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Tardiness

The quality or state of being tardy.

Tare

To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).

Tared

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

Tarente

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

Target

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

Target date

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

Target language

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

Targeted

Furnished, armed, or protected, with a target.

Targeteer

One who is armed with a target or shield.

Targum

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

Targumist

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

Tarheel

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

Tariff

To make a list of duties on, as goods.

Taring

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

Tarlatan

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

Tarn

A mountain lake or pool.

Tarnish

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

Taro

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.

Tarot

A game of cards; -- called also taroc.

Tarpan

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

Tarpaulin

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

Tarpeian

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

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.

Tarquinish

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

Tarragon

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

Tarre

To set on, as a dog; to incite.

Tarriance

The act or time of tarrying; delay; lateness.

Tarrock

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

Tarsale

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

Tarsectomy

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

Tarsel

A male hawk. See Tercel.

Tarsiatura Tarsia

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.

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.

Tarsometatarsal

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

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.

Tarsorrhaphy

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

Tarsotomy

The operation of cutting or removing the tarsal cartilages.

Tarsus

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.

Tart

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

Tartan

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

Tartareous

Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.

Tartarian

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

Tartaric

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

Tartarine

Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar.

Tartarize

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

Tartarous

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

Tartarus

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.

Tartly

In a tart manner; with acidity.

Tartness

The quality or state of being tart.

Tartralic

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white amorphous deliquescent substance, C8H10O11; -- called also ditartaric, tartrilic, or tartrylic acid.

Tartramic

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is the primary acid amide derivative of tartaric acid.

Tartramide

An acid amide derivative of tartaric acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Tartrated

Containing, or derived from, tartar; combined with tartaric acid.

Tartrazine

An artificial dyestuff obtained as an orange-yellow powder, and regarded as a phenyl hydrazine derivative of tartaric and sulphonic acids.

Tartrelic

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an anhydride, C4H4O5, of tartaric acid, obtained as a white crystalline deliquescent substance.

Tartronic

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid (called also hydroxy malonic acid) obtained, by reducing mesoxalic acid, as a white crystalline substance.

Tartronyl

A hypothetical radical constituting the characteristic residue of tartronic acid and certain of its derivatives.

Tartrovinic

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain acid composed of tartaric acid in combination with ethyl, and now called ethyltartaric acid.

Tartufe Tartuffe

A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Tarweed

A name given to several resinous-glandular composite plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and Madia.

Tasco

A kind of clay for making melting pots.

Tasimer

An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extensions or movements of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature.

Task

To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.

Taskmaster

One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer.

Taskwork

Work done as a task; also, work done by the job; piecework.

Taslet

A piece of armor formerly worn to guard the thighs; a tasse.

Tasmanian

Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct.

Tasse

A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.

Tasset

A defense for the front of the thigh, consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.

Tastable

Capable of worthy of being tasted; savory; relishing.

Taste

The act of tasting; gustation.

Tasteless

Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.

Taster

One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.

Tasting

The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.

Tasto

A key or thing touched to produce a tone.

Tasty

Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5.

Tataupa

A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).

Tatch

A spot or stain; also, a trick.

Tath

To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.

Tatou

The giant armadillo (Priodontes gigas) of tropical South America. It becomes nearly five feet long including the tail. It is noted for its burrowing powers, feeds largely upon dead animals, and sometimes invades human graves.

Tatouay

An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo.

Tatt

To make (anything) by tatting; to work at tatting; as, tatted edging.

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