A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.

To make or cause to taper.

Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.

Becoming gradually smaller toward one end.

The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper.

To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.

Worked or figured stuff; tapestry.

A small South American hare (Lepus Braziliensis).

An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.

Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.

A house where liquors are retailed.

Same as Bothrenchyma.

A lurking or skulking.

A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava.

Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.

Allied to the tapir, or the Tapir family.

To cover or work with figures like tapestry.

A maker of tapestry; an upholsterer.

To lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self.

Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor.

The strong double leathers by which the two parts of a flail are united.

An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.

The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.

A female tapster.

A lever or projection moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, with a view to produce change or regulate motion.

See Tapish.

A piece of wood or sheet metal fitted into a ditch to dam up the water so as to overflow a field.

A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom.

The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.

One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor.

A Central American name for the ivory nut.

To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.

A Celtic divinity, regarded as the evil principle, but confounded by the Romans with Jupiter.

A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.

A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia. Music suited to such a dance.

A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protracted dancing to appropriate music.

Any one of several species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species (Tarantula apuliae). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are large species of Mygale.

Bitten by a tarantula; affected with tarantism.

See Toboggan.

A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez.

The act of retarding, or delaying; retardation.

A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.

One of the Tardigrada.

Moving slowly; slow-paced.

In a tardy manner; slowly.

The quality or state of being tardy.

Tardiness.

Slowness; tardiness.

A sloth.

To make tardy.

To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).

Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.

A harmless lizard of the Gecko family (Platydactylus Mauritianicus) found in Southern Europe and adjacent countries, especially among old walls and ruins.

See Tarantism.

See Tarantula.

A shield or target.

A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

The date set as a goal for completion of some activity.

the language into which a text is to be translated; -- correlative of source language.

Furnished, armed, or protected, with a target.

A translation or paraphrase of some portion of the Old Testament Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect.

The writer of a Targum; one versed in the Targums.

a native or resident of North Carolina; -- used as a nickname.

North Carolina; -- used as a nickname.

To make a list of duties on, as goods.

The siskin.

The common tern; -- called also tarret, and tarrock.

A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses.

A mountain lake or pool.

The quality or state of being tarnished; stain; soil; blemish.

One who, or that which, tarnishes.

A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy tuberous rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries.

A game of cards; -- called also taroc.

A wild horse found in the region of the Caspian Sea.

A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof composition, used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats, etc.

Pertaining to or designating a rock or peak of the Capitoline hill, Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled.

Same as Tarpum.

A very large marine fish (Megapolis Atlanticus) of the Southern United States and the West Indies. It often becomes six or more feet in length, and has large silvery scales. The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork. Called also tarpon, sabalo, savanilla, silverfish, and jewfish.

Like a Tarquin, a king of ancient Rome; proud; haughty; overbearing.

See Trass.

A plant of the genus Artemisa (Artemisa dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring vinegar.

See Trass.

To set on, as a dog; to incite.

The act or time of tarrying; delay; lateness.

A kind of dig; a terrier.

The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt. The common guillemot. The common tern.

Stay; stop; delay.

Same as Tercel.

One of the bones or cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with the metatarsals.

tarsus.

The operation of excising one or more of the bones of the tarsus.

A male hawk. See Tercel.

pl. of Tarsus.

A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood.

See Tarsius.

A genus of nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones; -- called also malmag, spectral lemur, podji, and tarsier.

Of or pertaining to both the tarsus and metatarsus; as, the tarsometatarsal articulations. Of or pertaining to the tarsometatarsus.

The large bone next the foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus.

An operation to diminish the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices.

The operation of cutting or removing the tarsal cartilages.

The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones. A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate.

A species of small open pie, or piece of pastry, containing jelly or conserve; a sort of fruit pie.

A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.

See Tartarus.

Tartrated.

Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.

Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.

The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.

Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from, or resembling, tartar.

Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.

Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar.

To cause to resemble the Tartars and their civilization, as by conquest.

Resembling, or characteristic of, a Tartar; ill-natured; irritable.

See 1st Tartar.

The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general.

Tartarus.

Somewhat tart.

A small tart.

In a tart manner; with acidity.

The quality or state of being tart.