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Ta*boo" (?), a. [Written also tapu.] [Polynesian tabu, tapu, sacred, under restriction, a prohibition.] Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo.

||Tac`-au-tac" (?), n. [F., fr. riposter du tac au tac to parry (where tac imitates the sound made by the steel).] (Fencing) The parry which is connected with a riposte; also, a series of quick attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point.

Ta*chis"to*scope (?), n. [Gr. &?;, superl. of &?; swift + -scope.] (Physiol.) An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression.

Tach"o*graph (?), n. [Gr. &?; speed + -graph.] A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.

Ta*chom"e*try (?), n. Measurement by a tachometer; the science or use of tachometers.

Tach"y*graph (?), n. An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript.

Ta*chyg"ra*pher (?), n. [Gr. &?; a fast writer.] One who writes shorthand; a stenographer; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman notary.

Ta*chym"e*ter (?), n. [Tachy- + -meter.] 1. (Surveying) An instrument, esp. a transit or theodolite with stadia wires, for determining quickly the distances, bearings, and elevations of distant objects.

2. A speed indicator; a tachometer.

Ta*chym"e*try (?), n. The science or use of the tachymeter. -- Ta`chy*met"ric (#), a.

Tach"y*scope (?), n. [Gr. &?; quick + -scope.] An early form of antimated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto Anschütz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.

Tack"y (?), a. [Etymol. uncert.] Dowdy, shabby, or neglected in appearance; unkempt. [Local, U. S.]

Tack"y, n. [Written also tackey.] An ill-conditioned, ill-fed, or neglected horse; also, a person in a like condition. [Southern U. S.]

Tact"ful (?), a. Full of tact; characterized by a discerning sense of what is right, proper, or judicious.

Tac"tic*al (?), a. [Gr. &?;. See Tactics.] Of or pert. to military or naval tactics; hence, pert. to, or characterized by, planning or maneuvering.

{ Tæ"ni*a*cide` (?), n. Also Te"ni*a*cide` }. [Tænia + -cide.] (Med.) A remedy to destroy tapeworms.

{ Tæ"ni*a*fuge` (?), n. Also Te"ni*a*fuge` }. [Tænia + L. fugare to drive away.] (Med.) A remedy to expel tapeworms.

{ ||Tæ*ni"a*sis (?), n. Also ||Te*ni"a*sis }. [NL. See Tænia.] (Med.) Ill health due to tænia, or tapeworms.

Ta*gal" (?), n. 1. One of a Malayan race, mainly of central Luzon, next to the Visayans the most numerous of the native peoples of the Philippines. Nearly all are Christians and many are highly educated.

2. The language of the Tagals; Tagalog.

Ta*ga"log (?), n. 1. (Ethnol.) Any member of a certain tribe which is one of the leading and most civilized of those native of the Philippine Islands.

2. The language of the Tagalogs. It belongs to the Malay family of languages and is one of the most highly developed members of the family.

Tag day. A day on which contributions to some public or private charity or fund are solicited promiscuously on the street, and tags given to contributors to wear as an evidence of their having contributed. Such solicitation is now subject to legal restriction in various places.

Tai (?), a. Designating, or pertaining to, the chief linguistic stock of Indo-China, including the peoples of Siamese and Shan speech.

Tai, n. A member of one of the tribes of the Tai stock.

The Tais first appeared in history in Yunnan, and from thence they migrated into Upper Burma. The earliest swarms appear to have entered that tract about two thousand years ago, and were small in number.

Census of India, 1901.

Tail, n. 1. pl. (Rope Making) In some forms of rope-laying machine, pieces of rope attached to the iron bar passing through the grooven wooden top containing the strands, for wrapping around the rope to be laid.