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  • English Word Tawer Definition One who taws; a dresser of white leather.
  • English Word Tawery Definition A place where skins are tawed.
  • English Word Tawing Definition of Taw
  • English Word Tawniness Definition The quality or state of being tawny.
  • English Word Tawny Definition Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion.
  • English Word Taws Definition A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster.
  • English Word Tax Definition A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
  • English Word Tax Definition A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.
  • English Word Tax Definition Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
  • English Word Tax Definition A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
  • English Word Tax Definition A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
  • English Word Tax Definition A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
  • English Word Tax Definition Charge; censure.
  • English Word Tax Definition A lesson to be learned; a task.
  • English Word Tax Definition To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.
  • English Word Tax Definition To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
  • English Word Tax Definition To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.
  • English Word Taxability Definition The quality or state of being taxable; taxableness.
  • English Word Taxable Definition Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable commodities.
  • English Word Taxable Definition That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs.
  • English Word Taxaspidean Definition Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; -- said of certain birds.
  • English Word Taxation Definition The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.
  • English Word Taxation Definition The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost.
  • English Word Taxation Definition Tax; sum imposed.
  • English Word Taxation Definition Charge; accusation.
  • English Word Taxed Definition of Tax
  • English Word Taxel Definition The American badger.
  • English Word Taxeopoda Definition An order of extinct Mammalia found in the Tertiary formations.
  • English Word Taxer Definition One who taxes.
  • English Word Taxer Definition One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed.