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- English Word Tartronate Definition A salt of tartronic acid.
- English Word Tartronic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid (called also hydroxy malonic acid) obtained, by reducing mesoxalic acid, as a white crystalline substance.
- English Word Tartronyl Definition A hypothetical radical constituting the characteristic residue of tartronic acid and certain of its derivatives.
- English Word Tartrovinic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain acid composed of tartaric acid in combination with ethyl, and now called ethyltartaric acid.
- English Word Tartufe Definition A hypocritical devotee. See the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
- English Word Tartuffe Definition Alt. of Tartufe
- English Word Tartuffish Definition Alt. of Tartufish
- English Word Tartufish Definition Like a tartuffe; precise; hypocritical.
- English Word Tarweed Definition A name given to several resinous-glandular composite plants of California, esp. to the species of Grindelia, Hemizonia, and Madia.
- English Word Tas Definition A heap.
- English Word Tas Definition To tassel.
- English Word Tasco Definition A kind of clay for making melting pots.
- English Word Tasimer Definition An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature.
- English Word Task Definition Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
- English Word Task Definition Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
- English Word Task Definition To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
- English Word Task Definition To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
- English Word Task Definition To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
- English Word Tasked Definition of Task
- English Word Tasker Definition One who imposes a task.
- English Word Tasker Definition One who performs a task, as a day-laborer.
- English Word Tasker Definition A laborer who receives his wages in kind.
- English Word Tasking Definition of Task
- English Word Taskmaster Definition One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer.
- English Word Taskwork Definition Work done as a task; also, work done by the job; piecework.
- English Word Taslet Definition A piece of armor formerly worn to guard the things; a tasse.
- English Word Tasmanian Definition Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically (Ethnol.), in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct.
- English Word Tasse Definition A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.
- English Word Tassel Definition A male hawk. See Tercel.
- English Word Tassel Definition A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.