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- English Word Taw Definition To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
- English Word Taw Definition A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles.
- English Word Taw Definition A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
- English Word Tawdries Definition of Tawdry
- English Word Tawdrily Definition In a tawdry manner.
- English Word Tawdriness Definition Quality or state of being tawdry.
- English Word Tawdry Definition Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.
- English Word Tawdry Definition Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.
- English Word Tawdry Definition A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.
- English Word Tawed Definition of Taw
- English Word Tawer Definition One who taws; a dresser of white leather.
- English Word Tawery Definition A place where skins are tawed.
- English Word Tawing Definition of Taw
- English Word Tawniness Definition The quality or state of being tawny.
- English Word Tawny Definition Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion.
- English Word Taws Definition A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster.
- English Word Tax Definition A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
- English Word Tax Definition A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.
- English Word Tax Definition Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
- English Word Tax Definition A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.