Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 6

Tallies (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.

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.

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.

Tallied (imp. & p. p.) of Tally

Tallying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tally

Tally (n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit.

Tally (n.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.

Tally (v. i.) To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.

Tally (v. i.) To make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.

Tally (a.) Stoutly; with spirit.

Tallyho (interj. & n.) The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds.

Tallyho (interj. & n.) A tallyho coach.

Tallymen (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 (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.) The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.

Talmudic (a.) Alt. of Talmudical

Talmudical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as, Talmudic Greek; Talmudical phrases.

Talmudist (n.) 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.

Talon (n.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.

Talon (n.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.

Talon (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.

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.

Talookdar (n.) Alt. of Talukdar

Talukdar (n.) A proprietor of a talook.

Talpa (n.) A genus of small insectivores including the common European mole.

Tali (pl. ) of Talus

Talus (n.) The astragalus.

Talus (n.) A variety of clubfoot (Talipes calcaneus). See the Note under Talipes.

Talus (n.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a work.

Talus (n.) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.

Tamability (n.) The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.

Tamable (a.) Capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness.

Tamandu (n.) A small ant-eater (Tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of South America.

Tamanoir (n.) The ant-bear.

Tamarack (n.) The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and Larch.

Tamarack (n.) The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.

Tamaric (n.) A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath.

Tamarin (n.) Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus.

Tamarind (n.) 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.) One of the preserved seed pods of the tamarind, which contain an acid pulp, and are used medicinally and for preparing a pleasant drink.

Tamarisk (n.) 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 (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna.

Tambac (n.) See Tombac.

Tambour (n.) 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.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d).

Tambour (n.) 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.) 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.

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.

Tambourin (n.) 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.

Tambreet (n.) The duck mole.

Tamburin (n.) See Tambourine.

Tame (v. t.) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

Tame (superl.) Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.

Tame (superl.) Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

Tame (superl.) Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.

Tamed (imp. & p. p.) of Tame

Taming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tame

Tame (a.) To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.

Tame (a.) To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.

Tameable (a.) Tamable.

Tameless (a.) Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable.

Tamely (adv.) In a tame manner.

Tameness (n.) The quality or state of being tame.

Tamer (n.) One who tames or subdues.

Tamias (n.) A genus of ground squirrels, including the chipmunk.

Tamil (a.) Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.

Tamil (n.) 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.

Tamilian (a. & n.) Tamil.

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.

Tamkin (n.) A tampion.

Tammies (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.

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.

Tampan (n.) A venomous South African tick.

Tampeon (n.) See Tampion.

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.

Tampered (imp. & p. p.) of Tamper

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