talkee-talkee 
less terminal vowel, in imitation of the broken 
English of some barbaric races.] 1. A corrupt 
dialect. 
The talkee talkee of the slaves In the suxar islands. 
Hiiutlifii. to John Miiy. !> .1, 1810. 
A style of liui^uu^'' f<>f \v)iirti tin- inflated bulletins of 
Naiiolcon, the tulkrr-tnlkvf <>f a North American Indian, 
unit the sontfof Deborah might mrti have stood H* ;i model. 
I'hilliia, Essays from the Times, II. :!HO. (Davitt.) 
2. Incessant chatter or talk. [Colloq.] 
There 'a a woman, now, wh thinks of nothing living but 
herself ! All lallcH taltoe I I begin to be weary of her. 
v< /:,/./, :i,,rth, Vivian, x. 
talker (ta'ker), it. \< <a-l + -r'.] One who 
talks ; especially, one who talks to excess. 
You have provok'd me to be that I love not, 
A talker, and you shall hear me. 
Beau, and PI., Coxcomb, III. 1. 
talkful (tak'ful), H. \< tnlki + -/it/.] Talka- 
tive; loquacious. Sylrrxter, tr. of Du Bartas's 
Weeks, ii., The Ark. [Rare.] 
talking (t a/king), 11. [ME. talking; verbal n. 
of talk, r.'J Speaking; speech; discourse. 
Why! this yeman was thus In his lallcing, 
This chanoun drough him neer. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 131. 
talking (ta'king), p. a. 1. Given to much 
speech; garrulous; loquacious. [Rare.] 
The hawthorn-bush, with seats beneath the shade 
For talking age and whispering lovers made ! 
<;<>l<l*Hiitli, Des. VII., 1. 14. 
2. Expressive. 
Your tall pale mother with her talking eyes. 
Browning, The Bishop orders his Toinb. 
talking-machine (ta'king-ma-shen*), n. A 
machine which imitates or reproduces the hu- 
man voice, as the phonograph, 
talking-stockt (ta'king-stok), . A subject of 
talk. 
HIV was like muche the more for that to be a talkymj 
ttoclce to all the geastes. 
1'ilnll. tr. ot Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 06, 
talking-to (ta'king-to), . A reprimand; a 
scolding: as, to give one a good talking-to. 
[Colloq.] 
talky 1 (ta'ki), a. [< to-l + -yl.] Abounding 
in talk; disposed to talk: as, a talky man. 
[Colloq.] 
It Is by no means what Is vulgarly styled a tatty novel. 
Harper't Hag., LXXV1II. 833. 
talky' 2 . . See talcky. 
talky-talky (ta'ki-ta'ki), n. Same as talkee- 
talkee. Also used attributively. 
These Essays ... are very taUry-ta'ky. 
Saturday Ken., Feb. 10, 1883, p. 189. 
tall 1 (tal), . [< ME. tall, talle, tal, seemly, 
becoming, excellent, good, valiant, bold, < AS. 
*tl, good, fit, convenient, with negative *un- 
t&l, in pi. (ONorth.) untala, untale, bad, *geteel, 
good (= OHG. gizal, active), with negative *- 
rtetsel, vngetal (Lye), inconvenient, Dad, unge- 
tselnes (Somner), unprofitableness, also in comp. 
ledft&l, friendly, deriv. teala, tela, well, ex- 
cellently; = Goth, "tals, in comp. untals (= 
AS. 'unt&l above), indocile, disobedient, unin- 
structed; akin perhaps to tale 1 , and also to G. 
ziel, aim, end, etc.: see till 1 . In some uses con- 
fused with tall' 2 , lofty.] It. Seemly ; suitable ; 
fitting; becoming; comely. 
Ho tentlt not In Tempull to no full prayers, 
Ne no melody of mouthe made at the tyme, 
Ne speche of no spfritualtfe, with speciall ne other. 
Dettruction of Troy (E. E. T. S-X L 8098. 
Tal, or semely. Decens, elegans. 
Prompt. Pan., p. 486. 
2f. Obsequious; obedient. 
She made him at her lust so humble and talle 
That, when her deyned cast* on him her ye, 
He tok in pacience to live or dye. 
Chaucer, Complaint of Mars, 1. 38. 
3. Fine ; proper ; admirable ; great ; excellent. 
[Archaic.] 
Sir To. He 's as lull a man as any 's In Illyrla. 
Mar. What 's that to the purpose ? 
Sir To. Why, he has three thousand ducats a year. 
Shak., T. N., I. 3. 20. 
We are grown to think him that can tipple soundly a 
'nil man, nay, all-man [Allemandl from top to toe. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 443. 
We still hear people talk of tall (flue) English. 
OKphant, New English, I. 46. 
4f. Bold; brave; courageous; valiant. 
Well done, lull soldiers ! 
; v,v,.. David and Bethsabe, xiii. 
Thy spIrlU are most tall. Shale., Hen. V., u. 1. 72. 
A tall man is never his own man till he be angry. To keep 
his valour in obscurity is to keep himself as It were In a 
cloak-bag. B. Jonton, Every Man in his Humour, Iv. 6. 
tall- (tal). n. [Appar. not found in ME.; prob. 
< W. till = Com. tal, high, lofty, tall. The 
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word as applied to a man has been ci>nl u-< -i| 
with /<///', line, brave, excellent.] 1. High in 
proportion to breadth or diuiiietrr: lofty; hav- 
ing a relatively great stature. 
Noiuirs that want sex are noated with it : u, It Is a tale 
tree. .1 Hum,; Orthographic (E. K. T. .) .p. ft 
Were It not better, 
Because that I am more than common i,iii 
That I did suit me all points like a man 
Shall., As you Like It, I. s. 117. 
I hate your little women that is, when I am in love 
with a loll one. 
Thackeray, Fitz- Hoodie's Confessions, Dorothea. 
2. Having a particular height; measuring in 
stature (as specified): as, a man MV feet lull. 
3. Long: used absolutely, or as noting length 
in a scale of measurement : as, a tall copy (of a 
book). 
Tall stockings, 
Short bllster'd breeches. 
f<li-:lr., Hen. VIII., I. S. 30. 
Wl' arms tall, and fingers -mill. 
He ' Comely til lit- hl-en. 
John a Hazelyreen (Child's Ballads, IV. 8.',). 
4. Great ; extraordinary ; remarkable ; extrav- 
agant: as, tall talk; a tall fight. [Colloq.] 
There always has been some kind of a tall yarn about 
the Jews wanting to buy the Vatican copy of the Hebrew 
Bible. Xea York Times, Jan. 26, 1891. 
Tall blueberry. See blueberry, Tall buttercups, tall 
crowfoot, a bright-flowered pasture weed, Itaimnculu* 
acru, from which cattle shrink on account of iU acrid 
Juice, which, however, disappears in drying. Tall fes- 
cue. See t'e*tuca. Tall meadow-grass. Seek'/i/wrta. 
Tall oat-grass. *ee oat-graa, 2. Tall persicarla. See 
prince' >-J 'rather, 2. Tall quaking-grass. See rattle- 
tnajce-groja. Tall redtop. See reatiip. Tall snake- 
root. Same as black tnakeroot (b) (which see, under snake- 
root). To walk tall, to carry one's head high ; go about 
proudly. [Colloq., U. S.] 
You're the fust one of my Saturday arternoon flshln' 
boys that 's got into college, and I'm 'mazing proud on t. 
I tell yon I milk tall ask Vm U I don't, round to the 
store. H. B. Stout, Oldtown, p. 72. 
= Syn. 1 and 2. High, Tall, Lofty. High, is the most gen- 
eral of these words, and has some uses different from those 
of the others. When we say that a cloud is high, we may 
mean that It extends very far upward, or, more probably, 
that it Is unusually far above tne earth. Tall describes 
that which Is slim In proportion to it* height, as a mast, 
a pine or other tree, a steeple, a person, possibly a cliff : 
tail houses may be found in some parts of the world ; a 
tall cloud would be of small width and great comparative 
height. Tall U also associated with height to which we 
are used or which we have come to regard as standard. 
A giant Is tall, because so much tnllrr than most men. 
/.':''.'/ denotes an imposing height : a room cannot well be 
tall, but may be high, or even lofty : as, the lofty arches of 
Westminster Mall. /////* and lofty may have application 
to moral or Intellectual character; tall has not, except 
colloquially. Tall seems somewhat figurative when ap- 
plied to Iliiii which does not live and grow. 
tallage, tallageability, etc. See tailage, etc. 
tallat (tal'at), H. [Also talM, tallet, tallit; 
said to be a corruption of dial, r hay-loft.] A 
hay-loft. [Prov. Eng.] 
I ... determined to sleep In the tallat awhile, that 
place being cool and airy, and refreshing with the smell 
of sweet hay. R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, xxxL 
tall-boy (tal'boi), 11. A high-stemmed wine- 
glass, generally large and showy, differing from 
a standing cup in having no cover and in being 
actually used on the table. 
She then ordered some cups, goblets, and taU-boyt of 
gold, silver, and crystal to be brought, and Invited us to 
drink. bull, tr. of Rabelais, V. xlii. (Sara.) 
tallet (tal'et), n. Same as tallat. 
talliable (tal'i-a-bl), o. [< ML. lalliabilix, < 
talliare, subject' to tailage, tax: see tail?, t'.] 
Capable of being tailaged; subject to tailage. 
[Rare.] 
The mayor and citizens came and acknowledged that 
they were talliable, and gave the king 3,000 marks for Ul- 
lage. 5. H'lin-ll, Taxes in England, I. 63. 
talliage, . See tailage. 
talliate (tal'i-at), r. t. [< ML. taltiatus, pp. of 
talliare, subject to tailage, tax: see taiP.] To 
tailage. 
The power of taUiating the inhabitants within his own 
demesnes, . . . granting to particular barons the power of 
talliating the inhabitants within theirs, llinnr, Hist. Eng. 
tallicoona oil. See Carapa. 
tallier(tal'i-er),n. [<taflf -f-arl.] l.Onewho 
or that which tallies ; one who keeps a tally. 
Formerly, account* were kept, and large suras of money 
paid and received, by the King's Exchequer, with little 
other form than the exchange or delivery of tallies, pieces 
of wood notched or scored, corresponding blocks being 
kept by the parties to the account : and from this usage 
one of the head officers of the Exchequer was called the 
Tallier, or Teller. Pepyi, Diary, II. 234, note. 
2t. Same as teller, 1 (6). 3. In some card- 
games, the banker. See tally 1 , v. i., 2. 
The basset-table spread, the taUier come. 
Pope, The Basset-Table. 
tallit (tal'it), H. Same as tallat. 
tallow-face 
tallith(tal'ith), . [Hel,.] The mantle., 
in present Jewish usage, scarf-like garment 
worn l>y the Jews, especially at ]ira\er. Also 
luli/li. inlhs. tiillis. 
tall-men* (tal'im nj. . //. Same as hii/li-nnii. 
Heere 's fulloms and gourds, heere ' tall-men and low- 
in, n. .\ .,//>/ mul fi"inebody,*ig. I 2. (Sara.) 
tallness < tiil'nes), . Tin 1 quality of being tall, 
iii any sense; especially, height. 
His tattnene seemd to threat the skye. 
x,.-icr, K. Q., I. vlL 8. 
tallot (tal'nt), H. Same as l/illnl. 
tallow (tal^o), n. and a. [< MK. "/<//,, tulir,-. 
ttilni/li, talu.', litlinjli, tit/ir;.-, /uli/li, lul'-:. < AS. 
"tuilij (not found) = MD. tuli/li. /<//-//. 1 1. lulk = 
MLG. talch, LG. taly (> G. tola) = Icel. tolgr, 
/nl,,. t,,lk = Sw. tulij = Dan. tali/, tielli; tallow; 
connections uncertain ; cf . AS. ttelg, tflg, color, 
dye; Goth, tulgus, steadfast.] I. n. The harder 
and less fusible fats melted and separated from 
the fibrous or membranous matter which is nat- 
urally mixed with them. These fats are mostly of 
animal origin, the most common being derived from 
sheep and oxen. When pure, animal tallow in white and 
nearly tasteless; but the tallow of commerce usually has 
a yellow tinge. All the different kinds of tallow consist 
chiefly of stearin, palmltln, and oleln. In commerce tal- 
low is divided into various kinds according to Its quali- 
ties, of which the best are used for the manufacture of 
candles, and the Inferior for making soap, dresulng lea- 
ther, greasing machinery, and several other purposes. It 
is exported in large quantities from Russia. 
Thorough the stoone yf that the water synke, 
Take pitche and talgh, as nede is the to spende. 
Palladiui, llusbondrie (E. E. T. S.\ p. 17. 
Tallow is the solid oil or fat of ruminant animals, but 
commercially It is almost exclusively obtained from oxen 
and sheep. Kneyc. Brit., XXI II. 34. 
Bayberry-tallow. Same as myrUr-axix. Beculba-tal- 
low, a balsamic product of the becuiba-nut, Mitrixtica Bi~ 
nihyba, of Brazil. Butter-and-tallow tree. See bvtteri . 
Hafurra -tallow, a wax resembling cacao-butter, the 
product of the mafurra-tree, exported from Mozambique 
and the Isle of Reunion for use 111 the manufacture of soap 
and candles Malabar tallow. Same as irin.v tallow. 
Myrica-tallow. Same as mi/rlfe-inw. Piny tallow. 
See pinj/l. Vegetable tallow, one of several fatty sub- 
stances of vegetable origin resembling tallow. The Chi- 
nese vegetable tallow consists of the coating of the seeds 
of Sapium tebifcrwn. (KeetaU<w-tref.) In China, where it 
forms an extensive article of trade, It Is mostly consumed 
In making candles, which are generally coated with wax. 
In India and England it is more or less applied to lubri- 
cating, soap-making, etc. Malayan vegetable tallow Is 
derived from the nuts of several species of Hopea, and is 
used chiefly for cooking, but somewhat for lighting. The 
seeds of Litsea tebifera (Tetranthera lavr\folia), a tree 
widely diffused through tropical Asia and the Eastern 
archipelago, yield a vegetable tallow, used in Java and 
Cochin China for candles, though the odor in burning 
Is disagreeable. Virola tallow, a concrete fat from 
the seeds of Myruitica (Virola) sebif era. See nutmeg, 2. 
White tallow, a Russian tallow prepared from the fat of 
sheep and goats. 
II. . Pertaining to, consisting of, or resem- 
bling tallow: as, a tallow cake; a tallow dip. 
O, 'tis Fumoso with the tallow face. 
Time*' Whittle (E. E. T. S.), p. 72. 
tallow (tal'6), v. t. [= G. tali/en = Sw. talya 
= Dan. talge; from the noun.] 1. To grease 
or smear with tallow. 
The Troyans fast 
Fell to their work, from the shore to unstock 
High rigged ships; now fletes the tallowed keel. 
Surrey, .ttnrld, Iv. 
2. To fatten; cause to have a large quantity of 
tallow: as, to tallow sheep, 
tallow-berry (tal'o-ber'i), u. Same as i/lam- 
berry. 
tallow-can (tal'6-kau), . A vessel adapted 
for holding tallow for lubricating purposes, 
tallow-catcht (tal'6-kach), 11. A tallow-keech. 
Thou whoreson, obscene, greasy tallow-catch. 
Shot., 1 Hen. IV., U. 4. 252. 
tallow-chandler (tal'6-chand'ler), . [See 
chandler.] One whose occupation it is to make, 
or to make and sell, tallow candles. 
tallow-chandlery (tal'6-chand'l*r-i), n. 1. 
The business or occupation of a tallow-chand- 
ler. 2. The place where a tallow-chandler car- 
ries on his business. 
tallow-cup (tal'6-kup), n. A lubricating device 
for a journal-box, etc., in which tallow is melted 
by the heat of steam, and caused to run down 
upon the parts to be lubricated. 
tallow-drop (tal'6-drop), H. A name for a style 
of cutting precious stones in which the stone is 
domed on one or both sides. When the dome 1s 
very low, the cat is the same as a very low-domed cabo- 
chon, or double cabochon, or carbuncle. 
tallower (tal'o-er), . [< tallow + -!.] A 
tallow-chandler. 
tallow-face (tal'd-fas), n. A person of a pale, 
yellowish-white complexion: a term of con- 
tempt. 
