Tabour, Tabor, tā′bor, n. a small drum like the timbrel or tambourine without jingles, usually played with one stick, and in combination with a fife.—v.i. to play on a tabour: to beat lightly and often:—pr.p. tā′bouring: pa.p. tā′boured.—ns. Tā′borer (Shak.), one who beats the tabour; Tab′orine (Shak.), a tabour or small drum; Tab′ouret, Tab′ret, a small tabour or drum; Tab′rēre (Spens.), a labourer. [O. Fr. tabour (Fr. tambour)—Pers. tambūr, a kind of cithern.]
Tabouret, tab′ōō-ret, n. a cushioned seat, without arms or back, highly ornamented: a frame for embroidery: a needle-case.
Tabu. Same as Taboo.
Tabular, tab′ū-lar, adj. of the form of, or pertaining to, a table: having a flat surface: arranged in a table or schedule, computed from tables: having the form of laminæ or plates.—ns. Tab′ula, a writing-tablet, a legal record: a frontal: a dissepiment in corals, &c.; Tabularisā′tion, the act of tabularising or forming into tables: the state of being tabularised.—v.t. Tab′ularise, to put in a tabular form: to tabulate:—pr.p. tab′ūlarīsing; pa.p. tab′ūlarīsed.—adv. Tab′ularly.—v.t. Tab′ulāte, to reduce to tables or synopses: to shape with a flat surface.—n. Tabulā′tion, the act of forming into tables.
Tacahout, tak′a-howt, n. an Arab name for the small gall formed on the tamarisk-tree, and used as one source for obtaining gallic acid.
Tacamahac, tak′a-ma-hak, n. a gum-resin yielded by several tropical trees. [South American.]
Tac-au-tac, tak′-ō-tak′, n. in fencing, the parry combined with the riposte, also a series of close attacks and parries between fencers of equal skill. [Fr.]
Tace, tā′sē, be silent.—Tace is Latin for a candle, a phrase understood as requesting or promising silence. [L., imper. of tacēre, to be silent.]
Tache, tash, n. (B.) a fastening or catch. [Tack.]
Tache, tash, n. a spot, stain, or freckle: a moral blemish: a characteristic. [Fr.]