English Dictionary: tit-tat- toe | by the DICT Development Group |
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Tattoo \Tat*too"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tattooed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tattooing}.] [Of Polynesian origin; cf. New Zealand ta to tattoo, tatu puncturation (in Otaheite).] To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out. | |
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Teated \Teat"ed\, a. Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal. | |
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Ted \Ted\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tedded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tedding}.] [Prob. fr. Icel. te[?]ja to spread manure, fr. ta[?] manure; akin to MHG. zetten to scatter, spread. [fb]58. Cf. {Teathe}.] To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle. The smell of grain or tedded grass. --Milton. The tedded hay and corn sheaved in one field. --Coleridge. | |
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Teeth \Teeth\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Teethed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Teething}.] To breed, or grow, teeth. | |
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d8Tethyodea \[d8]Te`thy*o"de*a\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Tethys + Gr. [?] form.] (Zo[94]l.) A division of Tunicata including the common attached ascidians, both simple and compound. Called also {Tethioidea}. | |
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Deity \De"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Deities}. [OE. deite, F. d[82]it[82], fr. L. deitas, fr. deus a god; akin to divus divine, Jupiter, gen. Jovis, Jupiter, dies day, Gr. di^os divine, Zey`s, gen. Dio`s, Zeus, Skr. d[emac]va divine, as a noun, god, daiva divine, dy[omac] sky, day, hence, the sky personified as a god, and to the first syllable of E. Tuesday, Gael. & Ir. dia God, W. duw. Cf. {Divine}, {Journey}, {Journal}, {Tuesday}.] 1. The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works. They declared with emphasis the perfect deity and the perfect manhood of Christ. --Milman. 2. A god or goddess; a heathen god. To worship calves, the deities Of Egypt. --Milton. {The Deity}, God, the Supreme Being. This great poet and philosopher [Simonides], the more he contemplated the nature of the Deity, found that he waded but the more out of his depth. --Addison. | |
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Tide \Tide\, n. [AS. t[c6]d time; akin to OS. & OFries. t[c6]d, D. tijd, G. zeit, OHG. z[c6]t, Icel. t[c6][?], Sw. & Dan. tid, and probably to Skr. aditi unlimited, endless, where a- is a negative prefix. [fb]58. Cf. {Tidings}, {Tidy}, {Till}, prep., {Time}.] 1. Time; period; season. [Obsoles.] [bd]This lusty summer's tide.[b8] --Chaucer. And rest their weary limbs a tide. --Spenser. Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride. --Spenser. At the tide of Christ his birth. --Fuller. 2. The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence, when the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than the usual tide, called the {spring tide}, as represented in the cut. When the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the {neap tide}. Note: The flow or rising of the water is called flood tide, and the reflux, ebb tide. 3. A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood. [bd]Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.[b8] --Shak. 4. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. --Shak. 5. Violent confluence. [Obs.] --Bacon. 6. (Mining) The period of twelve hours. {Atmospheric tides}, tidal movements of the atmosphere similar to those of the ocean, and produced in the same manner by the attractive forces of the sun and moon. {Inferior tide}. See under {Inferior}, a. {To work double tides}. See under {Work}, v. t. {Tide day}, the interval between the occurrences of two consecutive maxima of the resultant wave at the same place. Its length varies as the components of sun and moon waves approach to, or recede from, one another. A retardation from this cause is called the lagging of the tide, while the acceleration of the recurrence of high water is termed the priming of the tide. See {Lag of the tide}, under 2d {Lag}. {Tide dial}, a dial to exhibit the state of the tides at any time. {Tide gate}. (a) An opening through which water may flow freely when the tide sets in one direction, but which closes automatically and prevents the water from flowing in the other direction. (b) (Naut.) A place where the tide runs with great velocity, as through a gate. {Tide gauge}, a gauge for showing the height of the tide; especially, a contrivance for registering the state of the tide continuously at every instant of time. --Brande & C. {Tide lock}, a lock situated between an inclosed basin, or a canal, and the tide water of a harbor or river, when they are on different levels, so that craft can pass either way at all times of the tide; -- called also {guard lock}. {Tide mill}. (a) A mill operated by the tidal currents. (b) A mill for clearing lands from tide water. {Tide rip}, a body of water made rough by the conflict of opposing tides or currents. {Tide table}, a table giving the time of the rise and fall of the tide at any place. {Tide water}, water affected by the flow of the tide; hence, broadly, the seaboard. {Tide wave}, [or] {Tidal wave}, the swell of water as the tide moves. That of the ocean is called primitive; that of bays or channels derivative. --Whewell. {Tide wheel}, a water wheel so constructed as to be moved by the ebb or flow of the tide. | |
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Tided \Tid"ed\, a. Affected by the tide; having a tide. [bd]The tided Thames.[b8] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Tidy \Ti"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tidied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tidying}.] To put in proper order; to make neat; as, to tidy a room; to tidy one's dress. | |
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Tithe \Tithe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tithed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tithing}.] [As. te[a2][?]ian.] To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on. Ye tithe mint and rue. --Luke xi. 42. | |
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Die \Die\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Died}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dying}.] [OE. deyen, dien, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. deyja; akin to Dan. d[94]e, Sw. d[94], Goth. diwan (cf. Goth. afd[?]jan to harass), OFries. d[?]ia to kill, OS. doian to die, OHG. touwen, OSlav. daviti to choke, Lith. dovyti to torment. Cf. {Dead}, {Death}.] 1. To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought. To die by the roadside of grief and hunger. --Macaulay. She will die from want of care. --Tennyson. 2. To suffer death; to lose life. In due time Christ died for the ungodly. --Rom. v. 6. 3. To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. Letting the secret die within his own breast. --Spectator. Great deeds can not die. --Tennyson. 4. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. His heart died within, and he became as a stone. --1 Sam. xxv. 37. The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca. --Tatler. 5. To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin. 6. To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away. Blemishes may die away and disappear amidst the brightness. --Spectator. 7. (Arch.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. 8. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. {To die in the last ditch}, to fight till death; to die rather than surrender. [bd]There is one certain way,[b8] replied the Prince [William of Orange] [bd] by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin, -- I will die in the last ditch.[b8] --Hume (Hist. of Eng. ). {To die out}, to cease gradually; as, the prejudice has died out. Syn: To expire; decease; perish; depart; vanish. | |
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6. To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only. 7. To put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text. Done to death by slanderous tongues. -- Shak. The ground of the difficulty is done away. -- Paley. Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done away. --Thackeray. To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we must do on the armor of God. -- Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. -- W. Morris (Jason). Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. --Milton. It [[bd]Pilgrim's Progress[b8]] has been done into verse: it has been done into modern English. -- Macaulay. 8. To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.] He was not be done, at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent. -- De Quincey. 9. To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest. [Colloq.] 10. (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note. Note: (a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an auxiliary the verb do has no participle. [bd]I do set my bow in the cloud.[b8] --Gen. ix. 13. [Now archaic or rare except for emphatic assertion.] Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to the knowledge of the public. -- Macaulay. (b) They are often used in emphatic construction. [bd]You don't say so, Mr. Jobson. -- but I do say so.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. [bd]I did love him, but scorn him now.[b8] --Latham. (c) In negative and interrogative constructions, do and did are in common use. I do not wish to see them; what do you think? Did C[91]sar cross the Tiber? He did not. [bd]Do you love me?[b8] --Shak. (d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal verb. [bd]To live and die is all we have to do.[b8] --Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries, the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without to) of the verb represented. [bd]When beauty lived and died as flowers do now.[b8] --Shak. [bd]I . . . chose my wife as she did her wedding gown.[b8] --Goldsmith. My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being. As the light does the shadow. -- Longfellow. In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the most part, archaic or poetical; as, [bd]This just reproach their virtue does excite.[b8] --Dryden. {To do one's best}, {To do one's diligence} (and the like), to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or most diligent efforts. [bd]We will . . . do our best to gain their assent.[b8] --Jowett (Thucyd.). {To do one's business}, to ruin one. [Colloq.] --Wycherley. {To do one shame}, to cause one shame. [Obs.] {To do over}. (a) To make over; to perform a second time. (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. [bd]Boats . . . sewed together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin.[b8] --De Foe. {To do to death}, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.] {To do up}. (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] --Chaucer. (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up. (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.] (d) To starch and iron. [bd]A rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch.[b8] --Hawthorne. {To do way}, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {To do with}, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; -- usually preceded by what. [bd]Men are many times brought to that extremity, that were it not for God they would not know what to do with themselves.[b8] --Tillotson. {To have to do with}, to have concern, business or intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern the person denoted by the subject of have. [bd]Philology has to do with language in its fullest sense.[b8] --Earle. [bd]What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? --2 Sam. xvi. 10. | |
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Eat \Eat\ ([emac]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([amac]t; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. {Eat} ([ecr]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([emac]t"'n), Obs. or Colloq. {Eat} ([ecr]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. [84]ta, Dan. [91]de, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad. [root]6. Cf. {Etch}, {Fret} to rub, {Edible}.] 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. [bd]To eat grass as oxen.[b8] --Dan. iv. 25. They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps. cvi. 28. The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. --Gen. xli. 20. The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings xiii. 28. With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat. --Milton. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. --Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. --Thackeray. 2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear. {To eat humble pie}. See under {Humble}. {To eat of} (partitive use). [bd]Eat of the bread that can not waste.[b8] --Keble. {To eat one's words}, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under {Blurt}.) {To eat out}, to consume completely. [bd]Eat out the heart and comfort of it.[b8] --Tillotson. {To eat the wind out of a vessel} (Naut.), to gain slowly to windward of her. Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode. | |
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Hit \Hit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hit}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hitting}.] [OE. hitten, hutten, of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. hitte to hit, find, Sw. & Icel. hitta.] 1. To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at). I think you have hit the mark. --Shak. 2. To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit. Birds learning tunes, and their endeavors to hit the notes right. --Locke. There you hit him; . . . that argument never fails with him. --Dryden. Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight. --Milton. He scarcely hit my humor. --Tennyson. 3. To guess; to light upon or discover. [bd]Thou hast hit it.[b8] --Shak. 4. (Backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point. {To hit off}, to describe with quick characteristic strokes; as, to hit off a speaker. --Sir W. Temple. {To hit out}, to perform by good luck. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Toe \Toe\, v. i. To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way). {To toe in}, to stand or carry the feet in such a way that the toes of either foot incline toward the other. {To toe out}, to have the toes of each foot, in standing or walking, incline from the other foot. | |
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Toadhead \Toad"head`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The golden plover. [Local, U. S.] | |
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Toady \Toad"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toadied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Toadying}.] To fawn upon with mean sycophancy. | |
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Toot \Toot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tooted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tooting}.] [Cf. D. toeten to blow a horn, G. tuten, Sw. tuta, Dan. tude; probably of imitative origin.] To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown. [bd]A tooting horn.[b8] --Howell. Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches. --Thackeray. | |
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Toothed \Toothed\, a. 1. Having teeth; furnished with teeth. [bd]Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl.[b8] --Herrick. 2. (Bot. & Zo[94]l.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate. {Toothed whale} (Zo[94]l.), any whale of the order Denticete. See {Denticete}. {Toothed wheel}, a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by their action on the engaging teeth of another wheel. | |
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Tooth \Tooth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toothed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Toothing}.] 1. To furnish with teeth. The twin cards toothed with glittering wire. --Wordsworth. 2. To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw. 3. To lock into each other. See {Tooth}, n., 4. --Moxon. | |
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Tote \Tote\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Toting}.] [Said to be of African origin.] To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; -- a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes. | |
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Tot \Tot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Totted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Totting}.] 1. To mark with the word [bd]tot[b8]; as, a totted debt. See {Tot}, n. 2. [Cf. {Total}.] To add; to count; to make up the sum of; to total; -- often with up. [Colloq., Eng.] The last two tot up the bill. --Thackeray. | |
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Tout \Tout\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Touted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Touting}.] 1. To look narrowly; spy. [Scot. & Dial. Eng.] 2. (Horse Racing) (a) To spy out the movements of race horses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes. [Cant, Eng.] (b) To act as a tout; to tout, or give a tip on, a race horse. [Cant, U. S.] | |
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Twit \Twit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Twitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Twitting}.] [OE. atwiten, AS. [91]tw[c6]tan to reproach, blame; [91]t at + w[c6]tan to reproach, blame; originally, to observe, see, hence, to observe what is wrong (cf. the meanings of E. animadvert; akin to G. verweisen to censure, OHG. firw[c6]zan, Goth. traweitan to avenge, L. videre to see. See {Vision}, {Wit}.] To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood. This these scoffers twitted the Christian with. --Tillotson. [92]sop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss. --L'Estrange. | |
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Tidioute, PA (borough, FIPS 76696) Location: 41.68355 N, 79.40212 W Population (1990): 791 (373 housing units) Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 16351 | |
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Twodot, MT Zip code(s): 59085 |