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.

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.

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.

To be assigned or to accept the blame for some misdeed; as, Mary broke the vase, but she acted innocent and young Johnny had to take the heat.

Imposition; fraud.

An imitation, especially in the way of caricature; -- used with of or on; as, the comedian did a hilarious takeoff on the president.

That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.

p. p. of Take.

The acquisition of ownership of one company by another company, usually by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock or by exchanging stock of the purchasing company for that of the purchased company. It is a hostile takeover if the management of the company being taken over is opposed to the deal. A hostile takeover is sometimes organized by a corporate raider.

One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.

The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.

Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t.

A Buddhist monk or priest.

Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury.

A sort of dog, noted for quick scent and eager pursuit of game.

Same as Calotype.

A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.

Of or pertaining to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc.

Same as Talc.

To tell stories.

One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief.

The act of informing officiously; communication of secrets, scandal, etc., maliciously.

A kind of quadrangular piece of cloth put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues.

Full of stories.

A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.

Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was /243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180 (using 1900 values).

Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent; mentally gifted.

Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. The writ by which such persons are summoned.

A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded.

One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.

In a way of a tale or story.

See Tagliacotian.

Retaliation.

Retaliation.

The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.

A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.

A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.

Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.

Given to much talking.

One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.

That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.