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.

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

A salt of tartramic acid.

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

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

A salt of tartaric acid.

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

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

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

A salt of tartronic acid.

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

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

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

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

Like a tartuffe; precise; hypocritical.

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

To tassel.

A kind of clay for making melting pots.

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.

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

One who imposes a task.

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

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

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.

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

To adorn with tassels.

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.

Capable of worthy of being tasted; savory; relishing.

The act of tasting; gustation.

Having a high relish; savory.

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

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

In a tasty manner.

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

A key or thing touched to produce a tone.

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

A pony.

A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).

A spot or stain; also, a trick.

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

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.

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.

The peba.

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

A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters.

To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective.

A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin.

A famous horse market in London, established in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, also used as the headquarters of credit betting on English horse races; hence, a large horse market elsewhere.

A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a peculiar stitch.

Idle talk or chat; trifling talk; prate.

One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales.

Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.

Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales.

An indelible mark or figure made by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures; -- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors.

A mat or screen of fibers, as of the kuskus grass, hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters.

Same as Tatou.

Any armadillo of the family Tatusiidae, of which the peba and mule armadillo are examples. Also used adjectively.

The common American toadfish; -- so called from a marking resembling the Greek letter tau (/).

imp. p. p. of Teach.

Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.

One who taunts.

a. n. from Taunt, v.

In a taunting manner.

A woman who taunts.

The constellation Taurus.

Having horns like those of a bull.

Any of a group of meteors appearing November 20-23; -- so called because they appear to radiate from a point in Taurus.

A bullfighter; a toreador.

Having the form of a bull.

A chemical compound occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur, being chemically amido-isethionic acid, C2H7NSO3.

A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile.

Pertaining to, or designating, a conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid) composed of taurine and cholic acid, present abundantly in human bile and in that of carnivora. It is exceedingly deliquescent, and hence appears generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water and alcohol. It has a bitter taste.

Glue made from a bull's hide.

Of or pertaining to bullfights. A bullfighter.

Bullfighting.

The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [/] in almanacs. A zodiacal constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat cattle, and probably identical with cresol.

Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.

Same as Tautog.

Expressing the same thing with different words; -- opposed to allegorical.

A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.