Taurocholic
Tau′ro‐chol″ic (?), a. [Taurine + cholic.] (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid) composed of taurine and cholic acid, presen...
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Tau′ro‐chol″ic (?), a. [Taurine + cholic.] (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid) composed of taurine and cholic acid, presen...
{ Tau″ro‐col (?), Tau′ro‐col″la (?), } n. [NL. taurocolla, fr. Gr. ταυρόκολλα; ταυ̑ροσ a bull + κόλλα glue: cf. F. taurocolle.] Glue made from a bull's hide.
Tau′ro‐ma″chi‐an (?), a. [See Tauromachy.] Of or pertaining to bullfights. — n. A bullfighter.
Tau‐rom″a‐chy (?), n. [Gr. ταυρομαχία; ταυ̑ροσ bull + μάχη fight.] Bullfighting.
‖Tau″rus (?), n. [L., akin to Gr. ταυ̑ροσ, and E. steer. See Steer a young ox.] 1. (Astron.) (a) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun e...
Tau‐ryl″ic (?), a. [L. taurus a bull + E. phenylic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat cattle, and probably identical with cresol.
Taut (?), a. [Dan. tæt; akin to E. tight. See Tight.] 1. (Naut.) Tight; stretched; not slack; — said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.2. Sung; close; firm; secure.Taut ha...
Tau‐taug″ (?), n.(Zoöl.) Same as Tautog.
Tau′te‐gor″ic‐al (?), a. [Gr. �, for � � the same + � to speak. Cf. Allegory.] Expressing the same thing with different words; — opposed to allegorical. Coleridge.
Tau″to‐chrone (?), n. [Gr. �, for � � the same + � time: cf. F. tautochrone.] (Math.) A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will a...
Tau‐toch″ro‐nous (?), a.(Math.) Occupying the same time; pertaining to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone.
Tau‐tog″ (?), n. [The pl. of taut, the American Indian name, translated by Roger Williams sheep's heads, and written by him tautaúog.] (Zoöl.) An edible labroid fish (Haitula on...
Tau′to‐log″ic (?), a. Tautological.
Tau′to‐log″ic‐al (?), a. [Cf. F. tautologique.] Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression. — Tau′to‐log″ic‐al‐ly, adv.Tautological echo, an...
Tau‐tol″o‐gist (?), n. One who uses tautological words or phrases.
Tau‐tol″o‐gize (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Tautologized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tautologizing (?).] To repeat the same thing in different words.
Tau‐tol″o‐gous (?), a. Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological. Tooke.
Tau‐tol″o‐gy (?), n. [L. tautologia, Gr. �: cf. F. tautologie.] (Rhet.) A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or...
Tau′to‐mer″ic (?), a.(Chem.) Relating to, or characterized by, tautomerism.
Tau‐tom″er‐ism (?), n.(Chem.) The condition, quality, or relation of metameric substances, or their respective derivatives, which are more or less interchangeable, according as ...
{ Tau′to‐ou″si‐an (?), Tau′to‐ou″si‐ous (?), } a. Having the same essence; being identically of the same nature. Cudworth.
Tau′to‐phon″ic‐al (?), a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, tautophony; repeating the same sound.
Tau‐toph″o‐ny (?), n. Repetition of the same sound.
Tau′to‐zon″al (?), a. [Gr. �; �, for � � the same + E. zonal.] (Crystallog.) Belonging to the same zone; as, tautozonal planes.
Tav″ern (?), n. [OE. taverne, F. taverne, from L. taberna a hut, booth, tavern. Cf. Table, Tabernacle.] A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated...
Tav″ern‐er (?), n. [F. tavernier, L. tabernarius.] One who keeps a tavern. Chaucer. Camden.
Tav″ern‐ing, n. A feasting at taverns. “The misrule of our tavernings.” Bp. Hall.