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are natives of India and the Indian Archipelago. The Sylvia cisticola, common in various parts of Italy, constructs its nest in a similar manner, and is also called the tailor-bird.

Tailoress (tā'lèr-es), n. A female who makes garments for men.

Tail-piece (tāl'pēs), n. A piece forming a tail; a piece at the end; an appendage; specifically, (a) a small cut or ornamental design placed at the end of a chapter or section in a book as an ornamental ending of a page. (b) A somewhat triangular-shaped piece of wood (generally ebony) attached to the lower end of the body of an instrument of the violin kind. The broad end is pierced with holes, in which the strings are fastened.

The stream of water

Tail-race (tál'rās), n. which runs from the mill after it has been applied to produce the motion of the wheel. Tails-common (tálz'kom-mon), n. mining, washed lead ore.

In

Tail-stock (tál'stok), n. The support, in a lathe, bearing up the tail-screw and adjustable centre, in contradistinction to the headstock, which supports the mandrel. Tail-trimmer (tål'trim-ér), n. In building, a trimmer next to the wall into which the ends of joists are fastened to avoid flues. Tail-valve (tál'valv), n. Same as Sniftingvalve (which see). Tail-vice (tal'vis), n.

A small hand-vice with a tail or handle to hold it by. Tail-water (tal'wa-tér), n. The water flowing from the buckets of a water-wheel in motion.

Tailzie, Tailyie (tāl'yē), n. [Fr. tailler, to cut off. See TAILOR.] In Scots law, an old term to denote a deed creating an entailed estate.

Tailzie, Tailye (tāl'yē), v.t. To entail; as, to tailzie an estate or lands. [Scotch.] Tain (tan), n. [O.E. teine, teyne, a thin plate, L. tania, a band, a fillet.] A thin tin-plate; tin-foil for mirrors. Simmonds. Taint (tant), v.t. [O. Fr. taindre, pp. taint; Mod. Fr. teindre, teint; from L. tingere, to wet or moisten, whence also tinge, attaint, tincture, tint.] 1. To imbue or impregnate with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substances taint the air. And human carnage taints the dreadful shore.' Pope.-2. To corrupt, as by incipient putrefaction; as, tainted meat.-3. To stain; to sully; to pollute; to tarnish. Tainted with the said murder.' Holland.

We come not by the way of accusation

To taint that honour every good tongue blesses. Shak.

4. To attaint. See ATTAINT.-SYN. To corrupt, infect, contaminate, defile, pollute, vitiate, poison.

Taint (tant), v. i. 1. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.

I cannot taint with fear.

Shak.

2. A stain; a spot; a blemish on reputation. Nor I

Unspeak mine own detraction; here abjure The taints and blames I laid upon myself. Shak. 3. Colour; hue; tinge. Face rose-hued. cherry-red, with a silver taint like a lily.' Greene.-4. A kind of spider of a red colour common in summer. Sir T. Browne. Taint † (tant), a. Tainted; touched; imbued. A pure unspotted heart, Never yet taint with love, I send the king. Shak. Taint (tant), n. [Perhaps from Fr. tenter, L. tentare, to try. See TEMPT.] 1. Trial; proof. 2. A trial of a lance; an injury to a lance without breaking it.-3. A thrust of a lance which fails of its effect; a breaking a lance in an encounter in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath. Chapman. Taint (tant), v.i. [See above.] To make an ineffectual thrust with a lance. Taint (tant), vt. 1. To injure, as a lance, without breaking.-2. To break, as a lance,

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in an unknightly or unskilful manner; to make trial or proof, as of a lance or staff. I have

A staff to taint, and bravely save the splinters, If it break in the encounter. Massinger. Taintless (tant'les), a. Free from taint or infection; pure. Swift.

Taintlessly (tant les-li), adv. Without taint.

Tainture (tän'tür), n. [Fr. tainture, L. tinctura. See TAINT.] Taint; tinge; defilement; stain; spot. [Rare.]

Peace, if it may be,

Without the too much tainture of the honour. Beau. & Fl.

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Taint-worm (tänt'wèrm), n. taints; a destructive parasitic worm. As killing as the canker to the rose Or taint-worm to the weanling herds that graze. Milton. Tairge (tārj), v. t. [Scotch.] A targe. Tairn (tärn), n. A tarn. Coleridge. Taisch (tasch), n. [Gael.] The voice of a person about to die heard in the person's absence.

Some women said to him they had heard two taischs, that is, two voices of persons about to die; and what was remarkable, one of them was an English taisch, which they never heard before. Boswell.

Tait (tāt), n. [Icel. tæta, shreds, tæta, to tease or pick wool; Sw. taatte, a portion of lint or wool.] A small portion of anything consisting of fibres or the like; as, a tait of wool; a tait of hay. Sir W. Scott. [Scotch.] Written also Tate.

Taivert (tá'vert), a. See TAVERT.
Tajaçu, Tajassu (ta-jä'sö, ta-jasʼö), n.
Dicotyles torquatus, or peccary, a species of
pig inhabiting the eastern side of South
America. See PECCARY.

Take (tāk), v. t. pret. took; ppr. taking; pp. taken. [A Scandinavian word: Icel. (pret. tók, pp. tekinn) and O. Sw. taka, Mod. Sw. taga, Dan. tage, to take, to seize, &c.; allied to Goth. tikan, to touch; tackle is from same stem. The Anglo-Saxon word to take was niman. According to some authorities from a root tag, seen in L. tango, tactum, to touch (whence tangible, tact, &c.).] 1. To receive or accept, as something offered: correlative to give, and opposed to refuse or reject.

Take what he gives, since to rebel is vain. Dryden. Ah, take the imperfect gift I bring. Tennyson.

2. To grasp with the hand or with any instrument; to get into one's hold or possession; to acquire or assume possession of; to lay hold of; to seize; to grasp.

I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him, thus.

Shak.

3. To seize or lay hold of and remove; to carry off; to remove in general; to abstract; to transfer: with from, off, &c., when the person or place is mentioned; as, to take a person's goods from him.

Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Mat. xxiv. 40.

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house. Shak. Those we love first are taken first. Tennyson.

4. To catch suddenly, as by artifice or surprise; to catch in a trap, snare, or the like; to entrap; to ensnare; hence, to come suddenly or unexpectedly upon; to circumvent; to surprise. Shak.

I have ta'en you napping. Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines. Cant. ii. 15. Men in their loose unguarded hours they take, Not that themselves are wise, but others weak. Pope. 5. To take prisoner; to capture; to catch. Valentine, if he be ta'en, must die. Shak They entering on every side slew and took three hundred Janizaries. Knolles. 6. To obtain possession of by force of arms; to cause to surrender or capitulate; to conquer. And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.' Shak.-7. To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to charm; to delight; to please; to attract; to allure.

Milton.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. Prov. vi. 25. The harmony Suspended hell, and took with ravishment The thronging audience. There was a something in those half-seen features -a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty-which took me more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions. Moore. 8. To understand in any particular sense or manner; to comprehend; to apprehend. Why, now you take me; these are rites That grace love's days and crown his nights: These are the motions I would see. B. Fonson.

12. To render necessary; to demand; to require: frequently used impersonally with it; as, it takes three feet to make a yard; it takes long study to make a ripe scholar; it takes so much cloth to make a coat.-13. To seize on; to catch; not to let slip; not to neglect. We must take the current when it serves.' Shak. 'Let's take the instant by the forward top. Shak. 'The next advantage will we take throughly.' Shak.-14. To choose and make one's own; to select; to be in favour of; as, to take a wife; to take a side. I take thee for wife.' Shak.

The nicest eye could no distinction make
Where lay the advantage, or what side to take.
Dryden.

15. To have recourse to; to betake one's self to; to turn to; as, to take shelter; to take a different course.

Tigers and lions are not apt to take the water Sir M. Hale. Observing still the motions of their flight, What course they took. Dryden.

He alone

To find where Adam sheltered, took his way. Milton. 16. To accept the promise, declaration, conditions, &c., of; to close with; to hold responsible.

Old as I am, I take thee at thy word, And will to-morrow thank thee with my sword. Dryden 17. To form; to fix; to adopt. Resolutions taken upon full debate.' Clarendon. —18. To put on; to assume; to pass into.

Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble.
Shak

19. To receive and swallow, as food or drink; as, he takes a hearty meal; will you take wine with me? to take a pill or draught.

This is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore Acts xxvii. 33. 34 I pray you to take some meat. 20. To copy; to delineate; to draw; as, the portrait or landscape was beautifully taken. Our phoenix queen was pourtrayed too so bright Beauty alone could beauty take so right. Dryden. 21. To put into writing; to make a mark or observation or memorandum of; to note down; as, to take the prisoner's confession or declaration; the reporters took the speech; to take an inventory; to take a note.-22. To seize; to attack; to fasten on; to smite; to blast; to injure: said of a disease, malignant influence, or the like. Shakspere has A fit of madness took him.' 'Being taken with the cramp. Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick, suddenly taken.'- 23. To catch; to be infected or seized with; as, to take a cold, a fever, &c. 'As men take diseases one of another.' Shak.-24. To receive, as any temper or disposition of mind; to experience; to indulge; to feel; to enjoy; as, (Shak) Take thou no scorn to wear the horn.' 'Take patience. Now I have taken heart thou vanishest.' 'Take mercy on the poor souls' 'Take comfort.' I should take a displeasure against you.'

Few are so wicked as to take delight In crimes improfitable. Dryden Children. take a pride to behave themselves prettily, perceiving themselves esteemed.

25. To bear or submit to without ill-will or resentment; to endure; to tolerate; to put up with. Won't you, then, take a jest?' Spectator. He met with such a reception as those only deserve who are content to take it. Sw12

26. To draw; to derive; to deduce.

The firm belief of a future judgment is the most

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forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery. Tillotson.

27. To enter into possession of by hiring, renting, or leasing; as, to take a house; to take a pew or a box for the year; to take a farm. 28 To conduct; to lead; to convey; to transport; to carry; as, to take one home; he was taken to prison; to be taken by railway or steamer to London. 'Take the stranger to my house, and with you take the chain. Shak.-29. Not to refuse or balk at, to leap; to clear; as, that horse takes his fences or his ditches gallantly. To cudgel you and make you take the hatch.' Shak. 30 To place one's self in; to occupy; to sit or stand in; as, take your places; take your seats; the president took the chair at eight. 31 To deal; to give; to strike; to deliver, as a cuff or blow. 'I will take thee a box on the ear. Shak.-Take, with the sense of do, make, produce, obtain, use, &c., is often coupled with a noun, so that both are equivalent to a single verb; as, to take breath; to take effect; to take hold; to take leave; to take the liberty; to take notice; and the like. To take aback, to surprise or astonish, especially in an abrupt, disappointing, and unpleasant way; to confound; as, his impudence took me fairly aback To take advantage of, (a) to use any advantage offered by; to make opportune use of and profit or benefit by; as, to take advantage of the favouring breeze or of the fine weather. (b) To catch or seize by surprise or cunning; to make use of favourable circumstances to the prejudice of; as, to take the advantage of a person's good-nature, weakness, confidence, or the like To take adieu, to bid adieu or farewell; to take leave. We took our last adieu Tennyson.-To take aim, to direct the eye or weapon; to aim.

Sir W. Scott.

Cupid all arm'd; a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west. Shak. -To take air, to be divulged or made public; to become known; to be disclosed, as a secret. The cabal, however, began to take air from the premature mutinous language of those concerned. - To take the air, to take an airing, to walk, drive, or stay in the open air for the sake of the health. To take arms, or take up arms, to commence war or hostilities. To take arms against a sea of troubles, and, by opposing, end them. Shak. To take away, to remove; to set aside; to make an end of.

If we take away consciousness of pleasure and pain it will be hard to know wherein to place personal idenLocke.

tity.

-To take breath, to stop, as from labour or exertion, in order to breathe or rest; to rest, refresh, or recruit one's self after fatigue. Before I proceed I would take some breath. Bacon, -To take care, to be watchful, vigilant, or careful; to be wary; to be thoughtful or cautius; as, take care and be not deceived. -To take care of, to have the charge or care of; to superintend; to keep watch over; as, to take cure of one's health, property, or children.

Old Mr. Lowndes, the famous secretary of the Treasury in the reigns of King William, Queen Ann, and King George 1, used to say, take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves. Chesterfield. -To take chance, or one's chance, to submit to hazard; to run the risk. You must take your chance.' Shak. Wilt take thy chance with me Shak-To take down, (a) to bring or remove from a higher to a lower place or position, hence, to conquer; to humble; to abase. Take down their mettle, keep them lean and bare. Dryden. Lanqueys were never so saucy and pragmatical as now, and he should be glad to see them taken down. Addison.

(b) To swallow; as, to take down medicine. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; to reduce to separate parts; as, to take down a house, a clock, or the like. (d) To put in writing; to write down; to record; as, to take down a sermon in shorthand; to take does a visitor's address; to take down a witness's statement-To take earth, in foxkunting, to escape into its hole: said of the f hence, g. to hide or conceal one's self. Follow yonder fellow, and see where he takes earth.

Sir W. Scott.

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-To take effect, (a) to be efficacious; to have the intended or natural effect or influence; as, the poison took effect immediately. (b) To come into operation or action; as, the law will not take effect till next year.-To take farewell. Same as To take adieu or To take leave. Tennyson.-To take the field, to commence the operations of a campaign; hence, fig. to occupy or step into a position of activity, as an opponent, rival, competitor, and the like. To take fire, to become ignited or inflamed; to begin to burn or blaze; hence, fig. to become highly excited, as with anger, love, enthusiasm, or other strong feeling.-To take from, (a) to remove from. (b) To subtract or deduct from; as, to take three from six.-To take heart, to become brave, courageous, or confident. Footprints that perhaps another,

Seeing, shall take heart again. Longfellow. -To take to heart, to be keenly or deeply affected by; to feel sensibly; as, to take a reproach or disappointment to heart; he took the disgraceful exposure so much to heart that he left the country.-To take heed, to be careful or cautious. Take heed lest passion sway thy judgment.' Milton.

Take heed what doom against yourself you give. Dryden. -To take heed to, to attend to with care. I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. Ps. xxxix. 1.

-To take hold, to seize; to grasp; to obtain possession; to gain control or power over: followed by of before the object; sometimes formerly by on.

Pangs and sorrow shall take hold of them. Is. xiii. 8.
Judgment and justice take hold on thee.
Job xxxvi. 17.
Horatio... will not let belief take hold of him.
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Nor doth the general care take hold on me. Shak. -To take horse, to mount and ride a horse or horses.

Then linger not, my lord; away, take horse. Shak. -To take in, (a) to receive, admit, or bring into one's house, company, or the like; to entertain.

I was a stranger, and ye took me in. Mat. xxv. 35. (b) To inclose, fence, or reclaim, as land. Upon the sea-coast are parcels of land that would pay well for the taking in. Mortimer. (c) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to include; to comprehend.

This love of our country takes in our families, friends, and acquaintance. Addison.

(d) To reduce or draw into a less compass; to make less in length or width; to contract; to brail or furl, as a sail.

Mrs. Stanhope had been obliged to have every one of her dresses taken in from the effect of her journey. Trollope.

(e) To give admission to; to allow to enter or penetrate; as, a leaky ship takes in water. (f) To receive into the mind or understanding; to admit the truth of; as, we won't take that story in.

Some genius can take in a long train of proposi. tions. Watts.

(g)t To win or gain by conquest; to capture. To take in a town with gentle words.' Shak. Mused of taking kingdoms in.'

Shak.

Should a great beauty resolve to take me in with the artillery of her eyes, it would be as vain as for a thief to set upon a new-robbed passenger.

Suckling.

(h) To circumvent; to cozen; to cheat; to deceive; as, he was completely taken in by a sharper. [Colloq.] (To receive regularly; to be a subscriber to, as a newspaper or periodical.

He was in the habit of taking in two French provincial newspapers. W. Collins. -To take in hand, to undertake to manage; to attempt to execute.

Nothing would prosper that they took in hand, Clarendon. -To take in vain, to use or utter unnecessarily, carelessly, or profanely, as an oath. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Ex. xx. 7.

-To take leave, (a) to bid farewell; to depart.

But how to take last leave of all I loved?

Tennyson. (b) To permit to one's self; to use a certain degree of license or liberty; as, I take leave to deny that-To take the liberty of, to take liberties with. See LIBERTY.-To take notice, (a) to regard or observe with attention; to watch carefully; to give some attention to. (b) To show by some act that

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observation is made; to make remark; to mention.

He took notice to his friends of the king's conduct. Fohnson. -To take oath, to swear judicially or with solemnity. We take all oath of secrecy.' Bacon.-To take oath of, to administer an oath to. 'She, first taking an oath of them for revenge. Shak.-To take off, (a) to remove or lift from the surface, outside or top; as, to take off the clothes; to take off one's hat or shoes. (b) To remove to a different place; to carry or transfer to another place; as, take off the prisoner to jail; take yourself off. (c) To remove or put an end to so as to deprive one of. 'Your power and your command is taken off. Shak. 'Whose life she had ta'en off by poison.' Shak. (d) To put to death; to kill; to make away with. Whose execution takes your enemy off." Shak. (e) To invalidate; to lessen or weaken; to destroy.

This takes not off the force of our former evidence. Stilling feet. (f) To deduct from; as, this sum is taken off his salary; to take a penny off the incometax.

The justices decreed to take off a halfpenny in a quart from the price of ale. Swift.

(g) To withdraw; to withhold; to call or draw away.

Keep foreign ideas from taking off our minds from its present pursuit. Locke.

(h) To swallow; to drink out. The moment a man takes off his glass.' Locke. (i) To make a copy of; to reproduce. Take off all their models in wood." Addison. (j) To mimic; to imitate, as in ridicule; to personate; to caricature; to make game of; as, the mimic takes off that proud strutting fellow to the life. (k) To purchase; to take in trade.

The Spaniards have no commodities that we will take off. Locke.

(1) To find place for; to dispose of.

More are bred scholars than preferments can take off. Bacon. -To take on, or upon, to undertake the charge, performance, responsibility, &c., of; to assume; to appropriate; to bear.

Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy. Num. xvi. 3. The office Becomes a woman best; I'll take't upon me. Dryden.

She loves me, ev'n to suffer for my sake; And on herself would my refusal take. Dryden. -To take order,t to exercise authority; to take measures. To take order with,t to check; to restrain. 'He was taken order with before it came to that.' Bacon. - To take out, (a) to remove from within a place, or from a number of other things; as, to take an invalid out for a walk; to take one out of difficulties. (b) To remove by cleansing or the like; as, to take out a stain, a blot, or the like. (c) To put away; to cause to be no longer operative; to put an end to; as, to take the pride or nonsense out of a youngster; to take the fighting or the strength out of one; running takes the wind out of him. (d) To obtain or accept as an equivalent; as, he took the amount of the debt out in goods. (e) To procure for one's self; to get drawn up and issued for one's own use; as, to take out a patent, a summons, or the like.-To take it out of a person, to exact or compel satisfaction or an equivalent from him; as, he pays him well, but takes it out of him in hard work; he cheated me, but I took it out of him in blows. To take pains, to use all one's skill, care, and the like.-To take part in, to share; to partake of; as, take part in our rejoicing.-Take part with, to join or unite with.-To take one's part, to espouse one's cause; to defend one. - To take place, (a) to happen; to come to pass; as, the event took place a week ago; the performance takes place at seven o'clock. (b) To have effect; to prevail.

Where arms take place all other pleas are vain. Dryden. -To take root, (a) to form or strike a root, as a plant. Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers.' Shak. (b) To become firmly fixed or established. I have seen the foolish taking root.' Job v. 3.-To take stock. See STOCK.-To take time, (a) to act without haste or hurry, and with due deliberation; hence, to be in no haste or excitement; to be patient; to wait with calmness; as, be cautious and take time. (b) To require, demand, or necessitate a portion or period of time; as, it will take some time to learn that.-To take tent, to

(f) To preoccupy; to occupy; to engross; to engage; to employ. 'Religion takes up his whole time.' Locke. The place is taken up before.' Dryden. The buildings about took up the whole space.' Sir W. Temple.

Princes were taken up with wars.' Sir W Temple. An artist now taken up with this invention.' Addison. (g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief or a vagaboud. 'I was taken up for laying them down. Shak. (h) To answer by reproof; to reprimand.

One of his relations took him up roundly for stooping so much below the dignity of his profession. Sir R. L'Estrange. (1) To carry on or manage; to undertake; to charge one's self with; as, to take up a friend's cause or quarrel. (j) To arrange or settle; to bring to an end.

Let him let the matter slip, and I'll give him my horse.'... 'I have his horse to take up the quarrel.' Shak.

(k) To believe; to admit. 'The ancients took up experiments on credit.' Bacon. (1) To enter upon; to adopt. Lewis Baboon had taken up the trade of clothier.' Arbuthnot. (m) To pay and receive; as, to take up a bill or note at the bank.-To take up arms. Same as To take arms. -To take upon. Same as To take on.-To take with, (a) to accept or have as a companion; as, he took his brother with him on a journey or in a partnership. (b) To be clear and explicit, as with another person, so that he can follow and understand. Soft! tuke me with you.' Shak.

Take (tak), v. i. 1. To move or direct the course; to resort to or to attach one's self; to betake one's self; as, the fox being hard pressed, took to the hedge.

The defluxion taking to his breast, wasted his lungs.

Bacon.

5. To admit of being represented in a photograph; to admit of a picture being made, to have the quality of being capable of being photographed; to have the quality of coming out; as, my face does not take well. - To take after, (a) to learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes after a good pattern. (b) To resemble; as, the son takes after his father. To take from, to derogate or detract from.

It takes not from you that you were born with principles of generosity. Dryden.

-To take on, (a) to be violently affected; to grieve; to mourn; to fret; as, the child takes on at a great rate. (b) To assume a character; to act a part. I take not on me here as physician.' Shak.-To take to, (a) to become fond of; to become attached to; as, to take to books; to take to evil practices. If he does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great friendship with him. H. Walpole. (b) To resort to; to betake to.

Men of learning who take to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of the world. Addison. -To take up, (a) to stop.

Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of all religion.

(b)+ To reform.

Tillotson.

This rational thought wrought so effectually, that it made him take up, and from that time prove a good husband. Locke.

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-To take up with, (a) to be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain fare.

In affairs which may have an extensive influence on our future happiness, we should not take up with probabilities. Watts.

(b) To lodge with; to dwell with; to associate with.

Are dogs such desirable company to take up with I South. -To take with, to please; to be favourably regarded by.

Our gracious master is a precedent to his own subjects, and seasonable mementos may be useful: and, being discreetly used, cannot but take well with him.

Bacon.

Take (tāk), n. 1. The quantity of anything taken or received; receipts; catch, especially the quantity of fish taken at one haul or catch or upon one cruise.

They (ladies holding stalls at a charity bazaar) make merchandise of their smiles, and drive a roaring trade in their cartes-de-visite and autographs, with miserable little coat bouquets made up and fastened in by their own hands, and sold at prices more like the current rates of El Dorado than of London; so that their take soon swells beyond their neighbours' and rivals? Saturday Rev.

2. In printing, the quantity of copy taken in hand by a compositor at one time. Take-in (tak-in'), n. 1. A fraud; a cheating act; imposition. [Colloq.]

The correspondent, however, views the whole performance as a take-in. Saturday Rev.

2. The party cheating. [Colloq.] Takel, n. [See TACKLE.] An arrow. Chau

cer.

Taken (tak'n), pp. of take.

Take-off (tak'of), n. An imitation of a person, especially by way of caricature. [Colloq.] Taker (tak'ér), n. 1. One that takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends; one that subdues and causes to surrender; as,

the taker of captives or of a city. Specifi:

cally-2. One who takes a bet.

(The reputation of the horse) made the betting 5 to 4 on him; but takers were not wanting, calculating on the horse's truly Satanic temper. Lawrence. 1. Alluring; Taking (tāk'ing), p. and a. attracting; engaging; pleasing. 'Subtile in making his temptations most taking.' Fuller.-2. Infections; catching; as, the itch is very taking. [Colloq.]

Come not near me, For I am yet too taking for your company. Beau. & Fl Taking (tāk'ing), n. 1. The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension. 2. Agitation; distress of mind.

What a taking was he in, when your husband asked what was in the basket. Shak. 3. Malignant influence.

Bless thee from whirlwinds, star-blasting, and taking. Shak.

Takingly (tak'ing-li), adv. In a taking or attractive manner. So I shall discourse in some sort takingly.' Beau. & Fl. Takingness (tak'ing-nes), n. The quality of pleasing or of being engaging. Complaisance and takingness.' Jer. Taylor. Taky (tāk’i), a. Capable of taking, captivating, or charming; designed to attract notice and please; taking; attractive. [Slang or colloq.]

He now proceeded to perform by one great effort those two difficult and delicate operations in art, technically described as putting in taky touches, and bringing in bits of effect. W. Collins.

Talapoin, Telapoin (tal'a-poin, tel'a-poin), n. I. The title, in Siam, of a priest of Fo; a bonze. 'Oriental mullah, bonze, or talapoin. Carlyle.-2. A species of monkey, the Cercopithecus talapoin. Talaria (ta-la'ri-a), n. pl. [L] The small wings attached to the ankles of Hermes or Mercury in representations of this deity. They sometimes appear as growing from the ankle, more comto monly as attached sandals, one on each side of each ankle. Talbot (talbot), n. [Probably from the Talbot family, who bear the figure of a dog in their coat of arms.] A kind of hound, and probably the oldest of our slow-hounds. He had a broad mouth, very deep chops, very long and large pendulous ears, was fine coated and usually pure white. This was the hound formerly known as St. Hubert's breed, and it is probably the origin of the bloodhound.

Talaria.

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Talbotype (tal'bo-tip), n. A photographic process invented by H. Fox Talbot, in which paper, prepared in a particular manner, is used instead of the silvered plates of Daguerre. Called also Calotype (which see). Talc (talk), n. [Fr. tale; Sp. and Pg. talco, from Ar. talq, talc.] A magnesian mineral, consisting of broad, flat, smooth lamina or plates, unctuous to the touch, of a shining lustre, translucent, and often transparent when in very thin plates. By the action of fire the laminæ open a little, the fragment swells, and the extremities are with difficulty fused into a white enamel. When rubbed with resin talc acquires positive electricity. Its prevailing colours are white, apple-green, and yellow. There are three principal varieties of talc, common, earthy, and indurated. Talc is a silicate of magnesium, with small quantities of potash, alumina, oxide of iron, and water. It is used in many parts of India and China as a substitute for window-glass; indurated talc is used for tracing lines on wood, cloth, &c., instead of chalk. Talc is met with in several parts of Scotland, chiefly in connection with serpentine, and on the Continent. Several varieties are found in India and Ceylon.-Oil of talc, a name given by old writers to an alchemical nostrum famous as a cosmetic, considered as a substitute for and superior to ceruse. It was given out to be prepared from tale by calcination and other processes, and it is probable that the unctuous feel of that mineral may have induced the belief that it contained an oil. He should have brought me some fresh oil of tale, These ceruses are common. Massinger.

Talcite (tal'sit), n. In mineral, same as Nacrite (which see).

Talcky, Talcy (talk'i), a. Same as Talcose Talcose, Talcous (talk'ōs, talk'us), a. Like tale; consisting of tale; containing tale.Talcose granite. See PROTOGENE.-Talcose rocks, rocks resembling the micaceous 1ocks, and comprising chlorite-slate, talc-slate, and serpentine.

Talc-schist (talk'shist), n. In mineral a schistose metamorphic rock, consisting of quartz and talc, foliated and more or less crumpled, and having a greasy or soapy feel. It is commonly associated with mica-schist, serpentine, and steatite.

Talc-slate (talk'slat), n. A talcose rock, consisting of tale and quartz arranged in laminæ. Tale (tal), n. [Two words closely akin in origin seem to be mixed up here, one meaning speech, talk, &c., the other number, reckoning; A. Sax. tale, talu, speech, voice, talk, a tale, and tæl, tal, reckoning, number; comp. Icel. tal, talk, conversation, a nnmber, tala, a speech, a number, and as verby to speak, to talk; Dan. tal, number, tale, speech, talk, discourse, also to talk; D. tal, number, taal, language, speech, G. zahl, number; from the stem of talk, tell.] 1. That which is told; as, (a) an oral relation; hence, anything disclosed; information.

Shak

We spend our years as a tale that is told. Ps. xc. 9.
Every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
I can tell thee pretty tales of the duke. Shak.
(b) A narrative, oral or written, in prose or
verse, of events that have really happened
or are imagined to have happened; a short
story, true or fictitious; as, a winter's tale;
a tale of woe.

Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,

The course of true love never did run smooth.
Shak

2. A number or quantity told, reckoned, estimated, or set down; especially, a reckoning by counting or numbering; an enumerThe ation; a number reckoned or stated. ignorant, who measure by tale, not weight Hooker. She takes the tale of all the lambs" Dryden.

Money being the common scale Of things by measure, weight, and rale. Hudibras This is almost certainly the meaning in Milton's

And every shepherd tells his tale

Under the hawthorn in the dale. L'Allegro, 65, 68 where the poet is speaking of the various sights and sounds characteristic of morning 3. In law, a count or declaration. — His tale is told, fig. his race is run; it is all over with him; he is no more. W. H. Ainsworth --Desperate tale. See extract.

Much in the same way Henry discharged Wolsey's obligations, when he seized the cardina's property. paying off the unfortunate debtors by 'desperate

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taler: that is, by bonds due to the crowit, but long since abandoned as hopeless-a method of paying good debts by bad ones; a stroke of finance more to be admired than imitated. Quart. Rev.

Talet (tal), v.i To tell stories. Gower. Tale (tal), n Same as Tael (which see). Talebearer (talbár-ér), n. A person who officiously tells tales likely to breed mischief; one who carries stories and makes mischief in society by his officiousness.

Where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Prov. xxvi. 20.

Talebearing (tal'bar-ing), a. Officiously
communicating information.
Talebearing (tal'bar-ing), n. The act of
spreading tales officiously; communication
of secrets maliciously.

Timothy was extremely officious about their mistress's person, endeavouring by flattery and talebearang, to set her against the rest of the servants. Arbuthnot. Taled (taled), n. A sort of habit worn by the Jews, especially when praying in the synagogue.

Thomson.

Taleful (tal'ful), a. Abounding with stories.
The cottage hind... taleful there
Recounts his simple frolic.
Talegalla (tá-le-galla), n. [Native name.]
A genus of rasorial birds, the species of which
are natives of Australia and New Guinea.
The best known is the Brush-turkey (which
see)

Tale-mastert (tal'mas-tér), n. The author or originator of a tale.

I tell you my tale and my tale-master. Fuller. Talen, pres. tense pl. of tale, v.i. Chaucer. Talent (tal'ent), n. [Fr. talent, L. talentum, from Gr. talanton, a thing weighed, a balance, from obs. talao, to bear, kindred with Skr. tuld, a balance, from tul, to lift up, to raise up; a root which appears also in L. tollo, tuli, to lift up; Goth. thula, and OE. and Sc. thole, to bear, to suffer.] 1. The name of a weight and denomination of money among the ancient Greeks, and also applied by Greek writers and their translators to various standard weights and denominations of money of different nations; the weight and value differing in the various nations and at various times The Attic talent as a weight contained 60 Attic minæ, or 6000 Attic drachmae, equal to 56 lbs. 11 oz. English troy weight. As a denomination of silver money it was equal to £243, 158. The great talent of the Romans is computed to be equal to £99, 68. 8d. sterling, and the little talent to £75 sterling. A Hebrew weight and denomination of money, equivalent to 3000 shekels, also receives this name. As a weight, therefore, it was equal to about 951 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver it has been variously estimated at from £340 to £396, the higher value being that given by the latest authorities.-2. A gift, endowment, or faculty; some peculiar faculty, ability, or qualification natural or acquired Wit, knowledge, or any other talent whatsoever.' Addison.

He is chiefly to be considered in his three different talents, as a critic, a satirist, and a writer of odes.

Dryden.

The most necessary talent, therefore, in a man of conversation, which is what we ordinarily intend by a fine gentleman, is a good judgment. Steele. 3. Mental endowments or capacities of a superior kind; general mental power: used in this sense either in singular or in plural; as, a man of talents; a man of great talent. This and the previous application of the word are probably borrowed from the Scriptural parable of the talents, Mat. xxv. 'The aristocracy of talent. Coleridge. 'All the real talent and resolution in England.' Ruskin. Like other men of talent, Fielding was unfortunate. Sir W. Scott. His talents, his accomplishments, his graceful manners made him generally popular. Macaulay. 4t Quality; character; characteristic. Lord Rake and Lord Foplington give you 'their talent in their title. Jeremy Collier.

& Disposition; inclination.

Though the nation generally was without any ill tant to the church in doctrine or discipline, yet they were not without a jealousy that popery was not enough discountenanced. Clarendon.

Desire; affection; will. Chaucer.-Ability, Capacity, Talent. See ABILITY. - Genius, Abilities, Talents, &c. See GENIUS. Talented (talent-ed), a. Furnished with talents or great mental powers; possessing talents or endowments [This word, as shown by the first quotation below, was introduced long ago, but seems not to have been in common use till quite recent times.

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Coleridge and others have strongly objected to it (the former calling it 'a vile and barbarous vocable'), but without any good reason. The chief objection to it has been that it is a pseudo-participle,' a participle without a verb corresponding to it, but there are many words of exactly analogous formation in quite good usage; comp. gifted, lettered, turreted, booted, bearded, slippered, landed, &c. Mr. Fitzedward Hall instances outtalented and untalented from Richardson.]

What a miserable and restless thing ambition is, when one talented but as a common person, yet, by the favour of his prince, hath gotten that interest, that in a sort all the keys of England hang at his girdle. Abp. Abbot (1562-1633).

The way in which talented and many of its fellows were once frequently used shows that these words, to the consciousness of our ancestors, began with being strictly participles. At present they have the function of participial adjectives: and, what between their distinctive termination and their history, they are, therefore, to be considered, on scientific prinThe ciples, as developments from ideal verbs. analogy on which they are formed is, further, so well established, that, whatever Coleridge dogmatized in his haste, 'mere convenience is quite ground enough to justify us in coining terms on the same model whenever they may be really required. Fitzedward Hall.

Tale-piet, Tale-pyet (tal'pi-et), n. [From Sc. piet, a magpie, because of its chattering.] A tell-tale; a tale-bearer. [Scotch.]

Never mind me, sir-I am no tale-pyet; but there are mair een in the world than mine. Sir W. Scott. Tales (tālēz), n. pl. [L. talis, pl tales.] In law, persons of like reputation or standing; persons in the court from whom the sheriff or his clerk makes selections to supply the place of jurors who have been impannelled but are not in attendance. It is the first word of the Latin sentence (tales de circumstantibus) which provides for this contingency. To pray a tales, to pray that the number of jurymen may be completed.

It was discovered that only ten special jurymen were present. Upon this, Mr. Sergeant Buzfuz prayed a tales; the gentleman in black then proceeded to press into the special jury two of the comDickens. mon jurymen.

-Tales book, a book containing the names of such as are admitted of the tales. Talesman (talez-man), n. In law, a person summoned to act as a juror from among the by-standers in open court. Taleteller (tal'tel-ér), n. One who tells tales or stories; specifically, one who tells malicious or officious tales; a talebearer. Tale-wise (tal'wiz), a. Being in the manner of a tale.

Tale-wise (tal'wiz), adv. In the manner of a tale or story.

Taliacotian (tal'i-a-ko'shi-an), a. Of, pertaining, or relating to Taliacotius or Tagliacozzi, professor of anatomy and surgery at Bologna towards the end of the sixteenth century.-Taliacotian operation. Same as Rhinoplastic Operation.

Taliation + (tal-i-a'shon), n. [See TALION.] A return of like for like.

Taliera, Talliera Palm (tal-i-e'ra, tal-i-e'ra pam), n. The Corypha Taliera, an elegant stately species of palm inhabiting Bengal, allied to the taliput. It has gigantic fanshaped leaves, which are used by the natives of India to write upon with their steel stiles, and for other purposes. Taling + (tal'ing), n. Story-telling. Chaucer. Talion (tali-on), n. [Fr. talion, L. talio, from talis, such] The law of retaliation, according to which the punishment inflicted is the same in kind and degree as the injury, as an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, &c. This mode of punishment was established by the Mosaic law. Lev. xxiv. 20.

Crimes not capital were punished by fines, flagel. lation, and the law of talion, eye for eye. Dr. A. Geddes. Talipat (tal'i-pat), n. See TALIPUT. Talipes (tal'i-pes), n. [L. talus, an ankle, and pes, a foot.] The disease called Clubfoot.

Taliput, Taliput-tree (tal'i-put, tal'i-puttre), n. [Singhalese name.] The great fanpalm (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of India, Ceylon, &c. The straight cylindrical trunk, which rises sometimes to the height of 70 or even 100 feet, is crowned with a tuft of enormous fan-like leaves, usually about 18 feet long and 14 feet broad, composed of from 90 to 100 radiating segments plaited like a fan till near the extremity. Those leaves are used for covering houses, making umbrellas, fans, and frequently used as a substitute for writing-paper. At the age of thirty or forty years or more the tree

Taliput (Corypha umbraculifera).

Talisman (tal'is-man), n. [Fr. and Sp. talisman; Ar. telsam, pl. telsamân, a magical figure, a horoscope, from Byzantine Gr. telesma, incantation, Gr. teleo, to perform, to accomplish, from telos, an end.] 1. A charm consisting of a magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens; the seal, figure, character, or image of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet engraven on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence. The word is also used in a wider sense and as equivalent to amulet. The talisman is supposed to exercise extraordinary influences over the bearer, especially in averting evils, as disease, sudden death, and the like. Hence-2. Something that produces extraordinary effects; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to destroy diseases. Talismanic, Talismanical (tal-is-man'ik, tal-is-man'ik-al), a. Having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by secret influence; magical.

Addison.

The figure of a heart bleeding upon an altar, or held in the hand of a cupid, has always been looked upon as talismanic in dresses of this nature. Talismanist (tal'is-man-ist), n. One who uses a talisman or deals with talismans. Defoe.

Talk (tak), v.i. [A word related to tale, tell, in much the same way as stalk to steal, hark to hear, and walk to G. wallen. See TALE, TELL] 1. To utter words; to speak; as, to talk in one's sleep; the child can talk already. What, canst thou talk! quoth she, hast thou a tongue? Shak.

2. More especially, to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts; to hold converse.

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, but I will not eat with you. Shak.

3. To speak incessantly or impertinently; to prate; to prattle; to babble.

A good old man, sir; he will be talking. Shak. 4. To confer; to reason.

Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. Jer. xii. 1. 5. To give an account; to mention; to tell; to communicate by writing, by signs, or by words not necessarily spoken.

The natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done. Addison.

-To talk to, to advise or exhort; to remonstrate with; to reprove gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct.-To talk from the point, subject, &c., to direct one's marks or speech from the matter under consideration; to wander from in speaking from the topic in discussion.

Talking from the point, he drew him in... Until they closed a bargain. Tennyson. -To talk to the point, subject, &c., to confine one's remarks to the matter in hand; to keep to the required subject. - Speak, Talk. See SPEAK.

Talk (tak), v. t. 1. To use as a means of conversation or communication; to speak; as,

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to talk French or German.-2. To speak; to utter; as, to talk treason; to talk nonsense. You that talked the trash that made me sick. Tennyson. 3. To pass or spend in talking with away; as, to talk away an evening.-4. To influence by talking; to have a certain effect on by talking: with words expressive of the effect. 'Talk thy tongue weary;' 'Talk us to silence;' Talk him out of patience;' They would talk themselves mad.' Shak.-Hence the phrases, to talk one down to silence one with incessant talk; to talk one out of to dissuade one from, as a plan, project, &c.; to talk one over-to gain one by persuasion; to talk one up to= to persuade one to undertake.-To talk over, to talk about; to deliberate upon; to discuss. 'Sat and eat, and talked old matters over.' Tennyson.

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Talk (tak), n. 1. Familiar conversation; mutual discourse; that which is uttered by one person in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.

Should a man full of talk be justified? Job xi. 2. In various talk th' instructive hours they past. Pope. 2. Report; rumour.

I hear a talk up and down of raising money. Locke. 3. Subject of discourse; as, this noble achievement is the talk of the whole town.

And what delight to be by such extolled,
To live upon their tongues and be their talk

Milton. 4. A more or less formal or public discussion held by a body of men, or by two opposing parties concerning matters of mutual interest; a negotiation; a conference; a palaver. SYN. Conversation, colloquy, discourse, chat, dialogue, conference, communication. Talk (talk), n. Talc.

Talkative (tak'a-tiv), a. [This is a hybrid word, English with a Latin termination. See STARVATION.] Inclined to talk or converse; ready or apt to engage in conversation; freely communicative; chatty.

If I have held you over long, lay hardly the fault upon my old age, which in its disposition is talkative. Sir P. Sidney. -Talkative, Loquacious, Garrulous. Talkative is said of a person who is in the habit of speaking frequently, without, however, necessarily implying that much is said at once; thus, a lively child may be talkative. A loquacious person is one who has this inclination with a greater flow of words. Garrulous is the word applied to old age, and implies feeble, prosy, continuous talk, with needless repetitions and tiresome explanation of details. The subject of a garrulous person's talk is generally himself and his own affairs.

Talkatively (tak'a-tiv-li), adv. In a talkative manner.

Talkativeness (tak'a-tiv-nes), n. The quality of being talkative; loquacity; garrulity. Learned women have lost all credit by their impertinent talkativeness and conceit. Swift. Talker (tak'er), n. 1. One who talks; also, a loquacious person; a prattler.

If it were desirable to have a child a mere brisk talker, ways might be found to make him so. Locke. 2. A boaster; a braggart.

The greatest talkers in the days of peace have been the most pusillanimous in the day of temptation. Fer. Taylor.

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3. † Sturdy; lusty; bold; spirited; courageous. 'Good soldiers and tall fellows.' Shak.

No, by this hand, sir,

We fought like honest and tall men. Beau. & Fl. Thy spirits are most tall. Beau. & Fl Shakspere speaks of a tall man of his hands, for which phrase see under HAND.4. As an American colloquialism, (a) great; excellent; fine; remarkable; as, a tall fight; tall walking; a tall spree. (b) Extravagant; bombastic; as, tall talk. The word was formerly used with somewhat similar meanings in England; thus Bentley has 'So tall a compliment to Cicero.'

Tallage, Talliage (tal'āj, tal′i-āj), n. [Written also tailage, taillage, from Fr. tailler, to cut off. See RETAIL.] A term formerly applied to subsidies or taxes of every kind, but denoting, in its more proper and restricted sense, those taxes to which, under the Anglo-Norman kings, the demesne lands of the crown and all the royal towns were subject. These taxes were more rigorous and arbitrary than those imposed on the gentry.

Impositions on merchandise at the ports could no more be levied by the royal prerogative after its enactment, than internal taxes upon landed or moveable property, known in that age by the appellations of aids and tallages. Hallam.

Tallages, however arbitrary, were never paid by the barons or freeholders, nor by their tenants. Hallam.

Tallage (tal'āj), v.t. To lay an impost upon;
Tallagert (tal'áj-ér), n.
to cause to pay tallage.
A tax or toll ga-

therer.

oil procured from the seeds of the Carapa Touloucouna or C. guineensis, a tree growing in Sierra Leone. It is also known by the name of Kundah-oil, and is much esteemed as an anthelmintic.

Tallier (tal'li-èr), n. One who keeps a tally. Tallit (tal'it), n. See TALLET. Tallness (tal'nes), n. The state or quality of being tall; height of stature. A hideous giant,

When

that with his tallness seemed to threat the sky.' Spenser. Tallow (tal'lo), n. [A. Sax. tælg, Dan. Sw. and G. talg, Icel. tólg, D. talk, tallow; comp. Goth. tulgus, firm.] The harder and less fusible fats melted and separated from the fibrous or membranous matter which is naturally mixed with them. These fats are mostly of animal origin, the most common being derived from sheep and oxen. pure, animal tallow is white and nearly tasteless; but the tallow of commerce usually has a yellow tinge. All the different kinds of tallow consist chiefly of stearin, palmitin, and olein. In commerce tallow is divided into various kinds according to its qualities, of which the best are used for the manufacture of candles, and the inferior for making soap, dressing leather, greasing machinery, and several other purposes. imported in large quantities from Russia.Mineral tallow. The same as Hatchetine (which see).-Vegetable tallow, a kind of fat resembling tallow obtained from various plants, as from the fruit of plants of the order Dipteraceæ.

It is

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. Goldsmith. 2. Having the power of speech or of uttering words; as, a talking parrot. Talky (talk'i), a. Talcky (which see).

The talky flakes in the strata were all formed before the subsidence, along with the sand. Woodward. Tall (tal), a. [Probably from W. tul, tall, towering, whence talâu, to make high, to grow tall, taláúad, to elevate, to grow tall.] 1. High in stature; long and comparatively slender: applied to a person or to a standing tree, mast, pole, or other erect object of which the diameter is small in proportion to the height. Hence we speak of a tall man, a tall pine, a tall steeple, but not of a tall house, a tall mountain. 'Cut down the tall cedar trees.' 2 Ki. xix. 23. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall.' Milton. Some tall tower.' Young. 'His own children tall and beautiful.' Tennyson. 2. Having height, whether great or small, without reference to comparison or relation. 'Bring me word how tall she is.' Shak.—

with tallow.-2. To fatten; to cause to have a large quantity of tallow; as, to tallow sheep.

Tallow-candle (tal'lō-kan-dl), n. A candle

made of tallow.

Tallow-catch (tallō-kach), n. A tallowkeech. Thou whoreson, obscene, greasy tallow-catch.' Shak.

Tallow-chandler (tal'lō-chand-lèr), n. [See CHANDLER.] One whose occupation is to make, or to make and sell tallow candles. Tallow - chandlery (tal'lô-chand-lér-i), n. 1. The business or occupation of a tallowchandler. 2. The place where a tallowchandler carries on his business. Tallower (tal'lō-ér), n. 1. A tallow-chandler. 2. An animal disposed to form tallow internally. Tallow-face (tal'lō-fās), n. One of a sickly, pale complexion. Shak. Tallow-faced (tal'ló-fast), a. Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton. Tallow-grease (tal'lo-grės), n. Tallow, especially candle-fat. [Familiar and local.] Tallowing (tal'ló-ing), n. The act, practice, or art of causing animals to gather tallow,

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or the property in animals of forming tallow internally. Tallowish (tal'lō-ish), a. Having the properties or nature of tallow; resembling tallow.

Tallow-keech (tallō-kēch), n. [See KEECH. } A mass of tallow rolled up into a lump for the tallow-chandler. Also called Tallowcatch.

Tallow-tree (tal'lo-tre), n. The name given in different parts of the world to trees of different kinds, which produce a thick oil or vegetable tallow, capable of being used for making candles. The tallow-tree of Malabar is Vateria indica, nat. order Dipteraceæ, that of China, Stillingia sebifera, nat. order Euphorbiacea, and that of Sierra Leone, Pentadesma butyracea, nat. order Guttiferæ.

Tallowy (tal'lo-i), a. Greasy; having the qualities of tallow.

Tallwood (tal'wud), n. [Tall is from Fr. taille, a cut, a cutting.] Firewood cut in billets of a certain length. Calthrop. Tally (tal'li), n. [Fr. taille, a tally, a cut, a cutting, from tailler, to cut. See RETAIL] 1. A piece of wood on which notches or scores are cut, as the marks of number. In purchasing and selling it was customary for traders to have two sticks, or one stick cleft into two parts, and to mark with scores or notches on each the number or quantity of goods delivered, or what was due between debtor and creditor, the seller or creditor keeping one stick, and the purchaser or debtor the other. Before the use of writing, or before writing became general, this or something like it was the usual method of keeping accounts. In the exchequer tallies were formerly used, which answered the purpose of receipts as well as simple records of matters of account. Hence the origin of exchequer bills. In former times of financial difficulty, from the period of the Norman conquest the practice had been to issue exchequer tallies. An exchequer tally was an account of a sum of money lent to the government, or of a sum for which the government would be responsible. The tally itself consisted of a squared rod of hazel or other wood, having on one side notches, indicating the sum for which the tally was an acknowledgment. On two other sides opposite to each other, the amount of the sum, the name of the payer, and the date of the transaction, were written by an officer called the writer of the tallies. This being done the rod was then cleft longitudinally in such a manner that each piece retained one of the written sides, and one half of every notch cut in the tally. One of these parts, the counterstock, was kept in the exchequer, and the other, the stock, only issued. When the part issued was returned to the exchequer (usually in payment of taxes) the two parts were compared, as a check against fraudulent imitation. This ancient system was abolished by 25 Geo. III. lxxxii.; and by 4 and 5 Will. IV. xv. all the old tallies were ordered to be destroyed. The size of the notches made on the tallies varied with the amount. The notch for £100 was the breadth of a thumb; for £1 the breadth of a barleycorn. A penny was indicated by a slight slit.-2. Anything made to suit or correspond to another.

So suited in their minds and persons, That they were fram'd the tallies for each other. Dryden 3. A label or ticket of wood or metal used in gardens, for the purpose of bearing either a number referring to a catalogue, or the name of the plant with which it is connected.-4. An abbreviation of Tally-shop. Tally (tal'li), v. t. pret. & pp. tallied; ppr. tallying. [As to meaning 1 see the noun TALLY.] 1. To score with correspondent notches; to fit; to suit; to make to correspond.

They are not so well tallied to the present juncture.

2. Naut. to pull aft, as the sheets or lower corners of the main and fore sail

And while the lee clue-garnet's lower d away. Taut aft the sheet they tally, and belay. Falconer Tally (tal'li), v. i. To be fitted; to suit; to correspond; to conform; to match.

I found pieces of tiles that exactly tallied with the channel. Addison. Your idea... tallies exactly with mine. H. Walpole Tallyt (talli), adv. [See TALL, 3.] Stoutly: with spirit.

You, Lodowick,
That stand so tally on your reputation,
You shall be he shall speak it. Besta & FI