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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Tāme'ness, n. p. 1352The quality of being tame or gentle; a state of domestication; unresisting submission; meanness in bearing insults or injuries; want of spirit.Tām'er, n. p. 1352One who tames or subdues; one who reclaims from wildness.Tăm'ine or Tăm'i-ny, n. p. 1352A kind of woolen cloth highly glazed. 2. A strainer or bolter of the above material, and also sometimes of hair-cloth.Tām'is, n. p. 1352The same as TAMINY, q. v.Tā'mis-bird, n. p. 1352(Ornith.) A Guinea-fowl.Tām'kin, n. p. 1352A stopper. See TAMPION.Tām'my, n. p. 1352The same as TAMINY, q. v.Tāmp, v. t. p. 1352To fill up, as a hole bored in a rock for blasting, especially by driving in something with frequent strokes. 2. Hence, to drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp mud so as to make a…Tăm'p'er, n. p. 1352One who tamps, or prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed. 2. An instrument used in tamping; a tamping-iron.Tăm'per, v. i. p. 1352To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. 'Tis dangerous tampering with a muse. Roscommon. 2. To deal; to practice secretly; to use bribery. Others tampered For…Tăm'p'ing, n. p. 1352The act of filling up a hole in a rock for the purpose of blasting. 2. The material used in tamping.Tăm'p'ing-ī/ron, n. p. 1352An iron rod for beating down the earthy substance in the charge used for blasting.Tām'pi-on, n. p. 1352The stopper of a cannon or other piece of ordnance, consisting of a cylinder of wood. 2. A plug used to stop closely the upper end of an organ-pipe.Tăm'pōe, n. p. 1352A fruit of the East Indies, somewhat resembling an apple.Tăm'pōon, n. p. 1352The stopper of a barrel; a bung.Tām'pon, n. p. 1352(Surg.) A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage.Tăm'-tăm, n. p. 1352A drum used by the Hindoos, made of an alloy of copper and tin, and very sonorous.Tān, v. t. p. 1352To convert into leather, as the skins of animals, by steeping them in an infusion of oak or some other bark, by which they are impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid, which exists in several species…Tăn, v. i. p. 1352To become tanned; as, this leather tans quickly.Tān, n. p. 1352The 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. 2. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan. 3. A…Tān'a-cē'tum, n. p. 1352(Bot.) A genus of strong-scented, bitter plants; tansy.Tān'a-ger, n. p. 1352(Ornith.) An American bird allied to the finches and sparrows.Tăn'-bĕd, n. p. 1352(Gardening.) A bed made of tan; a bark bed.Tăn'dem, adv. p. 1352One after another;—said of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of side by side. He drove tandem, kept hunters. Thackeray.Tăng, n. p. 1352A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask. 2. Relish; taste. “A cant of philosophism, and a tang of party…Tăng, v. t. p. 1352To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring. To tang bees, to cause a swarm of bees to settle, by making a loud, ringing noise.Täng, v. i. p. 1352To make a ringing sound; to ring. “The process in question, known in country phrase as “tanging,” is founded on the belief that the bees will not settle unless under the influence of this peculiar…Tăng, n. p. 1352A kind of sea-weed; tangle.Tăng, n. p. 1352A Siamese dry measure containing fifteen quarts. Simmonds.Tăn'gen-cy, n. p. 1352The state or quality of being tangent; a contact or touching.Tăn'gent, n. p. 1352(Geom.) A right line which touches a curve, but which, when produced, does not cut it;—applied also to a curve, or to a plane or curved surface, which touches another at a single point. Artificial or…Tăn'gent, a. p. 1352Touching. 2. (Geom.) Touching at a single point; as, a tangent line; curves tangent to each other. Tangent plane, a plane which touches a surface in a single point or straight line without cutting it.Tan-gĕn′tial, a. p. 1352Of, or pertaining to, a tangent; in the direction of a tangent. Tangential force (Mech.), a force which acts so as to give a tendency to a revolving body to fly off in a tangent to its orbit.Tan-gĕn’tial-ly, adv. p. 1352In the direction of a tangent.Täng'-fish, n. p. 1352The seal; —so called in Shetland. Simmonds.Tan-ghīn'i-ā, n. p. 1352(Bot.) A genus of plants found in Madagascar, having a fruit of which the kernel is a very powerful poison.Tăn’/gĭ-bĭl’/i-ty, n. p. 1352The quality of being tangible, or perceptible to the touch or sense of feeling.Tăn'gi-ble, a. p. 1352Perceptible by the touch; tactile; palpable. 2. Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind, or made the ground of action. “Direct and tangible benefit to ourselves and…Tăn'gi-ble-ness, n. p. 1353The state or quality of being tangible; tangibility.Tān'gi-bly, adv. p. 1353In a tangible manner; perceptibly to the touch.Tăn'gle, v. t. p. 1353To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle. 2. To insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in the folds of…Tăn'gle, v. i. p. 1353To be entangled or united confusedly.Tăn'gle, n. p. 1353A knot of threads, or other things, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; as, hair or yarn in tangles. 2. [Ger. & Dan. tang, Sw. tång.] (Bot.) An edible sea-weed of…Tăn'gling-ly, adv. p. 1353In a tangling manner.Tān'gly, a. p. 1353In a tangle; intertwined; intricate. 2. Covered with the sea-weed called tangle. Prone, helpless, on the tangly beach he lay. Falconer.Tăn'grăm, n. p. 1353A 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…Tăn'i-er, n. p. 1353(Bot.) A plant of the genus Caladium (C. sagittifolium). [Written also tannier.]Tān'ist, n. p. 1353A lord, or the proprietor of a tract of land, in Ireland; a governor or captain. This office or rank was elective, and often obtained by purchase or bribery. This family [the O'Hanlons] were tanists…Tān'ist-ry, n. p. 1353A tenure of lands, in Ireland, by which the proprietor had only a life estate; and to this he was admitted by election. ☞ The primitive intention seems to have been that the inheritance should…Tănk, n. p. 1353A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.Tānk, n. p. 1353A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls. Simmonds.Tān'kā, n. p. 1353A kind of boat at Canton about 25 feet long, rowed by women. [Written also tanka.] S. W. Williams.Tănk'ard, n. p. 1353A large vessel for liquors, or a drinking vessel, with a cover. Marius was the first who drank out of a silver tankard, after the manner of Bacchus. Arbuthnot.Tānk'ard, a. p. 1353Of, or pertaining to, a tankard or tankards; hence, convivial; festive; jovial.Tănk'ard-tūr'nip, n. p. 1353A sort of turnip that stands high above the ground.Tānk'-ĕn'ǵine, n. p. 1353A locomotive which carries the water and fuel it requires, thus dispensing with a tender.Tāp'kī-ā, n. p. 1353The same as TANKA, q. v.Tānk'-īron, n. p. 1353Plate-iron thinner than boiler-plate, and thicker than sheet-iron or stove-pipe iron.Tānk'ling, n. p. 1353A ringing noise; a tinkling. [Obs.]Tān'ling, n. p. 1353One tanned or scorched by the heat of the sun. [R.] “Hot summer’s tanlings.” Shak.