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- English Word Tamarack Definition The black pine (Pinus Murrayana) of Alaska, California, etc. It is a small tree with fine-grained wood.
- English Word Tamaric Definition A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath.
- English Word Tamarin Definition Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus.
- English Word Tamarind Definition A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide-spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated.
- English Word Tamarind Definition One of the preserved seed pods of the tamarind, which contain an acid pulp, and are used medicinally and for preparing a pleasant drink.
- English Word Tamarisk Definition Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna.
- English Word Tambac Definition See Tombac.
- English Word Tambour Definition A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
- English Word Tambour Definition A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
- English Word Tambour Definition Same as Drum, n., 2(d).
- English Word Tambour Definition A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
- English Word Tambour Definition A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
- English Word Tambour Definition To embroider on a tambour.
- English Word Tamboured Definition of Tambour
- English Word Tambourin Definition A tambourine.
- English Word Tambourin Definition An old Provencal dance of a lively character, common on the stage.
- English Word Tambourine Definition A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.
- English Word Tambouring Definition of Tambour
- English Word Tambreet Definition The duck mole.
- English Word Tamburin Definition See Tambourine.
- English Word Tame Definition To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
- English Word Tame Definition Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
- English Word Tame Definition Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- English Word Tame Definition Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
- English Word Tame Definition To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
- English Word Tame Definition To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
- English Word Tameable Definition Tamable.
- English Word Tamed Definition of Tame
- English Word Tameless Definition Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable.
- English Word Tamely Definition In a tame manner.