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   tail-flower
         n 1: any of various tropical American plants cultivated for
               their showy foliage and flowers [syn: {anthurium},
               {tailflower}, {tail-flower}]

English Dictionary: tall bilberry by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tailflower
n
  1. any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers
    Synonym(s): anthurium, tailflower, tail-flower
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tailplane
n
  1. the horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged
    Synonym(s): horizontal stabilizer, horizontal stabiliser, tailplane
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tall bellflower
n
  1. annual or perennial of eastern North America with long spikes of blue or white flowers
    Synonym(s): tall bellflower, Campanula americana
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tall bilberry
n
  1. high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries
    Synonym(s): high- bush blueberry, tall bilberry, swamp blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tall field buttercup
n
  1. perennial European buttercup with yellow spring flowers widely naturalized especially in eastern North America
    Synonym(s): meadow buttercup, tall buttercup, tall crowfoot, tall field buttercup, Ranunculus acris
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
telefilm
n
  1. a movie that is made to be shown on television
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tillable
adj
  1. (of farmland) capable of being farmed productively [syn: arable, cultivable, cultivatable, tillable]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toll plaza
n
  1. an area where tollbooths are located
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tolu balsam
n
  1. aromatic yellowish brown balsam from the tolu balsam tree used especially in cough syrups
    Synonym(s): tolu, balsam of tolu, tolu balsam
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tolu balsam tree
n
  1. medium-sized tropical American tree yielding tolu balsam and a fragrant hard wood used for high-grade furniture and cabinetwork
    Synonym(s): tolu tree, tolu balsam tree, Myroxylon balsamum, Myroxylon toluiferum
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tail \Tail\, n. [AS. t[91]gel, t[91]gl; akin to G. zagel, Icel.
      tagl, Sw. tagel, Goth. tagl hair. [fb]59.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior
            appendage of an animal.
  
      Note: The tail of mammals and reptiles contains a series of
               movable vertebr[91], and is covered with flesh and
               hairs or scales like those of other parts of the body.
               The tail of existing birds consists of several more or
               less consolidated vertebr[91] which supports a fanlike
               group of quills to which the term tail is more
               particularly applied. The tail of fishes consists of
               the tapering hind portion of the body ending in a
               caudal fin. The term tail is sometimes applied to the
               entire abdomen of a crustacean or insect, and sometimes
               to the terminal piece or pygidium alone.
  
      2. Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles,
            in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
  
                     Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled
                     waters of those tails that hang on willow trees.
                                                                              --Harvey.
  
      3. Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of
            anything, -- as opposed to the {head}, or the superior
            part.
  
                     The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail.
                                                                              --Deut.
                                                                              xxviii. 13.
  
      4. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
  
                     [bd]Ah,[b8] said he, [bd]if you saw but the chief
                     with his tail on.[b8]                        --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      5. The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head,
            effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the
            expression [bd]heads or tails,[b8] employed when a coin is
            thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its
            fall.
  
      6. (Anat.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
  
      7. (Bot.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes.
            It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
  
      8. (Surg.)
            (a) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end,
                  which does not go through the whole thickness of the
                  skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; --
                  called also {tailing}.
            (b) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by
                  splitting the bandage one or more times.
  
      9. (Naut.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which
            it may be lashed to anything.
  
      10. (Mus.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly
            upward or downward from the head; the stem. --Moore
            (Encyc. of Music).
  
      11. pl. Same as {Tailing}, 4.
  
      12. (Arch.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part,
            as a slate or tile.
  
      13. pl. (Mining) See {Tailing}, n., 5.
  
      {Tail beam}. (Arch.) Same as {Tailpiece}.
  
      {Tail coverts} (Zo[94]l.), the feathers which cover the bases
            of the tail quills. They are sometimes much longer than
            the quills, and form elegant plumes. Those above the
            quills are called the {upper tail coverts}, and those
            below, the {under tail coverts}.
  
      {Tail end}, the latter end; the termination; as, the tail end
            of a contest. [Colloq.]
  
      {Tail joist}. (Arch.) Same as {Tailpiece}.
  
      {Tail of a comet} (Astron.), a luminous train extending from
            the nucleus or body, often to a great distance, and
            usually in a direction opposite to the sun.
  
      {Tail of a gale} (Naut.), the latter part of it, when the
            wind has greatly abated. --Totten.
  
      {Tail of a lock} (on a canal), the lower end, or entrance
            into the lower pond.
  
      {Tail of the trenches} (Fort.), the post where the besiegers
            begin to break ground, and cover themselves from the fire
            of the place, in advancing the lines of approach.
  
      {Tail spindle}, the spindle of the tailstock of a turning
            lathe; -- called also {dead spindle}.
  
      {To turn tail}, to run away; to flee.
  
                     Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out
                     another way; but all was to return in a higher
                     pitch.                                                --Sir P.
                                                                              Sidney.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tailblock \Tail"block`\, n. (Naut.)
      A block with a tail. See {Tail}, 9.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Taleful \Tale"ful\, a.
      Full of stories. [R.] --Thomson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Polyphemus \Pol`y*phe"mus\, n. [L. Polyphemus the one-eyed
      Cyclops who was blinded by Ulysses.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A very large American moth ({Telea polyphemus}) belonging to
      the Silkworm family ({Bombycid[91]}). Its larva, which is
      very large, bright green, with silvery tubercles, and with
      oblique white stripes on the sides, feeds on the oak,
      chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and other trees. It produces
      a large amount of strong silk. Called also {American
      silkworm}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Telepolariscope \Tel`e*po*lar"i*scope\, n. [Gr. [?] far off + E.
      polariscope.] (Opt.)
      A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope.
      --Lockyer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tellable \Tell"a*ble\, a.
      Capable of being told.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tillable \Till"a*ble\, a.
      Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tilly-vally \Til"ly-val`ly\, interj., adv., or a.
      A word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as
      expressive of contempt, or when anything said was reject as
      trifling or impertinent. [Written also {tille-vally},
      {tilly-fally}, {tille-fally}, and otherwise.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tilly-vally \Til"ly-val`ly\, interj., adv., or a.
      A word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as
      expressive of contempt, or when anything said was reject as
      trifling or impertinent. [Written also {tille-vally},
      {tilly-fally}, {tille-fally}, and otherwise.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tilly-vally \Til"ly-val`ly\, interj., adv., or a.
      A word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as
      expressive of contempt, or when anything said was reject as
      trifling or impertinent. [Written also {tille-vally},
      {tilly-fally}, {tille-fally}, and otherwise.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tilly-vally \Til"ly-val`ly\, interj., adv., or a.
      A word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as
      expressive of contempt, or when anything said was reject as
      trifling or impertinent. [Written also {tille-vally},
      {tilly-fally}, {tille-fally}, and otherwise.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Door \Door\, n. [OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura,
      dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. th[81]r, thor,
      Icel. dyrr, Dan. d[94]r, Sw. d[94]rr, Goth. daur, Lith.
      durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. [?]; cf. Skr.
      dur, dv[be]ra. [?][?][?][?]. Cf. {Foreign}.]
      1. An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by
            which to go in and out; an entrance way.
  
                     To the same end, men several paths may tread, As
                     many doors into one temple lead.         --Denham.
  
      2. The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually
            turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house
            or apartment is closed and opened.
  
                     At last he came unto an iron door That fast was
                     locked.                                             --Spenser.
  
      3. Passage; means of approach or access.
  
                     I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall
                     be saved.                                          --John x. 9.
  
      4. An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or
            apartment to which it leads.
  
                     Martin's office is now the second door in the
                     street.                                             --Arbuthnot.
  
      {Blank door}, {Blind door}, etc. (Arch.) See under {Blank},
            {Blind}, etc.
  
      {In doors}, [or] {Within doors}, within the house.
  
      {Next door to}, near to; bordering on.
  
                     A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult.
                                                                              --L'Estrange.
           
  
      {Out of doors}, [or] {Without doors}, and, colloquially, {Out
      doors}, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost.
  
                     His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      {To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door}, to charge
            one with a fault; to blame for.
  
      {To lie at one's door}, to be imputable or chargeable to.
  
                     If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      Note: Door is used in an adjectival construction or as the
               first part of a compound (with or without the hyphen),
               as, door frame, doorbell or door bell, door knob or
               doorknob, door latch or doorlatch, door jamb, door
               handle, door mat, door panel.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lay \Lay\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Laid}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Laying}.] [OE. leggen, AS. lecgan, causative, fr. licgan to
      lie; akin to D. leggen, G. legen, Icel. leggja, Goth. lagjan.
      See {Lie} to be prostrate.]
      1. To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against
            something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a
            book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower
            lays the dust.
  
                     A stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the
                     den.                                                   --Dan. vi. 17.
  
                     Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid. --Milton.
  
      2. To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with
            regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a
            corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers
            on a table.
  
      3. To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to
            lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan.
  
      4. To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
  
      5. To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to
            exorcise, as an evil spirit.
  
                     After a tempest when the winds are laid. --Waller.
  
      6. To cause to lie dead or dying.
  
                     Brave C[91]neus laid Ortygius on the plain, The
                     victor C[91]neus was by Turnus slain. --Dryden.
  
      7. To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk.
  
                     I dare lay mine honor He will remain so. --Shak.
  
      8. To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.
  
      9. To apply; to put.
  
                     She layeth her hands to the spindle.   --Prov. xxxi.
                                                                              19.
  
      10. To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to
            assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.
  
                     The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
                                                                              --Is. Iiii. 6.
  
      11. To impute; to charge; to allege.
  
                     God layeth not folly to them.            --Job xxiv.
                                                                              12.
  
                     Lay the fault on us.                        --Shak.
  
      12. To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on
            one.
  
      13. To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a
            particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
  
      14. (Law) To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue.
            --Bouvier.
  
      15. (Mil.) To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
  
      16. (Rope Making) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable,
            etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as,
            to lay a cable or rope.
  
      17. (Print.)
            (a) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the
                  imposing stone.
            (b) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
  
      {To lay asleep}, to put sleep; to make unobservant or
            careless. --Bacon.
  
      {To lay bare}, to make bare; to strip.
  
                     And laid those proud roofs bare to summer's rain.
                                                                              --Byron.
  
      {To lay before}, to present to; to submit for consideration;
            as, the papers are laid before Congress.
  
      {To lay by}.
            (a) To save.
            (b) To discard.
  
                           Let brave spirits . . . not be laid by.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
      {To lay by the heels}, to put in the stocks. --Shak.
  
      {To lay down}.
            (a) To stake as a wager.
            (b) To yield; to relinquish; to surrender; as, to lay
                  down one's life; to lay down one's arms.
            (c) To assert or advance, as a proposition or principle.
                 
  
      {To lay forth}.
            (a) To extend at length; (reflexively) to exert one's
                  self; to expatiate. [Obs.]
            (b) To lay out (as a corpse). [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      {To lay hands on}, to seize.
  
      {To lay hands on one's self}, or {To lay violent hands on
      one's self}, to injure one's self; specif., to commit
            suicide.
  
      {To lay heads together}, to consult.
  
      {To lay hold of}, or {To lay hold on}, to seize; to catch.
  
      {To lay in}, to store; to provide.
  
      {To lay it on}, to apply without stint. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Leave \Leave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Left}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Leaving}.] [OE. leven, AS. l[?]fan, fr. l[be]f remnant,
      heritage; akin to lifian, libban, to live, orig., to remain;
      cf. bel[c6]fan to remain, G. bleiben, Goth. bileiban. [?].
      See {Live}, v.]
      1. To withdraw one's self from; to go away from; to depart
            from; as, to leave the house.
  
                     Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
                     mother, and shall cleave unto his wife. --Gen. ii.
                                                                              24.
  
      2. To let remain unremoved or undone; to let stay or
            continue, in distinction from what is removed or changed.
  
                     If grape gatherers come to thee, would they not
                     leave some gleaning grapes ?               --Jer. xlix.
                                                                              9.
  
                     These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the
                     other undone.                                    --Matt. xxiii.
                                                                              23.
  
                     Besides it leaveth a suspicion, as if more might be
                     said than is expressed.                     --Bacon.
  
      3. To cease from; to desist from; to abstain from.
  
                     Now leave complaining and begin your tea. --Pope.
  
      4. To desert; to abandon; to forsake; hence, to give up; to
            relinquish.
  
                     Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee. --Mark
                                                                              x. 28.
  
                     The heresies that men do leave.         --Shak.
  
      5. To let be or do without interference; as, I left him to
            his reflections; I leave my hearers to judge.
  
                     I will leave you now to your gossiplike humor.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      6. To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver; to commit; to
            submit -- with a sense of withdrawing one's self from; as,
            leave your hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave
            the matter to arbitrators.
  
                     Leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy
                     way.                                                   --Matt. v. 24.
  
                     The foot That leaves the print of blood where'er it
                     walks.                                                --Shak.
  
      7. To have remaining at death; hence, to bequeath; as, he
            left a large estate; he left a good name; he left a legacy
            to his niece.
  
      {To leave alone}.
            (a) To leave in solitude.
            (b) To desist or refrain from having to do with; as, to
                  leave dangerous chemicals alone.
  
      {To leave off}.
            (a) To desist from; to forbear; to stop; as, to leave off
                  work at six o'clock.
            (b) To cease wearing or using; to omit to put in the usual
                  position; as, to leave off a garment; to leave off the
                  tablecloth.
            (c) To forsake; as, to leave off a bad habit.
  
      {To leave out}, to omit; as, to leave out a word or name in
            writing.
  
      {To leave to one's self}, to let (one) be alone; to cease
            caring for (one).
  
      Syn: Syn>- To quit; depart from; forsake; abandon;
               relinquish; deliver; bequeath; give up; forego; resign;
               surrender; forbear. See {Quit}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Luff \Luff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Luffed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Luffing}.] (Naut.)
      To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer
      the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail
      nearer the wind.
  
      {To luff round}, [or] {To luff alee}, to make the extreme of
            this movement, for the purpose of throwing the ship's head
            into the wind.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Toilful \Toil"ful\, a.
      Producing or involving much toil; laborious; toilsome; as,
      toilful care. --Mickle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tollable \Toll"a*ble\, a.
      Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods. --Wright.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Tallaboa Alta, PR (comunidad, FIPS 81456)
      Location: 18.05208 N, 66.70288 W
      Population (1990): 2399 (690 housing units)
      Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Talleyville, DE (CDP, FIPS 70560)
      Location: 39.81020 N, 75.55034 W
      Population (1990): 6346 (2318 housing units)
      Area: 7.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 19803

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Tool Builder Kit
  
      (TBK) A product from {IPSYS} which allows users to
      develop {CASE} tools appropriate to any {software engineering}
      {methodology}.
  
      (1996-05-08)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Toolbuilder
  
      {Tool Builder Kit}
  
  
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