Tableman Ta"ble·man noun ;
plural Tablemen A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table , noun , 10. [ R.]
Bacon.
Tablement Ta"ble·ment noun (Architecture) A table. [ Obsolete]
Tablements and chapters of pillars.
Holland.
Tabler Ta"bler noun 1. One who boards. [ Obsolete]
2. One who boards others for hire. [ Obsolete]
B. Jonson.
Tablespoon Ta"ble·spoon` noun A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon , dessert spoon , etc.
Tablespoonful Ta"ble·spoon`ful noun ;
plural Tablespoonfuls 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 Ta"blet noun [ French
tablette , dim. of
table . See
Table .]
1. A small table or flat surface. 2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture. 3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [ Obsolete]
4. plural A kind of pocket memorandum book. 5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague. 6. (Pharm.) 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 Ta"ble·ware` noun Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.
Tabling Ta"bling noun 1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order. 2. (Carp.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding. 3. (Nautical) A broad hem on the edge of a sail. Totten. 4. Board; support. [ Obsolete]
Trence in English (1614). 5. Act of playing at tables. See Table , noun , 10. [ Obsolete]
Tabling house ,
a gambling house. [ Obsolete]
Northbrooke.
Tabloid Tab"loid noun [ A table-mark.]
A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.
Tabloid Tab"loid adjective Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.
Taboo Ta·boo" noun 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. [ Written also
tabu .]
Taboo Ta·boo" transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Tabooed ;
present participle & verbal noun Tabooing .]
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. [ Written also
tabu .]
Taboo Ta·boo" adjective [ Written also
tapu .] [ Polynesian
tabu ,
tapu , sacred, under restriction, a prohibition.]
Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo .
Tabor Ta"bor noun [ Old French
tabor ,
tabour , French
tambour ; confer Pr.
tabor ,
tanbor , Spanish & Portuguese
tambor ,
atambor , Italian
tamburo ; all from Arabic & Persian
tamb...r a kind of lute, or giutar, or Persian
tabīr a drum. Confer
Tabouret ,
Tambour .]
(Mus.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person. [ Written also
tabour , and
taber .]
Tabor Ta"bor intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Tabored ;
present participle & verbal noun Taboring .] [ Confer Old French
taborer .] [ Written also
tabour .]
1. To play on a tabor, or little drum. 2. To strike lightly and frequently.
Tabor Ta"bor transitive verb To make (a sound) with a tabor.
Taborer Ta"bor·er noun One who plays on the tabor. Shak.
Taboret Tab"o·ret noun [ Dim. of
tabor . Confer
Tabret .]
(Mus.) A small tabor. [ Written also
tabouret .]
Taborine Tab"o·rine noun [ Old French
tabourin , French
tambourin . See
Tabor , and confer
Tambourine .]
(Mus.) A small, shallow drum; a tabor.
Taborite Ta"bor·ite noun (Eccl. Hist.) 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 Ta"bour noun & v. See Tabor .
Tabouret Tab"ou·ret noun [ French, dim. of Old French
tabor ,
tabour , drum. See
Tabor .]
1. Same as Taboret . 2. A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; -- so called from its resemblance to a drum. 3. An embroidery frame. Knight. Right of the tabouret ,
the privilege of sitting on a tabouret in the presence of the severeign, formerly granted to certain ladies of high rank at the French court.
Tabrere Tab"rere noun A taborer. [ Obsolete]
Spenser.
Tabret Tab"ret noun A taboret. Young.
Tabu Ta·bu" noun & v. See Taboo .
Tabula Tab"u·la noun ;
plural Tabulæ . [ Latin ]
1. A table; a tablet. 2. (Zoology) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. Tabula rasa [ Latin ],
a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas .
Tabular Tab"u·lar adjective [ Latin
tabularis , from
tabula a board, table. See
Table .]
Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word). Specifically: --
(a) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock. (b) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated.
Woodward. (c) Set in squares. [ R.]
(d) Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics. (e) Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension. Tabular difference (Math.) ,
the difference between two consecutive numbers in a table, sometimes printed in its proper place in the table. --
Tabular spar (Min.) ,
wollastonite.
Tabularization Tab`u·lar·i·za"tion noun The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.
Tabularize Tab"u·lar·ize transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Tabularized ;
present participle & verbal noun Tabularizing .]
To tabulate.
Tabulata Tab`u·la"ta noun plural [ New Latin , from Latin
tabulatus floored.]
(Zoology) An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.
Tabulate Tab"u·late transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Tabulated ;
present participle & verbal noun Tabulating .] [ Latin
tabula a table. See
Tabular .]
1. To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses. A philosophy is not worth the having, unless its results may be tabulated , and put in figures.
I. Taylor. 2. To shape with a flat surface.
Tabulation Tab`u·la"tion noun The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.
Tac Tac noun [ Confer
Tack ,
noun , 4.]
(O. Eng. Law) A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records. Cowell. Burrill.
Tac-au-tac Tac`-au-tac" noun [ French, from
riposter du tac au tac to parry (where
tac imitates the sound made by the steel).]
(Fencing) The parry which is connected with a riposte; also, a series of quick attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point.
Tacamahac, Tacamahaca Tac"a·ma·hac`, Tac`a·ma·ha"ca noun 1. 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. 2. (Botany) Any tree yielding tacamahac resin, especially, in North America, the balsam poplar, or balm of Gilead ( Populus balsamifera ).
Tacaud Ta·caud" noun [ Confer French
tacaud . See
Tomcod .]
(Zoology) The bib, or whiting pout. [ Prov. Eng.]
Tace Tace noun The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6), under Cross , noun Mollett.
Tace Tace noun See Tasse . Fairholt.
Tacet Ta"cet v. impers. [ Latin , it is silent, 3d pers.pr. of
tacere to be silent.]
(Mus.) It is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.
Tache Tache noun [ See
Tack a kind of nail.]
Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button. [ Obsolete]
Ex. xxvi. 6.
Tache Tache noun [ French
tache spot. See
Techy .]
A spot, stain, or blemish. [ Obsolete]
Warner.
Tachhydrite Tach·hy"drite noun [ Greek
tachy`s quick +
"y`dwr water. So named from its ready deliquescence.]
(Min.) 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.
Tachina Tach"i·na noun ;
plural Tachinæ . [ New Latin , from Greek ..., for ... swift.]
(Zoology) Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied genera. Their larvæ are external parasites of other insects.
Tachistoscope Ta·chis"to·scope noun [ Greek ..., superl. of ... swift +
-scope .]
(Physiol.) An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression.
Tachograph Tach"o·graph noun [ Greek ... speed +
-graph .]
A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.
Tachometer Ta·chom"e·ter noun [ Greek ... swiftness, speed (fr.
tachy`s quick) +
-meter : confer French
tachomètre .]
An instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance. Specifically: --
(a) 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. (b) 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. (c) (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood; a hæmatachometer.
Tachometry Ta·chom"e·try noun Measurement by a tachometer; the science or use of tachometers.
Tachydidaxy Tach"y·di·dax`y noun [ Greek
tachy`s quick + ... teaching.]
A short or rapid method of instructing. [ R.]
Tachyglossa Tach`y·glos"sa noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek
tachy`s quick + ... tongue.]
(Zoology) A division of monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters of Australia and New Guinea. See Illust. under Echidna .
Tachygraph Tach"y·graph noun An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript.
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