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Taxon

a taxonomic group, or the name of a taxonomic grouping.

Taxonomic

Pertaining to, or involving, taxonomy, or the laws and principles of classification; classificatory.

Taxonomy

That division of the natural sciences which treats of the classification of animals and plants, primarily by consideration of their natural relationships with respect to their structure or genetic origin; the laws or principles of classification; systematics.

Taxor

Same as Taxer, n., 2.

Taxpayer

One who is assessed and pays a tax.

Tay-Sachs Disease

A rare hereditary disease affecting lipid metabolism in humans, due to a deficiency of hexosaminidase. It occurs in infants and children, and causes death before the onset of adulthood. It occurs most commonly of people of Jewish origin from easter Europe. It is characterized by accumulation of lipids in nervous tissue, causes a red spot on the retina, and eventual blindness and paralysis before death.

Tayra

A South American carnivore (Galera barbara) allied to the grison. The tail is long and thick. The length, including the tail, is about three feet.

Tazza

An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles.

Tchick

A slight sound such as that made by pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth and explosively sucking out the air at one side, as in urging on a horse. To make a tchick.

tchotchke

a knickknack or trinket; a decorative item or souvenir of little value.

Te-hee

To titter; to laugh derisively.

Tea

To take or drink tea.

Tea-saucer

A small saucer in which a teacup is set.

Teach

To give instruction; to follow the business, or to perform the duties, of a preceptor.

Teachable

Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile.

Teache

Any one of the series of boilers or evaporating pans in which the cane juice is concentrated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series.

Teacher

One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.

Teaching

The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction.

Teacup

A small cup from which to drink tea.

Teacupful

As much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.

Teagle

A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift.

Teague

An Irishman; -- a term used in contempt.

Teak

A tree of East Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree.

Teakettle

A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.

Teal

Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings.

Team

To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber.

Teamed

Yoked in, or as in, a team.

Teaming

The act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team.

Teamwork

Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor.

Teapot

A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.

Teapoy

An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.

Tear

The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.

Tear-thumb

A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.

Tearer

One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.

Tearful

Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes.

Tearless

Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling.

Tearpit

A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.

Teary

Wet with tears; tearful.

Tease

One who teases or plagues.

Teasel

To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.

Teaseler

One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth.

Teaseling

The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels.

Teaser

One who teases or vexes.

Teaspoon

A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.

Teaspoonful

As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon. In cooking, it is usually estimated as 4.9 milliliters, which is / of a fluid ounce, or / of a tablespoonful. In cooking recipes it may be abbreviated as t.

Teat

The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.

Teated

Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal.

Teatish

Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish.

Teaze-hole

The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced.

Teazer

The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.

Tebeth

The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January.

Techiness

The quality or state of being techy.

Technic

The method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique.

Technical

Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical.

Technicality

The quality or state of being technical; technicalness.

Technically

In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession.

Technicalness

The quality or state of being technical; technicality.

Technicals

Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.

Technician

a person trained or skilled in the technical details of a particular art or science, especially one skilled at operating, maintaining, or repairing equipment, in contrast to the theory or informational content of a craft; -- formerly also called a technicist.

Technicist

One skilled in technics or in one or more of the practical arts.

Technicolor

the name of one process used for color cinematography; -- also used attributively.

Technics

The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.

Techniphone

A dumb gymnastic apparatus for training the hands of pianists and organists, as to a legato touch.

Technique

The method or manner of performance in any art; -- also called technic.

Techno

a form of music primarily created by computer sound synthizers rather than by musicians playing instruments.

Technobabble

technical jargon incomprehensible to non-specialists; -- sometimes used derogatorily of discussions using unnecessarily technical terminology and intended to impress or confuse, rather than inform, the listener.

technocrat

a technical specialist exercising governmental or managerial authority.

Technography

Description of the arts and crafts of tribes and peoples.

Technologist

One skilled in technology; one who treats of arts, or of the terms of arts.

Technology

Industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.

Techy

Peevish; fretful; irritable.

Tectibranch

One of the Tectibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

Tectibranchiata

An order, or suborder, of gastropod Mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle. When there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. The aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.

Tectibranchiate

Having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the Tectibranchiata. A tectibranchiate mollusk.

Tectly

Covertly; privately; secretly.

Tectology

A division of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. See Promorphology, and Morphon.

Tectonic

Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.

Tectonics

The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas.

Tectorial

Of or pertaining to covering; -- applied to a membrane immediately over the organ of Corti in the internal ear.

Tectrices

The wing coverts of a bird. See Covert, and Illust. of Bird.

Ted

To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle.

Tedesco

German; -- used chiefly of art, literature, etc.

Tedge

The gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured; runner, geat.

Tedious

Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.

Tedium

Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness.

Tee

To place (the ball) on a tee; also called to tee up.

Tee-to-tum

A workingmen's resort conducted under religious influences as a counteractant to the drinking saloon.

Teem

To produce; to bring forth.

Teemer

One who teems, or brings forth.

Teemless

Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth.

Teenage

of or pertaining to a teenager; being in one's teens; as, a busload of teenage football fans; teenage inexperience.

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