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- English Word Taunting Definition of Taunt
- English Word Taunting Definition a. & n. from Taunt, v.
- English Word Tauntingly Definition In a taunting manner.
- English Word Tauntress Definition A woman who taunts.
- English Word Taur Definition The constellation Taurus.
- English Word Tauricornous Definition Having horns like those of a bull.
- English Word Tauridor Definition A bullfighter; a toreador.
- English Word Tauriform Definition Having the form of a bull.
- English Word Taurine Definition Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.
- English Word Taurine Definition A body occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur, being chemically amido-isethionic acid, C2H7NSO3.
- English Word Taurocholate Definition A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile.
- English Word Taurocholic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid) composed of taurine and cholic acid, present abundantly in human bile and in that of carnivora. It is exceedingly deliquescent, and hence appears generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water and alcohol. It has a bitter taste.
- English Word Taurocol Definition Alt. of Taurocolla
- English Word Taurocolla Definition Glue made from a bull's hide.
- English Word Tauromachian Definition Of or pertaining to bullfights.
- English Word Tauromachian Definition A bullfighter.
- English Word Tauromachy Definition Bullfighting.
- English Word Taurus Definition The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [/] in almanacs.
- English Word Taurus Definition A zodiacal constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran.
- English Word Taurus Definition A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.
- English Word Taurylic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat cattle, and probably identical with cresol.
- English Word Taut Definition Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.
- English Word Taut Definition Snug; close; firm; secure.
- English Word Tautegorical Definition Expressing the same thing with different words; -- opposed to allegorical.
- English Word Tautochrone Definition A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.
- English Word Tautochronous Definition Occupying the same time; pertaining to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone.
- English Word Tautog Definition An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll.
- English Word Tautologic Definition Tautological.
- English Word Tautological Definition Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression.
- English Word Tautologist Definition One who uses tautological words or phrases.