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.

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.

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.

High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.

To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.

A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup.

A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.

One who keeps tally.

Same as Tallith.

An undergarment worn by orthodox Jews, covering the chest and the upper part of the back. It has an opening for the head, and has tassels, called zizith, on its four corners. A tasseled shawl or scarf worn over the head or thrown round the shoulders while at prayer.

The quality or state of being tall; height of stature.

To grease or smear with tallow.

One who has a sickly, pale complexion.

Having a sickly complexion; pale.

An animal which produces tallow.

The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow; also, the property in animals of producing tallow.

Having the qualities of tallow.

Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.

Firewood cut into billets of a certain length.

Stoutly; with spirit.

The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds.

One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.

A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of the dress of ladies. A similar garment worn formerly by gentlemen.

The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.

Of or pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as, Talmudic Greek; Talmudical phrases.

The teachings of the Talmud, or adherence to them.

One versed in the Talmud; one who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.

Resembling the Talmud; Talmudic.

The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey.

A genus of small insectivores including the common European mole.

A large estate; esp., one constituting a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public revenue due from it.

A proprietor of a talook.

A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.

A kind of Scotch cap of wool, worsted, or the like, having a round, flattish top much wider than the band which fits the head, and usually having a tassel in the center.

A kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; -- called also tom-tom. A gong. See Gong, n., 1.

The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.

Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness.

A Mexican dish made of crushed corn (cornmeal) mixed with minced meat, seasoned with red pepper, dipped in oil, and steamed.

A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South America.

The ant-bear.

The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and Larch. The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.

A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath.

Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially Midas ursulus.

A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide-spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated.

Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (Tamarix mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna.

See Tombac.

To embroider on a tambour.

A stringed musical instrument resembling a lute but lacking frets, with a small round body and a long neck, used to produce an accompaniment for singing; -- called also tambur, tambour, and tampur.

A tambourine.

A South American wild dove (Tympanistria tympanistria), mostly white, with black-tiped wings and tail. Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous.

The duck mole.

See Tambourine.

To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.

Tamable.

Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable.