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  • English Word Taoism Definition One of the popular religions of China, sanctioned by the state.
  • English Word Tap Definition To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.
  • English Word Tap Definition To put a new sole or heel on; as, to tap shoes.
  • English Word Tap Definition A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
  • English Word Tap Definition A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
  • English Word Tap Definition A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
  • English Word Tap Definition To strike a gentle blow.
  • English Word Tap Definition A hole or pipe through which liquor is drawn.
  • English Word Tap Definition A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.
  • English Word Tap Definition Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor; as, a liquor of the same tap.
  • English Word Tap Definition A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
  • English Word Tap Definition A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.
  • English Word Tap Definition To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc.
  • English Word Tap Definition Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury.
  • English Word Tap Definition To draw, or cause to flow, by piercing.
  • English Word Tap Definition To form an internal screw in (anything) by means of a tool called a tap; as, to tap a nut.
  • English Word Tapa Definition A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa.
  • English Word Tapayaxin Definition A Mexican spinous lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; -- called also horned toad.
  • English Word Tape Definition A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.
  • English Word Tape Definition A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.
  • English Word Tapeline Definition A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.
  • English Word Taper Definition A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
  • English Word Taper Definition A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
  • English Word Taper Definition Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
  • English Word Taper Definition To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
  • English Word Taper Definition To make or cause to taper.
  • English Word Tapered Definition of Taper
  • English Word Tapered Definition Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.
  • English Word Tapering Definition of Taper
  • English Word Tapering Definition Becoming gradually smaller toward one end.