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Tale
TALE, noun [See Tell.] A story; a narrative; the rehearsal of a series of events or adventures, commonly some trifling incidents; or a fictitious narrative; as the tale of a tub. Marmontel's tales; idle tales. .
We spend our years as a tale that is told .
1. Oral relation.
2. Reckoning; account set down. .
In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.
3. Number reckoned.
--The ignorant who measure by tale not be weight.
4. A telling; information; disclosure of any thing secret.
Birds--are aptest by their voice to tell tales what they find.
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood. .
5. In law, a count or declaration. [Tale, in this sense, is obsolete.]
6. In commerce, a weight for gold and silver in China and other parts of the E. Indies; also, a money of account. In China, each tale is 10 maces=100 candareens-1000 cash.
TALE, verb intransitive To tell stories.
Talebearer
TA'LEBEARER, noun [tale and bear.] A person who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently communicates intelligence or anecdotes, and makes mischief in society by his officiousness.
Where there is no talebearer the strife ceaseth. .
Talebearing
TA'LEBEARING, adjective Officiously communicating information.
TA'LEBEARING, noun The act of informing officiously; communication of secrets maliciously.
Taleful
TA'LEFUL, adjective Abounding with stories.
Talent
TAL'ENT, noun [Latin talentum; Gr. to bear, allied to Latin tollo. The word is said to have originally signified a balance or scales.]
1. Among the ancients, a weight, and a coin. The true value of the talent cannot well be ascertained, but it is known that it was different among different nations. The Attic talent the weight, contained 60 Attic minae, or 6000 Attic drachmae, equal to 56 pounds, eleven ounces, English troy weight. The mina being reckoned equal to f3 4s.7d. sterling, or fourteen dollars and a third nearly, the talent was of the value of f193 15s sterling, about $861 dollars. Other computations make it f225 sterling.
The Romans had the great talent and the little talent; the great talent is computed to be equal to f99 6s. 8d. sterling, and the little talent to f75 sterling.
2. talent among the Hebrews, was also a gold coin, the same with a shekel of gold; called also stater, and weighing only four drachmas.
But the Hebrew talent of silver, called cicar, was equivalent to three thousand shekels, or one hundred and thirteen pounds, ten ounces and a fraction, troy weight.
3. Faculty; natural gift or endowment; a metaphorical application of the word, said to be borrowed from the Scriptural parable of the talents. .
He is chiefly to be considered in his three different talents, as a critic, a satirist, and a writer of odes.
'Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts.
4. Eminent abilities; superior genius; as, he is a man of talents.
[Talent, in the singular, is sometimes used in a like sense.]
5. Particular faculty; skill. He has a talent at drawing.
6. [Sp. talante, manner of performing any thing, will, disposition.] Quality; disposition.
Talented
TAL'ENTED, adjective Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talents.
Tales
TA'LES, noun [Latin talis, plural tales ] In law, tales de circumstantibus, spectators in court, from whom the sheriff is to select men to supply any defect of jurors who are impaneled, but who may not appear, or may be challenged.
Taleteller
TA'LETELLER, noun One who tells tales or stories.
Talionis, lex talionis, [Latin] in law, the law of retaliation. [See Retaliate.]
Talisman
TAL'ISMAN, noun
1. A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; or it is the seal, figure, character or image of a heavenly sign, constellation or planet, engraven on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence. The talismans of the Samothracians were pieces of iron, formed into images and set in rings, etc. They were held to be preservatives against all kinds of evils.
Talismans are of three kinds, astronomical, magical and mixed. Hence,
2. Something that produces extraordinary effects; as a talisman to destroy diseases.
Talismanic
TALISMAN'IC, adjective Magical; having the properties of a talisman or preservative against evils by secret influence.
Talk
TALK, verb intransitive tauk.
1. To converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you; but I will not eat with you.
In Aesop's time
When all things talk'd, and talk'd in rhyme.
I will come down and talk with thee. .
Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way? .
2. To prate; to speak impertinently.
3. To talk of, to relate; to tell; to give account. Authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra.
The natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done.
So shall I talk of thy wondrous works. .
4. To speak; to reason; to confer.
Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. .
To talk to, in familiar language, to advise or exhort; or to reprove gently. I will talk to my son respecting his conduct.
TALK, noun tauk. Familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered by one person in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.
Should a man full of talk be justified? .
In various talk th' instructive hours they past.
1. Report; rumor.
I hear a talk up and down of raising money.
2. Subject of discourse. This noble achievement is the talk of the whole town.
3. Among the Indians of North America, a public conference, as respecting peace or war, negotiation and the like; or an official verbal communication made from them to another nation or its agents, or made to them by the same.
TALK, a mineral. [See Talck.]
Talkative
TALKATIVE, adjective tauk'ativ. Given to much talking; full of prate; loquacious; garrulous. One of the faults of old age is to be talkative
Talkativeness
TALKATIVENESS, noun tauk'ativness. Loquacity; garrulity; the practice or habit of speaking much in conversation.
Talker
TALKER, noun tauk'er. One who talks; also, a loquacious person, male or female; a prattler.
1. A boaster.
Talking
TALKING, participle present tense tauk'ing. Conversing; speaking in familiar conversation. .
1. adjective Given to talking; loquacious; as talking age.
TALKING, noun tauk'ing. The act of conversing familiarly; as foolish talking .
Tall
TALL, adjective [Eng. dally; Latin tollo.]
1. High in stature; long and comparatively slender; applied to a person, or to a standing tree, mast or pole. tall always refers to something erect, and of which the diameter is small in proportion to the highth. We say, a tall man or woman, a tall boy for his age; a tall tree, a tall pole, a tall mast; but we never say, a tall house or a tall mountain. The application of the word to a palace or its shadow, in Waller, is now improper.
Dark shadows cast, and as his palace tall
2. Sturdy; lusty; bold. [Unusual.]
Tallage
TAL'LAGE
TAL'LIAGE, noun Anciently, a certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights and inferior tenants, towards the public expenses. When it was paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage; when by cities and burghs, talliage; when upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage.
TAL'LAGE, verb transitive To lay an impost.
Talliage
TAL'LIAGE, noun Literally, a share; hence, a tax or toll.
Tallness
TALL'NESS, noun Highth of stature. [See Tall.]
Tallow
TAL'LOW, noun A sort of animal fat, particularly that which is obtained from animals of the sheep and ox kinds. We speak of the tallow of an ox or cow, or of sheep. This substance grows chiefly about the kidneys and on the intestines. The fat of swine we never call tallow but lard or suet. I see in English books, mention is made of the tallow of hogs, [See Cyclopedia, article Tallow; ] but in America I never heard the word thus applied. It may be applied to the fat of goats and deer. The fat of bears we call bear's grease. tallow is applied to various uses, but chiefly to the manufacture of candles.
TAL'LOW, verb transitive To grease or smear with tallow
1. To fatten; to cause to have a large quantity of tallow; as, to tallow sheep.
Tallow-Candle
TAL'LOW-CANDLE, noun A candle made of tallow.
Tallow-Chandler
TAL'LOW-CH'ANDLER, noun One whose occupation is to make, or to make and sell tallow candles.
Tallow-Faced
TAL'LOW-FACED, adjective Having a sickly complexion; pale.
Tallowed
TAL'LOWED, participle passive Greased or smeared with tallow.
1. Made fat; filled with tallow.
Tallower
TAL'LOWER, noun An animal disposed to form tallow internally.
Tallowing
TAL'LOWING, participle present tense Greasing with tallow.
1. Causing to gather tallow; a term in agriculture.
TAL'LOWING, noun The act, practice or art of causing animals to gather tallow; or the property in animals of forming tallow internally; a term in agriculture.
Tallowish
TAL'LOWISH, adjective Having the properties or nature of tallow.
Tallowy
TAL'LOWY, adjective Greasy, having the qualities of tallow.
Tally
TAL'LY, noun
1. A piece of wood on which notches or scores are cut, as the marks of number. In purchasing and selling, it is customary for traders to have two sticks, or one stick cleft into two parts, and to mark with a score or notch on each, the number or quantity of goods delivered; the seller keeping one stick, and the purchaser the other. Before the use of writing, this or something like it was the only method of keeping accounts, and tallies are received as evidence in courts of justice. In the English exchequer are tallies of loans, one part being kept in the exchequer, the other being given to the creditor in lieu of an obligation for money lent to government.
2. One thing made to suit another.
They were framed the tallies for each other.
TAL'LY, verb transitive To score with correspondent notches; to fit; to suit; to make to correspond.
They are not so well tallied to the present juncture.
1. In seamanship, to pull aft the sheets or lower corners of the main and fore-sail.
TAL'LY, verb intransitive To be fitted; to suit; to correspond.
I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel.
TALL'Y, adverb Stoutly; with spirit.
Tallying
TAL'LYING, participle present tense Fitting to each other; making to correspond.
1. Agreeing; corresponding.
2. Hauling aft the corners of the main and fore-sail.
Tallyman
TAL'LYMAN, noun [tally and man.] One who sells for weekly payment.
1. One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.
Talmud
TAL'MUD, noun The body of the Hebrew laws, traditions and explanations; or the book that contains them. The talmud contains the laws, and a compilation of expositions of duties imposed on the people, either in Scripture, by tradition, or by authority of their doctors, or by custom. It consists of two parts, the Mischna, and the Gemara; the former being the written law, the latter a collection of traditions and comments of Jewish doctors.
Talmudic
TAL'MUDIC
TALMU'DICAL, adjective Pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as talmudic fables.
Talmudical
TALMU'DICAL, a. Pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as Talmudic fables.
Talmudist
TAL'MUDIST, noun One versed in the Talmud.
Talmudistic
TALMUDIST'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Talmud; resembling the Talmud.
Talon
TAL'ON, noun
1. The claw of a fowl.
2. In architecture, a kind of molding, concave at the bottom, and convex at the top. When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon It is usually called by workmen an ogee, or O G, and by authors an upright or inverted cymatium.
Talus
TA'LUS, noun [Latin talus the ankle.] In anatomy, the astragalus, or that bone of the foot which is articulated to the leg.
1. In architecture, a slope; the inclination of any work.
2. In fortification, the slope of a work, as a bastion, rampart or parapet.
Tamable
TA'MABLE, adjective [from tame.] That may be tamed; capable of being reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness; that may be subdued.
Tamableness
TA'MABLENESS, noun The quality of being tamable.
Tamarin
TAM'ARIN, noun A small monkey of South America, with large ears; the great eared monkey, (Simia midas.)
Tamarind
TAM'ARIND, noun A tree, a native of the East Indies, and of Arabia and Egypt. It is cultivated in both the Indies for the sake of its shade and for its cooling, grateful acid fruit, the pulp of which, mixed with boiled sugar, is imported into northern countries. The stem of the tree is lofty, large, and crowned with wide spreading branches; the flowers are in simple clusters, terminating the short lateral branches.
Tamarinds
TAM'ARINDS, noun plural The preserved seed-pods of the tamarind, which abound with an acid pulp.
Tamarisk
TAM'ARISK, noun A tree or shrub of the genus Tamarix, of several species.
Tambac
TAM'BAC, noun A mixture of gold and copper, which the people value more highly than gold itself.
Tambor
TAM'BOR, noun
1. A small drum, used by the Biscayans as an accompaniment to the flageolet.
2. In architecture, a term applied to the Corinthian and composite capitals, which bear some resemblance to a drum. It is also called the vase, and campana, or the bell.
3. A little box of timber work covered with a ceiling, within the porches of certain churches.
4. A round course of stones, several of which form the shaft of a pillar, not so high as a diameter.
5. In the arts, a species of embroidery, wrought on a kind of cushion or spherical body, which is properly the tambor and so names from its resemblance to a drum.
TAM'BOR, verb transitive To embroider with a tambor
Tamborin
TAM'BORIN, noun
1. A small Drum.
2. A lively French dance, formerly in vogue in operas.
Tame
TAME, adjective
1. That has lost its native wildness and shyness; mild; accustomed to man; domestic; as a tame deer; a tame bird.
2. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
And you, tame slaves of the laborious plow.
3. Spiritless; unanimated; as a tame poem. [Not elegant nor in use.
TAME, verb transitive [Latin domo; Heb. to be silent, dumb.]
1. To reclaim; to reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; as, to tame a wild beast.
2. To civilize; as, to tame the ferocious inhabitants of the forest.
3. To subdue; to conquer; to depress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
4. To subdue; to repress; as wildness or licentiousness.
The tongue can no man tame .
Tamed
TA'MED, participle passive Reclaimed from wildness; domesticated; made gentle; subdued.
Tameless
TA'MELESS, adjective Wild; untamed; untamable. [Not much used.]
Tamely
TA'MELY, adverb With unresisting submission; meanly; servilely; without manifesting spirit; as, to submit tamely to oppression; to bear reproach tamely
Tameness
TA'MENESS, noun The quality of being tame or gentle; a state of domestication.
1. Unresisting submission; meanness in bearing insults or injuries; want of spirit.
Tamer
TA'MER, noun One that tames or subdues; one that reclaims from wildness.
Taming
TA'MING, participle present tense Reclaiming from a wild state; civilizing; subduing.
Taminy
TAM'INY
TAM'KIN, noun A stopper. [See Tampion.]
Tammy
TAM'MY noun A woolen stuff.
Tamper
TAM'PER, verb intransitive To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; , as to tamper with a disease.
1. To meddle; to have to do with without fitness or necessity.
'Tis dangerous tamp'ring with a muse.
2. To deal; to practice secretly.
Others tamper'd
For Fleetwood, Desborough and Lambert.
Tampering
TAM'PERING, participle present tense Meddling; dealing; practicing secretly.
TAM'PERING, noun The act of meddling or practicing secretly.
Tamping
TAMP'ING, noun [allied probably to tame, dam, stem, stamp, etc.]
The matter that is driven into the hole bored into any thing for blasting. The powder being first put into the hole, and a tube for a conductor of the fire, the hole is rammed to fullness with brick-dust or other matter. This is called tamping
Tampion
TAM'PION
TAM'POE, noun A fruit of the East Indies, somewhat resembling an apple. It is eaten by the natives, and called sometimes mangoustan, though a different fruit and less agreeable to the taste.
Tampoe
TAM'POE, n. A fruit of the East Indies, somewhat resembling an apple. It is eaten by the natives, and called sometimes mangoustan, though a different fruit and less agreeable to the taste.
Tamtam
TAM'TAM, noun A large flat drum used by the Hindoos.
Tan
TAN, verb transitive
1. In the arts, to convert animal skins into leather by steeping them in an infusion of oak or some other bark, by which they are impregnated with tannin, an astringent substance which exists in several species of bark, and thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree, impervious to water.
2. To make brown; to imbrown by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
His face all tann'd with scorching sunny rays.
TAN, noun The bark of the oak, etc. bruised and broken by a mill for tanning hides. It bears this name before and after it has been used. tan after being used in tanning, is used in gardening for making hotbeds; and it is also made into cakes and used as fuel.
TAN'-BED, noun [tan and bed.] In gardening, a bed made of tan; a bark bed.
Tan-Pit
TAN'-PIT, noun [tan and pit.] A bark pit; a vat in which hides are laid in tan.
TAN'-SPUD, noun [tan and spud.] An instrument for peeling the bark from oak and other trees. [Local.]
TAN'-STOVE, noun [tan and stove.] A hot house with a bark bed.
Tan-Vat
TAN'-VAT, noun [tan and vat.] A vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.
Tang
TANG, noun [Gr. rancor; rancid.]
1. A strong taste; particularly, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
2. Relish; taste. [Not elegant.]
3. Something that leaves a sting or pain behind.
She had a tongue with a tang
4. Sound; tone. [Not in use.]
TANG, verb intransitive To ring with. [Not in use.]
[This may be allied to ding, dong.]
Tangent
TAN'GENT, noun [Latin tangens, touching. See Touch.]
In geometry, a right line which touches a curve, but which when produced, does not cut it. In trigonometry, the tangent of an arc, is a right line touching the arc at one extremity, and terminated by a second passing through the other extremity.
Tangibility
TANGIBIL'ITY, noun [from tangible.] The quality of being perceptible to the touch or sense of feeling.
Tangible
TAN'GIBLE, adjective [from Latin tango, to touch.]
1. Perceptible by the touch; tactile.
2. That may be possessed or realized.
Tangle
TAN'GLE, verb transitive
1. To implicate; to unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to ravel the knot.
2. To ensnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in the folds of dire necessity.
Tangled in amorous nets.
3. To embroil; to embarrass.
When my simple weakness strays,
Tangled in forbidden ways.
[Entangle, the compound, is the more elegant word.]
TAN'GLE, verb intransitive To be entangled or united confusedly.
TAN'GLE, noun A knot of threads or other things united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; as hair or yarn in tangled.
1. A kind of sea weed.
Tanist
TAN'IST, noun [Gr. a lord, to be powerful or able; Latin teneo.]
Among the descendants of the Celts in Ireland, a lord, or the proprietor of a tract of land; a governor or captain. This office or rank was elective, and often obtained by purchase or bribery.
Tanistry
TAN'ISTRY, noun In Ireland, a tenure of lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, and to this he was admitted by election. The primitive intention seems to have been that the inheritance should descend to the oldest or most worthy of the blood and name of the deceased. This was in reality giving it to the strongest, and the practice often occasioned bloody wars in families.
Tank
TANK, noun A large bason or cistern; a reservoir of water.
Tankard
TANK'ARD, noun A large vessel for liquors, or a drinking vessel, with a cover.
Marius was the first who drank out of a silver tankard after the manner of Bacchus.
Tankard-Turnep
TANK'ARD-TURNEP, noun A sort of turnep that stands high above the ground.
Tanling
TAN'LING, noun One tanned or scorched by the heat of the sun.
Tanned
TAN'NED, participle passive [from tan.] converted into leather. [See Tan.]
1. Darkened by the rays of the sun.
Tanner
TAN'NER, noun One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
Tannery
TAN'NERY, noun The house and apparatus for tanning.
Tanniers
TAN'NIERS, noun A variety of the arum esculentum, an esculent root.
Tannin
TAN'NIN, noun The chimical name of that astringent substance contained in vegetables, particularly in the bark of the oak and chestnut, and in gall-nut; the substance used to change raw hides into leather.
Tanning
TAN'NING, participle present tense Converting raw hides into leather.
Tanrec
TAN'REC, noun A quadruped of the Indies, larger than a rat.
Tansy
TAN'SY, noun s as z. [Latin tanacetum.] A plant of the genus Tanacetum, of many species. It is extremely bitter to the taste, and used for medicinal and culinary purposes.
Tant
TANT, noun A small spider with two eyes and eight long legs, and of an elegant scarlet color.
Tantalism
TAN'TALISM, noun [See Tantalize.] The punishment of Tantalus, a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable.
Is not such a provision like tantalism to this people?
Tantalite
TAN'TALITE, noun The ore of tantalum or columbium, a newly discovered metal. It is an iron black color, sometimes with a tinge of blue. It is imbedded in angular pieces, from the size of a pea to that of a hazel-nut.
Tantalization
TANTALIZA'TION, noun The act of tantalizing.
Tantalize
TAN'TALIZE, verb transitive [from Tantalus, in fable, who was condemned for his crimes to perpetual hunger and thirst, with food and water near him which he could not reach.]
To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of reach; to tease; to torment.
Thy vain desires, at strife
Within themselves, have tantaliz'd thy life.
Tantalized
TAN'TALIZED, participle passive Teased or tormented by the disappointment of the hope of good.
Tantalizer
TAN'TALIZER, noun One that tantalizes.
Tantalizing
TAN'TALIZING, participle present tense Teasing or tormenting by presenting to the view some unattainable good.
Tantalum
TAN'TALUM, noun Columbium, the metal obtained from tantalite, newly discovered.
Tantamount
TANT'AMOUNT, adjective [Latin tantus, so much, and amount.] Equal; equivalent in value or signification; as a sum tantamount to all our expenses. Silence is sometimes tantamount to consent.
Tantivy
TAN'TIVY, adverb [Latin tanta vi.] To ride tantivy is to ride with great speed.
Tantling
TANT'LING, noun [See Tantalize.] One seized with the hope of pleasure unattainable.
Tap
TAP, verb transitive To strike with something small, or to strike a very gentle blow; to touch gently; as, to tap one with the hand; to tap one on the shoulder with a cane.
TAP, verb intransitive To strike a gentle blow. He tapped at the door.
TAP, verb transitive
1. To pierce or broach a cask, and insert a tap
2. To open a cask and draw liquor.
3. To pierce for letting out a fluid; as, to tap a tumor; to tap a dropsical person.
4. To box, or bore into; as, to tap a maple tree to obtain the sap for making sugar.
TAP, noun A gentle blow; a slight blow with a small thing.
She gives her right hand woman a tap on the shoulder.
1. A spile or pipe for drawing liquor from a cask.
Tape
TAPE, noun A narrow fillet or band; a narrow piece of woven work, used for strings and the like; as curtains tied with tape
Tape-Worm
TA'PE-WORM, noun [tape and worm.] A worm bred in the human intestines or bowels. The body is jointed, and each joint has its mouth.
TAP'-HOUSE, noun [tap and house.] A house where liquors are retailed.
Taper
TA'PER, noun A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle, or a small light.
Get me a taper in my study, Lucius.
TA'PER, adjective [supposed to be from the form of a taper ]
Regularly narrowed towards the point; becoming small towards one end; conical; pyramidical; as taper fingers.
TA'PER, verb intransitive To diminish or become gradually smaller towards one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers towards a point.
TA'PER, verb transitive To make gradually smaller in diameter.
Tapering
TA'PERING, participle present tense Making gradually smaller.
1. adjective Becoming regularly smaller in diameter towards one end; gradually diminishing towards a point.
Taperness
TA'PERNESS, noun The state of being taper.
Tapestry
TAP'ESTRY, noun [Latin tapes, tapestry ] A kind of woven hangings of wool and silk, often enriched with gold and silver, representing figures of men, animals, landscapes, etc.
Tapet
TA'PET, noun [supra.] Worked or figured stuff.
Tapeti
TAPETI, noun An American animal of the hare kind.
Tapir
TA'PIR, noun A quadruped of S. America, about 6 feet long and 3 l/2 high, resembling a hog in shape, with a short movable proboscis. It frequents the water, like the hippopotamus.
Tapis
TA'PIS, noun Tapestry. Upon the tapis under consideration, or on the table.
Tapped
TAP'PED, participle passive Broached; opened.
Tapping
TAP'PING, participle present tense Broaching; opening for the discharge of a fluid.
TAP'-ROOT, noun [tap and root.] The main root of a plant, which penetrates the earth directly downwards to a considerable depth.
Tapster
TAP'STER, noun One whose business is to draw ale or other liquor.
Tar
T'AR, noun [Eng. tare, in commerce.]
1. A thick resinous substance of a dark brown or black color, obtained from pine and fir trees, by burning the wood with a close smothering heat.
Tar inspissated is called pitch, and is much used in ships and cordage.
2. A sailor; so called form his tarred clothes.
T'AR, verb transitive To smear with tar; as, to tar ropes.
1. To tease; to provoke. [Not in use.]
Tar-Water
T'AR-WATER, noun [tar and water.] A cold infusion of tar, used as a medicine.
Tarabe
TARA'BE, noun A large parrot with a red head.
Tarantula
TARAN'TULA, noun A species of spider, the Aranea tarantula so called, it is said, from Tarentum in Apulia, where this animal is mostly found; a venomous insect, whose bite gives name to a new disease, called tarantismus. This is said to be cured by music.
Tarantulate
TARAN'TULATE, verb transitive To excite or govern emotions by music.
Taraquira
TAR'AQUIRA, noun A species of American lizard.
Tararean
TARA'REAN, adjective Pertaining to Tartary, in Asia.
Tartaric acid, the acid of tartar.
Tarareous
TARA'REOUS, adjective Hellish; pertaining to Tartarus.
Tardation
TARDA'TION, noun [Latin tardo. See Tardy.] The act of retarding or delaying. [Not used. We use for this, retardation.]
Tardigrade
T'ARDIGRADE
T'ARDIGRADOUS, adjective [Latin tardigradus; tardus, slow, and gradus, step.]
Slow-paced; moving or stepping slowly.
T'ARDIGRADE, noun The tardigrades are a genus of edentate quadrupeds, including the genus Bradypus or sloth.
Tardigradous
T`ARDIGRADOUS, a. [L. tardigradus; tardus, slow, and gradus, step.]
Slow-paced; moving or stepping slowly.
Tardily
T'ARDILY, adverb [from tardy.] Slowly; with slow pace or motion.
Tardiness
T'ARDINESS, noun [from tardy.] Slowness; or the slowness of motion or pace.
1. Unwillingness; reluctance manifested by slowness.
2. Lateness; as the tardiness of witnesses or jurors in attendance; the tardiness of students in attending prayers or recitation.
Tardity
T'ARDITY, noun [Latin tarditas.] Slowness; tardiness. [Not used.]
Tardy
T'ARDY, adjective [Latin tardus.]
1. Slow; with a slow pace or motion.
And check the tardy flight of time.
2. Late; dilatory; not being in season.
The tardy plants in our cold orchards plac'd
You may freely censure him for being tardy in his payments.
3. Slow; implying reluctance.
Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave.
4. Unwary. [Not in use.]
5. Criminal. [Not in use.]
T'ARDY, verb intransitive To delay. [Not in use.]
Tardy-Gaited
T'ARDY-GAITED, adjective [tardy and gait.] Slow-paced; having a slow step or pace.
The mellow horn
Chides the tardy-gaited morn.
Tare
TARE, noun [I know not the origin of this word. See the next word.]
1. A weed that grows among corn.
Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. .
2. In agriculture, a plant of the vetch kind, of which there are two sorts, the purple flowered spring or summer tare and the purple-flowered wild or winter tare It is much cultivated in England for fodder.
TARE, noun
1. In commerce, deficiency in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag or other thing containing the commodity, and which is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity from the weight or quantity of a commodity sold in a cask, chest, bag or the like, which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, chest or bag; or the abatement may be on the price of the commodity sold. When the tare is deducted, the remainder is called the net or neat weight.
TARE, verb transitive To ascertain or mark the amount of tare
TARE, old preterit tense of tear. WE now use tore.
Tared
TA'RED, participle passive Having the tare ascertained and marked.
Targe
T'ARGE, for target, is obsolete.
Target
T'ARGET, noun
1. A shield or buckler of a small kind, used as a defensive weapon in war.
2. A mark for the artillery to fire at in their practice.
Targeted
T'ARGETED, adjective Furnished or armed with a target.
Targeteer
T'ARGETEE'R, noun One armed with a target.
Targum
T'ARGUM, noun A translation or paraphrase of the sacred Scriptures in the Chaldee language or dialect. Of these the targum of Jonathan, and that of Onkelos, are held in most esteem by the Jews.
Targumist
T'ARGUMIST, noun The writer of a Targum.
Tarif
TAR'IF, noun
1. Properly, a list or table of goods with the duties or customs to be paid for the same, either on importation or exportation, whether such duties are imposed by the government of a country, or agreed on by the princes or governments of two countries holding commerce with each other.
2. A list or table of duties or customs to be paid on goods imported or exported.
TAR'IF, verb transitive To make a list of duties on goods.
Tarin
TAR'IN, noun A bird of the genus Fringilla, kept in cages for its beauty and fine notes; the citrinella.
Taring
TA'RING, participle present tense Ascertaining or marking the amount of tare.
Tarn
T'ARN, noun A bog, a marsh; a fen.
Tarnish
T'ARNISH, verb transitive
1. To sully; to soil by an alteration induced by the air, or by dust and the like; to diminish or destroy luster; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the brightness or beauty of color.
2. To diminish or destroy the purity of; as to tarnish reputation or honor.
T'ARNISH, verb intransitive To lose luster; to become dull; as, polished substances of gilding will tarnish in the course of time. Metals tarnish by oxydation.
Tarnished
T'ARNISHED, participle passive Sullied; having lost its brightness by oxydation, or by some alteration induced by exposure to air, dust and the like.
Gold and silver, when tarnished resume their brightness by setting them over certain lyes. Copper and pewter, etc. tarnished recover their luster with tripoli and potashes.
Tarnishing
T'ARNISHING, participle passive Sullying; losing brightness.
Tarpaulin
T'ARPAU'LIN, noun [from tar.] A piece of canvas well daubed with tar, and used to cover the hatchways of a ship to prevent rain or water from entering the hold.
1. A sailor; in contempt.
Tarrace
TAR'RACE
TAR'RAGON, noun A plant of the genus Artemisia, (A. dracunculus, ) celebrated for perfuming vinegar in France.
Tarragon
TAR'RAGON, n. A plant of the genus Artemisia, (A. dracunculus, ) celebrated for perfuming vinegar in France.
Tarrass
TAR'RASS
T'ARRED, participle passive Smeared with tar.
Tarred
T`ARRED, pp. Smeared with tar.
Tarriance
TAR'RIANCE, noun [from tarry.] A tarrying; delay; lateness. [Not in use.]
Tarrier
TAR'RIER, noun A dog. [See Terrier.]
1. [from tarry.] One who tarries or delays.
Tarring
T'ARRING, participle present tense Smearing with tar.
Tarrock
TAR'ROCK, noun A sea fowl of the genus Larus or gull kind, the Latin tridactylus. It is of the size of the common pigeon, and is remarkable for having no hind toe, but in lieu of it a small protuberance.
Tarry
TAR'RY, verb intransitive [Latin taurus, a bull.]
1. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.
Tarry all night and wash your feet. .
2. To stay behind. .
3. To stay in expectation; to wait.
Tarry ye here for us, till we come again to you. .
4. To delay; to put off going or coming; to defer.
Come down to me, tarry not. .
5. To remain; to stay.
He that telleth lies, shall not tarry in my sight. .
TAR'RY, verb transitive To wait for.
I cannot tarry dinner. [Not in use.]
T'ARRY, adjective [from tar.] Consisting of tar, or like tar.
Tarrying
TAR'RYING, participle present tense Staying; delaying.
TAR'RYING, noun Delay. .
[This word is in respectable use.]
Tarsel
T'ARSEL, noun A kind of hawk.
Tarsus
T'ARSUS, noun That part of the foot to which the leg is articulated, the front of which is called the instep.
Tart
T'ART, adjective
1. Acid; sharp to the taste; acidulous; as a tart apple.
2. Sharp; keen; severe; as a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke.
T'ART, noun [Latin tortus, twisted; and this may be the primary sense of tar, acid, sharp, and hence this noun, something acid or made of acid fruit.] A species of pie or pastry, consisting of fruit baked on paste.
Tartan
T'ARTAN, noun A small coasting vessel with one mast and a bowsprit, and the principal sail, which is very large, extended by a lateen-yard.
Tartar
T'ARTAR, noun
1. An acid concrete salt, formed from wines completely fermented, and adhering to the sides of the casks in the form of a hard crust. It is white or red, the white being most esteemed. In its crude state, it is much used as a flux in the assaying of ores.
Tartar is a supertartrate of potash; that is, a compound of tartaric acid and potash, having the acid in excess.
2. A person of a keen irritable temper.
3. A native of Tartary; a corruption of Tatar.
T'ARTAR, noun [Latin Tartarus.] Hell. [Not in use.]
Tartarean
TARTA'REAN
TARTA'REOUS, adjective Consisting of tartar; resembling tartar, or partaking of its properties.
Tartareous
TARTA'REOUS, a. Consisting of tartar; resembling tartar, or partaking of its properties.
Tartaric
TARTAR'IC
T'ARTARIN, noun [from tartar.] Fixed vegetable alkali or potash.
Tartarin
T`ARTARIN, n. [from tartar.] Fixed vegetable alkali or potash.
Tartarinated
T'ARTARINATED, adjective Combined with tartarin.
Tartarize
T'ARTARIZE, verb transitive To impregnate with tartar; to refine by means of the salt of tartar.
Tartarized
T'ARTARIZED, participle passive Impregnated with tartar; refined by tartar.
Tartarizing
T'ARTARIZING, participle present tense Impregnating with tartar; refining by means of the salt of tartar.
Tartarous
T'ARTAROUS, adjective Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities.
Tartarum
T'ARTARUM, noun A preparation of tartar, called petrified tartar.
Tartish
T'ARTISH, adjective [from tart.] Somewhat tart.
Tartly
T'ARTLY, adverb Sharply; with acidity.
1. Sharply; with poignancy; severely; as, to reply or rebuke tartly
2. With sourness of aspect.
Tartness
T'ARTNESS, noun Acidity; sharpness to the taste; as the tartness of wine or fruit.
1. Sharpness of language or manner; poignancy; keenness; severity; as the tartness of rebuke.
Tartrateartrite
T'ARTRATE'ARTRITE, noun [from tartar.] A salt formed by the combination of tartarous or tartaric acid with a base; as tartrite of potash; tartrite of soda.
Tartuffish
T'ARTUFFISH, adjective Precise; formal. [Not in use.]
Task
T'ASK, noun
1. Business imposed by another, often a definite quantity or amount of labor. Each man has his task When he has performed his task his time is his own. .
2. Business; employment.
His mental powers were equal to greater tasks.
3. Burdensome employment.
To take to task to reprove; to reprimand; as, to take one to task for idleness.
T'ASK, verb transitive
1. To impose a task; to assign to one a definite amount of business or labor.
2. To burden with some employment; to require to perform.
There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.
Tasked
T'ASKED, participle passive Required to perform something.
Tasker
T'ASKER, noun One that imposes a task.
Tasking
T'ASKING, participle present tense Imposing a task on; requiring to perform.
Taskmaster
T'ASKMASTER, noun [task and master.] One who imposes a task, or burdens with labor. Sinful propensities and appetites are men's most unrelenting taskmasters. They condemn us to unceasing drudgery, and reward us with pain, remorse and poverty. Next to our sinful propensities, fashion is the most oppressive taskmaster
1. One whose office is to assign tasks to others. .
Tassel
TAS'SEL, noun
1. A sort of pendant ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains and the like, ending in loose threads.
2. A small ribbon of silk sewed to a book, to be put between the leaves.
3. In building, tassels are the pieces of boards that lie under the mantle-tree.
4. A burr. [See Teasel.]
5. A male hawk; properly terzol.
Tasseled
TAS'SELED, adjective Furnished or adorned with tassels; as the tasseled horn.
Tasses
TAS'SES, noun plural Armor for the thighs; appendages to the ancient corslet, consisting of skirts of iron that covered the thighs. They were fastened to the cuirass with hooks.
Tastable
TASTABLE, adjective [from taste.] That may be tasted; savory; relishing.
Taste
TASTE, verb transitive
1. To perceive by means of the tongue; to have a certain sensation in consequence of something applied to the tongue, the organ of taste; as, to taste bread; to taste wine; to taste a sweet or an acid.
2. To try the relish of by the perception of the organs of taste
3. To try by eating a little; or to eat a little.
Because I tasted a little of this honey. .
4. To essay first.
5. To have pleasure from.
6. To experience; to feel; to undergo.
That he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. .
7. To relish intellectually; to enjoy.
Thou, Adam, wilt taste no pleasure.
8. To experience by shedding, as blood.
When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse.
TASTE, verb intransitive To try by the mouth; to eat or drink; or to eat or drink a little only; as, to taste of each kind of wine.
1. To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the quality or flavor is distinguished; as, butter tastes of garlic; apples boiled in a brass-kettle, sometimes taste of brass.
2. To distinguish intellectually.
Scholars, when good sense describing,
Call it tasting and imbibing.
3. To try the relish of any thing. taste of the fruits; taste for yourself.
4. To be tinctured; to have a particular quality or character.
Ev'ry idle, nice and wanton reason
Shall, to the king, taste of this action.
5. To experience; to have perception of.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
6. To take to be enjoyed.
Of nature's bounty men forbore to taste
7. To enjoy sparingly.
For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours.
8. To have the experience or enjoyment of.
They who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and the good word of God. .
TASTE, noun The act of tasting; gustation.
1. A particular sensation excited in an animal by the application of a substance to the tongue, the proper organ; as the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste
2. The sense by which we perceive the relish of a thing. This sense appears to reside in the tongue or its papillae. Men have a great variety of tastes. In the influenza of 1790, the taste for some days, was entirely extinguished.
3. Intellectual relish; as, he had no taste of true glory.
I have no taste
Of popular applause.
[Note. In this use, the word is now followed by for. 'He had no taste for glory.' When followed by of, the sense is ambiguous, or rather it denotes experience, trial.]
4. Judgment; discernment; nice perception, or the power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles lettres. taste is not wholly the gift of nature, nor wholly the effect of art. It depends much on culture. We say, a good taste or a fine taste
5. Style; manner, with respect to what is pleasing; as a poem or music composed in good taste
6. Essay; trial; experiment. [Not in use.]
7. A small portion given as a specimen.
8. A bit; a little piece tasted or eaten.
Tasted
TASTED, participle passive Perceived by the organs of taste; experienced.
Tasteful
TASTEFUL, adjective Having a high relish; savory; as tasteful herbs.
1. Having good taste.
Tastefully
TASTEFULLY, adverb With good taste.
Tasteless
TASTELESS, adjective Having no taste; insipid; as tasteless fruit.
1. Having no power of giving pleasure; as tasteless amusements.
2. Having no power to perceive taste. [Not used.]
3. Having no intellectual gust. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.