T () the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant. With the letter h it forms the digraph th, which has two distinct sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide to Pronunciation, //262-264, and also //153, 156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180.
Ta (v. t.) To take.
Taas (n.) A heap. See Tas.
Tab (n.) The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
Tab (n.) A tag. See Tag, 2.
Tab (n.) A loop for pulling or lifting something.
Tab (n.) A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.
Tab (n.) A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.
Tabacco (n.) Tobacco.
Tabanus (n.) A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies.
Tabard (n.) A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds.
Tabarder (n.) One who wears a tabard.
Tabarder (n.) A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard.
Tabaret (n.) A stout silk having satin stripes, -- used for furniture.
Tabasheer (n.) A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases.
Tabbinet (n.) A fabric like poplin, with a watered surface.
Tabbies (pl. ) of Tabby
Tabby (n.) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
Tabby (n.) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
Tabby (n.) A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
Tabby (n.) An old maid or gossip.
Tabby (a.) Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat.
Tabby (a.) Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.
Tabbied (imp. & p. p.) of Tabby
Tabbying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tabby
Tabby (v. t.) To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.
Tabefaction (n.) A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.
Tabefied (imp. & p. p.) of Tabefy
Tabefying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tabefy
Tabefy (v. t.) To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate.
Tabellion (n.) A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy.
Taber (v. i.) Same as Tabor.
Taberd (n.) See Tabard.
Tabernacle (n.) A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
Tabernacle (n.) A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.
Tabernacle (n.) Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.
Tabernacle (n.) Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.
Tabernacle (n.) Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept.
Tabernacle (n.) The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
Tabernacle (n.) A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.
Tabernacle (n.) Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.
Tabernacle (n.) A tryptich for sacred imagery.
Tabernacle (n.) A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.
Tabernacle (n.) A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
Tabernacled (imp. & p. p.) of Tabernacle
Tabernacling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tabernacle
Tabernacle (v. i.) To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.
Tabernacular (a.) Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.
Tabernacular (a.) Formed in latticework; latticed.
Tabernacular (a.) Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low.
Tabes (n.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.
Tabescent (a.) Withering, or wasting away.
Tabetic (a.) Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid.
Tabetic (n.) One affected with tabes.
Tabid (a.) Affected by tabes; tabetic.
Tabific (a.) Alt. of Tabifical
Tabifical (a.) Producing tabes; wasting; tabefying.
Tabinet (n.) See Tabbinet.
Tablature (n.) A painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general.
Tablature (n.) An ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes.
Tablature (n.) Division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as, the tablature of the cranial bones.
Table (n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
Table (n.) A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet
Table (n.) a memorandum book.
Table (n.) Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced.
Table (n.) Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule.
Table (n.) A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents.
Table (n.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
Table (n.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc.
Table (n.) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.
Table (n.) An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working.
Table (n.) Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table.
Table (n.) The company assembled round a table.
Table (n.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium.
Table (n.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table.
Table (n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
Table (n.) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table.
Table (n.) The games of backgammon and of draughts.
Table (n.) A circular plate of crown glass.
Table (n.) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
Table (n.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane.
Table (n.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.
Tableed (imp. & p. p.) of Table
Tableing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Table
Table (v. t.) To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
Table (v. t.) To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
Table (v. t.) To supply with food; to feed.
Table (v. t.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
Table (v. t.) To lay or place on a table, as money.
Table (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely.
Table (v. t.) To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
Table (v. t.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
Table (v. i.) To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.
Tableaux (pl. ) of Tableau
Tableau (n.) A striking and vivid representation; a picture.
Tableau (n.) A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.
Tableaux vivants (pl. ) of Tableau vivant
Tableau vivant () Same as Tableau, n., 2.
Tablebook (n.) A tablet; a notebook.
Tablecloth (n.) A cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.