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.

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.

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.

In a tame manner.

The quality or state of being tame.

One who tames or subdues.

A Tatar conquerer, also called Timur or Timour (t/*m/r") or Timur Bey, also Timur-Leng or Timur-i-Leng ('Timur the Lame'), which was corrupted to Tamerlane. He was born in Central Asia, 1333, a member of the Barslas, a Turkish Mongol tribe which had converted to Islam. He died 1405. Though he claimed descent from Jenghiz Khan, it is believed that he was in fact descended from a follower of the Khan. By 1370, Tamerlane, a renowned warrior, began consolidating his power among the various nomadic tribes of Central Asia by conquering the entire region. He became a ruler about 1370 of a realm whose capital was Samarkand; conquered Persia, Central Asia, and in 1398 a great part of India, including Delhi; waged war with the Turkish Sultan Bajazet I. (Beyazid), whom he defeated at Ankara in 1402 and took prisoner; and died while preparing to invade China. By the end of his life in 1405, after 35 years of campaigns and wars that left hundreds of thousands dead and enslaved, he had successfully defeated Ottoman Turks, Hindus, The Golden Horde, and other peoples and controlled an empire stretching from the Aegean to the River Ganges and threatened the trembling Kingdoms of Europe and the Eastern Roman Empire. He is the Tamerlaine of the plays.

A genus of ground squirrels, including the chipmunk.

One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.

Tamil.

A kind of woolen cloth; tammy.

A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth.

A tampion.

A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Phoenician Adon, or Adonis.

A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.

a chemical compound (C26H29NO) which is non-steroidal but physiogically active as an estrogen antagonist. It is used to treat postmenopausal breast cancer. Chemically it is 1-p-dimethylaminoethoxyphenyl-trans-1,2-diphenyl-but-1-ene. It can be obtained as a white crystalline powder.

In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.

A venomous South African tick.

See Tampion.

To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.

One who tampers; one who deals unfairly.

The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.

A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.

The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.

To plug with a tampon.

The stopper of a barrel; a bung.

Tamil.

One of a long-established English breed of large pigs. They are red, often spotted with black, with a long snout and erect or forwardly pointed ears, and are valued as bacon producers.

To get or become tanned.

Same as Banxring.

Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager (Piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird (Piranga rubra) are common species of the United States.

Of or pertaining to the tanagers.

Tanagrine.

A term used among Jews for the Hebrew Bible; the Old Testament.

An Asiatic wild dog (Canis procyonoides), native of Japan and adjacent countries. It has a short, bushy tail. Called also raccoon dog.

A team of horses harnessed one before the other.

To make a ringing sound; to ring.

An East Indian civet (Viverra tangalunga).

A hybrid between the tangerine orange and the grapefruit, or pomelo; also, the fruit.

Tangency.

The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.

Touching; touching at a single point meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces.

Tangential.

Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent.

In the direction of a tangent.

A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin.

The common harbor seal.

The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal.

The quality or state of being tangible.

Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.

Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.

The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.

In a tangling manner.

Entangled; intricate.