1. A thick resinous substance of a dark brown or black color, obtained from pine and fir trees, by burning the wood with a close smothering heat. NWAD TAR.2
Tar inspissated is called pitch, and is much used in ships and cordage. NWAD TAR.3
2. A sailor; so called form his tarred clothes. NWAD TAR.4
1. To tease; to provoke. [Not in use.] NWAD TAR.6
Slow-paced; moving or stepping slowly. NWAD TARDIGRADE.2
1. Unwillingness; reluctance manifested by slowness. NWAD TARDINESS.2
2. Lateness; as the tardiness of witnesses or jurors in attendance; the tardiness of students in attending prayers or recitation. NWAD TARDINESS.3
1. Slow; with a slow pace or motion. NWAD TARDY.2
And check the tardy flight of time. NWAD TARDY.3
2. Late; dilatory; not being in season. NWAD TARDY.4
The tardy plants in our cold orchards plac’d NWAD TARDY.5
You may freely censure him for being tardy in his payments. NWAD TARDY.6
3. Slow; implying reluctance. NWAD TARDY.7
Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. NWAD TARDY.8
4. Unwary. [Not in use.] NWAD TARDY.9
5. Criminal. [Not in use.] NWAD TARDY.10
The mellow horn NWAD TARDY-GAITED.2
Chides the tardy-gaited morn. NWAD TARDY-GAITED.3
1. A weed that grows among corn. NWAD TARE.2
Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13:36. NWAD TARE.3
2. In agriculture, a plant of the vetch kind, of which there are two sorts, the purple flowered spring or summer tare, and the purple-flowered wild or winter tare. It is much cultivated in England for fodder. NWAD TARE.4
1. In commerce, deficiency in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag or other thing containing the commodity, and which is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity from the weight or quantity of a commodity sold in a cask, chest, bag or the like, which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, chest or bag; or the abatement may be on the price of the commodity sold. When the tare is deducted, the remainder is called the net or neat weight. NWAD TARE.6
1. A shield or buckler of a small kind, used as a defensive weapon in war. NWAD TARGET.2
2. A mark for the artillery to fire at in their practice. NWAD TARGET.3
1. Properly, a list or table of goods with the duties or customs to be paid for the same, either on importation or exportation, whether such duties are imposed by the government of a country, or agreed on by the princes or governments of two countries holding commerce with each other. NWAD TARIF.2
2. A list or table of duties or customs to be paid on goods imported or exported. NWAD TARIF.3
1. To sully; to soil by an alteration induced by the air, or by dust and the like; to diminish or destroy luster; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the brightness or beauty of color. NWAD TARNISH.2
2. To diminish or destroy the purity of; as to tarnish reputation or honor. NWAD TARNISH.3
Gold and silver, when tarnished, resume their brightness by setting them over certain lyes. Copper and pewter, etc. tarnished, recover their luster with tripoli and potashes. NWAD TARNISHED.2
1. A sailor; in contempt. NWAD TARPAULIN.2
1. [from tarry.] One who tarries or delays. NWAD TARRIER.2
1. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge. NWAD TARRY.2
Tarry all night and wash your feet. Genesis 19:2. NWAD TARRY.3
2. To stay behind. Exodus 12:39. NWAD TARRY.4
3. To stay in expectation; to wait. NWAD TARRY.5
Tarry ye here for us, till we come again to you. Exodus 24:14. NWAD TARRY.6
4. To delay; to put off going or coming; to defer. NWAD TARRY.7
Come down to me, tarry not. Genesis 45:9. NWAD TARRY.8
5. To remain; to stay. NWAD TARRY.9
He that telleth lies, shall not tarry in my sight. Psalm 101:7. NWAD TARRY.10
I cannot tarry dinner. [Not in use.] NWAD TARRY.12
[This word is in respectable use.] NWAD TARRYING.3
1. Acid; sharp to the taste; acidulous; as a tart apple. NWAD TART.2
2. Sharp; keen; severe; as a tart reply; tart language; a tart rebuke. NWAD TART.3
1. An acid concrete salt, formed from wines completely fermented, and adhering to the sides of the casks in the form of a hard crust. It is white or red, the white being most esteemed. In its crude state, it is much used as a flux in the assaying of ores. NWAD TARTAR.2
Tartar is a supertartrate of potash; that is, a compound of tartaric acid and potash, having the acid in excess. NWAD TARTAR.3
2. A person of a keen irritable temper. NWAD TARTAR.4
3. A native of Tartary; a corruption of Tatar. NWAD TARTAR.5
Tartaric acid, the acid of tartar. NWAD TARTARIC.2
1. Sharply; with poignancy; severely; as, to reply or rebuke tartly. NWAD TARTLY.2
2. With sourness of aspect. NWAD TARTLY.3
1. Sharpness of language or manner; poignancy; keenness; severity; as the tartness of rebuke. NWAD TARTNESS.2
1. Business imposed by another, often a definite quantity or amount of labor. Each man has his task. When he has performed his task, his time is his own. Exodus 5:13. NWAD TASK.2
2. Business; employment. NWAD TASK.3
His mental powers were equal to greater tasks. NWAD TASK.4
3. Burdensome employment. NWAD TASK.5
To take to task, to reprove; to reprimand; as, to take one to task for idleness. NWAD TASK.6
1. To impose a task; to assign to one a definite amount of business or labor. NWAD TASK.8
2. To burden with some employment; to require to perform. NWAD TASK.9
There task thy maids, and exercise the loom. NWAD TASK.10
1. One whose office is to assign tasks to others. Exodus 1:11; Exodus 3:7. NWAD TASKMASTER.2
1. A sort of pendant ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains and the like, ending in loose threads. NWAD TASSEL.2
2. A small ribbon of silk sewed to a book, to be put between the leaves. NWAD TASSEL.3
3. In building, tassels are the pieces of boards that lie under the mantle-tree. NWAD TASSEL.4
4. A burr. [See Teasel.] NWAD TASSEL.5
5. A male hawk; properly terzol. NWAD TASSEL.6
1. To perceive by means of the tongue; to have a certain sensation in consequence of something applied to the tongue, the organ of taste; as, to taste bread; to taste wine; to taste a sweet or an acid. NWAD TASTE.2
2. To try the relish of by the perception of the organs of taste. NWAD TASTE.3
3. To try by eating a little; or to eat a little. NWAD TASTE.4
Because I tasted a little of this honey. 1 Samuel 14:29. NWAD TASTE.5
4. To essay first. NWAD TASTE.6
5. To have pleasure from. NWAD TASTE.7
6. To experience; to feel; to undergo. NWAD TASTE.8
That he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. Hebrews 2:9. NWAD TASTE.9
7. To relish intellectually; to enjoy. NWAD TASTE.10
Thou, Adam, wilt taste no pleasure. NWAD TASTE.11
8. To experience by shedding, as blood. NWAD TASTE.12
When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse. NWAD TASTE.13
1. To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the quality or flavor is distinguished; as, butter tastes of garlic; apples boiled in a brass-kettle, sometimes taste of brass. NWAD TASTE.15
2. To distinguish intellectually. NWAD TASTE.16
Scholars, when good sense describing, NWAD TASTE.17
Call it tasting and imbibing. NWAD TASTE.18
3. To try the relish of any thing. Taste of the fruits; taste for yourself. NWAD TASTE.19
4. To be tinctured; to have a particular quality or character. NWAD TASTE.20
Ev’ry idle, nice and wanton reason NWAD TASTE.21
Shall, to the king, taste of this action. NWAD TASTE.22
5. To experience; to have perception of. NWAD TASTE.23
The valiant never taste of death but once. NWAD TASTE.24
6. To take to be enjoyed. NWAD TASTE.25
Of nature’s bounty men forbore to taste. NWAD TASTE.26
7. To enjoy sparingly. NWAD TASTE.27
For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours. NWAD TASTE.28
8. To have the experience or enjoyment of. NWAD TASTE.29
They who have tasted of the heavenly gift, and the good word of God. Hebrews 6:4-5. NWAD TASTE.30
1. A particular sensation excited in an animal by the application of a substance to the tongue, the proper organ; as the taste of an orange or an apple; a bitter taste; an acid taste; a sweet taste. NWAD TASTE.32
2. The sense by which we perceive the relish of a thing. This sense appears to reside in the tongue or its papillae. Men have a great variety of tastes. In the influenza of 1790, the taste, for some days, was entirely extinguished. NWAD TASTE.33
3. Intellectual relish; as, he had no taste of true glory. NWAD TASTE.34
I have no taste NWAD TASTE.35
Of popular applause. NWAD TASTE.36
[Note. In this use, the word is now followed by for. “He had no taste for glory.” When followed by of, the sense is ambiguous, or rather it denotes experience, trial.] NWAD TASTE.37
4. Judgment; discernment; nice perception, or the power of perceiving and relishing excellence in human performances; the faculty of discerning beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry, or whatever constitutes excellence, particularly in the fine arts and belles lettres. Taste is not wholly the gift of nature, nor wholly the effect of art. It depends much on culture. We say, a good taste, or a fine taste. NWAD TASTE.38
5. Style; manner, with respect to what is pleasing; as a poem or music composed in good taste. NWAD TASTE.39
6. Essay; trial; experiment. [Not in use.] NWAD TASTE.40
7. A small portion given as a specimen. NWAD TASTE.41
8. A bit; a little piece tasted or eaten. NWAD TASTE.42
1. Having good taste. NWAD TASTEFUL.2
1. Having no power of giving pleasure; as tasteless amusements. NWAD TASTELESS.2
2. Having no power to perceive taste. [Not used.] NWAD TASTELESS.3
3. Having no intellectual gust. [Little used.] NWAD TASTELESS.4
1. Want of perception of taste. [Not in use.] NWAD TASTELESSNESS.2
2. Want of intellectual relish. [Not in use.] NWAD TASTELESSNESS.3
1. One who first tastes food or liquor. NWAD TASTER.2
Thy tutor be thy taster, e’er thou eat. NWAD TASTER.3
2. A dram cup. NWAD TASTER.4
1. Trying; experiencing; enjoying or suffering. NWAD TASTING.2
1. The sense by which we perceive of distinguish savors; or the perception of external objects through the instrumentality of the tongue or organs of taste. NWAD TASTING.4
1. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as tasty furniture; a tasty dress. NWAD TASTY.2
Where wav’d the tatter’d ensigns of Rag-fair. NWAD TATTERED.2
1. To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning. NWAD TATTLE.2
Excuse it by the tattling quality of age, which is always narrative. NWAD TATTLE.3
2. To tell tales; to communicate secrets; as a tattling girl. NWAD TATTLE.4
They told the tattle of the day. NWAD TATTLE.6
1. a. Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales. NWAD TATTLING.2
1. A species of beetle; also, a species of moth, (Phalena;) also, a kind of fly, (Musca.) NWAD TAU.2
Experience taught him wisdom. He has been taught in the school of experience. NWAD TAUGHT.3
1. To reproach with severe or insulting words; to revile; to upbraid. NWAD TAUNT.2
When I had at my pleasure taunted her-- NWAD TAUNT.3
2. To exprobrate; to censure. NWAD TAUNT.4
Rail thou in Fulvia’s phrase, and taunt my faults. NWAD TAUNT.5
With sacrilegious taunt and impious jest. NWAD TAUNT.7
Having horns like a bull. NWAD TAURICORNOUS.2
Having the form of a bull. NWAD TAURIFORM.2