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.

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.

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.

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.

A variety of rum.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Same as Tagsore.

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

A little tag.

A peculiar combination of pulleys.

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

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

An entangled lock, as of hair or wool.

The white-lipped peccary.

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

A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.

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

The white-lipped peccary.

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

A fox (Vulpes Niloticus) of Northern Africa.

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

Same as Thar.

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

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

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.

Water in a tailrace.

See Tallage.

A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.

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

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

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

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

Having no tail.

Same as Tailzie.

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

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.

A female tailor.

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

A piece at the end; an appendage.

The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.

See Race, n., 6.

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

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

Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.

Aphetic form of Attaint.

Free from taint or infection; pure.

In a taintless manner.

Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot.

A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.

Same as Tayra.

See Tarn.

A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.

A marble mausoleum built at Agra, India, by the Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, in memory of his favorite wife. In beauty of design and rich decorative detail it is one of the best examples of Saracenic architecture, and specifically of Mogul architecture.

The common, or collared, peccary (Tayassu tajacu). Called also javelina and tayaussa.

That which is taken, such as the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch, or the amouont of money collected during one event; as, the box-office take.

To remove, as from the surface or outside; to remove from the top of anything; as, to take off a load; to take off one's hat, coat or other article of clothing; to take off a coat of paint from a surface.