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Found: 5,689 words.
A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.
of Tableman
A table.
Tabler
2 defs
One who boards others for hire.
of Table d'hote
A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.
of Tablespoonful
Tablet
6 defs
A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.
Tabling
5 defs
A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
Taboo
2 defs
A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in ...
of Taboo
of Taboo
Tabor
4 defs
A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.
of Tabor
One who plays on the tabor.
A small tabor.
A small, shallow drum; a tabor.
of Tabor
One of certain Bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from Tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggle...
See Tabor.
Tabouret
3 defs
A seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; -- so called from its resemblance to a drum.
A taborer.
A taboret.
See Taboo.
Tabula
2 defs
A table; a tablet.
of Tabula
Tabular
6 defs
Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.
The act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.
To tabulate.
of Tabularize
of Tabularize
An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.
Tabulate
2 defs
To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.
of Tabulate
of Tabulate
The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.
A kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records.
Alt. of Tacamahaca
Tacamahaca
2 defs
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; al...
The bib, or whiting pout.
Tace
2 defs
See Tasse.
It is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.
Tache
2 defs
A spot, stain, or blemish.
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.
Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied genera. Their larvae are external parasites of other insects.
of Tachina
Tachometer
4 defs
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...
A short or rapid method of instructing.