Tack (v. t.) To fasten or attach.
Tack (v. t.) Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.
Tack (v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to.
Tack (v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.
Tack (v. i.) To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4.
Tacker (n.) One who tacks.
Tacket (n.) A small, broad-headed nail.
Tackey (a. & n.) See Tacky.
Tacking (n.) A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim.
Tackle (n.) Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block.
Tackle (n.) Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons.
Tackle (n.) The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used.
Tackled (imp. & p. p.) of Tackle
Tackling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tackle
Tackle (n.) To supply with tackle.
Tackle (n.) To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or wagon.
Tackle (n.) To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game.
Tackle (n.) To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem.
Tackled (a.) Made of ropes tacked together.
Tackling (n.) Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage, sails, etc.
Tackling (n.) Instruments of action; as, fishing tackling.
Tackling (n.) The straps and fixures adjusted to an animal, by which he draws a carriage, or the like; harness.
Tacksmen (pl. ) of Tacksman
Tacksman (n.) One who holds a tack or lease from another; a tenant, or lessee.
Tacky (a.) Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried.
Taconic (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian.
Tact (n.) The sense of touch; feeling.
Tact (n.) The stroke in beating time.
Tact (n.) Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
Tactable (a.) Capable of being touched; tangible.
Tactic (a.) Alt. of Tactical
Tactical (a.) Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics.
Tactic (n.) See Tactics.
Tactician (n.) One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.
Tactics (n.) The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.
Tactics (n.) Hence, any system or method of procedure.
Tactile (a.) Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.
Tactility (n.) The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.
Taction (n.) The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.
Tactless (a.) Destitute of tact.
Tactual (a.) Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.
Tadpole (n.) The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.
Tadpole (n.) The hooded merganser.
Taedium (n.) See Tedium.
Tael (n.) A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.
Taen () Alt. of Ta'en
Ta'en () p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of Taken.
Taeniae (pl. ) of Taenia
Taenia (n.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.
Taenia (n.) A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.
Taenia (n.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.
Taeniada (n. pl.) Same as Taenioidea.
Taeniata (n. pl.) A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.
Taenidia (pl. ) of Taenidium
Taenidium (n.) The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.
Taenioglossa (n. pl.) An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh-water.
Taenioglossate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Taenioglossa.
Taenioid (a.) Ribbonlike; shaped like a ribbon.
Taenioid (a.) Like or pertaining to Taenia.
Taenioidea (n. pl.) The division of cestode worms which comprises the tapeworms. See Tapeworm.
Taeniolae (pl. ) of Taeniola
Taeniola (n.) One of the radial partitions which separate the internal cavities of certain medusae.
Taeniosomi (n. pl.) An order of fishes remarkable for their long and compressed form. The ribbon fishes are examples. See Ribbon fish, under Ribbon.
Tafferer (n.) See Taffrail.
Taffeta (n.) Alt. of Taffety
Taffety (n.) A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times.
Taffrail (n.) The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
Taffy (n.) A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans.
Taffy (n.) Flattery; soft phrases.
Tafia (n.) A variety of rum.
Tag (n.) Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
Tag (n.) A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
Tag (n.) The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
Tag (n.) Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
Tag (n.) A sheep of the first year.
Tag (n.) A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.
Tagged (imp. & p. p.) of Tag
Tagging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tag
Tag (v. t.) To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
Tag (v. t.) To join; to fasten; to attach.
Tag (v. t.) To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.
Tag (v. i.) To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.
Tag (v.) A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.
Tagbelt (n.) Same as Tagsore.
Tagger (n.) One who, or that which, appends or joins one thing to another.
Tagger (n.) That which is pointed like a tag.
Tagger (n.) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.
Tagger (n.) A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
Taglet (n.) A little tag.
Taglia (n.) A peculiar combination of pulleys.
Tagliacotain (a.) Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him.
Taglioni (n.) A kind of outer coat, or overcoat; -- said to be so named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers.
Taglock (n.) An entangled lock, as of hair or wool.
Tagnicate (n.) The white-lipped peccary.
Tag-rag (n. & a.) The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail.
Tagsore (n.) Adhesion of the tail of a sheep to the wool from excoriation produced by contact with the feces; -- called also tagbelt.
Tagtail (n.) A worm which has its tail conspicuously colored.
Tagtail (n.) A person who attaches himself to another against the will of the latter; a hanger-on.
Taguan (n.) A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomes two feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.
Taguicati (n.) The white-lipped peccary.