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Tabularization

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

Tabulata

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

Tabulate

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

Tabulation

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

Tac

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

Tac-au-tac

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

Tacamahaca Tacamahac

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.

Tacaud

The bib, or whiting pout.

Tacet

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

Tache

A spot, stain, or blemish.

Tachhydrite

A hydrous chloride of calcium and magnesium occurring in yellowish masses which rapidly deliquesce upon exposure. It is found in the salt mines at Stassfurt.

Tachina

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

Tachistoscope

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.

Tachograph

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

Tachometer

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

Tachometry

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

Tachyglossa

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

Tachygraph

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

Tachygrapher

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

Tachygraphy

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

Tachylyte

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

Tachymeter

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

Tachyscope

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.

Tacit

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

Taciturn

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

Tack

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.

Tacket

A small, broad-headed nail.

Tacking

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

tackle

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

Tackled

Made of ropes tacked together.

Tackling

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

Tacksman

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

Tacky

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

Taconic

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.

Tact

The sense of touch; feeling.

Tactable

Capable of being touched; tangible.

Tactful

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

Tactical Tactic

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.

Tactician

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

Tactics

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.

Tactile

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.

Tactility

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

Taction

The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.

Tactual

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

Tadpole

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.

Tael

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.

Taenia

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

Taeniata

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

Taenidium

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

Taenioglossa

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.

Taenioid

Ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon.

Taenioidea

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

Taeniola

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

Taeniosomi

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

Taeping Taiping

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.

Taffety Taffeta

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.

Taffrail

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.

Taffy

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

Tag

A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.

Tag sale

A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.

Tag-rag

The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail.

Tagal

One of a Malayan race, mainly of central Luzon, next to the Visayans the most numerous of the native peoples of the Philippines. Nearly all are Christians and many are highly educated.

Tagalog

Any member of a certain tribe which is one of the leading and most civilized of those native of the Philippine Islands.

Tagger

One who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another.

Taglia

A peculiar combination of pulleys.

Tagliacotain

Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him.

Taglioni

A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; -- said to be so named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers.

Taglock

An entangled lock, as of hair or wool.

Tagsore

Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also tagbelt.

Tagtail

A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.

Taguan

A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.

Taha

The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis texor).

Tahaleb

A fox (Vulpes Niloticus) of Northern Africa.

Tahitian

Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean. A native inhabitant of Tahiti.

Tai

A member of one of the tribes of the Tai stock.

Tail

To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.

Tail-bay

One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.

Tailboard

The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.

Tailed

Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.

Tailing

The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

Taille

A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.

Tailor

To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.

Tailor-made

Made by a tailor or according to a tailor's fashion; -- said specif. of women's garments made with certain closeness of fit, simplicity of ornament, etc.

Tailoring

The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.

Tailpin

The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.

Tailstock

The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.

Tailzie

An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.

Tain

Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.

Taint

Aphetic form of Attaint.

Tainture

Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot.

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