TALISHE. Fabulous. This word occurs in Palsgrave's Acolastus, 4to. 1540.

TALL. (1) Explained by Junius, "obedient, obsequious, every way flexible." See the Glossary to Urry's Chaucer, p. 81.

(2) Valiant; bold; fine; great. This is a very common word in old plays.

They leaping overboord amidst the billowes,\\
We pluck'd her up (unsunk) like stout tall fellows.

Taylor's Workes, 1630, ii. 23.

TALL-BOYS. High cups or glasses. Grose says, bottles or two-quart pots.

TALLE. To mock. (A.-S.)

Unarmed were the paiens alle,\\
Our folk hem gun to talle.

Arthur and Merlin, p. 257.

TALLEE. "When they hale aft the sheate of maine or fore-sailes, they say, Tallee aft the sheate." MS. Harl. 6268. Taylia, Reliq. Antiq. i. 2.

TALLICHE. The same as Tally (6).

TALLIT. A hayloft. West. "When the prisoner came in he was watcherd, which shewed he had not been all night in the tallit."

TALL-MEN. Dice so loaded as to come up with high numbers. A cant term.

TALLOW-CAKE. A cake of tallow; tallow made up in the form of a cake. Var. dial.

TALLOW-CATCH. Same as Keech (2).

TALLOW-CRAPS. See Craps (1).

TALLOW-HUED. Pale as tallow. North. Burton uses the phrase tallow-faced.

TALLOW-LAFE. Conquarium, MS. Dict. c. 1500.

TALL-WOOD. "Tall woode, paste wodde to make byllettes of, taillee," Palsgrave. The term is still used in Kent.

TALLY. (1) A term in playing ball, when the number of aces on both sides is equal. North.

(2) To reckon. See Becon's Works, p. 134.

(3) In counting any articles which are sold by the hundred, one is thrown out after each hundred; that is called the tally. The number of tallies of course shows the number of hundreds. They are given in to the purchaser. Hunter.

(4) A kind of small ship.

(5) A company or division of voters at an election. Somerset.

(6) Stoutly; boldly.

(7) Seemly; decently; elegantly.

TALME. To become dumb?

Hur fadur nere-hande can talme,\\
Soche a sweme hys harte can swalme.

Le Bone Florence of Rome, 769.

I donke upon David, til mi tonge talmes;\\
I ne rendrede nowt, sithen men beren palmes: \\
Is it also milke sorwe, in song so is in salmes?

Reliq. Antiq. i. 292.

TALSHIDES. "One pound of white lights, ten talshides, eight faggots," Ord. and Reg. p. 162.

TALT. Pitched.

There was talt many pavyloun\\
Of riche sendel and siclatoun.

Kyng Alisaunder, 5234.

TALVACE. A kind of buckler or shield, bent on each side, and rising in the middle.

Aither brought unto the place\\
A mikel round talvace.

Ywaine and Gawin, 3158.

And after mete thar it was,\\
The children pleide at the talvas.

Beves of Hamtoun, p. 145.

TALWHE. Tallow. Nominale MS.

TAM. The abbr. of pr. n. Thomasine.

TAMARA. A compound of spices.

TAME. (1) To broach or taste liquor. "To tame, tap, dolium relinere," Coles.

Nowe to weete our mouthes tyme were,\\
This flagette will I tame, yf thou reede us.

Chester Plays, i. 124.

(2) To cut; to divide. West.

TAME-GOOSE. A foolish fellow. "I say cast away; yea, utterly cast away upon a noddy, a ninny-hammer, a tame-goose," The Case is Altered, 4to. Lond. 1605.

TAMER. A team of horses. Norf.

TAMINE. A sort of woollen cloth.

TAMLIN. A miner's tool. Cornw.

TAMMY. Glutinous, or sizy. Cumb.

TAMPIN. A long pellet.

Make two stiffe long rowles or tampins of linnen clothes, or such like stuffe, sharpe pointed like sugar-loves, which tampins are called of the physicians in Latin pessis, and being anointed with the ointment aforesaid, thrust them up into the horses nostrils, and let them abide therein a pretty while; then pull them out, and you shall see such abundance of matter come forth at his nose as is marvellous to behold.

Topsell's Four-Footed Beasts, 1607, p. 372.

TAMPING-IRON. A tool used for beating down the earthy substance in the charge used for blasting. Cornw.

TAMPION. A piece of wood fitted to the mouth of a large gun. "Tampyon for a gon, tampon," Palsgrave, subst. f. 69.

Unadvisedly gave fire to a piece charged with a pellet instead of a tampion, the which lighting on the palace wall, ranne through one of the privie lodgings, and did no further harme.

Lambarde's Perambulation, 1596, p. 433.

TAN. (1) Taken. (A.-S.)

When pese was cryed and day tan,\\
Kyng Ardus was a youfulle man.

MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 78.

Baptem the first is holden than,\\
That falleth at the fonte be tan.

MS. Sloane, 1785, f. 34.

(2) To entice. (A.-S.)

The fende of helle agayn skylle\\
Put in hir a harde wille\\
Hur fadur luf to wynne;\\
And also tempted was that man\\
His owne doughter for to tan,\\
To do a dedly synne.

MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48, f. 43.

(3) Then. Var. dial.

(4) To dun.

(5) To beat. Var. dial.

(6) A twig, or small switch. Lanc.

TANACLES. A kind of pincers, used formerly for torturing. "To pinch or tanacle with tongs, with pincers or tanacles," Florio, p. 552, ed. 1611.