TATTOOING
TATTOO'ING, participle present tense Marking with various figures by stained lines.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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TATTOO'ING, participle present tense Marking with various figures by stained lines.
TAU, noun The toad fish of Carolina, a species of Gadus.(G.tau.)1. A species of beetle; also, a species of moth, (Phalena;) also, a kind of fly, (Musca.)
TAUGHT, adjective taut. [from the root of tight.] Stretched; not slack.TAUGHT, preterit tense and participle passive of teach. pronoun taut. [Latin doctus.]Experience taught him...
T'AUNT, verb transitive1. To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid.When I had at my pleasure taunted her--2. To exprobrate; to censure.Rail thou in Fulv...
T'AUNTED, participle passive Upbraided with sarcastic or severe words.
T'AUNTER, noun One who taunts, reproaches or upbraids with sarcastic or censorious reflections.
T'AUNTING, participle present tense Treating with severe reflections; upbraiding.
T'AUNTINGLY, adverb With bitter and sarcastic words; insultingly; scoffingly.
TAUR'ICORNOUS, adjective [Latin taurus, a bull, and cornu, horn.]Having horns like a bull.
TAUR'IFORM, adjective [Latin taurus, a bull, and form.]Having the form of a bull.
TAUR'US, noun [Latin] The bull; one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, and the second in order, or that next to Aries. This constellation, according to the British catalogue, co...
TAUTOLOG'ICTAUTOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Tautology.] Repeating the same thing; having the same signification; as a tautological expression or phrase.Tautological echo, an echo t...
TAUTOLOG'ICAL, a. [See Tautology.] Repeating the same thing; having the same signification; as a tautological expression or phrase.Tautological echo, an echo that repeats the sa...
TAUTOL'OGIST, noun One who uses different words or phrases in succession to express the same sense.
TAUTOL'OGIZE, verb intransitive To repeat the same thing in different words.
TAUTOL'OGY, noun [Gr. the same, and word or expression.]A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of a thing in different words or phrases; or a r...
TAV'ERN, noun [Latin taberna; tab, the root of table, a board.]A house licensed to see liquors in small quantities, to be drank on the spot. In some of the United States, tavern...
TAV'ERN-H'AUNTER, noun [tavern and haunt.] One who frequents taverns; one who spends his time and substance in tippling in taverns.
TAV'ERN-KEEPER, noun One who keeps a tavern. In the United States, one who is licensed to sell liquors to be drank in his house, and to entertain travelers and lodgers, together...
TAV'ERN-MAN, noun [tavern and man.] The keeper of a tavern. [Not in use.]1. A tippler.
TAV'ERNERTAV'ERNING, noun A feasting at taverns.
TAV'ERNING, n. A feasting at taverns.
TAW, verb transitive To dress white leather or alum leather; to dress and prepare skins in white, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats and kids, for gloves and the like.TAW, noun...
TAW'DRILY, adverb In a tawdry manner.
TAW'DRINESS, noun [from tawdry.] Tinsel in dress; excessive finery; ostentatious finery without elegance.A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness o...
TAW'DRY, adjective Very fine and showy in colors without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; as a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors....
TAW'ED, participle passive Dressed and made white, as leather.