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is cuftomary in the South-fea, the latter in the Molucca, 

 iflands. This root is alfo apphed as a phiRer, we prefume 

 frefh, for deep wounds made with darts or other weapons. 

 It is well known that a fimilar powder, or mild wholefome 

 flour, is obtained, by wafliing, from the roots of Jatropha 

 Manihot, and various fpecies of Arum, even our common 

 Arum maculatum, as well as from raw potatoes. 



2. T. inUgr'ifoUa. Entire -leaved Tacca. Gawler in 

 Curt. Mag. t. 1488. Ait. Epit. 37^ Leaves ovate, undi- 

 vided. — Native of the Eaft Indies, from whence it was font 

 by Dr. Roxburgh to lir Abraliazn Hume, and flowered in 

 the ftove at Wormleybury, in June 181 2. The leaves are 

 four or five Inches long, probably often more, fmootli, quite 

 fimple and entire, with one rib and many oblique veins ; 

 each on a ftout, channelled, brown footJlalL Flowers um- 

 bellate, ere£t or decumbent, of a dingy green, with purple 

 italics. Leaves of the i/iiwlucrum large, ovate, pale green 

 with many purple ribs, and accompanied by a few white 

 thread-fhaped ftalks, refembling the former. We have feen 

 no fpecimen in flower. 



TACE, Ital., in M,;/;c, be filent. 



TACET, Lat., is ufed when a vocal or inftrumental 

 part is to be filent during a whole movement : as in a mafs, 

 Chri/le facet ; in a concerto or fonata. Largo tacet. Sec. 



Tacet, Joseph, in Biography, an eminent performer and 

 mafter on the German flute, born, we believe, in France ; but 

 who came to England fo early, and continued here fo long, 

 that by forgetting his own language, he fpoke Engliih like a 

 native of the ifland. He was the firft to adopt the addi- 

 tional keys of Quantz to the German flute, in order to corredl 

 the bad notes, and increafed their number from three to five ; 

 though, we believe, he feldom ufed them all. 



TAC-FREE, in Old Charters, an exemption from pay- 

 ments. 



TACHAN, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Chinefe 

 fea, .Jiear the coaft of Cochinchina. N. lat. 12° 35'. 

 E. long. 109° 14'. 



TACHAR, atown of Thibet ; 23 miles S. of Tourfan. 



TACHARD, Guy, in Biography, a French Jefuit, who, 

 after accompanying chevalier de Caumont, and the abbe de 

 Choiii, on an embafTy to Siam, returned to Europe in 1688, 

 and having made another voyage to the Indies, died at 

 Bengal about 1694. His " Two Voyages to Siam," in 

 2 vols- Paris, 1686 and 1689, re -printed at Amfterdam in 

 1700, well received at the time of their publication, have 

 funk in reputation on account of the credulity and exag- 

 geration of the author, of which fatisfaftory evidence has 

 been given by chevalier de Forbin, in his Memoirs. Nouv. 

 Dia. Hiftor. 



TACHAR-SEGHIN, in Geography, atown of Thibet; 

 50 miles S. of Tourfan. 



TACHAS, in Ichthyology, a name given by fome authors 

 to the manati, or fea-cow. 



TACHASARA, in Ancient Geography, ?i town of Afia, 

 in the interior of Media, between Zalaca and Pharambara. 

 Ptol. 



TACHAU, or Taciiow, in Geography, a town of Bohe- 

 mia, in the circle of Pilfen, taken by Zilka by aflault, and 

 facked in the year 1427 ; 34 miles W. of Pilfen. N. lat. 

 49° 47'. E. long. 1 2° 40'. 



TACHBACH, a town of Germany, in the county of 

 Henneberg ; 8 miles E.S.E. of Meinungen. 



TACHEMAL-ONDOUC, a town of Chinefe Tai-- 

 tary. N. lat. 45^ 59'. E. long. 122° 31'. 



TACHEMPSO, orTACHOMlPSO, in Ancient Geography, 

 an ifland of Ethiopia, in the vicinity of Libya, partly oc- 

 cupied by the Egyptians, and partly by the Ethiopians. 



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TACHENS, in Geography, a lake of the archbiniopric 

 of .Sal/.burg, five miles long, and about one wide: ijmilet 

 N.W. of Sal/burg. 



TACIIIA, in Botany, called Tachi by the Galibis in 

 Guiana, becaufe the hollow fl;em and brandies of tliia flirub 

 ferve as a retreat for ants, the above word fignifying, in the 

 language of thofe people, an ant's ncfl. Aublet Guian- 

 75. t. 29. See MvuMiaiA. 



TACHIBOTA. See Saf.masia. 



TACHIGALIA, Tachigali of the Gahbis in Guiana. 

 See Cum^A. 



TA-CHOUI-CAO-HOTUN, in Geography, a town of 

 Corea ; 425 miles E. of Peking. N. lat. 40'' 11'. E. 

 long. 124° 53'. 



TACHYGRAPHY, called alfo BuAciiyGRAPiiY, 

 formed from rccxtj;, fivift, and yfy-Ofr, writing ; the art of 

 quick or fliort writing. 



There have been various kinds of tachygrapliy invented : 

 among the Romans, there were certain notes ufed, each 

 of which fignified a word. 



The rabbins have a kind of tachygrapliy formed by ab- 

 breviations, which made a kind of technical words ; where- 

 in each confonant (lands for a whole word : as D3,"N~1, 

 'jy~l, rafchi ; which ftands ior rabbi Schelomoh Jarri. See 

 NoTARiroN. 



In France, &c. the only tachygrapliy ufed is, the re- 

 trenching of letters, or even whole fyllables of words, as in 

 film for fecundum, aut for autem, d ior fed, for non, parti- 

 cipaon ior participation, &c. 



The firfl; printers imitated thefe abbreviations ; but at 

 prefent they are almoft^ laid afide, except among fcriveners, 

 &c. 



In England we have great variety of metliods of tachy- 

 graphy, or fliort-hand ; more by far, and thofe much bet- 

 ter, eafier, fpeedier, and more commodious, than what are 

 known in any other part of the world : wltnefs Shclton's, 

 Waflis's, Rich's, Mafon's, Webiler's, Wefton's, Macaulay's, 

 Annet's, Gurney's, Lyle's, Byrom's, Rees's, and feveral 

 other fliort-hands. See Stenoc;raphy. 



TACISSO, Jeung, in Geography. See Tassasldox. 



TACIT Acceptance. See Acceptance. 



Tacit Community. See Community. 



Tacit Decree, in Roman Antiquity, fecret deliberations, 

 to which none but old fenators were fummoned. 



J. Capitolinus mentions a decree of this fecret kind, 

 which he calls S. C. taciturn, and fays, that the ufe of them 

 among the ancients was derived from the necefllties of the 

 public, when upon fome imminent danger from enemies, the 

 fenate was either driven to fome low and mean expedients, 

 or to fuch meafures as were proper to be executed before 

 they were publiflied, or fuch as they had a mind to keep fe- 

 cret even from friends ; on which occafions they commonly 

 recurred to a tacit decree, from which they excluded their 

 clerks and fervants. performing that part themfelves, left 

 any thing fliould get abroad. Capitol, de Gordian. c. 1 2. 



In the early times of the republic, tliere are feveral in- 

 fl;ances mentioned by hiftorians of fuch private meetings of 

 the fenate, fummoned by the confuls to their own houfes ; 

 to which none but the old or proper fenators were admitted, 

 and of which the tribunes ufually complained. \'ide Dion. 

 Halic. 1. X. 40. 1. xi. 55. 57. Middlet. of Rom. Sen. 

 p. 90. 



TACITUS, Caius Counelius, in Biography, a well- 

 known hiilorian, was born about the year of the Ciiriftian 

 era 57, at Interamna, or the modern Terni. His fatiier 

 was a Roman knight, and procurator of Belgic Gaul. 

 Devoted from his youth to the cultivation of literature and 



rhetoric. 



