Webster's Dictionary 1913

757

Tavernman

Tav″ern‐man (?), n.; pl.Tavernmen (�). The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler.

758

Taw

Taw (?), n. Tow. Chaucer.

759

Taw (2)

Taw, v. t. [Cf. Tew to tow, Tow, v. t.] To push; to tug; to tow. Drayton.

760

Taw (3)

Taw (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Tawed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tawing.] [OE. tawen, tewen, AS. tāwian to prepare; cf. D. touwen, Goth. tēwa order, taujan to do, and E. tool. √64. Cf. 1st...

761

Taw (4)

Taw, n. [Cf. AS. tāw instrument.] 1. A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles.2. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.

762

Tawdrily

Taw″dri‐ly (?), adv. In a tawdry manner.

763

Tawdriness

Taw″dri‐ness, n. Quality or state of being tawdry.A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. Richardson.

764

Tawdry

Taw″dry (?), a. [Compar.Tawdrier (?); superl.Tawdriest.] [Said to be corrupted from Saint Audrey, or Auldrey, meaning Saint Ethelreda, implying therefore, originally, bought at ...

765

Tawdry (2)

Taw″dry, n.; pl.Tawdries (�). A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids makeThem tawdries...

766

Tawer

Taw″er (?), n. One who taws; a dresser of white leather.

767

Tawery

Taw″er‐y (?), n. A place where skins are tawed.

768

Tawniness

Taw″ni‐ness (?), n. The quality or state of being tawny.

769

Tawny

Taw″ny (?), a. [Compar.Tawnier (?); superl.Tawniest.] [F. tanné, p. p. of tanner to tan. See Tan, v. t. & n. Cf. Tenné.] Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or ...

770

Taws

Taws (?), n. [See Taw to beat.] A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster. [Written also tawes, tawis, and tawse.]Never use the taws when a gloom...

771

Tax

Tax (?), n. [F. taxe, fr. taxer to tax, L. taxare to touch, sharply, to feel, handle, to censure, value, estimate, fr. tangere, tactum, to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Task, Tast...

772

Tax (2)

Tax (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Taxed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Taxing.] [Cf. F. taxer. See Tax, n.] 1. To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden ...

773

Tax certificate

Tax certificate. (Law) The certificate issued to the purchaser of land at a tax sale certifying to the sale and the payment of the consideration thereof, and entitling the purch...

774

Taxability

Tax′a‐bil″i‐ty (?), n. The quality or state of being taxable; taxableness.

775

Taxable

Tax″a‐ble (?), a. 1. Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable commodities.2. (Law) That may be legally charged by a court ag...

776

Taxaspidean

Tax′as‐pid″e‐an (?), a.(Zoöl.) Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; — said of certain birds.

777

Taxation

Tax‐a″tion (?), n. [F. taxation, L. taxatio a valuing, estimation, from L. taxare. See Tax.] 1. The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by ...

778

Taxel

Tax″el (?), n.(Zoöl.) The American badger.

779

Taxeopoda

‖Tax′e‐op″o‐da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. � (?) + -poda.] (Paleon.) An order of extinct Mammalia found in the Tertiary formations.

780

Taxer

Tax″er (?), n. 1. One who taxes.2. One of two officers chosen yearly to regulate the assize of bread, and to see the true gauge of weights and measures is observed. [Written als...

781

Taxgatherer

Tax″gath′er‐er (?), n. One who collects taxes or revenues. — Tax″gath′er‐ing, n.

782

Taxiarch

Tax″i‐arch (?), n.(Gr. Antiq.) An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army. Milford.

783

Taxicorn

Tax″i‐corn (?), n. [L. taxus a yew + cornu a horn: cf. F. taxicorne.] (Zoöl.) One of a family of beetles (Taxicornes) whose antennæ are largest at the tip. Also used adjectively.