Taha (n.) The African rufous-necked weaver bird (Hyphantornis texor).
Tahaleb (n.) A fox (Vulpes Niloticus) of Northern Africa.
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.
Tail (n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
Tail (n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
Tail (n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
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.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
Tail (n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
Tail (n.) 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.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
Tail (n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
Tail (n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
Tail (n.) Same as Tailing, 4.
Tail (n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
Tail (n.) See Tailing, n., 5.
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.) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
Tailing (n.) Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).
Tailing (n.) Sexual intercourse.
Tailing (n.) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
Tailing (n.) 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.
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.
Tailor (n.) One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
Tailor (n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
Tailor (n.) The silversides.
Tailor (n.) The goldfish.
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.
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.
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.
Tainted (imp. & p. p.) of Taint
Tainting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Taint
Taint (v. i.) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
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.
Taint (v. t.) To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
Taint (v. t.) 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.
Taint (v. i.) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
Taint (v. i.) To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
Taint (n.) Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
Taint (n.) Infection; corruption; deprivation.
Taint (n.) A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
Taintless (a.) Free from taint or infection; pure.
Taintlessly (adv.) In a taintless manner.
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.
Tajacu (n.) Alt. of Tajassu
Tajassu (n.) The common, or collared, peccary.
Take (p. p.) Taken.
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.
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.
Take (v. t.) To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
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.
Take (v. t.) To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
Take (v. t.) To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person.
Take (v. t.) To draw; to deduce; to derive.
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.
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.