talent 
Well, Owl give them wisdom that have it; anil those 
that are fouls, let them usr tlu-irtaimlt. 
filial:. T. N., I. 6. 16. 
5. Mental power of IL superior orili-r; superior 
intelligence; special aptitude ; abilities : parts: 
often noting power or skill acquired by culti- 
vation, and thus contrasted with </'"'"' *'' 
i/i in an, 5. 
Talent Is the eapacity of doing anything that dependlon 
application and industry, such ax writing a criticism, mak 
inx ii speech, studying the law. Talent differs from genius 
aa viiliuitary dllfcrs from involuntary power. 
lln.'li'tt. Essays, The Indian 7B0im 
Talent takes the existing moulds, and makes its cast- 
0169 
Tales-book, a liook i miialiiliiif the names of uch as are 
adiultiul of tin- talcs. To pray a tales, to plead that 
thi- u u in her of jilr>n irn In 1 ' i pi' !'' I. 
It was dlwovrivd thai only ten special Jurymen !' 
present. I |ion this, Mr. Sergeant lluxfuz prayed a tola; 
ilir gentleman in lilack then proceeded tu preu Into the 
special jury two of the common Jurymen. 
IHckent. Pickwick, xxxlv. 
talisman 
'I I,, inti-n law was In request, 
And Chanc'ry courts wen- kept in every bremit. 
(Jutirl'i, l.inM. im, 1.6. 
2. Revenge; retaliation. 
Her soul was nut hospitable toward him, and the devil 
In her was gratilli-d with the i-ight of his discomposure : 
she hankered after f/i'/i, not waited on p*nttM, 
G. Macli<:iMl,l, Warl.u-k o' (iienwarlock, xvi. 
ings, better or worse, of rieher or ha.-ei metal according talesman- (ta'lCZ- Or talz'inan). . J pi. 
to knack and opportunity ; but genius IB always shaping " * , v ,. . , , " i T.. ; .... 
new ones, and runs the man in them, so that there is al- (-men). In M 1C 
talesman' (tal/'nmn), w. ; }>\. talesmen (-m.-ii). ta i ion ... t . [ME., < OF. taillHH, a cutting, < L. 
[<(/', poss. of M/.i, + ,.] The author or TJJg^'eutt&g, scion: see M.TA] A slip of a 
tree. 
, . The croppe or taliimt to grade U speed, 
menlirl, and yet the Tata-man shall be set by the lale, ,, ul /ai ,',, lut ,). tl , .,,,. r . B hall i m ,lc. 
the Authors name annexed to his Historic, to shield me Palladia* Husbondrle(E. E. T. 8.), p. 96. 
from that imputation. I"urchas, Pilgrimage, p. 60. 
/,//,. v- talionic (tal-i-on'ik), . [< taltou 1 + -ic.] < 
or pertaining to the law of talion ; character- 
relater of a tale. [Rare.] 
My fault . . . shall be rather mendacia dlcere then 
ways that human feel in its result* which _ 
dred thrill. Lowell, Cambridge Thirty 
.. .... . __________ .. _______ 
hat there is al- (-men. n 1C u r iD " volvinK tne return o f like for like. 
gives us a kin- son summoned to act as a juror from among 1 
rty Years Ago. the bystanders in open court. The growing taliunic regard "'""" g 
'' - 
. , . 
6. Hence, persons of ability collectively: as, taleteller (til'tel'*), . [< ME. toMrfter. tafc- 
tellour; talc 1 + teller.] One who tells tales or 
all the talent of the country is enlisted m the 
cause. 
Throughout the summer there were always two at least 
of the local talent engaged In fishing upon the manor. 
U. Hall, Society in Elizabethan Age, vli. 
M. Pierre Lotl Is a new enough talent for us still to feel 
something of the glow of exultation at his having not con 
tradicted us, but done exactly the opposite. 
MaeDvnald, 
both sides, all U 
at's Mine's Mine, p. 31. 
stories; specifically, one who retails gossip or ^ (taiM . pat)( . S ,, ( . ,,,,,,. 
slander, talioed (tal'i-ped), a. and n. [< L. tulu*. 
If they be tale teller* or newes caryers, reproue them <"" l l "i Jr ," ,,, . , ,-;.,,,./..,.., J., 
sharpely Babe,, Bo,* (E. E. T. S.\ p. 64. + pet = E. foot. Cf . LL. tahpedare, W 
ankle, 
harpcly'. Babee, Book (E.E. [..). f. 04. -r pen = a. fi. ^. "". .j...., walk on 
We read of a king who kept a tale-teller on purpose to <** be weak in the feet, totter] I. a 
lull him to sleep every night. 1. Clubfooted; twisted or distorted out of 
StrwU, sport* and Pastimes, p. 261. 8 bape or position, as a foot ; having a clubbed 
Hen., N. ., XUII. 651. tai evaBt (tal'e-vas), n. [ME., also tallevan, tal- foot, or talipes, as a person. 2. Having the 
7f. A distinctive feature, quality, habit, or the cace? < OF. talevas, tattevas, a shield or buck- feet naturally twisted into an unusual position, 
like; a characteristic. ler having at the bottom a pike by which it as a sloth; walking on the back of the foot. 
Ffeire none Eweln, wher haue ye take that talent and could be fixed in the ground.] A pavise or H. n. One who or that which is taliped or 
mantlet, probably of wood, and heavier than clubfooted. 
the pavise carried by the soldier. talipes (tal'i-pez), _. 
Alther broght unto the place 
A mikel row ml taleace. 
Yirainc and Gairin, L 315t 
icise 2 .! In 
that herte for to leve me and to serue another? 
Merlin(E. E.T. 8.), Ii. 241. 
Obscenity in any Company is a rustick uncredltable Tal- 
ent ; but among Women 'tis particularly rude. 
J. Collier, Short View (ed. 1698), p. 7. 
Pride 1. not mjjjg"^ Pamela (ed. Stephen), I. 98. talewise (tal'^'i*"." [< 
8f. Disposition ; inclination ; will ; desire. the manner of a tale or 8tor 
An unrlghtful talent with despyt. 
Chaucer, Good Women, L 1771. 
So wille we all with grete tulmi, 
For-thy, lady, gilfe the noght ill. 
York Playi, p. 462. 
Dutch talent. See Dutch. The talent, In sporting, the 
betters who rely on private Judgment or Information, es- 
pecially In taking odds : opposed to bookmakers. [Slang.] 
Syn. 5. Abilities, G(fl, Parts, etc. See yeniui. 
tale-wiset (tal'wiz), a. [< ME. talewis, talewys; 
< tale 1 + wise*. Cf. rightwite, righteous.] Talk- 
ative; loquacious. 
II. n is tikel of hire taj 1, talewyt of hire tonge. 
Piers Plowman (A), III. 126. 
Be not to tale-wiji bl no wey ; 
Thin owne tunge may be thi too. 
Jlabeei Book (E. E. T. 8.), p. 49. 
talght, . An obsolete form of tallow. 
tale'nt 2 (tal'eut), . An obsolete or dialectal tall 1 , . Plural of talon. 
variant of talon. tali 2 , . Same as tahli. 
talented (tal'en-ted), a. [< talent 1 + -ed 1 .] Taliacotian (tal'i-a-ko'shian), a. [Also [Taglw- 
Endowed with" talents ; having talents or tal- cotian 
ent; having or exhibiting special mental apti- co:zi ( 
tudes or superior mental ability; gifted. Taliacotius 
What a miserable and restless thing ambition Is, when and anatomist (1546-99) Taliacotian opera- 
one talented but as a common person, yet, by the favour tion. See operation. 
of his prince, hath gotten that Interest that in a sort all taliaget, Same as tailage. 
the keys of England hang at his girdle talian (tal'i-an), . [Bohem. (T).] 1. An old 
^6p.X66(lWi2-l!)inRushworth'sCollectlons,I.445. 1 ff ln \ an natio ' nal dance.- 2. Music for such 
once 8 fre 8 ue'"tly h us!Luho^ a dance or in its rhythm, which is alternately 
sclousness of our ancestors, began with being strictly par- triple and duple. 
ticiples. F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 74. taliationt (tal-i-a'shon), n. [< L. talis, such (cf. 
talentert (tal'en-ter), n. [< talent* + -er 1 .] talion), + -ation.] A return of like for like; 
That which has talents or talons ; a hawk. retaliation. 
The hounds; loud mu.lc to the flying, stag, S tr^n^ea^'fde^ou^e should be. 
^__ ^ f _ r [NL.: see taliped.] I. 
A club-foot ; *a deformed foot, as of man, in 
which the member is twisted out of shape or 
position. 2. Clubfootedness; taliped malfor- 
mation. 3. In zool., a natural formation of the 
feet by which they are twisted into an unusual 
position, as in the sloths Davies-Colley's oper- 
ation for talipes. See operation.- Talipes calcaneo- 
valgus, a combination of talipes valgus with talipes cal- 
caneus. Talipes calcaneus, a form of talipes iti which 
the toes are raised and the heel depressed. Talipes ca- 
VUB a form of talipes In which the plantar arch of the foot 
is much increased and there Is a claw-like condition of the 
toes. Talipes equlnovaniB, a combination of talipes 
equlnus and talipes varus. Talipes equinus, a form of 
talipes In which the heel Is elevated without everslon or 
Inversion, the toes pointing downward. Talipes val- 
gus, that form of talipes in which the foot Is everted. 
Talipes varus, the most frequent form of talipes, in 
which the foot is rotated Inward. 
[Also tal- 
talapattra, 
ian; < Taliacoti'its, Latinized form otTaglia- talipot, taliput (tal'i-pot, -put), n. 
tf(seedef.).] Of, pertaining, or relating to n pott talijiat; < Hind, talpat, < Skt. 
liacotius or Tagliacozzi, an Italian surgeon j ea f o f the palm-tree, < tala, a palm-tree, + 
'.] An important fan-leafed palm, 
patra, leaf., f 
Corypha umbraculifera, native in Ceylon, on the 
Malabar coast, and elsewhere, it has at maturity 
a airtight cylindrical ringed trunk 60 or 70 feet high, 
crowned with a tuft of circular or elliptical leaves 18 feet 
or more In diameter, composed of radiating plaited seg- 
ments united except at the border, and borne on prickly 
stalks 6 or 7 feet long. The trunk does not develop, how- 
ever, till the plant is about thirty years old, the leaves till 
then springing from near the ground. It then rises rap- 
The feather'd talenter to the falling Dird. 
Middleton and Kowley, World Tost at Tennis, Ind 
talentiyet (tal .. 
talentif, inclined 
tion, talent 
eager. 
For me think hit not semly, as hit is Both knawen, 
Tner such an askyng Is heuened so hyse In your sale, 
Thas 3e gonr-self be talenttuf to take hit to yonr-seluen, 
Whil mony so bolde yow alwute vpon bench sytten. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 250. 
And thel after that were full talenHf hem to sle, yef the! 
myght hem take. Merlin (E. E. T. St.), a 362. 
tale-piet (tal'pi'et), n. [< tale 1 + pict.] A tell- 
tale. Also tale-pie. [Scotch.] 
Never mind me, sir I am no tale-pyet; but there are 
mail een in the world than mine. Scott. 
talert (ta'ler), . [ME., < talen, tell: see tale 1 , 
r.] A talker; a teller. 
If ... he be a taler of idle wordes of foly or vllanie, 
he shal yeld aceomptes of It at the day of dome. 
Chaucer, Parson's Tale (ed. Tyrwhitt). 
tales (ta'le/.l, . i'l. [The first word of the orig. 
L. phrase tales de circumstantibun, 'such of the 
' 'in the order for summoning such 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, xvii. 26. 
similar ways. Also tara and taliera-palm. See 
cut under Corypha. 
Talinum (ta-ll'num), n. [NL. (Adanson, 1763), 
from the native name in Senegal.] A genus 
of polypetalous plants, of the order Portulacete. 
It IB characterized by two herbaceous and mostly decidu- 
ous sepals, usually ten or more stamens, a capsule three- 
celled when young, and strophlolate shining seeds borne 
on a globular stalked placenta. There are about 14 spe- 
cies, natives principally of tropical America, 2 occurring 
in Africa or Asia. They are smooth fleshy herbs, some- 
times a little shrubby, bearing flat and mostly alternate 
leaves, and flowers with ephemeral petals, chiefly in ter- 
minal cymes, racemes, or panicles. T. patent, a plant of 
rocky coasts from Cuba and Mexico to Buenos Ayres, is 
cultivated as a border plant, especially In a white and va- 
riegated variety. (See puchero.) Several others are some- 
times cultivated under glass for their handsome flowers, 
which are mostly red, yellow, pink, or purple. T. tereti- 
/olium, a native of the Cnlted states from Pennsylvania 
to Colorado and southward, a low tuberous-rooted peren- 
nial, growing ou rocks and exceptional in its cylindrical 
leaves, has been called fatne-Jlotcer from the transitori- 
ness of its elegant purple petals. Other species also occur 
in the south and west. 
Talipot (CoryfHa 
idly, and from the summit produces a pyramidal panicle 
30 feet high, with yellowish-green flowers so unpleasantly 
odorous that the tree is sometimes felled at this stage. 
After maturing Its fruit, which requires fourteen months, 
. the tree dies. The leaves are used for covering houses. 
upon the first panel, or happening to be present 
in court, from whom the sheriff or clerk makes 
selections to supply the place of jurors who 
have been impaneled but are not in attendance. 
If by means of challenges, or other cause, a sufficient 
number of unexceptionable Jurors doth not appear at the 
trial, either party may pray a tales. A tales is a supply 
of such men as are summoned upon the first panel, in or- 
der to make up the ili'tieiene) . 
Blackstone, Com., III. xxiii. 
Pg. taliilo = It. taglinne, < L. talio(ti-), a punish- 
ment equal and of similar nature to an injury 
sustained, < talis, such, such like. Cf. talintinn. 
retaliate.] 1. The law of retaliation, according 
to which the punishment inflicted corresponds 
in kind and degree to the injury, as an eye for 
an eye, or a tooth for a tooth. This mode of 
punishment was established by the Mosaic law 
(Lev. xxiv. 20). 
writing-paper. They are borne before people of rank among 
the Cingalese. Other names are basket palm, shreetalum. 
talipot-palm (tal'i-pot-pam), n. See talipot. 
talisman 1 (tal'is-man), n. [D. talisman = G. 
titlnwiiiin = Sw. Dan. talisman = F. talisman = 
It. tiilixiiiiiiin. < Sp. Pg. talisman, a talisman, = 
Turk. Pers. tilnam, tilism = Hind, tiligin, < Ar. til- 
gam, tulxi m. also tili." in. pi. tilsaman, a talisman, 
< MGr. rifcafia, a consecrated object, a talis- 
