A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds.

One who wears a tabard.

A stout silk having satin stripes, -- used for furniture.

A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases.

A fabric like poplin, with a watered surface.

To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.

A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.

To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate.

A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy.

Same as Tabor.

See Tabard.

To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.

Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.

Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.

Withering, or wasting away.

Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid. One affected with tabes.

Affected by tabes; tabetic.

Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying.

See Tabbinet.

A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general.

To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.

A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.

A striking and vivid representation; a picture.

Same as Tableau, n., 2.

A tablet; a notebook.

A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.

A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.

A table.

One who boards.

A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.

As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.

A small table or flat surface.

Ware, or articles collectively, for use during meals, including, for example, dishes, plates, bowls, knives, forks, and spoons.

A forming into tables; a setting down in order.

Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.

Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo.

To make (a sound) with a tabor.

One who plays on the tabor.

A small tabor.

A small, shallow drum; a tabor.

One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.

See Tabor.

Same as Taboret.

A taborer.

A taboret.

See Taboo.

A table; a tablet.

Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word).

The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.

To tabulate.

An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.

To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.

The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.

A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records.

The parry which is connected with a riposte; also, a series of quick attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point.

A bitter balsamic resin obtained from tropical American trees of the genus Elaphrium (Elaphrium tomentosum and Elaphrium Tacamahaca), and also from East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum; also, the resinous exhudation of the balsam poplar.

The bib, or whiting pout.

See Tasse.

It is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.

A spot, stain, or blemish.

Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied genera. Their larvae are external parasites of other insects.

An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression.

A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.

An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance.

Measurement by a tachometer; the science or use of tachometers.

A short or rapid method of instructing.

A division of monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters of Australia and New Guinea. See Illust. under Echidna.

An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript.

One who writes shorthand; a stenographer; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman notary.

Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.

The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography.

A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.

An instrument, esp. a transit or theodolite with stadia wires, for determining quickly the distances, bearings, and elevations of distant objects.

The science or use of the tachymeter.

An early form of animated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto Ansch/tz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.

Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.

Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.

Habitual silence, or reserve in speaking.

To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4.

One who tacks.

A small, broad-headed nail.

See Tacky.

A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim.

To supply with tackle.

An act of tackling{4}; as, brought down by a tackle by a lineman.

Made of ropes tacked together.

Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage, sails, etc.

One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee.

An ill-conditioned, ill-fed, or neglected horse; also, a person in a like condition.

Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian.

The sense of touch; feeling.

Capable of being touched; tangible.

Full of tact; characterized by a discerning sense of what is right, proper, or judicious.

See Tactics.

Of or pertaining to military or naval tactics; hence, pertaining to, or characterized by, planning or maneuvering for the short term; -- contrasted with strategic, planning for the long term.

One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.

The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.

Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.

The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.

The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.

Destitute of tact.

Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.

The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.

See Tedium.

A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.

A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.

Same as Taenioidea.

A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.

The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.

An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh-water.

Of or pertaining to the Taenioglossa.

Ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon.

The division of cestode worms which comprises the tapeworms. See Tapeworm.

One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.

An order of fishes remarkable for their long and compressed form. The ribbon fishes are examples. See Ribbon fish, under Ribbon.

Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one Hung-Siu-Chuen, a half-religious, half-political enthusiast, attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the Taiping rebellion, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864.

See Taffrail.

A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times.

The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.

A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans.