TACKLE
TACK'LE, noun1. A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and blocks, called a pulley.2. Instruments of action; weapons.She to her tackle fell.3. An ...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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TACKLED
TACK'LED, participle passive Harnessed; seized.1. Made of ropes tacked together.My man shallBring thee cords, made like a tackled stair.
TACKLING
TACK'LING, participle present tense Harnessing; putting on harness; seizing; falling on.TACK'LING, noun Furniture of the masts and yards of a ship, as cordage, sails, etc.1. Ins...
TACKSMAN
TACKS'MAN, noun One who holds a tack or lease of land from another; a tenant or lessee. [Local.]
TACT
TACT, noun [Latin tactus, from tango, [for tago,] to touch.]1. Touch; feeling; formerly, the stroke in beating time in music.2. Peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or dis...
TACTIC
TAC'TICTAC'TICAL, adjective [See Tactics.] Pertaining to the art of military and naval dispositions for battle, evolutions, etc.
TACTICIAN
TACTI'CIAN, noun [See Tactics.] One versed in tactics.
TACTICS
TAC'TICS, noun [Gr. to set, to appoint.] See Tack.]1. The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in order for battle and performing military and naval evolutions...
TACTIL
TAC'TIL, adjective [Latin tactilis, from tango, to touch.] Tangible; susceptible of touch; that may be felt; as tactile sweets; tactile qualities.
TACTILE
TAC'TILETACTIL'ITY, noun Tangibleness; perceptibility of touch.
TACTION
TAC'TION, noun [Latin tactio, tango, to touch.] The act of touching; touch.
TAD-POLE
TAD-POLE, noun [Latin pullus, young.] A frog in its first state from the spawn; a porwiggle.
TADORNA
TADOR'NA, noun A name of the shel-drake, vulpanser, or borough-duck.
TAFELSPATH
TAF'ELSPATH, noun A lamellar mineral of a yellowish grey or rose white, forming masses of prisms interlaced in the gang, chiefly lime and silex.
TAFFEREL
TAF'FEREL, noun The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work.
TAFFETA
TAF'FETA, noun A fine smooth stuff of silk, having usually a remarkable gloss. Taffetas are of all colors.
TAG
TAG, noun [Latin digitus.]1. A metallic point put to the end of a string.2. Something mean and paltry; as tag-rag people. [Vulgar.]3. A young sheep. [Local.]TAG, verb transitive...
TAG-SORE
TAG-SORE, noun A disease in sheep.
TAG-TAIL
TAG-TAIL, noun [tag and tail.] A worm which has its tail of another color.
TAIL
TAIL, noun1. The part of an animal which terminates its body behind. In many quadrupeds, the tail is a shoot or projection covered with hair. In fowls, the tail consists of feat...
TAILAGE
TA'ILAGETA'ILED, adjective Having a tail.
TAILED
TA'ILED, a. Having a tail.
TAILINGS
TA'ILINGS, nounplural [from tail.] The lighter parts of grain blown to one end of the heap in winnowing. [Local.]
TAILOR
TA'ILOR, noun One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments.TA'ILOR, verb intransitive To practice making men's clothes.
TAILORESS
TA'ILORESS, noun a female who makes garments for men.
TAILORING
TA'ILORING, noun The business of a tailor.
TAINT
TAINT, verb transitive [Latin tingo; Gr. to dye, literally to dip, primarily to thrust, the sense of Latin tango; and n not being radical, the real word is tego or tago, coincid...