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   Tachypleus
         n 1: a genus of Limulidae [syn: {Tachypleus}, {genus
               Tachypleus}]

English Dictionary: take place	by the DICT Development Group
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take flight v run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled" [syn: flee, fly, take flight]
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take place v come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" Synonym(s): happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
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tax bill n money owed for taxes
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tax policy n a program for setting taxes [syn: tax program, {tax policy}]
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taxability n liability to taxation
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taxable adj (of goods or funds) subject to taxation; "taxable income"; "nonexempt property" Synonym(s): taxable, nonexempt Antonym(s): exempt, nontaxable
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teachable adj ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters" Synonym(s): docile, teachable
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teacupful n as much as a teacup will hold Synonym(s): teacup, teacupful
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Tecophilaeacea n one of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted Synonym(s): Tecophilaeacea, family Tecophilaeacea
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thick-billed adj having a thick beak
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thick-billed murre n a variety of murre [syn: thick-billed murre, {Uria lomvia}]
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Thuja plicata n large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States Synonym(s): western red cedar, red cedar, canoe cedar, Thuja plicata
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tissue plasminogen activator n a thrombolytic agent (trade name Activase) that causes fibrinolysis at the site of a blood clot; used in treating acute myocardial infarction Synonym(s): tissue plasminogen activator, Activase
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Tocqueville n French political writer noted for his analysis of American institutions (1805-1859) Synonym(s): Tocqueville, Alexis de Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice de Tocqueville
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touchable adj perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch; "skin with a tangible roughness" Synonym(s): tangible, touchable Antonym(s): impalpable, intangible
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touchy-feely adj (often derogatory) openly expressing love and affection (especially through physical contact)
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toxoplasmosis n infection caused by parasites transmitted to humans from infected cats; if contracted by a pregnant woman it can result in serious damage to the fetus
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twig blight n a disease of the ends of twigs of woody plants
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Tagsore \Tag"sore`\, n. (Far.) Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also {tagbelt}. [Obs.]
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Tagbelt \Tag"belt`\, n. (Far.) Same as {Tagsore}. [Obs.]
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Tagsore \Tag"sore`\, n. (Far.) Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also {tagbelt}. [Obs.]
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Tagbelt \Tag"belt`\, n. (Far.) Same as {Tagsore}. [Obs.]
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Taxability \Tax`abil"ity\, n. The quality or state of being taxable; taxableness.
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Taxable \Tax"able\, a. 1. Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable commodities. 2. (Law) That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs. -- {Tax"ableness}, n. -- {Tax"ably}, adv.
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Taxable \Tax"able\, a. 1. Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable commodities. 2. (Law) That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs. -- {Tax"ableness}, n. -- {Tax"ably}, adv.
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Taxable \Tax"able\, a. 1. Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable commodities. 2. (Law) That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs. -- {Tax"ableness}, n. -- {Tax"ably}, adv.
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Teachable \Teach"a*ble\, a. Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile. We ought to bring our minds free, unbiased, and teachable, to learn our religion from the Word of God. --I. Watts.
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Teachableness \Teach"ableness\, n. Willingness to be taught.
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Teacupful \Tea"cup`ful\, n.; pl. {Teacupfuls}. As much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.
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Teacupful \Tea"cup`ful\, n.; pl. {Teacupfuls}. As much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.
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Chevalier \Che`va*lier"\, n. [F., fr. LL. caballarius. See {Cavaller}.] 1. A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. [bd]Mount, chevaliers; to arms.[b8] --Shak. 2. A member of certain orders of knighthood. {[d8]Chevalier d'industrie}[F.], one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper. {The Chevalier St. George} (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called [bd]The Pretender.[b8] {The Young Chevalier}, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalier St. George.
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Spoil \Spoil\, n. [Cf. OF. espoille, L. spolium.] 1. That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty. Gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. --Milton. 2. Public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as to the victor belong the spoils. From a principle of gratitude I adhered to the coalition; my vote was counted in the day of battle, but I was overlooked in the division of the spoil. --Gibbon. 3. That which is gained by strength or effort. each science and each art his spoil. --Bentley. 4. The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoil. --Shak. 5. Corruption; cause of corruption. [Archaic] Villainous company hath been the spoil of me. --Shak. 6. The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal. [Obs.] --Bacon. {Spoil bank}, a bank formed by the earth taken from an excavation, as of a canal. {The spoils system}, the theory or practice of regarding public and their emoluments as so much plunder to be distributed among their active partisans by those who are chosen to responsible offices of administration.
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Art \Art\ ([aum]rt), n. [F. art, L. ars, artis, orig., skill in joining or fitting; prob. akin to E. arm, aristocrat, article.] 1. The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes. Blest with each grace of nature and of art. --Pope. 2. A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation. Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is knowledge made efficient by skill. --J. F. Genung. 3. The systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or business requiring such knowledge or skill. The fishermen can't employ their art with so much success in so troubled a sea. --Addison. 4. The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature. 5. pl. Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. --Pope. Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. --Goldsmith. 6. Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters. [Archaic] So vast is art, so narrow human wit. --Pope. 7. Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; as, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage. 8. Skillful plan; device. They employed every art to soothe . . . the discontented warriors. --Macaulay. 9. Cunning; artifice; craft. Madam, I swear I use no art at all. --Shak. Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength. --Crabb. 10. The black art; magic. [Obs.] --Shak. {Art and part} (Scots Law), share or concern by aiding and abetting a criminal in the perpetration of a crime, whether by advice or by assistance in the execution; complicity. Note: The arts are divided into various classes. {The useful, mechanical, [or] industrial arts} are those in which the hands and body are more concerned than the mind; as in making clothes and utensils. These are called trades. {The fine arts} are those which have primarily to do with imagination and taste, and are applied to the production of what is beautiful. They include poetry, music, painting, engraving, sculpture, and architecture; but the term is often confined to painting, sculpture, and architecture. {The liberal arts} (artes liberales, the higher arts, which, among the Romans, only freemen were permitted to pursue) were, in the Middle Ages, these seven branches of learning, -- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. In modern times the liberal arts include the sciences, philosophy, history, etc., which compose the course of academical or collegiate education. Hence, degrees in the arts; master and bachelor of arts. In America, literature and the elegant arts must grow up side by side with the coarser plants of daily necessity. --Irving. Syn: Science; literature; aptitude; readiness; skill; dexterity; adroitness; contrivance; profession; business; trade; calling; cunning; artifice; duplicity. See {Science}.
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Thickbill \Thick"bill`\, n. The bullfinch. [Prov. Eng.]
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Ticpolonga \Tic`po*lon"ga\, n. [Native name.] (Zo[94]l.) A very venomous viper ({Daboia Russellii}), native of Ceylon and India; -- called also {cobra monil}.
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Chop \Chop\, v. t. [Cf. D. koopen to buy. See {Cheapen}, v. t., and cf. {Chap}, v. i., to buy.] 1. To barter or truck. 2. To exchange; substitute one thing for another. We go on chopping and changing our friends. --L'Estrange. {To chop logic}, to dispute with an affected use of logical terms; to argue sophistically.
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Explain \Ex*plain"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Explained}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Explaining}.] [L. explandare to flatten, spread out, explain; ex out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, explaner. See {Plain},a., and cf. {Esplanade}.] 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.] The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. --Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible. Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you. --Gay. {To explain away}, to get rid of by explanation. [bd]Those explain the meaning quite away.[b8] --Pope. Syn: To expound; interpret; elucidate; clear up.
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Loose \Loose\, n. 1. Freedom from restraint. [Obs.] --Prior. 2. A letting go; discharge. --B. Jonson. {To give a loose}, to give freedom. Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow. --Addison.
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Give \Give\ (g[icr]v), v. t. [imp. {Gave} (g[amac]v); p. p. {Given} (g[icr]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Giving}.] [OE. given, yiven, yeven, AS. gifan, giefan; akin to D. geven, OS. ge[edh]an, OHG. geban, G. geben, Icel. gefa, Sw. gifva, Dan. give, Goth. giban. Cf. {Gift}, n.] 1. To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow. For generous lords had rather give than pay. --Young. 2. To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy. What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? --Matt. xvi. 26. 3. To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks. 4. To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc. 5. To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission. It is given me once again to behold my friend. --Rowe. Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine. --Pope. 6. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship. 7. To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study. 8. (Logic & Math.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given. 9. To allow or admit by way of supposition. I give not heaven for lost. --Mlton. 10. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover. --Sheridan. 11. To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain. 12. To pledge; as, to give one's word. 13. To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc. But there the duke was given to understand That in a gondola were seen together Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica. --Shak. {To give away}, to make over to another; to transfer. Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our lives, is given away from ourselves. --Atterbury. {To give back}, to return; to restore. --Atterbury. {To give the bag}, to cheat. [Obs.] I fear our ears have given us the bag. --J. Webster. {To give birth to}. (a) To bear or bring forth, as a child. (b) To originate; to give existence to, as an enterprise, idea. {To give chase}, to pursue. {To give ear to}. See under {Ear}. {To give forth}, to give out; to publish; to tell. --Hayward. {To give ground}. See under {Ground}, n. {To give the hand}, to pledge friendship or faith. {To give the hand of}, to espouse; to bestow in marriage. {To give the head}. See under {Head}, n. {To give in}. (a) To abate; to deduct. (b) To declare; to make known; to announce; to tender; as, to give in one's adhesion to a party. {To give the lie to} (a person), to tell (him) that he lies. {To give line}. See under {Line}. {To give off}, to emit, as steam, vapor, odor, etc. {To give one's self away}, to make an inconsiderate surrender of one's cause, an unintentional disclosure of one's purposes, or the like. [Colloq.] {To give out}. (a) To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare. One that gives out himself Prince Florizel. --Shak. Give out you are of Epidamnum. --Shak. (b) To send out; to emit; to distribute; as, a substance gives out steam or odors. {To give over}. (a) To yield completely; to quit; to abandon. (b) To despair of. (c) To addict, resign, or apply (one's self). The Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice. --Grew. {To give place}, to withdraw; to yield one's claim. {To give points}. (a) In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a certain advantage; to allow a handicap. (b) To give useful suggestions. [Colloq.] {To give rein}. See under {Rein}, n. {To give the sack}. Same as {To give the bag}. {To give and take}. (a) To average gains and losses. (b) To exchange freely, as blows, sarcasms, etc. {To give time} (Law), to accord extension or forbearance to a debtor. --Abbott. {To give the time of day}, to salute one with the compliment appropriate to the hour, as [bd]good morning.[b8] [bd]good evening[b8], etc. {To give tongue}, in hunter's phrase, to bark; -- said of dogs. {To give up}. (a) To abandon; to surrender. [bd]Don't give up the ship.[b8] He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome. --Shak. (b) To make public; to reveal. I'll not state them By giving up their characters. --Beau. & Fl. (c) (Used also reflexively.) {To give up the ghost}. See under {Ghost}. {To give one's self up}, to abandon hope; to despair; to surrender one's self. {To give way}. (a) To withdraw; to give place. (b) To yield to force or pressure; as, the scaffolding gave way. (c) (Naut.) To begin to row; or to row with increased energy. (d) (Stock Exchange). To depreciate or decline in value; as, railroad securities gave way two per cent. {To give way together}, to row in time; to keep stroke. Syn: To {Give}, {Confer}, {Grant}. Usage: To give is the generic word, embracing all the rest. To confer was originally used of persons in power, who gave permanent grants or privileges; as, to confer the order of knighthood; and hence it still denotes the giving of something which might have been withheld; as, to confer a favor. To grant is to give in answer to a petition or request, or to one who is in some way dependent or inferior.
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7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over or through. By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject. --South. 8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate. The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live. --Shak. 9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come. I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away. --Ex. viii. 28. 10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die. By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W. Scott. 11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New York. His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow. --Dryden. 12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law. Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb, lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go astray, etc. {Go to}, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation, serious or ironical. {To go a-begging}, not to be in demand; to be undesired. {To go about}. (a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to undertake. [bd]They went about to slay him.[b8] --Acts ix. 29. They never go about . . . to hide or palliate their vices. --Swift. (b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear. {To go abraod}. (a) To go to a foreign country. (b) To go out of doors. (c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be current. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren. --John xxi. 23. {To go against}. (a) To march against; to attack. (b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to. {To go ahead}. (a) To go in advance. (b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed. {To go and come}. See {To come and go}, under {Come}. {To go aside}. (a) To withdraw; to retire. He . . . went aside privately into a desert place. --Luke. ix. 10. (b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29. {To go back on}. (a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps). (b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U. S.] {To go below} (Naut), to go below deck. {To go between}, to interpose or mediate between; to be a secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander. {To go beyond}. See under {Beyond}. {To go by}, to pass away unnoticed; to omit. {To go by the board} (Naut.), to fall or be carried overboard; as, the mast went by the board. {To go down}. (a) To descend. (b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down. (c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc. (d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. [Colloq.] Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange. {To go far}. (a) To go to a distance. (b) To have much weight or influence. {To go for}. (a) To go in quest of. (b) To represent; to pass for. (c) To favor; to advocate. (d) To attack; to assault. [Low] (e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price). {To go for nothing}, to be parted with for no compensation or result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count for nothing. {To go forth}. (a) To depart from a place. (b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate. The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv. 2. {To go hard with}, to trouble, pain, or endanger. {To go in}, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.] {To go in and out}, to do the business of life; to live; to have free access. --John x. 9. {To go in for}. [Colloq.] (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.). (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc. He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else. --Dickens. {To go in to} [or] {unto}. (a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16. (b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.] {To go into}. (a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question, subject, etc.). (b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.). {To go large}. (Naut) See under {Large}. {To go off}. (a) To go away; to depart. The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you. --Shak. (b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off. (c) To die. --Shak. (d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of a gun, a mine, etc. (e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of. (f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished. The wedding went off much as such affairs do. --Mrs. Caskell. {To go on}. (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to go on reading. (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will not go on. {To go all fours}, to correspond exactly, point for point. It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours. --Macaulay. {To go out}. (a) To issue forth from a place. (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition. There are other men fitter to go out than I. --Shak. What went ye out for to see ? --Matt. xi. 7, 8, 9. (c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as news, fame etc. (d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as, the light has gone out. Life itself goes out at thy displeasure. --Addison. {To go over}. (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides. I must not go over Jordan. --Deut. iv. 22. Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. --Deut. iii. 25. Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites. --Jer. xli. 10. (b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go over one's accounts. If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing. --Tillotson. (c) To transcend; to surpass. (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the session. (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into dextrose and levulose. {To go through}. (a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work. (b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a surgical operation or a tedious illness. (c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune. (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang] (e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.] {To go through with}, to perform, as a calculation, to the end; to complete. {To go to ground}. (a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox. (b) To fall in battle. {To go to naught} (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or unavailling. {To go under}. (a) To set; -- said of the sun. (b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.). (c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish; to succumb. {To go up}, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail. [Slang] {To go upon}, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis. {To go with}. (a) To accompany. (b) To coincide or agree with. (c) To suit; to harmonize with. {To go} ( {well}, {ill}, [or] {hard}) {with}, to affect (one) in such manner. {To go without}, to be, or to remain, destitute of. {To go wrong}. (a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray. (b) To depart from virtue. (c) To happen unfortunately. (d) To miss success. {To let go}, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to release.
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Halfcock \Half"cock`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Halfcocked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Halfcocking}.] To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch. {To go off halfcocked}. (a) To be discharged prematurely, or with the trigger at half cock; -- said of a firearm. (b) To do or say something without due thought or care. [Colloq. or Low]
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Gobble \Gob"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gobbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gobbling}.] [Freq. of 2d gob.] 1. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp. Supper gobbled up in haste. --Swift. 2. To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock. He . . . gobbles out a note of self-approbation. --Goldsmith. {To gobble up}, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. [Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Splice \Splice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spliced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Splicing}.] [D. splitsen, splitten; akin to G. splissen, Sw. splissa, Dan. splisse, and E. split; -- from the dividing or splitting the ends into separate strands. See {Split}, v. t.] 1. To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope. 2. To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast. 3. To unite in marrige. [Slang] {Splice grafting}.ee under {Grafting}. {To splice the main brace} (Naut.), to give out, or drink, an extra allowance of spirits on occasion of special exposure to wet or cold, or to severe fatigue; hence, to take a dram.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Split \Split\ (spl[icr]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Split} ({Splitted}, R.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Splitting}.] [Probably of Scand. or Low german origin; cf. Dan. splitte, LG. splitten, OD. splitten, spletten, D. splijten, G. spleissen, MHG. spl[c6]zen. Cf. {Splice}, {Splint}, {Splinter}.] 1. To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin. Cold winter split the rocks in twain. --Dryden. 2. To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder. A huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water. --Boyle. 3. To divide or break up into parts or divisions, as by discord; to separate into parts or parties, as a political party; to disunite. [Colloq.] --South. 4. (Chem.) To divide or separate into components; -- often used with up; as, to split up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. {To split hairs}, to make distinctions of useless nicety.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hair \Hair\, n. [OE. her, heer, h[91]r, AS. h[aemac]r; akin to OFries, h[emac]r, D. & G. haar, OHG. & Icel. h[amac]r, Dan. haar, Sw. h[86]r; cf. Lith. kasa.] 1. The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body. 2. One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin. Then read he me how Sampson lost his hairs. --Chaucer. And draweth new delights with hoary hairs. --Spenser. 3. Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions. 4. (Zo[94]l.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. 5. An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily ({Nuphar}). 6. A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm. 7. A haircloth. [Obc.] --Chaucer. 8. Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth. Note: Hairs is often used adjectively or in combination; as, hairbrush or hair brush, hair dye, hair oil, hairpin, hair powder, a brush, a dye, etc., for the hair. {Against the hair}, in a rough and disagreeable manner; against the grain. [Obs.] [bd]You go against the hair of your professions.[b8] --Shak. {Hair bracket} (Ship Carp.), a molding which comes in at the back of, or runs aft from, the figurehead. {Hair cells} (Anat.), cells with hairlike processes in the sensory epithelium of certain parts of the internal ear. {Hair compass}, {Hair divider}, a compass or divider capable of delicate adjustment by means of a screw. {Hair glove}, a glove of horsehair for rubbing the skin. {Hair lace}, a netted fillet for tying up the hair of the head. --Swift. {Hair line}, a line made of hair; a very slender line. {Hair moth} (Zo[94]l.), any moth which destroys goods made of hair, esp. {Tinea biselliella}. {Hair pencil}, a brush or fine hair, for painting; -- generally called by the name of the hair used; as, a camel's hair pencil, a sable's hair pencil, etc. {Hair plate}, an iron plate forming the back of the hearth of a bloomery fire. {Hair powder}, a white perfumed powder, as of flour or starch, formerly much used for sprinkling on the hair of the head, or on wigs. {Hair seal} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of eared seals which do not produce fur; a sea lion. {Hair seating}, haircloth for seats of chairs, etc. {Hair shirt}, a shirt, or a band for the loins, made of horsehair, and worn as a penance. {Hair sieve}, a strainer with a haircloth bottom. {Hair snake}. See {Gordius}. {Hair space} (Printing), the thinnest metal space used in lines of type. {Hair stroke}, a delicate stroke in writing. {Hair trigger}, a trigger so constructed as to discharge a firearm by a very slight pressure, as by the touch of a hair. --Farrow. {Not worth a hair}, of no value. {To a hair}, with the nicest distinction. {To split hairs}, to make distinctions of useless nicety.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Split \Split\, v. i. 1. To part asunder; to be rent; to burst; as, vessels split by the freezing of water in them. 2. To be broken; to be dashed to pieces. The ship splits on the rock. --Shak. 3. To separate into parties or factions. [Colloq.] 4. To burst with laughter. [Colloq.] Each had a gravity would make you split. --Pope. 5. To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach. [Slang] --Thackeray. 6. (Blackjack) to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value. {To split on a rock}, to err fatally; to have the hopes and designs frustrated.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Touchable \Touch"able\, a. Capable of being touched; tangible. -- {Touch"able*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Touchable \Touch"able\, a. Capable of being touched; tangible. -- {Touch"able*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Toxophilite \Toxoph"ilite\, n. [Gr. to`xon a bow + filei^n to love.] A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Teays Valley, WV (CDP, FIPS 79545) Location: 38.44803 N, 81.92751 W Population (1990): 8436 (3315 housing units) Area: 19.3 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Toccopola, MS (town, FIPS 73760) Location: 34.25567 N, 89.23440 W Population (1990): 154 (75 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
TACPOL A {PL/I}-like language used by the US Army for command and control. (2001-01-31)