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- English Word Tactics Definition Hence, any system or method of procedure.
- English Word Tactile Definition Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.
- English Word Tactility Definition The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.
- English Word Taction Definition The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.
- English Word Tactless Definition Destitute of tact.
- English Word Tactual Definition Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.
- English Word Tadpole Definition The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.
- English Word Tadpole Definition The hooded merganser.
- English Word Taedium Definition See Tedium.
- English Word Tael Definition A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.
- English Word Taen Definition Alt. of Ta'en
- English Word Taenia Definition A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.
- English Word Taenia Definition A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.
- English Word Taenia Definition The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.
- English Word Taeniada Definition Same as Taenioidea.
- English Word Taeniae Definition of Taenia
- English Word Taeniata Definition A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.
- English Word Taenidia Definition of Taenidium
- English Word Taenidium Definition The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.
- English Word Taenioglossa Definition An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh-water.