Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 7
Tampering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tamper.
Tamper (v. i.) To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
'T is dangerous tampering with a muse. -- Roscommon.
Tamper (v. i.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
Tamper (v. i.) To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.
Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert. -- Hudibras.
Tampering (n.) The act of altering something secretly or improperly [syn: meddling, tampering].
Tamperer (n.) One who tampers; one who deals unfairly. Tampico fiber
Compare: Ixtle
Ixtle, Ixtli, (n.) (Bot.) A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also pita, and Tampico fiber. [Written also istle.] Ixtle
Tampico fiber (n.) Alt. of Tampico fibre.
Tampico fibre (n.) A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.
Tamping (n.) The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.
Tamping (n.) The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1.
Tamping iron, An iron rod for beating down the earthy substance in tamping for blasting.
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].
Tampoe (n.) (Bot.) The edible fruit of an East Indian tree ({Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.
Tampon (n.) (Surg.) A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine.
Tampon (v. t.) (Surg.) To plug with a tampon.
Tampon (n.) Plug of cotton or other absorbent material; inserted into wound or body cavity to absorb exuded fluids (especially blood).
Tampon (v.) Plug with a tampon.
Tampoon (n.) The stopper of a barrel; a bung.
Tam-tam (n.) (Mus.) A kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; -- called also tom-tom.
Tam-tam (n.) (Mus.) A gong. See Gong, n., 1.
Tam-tam (n.) A percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick [syn: gong, tam-tam].
Tamil (a.) Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language. [Written also Tamul.]
Tamul (a. & n.) Tamil.
Tan (n.) [Chin.] See Picul.
Tan (n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
Tan (n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
Tan (n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
Tan bed (Hort.), A bed made of tan; a bark bed.
Tan pickle, The liquor used in tanning leather.
Tan spud, A spud used in stripping bark for tan from trees.
Tan stove. See Bark stove, under Bark.
Tan vat, A vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.
Tan (a.) Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
Black and tan. See under Black, a.
Black and Tan (n.) An English recruit (who wore a uniform that was black and tan) serving in the Irish constabulary to suppress the Sinn Fein rebellion of 1919 to 1921.
Tan (a.) Of a light yellowish-brown color.
Tan (n.) A browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun [syn: tan, suntan, sunburn, burn].
Tan (n.) A light brown the color of topaz [syn: tan, topaz].
Tan (n.) Ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle [syn: tangent, tan].
Tan (v.) Treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather.
Tan (v.) Get a tan, from wind or sun [syn: tan, bronze].
TAN, () Table / Total Area Network.
TAN, () TransAction Number (banking).
TAN (a.) [Usenet, particularly rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan] Abbrev. of ?tangent?, as in ?off on a tangent?, and synonym for OT. A number of hacker-humor synonyms are used for TAN in some newsgroups. Instances such as BEIGE, OFF-WHITE, BROWNISH-GRAY, and LIGHT BROWN have been observed. It is generally understood on newsgroups with this convention that any color descriptor is a TAN synonym if (a) used as the first word(s) of the topic of a Usenet post, (b) written in ALL CAPS, and (c) followed immediately by a colon. Usage: ?OFF-WHITE: 2000 Presidential candidates? on an SF newsgroup.
Tanned (imp. & p. p.) of Tan.
Tanning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tan.
Tan (v. t.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
Note: The essential result in tanning is due to the fact that the tannins form, with gelatins and albuminoids, a series of insoluble compounds which constitute leather. Similar results may be produced by the use of other reagents in place of tannin, as alum, and some acids or chlorides, which are employed in certain processes of tanning.
Tan (v. t.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
Tan (v. t.) To thrash or beat; to flog; to switch; as, to tan a disobedient child's hide. [Colloq.]
Tan (v. i.) To get or become tanned.
Tana (n.) Same as Banxring.
Tanager (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager ({Piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird ({Piranga rubra) are common species of the United States.
Tanager (n.) Any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males.
Tanagrine (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the tanagers.
Tanagroid (a.) (Zool.) Tanagrine. Tanak
Tanate (n.) (Zool.) An Asiatic wild dog ({Canis procyonoides), native of Japan and adjacent countries. It has a short, bushy tail. Called also raccoon dog.
Tandem (adv. & a.) One after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.
Tandem (n.) A team of horses harnessed one before the other. "He drove tandems." -- Thackeray.
Tandem (n.) A tandem bicycle or other vehicle.
Tandem bicycle or Tandem tricycle, One for two persons in which one rider sits before the other.
Tandem (adv.) One behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem" [syn: tandem, in tandem].
Tandem (n.) An arrangement of two or more objects or persons one behind another.
Tandem (n.) A bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats [syn: bicycle-built-for-two, tandem bicycle, tandem].
Tang (n.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
Tang (n.) A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
Tang (n.) Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.
Tang (n.) A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position.
Tang (n.) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
Tang (n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
Tang (n.) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
Tang (n.) The tongue of a buckle.
Tang (n.) A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
Tanged (imp. & p. p.) of Tang.
Tanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tang.
Tang (v. t.) To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
Tang (v. i.) To make a ringing sound; to ring.
Tangalung (n.) An East Indian civet (Viverra tangalunga).
Tangence (n.) Tangency.
Tangency (n.) The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.
Tangent (n.) (Geom.) A tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.
Artificial tangent, or Logarithmic tangent, The logarithm of the natural tangent of an arc.
Natural tangent, A decimal expressing the length of the tangent of an arc, the radius being reckoned unity.
Tangent galvanometer (Elec.), A form of galvanometer having a circular coil and a short needle, in which the tangent of the angle of deflection of the needle is proportional to the strength of the current.
Tangent of an angle, The natural tangent of the arc subtending or measuring the angle.
Tangent of an arc, A right line, as ta, touching the arc of a circle at one extremity a, and terminated by a line ct, passing from the center through the other extremity o.
Tangent (a.) Touching; touching at a single point; specifically:
Tangent (a.) (Geom.) Meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces.
Tangent plane (Geom.), A plane which touches a surface in a point or line.
Tangent scale (Gun.), A kind of breech sight for a cannon.
Tangent screw (Mach.), An endless screw; a worm.
Tangent (n.) A straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point.
Tangent (n.) Ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle [syn: tangent, tan].
Tangental (a.) (Geom.) Tangential.
Tangential (a.) (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent.
Tangential force (Mech.), A force which acts on a moving body in the direction of a tangent to the path of the body, its effect being to increase or diminish the velocity; -- distinguished from a normal force, which acts at right angles to the tangent and changes the direction of the motion without changing the velocity.
Tangential stress. (Engin.) See Shear, n., 3.
Tangential (a.) Of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" [syn: digressive, tangential].
Tangential (a.) Of or relating to or acting along or in the direction of a tangent; "tangential forces."
Tangentially (adv.) In the direction of a tangent.
Tangentially (adv.) In passing; "touched on it tangentially."
Tangerine (n.) (Bot.) 橘子 A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin. [Written also tangierine.]
Tangerine (a.) Of a strong reddish orange color.
Tangerine (n.) A variety of mandarin orange [syn: tangerine, tangerine tree].
Tangerine (n.) Any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa.
Tangerine (n.) A reddish to vivid orange color.
Tangerine, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
Population (2000): 826
Housing Units (2000): 348
Land area (2000): 1.153791 sq. miles (2.988305 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.649145 sq. miles (1.681277 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.802936 sq. miles (4.669582 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71100
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 28.758581 N, 81.631852 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tangerine, FL
Tangerine
Tangfish (n.) The common harbor seal.
Tanghinia (n.) The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal.
Tangibility (n.) The quality or state of being tangible.
Tangible (a.) Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
Tangible (a.) Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident.
Tangled (imp. & p. p.) of Tangle.
Tangling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tangle.
Tangle (v. t.) To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.
Tangle (v. t.) To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. "Tangled in amorous nets." -- Milton.
When my simple weakness strays, Tangled in forbidden ways. -- Crashaw.
Tangle (v. i.) To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.
Tangle (n.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp.
Coral and sea fan and tangle, the blooms and the palms of the ocean. -- C. Kingsley.
Tangle (n.) A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
Tangle (n.) pl. An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
Blue tangle. (Bot.) See Dangleberry.
Tangle picker (Zool.), The turnstone. [Prov. Eng.]
Tangle (n.) A twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven; "they carved their way through the tangle of vines".
Tangle (n.) Something jumbled or confused; "a tangle of government regulations" [syn: tangle, snarl, maze].
Tangle (v.) Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" [syn: embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in].
Tangle (v.) Tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" [syn: ravel, tangle, knot] [ant: ravel, ravel out, unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle].
Tangle (v.) Disarrange or rumple; dishevel; "The strong wind tousled my hair" [syn: tousle, dishevel, tangle].
Tangle (v.) Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord" [syn: entangle, tangle, mat, snarl] [ant: disentangle, straighten out, unsnarl].
Compare: Needlefish
Needlefish (n.) (Zool.) (a) The European great pipefish ({Siphostoma acus or Syngnathus acus); -- called also earl, and tanglefish.
Needlefish (n.) (b) The garfish.
Tanglefish (n.) (Zool.) The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe.
Tanglingly (adv.) In a tangling manner.
Tangly (a.) Entangled; intricate.
Tangly (a.) Covered with tangle, or seaweed.
Prone, helpless, on the tangly beach he lay. -- Falconer.
Tangram (n.) A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction.
Tangram (n.) A Chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs.
Tangue (n.) (Zool.) The tenrec.
Tangun (n.) (Zool.) A piebald variety of the horse, native of Thibet.
Tangwhaup (n.) (Zool.) The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.]
Tanier (n.) (Bot.) An aroid plant ({Caladium sagittaefolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. [Written also tannier.]
Tanist (n.) In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry.
This family [the O'Hanlons] were tanists of a large territory within the present county of Armagh. -- M. A. Lower.
Tanistry (n.) In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election.
Note: The primitive intention seems to have been that the inheritance should descend to the oldest or most worthy of the blood and name of the deceased. This was, in reality, giving it to the strongest; and the practice often occasioned bloody feuds in families, for which reason it was abolished under James I.
Tanite (n.) A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.
Tank (n.) A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls. -- Simmonds.
Tank (n.) A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.
Tank (n.) A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial.
We stood in the afterglow on the bank of the tank and saw the ducks come home. -- F. Remington.
The tanks are full and the grass is high. -- Lawson.
Tank (n.) (Mil.) A heavily armored combat vehicle which moves on caterpillar treads, rather than wheels. It typically carries a cannon and a heavy machine, and sometimes other weapons. It is the main distinguishing weapon of an armored division.
Tank (n.) A jail cell for temporarily holding prisoners, as in a police station.
Tank engine, A locomotive which carries the water and fuel it requires, thus dispensing with a tender.
Tank iron, Plate iron thinner than boiler plate, and thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron.
Tank worm (Zool.), A small nematoid worm found in the water tanks of India, supposed by some to be the young of the Guinea worm.
Tank (n.) An enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads [syn: tank, army tank, armored combat vehicle, armoured combat vehicle].
Tank (n.) A large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids [syn: tank, storage tank].
Tank (n.) As much as a tank will hold [syn: tank, tankful].
Tank (n.) A freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk [syn: tank car, tank].
Tank (n.) A cell for violent prisoners [syn: cooler, tank].
Tank (v.) Store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it.
Tank (v.) Consume excessive amounts of alcohol.
Tank (v.) Treat in a tank; "tank animal refuse".
Tank (n.) [ C ] (Container) (C2) （盛放液體或氣體的）容器 A container that holds liquid or gas.
// A water tank.
// A fuel/ petrol tank.
Tank (n.) [ C ] (Vehicle) (C1) 坦克 A large military fighting vehicle designed to protect those inside it from attack, driven by wheels that turn inside moving metal belts.
Tanka (n.) (Naut.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia. -- S. W. Williams.
Tanka (n.) A form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables.
Tanka (n.) A Tibetan religious painting on fabric.
Tankard (n.) A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover.
Marius was the first who drank out of a silver tankard, after the manner of Bacchus. -- Arbuthnot.
Tankard (n.) Large drinking vessel with one handle.
Tanker (n.) [ C ] 油船；槽車 A ship or vehicle that is built to carry liquid or gas.
// An oil tanker.
Tanka (n.) (Naut.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia. -- S. W. Williams.
Tankia (n.) (Naut.) See Tanka.
Tankling (n.) A tinkling. [Obs.] Tank ship
Tanling (n.) One tanned by the sun. [R.]
Hot summer's tanlings and The shrinking slaves of winter. -- Shak.
Tannable (a.) That may be tanned.
Tannage (n.) A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning. [R.]
They should have got his cheek fresh tannage. -- R. Browning.
Tannate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of tannic acid.
Tanner (n.) One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
Tanner (n.) [Etym. uncertain.] A sixpence. [Slang, Eng.]
Tanner (n.) A small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970 [syn: sixpence, tanner]
Tanner (n.) A craftsman who tans skins and hides.
Tanner, WA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Washington
Population (2000): 2966
Housing Units (2000): 1087
Land area (2000): 6.065717 sq. miles (15.710134 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.065717 sq. miles (15.710134 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70315
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 47.478658 N, 121.745715 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Tanner, WA
Tanner
Tanneries (n. pl. ) of Tannery.
Tannery (n.) 製革廠；鞣皮廠 A place where the work of tanning is carried on.
Tannery (n.) The art or process of tanning. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Tannery (n.) Workplace where skins and hides are tanned
Tannic (a.) Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid.
Tannic acid. (Chem.) (a) An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound, which is the basis of common ink. Called also tannin, and gallotannic acid.
Tannic acid. (Chem.) (b) By extension, any one of a series of astringent substances resembling tannin proper, widely diffused through the vegetable kingdom, as in oak bark, willow, catechu, tea, coffee, etc.
Tannic (a.) Derived from tannin.
Tanier (n.) (Bot.) An aroid plant ({Caladium sagittaefolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. [Written also tannier.]
Tannier (n.) (Bot.) See Tanier.
Tannic (a.) Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid.
Tannic acid. (Chem.) (a) An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, C14H10O9, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound, which is the basis of common ink. Called also tannin, and gallotannic acid.
Tannic acid. (Chem.) (b) By extension, any one of a series of astringent substances resembling tannin proper, widely diffused through the vegetable kingdom, as in oak bark, willow, catechu, tea, coffee, etc.
Tannin (n.) (Chem.) Same as Tannic acid, under Tannic.
Tannin (n.) Any of various complex phenolic substances of plant origin; used in tanning and in medicine [syn: tannin, tannic acid].