Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 4
Taha (n.) The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis texor).
Tahaleb (n.) A fox (Vulpes
Niloticus) of
Tahitian (a.) Of or pertaining to Tahiti, an island in the Pacific Ocean.
Tahitian (n.) A native inhabitant of Tahiti.
Tahr (n.) Same as Thar.
Tail (n.) Limitation; abridgment.
Tail (a.) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
Tail (n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
Note: The tail of mammals and reptiles contains a series of movable vertebrae, 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 vertebrae 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.
Tail (n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those tails that hang on willow trees. -- Harvey.
Tail (n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail. -- Deut. xxviii. 13.
Tail (n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
"Ah," said he, "if you saw but the chief with his tail on." -- Sir W. Scott.
Tail (n.) 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.
Tail (n.) (Anat.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
Tail (n.) (Bot.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
Tail (n.) (Surg.) 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.
Tail (n.) (Surg.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
Tail (n.) (Naut.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
Tail (n.) (Mus.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem. -- Moore (Encyc. of Music).
Tail (n.) pl. Same as Tailing, 4.
Tail (n.) (Arch.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
Tail (n.) pl. (Mining) See Tailing, n., 5.
Tail (n.) (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.
Tail (n.) 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.
Tail (n.) pl. A tailed coat; a tail coat. [Colloq. or Dial.]
Tail (n.) (Aeronautics) In airplanes, an airfoil or group of airfoils used at the rear to confer stability.
Tail (n.) The buttocks. [slang or vulgar].
Tail (n.) Sexual intercourse, or a woman used for sexual intercourse; as, to get some tail; to find a piece of tail. See also tailing [3]. [slang and vulgar].
Tail beam. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece.
Tail coverts (Zool.), 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.
Tail end, The latter end; the termination; as, the tail end of a contest. [Colloq.]
Tail joist. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece.
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.
Tail of a gale (Naut.), The latter part of it, when the wind has greatly abated. -- Totten.
Tail of a lock (on a canal), The lower end, or entrance into the lower pond.
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.
Tail spindle, The spindle of the tailstock of a turning lathe; -- called also dead spindle.
To turn tail, To run away; to flee.
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.
Tail (v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
Tail (v. t.) To pull or draw by the tail.
Tail (v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
Tail (v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
Tailage (n.) See Tallage.
Tail-bay (n.) 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. Case-bay.
Tail-bay (n.) The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
Tailblock (n.) A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
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.
Tailed (a.) Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.
Tailing (n.) (Arch.) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
Tailing (n.) (Surg.) Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).
Tailing (n.) Sexual intercourse. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Tailing (n.) pl. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
Tailing (n.) 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.
Tailing (n.) (Elec.) A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.
Tailing (n.) The act of following someone secretly [syn: shadowing, tailing].
Taille (n.) A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.
Taille (n.) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects.
Taille (n.) The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.
Tailless (a.) Having no tail.
Taillie (n.) Same as Tailzie.
Tailored (imp. & p. p.) of Tailor.
Tailoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tailor.
Tailor (v. i.) To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
These tailoring artists for our lays Invent cramped rules. -- M. Green.
Tailor (n.) One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou wert a man's tailor. -- Shak.
Tailor (n.) (Zool.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
Tailor (n.) (Zool.) The silversides.
Tailor (n.) (Zool.) The goldfish. [Prov. Eng.]
Salt-water tailor (Zool.), The bluefish. [Local, U. S.] -- Bartlett.
Tailor bird (Zool.), 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.
Tailor (n.) A person whose occupation is making and altering garments [syn: tailor, seamster, sartor].
Tailor (v.) Adjust to a specific need or market; "a magazine oriented towards young people"; "tailor your needs to your surroundings" [syn: tailor, orient].
Tailor (v.) Style and tailor in a certain fashion; "cut a dress" [syn: cut, tailor].
Tailor (v.) Create (clothes) with cloth; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?" [syn: sew, tailor, tailor-make].
Tailoress (n.) A female tailor.
Tailoring (adv.) The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
Tailpiece (n.) A piece at the end; an appendage.
Tailpiece (n.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of Header.
Tailpiece (n.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book.
Tailpiece (n.) A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
Tailpin (n.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.
Tailrace (n.) See Race, n., 6.
Tailrace (n.) The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.
Tailstock (n.) The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.
Tail-water (n.) Water in a tailrace.
Tailzie (n.) An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
Tain (n.) Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.
Taint (n.) A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. [Obs.]
This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath. -- Chapman.
Taint (n.) 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.]
Tainted (imp. & p. p.) of Taint.
Tainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Taint.
Taint (v. i.) To thrust ineffectually with a lance. [Obs.]
Taint (v. t.) To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner. [Obs.]
Do not fear; I have A staff to taint, and bravely. -- Massinger.
Taint (v. t.) To hit or touch lightly, in tilting. [Obs.]
They tainted each other on the helms and passed by. -- Ld. Berners.
Taint (v. t.) 使感染，使腐壞；沾染；汙染；玷汙，敗壞；腐蝕；【古】弄髒 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.
Taint (v. t.) Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
His unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. -- Shak.
Syn: To contaminate; defile; pollute; corrupt; infect; disease; vitiate; poison.
Taint (v. i.) 腐壞，敗壞；被汙染 To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
I can not taint with fear. -- Shak.
Taint (v. i.) To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
Taint (n.) Tincture; hue; color; tinge. [Obs.]
Taint (n.) Infection; corruption; deprivation.
He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. -- Macaulay.
Taint (n.) A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
Taint (v. t.) Aphetic form of {Attaint}.
Taint (n.) The state of being contaminated [syn: {contamination}, {taint}].
Taint (v.) Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation" [syn: {defile}, {sully}, {corrupt}, {taint}, {cloud}].
Taint (v.) Contaminate with a disease or microorganism [syn: {infect}, {taint}] [ant: {disinfect}].
Tainted (a.) (Formal) 汙染的；感染的；腐敗的；Taint 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Dirty or no longer pure; no longer pleasant or safe to eat, drink or use.
// Tainted drinking water.
Tainted (a.) (Formal) Suffering from no longer being well thought of by other people.
// The company's tainted reputation.
Compare: Reputation
Reputation (n.) [U] [S] 名譽，名聲[（+for）]；好名聲，聲望；信譽 The beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone or something.
‘His reputation was tarnished by allegations of bribery.’
Reputation (n.) A widespread belief that someone or something has a particular characteristic.
‘His knowledge of his subject earned him a reputation as an expert.’
Taintless (a.) 未玷汙的；純潔清白的 Free from taint or infection; pure.
Taintlessly (adv.) In a taintless manner.
Taintlessly (In British) (adv.) Without taint.
Tainture (n.) Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot.
Taintworm (n.) A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
Taira (n.) Same as Tayra.
Tairn (n.) See Tarn.
Tait (n.) 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.
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Tajacu (n.) Alt. of Tajassu
Tajassu (n.) The common, or collared, peccary.
Take (p. p.) Taken. -- Chaucer. (Obs.)
Took (imp.) of Take.
Takend (p. p.) of Take.
Taking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Take.
Take (v. t.) In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey. Hence, specifically:
Take (v. t.) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.
This man was taken of the Jews. -- Acts xxiii. 27.
Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak. -- Pope.
They that come abroad after these showers are commonly taken with sickness. -- Bacon.
There he blasts the tree and takes the cattle And makes milch kine yield blood. -- Shak.
Take (v. t.) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
Neither let her take thee with her eyelids. -- Prov. vi. 25.
Cleombroutus was so taken with this prospect, that he had no patience. -- Wake.
I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, -- a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, -- which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions. -- Moore.
Take (v. t.) To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken. -- 1 Sam. xiv. 42.
The violence of storming is the course which God is forced to take for the destroying . . . of sinners. -- Hammond.
Take (v. t.) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat ; it takes five hours to get to Boston from New York by car.
This man always takes time . . . before he passes his judgments. -- I. Watts.
Take (v. t.) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person.
Beauty alone could beauty take so right. -- Dryden.
Take (v. t.) To draw; to deduce; to derive. [R.]
The firm belief of a future judgment is the most forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery. -- Tillotson.
Take (v. t.) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
Take (v. t.) To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
Take (v. t.) To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery ; he took a dictionary with him.
He took me certain gold, I wot it well. -- Chaucer.
Take (v. t.) To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.
Take (v. t.) In a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept. Specifically: