Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 6
Tallies (n. pl. ) of Tally.
Tally (n.) 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.
Note: 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.
Tally (n.) Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.
Tally (n.) One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.
They were framed the tallies for each other. -- Dryden.
Tally (n.) A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game.
Tally (n.) A tally shop. See Tally shop, below.
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.
To strike tallies, to act in correspondence, or alike. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Tallied (imp. & p. p.) of Tally.
Tallying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tally.
Tally (v. t.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit.
They are not so well tallied to the present juncture. -- Pope.
Tally (v. t.) (Naut.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard. -- W. C. Russell.
Tally on (Naut.), To dovetail together.
Tally (v. i.) To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.
I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel. -- Addison.
Your idea . . . tallies exactly with mine. -- Walpole.
Tally (v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.
Tally on (Naut.), To man a rope for hauling, the men standing in a line or tail.
Tally (adv.) Stoutly; with spirit. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Tally (n.) A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning" [syn: run, tally].
Tally (n.) A bill for an amount due [syn: reckoning, tally].
Tally (n.) The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours" [syn: count, counting, numeration, enumeration, reckoning, tally].
Tally (v.) Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree, discord].
Tally (v.) Gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" [syn: score, hit, tally, rack up].
Tally (v.) Keep score, as in games [syn: tally, chalk up].
Tally (v.) Determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up].
Tallyho (interj. & n.) The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds.
Tallyho (interj. & n.) A tallyho coach.
Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
Tallymen (n. pl. ) of Tallyman.
Tallyman (n.) One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.
Tallyman (n.) One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade.
Talmas (n. pl. ) of Talma.
Talma (n.) A kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of the dress of ladies.
Talma (n.) A similar garment worn formerly by gentlemen.
Talmud (n.) 【宗】《塔木德經》（猶太教的法典） The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.
Note: 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. Talmudic
Talmud (n.) The collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism.
Talmudic (a.) Alt. of Talmudical.
Talmudical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as, Talmudic Greek; Talmudical phrases. -- Lightfoot.
Talmudist (n.) [Cf. F. talmudiste.] One versed in the Talmud; one who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.
Talmudistic (a.) Resembling the Talmud; Talmudic.
Talon (n.) The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey. -- Bacon.
Talon (n.) (Zool.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
Talon (n.) (Arch.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.
Note: When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.
Talon (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt. -- Knight.
Talon (n.) A sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey.
Talook (n.) Alt. of Taluk.
Taluk (n.) 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] Talookdar
Talookdar (n.) Alt. of Talukdar.
Talukdar (n.) A proprietor of a talook. [India]
Talpa (n.) (Zool.) A genus of small insectivores including the common European mole.
Compare: Talipes
Talipes (n.) (Surg.) The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.
Note: Several varieties are distinguished; as, Talipes varus, in which the foot is drawn up and bent inward; T. valgus, in which the foot is bent outward; T. equinus, in which the sole faces backward and the patient walks upon the balls of the toes; and T. calcaneus (called also talus), in which the sole faces forward and the patient walks upon the heel.
Tali (n. pl. ) of Talus.
Talus (n.) (Anat.) The astragalus.
Talus (n.) (Surg.) A variety of clubfoot ({Talipes calcaneus). See the Note under Talipes.
Talus (n.) (Fort.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.
Talus (n.) (Geol.) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.
Talus (n.) A sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff [syn: talus, scree].
Talus (n.) The bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint [syn: anklebone, astragal, astragalus, talus].
Tamability (n.) The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.
Tamable (a.) Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness. -- Tam"a*ble*ness, n.
Tamable (a.) Capable of being tamed [syn: tamable, tameable].
Tamandu (n.) (Zool.) A small ant-eater ({Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South America.
Note: 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.
Tamandu (n.) Small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four- clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America [syn: tamandua, tamandu, lesser anteater, Tamandua tetradactyla].
Tamanoir (n.) (Zool.) The ant-bear.
Tamanoir (n.) Large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America [syn: ant bear, giant anteater, great anteater, tamanoir, Myrmecophaga jubata].
Compare: Hackmatack
Hackmatack (n.) (Bot.) The American larch ({Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack.
Tamarack (n.) (Bot.) The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia ({Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and Larch.
Tamarack (n.) (Bot.) The black pine ({Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.
Tamarack (n.) Medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark [syn: American larch, tamarack, black larch, Larix laricina].
Tamarack, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 59
Housing Units (2000): 48
Land area (2000): 3.598216 sq. miles (9.319337 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.598216 sq. miles (9.319337 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64156
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 46.647713 N, 93.126321 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 55787
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Tamaric (n.) A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath. [Obs.]
He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come. -- Jer. xvii. 6 (Douay version).
Tamarin (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially Midas ursulus.
Tamarin (n.) Small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail [syn: tamarin, lion monkey, lion marmoset, leoncita].
Tamarind (n.) (Bot.) A leguminous tree ({Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide-spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated.
Tamarind (n.) (Bot.) One of the preserved seed pods of the tamarind, which contain an acid pulp, and are used medicinally and for preparing a pleasant drink.
Tamarind fish, A preparation of a variety of East Indian fish with the acid pulp of the tamarind fruit.
Velvet tamarind. (a) A West African leguminous tree ({Codarium acutifolium).
Velvet tamarind. (b) One of the small black velvety pods, which are used for food in Sierra Leone.
Wild tamarind (Bot.), A name given to certain trees somewhat resembling the tamarind, as the Lysiloma latisiliqua of Southern Florida, and the Pithecolobium filicifolium of the West Indies.
Tamarind (n.) Long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp [syn: tamarind, tamarind tree, tamarindo, Tamarindus indica]
Tamarind (n.) Large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys [syn: tamarind, tamarindo].
Tamarisk (n.) (Bot.) Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species ({Tamarix mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna.
Tamarisk salt tree, An East Indian tree ({Tamarix orientalis) which produces an incrustation of salt.
Tamarisk (n.) Any shrub or small tree of the genus Tamarix having small scalelike or needle-shaped leaves and feathery racemes of small white or pinkish flowers; of mostly coastal areas with saline soil.
Tamarisk, () Heb. 'eshel (Gen. 21:33; 1 Sam. 22:6; 31:13, in the R.V.; but in A.V., "grove," "tree"); Arab. asal. Seven species of this tree are found in Palestine. It is a "very graceful tree, with long feathery branches and tufts closely clad with the minutest of leaves, and surmounted in spring with spikes of beautiful pink blosoms, which seem to envelop the whole tree in one gauzy sheet of colour" (Tristram's Nat. Hist.).
Tambac (n.) (Metal.) See Tombac. [Obs.]
Tombac (n.) [Pg. tambaca,tambaque, fr. Malay tamb[=a]ga copper; cf. Skr. t[=a]mraka; cf. F. tombac.] (Metal.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German brass or Dutch brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac. [Written also tombak, and tambac.]
Tambac (n.) An alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding [syn: tombac, tombak, tambac].
Tambour (n.) (Mus.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
Tambour (n.) A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
Tambour (n.) (Arch.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d).
Tambour (n.) (Fort.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
Tambour (n.) (Physiol.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
Tamboura (n.) (Mus.) A stringed musical instrument resembling a lute but lacking frets, with a small round body and a long neck, used to produce an accompaniment for singing; -- called also tambur, tambour, and tampur. [Also spelled tambura.]
Compare: Vase
Vase (n.) A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland. No chargers then were wrought in burnished gold, Nor silver vases took the forming mold. -- Pope.
Vase (n.) (Arch.) (a) A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.
Vase (n.) (Arch.) (b) The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.
Note: Until the time of Walker (1791), vase was made to rhyme with base, case, etc., and it is still commonly so pronounced in the United States. Walker made it to rhyme with phrase, maze, etc. Of modern English practice, Mr. A. J. Ellis (1874) says: "Vase has four pronunciations in English: v[add]z, which I most commonly say, is going out of use, v[aum]z I hear most frequently, v[=a]z very rarely, and v[=a]s I only know from Cull's marking. On the analogy of case, however, it should be the regular sound."
The Merriam-Webster's 10th Colletgiate Dictionary says: "U. S. oftenest v[=a]s; Canada usu. and U. S. also v[=a]z; Canada also & U. S. sometimes v[aum]z." One wit has noted that "a v[aum]z is a v[=a]z that costs more than $100.", suggesting that the former is considered a higher-class pronunciation.
Vase (n.) (Bot.) The calyx of a plant.
Vase (n.) An open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers.
Tambour (n.) A frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering [syn: tambour, embroidery frame, embroidery hoop].
Tambour (n.) A drum.
Tamboured (imp. & p. p.) of Tambour.
Tambouring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tambour.
Tambour (v. t.) To embroider on a tambour.
Tambourin (n.) A tambourine. [Obs.]
Tambourin (n.) (Mus.) An old Provencal dance of a lively character, common on the stage.
Tambourine (n.) A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.
Tambourine (n.) A South American wild dove ({Tympanistria tympanistria), mostly white, with black-tiped wings and tail. Its resonant note is said to be ventriloquous.
Tambourine (n.) A shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides.
Tambreet (n.) (Zool.) The duck mole.
Tamburin (n.) See Tambourine. -- Spenser.
Tame (v. t.) 馴養，馴服，制服 To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need. -- Fuller.
Tame (a.) 馴服的，柔順的，被開墾的，順從的，乏味的，平淡的 Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
Tame (a.) Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
Tame slaves of the laborious plow. -- Roscommon.
Tame (a.) Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
Syn: Gentle; mild; meek. See Gentle.
Tamed (imp. & p. p.) of Tame.
Taming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tame.
Tame (v. t.) To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness. -- Macaulay.
Tame (v. t.) To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
Tame (a.) Flat and uninspiring.
Tame (a.) Very restrained or quiet; "a tame Christmas party"; "she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed" [ant: wild].
Tame (a.) Brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" [syn: tame, tamed] [ant: untamed, wild].
Tame (a.) Very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse" -- Langston Hughes [syn: meek, tame].
Tame (v.) Correct by punishment or discipline [syn: tame, chasten, subdue].
Tame (v.) Make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements" [syn: tone down, moderate, tame].
Tame (v.) Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame].
Tame (v.) Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" [syn: domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame].
Tame (v.) Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" [syn: domesticate, tame].
Tameable (a.) Tamable. -- Bp. Wilkins.
Tameable (a.) Capable of being tamed [syn: tamable, tameable].
Tameless (a.) Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable. --Bp. Hall. -- Tame"less*ness, n.
Tamely (adv.) In a tame manner.
Tamely (adv.) In a tame manner; "the labour movement allowed itself to be run out of power tamely".
Tameness (n.) The quality or state of being tame.
Tameness (n.) The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated [syn: jejunity, jejuneness, tameness, vapidity, vapidness].
Tameness (n.) The attribute of having been domesticated [syn: tameness, domestication] [ant: wildness].
Tamer (n.) One who tames or subdues.
Compare: Tame
Tame (a.) Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
Tame (a.) Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
Tame slaves of the laborious plow. -- Roscommon.
Tame (a.) Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
Syn: Gentle; mild; meek. See Gentle.
Tamer (n.) An animal trainer who tames wild animals.
Tamias (n.) (Zool.) A genus of ground squirrels, including the chipmunk.
Tamias (n.) Chipmunks of eastern North America [syn: Tamias, genus Tamias].
Tamil (a.) Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language. [Written also Tamul.]
Tamil (n.) (Ethnol.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.
Tamil (n.) The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a.
Tamil (a.) Of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself; "Tamil agglutinative phrases".
Tamil (n.) A member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka.
Tamil (n.) The Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil in southern India and Sri Lanka.
Tamilian (a. & n.) Tamil. Tamine
Tamine (n.) Alt. of Taminy.
Taminy (n.) A kind of woolen cloth; tammy.
Tamis (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth.
Tamis (n.) The cloth itself; tammy.
Tamis bird (Zool.), a Guinea fowl.
Tamkin (n.) A tampion. -- Johnson (Dict.).
Tammies (n. pl. ) of Tammy.
Tammy (n.) A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
Tammy (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis.
Tammy (n.) Plain-woven (often glazed) fabric of wool or wool and cotton used especially formerly for linings and garments and curtains.
Tammy (n.) A woolen cap of Scottish origin [syn: tam, tam-o'-shanter, tammy].
Tamped (imp. & p. p.) of Tamp.
Tamping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tamp.
Tamp (v. t.) In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected.
Tamp (v. t.) To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.
Tamp (n.) A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) [syn: tamp, tamper, tamping bar].
Tamp(v.) Press down tightly; "tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso" [syn: tamp down, tamp, pack].
Tampan (n.) (Zool.) A venomous South African tick. -- Livingstone.
Compare: Tampion
Tampion (n.) A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.
Tampion (n.) (Mus.) A plug for upper end of an organ pipe.
Tampion (n.) Plug for the muzzle of a gun to keep out dust and moisture [syn: tampion, tompion].
Tampeon (n.) See Tampion. -- Farrow.
Tamper (n.) One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
Tamper (n.) An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
Tamper (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Tampered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tampering.] [A corruption of temper.] To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
'T is dangerous tampering with a muse. -- Roscommon.
Tamper (n.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
Tamper (n.) To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.
Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert. -- Hudibras.
Tamper (n.) A tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) [syn: tamp, tamper, tamping bar].
Tamper (v.) Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts" [syn: tamper, fiddle, monkey].
Tamper (v.) Intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!" [syn: meddle, tamper].
Tampered (imp. & p. p.) of Tamper.