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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Talipes \[d8]Tal"i*pes\, n. [NL., fr. L. talus an ankle + pes, pedis, a foot; cf. L. talipedare to be weak in the feet, properly, to walk on the ankles.] (Surg.) The deformity called {clubfoot}. See {Clubfoot}. Note: Several varieties are distinguished; as, {Talipes varus}, in which the foot is drawn up and bent inward; {T. valgus}, in which the foot is bent outward; {T. equinus}, in which the sole faces backward and the patient walks upon the balls of the toes; and {T. calcaneus} (called also {talus}), in which the sole faces forward and the patient walks upon the heel. | |
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Tagalog \Ta*ga"log\, n. 1. (Ethnol.) Any member of a certain tribe which is one of the leading and most civilized of those native of the Philippine Islands. 2. The language of the Tagalogs. It belongs to the Malay family of languages and is one of the most highly developed members of the family. | |
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Tagliacotain \Tagl`ia*co"tain\, a. (Surg.) Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him. [Also {Taliacotian}, and {Tagliacozzian}.] | |
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Tagliacotain \Tagl`ia*co"tain\, a. (Surg.) Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him. [Also {Taliacotian}, and {Tagliacozzian}.] | |
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Taglock \Tag"lock`\, n. An entangled lock, as of hair or wool. --Nares. | |
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Taxless \Tax"less\, a. Free from taxation. | |
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Taxology \Tax*ol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ta`xis arrangement + -logy.] (Biol.) Same as {Taxonomy}. | |
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Teachless \Teach"less\, a. Not teachable. [R.] --Shelley. | |
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Teocalli \Te`o*cal"li\, n.; pl. {Teocallis}. [Mexican.] Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc. And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin. --Longfellow. | |
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Tesla coil \Tes"la coil\, Tesla transformer \Tes"la trans*form"er\ [After N. Tesla, American electrician.] (Elec.) A transformer without iron, for high frequency alternating or oscillating currents; an oscillation transformer. | |
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Ticklish \Tic"klish\, a. 1. Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish. --Bacon. 2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable. Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish? --Barrow. 3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business. Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say. --Bacon. -- {Tic"klish*ly}, adv. -- {Tic"klish*ness}, n. | |
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Ticklish \Tic"klish\, a. 1. Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish. --Bacon. 2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable. Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish? --Barrow. 3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business. Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say. --Bacon. -- {Tic"klish*ly}, adv. -- {Tic"klish*ness}, n. | |
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Ticklish \Tic"klish\, a. 1. Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish. --Bacon. 2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable. Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish? --Barrow. 3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business. Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say. --Bacon. -- {Tic"klish*ly}, adv. -- {Tic"klish*ness}, n. | |
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Tiglic \Tig"lic\, a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, {C4H7CO2H} (called also methyl crotonic acid), homologous with crotonic acid, and obtained from croton oil (from {Croton Tiglium}) as a white crystalline substance. | |
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Chalk \Chalk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chalked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chalking}.] 1. To rub or mark with chalk. 2. To manure with chalk, as land. --Morimer. 3. To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach. --Tennyson. Let a bleak paleness chalk the door. --Herbert. {To chalk out}, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] [bd]I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out.[b8] --Burke. | |
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Clack \Clack\, v. t. 1. To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. 2. To utter rapidly and inconsiderately. --Feltham. {To clack wool}, to cut off the sheep's mark, in order to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty. [Eng.] | |
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Close \Close\, v. i. 1. To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? --Byron. 2. To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock. 3. To grapple; to engage in hand-to-hand fight. They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. --Prescott. {To close} {on [or] upon}, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. [bd]Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage.[b8] --Sir W. Temple. {To close with}. (a) To accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed. (b) To make an agreement with. {To close with the land} (Naut.), to approach the land. | |
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Close \Close\, v. i. 1. To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? --Byron. 2. To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock. 3. To grapple; to engage in hand-to-hand fight. They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. --Prescott. {To close} {on [or] upon}, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. [bd]Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage.[b8] --Sir W. Temple. {To close with}. (a) To accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed. (b) To make an agreement with. {To close with the land} (Naut.), to approach the land. | |
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Close \Close\, v. i. 1. To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? --Byron. 2. To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock. 3. To grapple; to engage in hand-to-hand fight. They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. --Prescott. {To close} {on [or] upon}, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. [bd]Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage.[b8] --Sir W. Temple. {To close with}. (a) To accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed. (b) To make an agreement with. {To close with the land} (Naut.), to approach the land. | |
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Collect \Col*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Collected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Collecting}.] [L. collecrus, p. p. of collerige to bind together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See {Legend}, and cf. {Coil}, v. t., {Cull}, v. t.] 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. --Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. --Watts. 2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes. 3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises. [Archaic.] --Shak. Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected. --Locke. {To collect one's self}, to recover from surprise, embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control. Syn: To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate; garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce. | |
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Heel \Heel\, n. [OE. hele, heele, AS. h[emac]la, perh. for h[omac]hila, fr. AS. h[omac]h heel (cf. {Hough}); but cf. D. hiel, OFries. heila, h[emac]la, Icel. h[91]ll, Dan. h[91]l, Sw. h[84]l, and L. calx. [root]12. Cf. {Inculcate}.] 1. The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; -- in man or quadrupeds. He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then his speed, His winged heels and then his armed head. --Denham. 2. The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe. 3. The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or concluding part. [bd]The heel of a hunt.[b8] --A. Trollope. [bd]The heel of the white loaf.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. 4. Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a protuberance; a knob. 5. The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests; especially: (a) (Naut.) The after end of a ship's keel. (b) (Naut.) The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc. (c) (Mil.) In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position. (d) (Mil.) The uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the hilt. (e) The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe. 6. (Man.) Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well. 7. (Arch.) (a) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping. (b) A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen. --Gwilt. {Heel chain} (Naut.), a chain passing from the bowsprit cap around the heel of the jib boom. {Heel plate}, the butt plate of a gun. {Heel of a rafter}. (Arch.) See {Heel}, n., 7. {Heel ring}, a ring for fastening a scythe blade to the snath. {Neck and heels}, the whole body. (Colloq.) {To be at the heels of}, to pursue closely; to follow hard; as, hungry want is at my heels. --Otway. {To be down at the heel}, to be slovenly or in a poor plight. {To be out at the heels}, to have on stockings that are worn out; hence, to be shabby, or in a poor plight. --Shak. {To cool the heels}. See under {Cool}. {To go heels over head}, to turn over so as to bring the heels uppermost; hence, to move in a inconsiderate, or rash, manner. {To have the heels of}, to outrun. {To lay by the heels}, to fetter; to shackle; to imprison. --Shak. --Addison. {To show the heels}, to flee; to run from. {To take to the heels}, to flee; to betake to flight. {To throw up another's heels}, to trip him. --Bunyan. {To tread upon one's heels}, to follow closely. --Shak. | |
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Short \Short\, adv. In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. --Howell. {To sell short} (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate. | |
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Slight \Slight\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slighted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slighting}.] To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands. --Milton. The wretch who slights the bounty of the skies. --Cowper. {To slight off}, to treat slightingly; to drive off; to remove. [R.] -- {To slight over}, to run over in haste; to perform superficially; to treat carelessly; as, to slight over a theme. [bd]They will but slight it over.[b8] --Bacon. Syn: To neglect; disregard; disdain; scorn. Usage: {Slight}, {Neglect}. To slight is stronger than to neglect. We may neglect a duty or person from inconsiderateness, or from being over-occupied in other concerns. To slight is always a positive and intentional act, resulting from feelings of dislike or contempt. We ought to put a kind construction on what appears neglect on the part of a friend; but when he slights us, it is obvious that he is our friend no longer. Beware . . . lest the like befall . . . If they transgress and slight that sole command. --Milton. This my long-sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. --Milton. | |
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Slight \Slight\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slighted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slighting}.] To disregard, as of little value and unworthy of notice; to make light of; as, to slight the divine commands. --Milton. The wretch who slights the bounty of the skies. --Cowper. {To slight off}, to treat slightingly; to drive off; to remove. [R.] -- {To slight over}, to run over in haste; to perform superficially; to treat carelessly; as, to slight over a theme. [bd]They will but slight it over.[b8] --Bacon. Syn: To neglect; disregard; disdain; scorn. Usage: {Slight}, {Neglect}. To slight is stronger than to neglect. We may neglect a duty or person from inconsiderateness, or from being over-occupied in other concerns. To slight is always a positive and intentional act, resulting from feelings of dislike or contempt. We ought to put a kind construction on what appears neglect on the part of a friend; but when he slights us, it is obvious that he is our friend no longer. Beware . . . lest the like befall . . . If they transgress and slight that sole command. --Milton. This my long-sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. --Milton. | |
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Tocology \To*col"o*gy\, n. [Gr. [?] a birth + -logy.] The science of obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition. [Written also {tokology}.] | |
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{Toggle iron}, a harpoon with a pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned. {Toggle joint}, an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure, when any force is applied to bring them into this position. | |
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Tocology \To*col"o*gy\, n. [Gr. [?] a birth + -logy.] The science of obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition. [Written also {tokology}.] | |
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Tous-les-mois \Tous`-les`-mois"\, n. [F., all the months, i.e., every month.] A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of {Canna}, probably {C. edulis}, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year. | |
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Coltsfoot \Colts"foot`\, n. (Bot.) A perennial herb ({Tussilago Farfara}), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine. {Butterbur coltsfoot} (Bot.), a European plant ({Petasites vulgaris}). | |
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Twigless \Twig"less\, a. Having no twigs. | |
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Tazewell County, IL (county, FIPS 179) Location: 40.51264 N, 89.51319 W Population (1990): 123692 (49315 housing units) Area: 1680.7 sq km (land), 23.4 sq km (water) Tazewell County, VA (county, FIPS 185) Location: 37.12551 N, 81.56305 W Population (1990): 45960 (18901 housing units) Area: 1346.2 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) | |
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Tuscaloosa, AL (city, FIPS 77256) Location: 33.23770 N, 87.54098 W Population (1990): 77759 (31194 housing units) Area: 122.0 sq km (land), 26.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 35401, 35405, 35406 | |
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Tuscaloosa County, AL (county, FIPS 125) Location: 33.28794 N, 87.52376 W Population (1990): 150522 (58740 housing units) Area: 3432.4 sq km (land), 69.3 sq km (water) | |
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Tuscola County, MI (county, FIPS 157) Location: 43.48775 N, 83.43666 W Population (1990): 55498 (21231 housing units) Area: 2104.6 sq km (land), 262.2 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
tick-list features n. [Acorn Computers] Features in software or hardware that customers insist on but never use (calculators in desktop TSRs and that sort of thing). The American equivalent would be `checklist features', but this jargon sense of the phrase has not been reported. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Tcl Consortium A non-profit agency dedicated to promoting {Tcl}. {Home (http://www.tclconsortium.org/)}. (1998-11-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
TclX {Extended Tcl} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
tick-list features ({Acorn Computers}) Features in software or hardware that customers insist on but never use (calculators in desktop TSRs and that sort of thing). The American equivalent would be "checklist features", but this jargon sense of the phrase has not been reported. (1995-01-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Tuckals An old statistical package still in use on some {VM} computers. (1995-11-28) |