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Table (tāb'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabled (tāb'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Tabling (tābling).] 1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
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2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.]
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Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. Bacon.
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3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] Milton.
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4. (Carp.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
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5. To lay or place on a table, as money. Carlyle.
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6. In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.
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7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
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8. (Naut.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
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Table, v. i. To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. [Obs.] “He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts.” South.
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Tableau (?), n.; pl. Tableaux (#). [F., dim. fr. L. tabula a painting. See .] 1. A striking and vivid representation; a picture.
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2. A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.
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3. (Solitaire) The arrangement, or layout, of cards.
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Tableau vivant (?); pl. Tableaux vivants (#). [F.] Same as , n., 2.
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Tablebook (?), n. A tablet; a notebook.
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Put into your tablebook whatever you judge worthy. Dryden.
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Tablecloth (?), n. A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.
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Table d'hôte (tȧbl' dōt); pl. Tables d'hôte (#). [F., literally, table of the landlord.] 1. A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.
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2. Now, commonly, a meal, usually of several preselected and fixed courses, in a restaurant, hotel, or the like, for which one pays a fixed price. Sometimes, a meal with optional courses for which one pays a fixed price irrespective of what one orders; but the latter is usuallyt referred to as a pris fixe meal or a a la carte meal. Often used adjectively; as, a table-d'hôte meal.
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Table-land (?), n. A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.
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The toppling crags of Duty scaled,
Are close upon the shining table-lands
To which our God himself is moon and sun. Tennyson.
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Tableman (?), n.; pl. Tablemen (�). A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See , n., 10. [R.] Bacon.
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Tablement (?), n. (Arch.) A table. [Obs.]
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Tablements and chapters of pillars. Holland.
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Tabler (?), n. 1. One who boards. [Obs.]
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2. One who boards others for hire. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Tablespoon (?), n. A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
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Tablespoonful (?), n.; pl. Tablespoonfuls (�). As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.
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Tablet (?), n. [F. tablette, dim. of table. See .] 1. A small table or flat surface.
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2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
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3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.]
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4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book.
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5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
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6. (Pharm.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.
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Tableware (?), n. Ware, or articles collectively, for use during meals, including, for example, dishes, plates, bowls, knives, forks, and spoons.
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Table work. (Print.) Typesetting of tabular nmatter, or the type matter set in tabular form.
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Tabling (?), n. 1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
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2. (Carp.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.
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3. (Naut.) A broad hem on the edge of a sail. Totten.
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4. Board; support. [Obs.] Trence in English (1614).
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5. Act of playing at tables. See , n., 10. [Obs.]
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Coloq. Tabling house , a gambling house. [Obs.] Northbrooke.
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Tabloid (?), n. [A table-mark.] 1. A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.
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2. a newspaper with pages about half the size of a standard-sized newspaper, especially one that has relatively short or condensed articles and a large porortion of pictorial matter.
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Tabloid (tăbloid), a. 1. Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.
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2. of or pertaining to a tabloid newspaper or the type of story typically contained in one, such as lurid or sensationalistic stories of scandal, crime, or violence.
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Taboo (?), n. A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction. [Written also tabu.]
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Taboo, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabooed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tabooing.] To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals. [Written also tabu.]
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Taboo (?), a. [Written also tabu and tapu.] [Polynesian tabu, tapu, sacred, under restriction, a prohibition.] Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo.
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Tabor (?), n. [OF. tabor, tabour, F. tambour; cf. Pr. tabor, tanbor, Sp. & Pg. tambor, atambor, It. tamburo; all fr. Ar. & Per. tamb�r a kind of lute, or giutar, or Per. tabīr a drum. Cf. , .] (Mus.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person. [Written also tabour, and taber.]
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Tabor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tabored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Taboring.] [Cf. OF. taborer.] [Written also tabour.] 1. To play on a tabor, or little drum.
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2. To strike lightly and frequently.
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Tabor, v. t. To make (a sound) with a tabor.
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Taborer (?), n. One who plays on the tabor. Shak.
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Taboret (?), n. [Dim. of tabor. Cf. .] (Mus.) A small tabor. [Written also tabouret.]
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Taborine (?), n. [OF. tabourin, F. tambourin. See , and cf. .] (Mus.) A small, shallow drum; a tabor.
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Taborite (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.
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Tabour (?), n. & v. See .
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Tabouret (?), n. [F., dim. of OF. tabor, tabour, drum. See .] 1. Same as .
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2. A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; -- so called from its resemblance to a drum.
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3. An embroidery frame. Knight.
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Coloq. Right of the tabouret , the privilege of sitting on a tabouret in the presence of the severeign, formerly granted to certain ladies of high rank at the French court.
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Tabrere (?), n. A taborer. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Tabret (?), n. A taboret. Young.
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Tabu (?), n. & v. See .
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Tabula (?), n.; pl. Tabulæ (#). [L.] 1. A table; a tablet.
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2. (Zoöl.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
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Coloq. Tabula rasa (�) [L.], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.
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Tabular (?), a. [L. tabularis, fr. tabula a board, table. See .] Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word). Specifically: --
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(a) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.
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(b) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.
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Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated. Woodward.
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(c) Set in squares. [R.]
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(d) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.
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(e) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension.
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Coloq. Tabular difference (Math.), the difference between two consecutive numbers in a table, sometimes printed in its proper place in the table. -- Coloq. Tabular spar (Min.), wollastonite.
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Tabularization (?), n. The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.
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Tabularize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabularized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tabularizing (?).] To tabulate.
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Tabulata (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. tabulatus floored.] (Zoöl.) An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.
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Tabulate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabulated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tabulating.] [L. tabula a table. See .] 1. To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.
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A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be tabulated, and put in figures. I. Taylor.
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2. To shape with a flat surface.
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Tabulation (?), n. The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.
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Tac (?), n. [Cf. , n., 4.] (O. Eng. Law) A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records. Cowell. Burrill.
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{ Tacamahac (?), Tacamahaca (?), } n. 1. A bitter balsamic resin obtained from tropical American trees of the genus Elaphrium (Elaphrium tomentosum and Elaphrium Tacamahaca), and also from East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum; also, the resinous exhudation of the balsam poplar.
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2. (Bot.) Any tree yielding tacamahac resin, especially, in North America, the balsam poplar, or balm of Gilead (Populus balsamifera).
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Tacaud (?), n. [Cf. F. tacaud. See .] (Zoöl.) The bib, or whiting pout. [Prov. Eng.]
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Tac-au-tac (?), n. [F., fr. riposter du tac au tac to parry (where tac imitates the sound made by the steel).] (Fencing) The parry which is connected with a riposte; also, a series of quick attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point.
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Tace (?), n. The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6), under , n. Mollett.
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Tace, n. See . Fairholt.
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Tacet (?), v. impers. [L., it is silent, 3d pers.pr. of tacere to be silent.] (Mus.) It is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.
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Tache (?), n. [See a kind of nail.] Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button. [Obs.] Ex. xxvi. 6.
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Tache, n. [F. tache spot. See .] A spot, stain, or blemish. [Obs.] Warner.
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Tachhydrite (?), n. [Gr. tachys quick + ydwr water. So named from its ready deliquescence.] (Min.) A hydrous chloride of calcium and magnesium occurring in yellowish masses which rapidly deliquesce upon exposure. It is found in the salt mines at Stassfurt.
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Tachina (?), n.; pl. Tachinæ (#). [NL., fr. Gr. tachinos, for tachys swift.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied genera. Their larvæ are external parasites of other insects.
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Tachistoscope (?), n. [Gr. tachistos, superl. of tachys swift + -scope.] (Physiol.) An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression.
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Tachograph (?), n. [Gr. tachos speed + -graph.] A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.
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Tachometer (?), n. [Gr. tachos swiftness, speed (fr. tachys quick) + -meter: cf. F. tachomètre.] An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance. Specifically: --
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(a) An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork.
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(b) An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum which is driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial.
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(c) (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood; a hæmatachometer.
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Tachometry (?), n. Measurement by a tachometer; the science or use of tachometers.
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Tachydidaxy (?), n. [Gr. tachys quick + didaxis teaching.] A short or rapid method of instructing. [R.]
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Tachyglossa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. tachys quick + glw^ssa tongue.] (Zoöl.) A division of monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters of Australia and New Guinea. See Illust. under .
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Tachygraph (?), n. An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript.
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Tachygrapher (?), n. [Gr. � a fast writer.] One who writes shorthand; a stenographer; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman notary.
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{ Tachygraphic (?), Tachygraphical (?), } a. [Cf. F. tachygraphique.] Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.
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Tachygraphy (?), n. [Gr. tachys quick + -graphy: cf. F. tachygraphie.] The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
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Tachylyte (?), n. [Gr. tachys quick + lyein to dissolve.] (Min.) A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.
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Tachymeter (?), n. [Tachy- + -meter.] 1. (Surveying) An instrument, esp. a transit or theodolite with stadia wires, for determining quickly the distances, bearings, and elevations of distant objects.
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2. A speed indicator; a tachometer.
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Tachymetry (?), n. The science or use of the tachymeter. -- Tachymetric (#), a.
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Tachyscope (?), n. [Gr. tachys quick + -scope.] An early form of animated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto Anschütz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.
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Tacit (?), a. [L. tacitus, p. p. of tacere to be silent, to pass over in silence; akin to Goth. þahan to be silent, Icel. þegja, OHG. dagēn: cf. F. tacite. Cf. .] Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection. -- Tacitly, adv.
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The tacit and secret theft of abusing our brother in civil contracts. Jer. Taylor.
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Taciturn (?), a. [L. taciturnus: cf. F. taciturne. See .] Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak. -- Taciturnly, adv.
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Syn. -- Silent; reserved. , . Silent has reference to the act; taciturn, to the habit. A man may be silent from circumstances; he is taciturn from disposition. The loquacious man is at times silent; one who is taciturn may now and then make an effort at conversation.
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Taciturnity (?), n. [L. taciturnitas: cf. F. taciturnité.] Habitual silence, or reserve in speaking.
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The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers. V. Knox.
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The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense. Macaulay.
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Tack (?), n. [From an old or dialectal form of F. tache. See .] 1. A stain; a tache. [Obs.]
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2. [Cf. L. tactus.] A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack. [Obs. or Colloq.] Drayton.
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Tack, n. [OE. tak, takke, a fastening; akin to D. tak a branch, twig, G. zacke a twig, prong, spike, Dan. takke a tack, spike; cf. also Sw. tagg prickle, point, Icel. tāg a willow twig, Ir. taca a peg, nail, fastening, Gael. tacaid, Armor. & Corn. tach; perhaps akin to E. take. Cf. , , , an end, .] 1. A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.
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2. That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See , v. t., 3. Macaulay.
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Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time. Bp. Burnet.
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