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Tacking (takʼing), n. In law, a union of securities, given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim. Tackle (tak'l), n. [From the stem of tack and take; in the naut. sense perhaps directly from L. G. and D. takel, Dan. takkel, tackle, the tackle of a vessel.] 1. An apparatus or that part of an apparatus by which an object is grasped, fastened, moved, or operated; especially, one or more pulleys or blocks rove with a single rope or fall, used for raising and lowering heavy weights and the like.2. Instruments of action; weapons.

[blocks in formation]

3. An arrow. Chaucer.-4. All the ropes of a ship and other furniture of the masts. Warm broke the breeze against the brow, Dry sang the tackle, sang the sail. Tennyson. See also such compounds as FISHINGTACKLE, FISH-TACKLE, GROUND-TACKLE, GUN-TACKLE, TACK-TACKLE, &C. Tackle (tak'l), v. t. pret. & pp. tackled; ppr. tackling. 1. To supply with tackle. My ships ride in the bay, Ready to disembogue, tackled and mann'd, Ev'n to my wishes. Beau. & FI

2. To operate, move, fasten, or the like, by means of tackle.-3. To set vigorously to work upon; to attack for the purpose of controlling or mastering.

The greatest poetess of our day has wasted her time and strength in tackling windmills under conditions the most fitted to insure her defeat.

Dublin Univ. Mag. Tackle (tak'l), v. i. To go vigorously to work; to make a bold attack: followed by to; as, they tackled to bravely. [Colloq.]

The old woman... tackled to for a fight in right earnest. 3. Lover.

Tackled (tak'ld), p. and a. Made of ropes tacked or looped together.

My man shall

Bring the cords, made like a tackled stair. Shak. Tackling (takl-ing), n. 1. Furniture of the masts and yards of a ship, as cordage, sails, &c.-2. Instruments of action; as, fishing tackling.

I will furnish him with a rod, if you will furnish him with the rest of the tackling, and make him a fisher. Iz. Walton.

3. Cordage, straps, or other means of attaching an animal to a carriage; harness, or the like.

Tacksman (taks'man), n. In Scots law, one who holds a tack or lease of land from another; a tenant or lessee. [Scotch.] Tacks-pins (taks'pinz), n. pl. Naut pins inserted into holes in various parts of a vessel for belaying running gear to. Also called Belaying-pins.

Tack-tackle (tak'tak-1), n. Naut, a small tackle for pulling down the tacks of the principal sails.

Taconic System (ta-kon'ik sis'tem), n. In geol. a system of upper Cambrian or lower Silurian rocks lying in the United States to the east of the Hudson, and so named from the Taconic range in the western slope of the Green Mountains. The system consists of slates, quartz-rock, and limestone. Tact (takt), n. [Fr. tact, touch, feeling, tact, from L. tactus, from tango, tactum, to touch, from which stem also tactile, tangible, contact, contagion, &c. See also TASTE, TAX.] 1. Touch; feeling.

Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to fact as well as sight, and assume corporeality as well as form. Southey.

2. Peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; skill or adroitness in doing or saying exactly what is required by circumstances; as, to be gifted with feminine tact.

And loved them more, that they were thine, The graceful tact, the Christian art. Tennyson. He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin. Macaulay.

3. The stroke in beating time in music. Tactable (tak'ta-bl), a. [See TACT.] Capable of being touched or felt by the sense of touch. 'They (women) being created to be both tractable and tactable.' Massinger. Tactic (tak'tik), n. System of tactics.

It seems more important to keep in view the gen eral tactic on which its leader was prepared with confidence to meet so unequal a force. It was the same that Wallace had practically taught, and it had just recently helped the Flemings to their victory of Courtrai. F. H. Burton. Tactic, Tactical (tak'tik, tak'tik-al),a. [See TACTICS.] Pertaining to the art of military and naval dispositions for battle, evolutions,

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&c.-Tactical point (milit.), any point of a field of battle which may impede the advance of an enemy to one's attack, or may facilitate the advance of one's army to attack the enemy.

Tactically (tak'tik-al-li), adv. In a tactical manner; according to tactics.

Tactician (tak-tish'an), n. One versed in tactics; an adroit manager or contriver. Tactics (tak'tiks), n. [Fr. tactique, Gr. taktikos, fit for ordering or arranging, he taktikë (technë, art), the art of drawing up soldiers in array, from tassó, taxo, to arrange, put in order.] 1. The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, of manoeuvring them in presence of the enemy or within the range of his fire, and performing military and naval evolutions. That branch which relates to land forces is termed military tactics, and that which relates to naval forces, naval tactics. The first treats of the mode of disposing troops for battle, of directing them during its continuance, the conduct of a retreat, and the exercises, arms, &c., necessary to fit troops for action; and the latter treats of the art of arranging fleets or squadrons in such an order or disposition as may be most convenient for attacking the enemy, defending themselves, or of retreating with the greatest advantage. See STRATEGY.Grand tactics comprehends everything that relates to the order, formation, and disposition of armies, their encampments, &c.Elementary tactics comprehends the drilling and formation of soldiers, and all the modes of training them for action.-2. † The art of inventing and making machines for throwing darts, arrows, stones, and other missile weapons.

Tactile (tak'til), a. [Fr. tactile, from L. tactilis, from tango, to touch.] Capable of being touched or felt; perceptible by touch; tangible.

At this proud yielding word, She on the scene her tactile sweets presented. Beau. & FI All tactile resistances are unconditionally known as co-existent with some extension. H. Spencer. Tactility (tak-til'i-ti), n. 1. The state of being tactile; tangibleness; perceptibility by touch. 2. Touchiness. Sydney Smith. [Rare.]

Tactinvariant (tak-tin-va'ri-ant), n. In alg. the invariant which, equated to zero, expresses the condition that two quantic curves or surfaces touch each other. Taction (tak'shon), n. [L. tactio, tactitionis, from tango, to touch.] 1. The act of touching; touch.

They neither can speak, or attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction. Chesterfield.

2. In geom. the same as Tangency or Touching.

Tactless (takt'les), a. Destitute of tact. Tactual (tak'tü-al), a. Pertaining to the sense or the organs of touch; consisting in or derived from touch.

Whether visual or factual, every perception of the space-attributes of body is decomposable into perceptions of relative position. H. Spencer.

In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body; then, through impressions from without and their corresponding adjustments, special portions of the surface become more responsive to stimuli than others.

Prof. Tyndall. Tade, Taid, Ted (tad, ted), n. A toad. [Scotch.]

Tadorna (ta-dor'na), n. [Etym. unknown.] A genus of ducks, which includes the sheldrake (T. vulpanser).

Tadpole (tad'pol), n. [O.E. tadde, Prov. E. and Sc. tade, A. Sax. tadie, a toad, and pole, poll, the head. Comp. Prov. E. polliwig, polliwog, pollhead, Sc. powhead, a tadpole.] The young of a batrachian animal, especially of a frog in its first state from the spawn; a porwigle. See FROG.

Tadpoledom (tad-põl'dum), n. The tadpole state. Kingsley.

Tadpole-fish (tad'pol-fish), n. A somewhat

rare teleostean fish, of the genus Raniceps, the R. trifurcatus, belonging to the family Gadidæ. It is about 1 foot in length, and in its general form and colour bears some resemblance to the imperfect animal from which it derives its name. It has been taken on the Scottish coast, and also on the Cornish and Devon coasts. Tae (ta), n. A toe. [Scotch.]

Tae (tá), a. [Scotch: ae, one, with the t of the old neuter article that, the.] One; as, the tae half and the tither the one half and the other (O. E. that one, that other).

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Tae (tā), prep. To. [Scotch. J Tædium (të'di-um), n. [L] Weariness; irksomeness. See TEDIUM.-Tædium vitæ, weariness of life; ennui: a mental disorder. Tael (tål), n. In China, a denomination of money worth about 68. sterling; also, a weight of 13 oz.

Ta'en (tán). The poetical contraction of Taken.

Tænia (te'ni-a), n. [L. tænia, from Gr. tainia, a fillet or ribbon.] 1. The tapeworm, a genus of internal parasites (Entozoa). See TAPEWORM.-2. In arch. the fillet or band which separates the Doric frieze from the architrave -3. In surg. a ligature; a long and narrow ribbon. - Tania hippocampi, in anat. the plaited edges of the processes of the fornix, which pass into the inferior cornua of the ventricles of the brain.-Tania semicircularis, a white line running in the groove between the optic thalami and corpora

striata.

Tæniada (të'ni-a-da), n. pl. An order of internal parasites (Entozoa), sub-kingdom Annuloida, class Scolecida, and division Platyelmia; the tapeworms. Called also Cestoidea. See TAPEWORM. Tænioid (te'ni-oid), a. Ribbon-shaped; resembling or related to the tapeworm or the Tæniada.

Tænioidea (tē-ni-oi'dē-a), n. pl. A family of intestinal worms, in Cuvier's classification, of which the genus Tænia is the type. Tænioidea (te-ni-oi'dë-ë), n. pl. Same as Cepolida. Taniopteris (te-ni-op'tèr-is), n. [Gr. tainia, a ribbon, and pteris, a fern.] A genus of fossil ferns, with broad ribbon-like leaves, found in the oolitic series of Yorkshire and Scania. Taë-ping (ta-e-ping'), n. [Chinese, Universal Peace. One of a body of very formidable rebels who first appeared in China in 1850. The taë-pings were not suppressed till 1866, and their suppression was effected with English assistance.

Tafelspath(ta'fel-spath), n. [G., from tafel, a table, and spath, spar.] A lamellar mineral of a yellowish-gray or rose-white, forming masses of prisms interlaced in the gang, chiefly lime and silex. Taffata (taf'fa-ta), n. Same as Taffeta. Tafferel, n. See TAFFRAIL. Taffeta, Taffety (taf'fe-ta, taf'fe-ti), n. [Fr. taffetas, It. taffetà, from Per. taftah, pp. of verb taftan, to weave.] A name given originally to all plain silk goods, but now become a generic name for plain silk, gros de Naples, shot silk, glacé, and others. The term has also been applied to mixed fabrics of silk and wool. Taffeta phrases, fine, smooth, or soft phrases or speech, as opposed to homespun, blunt, plain phrases or speech. Shak.

Taffrail, Tafferel (taf'ral, taf'e-rel), n. [D. tafereel, a panel, à picture, from tafel, a table, a picture, from L. tabula, a table.] Naut, the rail over the heads of the sterntimbers, extending across the stern from one quarter-stanchion to the other. The word seems also to have originally meant the upper flat part of a ship's steru, and to have been so applied because this part is often ornamented with carving or a painting. Young's Nautical Dictionary gives tafferelrail as equivalent to taffrail.

rail.

A ball of blue flame pitched upon the knight heads, and then came bounding and dancing aft to the faff Marryat. Taffy (taf’i), n. A kind of candy made of sugar or molasses boiled down and poured out in shallow pans. Written also Toffy. Taffy (taf'i), n. [Welsh pron. of Davy, the familiar form of David.] A Welshman. Tafia (tä'fi-a), n. [Fr., from Malay tრia, a spirit distilled from molasses.] A variety of rum distilled from molasses. Tafilet (taf'i-let), n. A fig or date of superior quality imported from Tafilelt, a principality of Marocco.

Tag (tag), n. [A word which appears to be a Teutonic form of tack; Dan. tag, a grasp, a handle; Sw. tagg, a point; Icel. taug, a string, a cord. See TACK.] 1. A metallic point to put to the end of a string; as, the tag of a lace.-2. Anything hanging loosely attached or affixed to another; any small appendage, as to an article of dress; a direction-card or label. 'Footmen in their tags and trimming.' Dickens.-3. The end or catchword of an actor's speech.-4. Something mean and paltry, as the rabble. Will you hence Before the tag return?

Shak.

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6. A young sheep of the first year. Also written Teg.-6. A kind of child's play in which one of the players is at first pitched upon to run after the others and endeavour to touch or tag one of them, on which the player tagged takes his place in chasing him and the others. Spelled also Tagg. In Scotland it is called Tig-tag or Tig.

They all played tagg till they were well warmed. Henry Brooke. Tag (tag), vt pret. & pp. tagged; ppr. tagging. 1. To fit with a point; as, to tag lace. All my beard

Was tagg'd with icy fringes.

Tennyson.

2. To fit one thing to another; to append; to tack or join on.

His courteous host
Tags every sentence with some fawning word.

Dryden.
I have no other moral than this to tag to the pre-
sent story.
Thackeray.

3. To join or fasten.-4. To tip or touch, as in the game of tag.

Tag (tag), v.i. To follow closely or as an appendage: generally with after. Tag-belt, n. See TAG-SORE.

Tagetes (taj'et-ēz), n. [From Tages, an Etruscan god, usually represented as a beautiful youth: the allusion is to the beauty of the flowers.] A genus of showy annuals cultivated under the names of French and African marigolds, and characterized by compound flowers, involucre simple, composed of five bracts, which are united into a tube; florets of the ray, five (in some cases three to four), persistent; pappus of five erect bristles. T. patula is the French marigold, of which many varieties are cultivated, some with double flowers variegated with gold and orange-brown. T. erecta, the African marigold, is a larger plant with double yellow flowers.

Tagger (tagèr), n. 1. One who tags or attaches one thing to another; as, a tagger of verses. [Familiar.]-2. Anything pointed like a tag. 'Porcupines' small taggers.' Cotton.-3. A very thin kind of tin-plate used for coffin-plate inscriptions and tops of umbrellas.

Taghairm (tä'ya-rem), n. [Gael., an echo.] A mode of divination practised among the Highlanders. A person wrapped in a fresh bullock's skin was laid down alone at the bottom of a waterfall or precipice, or other wild place. Here he revolved any question proposed; and whatever his exalted imagination suggested was accepted as the response inspired by the spirits of the place. Last evening-tide

Brian an augury hath tried,

Of that dread kind which must not be
Unless in dread extremity,

The Taghairm called; by which, afar,

Our sires foresaw the events of war. Sir W. Scott.

Taglet (taglet), n. A little tag. Taglia (talya), n. [It.] A particular combination of pulleys, consisting of a set of sheaves in a fixed block and another set in a movable block to which the weight is attached.

Tagliacotian (tal′i-a-kō"shi-an). See TALI

ACOTIAN.

Taglioni (tal-yōnē), n. An overcoat: so named from a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers. His taglioni or comfortable greatcoat.' Sir W. Scott. Tag-lock (tagʻlok), n. An entangled lock; an elf-lock. Nares. Tag-rag (tag'rag), n. A term applied to the lowest class of people; the rabble: often amplified into tag-rag and bobtail. Called also Rag-tag.

If the tag-rag people did not clap him, and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them, ... I am no true man. Shak.

Tag-sore, Tag-belt (tag'sōr, tagʻbelt), n. A disease in sheep in which the tail becomes excoriated and adheres to the wool in consequence of diarrhoea.

Tag-tail (tag'tal), n. 1. A worm having its tail of a different colour from the body. Iz. Walton.-2. An onhanger; a parasite; a sycophant; a dependant. Tagua (tagû-a), n. Phytelephas macrocarpa; the Panama name for the palm which yields the vegetable ivory. See IVORY-NUT. Taguan (tag'u-an), n. Pteromys petaurista, the flying squirrel of India. See PTEROMYS. Taguicati (tag-wē-ka'tē), n. The whitelipped peccary (Dicotyles labiatus), a mammal of the order Ungulata, family Suidæ, inhabiting Paraguay and adjacent districts. It is most destructive to the maize crops and cultivated grass. See PECCARY.

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Taigle (tā'gl), v.t. [Scotch. Allied to tag.] 1. To detain; to impede; to hinder.-2. To fatigue; to weary. Sir W. Scott.

Tail (tal), n. [A. Sax. tægel, tægl, Icel. tagl, L.G. and Sw. tagel, O.H.G. zagal. The original meaning was hair, as seen from Goth. tagl, hair.] 1. That part of an animal consisting of the termination of the spinal or vertebral column, and terminating its body behind, the term including also any natural covering or appendage of this part, as hair or feathers. In many quadrupeds the tail is a muscular shoot or projection covered with skin and hair hanging loose from the extremity of the vertebræ. In birds the tail consists of feathers or is covered with them, and serves to assist in directing their flight. In fishes the tail is usually formed by a gradual tapering of the body, ending in a fin called the caudal fin, which is always set vertically at the extremity of the spine, so as to work from side to side, forming the chief organ of progression.-2. The tail of a horse mounted on a lance, and used as a standard of rank and honour among the Turks and other eastern nations. The three grades of pashas are distinguished by the number of tails borne on their standards, three being allotted to the highest dignitaries or viziers, two to the governors of the more important provinces, and one to the sanjaks or governors of less important provinces.-3. The hinder, lower, back, or inferior part of a thing, as opposed to the head, the chief or superior part.

And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail. Deut. xxviii. 13.

4. Any long terminal appendage; anything that from its shape or position resembles the tail of an animal, as (a) in bot. a downy or feathery appendage to certain seeds, formed of the permanent elongated style; also, any elongated flexible terminal part, as a peduncle or petiole. (b) That tendon of a muscle which is fixed to the movable part. (c) The part of a musical note, as a minim or crotchet, which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head or body; the stem. (d) Naut. a strap connected with a block, by which it may be secured to a rope, spar, or the like. (e) In arch. the bottom or lower part of a member or part, as a slate or tile. (f) In astron. a luminous train extending from the nucleus or body of a comet often to a great distance, and usually in a direction opposite to the sun.-5. A train or body of followers or attendants. B. Jonson.

'Ah!... if you Saxon Duinhe-wassel (English gentlemen) saw but the Chief with his tail on! With his tail on!' echoed Edward in some surprise. 'Yesthat is with all his usual followers when he visits those of the same rank.' Sir W. Scott.

6. The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head or effigy; the reverse: used chiefly in the expression 'heads or tails,' when a coin is tossed up or spun round for the purpose of deciding some point by the side turned up when it falls.-7. The final portion of what takes place or has duration; as, to come in at the tail of an entertainment; the tail of a storm. [Colloq.1-8. In surg. a portion of an incision at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision. Called also Tailing.-9. pl. Tailings. See TAILING, 4.-Tail of the eye, the outer corner of the eye: used generally when referring to a stolen secret glance. [Colloq.]

Miss L. noticed this out of the tail of her eye.
Dickens.

-Tail of a lock, on a canal, the lower end or entrance into the lower pond. -Tail of the trenches, in fort. the post where the besiegers begin to break ground and cover themselves from the fire of the defenders of the place in advancing the lines of approach. -To turn tail, to run away; to flee; to shirk an encounter.

Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out another way; but all was to return in a higher pitch. Sir P. Sidney. -With one's tail between one's legs, with a cowed or abject air or look, like that of a beaten cur; having a humiliated appearpearance. [Colloq]

He came out with his tail between his legs. Cornhill Mag. Tail (tal), v.i. To follow, droop, or hang like a tail. To tail up and down the stream (naut.), to swing up and down with the tide: said of a ship at anchor in a river.-To tail off, to fall behind, as in the hunting field. [Sporting slang.]

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Tail (tāl), v.t. 1. To pull by the tail.

The conquering foe they soon assailed,
First Trulla staved and Cerdon tailed,

Until their mastiffs loosed their hold. Hudibras.

2. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be intimately attached to, as something which cannot be easily got quit of.

Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds wherewith he was tailed continued uncancelled, and was called on the next Parliament. Fulier. -To tail in, in carp. to fasten by one of the ends into a wall or any support; as, to tail in a timber.

Tail (tal), n. [0. Fr., a cutting, from Fr. tailler, to cut. Seen also in entail, detail, retail. In law, limitation; abridgment.Estate tail, or estate in tail, a freehold of inheritance limited to a person and the heirs of his body, general or special, male or female. See ENTAIL. Tailage, Talliaget (täl'aj, tal'í-áj), ». [Fr. taillage, from tailler, to cut off. See RETAIL.] Lit. a portion cut out of a whole; a share; a share of a man's substance paid away by way of tribute; hence, a tax or toll. Tail-block (tal'blok), n. Naut. a single block having a short piece of rope attached to it by which it may be fastened to any object at pleasure.

Tail-board (tāl'bōrd), n. The board at the hinder end of a cart or wagon which can be removed or let down for convenience in unloading.

Tail-coat (tal'kōt), n. A coat with tails; a dress-coat.

Tail-drain (tāl'drān), n. A drain forming a receptacle for all the water that runs out of the other drains of a field or meadow. Tailed (tåld), a. Having a tail; as, snouted and tailed like a boar. Frequently used in forming compounds; as, long-tailed crustaceans; fat-tailed sheep.

Tail-end (tāl'end), n. The latter end; the termination. The tail-end of a shower.' W. Black.

Tailing (täl'ing), n. 1. In building, the part of a projecting stone or brick inserted into a wall.-2. In surg. same as Tail, 8.-3. pl. The lighter parts of grain blown to one end of the heap in winnowing. [Local. -4. pl. The refuse part of the stamped ore thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus, and which is dressed a second time to secure whatever metal might still remain in it. Called also Tails.

Taillager† (tāl'aj-ér), n. [See TAILLE, TALLAGE.] A collector of taxes. Chaucer. Taille (tal), n. [Fr., from tailler, to cut. See TAILOR.] 1. A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. Chaucer.-2. In old French law, a tax, tallage, or subsidy; any imposition levied by the king or any other lord on his subjects.-3. In Eng. law, the fee or holding which is opposite to fee simple.

Taille is thus called because it is so minced or pared that it is not in his free power to be disposed of who owns it; but it is by the first giver cut or dívided from all other and tied to the issue of the donee. Cowell.

Tailless (talles), a. Having no tail; destitute of a tail.

In the Isle of Man we have a tailless kind of cat. H. Spencer. Same as Tailzie. Taillie (tāl'ē), n. Tailor (tà'lér), n. [Fr. tailleur, from tailler, to cut, from a L. form taleare, to cut, from talea, a rod. See RETAIL.] 1. One whose occupation is to cut out and make chiefly men's outer clothing, as coats, vests, trousers, &c., but sometimes also to fashion the heavier and stronger female outer garments, as jackets, &c. Formerly the tailor seems to have been more extensively employed in making female articles of dress.

Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments,
Lay forth the gown.

Shak. 2. A name given in the United States to a fish resembling the shad, but inferior to it in size and flavour.

Tailor (taler), v.i. 1. To practise making men's clothes.-2. To deal with tailors, as for clothing.

You have not hunted or gambled or tailored much. Macmillan's Mag. Tailor-bird (tå ́lér-bérd), n. A bird of the genus Orthotomus (O. longicaudus), family Sylviade, having a long, graduated tail, the feathers of which are narrow. These birds construct their nests at the extremity of a twig, taking one large or two small leaves and sewing their edges together, using the bill as a needle and vegetable fibre as thread. Within the hollow thus made a downy substance, sometimes mixed with feathers, is placed to receive the eggs. They

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are natives of India and the Indian Archipelago. The Sylvia cisticola, common in various parts of Italy, constructs its nest in a similar manner, and is also called the tailor-bird.

Tailoress (tá'lér-es), n. A female who makes garments for men.

Tail-piece (tāl'pës), n. A piece forming a tail; a piece at the end; an appendage; specifically, (a) a small cut or ornamental design placed at the end of a chapter or section in a book as an ornamental ending of a page. (b) A somewhat triangular-shaped piece of wood (generally ebony) attached to the lower end of the body of an instrument of the violin kind. The broad end is pierced with holes, in which the strings are fastened.

The stream of water

Tail-race (tal'rās), n. which runs from the mill after it has been applied to produce the motion of the wheel. Tails-common (tälz'kom-mon), n. mining, washed lead ore.

In

Tail-stock (tāl'stok), n. The support, in a lathe, bearing up the tail-screw and adjustable centre, in contradistinction to the headstock, which supports the mandrel. Tail-trimmer (tál'trim-ér), n. In building, a trimmer next to the wall into which the ends of joists are fastened to avoid flues. Tail-valve (tāl'valv), n. Same as Sniftingvalve (which see). Tail-vice (tal'vis), n. A small hand-vice with a tail or handle to hold it by. Tail-water (tal'wa-tér), n. The water flowing from the buckets of a water-wheel in motion.

Tailzie, Tailyie (tāl'yē), n. [Fr. tailler, to cut off. See TAILOR] In Scots law, an old term to denote a deed creating an entailed estate.

Tailzie, Tailye (tāl'yē), v.t. To entail; as, to tailzie an estate or lands. [Scotch.] Tain (tan), n. [O.E. teine, teyne, a thin plate, L. taenia, a band, a fillet.] A thin tin-plate; tin-foil for mirrors. Simmonds. Taint (tant), v. t. [O. Fr. taindre, pp. taint; Mod. Fr. teindre, teint; from L. tingere, to wet or moisten, whence also tinge, attaint, tincture, tint.] 1. To imbue or impregnate with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substances taint the air. And human carnage taints the dreadful shore.' Pope.-2. To corrupt, as by incipient putrefaction; as, tainted meat.-3. To stain; to sully; to pollute; to tarnish. Tainted with the said murder.' Holland.

We come not by the way of accusation

To taint that honour every good tongue blesses. Shak.

4. To attaint. See ATTAINT.-SYN. To corrupt, infect, contaminate, defile, pollute, vitiate, poison. Taint (tant), v.i. 1. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.

I cannot taint with fear.

Shak.

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cherry-red, with a silver taint like a lily.' Greene.-4. A kind of spider of a red colour common in summer. Sir T. Browne. Taint (tant), a. Tainted; touched; imbued. A pure unspotted heart, Never yet taint with love, I send the king. Shak. Taint (tant), n. [Perhaps from Fr. tenter, L. tentare, to try. See TEMPT.] 1. Trial; proof.-2. A trial of a lance; an injury to a lance without breaking it.-3. A thrust of a lance which fails of its effect; a breaking a lance in an encounter in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath. Chapman. Taint† (tänt), v.i. [See above.] To make an ineffectual thrust with a lance. Taint (tant), v.t. 1. To injure, as a lance, without breaking.-2. To break, as a lance,

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in an unknightly or unskilful manner; to make trial or proof, as of a lance or staff.

I have

A staff to taint, and bravely save the splinters, If it break in the encounter. Massinger. Taintless (tant'les), a Free from taint or infection; pure. Swift.

Taintlessly (tant ́les-li), adv. Without

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Tainture (tăn’tūr), n. [Fr tainture, L tine tura. See TAINT.] Taint; tinge; defilement; stain; spot. [Rare.]

Peace, if it may be,
Without the too much taiture of the honour.
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Give them one simple idea, and see that they take Locke. it right and perfectly comprehend it.

9. To receive with good or ill will; to be affected favourably or unfavourably by; to feel concerning. Unless I took all patiently I should not live.' Shak. How takes he my death?' Shak 'You must not take my former sharpness ill.' Shak.-10. To receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to look upon as; to suppose; to regard; to consider: as, this I take to be his motive: often with for.

He was deceived, and so took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in disguise. South. So soft his tresses, fill'd with trickling pearl, A worm that You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl. Tate. 11. To avail one's self of; to employ; to use; to occupy; as, to take precaution; to take proper measures; to take the necessary steps to secure success; to take counsel or advice; to take warning.

Taint-worm (tant'wêrm), n. taints; a destructive parasitic worm. As killing as the canker to the rose Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze. Milton. Tairge (tarj), v.t. [Scotch.] A targe. Tairn (tärn), n. A tarn. Coleridge. Taisch (tasch), n. [Gael.] The voice of a person about to die heard in the person's absence.

Some women said to him they had heard two faischs, that is, two voices of persons about to die; and what was remarkable, one of them was an English taisch, which they never heard before. Boswell.

Tait (tāt), n. [Icel. tæta, shreds, tæta, to tease or pick wool; Sw. taatte, a portion of lint or wool.] A small portion of anything consisting of fibres or the like; as, a tait of wool; a tait of hay. Sir W. Scott. [Scotch.] Written also Tate.

Taivert (tä'vert), a. See TAVERT.
Tajaçu, Tajassu (ta-jä'ső, ta-jasʼö), n.
Dicotyles torquatus, or peccary, a species of
pig inhabiting the eastern side of South
America. See PECCARY.

Take (tak), v.t. pret. took; ppr. taking; pp. taken. [A Scandinavian word: Icel. (pret. tók, pp. tekinn) and O. Sw. taka, Mod. Sw. taga, Dan. tage, to take, to seize, &c.; allied to Goth. tikan, to touch; tackle is from same stem. The Anglo-Saxon word to take was niman. According to some authorities from a root tag, seen in L. tango, tactum, to touch (whence tangible, tact, &c.).] 1. To receive or accept, as something offered: correlative to give, and opposed to refuse or reject.

Take what he gives, since to rebel is vain. Dryden. Ah, take the imperfect gift I bring. Tennyson.

2. To grasp with the hand or with any instrument; to get into one's hold or possession; to acquire or assume possession of; to lay hold of; to seize; to grasp.

I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him, thus.

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3. To seize or lay hold of and remove; to carry off; to remove in general; to abstract; to transfer: with from, off, &c., when the person or place is mentioned; as, to take a person's goods from him.

Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Mat. xxiv. 40. You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house. Shak. Those we love first are taken first. Tennyson.

4. To catch suddenly, as by artifice or surprise; to catch in a trap, snare, or the like; to entrap; to ensnare; hence, to come suddenly or unexpectedly upon; to circumvent; to surprise.

Shak I have taken you napping. Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines. Cant. ii. 15. Men in their loose unguarded hours they take, Not that themselves are wise, but others weak. Pope. 5. To take prisoner; to capture; to catch. Valentine, if he be taken, must die. Shak. They entering .. on every side slew and took three hundred Janizaries. Knolles.

6. To obtain possession of by force of arms; to cause to surrender or capitulate; to con'And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.' quer. Shak.-7. To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to charm; to delight; to please; to attract; to allure. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. Prov. vi. 25.

Milton.

The harmony Suspended hell, and took with ravishment The thronging audience. There was a something in those half-seen features -a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty-which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions. Moore. 8. To understand in any particular sense or manner; to comprehend; to apprehend. Why, now you take me; these are rites That grace love's days and crown his nights: These are the motions I would see. B. Fonson.

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink. Mat. vi. 25

This man always takes time, and ponders things maturely before he passes his judgment. Watts. 12. To render necessary; to demand; to require: frequently used impersonally with it; as, it takes three feet to make a yard; it takes long study to make a ripe scholar; it takes so much cloth to make a coat.--13. To seize on; to catch; not to let slip; not to neglect. We must take the current when it serves.' Shak. 'Let's take the instant by the forward top.' Shak. 'The next advantage will we take throughly.' Shak.-14. To choose and make one's own; to select; to be in favour of; as, to take a wife; to take a side. I take thee for wife.' Shak

The nicest eye could no distinction make
Where lay the advantage, or what side to take.
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15. To have recourse to; to betake one's self to; to turn to; as, to take shelter; to take a different course.

Tigers and lions are not apt to take the water. Sir M. Hale. Observing still the motions of their flight, What course they took.

He alone

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To find where Adam sheltered, took his way. Milton. 16. To accept the promise, declaration, conditions, &c., of; to close with; to hold responsible.

Old as I am, I take thee at thy word, And will to-morrow thank thee with my sword. Dryden. 17. To form; to fix; to adopt. 'Resolutions taken upon full debate.' Clarendon.-18. To put on; to assume; to pass into.

Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble. Shak. 19. To receive and swallow, as food or drink; as, he takes a hearty meal; will you take wine with me? to take a pill or draught.

This is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I pray you to take some meat. Acts xxvii. 33. 3420. To copy; to delineate; to draw; as, the portrait or landscape was beautifully taken. Our phoenix queen was pourtrayed too so bright Beauty alone could beauty take so right. Dryden. 21. To put into writing; to make a mark or observation or memorandum of; to note down; as, to take the prisoner's confession or declaration; the reporters took the speech; to take an inventory; to take a note.-22. To seize; to attack; to fasten on; to smite; to blast; to injure: said of a disease, malignant influence, or the like. Shakspere has A fit of madness took him.' 'Being taken with the cramp.' Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick, suddenly taken.'- 23. To catch; to be infected or seized with; as, to take a cold, a fever, &c. 'As men take diseases one of another. Shak.-24. To receive, as any temper or disposition of mind; to experience; to indulge; to feel; to enjoy; as, (Shak.) 'Take thou no scorn to wear the horn.' 'Take patience.' 'Now I have taken heart thou vanishest.' 'Take mercy on the poor souls." 'Take comfort.' 'I should take a displeasure against you.'

Few are so wicked as to take delight In crimes improfitable. Dryden. Children. take a pride to behave themselves prettily, perceiving themselves esteemed. Locke. 25. To bear or submit to without ill-will or resentment; to endure; to tolerate; to put up with. Won't you, then, take a jest?' Spectator.

He met with such a reception as those only deserve who are content to take it. Swin

26. To draw; to derive; to deduce.

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forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery. Tillotson.

27. To enter into possession of by hiring, renting, or leasing; as, to take a house; to take a pew or a box for the year; to take a farm. 28. To conduct; to lead; to convey; to transport; to carry; as, to take one home; he was taken to prison; to be taken by railway or steamer to London. 'Take the stranger to my house, and with you take the chain.' Shak.-29. Not to refuse or balk at; to leap; to clear; as, that horse takes his fences or his ditches gallantly, Tocudgel you and make you take the hatch.' Shak 30. To place one's self in; to occupy; to sit or stand in; as, take your places; take your seats; the president took the chair at eight. 31. To deal; to give; to strike; to deliver, as a cuff or blow. I will take thee a box on the ear. Shak.-Take, with the sense of do, make, produce, obtain, use, &c., is often coupled with a noun, so that both are equivalent to a single verb; as, to take breath; to take effect; to take hold; to take leave; to take the liberty; to take notice; and the like. To take aback, to surprise or astonish, especially in an abrupt, disappointing, and unpleasant way; to confound; as, his impudence took me fairly aback. To take advantage of, (a) to use any advantage offered by; to make opportune use of and profit or benefit by; as, to take advantage of the favouring breeze or of the fine weather. (b) To catch or seize by surprise or cunning; to make use of favourable circumstances to the prejudice of; as, to take the advantage of a person's good-nature, weakness, confidence, or the like. To take adieu, to bid adieu or farewell; to take leave. 'We took our last adieu. Tennyson.-To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.

Cupid all arm'd; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west. Shak. -To take air, to be divulged or made public; to become known; to be disclosed, as a secret. The cabal, however, began to take air from the premature mutinous language of those concerned. Sir W. Scott. -To take the air, to take an airing, to walk, drive, or stay in the open air for the sake of the health. To take arms, or take up arms, to commence war or hostilities. To take arms against a sea of troubles, and, by opposing, end them.' Shak.-To take away, to remove; to set aside; to make an end of.

If we take away consciousness of pleasure and pain it will be hard to know wherein to place personal iden Locke. tity. By your own law I take your life away. Dryden. -To take a ball, in cricket, to strike or drive a ball with the bat, as opposed to blocking, or stopping it, or the like.

He blocked the doubtful balls, missed the bad ones, took the good ones, and sent them flying to all parts of Dickens.

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-To take breath, to stop, as from labour or exertion, in order to breathe or rest; to rest, refresh, or recruit one's self after fatigue. Before I proceed I would take some breath. Bacon. -To take care, to be watchful, vigilant, or careful; to be wary; to be thoughtful or cautious; as, take care and be not deceived.-To take care of, to have the charge or care of; to superintend; to keep watch over; as, to take care of one's health, property, or children.

Old Mr. Lowndes, the famous secretary of the Trea. sury in the reigns of King William, Queen Ann, and King George I, used to say, take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. Chesterfield. -To take chance, or one's chance, to submit to hazard; to run the risk. You must take your chance. Shak. Wilt take thy chance with me?' Shak.-To take down, (a) to bring or remove from a higher to a lower place or position; hence, to conquer; to humble; to abase. Take down their mettle, keep them lean and bare. Dryden. Lacqueys were never so saucy and pragmatical as now, and he should be glad to see them taken down, Addison.

(b) To swallow; as, to take down medicine. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; to reduce to separate parts; as, to take down a house, a clock, or the like. (d) To put in writing; to write down; to record; as, to take down a sermon in shorthand; to take down a visitor's address; to take down a witness's statement. To take earth, in foxhunting, to escape into its hole: said of the fox; hence, fig. to hide or conceal one's self. Follow yonder fellow, and see where he takes earth. Sir I. Scott.

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-To take effect, (a) to be efficacious; to have the intended or natural effect or influence; as, the poison took effect immediately. (b) To come into operation or action; as, the law will not take effect till next year.-To take farewell. Same as To take adieu or To take leave. Tennyson.-To take the field, to commence the operations of a campaign; hence, fig. to occupy or step into a position of activity, as an opponent, rival, competitor, and the like. To take fire, to become ignited or inflamed; to begin to burn or blaze; hence, fig. to become highly excited, as with anger, love, enthusiasm, or other strong feeling.-To take from,(a) to remove from. (b) To subtract or deduct from; as, to take three from six.-To take heart, to become brave, courageous, or confident. Footprints that perhaps another,

Seeing, shall take heart again. Longfellow. -To take to heart, to be keenly or deeply affected by; to feel sensibly; as, to take a reproach or disappointment to heart; he took the disgraceful exposure so much to heart that he left the country.-To take heed, to be careful or cautious. Take heed lest passion sway thy judgment.' Milton.

Take heed what doom against yourself you give. Dryden. -To take heed to, to attend to with care. I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. Ps. xxxix. 1.

-To take hold, to seize; to grasp; to obtain possession; to gain control or power over: followed by of before the object; sometimes formerly by on.

Pangs and sorrow shall take hold of them. Is. xiii. 8.
Judgment and justice take hold on thee.
Job xxxvi. 17.
Horatio... will not let belief take hold of him,
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Nor doth the general care take hold on me.
-To take horse, to mount and ride a horse
or horses.

Then linger not, my lord; away, take horse. Shak. -To take in, (a) to receive, admit, or bring into one's house, company, or the like; to entertain.

I was a stranger, and ye took me in. Mat. xxv. 35. (b) To inclose, fence, or reclaim, as land. Upon the sea-coast are parcels of land that would pay well for the taking in. Mortimer. (c) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to include; to comprehend.

This love of our country takes in our families, friends, and acquaintance. Addison.

(d) To reduce or draw into a less compass; to make less in length or width; to contract; to brail or furl, as a sail.

Mrs. Stanhope had been obliged to have every one of her dresses taken in from the effect of her journey. Trollope.

(e) To give admission to; to allow to enter or penetrate; as, a leaky ship takes in water. ()To receive into the mind or understanding; to admit the truth of; as, we won't take that story in.

Some genius can take in a long train of proposi. tions. Watts.

(g) To win or gain by conquest; to capture. To take in a town with gentle words.' Shak. 'Mused of taking kingdoms in.'

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Should a great beauty resolve to take me in with the artillery of her eyes, it would be as vain as for a thief to set upon a new-robbed passenger.

Suckling.

(h) To circumvent; to cozen; to cheat; to deceive; as, he was completely taken in by a sharper. [Colloq.] () To receive regularly; to be a subscriber to, as a newspaper or periodical.

He was in the habit of taking in two French provincial newspapers. W. Collins.

-To take in hand, to undertake to manage; to attempt to execute.

Nothing would prosper that they took in hand. Clarendon -To take in vain, to use or utter unnecessarily, carelessly, or profanely, as an oath. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Ex. xx. 7. -To take leave, (a) to bid farewell; to depart.

But how to take last leave of all I loved? Tennyson. (b) To permit to one's self; to use a certain degree of license or liberty; as, I take leave to deny that.-To take the liberty of, to take liberties with. See LIBERTY.-To take notice, (a) to regard or observe with attention; to watch carefully; to give some attention to. (b) To show by some act that

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observation is made; to make remark; to mention.

He took notice to his friends of the king's conduct. Johnson. -To take oath, to swear judicially or with solemnity. "We take all oath of secrecy." Bacon. To take oath of, to administer an oath to. She, first taking an oath of them for revenge. Shak.-To take off, (a) to remove or lift from the surface, outside or top; as, to take off the clothes; to take off one's hat or shoes. (b) To remove to a different place; to carry or transfer to another place; as, take off the prisoner to jail; take yourself off. (c) To remove or put an end to so as to deprive one of. 'Your power and your command is taken off. Shak. 'Whose life she had ta'en off by poison.' Shak. (d) To put to death; to kill; to make away with. Whose execution takes your enemy off." Shak. (e) To invalidate; to lessen or weaken; to destroy.

This takes not off the force of our former evidence. Stilling feet. (f) To deduct from; as, this sum is taken off his salary; to take a penny off the income

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The justices decreed to take off a halfpenny in a quart from the price of ale. Swift. (g) To withdraw; to withhold; to call or draw away.

Keep foreign ideas from taking off our minds from Locke. its present pursuit.

(h) To swallow; to drink out. The moment a man takes off his glass.' Locke. (To make a copy of; to reproduce. Take off all their models in wood.' Addison. () To mimic; to imitate, as in ridicule; to personate; to caricature; to make game of; as, the mimic takes off that proud strutting fellow to the life. (k) To purchase; to take in trade.

The Spaniards have no commodities that we will Locke. take off.

(1) To find place for; to dispose of.

More are bred scholars than preferments can take off Bacon. -To take on, or upon, to undertake the charge, performance, responsibility, &c., of; to assume; to appropriate; to bear.

Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy. Nuin. xvi. 3The office Becomes a woman best; I'll take'r upon me. Dryden.

She loves me, ev'n to suffer for my sake; And on herself would my refusal take. Dryden. -To take order,† to exercise authority; to take measures. To take order with,t to check; to restrain. 'He was taken order with before it came to that.' Bacon. -To take out, (a) to remove from within a place, or from a number of other things; as, to take an invalid out for a walk; to take one out of difficulties. (b) To remove by cleansing or the like; as, to take out a stain, a blot, or the like. (c) To put away; to cause to be no longer operative; to put an end to; as, to take the pride or nonsense out of a youngster; to take the fighting or the strength out of one; running takes the wind out of him. (d) To obtain or accept as an equivalent; as, he took the amount of the debt out in goods. (e) To procure for one's self; to get drawn up and issued for one's own use; as, to take out a patent, a summons, or the like.-To take it out of a person, to exact or compel satisfaction or an equivalent from him; as, he pays him well, but takes it out of him in hard work; he cheated me, but I took it out of him in blows. To take pains, to use all one's skill, care, and the like.-To take part in, to share; to partake of; as, take part in our rejoicing.-Take part with, to join or unite with.-To take one's part, to espouse one's cause; to defend one. - To take place, (a) to happen; to come to pass; as, the event took place a week ago; the performance takes place at seven o'clock. (b) To have effect; to prevail.

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Where arms take place all other pleas are vain. Dryden. -To take root, (a) to form or strike a root, as a plant. Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers.' Shak. (b) To become firmly fixed or established. seen the foolish taking root.' Job v. 3.-To take stock. See STOCK.-To take time, (a) to act without haste or hurry, and with due deliberation; hence, to be in no haste or excitement; to be patient; to wait with calmness; as, be cautious and take time. (b) To require, demand, or necessitate a portion or period of time; as, it will take some time to learn that.-To take tent, to

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(f) To preoccupy; to occupy; to engross; to engage; to employ. Religion takes up his whole time.' Locke. The place is taken up before.' Dryden. The buildings about took up the whole space.' Sir W. Temple. 'Princes were taken up with wars.' Sir W. Temple. An artist now taken up with this invention.' Addison. (g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief or a vagabond. 'I was taken up for laying them down.' Shak. (h) To answer by reproof; to reprimand.

One of his relations took him up roundly for stooping so much below the dignity of his profession. Sir R. L'Estrange. (i) To carry on or manage; to undertake; to charge one's self with; as, to take up a friend's cause or quarrel. (j) To arrange or settle; to bring to an end.

'Let him let the matter slip, and I'll give him my horse.'... 'I have his horse to take up the quarrel.' Shak

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(k) To believe; to admit. "The ancients took up experiments on credit.' Bacon. (1) To enter upon; to adopt. 'Lewis Baboon had taken up the trade of clothier.' buthnot. (m) To pay and receive; as, to take up a bill or note at the bank.-To take up arms. Same as To take arms. -To take upon. Same as To take on -To take with, (a) to accept or have as a companion; as, he took his brother with him on a journey or in a partnership. (b) To be clear and explicit, as with another person, so that he can follow and understand. 'Soft! take me with you.' Shak.

Take (tak), v.i. 1. To move or direct the course; to resort to or to attach one's self; to betake one's self; as, the fox being hard pressed, took to the hedge.

The defluxion taking to his breast, wasted his lungs. Bacon.

2. To gain reception; to please; as, the play will not take unless it is set off with proper

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4. To catch; to fix or be fixed; as, he was inoculated, but the infection did not take. When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise. Bacon.

5. To admit of being represented in a photograph; to admit of a picture being made; to have the quality of being capable of being photographed; to have the quality of coming out; as, my face does not take well. -To take after, (a) to learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes after a good pattern. (b) To resemble; as, the son takes after his father. To take from, to derogate or detract from.

It takes not from you that you were born with principles of generosity. Dryden.

-To take on, (a) to be violently affected; to grieve; to mourn; to fret; as, the child takes on at a great rate. (b) To assume a character; to act a part. 'I take not on me here as physician.' Shak.-To take to, (a) to become fond of; to become attached to; as, to take to books; to take to evil practices. If he does but take to you,. . . you will contract a great friendship with him. H. Walpole. (b) To resort to; to betake to. Men of learning who take to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of the world. Addison.

-To take up, (a) to stop.

Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of all religion. Tillotson.

(b) To reform.

This rational thought wrought so effectually, that it made him take up, and from that time prove a good husband. Locke.

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-To take up with, (a) to be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain fare. In affairs which may have an extensive influence on our future happiness, we should not take up with probabilities. Watts.

(b) To lodge with; to dwell with; to associate with.

Are dogs such desirable company to take up with I South.

-To take with, to please; to be favourably regarded by.

Our gracious master is a precedent to his own subjects, and seasonable mementos may be useful: and, being discreetly used, cannot but take well with him.

Bacon.

Take (tak), N. 1. The quantity of anything taken or received; receipts; catch, especially the quantity of fish taken at one haul or catch or upon one cruise.

They (ladies holding stalls at a charity bazaar) make merchandise of their smiles, and drive a roaring trade in their cartes-de-visite and autographs, with miserable little coat bouquets made up and fastened in by their own hands, and sold at prices more like the current rates of El Dorado than of London; so that their fake soon swells beyond their neighbours' and rivals? Saturday Rev.

2. In printing, the quantity of copy taken in Take-in (tak-in'), n. hand by a compositor at one time. 1. A fraud; a cheating act; imposition. [Colloq.] The correspondent, however, views the whole performance as a take-in. Saturday Rev.

2. The party cheating. [Colloq.] Takel, n. [See TACKLE.] An arrow. Chau

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Taken (tak'n), pp. of take.

Take-off (tak'of), n. An imitation of a person, especially by way of caricature. [Colloq] Taker (tak'ér), n. 1. One that takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends; one that subdues and causes to surrender; as, the taker of captives or of a city. Specifically-2. One who takes a bet.

(The reputation of the horse) made the betting 5 to 4 on him; but takers were not wanting, calculating on the horse's truly Satanic temper. Lawrence. 1. Alluring; Taking (tâk'ing), p. and a. attracting; engaging; pleasing. 'Subtile in making his temptations most taking.' Fuller.-2. Infectious; catching; as, the itch is very taking. [Colloq.]

Come not near me, For I am yet too taking for your company. Beau, & Fl. Taking (tāk'ing), n. 1. The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension. 2. Agitation; distress of mind.

What a taking was he in, when your husband asked what was in the basket. Shak.

3. Malignant influence.

Bless thee from whirlwinds, star-blasting, and taking. Shak. Takingly (tak'ing-li), adv. In a taking or attractive manner. So I shall discourse in some sort takingly.' Beau. & Fl. Takingness (tak'ing-nes), n. The quality

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of pleasing or of being engaging. plaisance and takingness.' Jer. Taylor. Taky (tāki), a. Capable of taking, captivating, or charming; designed to attract notice and please; taking; attractive. [Slang or colloq.]

He now proceeded to perform by one great effort those two difficult and delicate operations in art, technically described as putting in taky touches, and bringing in bits of effect. W. Collins.

Talapoin, Telapoin (tal'a-poin, tel'a-poin), N. 1. The title, in Siam, of a priest of Fo; a bonze. 'Oriental mullah, bonze, or talapoin.' Carlyle.-2. A species of monkey, the Cercopithecus talapoin.

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Talaria.

Talaria (ta-la'ri-a), n. pl. [L] The small wings attached to the ankles of Hermes or Mercury in representations of this deity. They sometimes appear as growing from the ankle, more monly as attached to sandals, one on each side of each ankle. Talbot (tal'bot), n. [Probably from the Talbot family, who bear the figure of a dog in their coat of arms ] A kind of hound, and probably the oldest of our slow-hounds. He had a broad mouth, very deep chops, very long and large pendulous ears, was fine coated and usually pure white. This was the hound formerly known as St. Hubert's breed, and it is probably the origin of the bloodhound.

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Talbotype (tal'bo-tip), n. A photographic process invented by H. Fox Talbot, in which paper, prepared in a particular manner, is used instead of the silvered plates of Daguerre. Called also Calotype (which see) Talc (talk), n. [Fr. tale; Sp. and Pg. talen, from Ar. talq, talc.] A magnesian mineral, consisting of broad, flat, smooth laminæ or plates, unctuous to the touch, of a shining lustre, translucent, and often transparent when in very thin plates. By the action of fire the laminae open a little, the fragment swells, and the extremities are with diffculty fused into a white enamel. When rubbed with resin talc acquires positive electricity. Its prevailing colours are white, apple-green, and yellow. There are three principal varieties of talc, common, earthy, and indurated. Talc is a silicate of magnesium, with small quantities of potash, alumina, oxide of iron, and water. It is used in many parts of India and China as a substitute for window-glass; indurated tale is used for tracing lines on wood, cloth, &c., instead of chalk. Talc is met with in several parts of Scotland, chiefly in connection with serpentine, and on the Continent. Several varieties are found in India and Ceylon. Oil of tale, a name given by old writers to an alchemical nostrum famous as a cosmetic, considered as a substitute for and superior to ceruse. It was given out to be prepared from tale by calcination and other processes, and it is probable that the unctuous feel of that mineral may have induced the belief that it contained an oil. He should have brought me some fresh oil ef tale, These ceruses are common. Massinger.

Talcite (tal'sit), n. In mineral. same as Nacrite (which see).

Talcky, Talcy (talk'i), a. Same as Taleose Talcose, Talcous (talk'õs, talk'us), a.

Like

tale; consisting of tale; containing talc.— Talcose granite. See PROTOGENE.-TalcosƐ rocks, rocks resembling the micaceous rocks, and comprising chlorite-slate, talc-slate, and serpentine.

Talc-schist (talk'shist), n. In mineral a schistose metamorphic rock, consisting of quartz and talc, foliated and more or less crumpled, and having a greasy or soapy feel. It is commonly associated with mica-schist, serpentine, and steatite.

Talc-slate (talk'slāt), n. A talcose rock, consisting of talc and quartz arranged in laminæ. Tale (tal), n. [Two words closely akin în origin seem to be mixed up here, one meaning speech, talk, &c, the other number, reckoning; A. Sax. tale, talu, speech, voice, talk, a tale, and tæl, tal, reckoning, number; comp. Icel. tal, talk, conversation, a number, tala, a speech, a number, and as verb to speak, to talk; Dan. tal, number, tale, speech, talk, discourse, also to talk; D. tal, number, taal, language, speech, G. zahl, number; from the stem of talk, tell.] 1. That which is told; as, (a) an oral relation; hence, anything disclosed; information.

We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xca.
Every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain. Shak.
I can tell thee pretty tales of the duke. Shak.
(b) A narrative, oral or written, in prose or
verse, of events that have really happened
or are imagined to have happened; a short
story, true or fictitious; as, a winter's tale;
a tale of woe.

Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,

The course of true love never did run smooth.
Shak

2. A number or quantity told, reckoned, estimated, or set down; especially, a reckoning by counting or numbering; an enumeration; a number reckoned or stated. The ignorant, who measure by tale, not weight Hooker. She takes the tale of all the lambs.' Dryden.

Money being the common scale

Of things by measure, weight, and tale. Hudibras. This is almost certainly the meaning in Milton's

And every shepherd tells his tale

Under the hawthorn in the dale. L'Allegro, 67, 68, where the poet is speaking of the various sights and sounds characteristic of morning 3. In law, a count or declaration.-Ilis tale is told, fig. his race is run; it is all over with him; he is no more. W. H. Ainsworth. — -Desperate tale. See extract.

Much in the same way Henry discharged Wolsey's obligations, when he seized the cardinal's property, paying off the unfortunate debtors by desperate

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