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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Tāp'pet, n.p. 1354(Mach.) A small lever or projection intended to tap or touch lightly something else, with a view to change or regulate motion. Francis.
  2. Tappet-motionp. 1354a valve-motion worked by tappets from a reciprocating part, without an eccentric or cam.
  3. Tāp’pit-hēn, n.p. 1354A crested hen. [Scot.] 2. A drinking-cup holding three quarts (according to some authors, one quart);—so called from the knob on the lid supposed to resemble a crested hen. [Scot.] W. Scott. 3. A…
  4. Tāp'-rōōm, n.p. 1354A room where liquors are kept on tap; a bar-room. The embassador was put one night into a miserable tap-room, full of soldiers smoking. Macaulay.
  5. Tāp'-rōōt, n.p. 1354(Bot.) The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.
  6. Tāp’ster, n.p. 1354One whose business is to draw ale or other liquor.
  7. Tā'qua-nūt, n.p. 1354(Bot.) The nut of the tree Phytelephas macrocarpa, from which vegetable ivory is obtained. Baird.
  8. Tār, n.p. 1354A thick, impure, resinous substance, of a dark brown or black color, obtained from pine and fir-trees, by burning the wood with a close, smothering heat. 2. A sailor;—so called from his tarred…
  9. Tār, v. t.p. 1354To smear with tar; as, to tar ropes. 2. To stimulate; to provoke. [Obs.] Shak.
  10. Tār'a-nīs, n.p. 1354A Celtic divinity, regarded as the evil principle, but confounded by the Romans with Jupiter. Brande.
  11. Tār'an-tē'lā, n.p. 1354A peculiar Italian dance, named after the spider called tarantula.
  12. Tār'ant-īsm, n.p. 1354(Med.) A fabulous disease supposed to be produced by the bite of a certain spider, the Lycosa Tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protracted dancing to appropriate music.
  13. Ta-răn′tu-lă, n.p. 1354(Zoöl.) A species of spider; the Lycosa tarantula. Its bite sometimes produces a trifling effect, about equal to the sting of a wasp, and is popularly supposed to be cured by music.
  14. Ta-răn′tu-lā′ted, a.p. 1354Bitten by a tarantula; affected with tarantism.
  15. Tar-dā'tion, n.p. 1354The act of retarding or delaying; retardation. [Obs.]
  16. Tär'di-grā'dă, n. pl.p. 1354(Zoöl.) (a.) A family of edentate mammals, remarkable for the slowness of their motions; the sloths. (b.) A family of minute animals of the class Arachnidae; the water-bears. Baird.
  17. Tär'di-grāde, n.p. 1354(Zoöl.) One of the Tardigrada; as, (a.) A sloth, or animal of the sloth tribe. (b.) One of a family of minute arachnidans; — called also water-bear.
  18. Tär'di-grāde or Tär'di-grā'dous, a.p. 1354Moving or stepping slowly; slow-paced. Browne.
  19. Tăr'di-ly, adv.p. 1354In a tardy manner; slowly.
  20. Tär'di-ness, n.p. 1354The quality of being tardy; slowness; unwillingness; lateness.
  21. Tār'di-tā'tion, n.p. 1354Slowness; tardity. [Obs.] “To instruct them to avoid all snares of tarditation in the Lord's affairs.” Herrick.
  22. Tär'di-ty, n.p. 1354Slowness; tardiness. [Obs.]
  23. Tār'do, a.p. 1354(Mus.) Slow;— a direction to perform a passage slowly.
  24. Tār'dy, a.p. 1354Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow. “And check the tardy flight of time.” Sandys. “Tardy to vengeance.” Prior. 2. Not being in season; late; dilatory. “The tardy plants in our cold orchards…
  25. Tär'dy, v. i.p. 1354To make tardy; to delay; to tarry. [Obs.] Shak.
  26. Tāre, n.p. 1354A weed that grows among wheat and other grain;—alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel. Locke. Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. Matt. xiii. 36. The…
  27. Târe, n.p. 1354(Com.) Deficiency in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or other thing containing the commodity, and which is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement…
  28. Tāre, v. t.p. 1354To ascertain or mark the amount of tare of.
  29. Târe, imp.p. 1354of tear, for tore. [Obs.] See TEAR.
  30. Tăr'ent-ism, n.p. 1354The same as TARANTISM, q. v.
  31. Ta-rĕn'tu-lȧ, n.p. 1354The same as TARANTULA, q. v.
  32. Tärġe, n.p. 1354A target. [Obs. or poet.] Spenser.
  33. Tär'ḡet, n.p. 1354A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war. 2. A mark for marksmen to fire at in their practice.
  34. Tār'get-ed, a.p. 1354Furnished or armed with a target.
  35. Tär'get-eer' or Tär'get-iēr', n.p. 1354One armed with a target or shield. Chapman.
  36. Tär'gum, n.p. 1354A translation or paraphrase of the sacred Scriptures in the Chaldee language or dialect.
  37. Tär'gum-ist, n.p. 1354The writer of a Targum.
  38. Tăr'iff, n.p. 1354(Com.) (a.) Properly, a list or table of goods with the duties or customs to be paid for the same, either on importation or exportation, whether such duties are imposed by the government of a…
  39. Tăr'iff, v. t.p. 1354To make a list of duties on, as goods.
  40. Tăr'in, n.p. 1354(Ornith.) The siskin. See SISKIN.
  41. Tär'la-tan, n.p. 1354A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for ladies’ dresses, and the like.
  42. Tärn, n.p. 1354A small lake among the mountains, fed by little streams from the sides of the hills around it. A lofty precipice in front, A silent tarn below. Wordsworth. 2. A bog; a marsh; a fen.
  43. Tär'nish, v. t.p. 1354To soil by an alteration induced by the air, or by dust, and the like; to diminish or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the brightness or beauty…
  44. Tär'nish, v. i.p. 1354To lose luster; to become dull; as, polished substances or gilding will tarnish in the course of time.
  45. Tär'nish, n.p. 1354The state of being soiled or tarnished; soil; blemish.
  46. Tär'nish-er, n.p. 1354One who, or that which, tarnishes.
  47. Tär'nish-ing, n.p. 1354A process of giving gold or silver a pale or dim cast, without either polishing or burnishing it. Simmonds.
  48. Tā'ro, n.p. 1354(Bot.) A plant of the Arum family, the Colocasia macrorhiza, having leaves like a water lily, and large, thick, oblong roots, which, when baked, are used as food in the tropics. Loudon.
  49. Tar-pau'lin, n.p. 1354A piece of canvas covered with tar, or a composition, to render it water-proof, used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats, and the like. 2. A hat covered with painted or tarred cloth…
  50. Tăr'quin-ish, a.p. 1354Like Tarquin, a king of Rome; proud; haughty.
  51. Tăr'raçe, n.p. 1354The same as TRASS, q. v.
  52. Tăr'ra-gŏn, n.p. 1354(Bot.) A plant of the genus Artemisia (A. dracunculus), celebrated for perfuming vinegar in France.
  53. Tăr'ras, n.p. 1354See TRASS.
  54. Tăr'ras, n.p. 1354A terrace. See TERRACE. [Obs.]
  55. Tärre, v. t.p. 1354To stimulate or set on. [Obs.] Shak.
  56. Tăr'ri-ançe, n.p. 1354The act of tarrying; delay; lateness. And after two days' tarriance there, returned. Tennyson.
  57. Tăr'ri-er, n.p. 1354One who tarries or delays.
  58. Tăr'ri-er, n.p. 1354A terrier. See TERRIER.
  59. Tăr'rock, n.p. 1354(Ornith.) A sea-fowl of the gull kind; the young of the kittiwake gull (Larus rissa).
  60. Tăr'ry, v. i.p. 1354To stay behind; to loiter; to remain in arrear; to wait. Tarry ye here for us until we come again unto you. Ex. xxiv. 14. 2. To delay; to put off going or coming; to defer. Come down to me, tarry…