfish.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark><br/>
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<p><cs><col><b>Salt-water tailor</b></col> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld>, <cd>the bluefish.</cd> <mark>[Local, U. S.]</mark> <au>Bartlett.</au> -- <col><b>Tailor bird</b></col> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld>, <cd>any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to <gen>Orthotomus</gen>, <gen>Prinia</gen>, and allied genera.  They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form nests.  The common Indian species are <spn>Orthotomus longicauda</spn>, which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor bird (<spn>Orthotomus coronatus</spn>), which has the top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale olive-green.</cd></cs><br/>
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<p><hw>Tai"lor</hw>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Tailored</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Tailoring</conjf>.]</vmorph> <def>To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.</def><br/>
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<p><q>These <qex>tailoring</qex> artists for our lays<br/>
Invent cramped rules.</q> <rj><qau>M. Green.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tai"lor*ess</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A female tailor.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tai"lor*ing</hw>, <pos>adv.</pos> <def>The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tai"lor-made`</hw>, <pos>a.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Made by a tailor or according to a tailor's fashion; -- said specif. of women's garments made with certain closeness of fit, simplicity of ornament, etc.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>made or as if made specifically for the particular purpose at hand; --  used metaphorically.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail"piece`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A piece at the end; an appendage.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See <xex>Illust.</xex> of <er>Header</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book.</def>  <rj><au>Savage.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn> <def>A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>5.</sn> <fld>(Locks)</fld> <def>A piece for transmitting motion from the hub of a lock to the latch bolt.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>6.</sn>  <def>The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail"pin"</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail"race`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>See <er>Race</er>, <pos>n.</pos>, 6.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail"stock`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The <contr>headstock</contr> supports the live spindle.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail"-wa`ter</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>Water in a tailrace.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tail"zie</hw> <pr>(-z&ibreve_; <i>or</i> -y&ibreve_;)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F. <ets>tailler</ets> to cut. See <er>Tail</er> a limitation.]</ety> <fld>(Scots Law)</fld> <def>An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>tailzee</asp>.]</altsp><br/>
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<p><hw>Tain</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[OE. <ets>tein</ets>, <ets>teyne</ets>; cf. Icel. <ets>teinn</ets> a twig, akin to AS. <ets>t&amacr;n</ets>, Goth. <ets>tains</ets>.]</ety> <def>Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.</def>  <rj><au>Knight.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Taint</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>atteinte</ets> a blow, bit, stroke. See <er>Attaint</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q>This <qex>taint</qex> he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath.</q> <rj><qau>Chapman.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>Taint</hw>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp. &amp; p. p.</pos> <conjf>Tainted</conjf> <pr>(?)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Tainting</conjf>.]</vmorph> <def>To thrust ineffectually with a lance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><hw>Taint</hw>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q>Do not fear; I have<br/>
A staff to <qex>taint</qex>, and bravely.</q> <rj><qau>Massinger.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q>They <qex>tainted</qex> each other on the helms and passed by.</q> <rj><qau>Ld. Berners.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Taint</hw>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <ety>[F. <ets>teint</ets>, p. p. of <ets>teindre</ets> to dye, tinge, fr. L. <ets>tingere</ets>, <ets>tinctum</ets>. See <er>Tinge</er>, and cf. <er>Tint</er>.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; <as>as, putrid substance <ex>taint</ex> the air</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.</def><br/>
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<p><q>His unkindness may defeat my life,<br/>
But never <qex>taint</qex> my love.</q> <rj><qau>Shak.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><syn><b>Syn.</b> -- To contaminate; defile; pollute; corrupt; infect; disease; vitiate; poison.</syn><br/>
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<p><hw>Taint</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. i.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.</def><br/>
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<p><q>I can not <qex>taint</qex> with fear.</q> <rj><qau>Shak.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>To be affected with incipient putrefaction; <as>as, meat soon <ex>taints</ex> in warm weather</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Taint</hw>, <pos>n.</pos> <sn>1.</sn> <def>Tincture; hue; color; tinge.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Infection; corruption; deprivation.</def><br/>
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<p><q>He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous <qex>taint</qex>, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove.</q> <rj><qau>Macaulay.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Taint</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <def>Aphetic form of <er>Attaint</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Taint"less</hw>, <pos>a.</pos> <def>Free from taint or infection; pure.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Taint"less*ly</hw>, <pos>adv.</pos> <def>In a taintless manner.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tain"ture</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[F. <ets>teinture</ets>. See <er>Taint</er> to stain, and cf. <er>Tincture</er>.]</ety> <def>Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>  <rj><au>Shak.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Taint"worm`</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.</def><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>Tai"ping"</hw>, <it>or</it> <hw>Tae"ping"</hw> }</mhw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>a.</pos> <ety>[Chin. <ets>t'aip'ing</ets> great peace.]</ety> <fld>(Chinese Hist.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one Hung-Siu-Chuen, a half-religious, half-political enthusiast, attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the <col><b>Taiping rebellion</b></col>, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tai"ra</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Tayra</er>.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Tairn</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>See <er>Tarn</er>.</def>  <rj><au>Coleridge.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Tait</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (<spn>Tarsipes rostratus</spn>) 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 <altname>noolbenger</altname>.</def><br/>
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<p><mhw>{ <hw>Ta*ja&ccedil;"u</hw>, <hw>Ta*jas"su</hw>  }</mhw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <ety>[Pg. <ets>taja&ccedil;&uacute;</ets>, from Braz. <ets>taya&ccedil;&uacute;</ets> a hog or swine.]</ety> <fld>(Zo&ouml;l.)</fld> <def>The common, or collared, peccary.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Taj Ma*hal"</hw> <pr>(t&auml;j m&adot_;*h&auml;l")</pr>, <pos>prop. n.</pos> <ety>[Corruption of Per. <ets>Mumt&amacr;z-i-Ma&hsdot_;al</ets>, lit., the distinguished one of the palace, fr. Ar.]</ety> <def>A marble mausoleum built at <city>Agra</city>, <country>India</country>, by the Mogul Emperor <person>Shah Jahan</person>, 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.</def><br/>
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<p><hw>Take</hw> <pr>(t&amacr;k)</pr>, <mark>obs.</mark> <pos>p. p.</pos> <mord>of <er>Take</er></mord>. <def>Taken.</def>  <rj><au>Chaucer.</au></rj><br/>
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<p><hw>Take</hw>, <pos>v. t.</pos> <vmorph>[<pos>imp.</pos> <conjf>Took</conjf> <pr>(t&oobreve_;k)</pr>; <pos>p. p.</pos> <conjf>Taken</conjf> <pr>(t&amacr;k'n)</pr>; <pos>p. pr. &amp; vb. n.</pos> <conjf>Taking</conjf>.]</vmorph> <ety>[Icel. <ets>taka</ets>; akin to Sw. <ets>taga</ets>, Dan. <ets>tage</ets>, Goth. <ets>t&emacr;kan</ets> to touch; of uncertain origin.]</ety> <sn>1.</sn> <def>In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey.</def> <specif>Hence, specifically:</specif> --<br/>
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<p><sd>(a)</sd> <def>To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; <as>as, to <ex>take</ex> an army, a city, or a ship</as>; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.</def><br/>
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<p><q>This man was <qex>taken</qex> of the Jews.</q> <rj><qau>Acts xxiii. 27.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>Men in their loose, unguarded hours they <qex>take</qex>;<br/>
Not that themselves are wise, but others weak.</q> <rj><qau>Pope.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>They that come abroad after these showers are commonly <qex>taken</qex> with sickness.</q> <rj><qau>Bacon.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>There he blasts the tree and <qex>takes</qex> the cattle<br/>
And makes milch kine yield blood.</q> <rj><qau>Shak.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sd>(b)</sd> <def>To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Neither let her <qex>take</qex> thee with her eyelids.</q> <rj><qau>Prov. vi. 25.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>Cleombroutus was so <qex>taken</qex> with this prospect, that he had no patience.</q> <rj><qau>Wake.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, -- which <qex>took</qex> me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions.</q> <rj><qau>Moore.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sd>(c)</sd> <def>To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; <as>as, to <ex>take</ex> the road to the right</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son.  And Jonathan was <qex>taken</qex>.</q> <rj><qau>1 Sam. xiv. 42.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to <qex>take</qex> for the destroying . . . of sinners.</q> <rj><qau>Hammond.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sd>(d)</sd> <def>To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; <as>as, it <ex>takes</ex> so much cloth to make a coat; it <ex>takes</ex> five hours to get to Boston from New York by car</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><q>This man always <qex>takes</qex> time . . . before he passes his judgments.</q> <rj><qau>I. Watts.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sd>(e)</sd> <def>To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; <as>as, to <ex>take</ex> a picture of a person</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Beauty alone could beauty <qex>take</qex> so right.</q> <rj><qau>Dryden.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sd>(f)</sd> <def>To draw; to deduce; to derive.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark><br/>
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<p><q>The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a good life, because <qex>taken</qex> from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery.</q> <rj><qau>Tillotson.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sd>(g)</sd> <def>To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; <as>as, to <ex>take</ex> a resolution; I <ex>take</ex> the liberty to say</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(h)</sd> <def>To lead; to conduct; <as>as, to <ex>take</ex> a child to church</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(i)</sd> <def>To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; <as>as, he <ex>took</ex> the book to the bindery; he <ex>took</ex> a dictionary with him</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><q>He <qex>took</qex> me certain gold, I wot it well.</q> <rj><qau>Chaucer.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sd>(k)</sd> <def>To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with <xex>from</xex>; <as>as, to <ex>take</ex> the breath from one; to <ex>take</ex> two from four</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept.</def> <specif>Specifically:</specif> --<br/>
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<p><sd>(a)</sd> <def>To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.</def><br/>
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<p><q>Ye shall <qex>take</qex> no satisfaction for the life of a murderer.</q> <rj><qau>Num. xxxv. 31.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>Let not a widow be <qex>taken</qex> into the number under threescore.</q> <rj><qau>1 Tim. v. 10.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sd>(b)</sd> <def>To receive as something to be eaten or drunk; to partake of; to swallow; <as>as, to <ex>take</ex> food or wine</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(c)</sd> <def>Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; <as>as, to <ex>take</ex> a hedge or fence</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(d)</sd> <def>To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; <as>as, to <ex>take</ex> a joke; he will <ex>take</ex> an affront from no man</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><sd>(e)</sd> <def>To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; <as>as, to <ex>take</ex> a thing for granted; this I <ex>take</ex> to be man's motive; to <ex>take</ex> men for spies</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><q>You <qex>take</qex> me right.</q> <rj><qau>Bacon.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>Charity, <qex>taken</qex> in its largest extent, is nothing else but the science love of God and our neighbor.</q> <rj><qau>Wake.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>[He] <qex>took</qex> that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a disguise.</q> <rj><qau>South.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>You'd doubt his sex, and <qex>take</qex> him for a girl.</q> <rj><qau>Tate.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sd>(f)</sd> <def>To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general senses; <as>as, to <ex>take</ex> a form or shape</as>.</def><br/>
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<p><q>I <qex>take</qex> thee at thy word.</q> <rj><qau>Rowe.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><q>Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . . <br/>
Not <qex>take</qex> the mold.</q> <rj><qau>Dryden.</qau></rj><br/>
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<p><sn>3.</sn> <def>To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; <as>as, to <ex>take</ex> a group or a scene</as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark><br/>
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<p><sn>4.</sn>  <def>To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; <as>as, he <ex>took</ex> me in the face; he <ex>took</ex> me a blow on the head.</as></def> <mark>[Obs. exc. Slang or Dial.]</mark><br/>
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<p><cs><mcol><col><b>To be taken aback</b></col>, <col><b>To take