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Talisman (?), n.; pl. Talismans (#). [Sp., from Ar. tilism, tilsam, a magical image, pl. tilsamān, fr. Gr. � tribute, tax, LGr., an initiation, incantation, from � to complete, perform, to play taxes, to make perfect, to initiate, especially in the mysteries, fr. � completion, end.] 1. A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.
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2. Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases. Swift.
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{ Talismanic (?), Talismanical (?), } a. [Cf. F. talismanique.] Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.
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Talk (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Talked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Talking.] [Cf. LG. talk talk, gabble, Prov. G. talken to speak indistinctly; or OD. tolken to interpret, MHG. tolkan to interpret, to tell, to speak indistinctly, Dan. tolke to interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t�lka to interpret, t�lkr an interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter, tulkanti, tulkōti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate to interpret, to talk about; or perhaps fr. OE. talien to speak (see , v. i. & n.).] 1. To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
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I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you. Shak.
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2. To confer; to reason; to consult.
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Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. Jer. xii. 1.
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3. To prate; to speak impertinently. [Colloq.]
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Coloq. To talk of , to relate; to tell; to give an account of; as, authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. “The natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done.” Addison. -- Coloq. To talk to , to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. [Colloq.]
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Talk, v. t. 1. To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.
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2. To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.
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3. To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.
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4. To cause to be or become by talking. “They would talk themselves mad.” Shak.
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Coloq. To talk over . (a) To talk about; to have conference respecting; to deliberate upon; to discuss; as, to talk over a matter or plan. (b) To change the mind or opinion of by talking; to convince; as, to talk over an opponent.
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Talk, n. 1. The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.
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In various talk the instructive hours they passed. Pope.
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Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical phrases, was too commonly made up of oaths and curses. Macaulay.
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2. Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.
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I hear a talk up and down of raising our money. Locke.
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3. Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.
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Syn. -- Conversation; colloquy; discourse; chat; dialogue; conference; communication. See .
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Talkative (?), a. Given to much talking.
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Syn. -- Garrulous; loquacious. See .
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-- Talkatively, adv. -- Talkativeness, n.
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Talker (?), n. 1. One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.
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There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay.
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2. A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. Jer. Taylor.
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Talking, a. 1. That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.
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2. Given to talk; loquacious.
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The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,
For talking age and whispering lovers made. Goldsmith.
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Tall (?), a. [Compar. Taller (?); superl. Tallest.] [OE. tal seemly, elegant, docile (?); of uncertain origin; cf. AS. un-tala, un-tale, bad, Goth. untals indocile, disobedient, uninstructed, or W. & Corn. tal high, Ir. talla meet, fit, proper, just.] 1. High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.
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Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall. Milton.
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2. Brave; bold; courageous. [Obs.]
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As tall a trencherman
As e'er demolished a pye fortification. Massinger.
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His companions, being almost in despair of victory, were suddenly recomforted by Sir William Stanley, which came to succors with three thousand tall men. Grafton.
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3. Fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive. [Obs. or Slang] B. Jonson.
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Syn. -- High; lofty. -- , , . High is the generic term, and is applied to anything which is elevated or raised above another thing. Tall specifically describes that which has a small diameter in proportion to its height; hence, we speak of a tall man, a tall steeple, a tall mast, etc., but not of a tall hill. Lofty has a special reference to the expanse above us, and denotes an imposing height; as, a lofty mountain; a lofty room. Tall is now properly applied only to physical objects; high and lofty have a moral acceptation; as, high thought, purpose, etc.; lofty aspirations; a lofty genius. Lofty is the stronger word, and is usually coupled with the grand or admirable.
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{ Tallage (?), Talliage (?), } n. [F. taillage. See , and cf. .] (O. Eng. Law) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also tailage, taillage.]
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☞ When paid out of knight's fees, it was called scutage; when by cities and burghs, tallage; when upon lands not held by military tenure, hidage. Blackstone.
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Tallage, v. t. To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.
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Tallboy (?), n. 1. A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup.
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2. A piece of household furniture common in the eighteenth century, usually in two separate parts, with larger drawers above and smaller ones below and raised on legs fifteen inches or more in height; -- called also highboy.
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3. A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top.
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Tallier (?), n. One who keeps tally.
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Tallis (?), n. Same as .
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Tallith (?), n. [NHeb. tallīth.] (Jewish Costume) (a) An undergarment worn by orthodox Jews, covering the chest and the upper part of the back. It has an opening for the head, and has tassels, called zizith, on its four corners. (b) A tasseled shawl or scarf worn over the head or thrown round the shoulders while at prayer.
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Tallness (?), n. The quality or state of being tall; height of stature.
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Tallow (?), n. [OE. taluh, talugh; akin to OD. talgh, D. talk, G., Dan. and Sw. talg, Icel. tōlgr, tōlg, tōlk; and perhaps to Goth. tulgus firm.] 1. The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
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☞ The solid consistency of tallow is due to the large amount of stearin it contains. See .
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2. The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds.
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Coloq. Tallow candle , a candle made of tallow. -- Coloq. Tallow catch , a keech. See . [Obs.] -- Coloq. Tallow chandler , one whose occupation is to make, or to sell, tallow candles. -- Coloq. Tallow chandlery , the trade of a tallow chandler; also, the place where his business is carried on. -- Coloq. Tallow tree (Bot.), a tree (Stillingia sebifera) growing in China, the seeds of which are covered with a substance which resembles tallow and is applied to the same purposes.
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Tallow, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tallowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tallowing.] 1. To grease or smear with tallow.
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2. To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep.
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Tallower (?), n. An animal which produces tallow.
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Tallow-face (?), n. One who has a sickly, pale complexion. Shak.
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Tallow-faced (?), a. Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
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Tallowing, n. The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow; also, the property in animals of producing tallow.
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Tallowish, a. Having the qualities of tallow.
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Tallowy (?), a. Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
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Tallwood (?), n. [Cf. .] Firewood cut into billets of a certain length. [Obs.] [Eng.]
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Tally (?), n.; pl. Tallies (#). [OE. taile, taille, F. taille a cutting, cut tally, fr. tailler to cut, but influenced probably by taillé, p. p. of tailler. See , and cf. a limitation, , .] 1. Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
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☞ In purshasing and selling, it was once customary for traders to have two sticks, or one stick cleft into two parts, and to mark with a score or notch, on each, the number or quantity of goods delivered, -- the seller keeping one stick, and the purchaser the other. Before the use of writing, this, or something like it, was the only method of keeping accounts; and tallies were received as evidence in courts of justice. In the English exchequer were tallies of loans, one part being kept in the exchequer, the other being given to the creditor in lieu of an obligation for money lent to government.
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2. Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.
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3. One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
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They were framed the tallies for each other. Dryden.
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4. A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game.
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5. A tally shop. See Tally shop, below.
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Coloq. Tally shop , a shop at which goods or articles are sold to customers on account, the account being kept in corresponding books, one called the tally, kept by the buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement. The trade thus regulated is called tally trade. Eng. Encyc. -- Coloq. To strike tallies , to act in correspondence, or alike. [Obs.] Fuller.
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Tally, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tallied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tallying.] [Cf. F. tialler to cut. See , n.] 1. To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit.
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They are not so well tallied to the present juncture. Pope.
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2. (Naut.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard. W. C. Russell.
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Coloq. Tally on (Naut.), to dovetail together.
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Tally (?), v. i. 1. To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.
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I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel. Addison.
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Your idea . . . tallies exactly with mine. Walpole.
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2. To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.
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Coloq. Tally on (Naut.), to man a rope for hauling, the men standing in a line or tail.
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Tally (?), adv. [See , a.] Stoutly; with spirit. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
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Tallyho (?), interj. & n. 1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds.
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2. A tallyho coach.
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Coloq. Tallyho coach , a pleasure coach. See under .
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Tallyman (?), n.; pl. Tallymen (�). 1. One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.
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2. One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade.
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Talma (?), n.; pl. Talmas (#). [Prob. so called from Talma, a French actor.] (a) A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of the dress of ladies. (b) A similar garment worn formerly by gentlemen.
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Talmud (?), n. [Chald. talmūd instruction, doctrine, fr. lamad to learn, limmad to teach.] The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.
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☞ The Talmud consists of two parts, the Mishna, or text, and the Gemara, or commentary. Sometimes, however, the name Talmud is restricted, especially by Jewish writers, to the Gemara. There are two Talmuds, the Palestinian, commonly, but incorrectly, called the Talmud of Jerusalem, and the Babylonian Talmud. They contain the same Mishna, but different Gemaras. The Babylonian Talmud is about three times as large as the other, and is more highly esteemed by the Jews.
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{ Talmudic (?), Talmudical (?), } a. [Cf. F. talmudique.] Of or pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as, Talmudic Greek; Talmudical phrases. Lightfoot.
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Talmudism (?), n. (�), n. The teachings of the Talmud, or adherence to them.
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Talmudist (?), n. [Cf. F. talmudiste.] One versed in the Talmud; one who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.
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Talmudistic (?), a. Resembling the Talmud; Talmudic.
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Talon (?), n. [F., heel, spur, LL. talo, fr. L. talus the ankle, heel.] 1. The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey. Bacon.
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2. (Zoöl.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
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3. (Arch.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.
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☞ When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.
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4. The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt. Knight.
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{ Talook, Taluk } (?), n. [Ar. ta'lluq.] A large estate; esp., one constituting a revenue district or dependency the native proprietor of which is responsible for the collection and payment of the public revenue due from it. [India]
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{ Talookdar, Talukdar } (?), n. [Hind., fr. Per. ta'lluqdār.] A proprietor of a talook. [India]
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Talpa (?), n. [L., mole.] (Zoöl.) A genus of small insectivores including the common European mole.
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Talus (?), n.; pl. Tali (#). [L., the ankle, the ankle bone.] 1. (Anat.) The astragalus.
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2. (Surg.) A variety of clubfoot (Talipes calcaneus). See the Note under .
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Talus, n. [F.] 1. (Fort.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.
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2. (Geol.) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.
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Tamability (?), n. The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.
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Tamable (?), a. Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness. -- Tamableness, n.
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Tamale (?), n. [Written also tamal, tomale.] [Amer. Sp. tamal, of Mex. origin.] A Mexican dish made of crushed corn (cornmeal) mixed with minced meat, seasoned with red pepper, dipped in oil, and steamed.
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Tamandu (?), n. [Sp., from the native name: cf. F. tamandua.] (Zoöl.) A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South America.
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☞ It has five toes on the fore feet, an elongated snout, small ears, and short woolly hair. Its tail is stout and hairy at the base, tapering, and covered with minute scales, and is somewhat prehensile at the end. Called also tamandua, little ant-bear, fourmilier, and cagouare. The collared, or striped, tamandu (Tamandua bivittata) is considered a distinct species by some writers, but by others is regarded as only a variety.
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Tamanoir (?), n. (Zoöl.) The ant-bear.
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Tamarack (?), n. (Bot.) (a) The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See , and . (b) The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.
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Tamaric (?), n. [L. tamarice. See .] A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath. [Obs.]
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He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come. Jer. xvii. 6 (Douay version).
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Tamarin (?), n. [From the native name in Cayenne.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially Midas ursulus.
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