AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
tacamahaca: 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.-any tree yielding tacamahac resin, especially, in north america, the balsam poplar, or balm of gilead (populus balsamifera).
tace: the cross, or church, of st. antony. see illust. (6), under cross, n.-see tasse.
tacet: it is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.
tache: something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.-a spot, stain, or blemish.
tachhydrite: 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: any one of numerous species of diptera belonging to tachina and allied genera. their larvae are external parasites of other insects.
tachometer: an instrument for measuring the velocity, or indicating changes in the velocity, of a moving body or substance.-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.-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.-an instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood; a haematachometer.
tachyglossa: a division of monotremes which comprises the spiny ant-eaters of australia and new guinea. see illust. under echidna.
tachygraphical: of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.
tachygraphy: the art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography.
tachylyte: a vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.
tacit: done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.
taciturn: habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.
tack: a stain; a tache.-a peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.-a small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.-that which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. see tack, v. t., 3.-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.-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).-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.-a contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.-confidence; reliance.-to fasten or attach.-especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.-in parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to.-to change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.-to change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. see tack, v. t., 4.
tacking: of tack-a union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim.
tackle: apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block.-any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons.-the rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used.-to supply with tackle.-to fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or wagon.-to seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game.-to begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem.
tackling: of tackle-furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage, sails, etc.-instruments of action; as, fishing tackling.-the straps and fixures adjusted to an animal, by which he draws a carriage, or the like; harness.
tacksman: one who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee.
tacky: sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried.
taconic: designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the taconic mountains in western new england. they were once supposed to be older than the cambrian, but later proved to belong to the lower silurian and cambrian.
tact: the sense of touch; feeling.-the stroke in beating time.-sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
tactician: one versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.
tactics: the science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. it is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.-hence, any system or method of procedure.
tactile: of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.
tactility: the quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.
tactual: of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.
tadpole: the young aquatic larva of any amphibian. in this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.-the hooded merganser.
tael: a denomination of money, in china, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.
taenia: a genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. see tapeworm.-a band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.-the fillet, or band, at the bottom of a doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.
taeniata: a division of ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. the venus's girdle is the most familiar example.
taenidium: the chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects. see illust. of trachea.
taenioglossa: an extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. it includes a large number of families both marine and fresh-water.
taenioid: ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon.-like or pertaining to taenia.
taenioidea: the division of cestode worms which comprises the tapeworms. see tapeworm.
taeniola: one of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.
taeniosomi: an order of fishes remarkable for their long and compressed form. the ribbon fishes are examples. see ribbon fish, under ribbon.
taffety: a fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called watering. the term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times.
taffrail: the upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
taffy: a kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans.-flattery; soft phrases.
tag: any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.-a metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.-the end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.-something mean and paltry; the rabble.-a sheep of the first year.-a sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.-to fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.-to join; to fasten; to attach.-to follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. see tag, a play.-to follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.-a child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.
tag-rag: the lowest class of people; the rabble.  cf. rag, tag, and bobtail, under bobtail.
tagger: one who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another.-that which is pointed like a tag.-sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.-a device for removing taglocks from sheep.
tagliacotain: of or pertaining to tagliacozzi, a venetian surgeon; as, the tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him.
taglioni: a kind of outer coat, or overcoat; -- said to be so named after a celebrated italian family of professional dancers.
tagsore: adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also tagbelt.
tagtail: a worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.-a person who attaches himself to another against the will of the latter; a hanger-on.
taguan: a large flying squirrel (pteromys petuarista). its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.
taha: the african rufous-necked weaver bird (hyphantornis texor).
tahitian: of or pertaining to tahiti, an island in the pacific ocean.-a native inhabitant of tahiti.
tail: limitation; abridgment.-limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.-the terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.-any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.-hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.-a train or company of attendants; a retinue.-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.-the distal tendon of a muscle.-a downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. it is formed of the permanent elongated style.-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.-one of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.-a rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.-the part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.-same as tailing, 4.-the bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.-see tailing, n., 5.-to follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.-to pull or draw by the tail.-to hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.-to swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
tail-bay: 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.-the part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
tailboard: 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: having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.
tailing: the part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.-same as tail, n., 8 (a).-sexual intercourse.-the lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.-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: a tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.-any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects.-the french name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.
tailor: one whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.-the mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.-the silversides.-the goldfish.-to practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
tailoring: of tailor-the business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
tailpiece: a piece at the end; an appendage.-one of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. see illust. of header.-an ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book.-a piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
tailrace: see race, n., 6.-the channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.
tailstock: the sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. the headstock supports the live spindle.
tailzie: an entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
taint: a thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.-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.-to thrust ineffectually with a lance.-to injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.-to hit or touch lightly, in tilting.-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.-fig.: to stain; to sully; to tarnish.-to be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.-to be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.-tincture; hue; color; tinge.-infection; corruption; deprivation.-a blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
tait: 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.
take: taken.-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.-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.-to gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.-to make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.-to employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.-to form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person.-to draw; to deduce; to derive.-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.-to lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.-to carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery.-to remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.-in a somewhat passive sense, to receive; to bear; to endure; to acknowledge; to accept.-to accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.-to receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.-not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.-to bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.-to admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this i take to be man's motive; to take men for spies.-to accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape.-to take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take.-to please; to gain reception; to succeed.-to move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge.-to admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well.-that which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch.-the quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
take-up: that which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
taking: of take-apt to take; alluring; attracting.-infectious; contageous.-the act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.-agitation; excitement; distress of mind.-malign influence; infection.
taking-off: removal; murder. see to take off (c), under take, v. t.
talapoin: a small african monkey (cercopithecus, / miopithecus, talapoin) -- called also melarhine.
talaria: small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of mercury.
talc: a soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. it is hydrous silicate of magnesia. steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.
talcous: of or pertaining to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc.
tale: see tael.-that which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.-a number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated.-a count or declaration.-to tell stories.
talebearer: one who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief.
talebearing: telling tales officiously.-the act of informing officiously; communication of sectrts, scandal, etc., maliciously.
taled: a kind of quadrangular piece of cloth put on by the jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues.
talent: among the ancient greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. the attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.-among the hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. for silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93/ lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from £340 to £396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. for gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels.-inclination; will; disposition; desire.-intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the scripture parable of the talents (matt. xxv. 14-30).
tales: persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter.-the writ by which such persons are summoned.
talesman: a person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded.
taleteller: one who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.
talipot: a beautiful tropical palm tree (corypha umbraculifera), a native of ceylon and the malabar coast. it has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.
talisman: a magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.-hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases.
talismanical: of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.
talk: to utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.-to confer; to reason; to consult.-to prate; to speak impertinently.-to speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk french.-to deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.-to consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.-to cause to be or become by talking.-the act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.-report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.-subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.
talker: one who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.-a loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach.
talking: of talk-that talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.-given to talk; loquacious.
tall: high in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.-brave; bold; courageous.-fine; splendid; excellent; also, extravagant; excessive.
tallage: alt. of talliage-to lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.
talliage: a certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses.
tallow: the suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.-the fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds.-to grease or smear with tallow.-to cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep.
tallowing: of tallow-the act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow; also, the property in animals of producing tallow.