| taille | 1. A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood. "Whether that he paid or took by taille." (Chaucer) 2. Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects. "The taille, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm." (A. Smith) 3. The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola. Origin: F. See Tally, Tailor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| tailor | 1. One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments. "Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou wert a man's tailor." (Shak) 2. <zoology> The mattowacca; called also tailor herring. The silversides. 3. <zoology> The goldfish. Salt-water tailor, any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form nests. The common Indian species are O. Longicauda, which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor bird (O. Coronatus), which has the top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale olive-green. Origin: OF. Tailleor, F. Tailleur, fr. OF. Taillier, F. Tailler to cut, fr. L. Talea a rod, stick, a cutting, layer for planting. Cf. Detail, Entail, Retail, Tally. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tailor's cramp | An occupational dystonia affecting the forearms and hands of tailors. Synonym: tailor's spasm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tailor's muscle | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, anterior superior spine of ilium; insertion, medial border of tuberosity of tibia; action, flexes thigh and leg, rotates leg medially and thigh laterally; nerve supply, femoral. Synonym: musculus sartorius, tailor's muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tailor's spasm | An occupational dystonia affecting the forearms and hands of tailors. Synonym: tailor's spasm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tailoress | A female tailor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tailrace | 1. See Race. 2. <chemical> The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| two-tail test | A statistical test based on the assumption that the data are distributed in both directions from some central value. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| faun tail nevus | A circumscribed growth of hair of the lumbosacral area, associated with diastematomyelia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fish-tail | Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail propeller, a propeller with a single blade that oscillates like the tail of a fish when swimming. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lion's tail | <botany> A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lizard's tail | <botany> A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. Cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |