Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 2

Tables d'hote (pl. ) of Table d'hote

Table d'hote () A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.

Table-land (n.) A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.

Tablemen (pl. ) of Tableman

Tableman (n.) A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.

Tablement (n.) A table.

Tabler (n.) One who boards.

Tabler (n.) One who boards others for hire.

Tablespoon (n.) A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.

Tablespoonfuls (pl. ) of Tablespoonful

Tablespoonful (n.) As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.

Tablet (n.) A small table or flat surface.

Tablet (n.) A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.

Tablet (n.) Hence, a small picture; a miniature.

Tablet (n.) A kind of pocket memorandum book.

Tablet (n.) A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

Tablet (n.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.

Tableware (n.) Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.

Tabling (n.) A forming into tables; a setting down in order.

Tabling (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.

Tabling (n.) A broad hem on the edge of a sail.

Tabling (n.) Board; support.

Tabling (n.) Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10.

Taboo (n.) A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.

Tabooed (imp. & p. p.) of Taboo

Tabooing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Taboo

Taboo (v. t.) To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.

Tabor (n.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.

Tabored (imp. & p. p.) of Tabor

Taboring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tabor

Tabor (v. i.) To play on a tabor, or little drum.

Tabor (v. i.) To strike lightly and frequently.

Tabor (v. t.) To make (a sound) with a tabor.

Taborer (n.) One who plays on the tabor.

Taboret (n.) A small tabor.

Taborine (n.) A small, shallow drum; a tabor.

Taborite (n.) One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.

Tabour (n. & v.) See Tabor.

Tabouret (n.) Same as Taboret.

Tabouret (n.) A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; -- so called from its resemblance to a drum.

Tabouret (n.) An embroidery frame.

Tabrere (n.) A taborer.

Tabret (n.) A taboret.

Tabu (n. & v.) See Taboo.

Tabulae (pl. ) of Tabula

Tabula (n.) A table; a tablet.

Tabula (n.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.

Tabular (a.) Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word).

Tabular (a.) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.

Tabular (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.

Tabular (a.) Set in squares.

Tabular (a.) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.

Tabular (a.) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension.

Tabularization (n.) The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.

Tabularized (imp. & p. p.) of Tabularize

Tabularizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tabularize

Tabularize (v. t.) To tabulate.

Tabulata (n. pl.) An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.

Tabulated (imp. & p. p.) of Tabulate

Tabulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tabulate

Tabulate (v. t.) To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.

Tabulate (v. t.) To shape with a flat surface.

Tabulation (n.) The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.

Tac (n.) A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records.

Tacamahac (n.) Alt. of Tacamahaca

Tacamahaca (n.) A bitter balsamic resin obtained from tropical American trees of the genus Elaphrium (E. tomentosum and E. Tacamahaca), and also from East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum; also, the resinous exhudation of the balsam poplar.

Tacamahaca (n.) Any tree yielding tacamahac resin, especially, in North America, the balsam poplar, or balm of Gilead (Populus balsamifera).

Tacaud (n.) The bib, or whiting pout.

Tace (n.) The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6), under Cross, n.

Tace (n.) See Tasse.

Tacet (v.impers.) It is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.

Tache (n.) Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.

Tache (n.) A spot, stain, or blemish.

Tachhydrite (n.) A hydrous chloride of calcium and magnesium occurring in yellowish masses which rapidly deliquesce upon exposure. It is found in the salt mines at Stassfurt.

Tachinae (pl. ) of Tachina

Tachina (n.) Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied genera. Their larvae are external parasites of other insects.

Tachometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance.

Tachometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of running water in a river or canal, consisting of a wheel with inclined vanes, which is turned by the current. The rotations of the wheel are recorded by clockwork.

Tachometer (n.) An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum which is driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial.

Tachometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood; a haematachometer.

Tachydidaxy (n.) A short or rapid method of instructing.

Tachyglossa (n. pl.) A division of monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters of Australia and New Guinea. See Illust. under Echidna.

Tachygraphic (a.) Alt. of Tachygraphical

Tachygraphical (a.) Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.

Tachygraphy (n.) The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography.

Tachylyte (n.) A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.

Tacit (a.) Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.

Taciturn (a.) Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.

Taciturnity (n.) Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking.

Tack (n.) A stain; a tache.

Tack (n.) A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.

Tack (n.) A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.

Tack (n.) That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3.

Tack (v. t.) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.

Tack (v. t.) The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).

Tack (v. t.) The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.

Tack (v. t.) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.

Tack (v. t.) Confidence; reliance.

Tacked (imp. & p. p.) of Tack

Tacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tack

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