Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 11
Tasselled (imp. & p. p.) of Tassel.
Tasseling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tassel.
Tasselling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tassel.
Tassel (v. i.) To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.
Tassel (v. t.) To adorn with tassels. -- Chaucer.
Compare: Teasel
Teasel (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species ({Dipsacus fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.
Note: Small teasel is Dipsacus pilosus, wild teasel is Dipsacus sylvestris.
Teasel (n.) A bur of this plant.
Teasel (n.) Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
Teasel frame, A frame or set of iron bars in which teasel heads are fixed for raising the nap on woolen cloth.
Compare: Tercel
Tercel (n.) See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel. -- Chaucer.
Tassel (n.) Adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end.
Tasselled (a.) Fringed or adorned with tassels [syn: tasseled, tasselled].
Tasset (n.) 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.
Tasset (n.) One of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs [syn: tasset, tasse].
Tastable (a.) Capable of worthy of being tasted; savory; relishing.
Tasted (imp. & p. p.) of Taste.
Tasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Taste.
Taste (v. t.) To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. -- Chaucer.
Taste (v. t.) To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively.
When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine. -- John ii. 9.
When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse. -- Gibbon.
Taste (v. t.) To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
I tasted a little of this honey. -- 1 Sam. xiv. 29.
Taste (v. t.) To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo.
He . . . should taste death for every man. -- Heb. ii. 9.
Taste (v. t.) To partake of; to participate in; -- usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure.
Thou . . . wilt taste No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary. -- Milton.
Taste (v. i.) To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine.
Taste (v. i.) To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic.
Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason Shall to the king taste of this action. -- Shak.
Taste (v. i.) To take sparingly.
For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours. -- Dryden.
Taste (v. i.) To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty. -- Waller.
The valiant never taste of death but once. -- Shak.
Taste (n.) The act of tasting; gustation.
Taste (n.) A particular sensation excited by the application of a substance to the tongue; the quality or savor of any substance as perceived by means of the tongue; flavor; as, the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste.
Taste (n.) (Physiol.) The one of the five senses by which certain properties of bodies (called their taste, savor, flavor) are ascertained by contact with the organs of taste.
Note: Taste depends mainly on the contact of soluble matter with the terminal organs (connected with branches of the glossopharyngeal and other nerves) in the papillae on the surface of the tongue. The base of the tongue is considered most sensitive to bitter substances, the point to sweet and acid substances.
Taste (n.) Intellectual relish; liking; fondness; -- formerly with of, now with for; as, he had no taste for study.
I have no taste Of popular applause. -- Dryden.
Taste (n.) The power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles-letters; critical judgment; discernment.
Taste (n.) Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste.
Taste (n.) Essay; trial; experience; experiment. -- Shak.
Taste (n.) A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tastted of eaten; a bit. -- Bacon.
Taste (n.) A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
Syn: Savor; relish; flavor; sensibility; gout.
Usage: Taste, Sensibility, Judgment. Some consider taste as a mere sensibility, and others as a simple exercise of judgment; but a union of both is requisite to the existence of anything which deserves the name.
An original sense of the beautiful is just as necessary to aesthetic judgments, as a sense of right and wrong to the formation of any just conclusions on moral subjects. But this "sense of the beautiful" is not an arbitrary principle. It is under the guidance of reason; it grows in delicacy and correctness with the progress of the individual and of society at large; it has its laws, which are seated in the nature of man; and it is in the development of these laws that we find the true "standard of taste."
What, then, is taste, but those internal powers, Active and strong, and feelingly alive To each fine impulse? a discerning sense Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust From things deformed, or disarranged, or gross In species? This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow, But God alone, when first his active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul. -- Akenside.
Taste buds, or Taste goblets (Anat.), The flask-shaped end organs of taste in the epithelium of the tongue. They are made up of modified epithelial cells arranged somewhat like leaves in a bud.
Taste (n.) The sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste" [syn: taste, taste sensation, gustatory sensation, taste perception, gustatory perception].
Taste (n.) A strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney" [syn: preference, penchant, predilection, taste].
Taste (n.) Delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values); "arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success"; "to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste" [syn: taste, appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness].
Taste (n.) A brief experience of something; "he got a taste of life on the wild side"; "she enjoyed her brief taste of independence".
Taste (n.) A small amount eaten or drunk; "take a taste--you'll like it" [syn: taste, mouthful].
Taste (n.) The faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth; "his cold deprived him of his sense of taste" [syn: taste, gustation, sense of taste, gustatory modality].
Taste (n.) A kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds; "a wine tasting" [syn: taste, tasting]
Taste (v.) Have flavor; taste of something [syn: taste, savor, savour].
Taste (v.) Perceive by the sense of taste; "Can you taste the garlic?"
Taste (v.) Take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes" [syn: sample, try, try out, taste].
Taste (v.) Have a distinctive or characteristic taste; "This tastes of nutmeg" [syn: smack, taste].
Taste (v.) Distinguish flavors; "We tasted wines last night".
Taste (v.) Experience briefly; "The ex-slave tasted freedom shortly before she died".
Taste (n.) The quality in a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges programmed into it. Also tasty, tasteful, tastefulness. ?This feature comes in N tasty flavors.? Although tasty and flavorful are essentially synonyms, taste and flavor are not. Taste refers to sound judgment on the part of the creator; a program or feature can exhibit taste but cannot have taste. On the other hand, a feature can have flavor. Also, flavor has the additional meaning of ?kind? or ?variety? not shared by taste. The marked sense of flavor is more popular than taste, though both are widely used. See also elegant.
Taste (n.) Alt. sp. of tayste.
Taste, () (primarily MIT) The quality of a program that tends to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and kluges it contains. Taste refers to sound judgment on the part of the creator. See also elegant, flavour.
Taste, () Alternative spelling of "{tayste". [{Jargon File]
Tasteful (a.) Having a high relish; savory. "Tasteful herbs." -- Pope.
Tasteful (a.) Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful drapery. -- Taste"ful*ly, adv. -- Taste"ful*ness, n.
Tasteful (a.) Having or showing or conforming to good taste [ant: tasteless].
Tasteful (a.) Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset" [syn: neat, refined, tasteful].
Tasteless (a.) 沒味道的；味道差的；乏味的；不雅觀的；庸俗的；不禮貌的 Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit.
Tasteless (a.) Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. a tasteless arrangement of drapery; a tasteless remark.
Tasteless (a.) Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery; a tasteless remark. -- Taste"less*ly, adv. -- Taste"less*ness, n.
Tasteless (a.) Lacking flavor [ant: {tasty}].
Tasteless (a.) Lacking aesthetic or social taste [ant: {tasteful}].
Tastelessly (adv.) 無味地；乏味地；不雅緻地；無鑑賞力地；無品味地 Without taste or in poor taste; in a tasteless manner ; "the house was tastelessly decorated" [ant: tastefully, tastily].
Taster (n.) One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.
Thy tutor be thy taster, ere thou eat. -- Dryden.
Taster (n.) That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
Taster (n.) (Zool.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.
Taster (n.) Someone who samples food or drink for its quality [syn: taster, taste tester, taste-tester, sampler].
Tastily (adv.) In a tasty manner.
Tastily (adv.) In a tasty manner; "the meal was tastily cooked".
Tastily (adv.) With taste; in a tasteful manner; "the house was tastefully decorated" [syn: tastefully, tastily] [ant: tastelessly].
Tasting (n.) The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.
Tasting (n.) A small amount (especially of food or wine).
Tasting (n.) A kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds; "a wine tasting" [syn: taste, tasting].
Tasting (n.) Taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; "cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most" [syn: tasting, savoring, savouring, relishing, degustation].
Tasto (n.) A key or thing touched to produce a tone.
Tasty (a.) 高雅的；大方的；【口】美味的；可口的 Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5.
Tasty (a.) Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
Syn: tasteful [2].
Tasty (a.) Pleasing to the sense of taste; "a tasty morsel" [ant: {tasteless}].
Tat (n.) Gunny cloth made from the fiber of the Corchorus olitorius, or jute.
Tat (n.) A pony.
Tataupa (n.) A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).
Tatch (n.) A spot or stain; also, a trick.
Tath (obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ta, to take.
Tath (n.) Dung, or droppings of cattle.
Tath (n.) The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings of cattle in a pasture.
Tath (v. t.) To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.
Tatou (n.) 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.
Tatouay (n.) 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.
Tatouay (n.) Naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America [syn: tatouay, cabassous, Cabassous unicinctus].
Compare: Peba
Peba (n.) (Zool.) An armadillo ({Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas to Paraguay; -- called also tatouhou.
Tatouhou (n.) (Zool.) The peba.
Tatt (v. t. & i.) To make (anything) by tatting; to work at tatting; as, tatted edging.
Tatta (n.) 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.
Tatter (n.) 破布條；碎片[C]；破衣服 [P] One who makes tatting. -- Caulfield & S. (Doct. of Needlework).
Tatter (n.) A rag, or a part torn and hanging; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Tear a passion to tatters, to very rags. -- Shak.
Tattered (p. p.) of Tatter
Tatter (v. t.) 扯碎，撕碎；使破爛 To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past participle as an adjective.
Where waved the tattered ensigns of Ragfair. -- Pope.
Tatter (n.) A small piece of cloth or paper [syn: rag, shred, tag, tag end, tatter].
Tatterdemalion (n.) A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. -- L'Estrange.
Tatterdemalion (a.) Worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince" [syn: tattered, tatterdemalion].
Tatterdemalion (a.) In deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble- down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down].
Tatterdemalion (n.) A dirty shabbily clothed urchin [syn: ragamuffin, tatterdemalion].
Tatting (n.) A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a peculiar stitch.
Tattled (imp. & p. p.) of Tattle.
Tattling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tattle.
Tattle (v. i.) To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.
Tattle (v. i.) To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a talebearer; as, a tattling girl.
Tattle (n.) Idle talk or chat; trifling talk; prate.
Tattler (n.) One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales.
Tattler (n.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.
Tattlery (n.) Idle talk or chat; tittle-tattle.
Tattling (a.) Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales.
Tattoo (n.) A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp.
Tattooed (imp. & p. p.) of Tattoo.
Tattooing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tattoo.
Tattoo (v. t.) To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out.
Tattoos (n. pl. ) of Tattoo.
Tattoo (n.) 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.
Tattoo (n.) [ C ] (pl. tattoos) (Decoration) (Informal tat) 紋身花紋 A permanent image, pattern, or word on the skin that is created by using needles to put colours under the skin.
Tattoo (n.) [ C ] (Military show) 軍事表演操（尤配以音樂進行） An outside show, with several military performances especially of marching and music.
Tattoo (v.) [ T ] (Tattooed) 紋身；刺花 To put a tattoo or tattoos on someone or something.
// He had her name tattooed on his arm.
Tatu (n.) Same as Tatou.
Tatusiid (n.) Any armadillo of the family Tatusiidae, of which the peba and mule armadillo are examples. Also used adjectively.
Tau (n.) <Mathematics> The mathematical constant that is the circumference of a circle divided by its radius, equal to twice pi.
Some have suggested that pi is the wrong choice of constant to describe the geometry of circles etc. and tau = 2*pi would have been better. Most practising mathematicians think this is silly. The xkcd comic strip facetiously; a compromise of 1.5*pi or "pau". (2013-12-10)
Tau (n.) The nineteenth letter ([Tau], [tau]) of the Greek alphabet, equivalent to English t.
Tau (n.) (Zool.) The common American toadfish; -- so called from a marking resembling the Greek letter tau ([tau]).
{Tau cross}. See Illust. 6, of {Cross}.
Tau (n.) The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.
Taught (a.) See Taut.
Taught () imp. & p. p. of Teach.
Taunt (a.) Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.
Taunted (imp. & p. p.) of Taunt.
Taunting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Taunt.
Taunt (v. t.) To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid; to jeer at; to flout.
Taunt (n.) Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.
Taunter (n.) One who taunts.
Taunting () a. & n. from Taunt, v.
Tauntingly (adv.) In a taunting manner.
Tauntress (n.) A woman who taunts.
Taur (n.) The constellation Taurus.
Tauricornous (a.) Having horns like those of a bull.
Tauridor (n.) A bullfighter; a toreador.
Tauriform (a.) Having the form of a bull.
Taurine (a.) (Zool.) 像公牛的；【天】金牛宮的 Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.
Taurine (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) 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}.
Taurine (a.) Of or relating to or resembling a bull.
Taurine (n.) A colorless crystalline substance obtained from the bile of mammals.
Taurocholate (n.) A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile.
Taurocholic (a.) 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.
Taurocol (n.) Alt. of Taurocolla
Taurocolla (n.) Glue made from a bull's hide.
Tauromachian (a.) Of or pertaining to bullfights.
Tauromachian (n.) A bullfighter.