Taguicati - Take

Prev Next
[ Webster]

Taguicati (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoöl.) The white-lipped peccary.
[ Webster]

Taha (?), n. The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis texor).
[ Webster]

Tahaleb (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoöl.) A fox (Vulpes Niloticus) of Northern Africa.
[ Webster]

Tahitian (?), a. Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean. -- n. A native inhabitant of Tahiti.
[ Webster]

Tahr (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as .
[ Webster]

Tai (tä�), a. Designating, or pertaining to, the chief linguistic stock of Indo-China, including the peoples of Siamese and Shan speech. It includes the Thai language.
[Webster Suppl.]

Tai, n. A member of one of the tribes of the Tai stock.

The Tais first appeared in history in Yunnan, and from thence they migrated into Upper Burma. The earliest swarms appear to have entered that tract about two thousand years ago, and were small in number. Census of India, 1901.
[Webster Suppl.]

Tail (?), n. [F. taille a cutting. See , .] (Law) Limitation; abridgment. Burrill.
[ Webster]

Coloq. Estate in tail , a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded; -- called also estate tail. Blackstone.
[ Webster]

Tail, a. (Law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
[ Webster]

Tail, n. [AS. tægel, tægl; akin to G. zagel, Icel. tagl, Sw. tagel, Goth. tagl hair. √59.] 1. (Zoöl.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
[ Webster]

☞ The tail of mammals and reptiles contains a series of movable vertebræ, and is covered with flesh and hairs or scales like those of other parts of the body. The tail of existing birds consists of several more or less consolidated vertebræ which supports a fanlike group of quills to which the term tail is more particularly applied. The tail of fishes consists of the tapering hind portion of the body ending in a caudal fin. The term tail is sometimes applied to the entire abdomen of a crustacean or insect, and sometimes to the terminal piece or pygidium alone.
[ Webster]

2. Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
[ Webster]

Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those tails that hang on willow trees. Harvey.
[ Webster]

3. Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
[ Webster]

The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail. Deut. xxviii. 13.
[ Webster]

4. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
[ Webster]

“Ah,” said he, “if you saw but the chief with his tail on.” Sir W. Scott.
[ Webster]

5. The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression “heads or tails,” employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
[ Webster]

6. (Anat.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
[ Webster]

7. (Bot.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
[ Webster]

8. (Surg.) (a) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing. (b) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
[ Webster]

9. (Naut.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
[ Webster]

10. (Mus.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem. Moore (Encyc. of Music).
[ Webster]

11. pl. Same as , 4.
[ Webster]

12. (Arch.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
[ Webster]

13. pl. (Mining) See , n., 5.
[ Webster]

14. (Astronomy) the long visible stream of gases, ions, or dust particles extending from the head of a comet in the direction opposite to the sun.
[PJC]

15. pl. (Rope Making) In some forms of rope-laying machine, pieces of rope attached to the iron bar passing through the grooven wooden top containing the strands, for wrapping around the rope to be laid.
[Webster Suppl.]

16. pl. A tailed coat; a tail coat. [Colloq. or Dial.]
[Webster Suppl.]

17. (Aëronautics) In airplanes, an airfoil or group of airfoils used at the rear to confer stability.
[Webster Suppl.]

18. the buttocks. [slang or vulgar]
[PJC]

19. sexual intercourse, or a woman used for sexual intercourse; as, to get some tail; to find a piece of tail. See also . [slang and vulgar]
[PJC]

Coloq. Tail beam . (Arch.) Same as . -- Coloq. Tail coverts (Zoöl.), the feathers which cover the bases of the tail quills. They are sometimes much longer than the quills, and form elegant plumes. Those above the quills are called the upper tail coverts, and those below, the under tail coverts. -- Coloq. Tail end , the latter end; the termination; as, the tail end of a contest. [Colloq.] -- Coloq. Tail joist . (Arch.) Same as . -- Coloq. Tail of a comet (Astron.), a luminous train extending from the nucleus or body, often to a great distance, and usually in a direction opposite to the sun. -- Coloq. Tail of a gale (Naut.), the latter part of it, when the wind has greatly abated. Totten. -- Coloq. Tail of a lock (on a canal), the lower end, or entrance into the lower pond. -- Coloq. Tail of the trenches (Fort.), the post where the besiegers begin to break ground, and cover themselves from the fire of the place, in advancing the lines of approach. -- Coloq. Tail spindle , the spindle of the tailstock of a turning lathe; -- called also dead spindle. -- Coloq. To turn tail , to run away; to flee.
[ Webster]

Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out another way; but all was to return in a higher pitch. Sir P. Sidney.
[ Webster]

Tail, v. t. 1. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded. [Obs.]
[ Webster]

Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncanceled, and was called on the next Parliament. Fuller.
[ Webster]

2. To pull or draw by the tail. [R.] Hudibras.
[ Webster]

Coloq. To tail in or Coloq. To tail on (Arch.), to fasten by one of the ends into a wall or some other support; as, to tail in a timber.
[ Webster]

Tail, v. i. 1. (Arch.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
[ Webster]

2. (Naut.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
[ Webster]

Coloq. Tail on . (Naut.) See Tally on, under .
[ Webster]

Tailage (?), n. (O. Eng. Law) See .
[ Webster]

Tail-bay (?), n. 1. (Arch.) One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. .
[ Webster]

2. The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
[ Webster]

Tailblock (?), n. (Naut.) A block with a tail. See , 9.
[ Webster]

Tailboard (?), n. The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.
[ Webster]

Tailed (?), a. Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.
[ Webster]

Snouted and tailed like a boar. Grew.
[ Webster]

Tailing (?), n. 1. (Arch.) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. Gwilt.
[ Webster]

2. (Surg.) Same as , n., 8 (a).
[ Webster]

3. Sexual intercourse. [Obs.] Chaucer.
[ Webster]

4. pl. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
[ Webster]

5. pl. (Mining) The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails. Pryce.
[ Webster]

6. (Elec.) A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.
[Webster Suppl.]

Taille (?), n. [F. See , .] 1. A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. [Obs.]
[ Webster]

Whether that he paid or took by taille. Chaucer.
[ Webster]

2. (O. F. Law) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects.
[ Webster]

The taille, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm. A. Smith.
[ Webster]

3. (Mus.) The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.
[ Webster]

Tailless (?), a. Having no tail. H. Spencer.
[ Webster]

Taillie (?), n. (Scots Law) Same as .
[ Webster]

Tailor (?), n. [OF. tailleor, F. tailleur, fr. OF. taillier, F. tailler to cut, fr. L. talea a rod, stick, a cutting, layer for planting. Cf. , , , , n.] 1. One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
[ Webster]

Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou wert a man's tailor. Shak.
[ Webster]

2. (Zoöl.) (a) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring. (b) The silversides.
[ Webster]

3. (Zoöl.) The goldfish. [Prov. Eng.]
[ Webster]

Coloq. Salt-water tailor (Zoöl.), the bluefish. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett. -- Coloq. Tailor bird (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form nests. The common Indian species are Orthotomus longicauda, which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor bird (Orthotomus coronatus), which has the top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale olive-green.
[ Webster]

Tailor, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tailored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tailoring.] To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
[ Webster]

These tailoring artists for our lays
Invent cramped rules. M. Green.
[ Webster]

Tailoress, n. A female tailor.
[ Webster]

Tailoring, adv. The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
[ Webster]

Tailor-made, a. 1. Made by a tailor or according to a tailor's fashion; -- said specif. of women's garments made with certain closeness of fit, simplicity of ornament, etc.
[Webster Suppl.]

2. made or as if made specifically for the particular purpose at hand; -- used metaphorically.
[PJC]

Tailpiece (?), n. 1. A piece at the end; an appendage.
[ Webster]

2. (Arch.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of .
[ Webster]

3. (Print.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book. Savage.
[ Webster]

4. A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
[ Webster]

5. (Locks) A piece for transmitting motion from the hub of a lock to the latch bolt.
[Webster Suppl.]

6. The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc.
[Webster Suppl.]

Tailpin (?), n. (Mach.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.
[ Webster]

Tailrace (?), n. 1. See , n., 6.
[ Webster]

2. (Mining) The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.
[ Webster]

Tailstock (?), n. The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.
[ Webster]

Tail-water (?), n. Water in a tailrace.
[ Webster]

Tailzie (-zĭ or -yĭ), n. [F. tailler to cut. See a limitation.] (Scots Law) An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted. [Written also tailzee.]
[ Webster]

Tain (?), n. [OE. tein, teyne; cf. Icel. teinn a twig, akin to AS. tān, Goth. tains.] Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors. Knight.
[ Webster]

Taint (?), n. [Cf. F. atteinte a blow, bit, stroke. See .] 1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. [Obs.]
[ Webster]

This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath. Chapman.
[ Webster]

2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner. [Obs.]
[ Webster]

Taint, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tainted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tainting.] To thrust ineffectually with a lance. [Obs.]
[ Webster]

Taint, v. t. 1. To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner. [Obs.]
[ Webster]

Do not fear; I have
A staff to taint, and bravely. Massinger.
[ Webster]

2. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting. [Obs.]
[ Webster]

They tainted each other on the helms and passed by. Ld. Berners.
[ Webster]

Taint, v. t. [F. teint, p. p. of teindre to dye, tinge, fr. L. tingere, tinctum. See , and cf. .] 1. To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.
[ Webster]

2. Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
[ Webster]

His unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love. Shak.
[ Webster]

Syn. -- To contaminate; defile; pollute; corrupt; infect; disease; vitiate; poison.
[ Webster]

Taint (?), v. i. 1. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
[ Webster]

I can not taint with fear. Shak.
[ Webster]

2. To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
[ Webster]

Taint, n. 1. Tincture; hue; color; tinge. [Obs.]
[ Webster]

2. Infection; corruption; deprivation.
[ Webster]

He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. Macaulay.
[ Webster]

3. A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
[ Webster]

Taint (?), v. t. Aphetic form of .
[Webster Suppl.]

Taintless, a. Free from taint or infection; pure.
[ Webster]

Taintlessly, adv. In a taintless manner.
[ Webster]

Tainture (?), n. [F. teinture. See to stain, and cf. .] Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. [R.] Shak.
[ Webster]

Taintworm (?), n. (Zoöl.) A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
[ Webster]

{ Taiping, or Taeping } (?), a. [Chin. t'aip'ing great peace.] (Chinese Hist.) Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one Hung-Siu-Chuen, a half-religious, half-political enthusiast, attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the Coloq. Taiping rebellion , incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864.
[Webster Suppl.]

Taira (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as .
[ Webster]

Tairn (?), n. See . Coleridge.
[ Webster]

Tait (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.
[ Webster]

{ Tajaçu, Tajassu } (?), n. [Pg. tajaçú, from Braz. tayaçú a hog or swine.] (Zoöl.) The common, or collared, peccary.
[ Webster]

Taj Mahal (täj mȧhäl), prop. n. [Corruption of Per. Mumtāz-i-Maḥal, lit., the distinguished one of the palace, fr. Ar.] A marble mausoleum built at Agra, India, by the Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, in memory of his favorite wife. In beauty of design and rich decorative detail it is one of the best examples of Saracenic architecture, and specifically of Mogul architecture.
[Webster Suppl.]

Take (tāk), obs. p. p. of . Taken. Chaucer.
[ Webster]

Prev Next

Concept Explore Home

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z