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- English Word Taperness Definition The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper.
- English Word Tapestried Definition of Tapestry
- English Word Tapestries Definition of Tapestry
- English Word Tapestry Definition A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery.
- English Word Tapestry Definition To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.
- English Word Tapestrying Definition of Tapestry
- English Word Tapet Definition Worked or figured stuff; tapestry.
- English Word Tapeti Definition A small South American hare (Lepus Braziliensis).
- English Word Tapetis Definition of Tapeti
- English Word Tapetum Definition An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.
- English Word Tapeworm Definition Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Taphouse Definition A house where liquors are retailed.
- English Word Taphrenchyma Definition Same as Bothrenchyma.
- English Word Tapinage Definition A lurking or skulking.
- English Word Tapioca Definition A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava.
- English Word Tapir Definition Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.
- English Word Tapiroid Definition Allied to the tapir, or the Tapir family.
- English Word Tapis Definition Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table.
- English Word Tapis Definition To cover or work with figures like tapestry.
- English Word Tapiser Definition A maker of tapestry; an upholsterer.
- English Word Tapish Definition To lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self.
- English Word Taplash Definition Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor.
- English Word Taplings Definition The strong double leathers by which the two parts of a flail are united.
- English Word Tapoa tafa Definition A small carnivorous marsupial (Phascogale penicillata) having long, soft fur, and a very long tail with a tuft of long hairs at the end; -- called also brush-tailed phascogale.
- English Word Tapped Definition of Tap
- English Word Tappen Definition An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.
- English Word Tapper Definition The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer.
- English Word Tappester Definition A female tapster.
- English Word Tappet Definition A lever or projection moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, with a view to produce change or regulate motion.
- English Word Tappice Definition Alt. of Tappis