English Dictionary: take a crap | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tachograph \Tach"o*graph\, n. [Gr. [?] speed + -graph.] A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record. | |
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Tachygraph \Tach"y*graph\, n. An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript. | |
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Tachygrapher \Ta*chyg"ra*pher\, n. [Gr. [?] a fast writer.] One who writes shorthand; a stenographer; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman notary. | |
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Tachygraphic \Tach`y*graph"ic\, Tachygraphical \Tach`y*graph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. tachygraphique.] Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand. | |
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Tachygraphic \Tach`y*graph"ic\, Tachygraphical \Tach`y*graph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. tachygraphique.] Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand. | |
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Tachygraphy \Ta*chyg"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. tachy`s quick + -graphy: cf. F. tachygraphie.] The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing; stenography. --I. Taylor (The Alphabet). | |
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Taxicorn \Tax"i*corn\, n. [L. taxus a yew + cornu a horn: cf. F. taxicorne.] (Zo[94]l.) One of a family of beetles ({Taxicornes}) whose antenn[91] are largest at the tip. Also used adjectively. | |
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Taxicorn \Tax"i*corn\, n. [L. taxus a yew + cornu a horn: cf. F. taxicorne.] (Zo[94]l.) One of a family of beetles ({Taxicornes}) whose antenn[91] are largest at the tip. Also used adjectively. | |
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Tea-saucer \Tea"-sau`cer\, n. A small saucer in which a teacup is set. | |
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Teguexin \Te*guex"in\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A large South American lizard ({Tejus teguexin}). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species {Tejus rufescens} is called {red teguexin}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
College \Col"lege\, n. [F. coll[8a]ge, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See {Colleague}.] 1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The college of the cardinals. --Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. --Jer. Taylor. 2. A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges. Note: In France and some other parts of continental Europe, college is used to include schools occupied with rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils. 3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. [bd]The gate of Trinity College.[b8] --Macaulay. 4. Fig.: A community. [R.] Thick as the college of the bees in May. --Dryden. {College of justice}, a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers. {The sacred college}, the college or cardinals at Rome. | |
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Across \A*cross"\ (#; 115), prep. [Pref. a- + cross: cf. F. en croix. See Cross, n.] From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. --Dryden. {To come across}, to come upon or meet incidentally. --Freeman. {To go across the country}, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads. | |
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Cross \Cross\, prep. Athwart; across. [Archaic or Colloq.] A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village. --L'Estrange. {To go cross lots}, to go across the fields; to take a short cut. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Share \Share\, n. [OE. share, AS. scearu, scaru, fr. sceran to shear, cut. See {Shear}, v.] 1. A certain quantity; a portion; a part; a division; as, a small share of prudence. 2. Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of any property or interest owned by a number; a portion among others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend. [bd]My share of fame.[b8] --Dryden. 3. Hence, one of a certain number of equal portions into which any property or invested capital is divided; as, a ship owned in ten shares. 4. The pubes; the sharebone. [Obs.] --Holland. {To go shares}, to partake; to be equally concerned. {Share and share alike}, in equal shares. | |
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6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt. I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift. --Longfellow. 7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. The Graces love to weave the rose. --Moore. The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior. 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. How fares your Grace ! --Shak. 9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.] Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus. --Chaucer. 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. 11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. 12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton. 13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also {grace hoop} or {hoops}. {Act of grace}. See under {Act}. {Day of grace} (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. That day of grace fleets fast away. --I. Watts. {Days of grace} (Com.), the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. {Good graces}, favor; friendship. {Grace cup}. (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. (b) A health drunk after grace has been said. The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health. --Hing. {Grace drink}, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc. Brit. {Grace hoop}, a hoop used in playing graces. See {Grace}, n., 13. {Grace note} (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See {Appoggiatura}, and def. 11 above. {Grace stroke}, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. {Means of grace}, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. {To do grace}, to reflect credit upon. Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak. {To say grace}, to render thanks before or after a meal. {With a good grace}, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. {With a bad grace}, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace. --Macaulay. Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy. Usage: {Grace}, {Mercy}. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See {Elegance}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Service \Serv"ice\, n. [OE. servise, OF. servise, service, F. service, from L. servitium. See {Serve}.] 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love. [bd]O God . . . whose service is perfect freedom.[b8] --Bk. of Com. Prayer. Madam, I entreat true peace of you, Which I will purchase with my duteous service. --Shak. God requires no man's service upon hard and unreasonable terms. --Tillotson. 2. The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another; duty done or required; office. I have served him from the hour of my nativity, . . . and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. --Shak. This poem was the last piece of service I did for my master, King Charles. --Dryden. To go on the forlorn hope is a service of peril; who will understake it if it be not also a service of honor? --Macaulay. 3. Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service. The outward service of ancient religion, the rites, ceremonies, and ceremonial vestments of the old law. --Coleridge. 4. Hence, a musical composition for use in churches. 5. Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or charge; official function; hence, specifically, military or naval duty; performance of the duties of a soldier. When he cometh to experience of service abroad . . . ne maketh a worthy soldier. --Spenser. 6. Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness; benefit; avail. The stork's plea, when taken in a net, was the service she did in picking up venomous creatures. --L'Estrange. 7. Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed. [bd]Pray, do my service to his majesty.[b8] --Shak. 8. The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or number of vessels ordinarily used at table; as, the service was tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass. There was no extraordinary service seen on the board. --Hakewill. 9. (Law) The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subp[oe]na or an attachment. 10. (Naut.) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc. 11. (Tennis) The act of serving the ball. 12. Act of serving or covering. See {Serve}, v. t., 13. {Service book}, a prayer book or missal. {Service line} (Tennis), a line parallel to the net, and at a distance of 21 feet from it. {Service of a writ}, {process}, etc. (Law), personal delivery or communication of the writ or process, etc., to the party to be affected by it, so as to subject him to its operation; the reading of it to the person to whom notice is intended to be given, or the leaving of an attested copy with the person or his attorney, or at his usual place of abode. {Service of an attachment} (Law), the seizing of the person or goods according to the direction. {Service of an execution} (Law), the levying of it upon the goods, estate, or person of the defendant. {Service pipe}, a pipe connecting mains with a dwelling, as in gas pipes, and the like. --Tomlinson. {To accept service}. (Law) See under {Accept}. {To see service} (Mil.), to do duty in the presence of the enemy, or in actual war. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tussac grass \Tus"sac grass`\ Tussock grass. | |
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Tussock \Tus"sock\, n. [From {Tuz}.] [Written also {tussuck}.] 1. A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge. Such laying of the hair in tussocks and tufts. --Latimer. 2. (Bot.) Same as {Tussock grass}, below. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A caterpillar of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. Some species are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. Called also {tussock caterpillar}. See {Orgyia}. {Tussock grass}. (Bot.) (a) A tall, strong grass of the genus {Dactylis} ({D. c[91]spitosa}), valuable for fodder, introduced into Scotland from the Falkland Islands. (b) A tufted grass ({Aira c[91]spitosa}). (c) Any kind of sedge ({Carex}) which forms dense tufts in a wet meadow or boggy place. {Tussock moth} (Zo[94]l.), the imago of any tussock caterpillar. They belong to {Orgyia}, {Halecidota}, and allied genera. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
touch screen computer by touching the display screen. Often this uses beams of infrared light that are projected across the screen surface. Interrupting the beams generates an electronic signal identifying the location of the screen. Software interprets the signal and performs the required operation. (1995-04-13) |