TARRY

are (1) A. Sax. tirian, tyrgan, to irritate, vex, to 'tarre' on, as when one sets on a dog, Du. tergen, to provoke, O.Fr. tarier, to irritate, torment; and (2) 0.Fr. targier, to delay, from L. tardare. In borrowing the latter word, English has allowed it to approach the form of the former.' Skeat. L tardare is from tardus, slow, whence tardy.] 1. To stay; to sojourn; to abide; to continue; to lodge.

Tarry all night and wash your feet. Gen. xix. 2. 2. To stay or remain behind; to wait. Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you. Ex. xxiv. 14. 3. To put off going or coming; to delay; to loiter; to defer.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must Barry the grinding.

Tarryt (tari), n. Delay; stay.

Tarry (tari), a. Consisting of tar, or like tar; partaking of the character of tar; smeared with tar-Tarry fingers, thieving fingers; pilfering fingers. [Scotch.]

The gipsies hae tarry fingers, and ye wud need an e'e in your neck to watch them. Galt.

Tarsal (tär'sal), a. 1. Pertaining to the tarsus or instep; as, the tarsal bones.-2. Of or pertaining to the tarsi of the eyelids; as, the tarsal cartilages.

Tarse (tars), n. The same as Tarsus (which see).

Tarsel (tär'sel), n. A kind of hawk; a tiercel.

Tarsi. See TARSUS.

Tarsia, Tarsiatura (tär'si-a, tär'si-a-tu"ra),

[It] A kind of mosaic wood-work or marquetry much in favour in Italy in the fifteenth century. It was executed by inlaying pieces of wood of different colours and shades into panels of walnut-wood, so as to represent landscapes, architectural scenes, figures, fruit, flowers, &c. Tarsier (tar'si-ér), n. An animal of the genus Tarsius (which see). Tarsius (tar'si-us), n. [From tarsus.] A genus of quadrumanous mammals of the lemur family inhabiting the Eastern Archipelago. In this genus the bones of the tarsus are very much elongated, which gives the feet and hands a disproportionate length. Tarsius spectrum, the tarsier, seems to be the only species known. It is about the size of a squirrel, fawn-brown in colour, with large ears, large eyes, and a long tufted tail. It is nocturnal in its habits, and lives among trees. Its favourite food is lizards. Tarso-metatarsus (tär'sō-me-ta-tär"sus), n. The single bone in the leg of birds produced by the union and ankylosis of the lower or distal portion of the tarsus with the whole of the metatarsus. Tarsorraphy (tär-sor'ra-fi), n. [Tarsus, a cartilage of the eyelids, and Gr. raphe, seam, suture, from rapto, to sew.] In surg. an operation for diminishing the size of the opening between the eyelids when it is enlarged by surrounding cicatrices. DungliTarsotomy (tär-sot'o-mi), n. [Tarsus, a cartilage of the eyelids, and Gr. tome, a cutting, from temno, to cut.] In surg. the section or removal of the tarsal cartilages. Dunglison.

Tarsus (tar'sus), n. pl. Tarsi (tär'si). [Gr. tarsos, any broad, flat surface, tarsos podos, the flat part of the foot.] 1. In anat. (a) that part of the foot which in man is popularly known as the ankle, the front of which is called the instep. It corresponds with the wrist of the upper limb or arm, and is composed of seven bones, viz. the astragalus, os calcis (heel), os naviculare, os cuboides, and three others, called ossa cuneiformia. See FOOT. (b) The thin cartilage situated at the edges of the eyelids to preserve their firmness and shape.-2. In entom. the last segment of the leg. It is divided into several joints, the last being generally terminated by a claw, which is sometimes single and sometimes double.-8. In ornith. that part of the leg (or properly the foot) of birds which extends from the toes to the first joint above; the shank. The single bone of this portion corresponds with the tarsus and metatarsus conjoined. See TARSO-METATARSUS.

TARTISH

saliva. It consists of salivary mucus, anímal matter, and phosphate of lime. Tartart (tär'tar), n. [L. Tartarus.] Hell.

Follow me.-To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit. Shak.

Tartar (tär'tar), n. [A corruption of Tatar. When, in the reign of St. Louis of France, the hordes of the Tatar race were devastating Eastern Europe, news of their ravages were brought to the pious king, who exclaimed thereupon with horror, Well may they be called Tartars, for their deeds are those of fiends from Tartarus.' The appositeness of the appellation thus metamorphosed made it be received, and from that time French authors-and after them the rest of Europe-have called the Tatars, Tartars.] 1. A native of Tartary; a name rather loosely applied to members of various Mongolian or Turanian peoples in Asia and Europe.-2. A name given to couriers employed by the Ottoman Porte, and by the European ambassadors in Constantinople.3. A person of a keen, irritable temper; as applied to a woman, a shrew; a vixen; as, she's a regular tartar.-To catch a tartar, to lay hold of or encounter a person who proves too strong for the assailant. Tartar (tär'tar), a. Pertaining to the Tar

Tartarean, Tartareous (tär-ta're-an, tärta're-us), a. Pertaining to Tartarus. Tartareous (tär-ta're-us), a. 1. Consisting of tartar; resembling tartar or partaking of its properties.-2. In bot. having a rough crumbling surface, like the thallus of some lichens. Tartareous moss, a lichen, the Lecanora tartarea, which yields the red and blue cudbear, and is the source of litmus. Tartarian, Tartaric (tär-ta'ri-an, tär-tarik), a. Pertaining to Tartary, in Asia. Tartaric (tar-tarik), a. Of, pertaining to, or obtained from tartar.-Tartaric acid (CHO), the acid of tartar. It exists in grape juice, in tamarinds, and several other fruits; but principally in bitartrate of potassium, or cream of tartar, from which it is usually obtained. It crystallizes in large rhombic prisms, transparent and colourless, and very soluble in water. It is inodorous and very sour to the taste. A high temperature decomposes it, giving rise to several new products. The solution of tartaric acid acts with facility upon those metals which decompose water, as iron and zinc. Tartaric acid is dibasic; its salts are called tartrates. Tartaric acid has a most remarkable disposition to form double salts, as the tartrate of potassium and sodium or Rochelle salts; the tartrate of potassium and antimony, or tartar emetic. There are five modifications of tartaric acid, characterized chiefly by the differences in the action exerted by them upon a ray of polarized light; such as dextroor ordinary tartaric acid, lævo-tartaric acid para-tartaric or racemic acid, meso-tartaric acid, and meta-tartaric acid. Tartaric acid is largely employed as a discharge in calicoprinting, and for making soda-powders. In medicine it is used in small doses as a refrigerant.

Tartarine (tär'ta-rin), n. An old name of potash.

Tartarization (tarta-riz-a"shon), n. The act of tartarizing or of forming tartar. Tartarize (tär'tar-iz), v.t. pret. & pp. tartarized; ppr. tartarizing. To impregnate with tartar; to refine by means of the salt of tartar.

Tartarous (tär'tar-us), a. Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities.

Tartarous (tär'tar-us), a. Resembling, relating to, or characteristic of a Tartar; wild; savage; ill-conditioned; ill-natured. The tartarous moods of common men.' B. Jonson. Tartarum (tar'ta-rum), n. A preparation of tartar, called petrified tartar. Tartarus (tär'ta-rus), n. [Gr. Tartaros.] A deep and sunless abyss, according to Homer and the earlier Greek mythology, as far below Hades as earth is below heaven. It was closed by iron gates, and in it Jupiter imprisoned the rebel Titans. Later poets describe Tartarus as the place in which the spirits of the wicked receive their due punishment; and sometimes the name is used as synonymous with Hades, or the lower world in general.

Tartaryt (tar'ta-ri), n. Tartarus. Spenser. Tarterinet (tar'tér-in), n. A kind of silk stuff, said to have been so named because obtained from the Tartars (Tatars). Tartish (tärt'ish), a. Somewhat tart.

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Tartlet (tärt let), n. A small tart; a piece of pastry. Ld. Lytton. Tartly (tart'li), adv. In a tart manner; as, (a) sharply; with acidity of taste. (b) Sharply; with severity; as, to reply or rebuke tartly. (c) With sourness of aspect.

How fartly that gentleman looks!-He is of a very melancholy disposition. Shak Tartness (tart'nes), n. The state or quality of being tart: (a) sharpness to the taste; acidity; as, the tartness of wine or fruit. (b) Sharpness of language or manner; acerbity; keenness; severity; as, the tartness of his rebuke.-Acrimony, Tartness, &c. See ACRIMONY.-SYN. Sourness, keenness, severity, acrimony, asperity, acerbity, harshness. Tartrate (tar trất), n. [From tartar.] A salt of tartaric acid; as, tartrate of potassa; tartrate of soda. Some of the tartrates are neutral, as the tartrates of ammonia, potash, soda, and lime; others are acid, as the acid tartrate of ethyl, the acid tartrate of potash or tartar. The tartrates have the general formulæ MH. H4C40, and M. H1 C406, where M represents a monovalent metal. The salts represented by the first formula exhibit an acid reaction. A large number of double tartrates are also known. Tartuffe, Tartufe (tär-töf'), n. [Fr. tartufe, a hypocrite, from Tartufe, the name of the principal character in Molière's celebrated comedy.] A hypocritical pretender to devotion; a hypocrite.

artuffish, Tartufish (tär-töf'ish), a. [See above.] Hypocritical; rigid or precise in behaviour.

God help her, said I; she has some mother-in-law, or tartufish aunt, or nonsensical old woman, to consult upon the occasion as well as myself. Sterne.

Tartuffism (tär-töf'izm), n. The practice of a tartuffe or hypocritical devotee. Tar-water (tar'wa-ter), n. 1. A cold infusion of tar, which was formerly a celebrated remedy for many chronic affections, especially of the lungs; as, Bp. Berkeley's celebrated treatise on tar-water. 2. The ammoniacal water obtained by condensation in the process of gas manufacture. Tar-well (tär'wel), n. In gas manuf. a receptacle in which is collected the tarry liquid which separates from the gas when it leaves the condensers.

Tast (tas), n. [Fr.] A heap; a pile. Chaucer. Tasce (tas), n. Same as Tasse, Tasset. Tasco (tas'kō), n. A sort of clay for making melting-pots.

Tasimeter (ta-zim'e-tér), n. [Gr. tasis, a stretching, tension, from teino, to stretch, and metron, a measure.] An instrument invented by Mr. Edison of America for measuring extremely slight variations of pressure, and by means of these other variations, such as those of temperature, moisture, &c. It depends on the fact that a piece of carbon introduced into the course of an electric current offers a resistance to the passage of the current, which diminishes in a very marked degree in proportion to the amount of pressure exerted on the carbon. A small disc of carbon and another of vulcanite are held together between two platinum buttons, which may be brought into connection with a galvanic battery, and a strip of some substance like gelatine, which contracts and expands with great readiness, is so placed that by its variations in magnitude it varies the pressure on one of the platinum buttons, and hence on the carbon disc. The variations thus produced in the force of the electric current are measured by a very delicate galvanometer, which is also placed in the circuit. So delicate is the instrument that the heat of the hand held a few inches off causes a deflection of the needle; while by a slight alteration in form the weight and vital heat of the minutest insect may be determined. Tasimetric (taz-i-met'rik), a.

Pertaining

to the tasimeter; made by the tasimeter; as, tasimetric experiments. Task (task), n. [O.Fr. tasque, tasche, Mod. Fr. tuche, a task, from L. L. tasca, by metathesis from taxa (=tacsa), from L. taxo, to rate, to tax. See TAX, also TASTE.] 1. Business imposed by another, often a definite quantity or amount of labour; work to be done; what duty or necessity imposes; duty or duties collectively. My task of servile toil' Milton.

O, the world hath not a sweeter creature: she might lie by an emperor's side and command him tasks. Shak.

Thou thy worldly task hast done,

Home art gone and ta'en thy wages.

Shak.

Specifically-2. A lesson to be learned; a

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portion of study imposed by a teacher.3. Work undertaken; an undertaking.

His mental powers were equal to greater tasks. Atterbury. To use the words of one of the most famous sculptors of our day, to surpass the best works of the Greeks is a hopeless task, to approach them a triumph.' Dr. Caird.

4. Burdensome employment; toil. 'All with weary task fordone." Shak. 'Sore task to hearts worn out.' Tennyson. To take to task, to reprove; to reprimand; as, to take one to task for idleness.

A holy man took a soldier to task upon the subject of his profession. Sir R. L'Estrange. SYN. Work, labour, employment, business, undertaking, toil, drudgery.

Task (task), v.t. 1. To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business or labour to.

Return, and, to divert thy thoughts at home, There task thy maids, and exercise the loom. Dryden. 2. To oppress with severe or excessive labour or exertion; to occupy or engage fully, as in a task.

We would be resolved Before we hear him of some things of weight That task our thoughts concerning us and France. Shak

3. To charge upon; to tax. Too impudent to task me with errors.' Beau. & Fl. Tasker (task'èr), n. 1. One that imposes a task. 'Now to task the tasker.' Shak.2. One that performs a task or piece of labour; in Scotland, often a labourer who receives his wages in kind.

Taskmaster (task'mas-tér), n. One who imposes a task or burdens with labour; one whose office is to assign tasks to others; an

Overseer.

All is, if I have grace to use it so,

As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton. Task-work (task'wèrk), n. Work imposed or performed as a task.

Taslet (tas'let), n. [A dim. of tasse.] A piece of armour for the thigh. 'Taslets should be made ball-proof.' Sir W. Scott. Tasmanian (tas-ma'ni-an), a. Of, pertaining, or indigenous to Tasmania or Van Diemen's Land.-Tasmanian devil. See DASYURE.Tasmanian wolf. See THYLACINE. Tasmanian (tas-ma'ni-an), n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania. Tasmanite (tas'man-it), n. A translucent, reddish-brown fossil resin, occurring in small scales or plates on the Mersey river, Tasmania, between the layers of a rock containing alumina and ferric oxide, forming from 30 to 40 per cent of the entire deposit. After deducting 8 to 12 per cent ash it agrees nearly with the formula C40 H2O2S. Tasmannia (tas-man'ni-a), n. [After the Dutch navigator Tasman, discoverer of Tasmania or Van Diemen's Land.] A genus of plants, consisting of one Tasmanian and two Australian shrubs, nat. order Magnoliacere, closely allied to Drimys. The Tasmanian species, T. odorata, possesses aromatic qualities, particularly in its bark, which so closely resembles Winter's bark (Drimys Winteri) that

it is substituted for it by colonial doctors. Its fruit is used by the colonists for pepper. Tass, Tasse (tas), n. [Fr. tasse, a cup.] A cup.

Fill that glass, child! A little tass of cherry brandy! 'Twill do thee all the good in the world. Thackeray.

Tasse, Tasset (tas, tas'set), n. [Fr. tassette, the tasse of a cuirass, according to Littré a dim.

A. D. 1525.

of O. Fr. tasse, a pouch.] Corselet with Tassets, Armour for the thighs; one of a pair of appendages to the corselet, consisting of skirts of iron that covered the thighs. They were fastened to the cuirass with hooks. Tassel (tas'sel), n. [O. Fr. tassel, a knob or knot, a button, from L. taxillus, a small cube or die, a dim. of talus, a die, a small bone.] 1. A sort of pendent ornament, consisting generally of a roundish mould covered with twisted threads of silk, wool, and the like, which hang down in a thick fringe. Tassels are usually attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, walking-canes, umbrella handles, sword hilts, &c.-2. Anything resembling a tassel, as the pendent head or flower of some plants.

And the maize-field grew and ripened,
Till it stood in all the splendour
Of its garments green and yellow,
Of its tassels and its plumage. Longfellow.

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3. A small ribbon of silk sewed to a book, to be put between the leaves. Tassel (tas'sel), vi. pret. & pp. tasselled; ppr. tasselling. To put forth a tassel or flower, as maize. Tassel (tas'sel), v.t. Tassel (tas'sel), n.

To adorn with tassels. 1. Same as Tercel, Tiercel. 2. Same as Torsel.-3. Same as Teasel. Tassel (tas'sel), n. A struggle; a conflict. [Scotch.] See TUSSLE. Tassel-gentle, Tassel-gentt (tas'seljen-tl, tas'sel-jent), n. [See TIERCEL] A trained male goshawk or tiercel; a tiercelgentle. Espied a tassel-gent.' Spenser.

O, for a falconer's voice,
To lure this tassel-gentle back again!
Tassel-grass (tas'sel-gras), n.

Shak,

A British

plant of the genus Ruppia, the R. maritima. See RUPPIA.

Tasselled (tas'seld), a. Furnished or adorned with tassels; as, a tasselled horn. Tassie (tas'i), n. [Fr. tasse.] A cup or vessel. 'A silver tassie.' Burns. [Scotch.] Tastable (tast'a-bl), a. Capable of being

tasted; savoury; relishing.

Their distilled oils are fluid, volatile, and tastable. Boyle. Taste (tast), v.t. pret. & pp. tasted; ppr. tasting. [0. Fr. taster (Mod. Fr. tater), to handle, to feel, to taste, It. tastare, as if from taxitare, a hypothetical freq. of L. taxo, to touch repeatedly, itself a freq. from tag, root of tango, tactum, to touch (whence tact, &c.). See TACT, TAX.] 1. To try by the touch; to handle; to inspect: to examine; to try; to prove by trial; to test. He now began

To taste the bow; the sharp shaft took, tugged hard. Chapman. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavour of by taking a small quantity into the mouth.

The ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine.

John ii. 9. "Because I

3. To try by eating; to eat. tasted a little of this honey.' 1 Sam. xiv. 29. 4. To become acquainted with by actual trial; to experience; to essay; to undergo. That he, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man. Heb. ii. 9.

So shalt thou be despised, fair maid,

When by the sated lover tasted.

Carew.

5. To participate in; to partake of: usually with an implied sense of enjoyment, or relish, or pleasure.

A nice and subtle happiness, I see.

Thou to thyself proposest, in the choice
Of thy associates, Adam! and wilt taste
No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary. Milton.
When Commodus had once tasted human blood he
Gibbon.
became incapable of pity or remorse.

Taste (tast), v.i. 1. To try food or drink by the mouth; to eat or drink a little by way of trial, or so that the flavour may be perceived; to test the flavour of: with of before the object; as, to taste of each kind of wine.

Roscetes was seldom permitted to eat any other meat but such as the prince before tasted of. Knoiles. Of this tree we may not taste nor touch. Milton. They never taste who always drink. Prior.

2. To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation by which the quality or flavour is distinguished; to have a particular quality, flavour, relish, or savour when applied to the tongue, palate, or other organs of taste; to be tinctured; to smack; to savour: followed by of; as, this butter tastes of garlic. If your butter tastes of brass it is your master's fault, who will not allow a silver sauce-pan. Swift. 3. To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake: with of.

The valiant never taste of death but once. Shak. Of nature's bounty men forbore to taste. Waller. 4. To enjoy sparingly: with of.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours. Dryden, Taste (tast), n. 1. The act of tasting; gustation. The fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world.' Milton.-2. A particular sensation excited by certain bodies, which are called sapid, applied to the tongue, palate, &c., and moistened with saliva; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste. 'Sweet tastes have sour closes. Quarles.-3. The sense by which we perceive the relish or savour of a thing when brought into immediate contact with special organs situated in the mouth. The organs of this special sense are the papilla, or processes on the dorsum or surface of the tongue, and also certain parts within the cavity of the mouth and the throat, as the soft palate,

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the tonsils, and the upper part of the pharynx, obviously so disposed as to take early cognizance of matters about to be swallowed, and to act as sentinels for the remainder of the alimentary canal, at the entrance of which they are situated. The tongue is also supplied with nerves of common sensation or touch, and in some cases it is difficult to distinguish between a sensation which is merely one of touch, and that arising from the exercise of the sense of taste.-4. Intellectual relish or discernment; appreciation and liking: formerly followed by of, now usually by for; as, he has a taste for reading, drawing, music, or the like.

5. 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 literature; that faculty of the mind by which we both perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful and sublime in the works of nature and art, the perception of these two qualities being attended with an emotion of pleasure.

What then is Taste but those internal powers,
Active and strong, and feelingly alive
To each fine impulse? A discerning sense
Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust
For things deformed, or disarranged, or gross
In species?
Akenside.

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness; a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness wheresoever or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. Carlyle.

6. Manner, with respect to what is pleasing; the pervading air, the choice of circumstances, and the general arrangement in any work of art, by which taste in the artist or author is evinced; style; as, a poem or music composed in good taste.

Consider the exact sense in which a work of art is said to be in good or bad taste. It does not mean that it is true or false; that it is beautiful or ugly; but that it does or does not comply either with the laws of choice, which are enforced by certain modes of life, or the habits of mind produced by a particular sort of education. It does not mean merely fashionable, that is, complying with a momentary caprice of the upper classes; but it means agreeing with the habitual sense which the most refined education common to those upper classes at the period gives to their whole mind." Ruskin.

7.† Essay; trial; experiment.

I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote this

as an essay or taste of my virtue.

Shak.

3. Characterized by or showing good taste; produced, arranged, constructed, or regulated by good taste, or in accordance with it; as, a tasteful design or pattern. Tastefully (tast'ful-li), adv. In a tasteful manner; with good taste. Tastefulness (tast'ful-nes), n. The state or quality of being tasteful.

Tasteless (tast'les), a. Having no taste; as, (a) exciting no sensation on the organs of taste; insipid; as, a tasteless medicine. (b) Incapable of experiencing the sense of taste; as, the tongue when furred is nearly tasteless. (c) Having no power of giving pleasure; stale; flat; insipid; as, tasteless amusements. (d) Not originating from or in accordance with the principles of good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. A tasteless dwelling on dirty details.' Academy. (e) Not possessing appreciation or enjoyment of what is good, excellent, beautiful, sublime, or the like; having bad taste; as, the only true poet or painter of a tasteless age. If.. a critick is heavy and tasteless." Addison.

Tastelessly (tast'les-li), adv. In a tasteless

manner.

Tastelessness (tast'les-nes), n. The state or quality of being tasteless in any sense of the word; as, (a) without flavour; insipidness. (b) An absence of good taste. (c) Want

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of discernment for what is good, excellent, beautiful, or the like.

The work of writing notes is performed by railing at the stupidity, negligence, ignorance, and asinine tastelessness of the former editors. Swift.

Taster (tast'èr), n. 1. One who tastes; specifically, (a) one whose duty it is to ascertain the quality of food or drink by tasting it before submitting it to his master.

Shall man presume to be my master, Who's but my caterer and taster! Swift. (b) One employed to test the quality of provisions and liquors by tasting samples submitted to him by the vendors; as, a tea taster; a wine taster.-2. Anything by which or in which something is tasted, as a cheesetaster, which is an auger-shaped instrument for scooping out a piece to be tasted; a dram-cup and the like.

Tastily (tast'i-li), adv. In a tasty manner; with good taste.

Tasto (tas'to), adv. [It., touch.] In music, a term denoting that the passage should be performed with no other tones than unisons and octaves.

Tasty (tast'i), a. 1. Having a good taste or nice perception of excellence: applied to persons; as, a tasty lady.-2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.. 3. Palatable; nice; fine. [Colloq. in all senses.]

Tat (tat), n. A name in India for cloth made from the fibre of Corchorus olitorius or jute. Simmonds.

Tat (tat), n. A pony. Flocks of goats, sheep, tats or ponies, camels, &c.' W. H. Russell. [Anglo-Indian.]

Tata (tä'ta), n.

In West Africa, the residence of a territorial or village chieftain. The larger tatas are usually fortified. Ta-ta (ta'ta), n. and interj. A familiar form of salutation at parting; farewell; good-bye. Tatar (tä'tär), n. A native of Tatary or Tartary. See TARTAR.

Tatarwagges,t n. pl. [See TATTER.] Ragged clothes fluttering in the wind. Romaunt of the Rose.

Tatch, Tatchet (tach), n. [Fr. tache, a spot, stain, or blemish.] 1. A spot or stain; a blemish.-2. A trick; a contrivance or plot. Tate (tat), n. Same as Tait. [Scotch.] Tath (tath), n. [Icel. tath, dung, manure; whence tatha, a manured field.] 1. The dung or manure left on lands where live stock is fed on it:-2. Strong grass growing round the dung of cattle. Spelled also Teathe. Tath (tath), v.t. To manure, as a field, by allowing live stock to feed on it. Tatoo (ta-to'), v. t. [See TATTOO.] 'The man tatoo'd or woaded." Tennyson. The native name of the Tatou (tat'ö), n. giant armadillo of South America, Dasypus or Priodonta gigas. Tatouay (tat'o-a), n. [Native name.]_A kind of armadillo (Dasypus tatouay or Xenurus unicinctus) remarkable for the undefended state of its tail, which is devoid of the bony rings that inclose this member in the other armadillos, being only covered with brown hair. For about 3 inches at its pointed tip the under side of the tail is quite naked.

Tatouhou (tat'o-hö), n. The native name of Dasypus Peba or Tatusia septemcinctus, a species of armadillo extremely common in Paraguay. See PEBA.

Tatt (tat), v.i. To work at or make tatting. Tatta (tat'ta), n. See TATTIE. Tatter (tat'ter), n. [Icel. töturr, tötturr, tatters, rags; the word is seen also in tatterdemalion, O.E. tatterwagge, Sc. tatterwallop.] 1. A rag or a part torn and hanging to the thing: chiefly used in the plural.

Tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. Shak. 2. A tatterdemalion.

What tatter's that that walks there? Beau. & Fl

Tatter (tat'ter), v.t. [See the noun.] To rend or tear into rags.

Like a lion that hath tatter'd here

A goodly heifer, there a lusty steer. Sylvester. Tatterdemalion (tat'ter-de-ma"li-on), n. [E. tatter, Fr. de, from, and O. Fr. maillon (Mod. Fr. maillot), long clothes, swaddlingclothes.] A ragged fellow. Tattered (tat'térd), p. and a. 1. Rent in tatters; torn; hanging in rags; as, a tattered garment. Where wav'd the tatter'd ensigns of Rag-fair. Pope.-2. Dilapidated; showing gaps or breaks.

I do not like ruined, tattered cottages.

Miss Austen.

TATTOOING

Tatter-wallop (tat'ter-wal-lop), n. Tatters; rags in a fluttering state. [Scotch.] Tattie (tat'ti), n. In the East Indies, a thick mat or screen, usually made of the sweetscented cuscus-grass, and fastened upon a bamboo frame, which is hung at a door or window, and kept moist so as to cool the apartment. Written also Tatta, Tatty. Tatting (tat'ing), n. [According to Brewer from the East Indian word tattie. See above.] 1. A kind of narrow lace used for edging, woven or knitted from sewing-thread, with a somewhat shuttle-shaped implement.2. The act of making such lace. Tattle (tat1), v.i. pret. & pp. tattled; ppr. tattling. [Probably like O. E. tatter, to tattle. and titter, an imitative word; comp. L.G. tateln, to gabble like a goose, to talk much and quick; G. tattern, to prattle; D. tatern, to stammer or stutter.] 1. To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning. "The world is forward enough to tattle of them.' Locke. Sometimes used transitively. 'Then let the ladies tattle what they please." Shak.-2. To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to blab; as, a tattling girl. Shak. Tattle (tat1), n. Prate; idle talk or chat: trifling talk. The tattle of the day.' Swift. Tattlement (tat'l-ment). n. Tattle; chatter. Carlyle.

Tattler (tat'lèr), n. 1. One who tattles; an idle talker; one that tells tales.-2. A name applied to numerous birds of the snipe family. The tattlers are of several genera and many species. Tattlery (tat'ler-i), n. Tattling (tat'ling), a. apt to tell tales.

Idle talk or chat. Given to idle talk:

Excuse it by the tattling quality of the age, which is always narrative. Dryden. Tattlingly (tat'ling-li), adv. In a tattling tell-tale manner.

Tattoo (tat-to'), n. [Also written taptoo. from D. taptoe, the tattoo-tap, a tap, a spigot or faucet, and toe (pron. as E. to), to, as in 'Clap the doors to' (Shak.). The word therefore signified primarily the signal for the closing of drinking-houses. Comp. G. zapfenstreich, LG. tappenslag, Dan. tap penstreg, all with the sense of tapstroke, tapblow.] A beat of drum and bugle-call at night, giving notice to soldiers to repair to their quarters in garrison or to their tents in camp. Devil's tattoo, that beating or drumming with the fingers upon a table or other piece of furniture, often practised by people when vacant or impatient.

Mr. Gawtrey remained by the fire beating the devil's tattoo upon the chimney-piece. Lord Lytton. Tattoo (tat-to'), v. t. and . [A Polynesian word.] To prick the skin and stain the punctured spots with a colouring substance, forming lines and figures upon the body. See TATTOOING. Tattoo (tat-tö), n. What is tattooed. See TATTOOING.

Tattooer (tat-tö'er), n.
Tattooing (tat-tö'ing), n.

One who tattoos. The act of one

who tattoos; the design produced by a tattooer, the art of a tattooer: a practice common to several uncivilized nations, ancient and modern, and to some extent employed

TAWDRY

grace; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colours.

He rails from morning to night at essenced fops Spectator. and tawdry courtiers.

Tawdryt (ta dri), n. A species of necklace of a rural fashion; a necklace in general.

Of which the Naiads and blue Nereids make
Them tawdries for their neck.

Drayton. Tawdry-lacet (ta'dri-las), n. [See TAWDRY, a.) A kind of necklace; also, a kind of gir dle. [Spenser uses it in the latter sense.] Come, you promised me a tawdry-lace and a pair of sweet gloves. Shak. Tawe,t n. Tow. Tawer (ta'êr), n. One who taws; a dresser of white leather.

Chaucer.

Tawery (ta'ér-i), n. A place where skins are tawed.

Tawie (ta'i), a. Tame; tractable. [Scotch.] Tawney (ta'ni), n. In her. see TENNE. Tawniness (tani-nes), n. The quality of being tawny.

Tawny (tani), a. [O. Fr. tané, tanned, also swart, sallow, duskie or tawny of hue;' Fr. tanné, tanned, tan-coloured, tawny, pp. of tanner, to tan. (See TAN.) The spelling may have been influenced by the verb to taw.] Of a yellowish dark colour, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, a tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny sons of Numidia; the tawny lion. Tawny (tani), v. t. To make tawny; to tan. Tawpie, n. See TAUPIE.

Taws, Tawse (taz), n. [Softened from tags, which is also a Scottish name of the instrument; or rather perhaps from A. Sax. tawian, to tan, to beat, to strike.] A leather strap, usually with a slit or fringe-like end, used as an instrument of punishment by schoolmasters and others. [Scotch.]

Never use the tawse when a gloom can do the turn.
Ramsay.

Tax (taks), n. [Fr. taxe, from taxer, to tax, from L. taxo, taxare, to handle, to rate, to appraise, to estimate the worth of, also to tax or censure, from tag, root of tango, to touch. Task is essentially the same word, with transposition of sounds. Tact is of similar origin, so also taste.] 1. A contribution levied by authority from people to defray the expenses of government or other public services; as, (a) a charge made by the national or state rulers on the incomes or property of individuals, or on the products consumed by them. A tax is said to be direct when it is demanded from the very persons who it is intended or desired should pay it, as, for example, a poll-tax, a land or property tax, an income-tax, taxes for keeping manservants, carriages, dogs, and the like. It is said to be indirect when it is demanded from one person in the expectation and intention that he shall indemnify himself at the expense of another; as for example the taxes called customs, which are imposed on certain classes of imported goods, and those called excise duties, which are imposed on home manufactures or inland production. (b) A rate or sum imposed on individuals or their property for municipal, county, or other local purposes, such as police taxes, taxes for the support of the poor (poor-rates), taxes for the repair of roads and bridges, &c. In this country house taxes or taxes on rental form the largest part of the local revenues, municipal revenues being, indeed, entirely raised from this source.-2. A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; an exaction; a requisition; an oppressive demand; as, his exertions in the public cause are a heavy tax on his time and strength.-3.† Charge; censure. He could not without grief of heart, and without some tax upon himself and his ministers for the not executing the laws, look upon the bold license of some pamphlets. Clarendon.

4. A lesson to be learned; a task. Johnson. SYN. Impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment, exaction, custom, demand.

Tax (tak), v.t. [See the noun.] 1. To subject to the payment of taxes; to impose a tax on; to levy money or other contributions from, as from subjects to meet the expenses of government; as, to tax land, commodities, income; to tax a people.

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manner.

In a taxable

Taxaceæ (tak-sa'sē-ē), n. pl. A sub-order of Coniferæ, sometimes regarded as a distinct order, comprising trees or shrubs which inhabit chiefly the temperate parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. They have a woody tissue marked with circular discs, with evergreen, and mostly narrow, rigid, entire, and veinless leaves, and are distinguished from the Cupressineæ by the succulent cup which surrounds their seeds. The order yields trees which are valued for their timber, and, like the Coniferæ, possess resinous properties. See CONIFERE, TAXUS. Taxation (tak-sa'shon), n. [L. taxatio, taxationis, a taxing, a valuing. See TAX, n.] 1. The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes on the subjects of a state or government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue required for public service by means of taxes; the system by which such a revenue is raised.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute to the support of the government, as nearly as possible in proportion to their abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. In the observance or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation. Adam Smith. 2. Tax or assessment imposed; the aggregate of particular taxes.

He daily such taxations did exact. Daniel. 3.† Charge; accusation; censure; scandal. My father's love is enough to honour; speak no more of him,

You'll be whipt for taxation one of these days.

Shak

4. The act of taxing or assessing a bill of costs in law.

Taxatively (taks'āt-iv-li), adv. As a tax. Ayliffe.

Tax-cart, Taxed-cart (taks'kärt, takst'kärt), n. A light spring-cart upon which only a low rate of tax is charged.

They (carts) are of all kinds, from the greengrocer's taxed cart to the coster's barrow. Mayhew.

She begged that farmer Subsoil would take her thither in his tax-cart. Trollope.

Taxel (tak'sel), n. The American badger (Meles Labradorica), at first regarded as a variety of the European badger, but now found to differ so considerably that it has been thought by some naturalists worthy of being raised into a distinct genus, Taxidea. Its teeth are of a more carnivorous character than those of the true badger, and it preys on such small animals as marmots, which it pursues into their holes, frequently enlarging them so as to make the ground dangerous for horses. Its burrowing powers are remarkable, its hole being 6 or 7 feet deep, and running underground to a length of 30 feet. Though termed Labradorica it is not found in Labrador, but abounds in the sandy plains near the Missouri and Rocky Mountains. Its hair changes from yellowish-brown in summer to hoary-gray in winter, becoming longer and more woolly. Taxer (taks'ér), n. 1. One who taxes.-2. In Cambridge University, one of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread and see the true gauge of weights and measures observed; a taxor.

I would not fax the needy commons. He faxed the land to give the money. 2 Ki. xxiii. 35. 2. To load with a burden or burdens; to make demands upon; to put to a certain strain; as, to tax one's strength, memory, credulity, or the like.-3. In law, to examine and allow or disallow the items of charge

Tax-free (taks'fre), a. Exempt from taxation. Tax-gatherer (taks'gaTH-ér-èr), n. A collector of taxes. Horace being the son of a tax-gatherer or collector.' Dryden.

heteromerous Coleoptera in Latreille's arrangement of insects. They live on fungi, beneath the bark of trees, or on the ground under stones.

Taxidermic (taks-i-dêr'mik), a. Of or pertaining to taxidermy, or the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals. Taxidermist (taks'i-der-mist), n. A person skilled in taxidermy.

Taxidermy (taks'i-der-mi), n. [Gr. taxis, an arranging, order (from tasso, to arrange). and derma, skin.] The art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals, and also of stuffing and mounting them so as to give them as close a resemblance to the living forms as possible.

An

Taxin (tak'sin), n. [L. taxus, yew.] A resinous substance obtained from the leaves of the yew-tree (Taxus baccata) by treatment with alcohol and tartaric acid, 2 lbs. of the leaves yielding 3 grains of taxin. It is slightly soluble in water, dissolves easily in alcohol, ether, and dilute acids, and is precipitated from the acid solutions by alkalies in white bulky flocks. Taxing-master (taks'ing-mas-tér), n. officer of a court of law who examines bills of costs, and allows or disallows charges. Taxis (tak'sis), n. [Gr. taxis, order.] 1. In surg. an operation by which those parts which have quitted their natural situation are replaced by the hand without the assistance of instruments, as in reducing hernia, &c.-2. In anc. arch. that disposition which assigns to every part of a building its just dimensions. It is synonymous with Ordonnance in modern architecture.-3. In Greek antiq. a division of troops corresponding in some respects to the modern battalion. Taxites (tak-si'tēz), n. [L. taxus, the yewtree.] In geol. the generic name for fossil coniferous trees, allied to the yew, found chiefly in the tertiary lignites and also in the oolite.

Taxless (taks'les), a. Free from taxes. Sylvester.

Taxodites (tak-sō-di'tēz), n. A genus of fossil plants, allied to the genus Taxodium (deciduous cypress), occurring in tertiary deposits.

Taxodium (tak-sō'di-um), n. [L. taxus, a yew, and Gr. eidos, resemblance.] A genus

Taxodium distichum.

of plants, nat. order Coniferæ, tribe Cupressineæ. It has been distinguished from the genus Cupressus principally on account of