AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
tally: 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.-hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate.-one thing made to suit another; a match; a mate.-a notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game.-a tally shop. see tally shop, below.-to score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit.-to check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.-to be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to match.-to make a tally; to score; as, to tally in a game.-stoutly; with spirit.
tallyho: the huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds.-a tallyho coach.
tallyman: one who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.-one who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade.
talma: a kind of large cape, or short, full cloak, forming part of the dress of ladies.-a similar garment worn formerly by gentlemen.
talmud: the body of the jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the pentateuch.
talmudical: of or pertaining to the talmud; contained in the talmud; as, talmudic greek; talmudical phrases.
talmudist: one versed in the talmud; one who adheres to the teachings of the talmud.
talon: the claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey.-one of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.-a kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.-the shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
taluk: 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.
talus: the astragalus.-a variety of clubfoot (talipes calcaneus). see the note under talipes.-a slope; the inclination of the face of a work.-a sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice.
tam-tam: a kind of drum used in the east indies and other oriental countries; -- called also tom-tom.-a gong. see gong, n., 1.
tamable: capable of being tamed, subdued, or reclaimed from wildness or savage ferociousness.
tamandu: a small ant-eater (tamandua tetradactyla) native of the tropical parts of south america.
tamarack: the american larch; also, the larch of oregon and british columbia (larix occidentalis). see hackmatack, and larch.-the black pine (pinus murrayana) of alaska, california, etc. it is a small tree with fine-grained wood.
tamaric: a shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath.
tamarin: any one of several species of small squirrel-like south american monkeys of the genus midas, especially m. ursulus.
tamarind: 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.-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: 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.
tambour: a kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.-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.-same as drum, n., 2(d).-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.-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.-to embroider on a tambour.
tambourin: a tambourine.-an old provencal dance of a lively character, common on the stage.
tambourine: a small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.
tame: to broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.-reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.-crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.-deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.-to reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.-to subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
tamil: of or pertaining to the tamils, or to their language.-one of a dravidian race of men native of northern ceylon and southern india.-the tamil language, the most important of the dravidian languages. see dravidian, a.
tamis: a sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth.-the cloth itself; tammy.
tammuz: a deity among the ancient syrians, in honor of whom the hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. this deity has been conjectured to be the same with the phoenician adon, or adonis.-the fourth month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of july.
tammy: a kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.-a sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis.
tamp: 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.-to drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.
tamper: one who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.-an instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.-to meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.-to meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.-to deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.
tamping: of tamp-the act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.-the material used in tamping. see tamp, v. t., 1.
tampion: a wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.-a plug for upper end of an organ pipe.
tampoe: the edible fruit of an east indian tree (baccaurea malayana) of the spurge family. it somewhat resembles an apple.
tampon: a plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine.-to plug with a tampon.
tan: see picul.-the bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. called also tan bark.-a yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.-a brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.-of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.-to convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.-to make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.-to get or become tanned.
tanager: any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to tanagra, piranga, and allied genera. the scarlet tanager (piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird (piranga rubra) are common species of the united states.
tanate: an asiatic wild dog (canis procyonoides), native of japan and adjacent countries. it has a short, bushy tail. called also raccoon dog.
tandem: one after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.-a team of horses harnessed one before the other.
tang: a coarse blackish seaweed (fuscus nodosus).-a strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.-fig.: a sharp, specific flavor or tinge.  cf. tang a twang.-a projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position.-the part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.-the projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.-the part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.-the tongue of a buckle.-a sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.-to cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.-to make a ringing sound; to ring.
tangent: a tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. see trigonometrical function, under function.-touching; touching at a single point-meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces.
tangerine: a kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. it is said to have been produced in america from the mandarin.
tangible: perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.-capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident.
tangle: to unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel.-to involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies.-to be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle.-any large blackish seaweed, especially the laminaria saccharina. see kelp.-a knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. used also figuratively.-an instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea.
tangram: a chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. it is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction.
tanier: an aroid plant (caladium sagittaefolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the west indies.
tanist: in ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry.
tanistry: in ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election.
tanite: a firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.
tank: a small indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.-a large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.
tanka: a kind of boat used in canton. it is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. called also tankia.
tanner: one whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
tannery: a place where the work of tanning is carried on.-the art or process of tanning.
tannic: of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid.
tanning: of tan-the art or process of converting skins into leather. see tan, v. t., 1.
tansy: any plant of the composite genus tanacetum. the common tansy (t. vulgare) has finely divided leaves, a strong aromatic odor, and a very bitter taste. it is used for medicinal and culinary purposes.-a dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked with butter in a shallow dish.
tantalic: of or pertaining to tantalum; derived from, or containing, tantalum; specifically, designating any one of a series of acids analogous to nitric acid and the polyacid compounds of phosphorus.
tantalism: a punishment like that of tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable; tantalization.
tantalite: a heavy mineral of an iron-black color and submetallic luster. it is essentially a tantalate of iron.
tantalize: to tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of reach; to tease; to torment.
tantalum: a rare nonmetallic element found in certain minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing. symbol ta. atomic weight 182.0. formerly called also tantalium.
tantalus: a phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them.-a genus of wading birds comprising the wood ibises.
tantamount: equivalent in value, signification, or effect.-to be tantamount or equivalent; to amount.
tantivy: swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy.-a rapid, violent gallop; an impetuous rush.-to go away in haste.
tanyard: an inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on; a tannery.
tanystomata: a division of dipterous insects in which the proboscis is large and contains lancelike mandibles and maxillae. the horseflies and robber flies are examples.
tap: to strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.-to put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.-a gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.-a piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.-a signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.-to strike a gentle blow.-a hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.-a plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.-liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.-a place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.-a tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.-to pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.-hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.-to draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.-to form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.
tapa: a kind of cloth prepared by the polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.
tapayaxin: a mexican spinous lizard (phrynosoma orbiculare) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; -- called also horned toad.
tape: a narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.-a tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.
tapeline: a painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.
taper: a small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.-a tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.-regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.-to become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.-to make or cause to taper.
tapered: of taper-lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.
tapestry: a fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. the term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery.-to adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.
tapetum: an area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.
tapeworm: any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to taenia and many allied genera. the body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. the head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. the larvae (see cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. see illustration in appendix.
tapioca: a coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. it is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. see cassava.
tapir: any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to tapirus, elasmognathus, and allied genera. they have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. they have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.
tapis: tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table.-to cover or work with figures like tapestry.
tapish: to lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self.
tapoa tafa: a small carnivorous marsupial (phascogale penicillata) having long, soft fur, and a very long tail with a tuft of long hairs at the end; -- called also brush-tailed phascogale.
tappen: an obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.
tapper: the lesser spotted woodpecker (dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.
tappet: a lever or projection moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, with a view to produce change or regulate motion.
tappit hen: a hen having a tuft of feathers on her head.-a measuring pot holding one quart (according to some, three quarts); -- so called from a knob on the lid, thought to resemble a crested hen.
taproot: the root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.
tar: a sailor; a seaman.-a thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it.-to smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.
taranis: a celtic divinity, regarded as the evil principle, but confounded by the romans with jupiter.
tarantass: a low four-wheeled carriage used in russia. the carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. when snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.
tarantella: a rapid and delirious sort of neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. some derive its name from taranto in apulia.-music suited to such a dance.
tarantism: a nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. it was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protracted dancing to appropriate music.
tarantula: any one of several species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the european species (tarantula apuliae). the tarantulas of texas and adjacent countries are large species of mygale.
tarboosh: a red cap worn by turks and other eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. see fez.
tardigrada: a tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. they are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. see sloth, 3.-an order of minute aquatic arachnids; -- called also bear animalcules, sloth animalcules, and water bears.
tardigrade: moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced.-of or pertaining to the tardigrada.-one of the tardigrada.
tardy: moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift.-not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.-unwary; unready.-criminal; guilty.-to make tardy.
tare: tore.-a weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern naturalists to be the lolium temulentum, or darnel.-a name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus vicia; especially, the v. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder.-deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc.-to ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).-of tear
tared: of tare-weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.
tarente: a harmless lizard of the gecko family (platydactylus mauritianicus) found in southern europe and adjacent countries, especially among old walls and ruins.
target: a kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.-a butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.-the pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.-the sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.-a conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
targum: a translation or paraphrase of some portion of the old testament scriptures in the chaldee or aramaic language or dialect.
tariff: a schedule, system, or scheme of duties imposed by the government of a country upon goods imported or exported; as, a revenue tariff; a protective tariff; clay's compromise tariff. (u. s. 1833).-the duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound.-any schedule or system of rates, changes, etc.; as, a tariff of fees, or of railroad fares.-to make a list of duties on, as goods.
taring: of tare-the common tern; -- called also tarret, and tarrock.