taboo 
taboo, tabu (ta-bo') T r. t. [= K. liilutii' i ; from 
tlic noun.] To put under taboo; disallow, or 
forbid tin: use of; interdict iipi>ro;irli to, or 
contact or intercourse with; hence, to ban, 
excludu, or ostracize by personal authority or 
social influence: as, to lul/no the use of tobac- 
co; it laboonl person or subject (one not to be 
mentioned or disciis-i -il i. 
A 111:111 win. ni Mrs. Jamicson hud tabooed an vulgar, anil 
inaitmissiliU- to rrunford society. 
Mri. *, Oatiford, xll. 
Tlti' Tiihitinns . . . never repair or live in the house of 
0110 who is dead; timt, ami everything belonging to him, 
is talwoed. II. Spencer, Prin. of Soclol., | 138. 
tabor 1 , tabour (ta'bor), M. [Formerlyalso ta- 
bcr; < MIO. tulxir, labour, < OF. tabour, V. tam- 
bour = Pr. Mmr, iinilnir = Sp. luiiibor = OSp. 
Pg. atambor (Sp. PR. a- < Ar. art. al) = It. 
tambiiro MM(i. lainbiir. itibiir (ML. ttibur, ta- 
burciiiiii, liiinhiii-tiini), < Ar. tambiir, a kind of lute 
or guitar with a long neck and six brass strings, 
:il-o 11 drum. Cf. tambour, the same word, from 
the mod. F. form.] A small drum or tambourine 
(without jingles), especially one intended to be 
used by a piper while playing his pipe; a tabret 
or timbrel. 
Vor of trompes & of tabort the Saracens made there 
So gret noygo that Chrfstenmen al dcstourbcd were. 
Jlob. of Oluueetter (ed. llearne, 1810), p. 390. 
If you did but hear the pedlar at the door, you would 
never dance again after a tabor and pipe. 
sKak., W. T., IT. 4. 183. 
To hunt for hares with a tabort. See Aarei . 
tabor 1 , tabour (ta'bor). r. [Formerly also tu- 
ber; < ME. tnbomi, <J OF. laborer, labourer, ta- 
bor, drum; from the noun.] I. intrans. To 
play upon or as upon a tabor; drum. 
In your court is many a losengeour, . . . 
That tabouren in your eres many a BOUD, 
Right after hir inniginacioun. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 354. 
Her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, la- 
boring upon their breasts. Nah. ii. 7. 
II. trans. To beat as a tabor ; drum upon. 
I'd tabor her. Fletcher, Tamer Tamed, li. 5. 
tabor' 2 (ta'bor), n. [< Bphem. Pol. Serv. tabor 
= Buss, tutor A = Albanian tobor = Hung, ta- 
bor = Turk, tabor, an encampment, camp: see 
Taborlte."] 1. Among the ancient nomadic Turks 
and Slavs, an encampment fortified by a circle 
of wagons or the like; afterward, a fortified 
camp or stronghold in general. 2. pi. An in- 
trenchmentof baggage for defense against cav- 
alry. Furrow, Mil. Diet. 
taborer, labourer (ta'bor-er), n. [< OF. tabour- 
ettr, < labourer, drum: see taborl, .] A tabor- 
player; one who beats the tabor. 
I would I could see this taborer. 
Shak., Tempest, ill. 2. 160. 
taboret, tabouret (tab'o-ret, tab'ij-ret), . [< 
OF. tabouret, a stool, pincushion, base of a 
pillar, lit. a little drum or tabor, dim. of tabour, 
a tabor: see tabor 1 . Cf. tabret.] 1. A small 
tabor. 
Or Mfmoe's whistling to his tubouret, 
Selling a laughter for a cold meal's meat. 
/.'/-. Hull, Satires, IV. I. 
They shall depart the manor before him, with trumpets, 
tabourets, and other minstrelsy. Spectator. 
2. A seat for one person; especially, a seat 
without back or arms, or with a very low back, 
as an ottoman. The word is applied especially to such 
seats (sometimes ottomans) placed in the presence-cham- 
ber or other reception-room of a palace, for those mem- 
bers of the court who are entitled to sit in the presence of 
the sovereign. 
Our great-aunt said she had never recovered from her 
alarm at being perched by Mrs. Washington upon a cross- 
stitch tabourft and bid to sing " V 1 ' Dalian God " to the 
general. The Century, XXXVII. 843. 
3. A frame for embroidery. 4. A needle-case. 
Right of the taboret (drou de tabouret), a privilege, 
formerly enjoyed by ladies of the highest rank at the 
French court, of sitting on a taboret in the presence of 
the queen or the empress, corresponding to the droit de 
fautfuil enjoyed by gentlemen. 
taborine, tabourine (tab'o-rin, tab'ij-rin), w. 
[Also taboriii ; < OF. labourin, a tabor, tambou- 
rine, dim. of tabour, a tabor: see taftor 1 .] 1. A 
tabor; a small drum; a tambourine. 
Beat loud the tabourines, let the trumpets blow. 
Shak.,T. andC., IT. 5. 276. 
2. A common side-drum. 
Taborite (ta'bpr-it), n. [= G. Taboriten, pi., af- 
ter Bohem. T<il>or~liinit, pi., Taborites, so called 
from their great fortified encampment formed, 
in 1419, on a hill in Bohemia named by them 
Mount Tabor, prob. with ref. both to Bohem. 
tabor, encampment (see tabor 2 ), and to Mount 
Tabor in Palestine.] A member of the more 
extreme party of the Hussites. The) were fierce and 
MI, , i shful warriors under their successive lenders Zlska 
.CM I'l'.i <r|>ms, canning wide-spread devastation, till their 
Unal defeat In 1434. .See Ilutrite. 
tabour, tabourer, etc. See M/r', etc. 
tabreret, . Same M totem 1 , >/. /-, shep. 
(!al.. May. 
tabret (tab'ret),n. [Contr. of taboret.] A small 
tabor; a tambourine or timbrel. 
A company of prophets, . . . with a psaltery, and a tab- 
ret, and a pipe, and a harp. 1 Sam. x. 5. 
[Here, and in 1 Sam. xvlil. 6, the revised version substi- 
tutes timbrel; elsewhere tabret Is retained. 1 
tabu, a., n., and r. See taboo. 
tabula (tab'u-lii), .; pi. tnbula (-le). [NL., < 
L. tabula, a board, plank, table: see tablr.] 1. 
In Rom. antiq., a table or tablet; especially, a 
writing-tablet; hence, a writing or document; 
a legal instrument or record. 
Instruments or charters, public and private (styled by 
the Romans first leges, afterwards inst rumen ta or tabidff). 
Kneyc. Brit., XIII. 1:24. 
2. In mint, and zool., a table or tablet ; a bard, 
flat, expansive surface, as of bone ; specifically, 
in corals, a dissepiment; one of the highly de- 
veloped and usually transverse or horizontal 
partitions which cut the septa, when these are 
present, at right angles, forming a set of floor- 
ings or ceilings of certain cavities. Tabula are 
characteristic of some sclerodermatous corals(hence called 
Tabulata, or tabulate coralt\ in which they extend across 
the thecse from tide to side. 
3. Kccles., same as frontal, 5 (6) Tabula iUne- 
rarla, a common name In the middle ages for a portable 
altar. Such an altar was usually made of thin slabs of stone 
or slate, but one of oak coverea with silver plat was found 
in the tomb of St. Cuthbert, laid upon the breast of the 
corpse. Tabula rasa, an erased table or tablet that 
is, a wax tablet from which the writing has been erased ; 
hence, a blank surface, or one without inscription or im- 
pression : iu philosophy used by the Locklans to express 
their notion of the mind at birth, implying that the nature 
of the ideas which afterward arise are determined purely 
from the nature of the objects experienced, and depend in 
no degree upon the nature of the mind. This doctrine is 
now exploded. Tabula vltrea. Same as mtreout table 
(which see, under talilf). 
tabular (tab'u-lar), a. [= F. tabulairr, < L. 
tabularix, < tabula, a board, plank, table: see 
table.'} 1. Having the form of a table, tablet, 
or tablature; hard, fiat, and expansive; tabu- 
late; laminar; lamellar. 
All the nodules . . . except those that are tabular and 
plated. Wooduvrd, Fossils. 
2. Of or pertaining to a table or tabulated form ; 
of the nature of a list, schedule, or synopsis 
arranged in lines or columns. Also tabellary. 
3. Ascertained from or computed by the use 
of tables: as, tabular right ascension Tabular 
bones, in anal., flat bones, such as the ilium, scapula, 
and the bones which form the roof and sides of the skull. 
Tabular crystal, a crystal in which the prism Is 
very short. Tabular differences, in logarithmic tables 
of numbers, a column of numbers, consisting of the dif- 
ferences of the logarithms taken in succession, each of 
these numbers being the difference between the succes- 
sive logarithms in the same line with it Tabular dis- 
sepiment, method, result. See the nouns. Tabu- 
lar BCUteilum, in fittniii., a scutellum considerably ele- 
vated, and flat above. Tabular spar, In mineral., same 
as tcollastonite. Tabular standard. See standards. 
Tabular Structure, in geol., a separation, or a tendency 
to separate, Into tabular masses, plates, or slabs : properly 
used only with reference to crystalline and igneous rocks. 
Tabular structure resembles stratification In a general 
way, but the two kinds of structure differ greatly from 
each other in the manner in which they have originated. 
Some English geologists, however, have used tabular struc- 
ture and lamination as synonymous. See lamination. 
Tabular surface. See *ur/o. - Tabular work, in 
liriiiiiifi, same as tuHr-viirk. 
tabularium (tab-u-la'ri-um), w. ; pi. tabularia 
(-a). [L., < tabula, a table : see table."] In 
Km, antiq., a depository of public records, cor- 
responding to the tablinum in private houses ; 
hence, sometimes, a similar .modern depository. 
tabularization (tab'u-lar-i-za'shon), . [< 
toMariM + -ation."] The act of tabularizing, 
or forming into tables; tabulation. [Rare.] 
Imp. Diet. 
tabularize (tab'u-l&r-iz), . t. ; pret. and pp. 
tabulari:ed, ppr. tabvlarising. [< tabular + 
-ize."] To make tabular, or put into tabular 
form; tabulate. [Bare.] Imp. Diet. 
tabular ly (tab'u-lftr-li), adr. In tabular form; 
as or by means of a table, list, or schedule. 
The amount of interest being tubularly stated on the 
form. Jevont, Money and Mech. of Exchange, p. 246. 
Tabulata (tab-u-la'ta), . pi. [NI./., neut. pi. of 
tabulatus, tabulate : see tabulate."} One of the 
groups into which Milne-Edwards and Haime 
divided sclerodermatous corals. The Tabulata in- 
cluded many forms characterized by highly developed 
tahulc? dividing the visceral space Into several stories one 
above another. They were distinguished from Aporota, 
Perforata, and Rugota. 
tabulate (tab'u-lat), a. [< L. tabuliitiix, board- 
ed, floored (NL. shaped like a table, provided 
tac-au-tac 
with tabula 1 ), < tulm/u, a board, plank, table: 
see table."] 1. Shaped like a table; forming n 
tablature; tabular. 2. Provided with tabnlie. 
asacoral: specifically applied to the T<il>nl<iln : 
ns. a tiilnilati- coral. 
The Tabulate Corals have existed from the Silurian 
JHII-II to the present ilny. llnjlty, Lay Sermons, p. 220. 
tabulate (tab'u-lat), r. I. ; pret. ami pp. tiilm- 
Inii-il, ppr. labiilalini/. [< I., labiiln, a table. + 
-iiti". Ci. tulil,', r.] 1. To give a tabular or 
flat surface to; make or form as a table, or with 
tables. 
Many of the best diamonds are pointed with six angles, 
and some tabulated or plain, and square. 
A'. Oreo 1 , Museum. 
The remarkable tabulated masses of land in the neigh- 
borhood of Cape Alexander. 
A. W. Oreely, Arctic Service, p. 62. 
2. To put or form into a table or tables; col- 
lect or arrange in lines or columns; formulate 
talmlarh : as, to tabulate statistics or a list of 
names. 
A philosophy is not worth the having, unless Its results 
may be tabulated, and put In figures. It. Taylor. 
They [special rates] are matters of contract in every 
Instance, and therefore are not In such shape that they 
can be tabulated in this report. 
Pop. Sri. Ho., XXVI1L 607. 
tabulation (tab-u-la'shon), n. [< tabulate, r., 
+ -ion. Cf. L. tabula tio(n-), a planking or floor- 
ing over, a story or stage : see i<il>niu.\ The act 
or process of making a tabular arrangement; 
formation into a table or tables ; exhibition in 
tabular form, as of statistics, numbers, and 
names. Also tabling. 
The value of such a tabulation was Immense at the 
time, and Is even still very great. W he well. 
A tabulation of the chronology of these mythical ages 
. . . becomes a mere waste of labour. 
Brandt and Cox, Diet, ScL, I it., and Art, III. 01. 
tabulator (tab'u-la-tor), w. [< tabulate + -or.] 
One who tabulates ; a maker of statistical or 
similar tables. 
The most assiduous tabulator of figures evolves nothing 
but new mazes. A'eir Princeton Kev., I. 78. 
tabulaturet, n. Same as tablature, 4. 
tabum (ta'bum), n. [NL., < L. tabum, corrupt 
moisture, putrid gorej cf. tabes, a wasting 
away: see tabes."} Sanies. 
tabut (ta-bof), n. [Turk. Pers. tdbut, < Ar. 
ini>ni.\ In Moslem countries, a structure, usu- 
ally of wood, covered with a textile fabric of 
some sort, set up over a grave, particularly the 
grave of a saint; especially, the tomb of Al 
Hussein, grandson of Mohammed, and son of 
Ali ; and hence, a supposed imitation or repro- 
duction of it, forming an important part of the 
ceremonies of the Muharram. 
tabyt, a. An obsolete spelling of tabbyl. 
tacahout (tak'a-hout), n. The native name of 
the small gall formed on the Indian tamarisk, 
Tamarix Gallica, var. Indica. 
tacamahac, tacmahack (tak'a-ma-hak, tak'- 
ma-hak), n. [= Sp. tacamaca, tacamacha, for- 
merly taeamahaca; a S. Amer. name.] 1. A 
gum-resin, the product of several trees, origi- 
nally that of one or more South American spe- 
cies. The most Important tacamahac Is derived from 
Calophyllum Inophyttum, of the East Indies, Polynesia, 
etc. (see tamanu\ of which the C. Taeamahaca of Mada- 
gascar and the isle of Bourbon Is a variety. The resin is 
of a greenish-yellow color, liquid at first, but hardening 
Into a brittle aromatic mass soluble in alcohol and ether. 
It exudes spontaneously or through incisions from the 
bark and roots. A similar gum is afforded by C. Calaba 
In the West Indies. The South American Ucamahac Is the 
product of Burnera (Elaphrium) tmnentosa and B. excelsa, 
of rrotiiim(Itita)fii'vtaphiiUuin t iit\ perhaps of some other 
trees. The buds of Populut baltam\fera (see def. 2) are 
varnished with a resin which may be included under this 
name, occasionally used in the place of turpentine and 
other balsams. Tacamahac is sometimes used for Incense, 
was formerly an esteemed internal remedy, and may still 
be somewhat used In plasters, but is very little In the 
market. In this sense often larainaliaca. 
2. The balsam poplar, Populus balsamifera. 
found from the northern borders of the United 
States to Alaska : in the variety canuieans known 
as lnil in of Gilead, and common in cultivation. 
It is a large broad-leaved poplar with fragrant 
buds. 
taeamahaca (tak'a-ma-hak'tt), . See taca- 
mahae, 1. 
tac-au-tac (tak'o-tak'), n. [F., a phrase 
equiv. to E. tick-tack, imitative of the sound 
of fine blades tapping against one another; cf. 
E. tick-tack 1 ."] In fencing, the combination of 
a sharp, rattling parry and a riposte, in con- 
tradistinction to a riposte delivered from a 
position of quiet touch with an opponent's 
blade; also, contre-ripostes, a set of attacks 
