tame 
Nowe to weete our motitlies tyme were, 
This flagette will I tame, yt thou reade us. 
Chester Plays, I. 124. (UaUiwett.) 
2. To divide ; deal out ; formerly, to cut; carve. 
[Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
Tayme that crabbe. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.\ p. 265. 
In the time of the famine he is the Joseph of the coun- 
try, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth 
his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but provi- 
dence, hath reserved for time of need. Fuller. 
tameability, tameable, etc. See tamabiUty, 
etc. 
tameheadt, [ME. tamehcd; < tame 1 + -head.] 
Tameness; mildness; gentleness. 
The fader luuede Esau wel, 
For flrme birthe & swete mel ; 
The moder, Jacob for tamehed. 
Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1485. 
tameless (tam'les), a. [< tame* + -less.] In- 
capable of being tamed ; untamable. 
The tameless steed could well his waggon wield. 
Bp. Hatt. 
Tameless tigers hungering for blood. 
Shelley, Queen Mab, iv. 
tamelessness (tam'les-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being tameless ; untamableness. 
From thee this tamelessnesg of heart. 
Byron, Parisina, xiii. 
tamely (tam'li), adv. In a tame manner, in 
any of the senses of tame. 
Tamelier than worms are Lovers slain. 
Cowley, The Mistress, Distance. 
All this we tamely saw and suffered, without the least 
attempt to hinder it. Swtft, Conduct of Allies. 
Rich enough, luscious enough ; but, after all, somewhat 
tamely luscious, suggesting the word cloying ! 
D. G. Mitchell, Bound Together, Old Fourth. 
tameness (tam'nes), . The state or quality of 
being tame. 
In spite of the strange contrast between his [Pitt's] vio- 
lence in Opposition and his tameness in office, he still 
possessed a large share of the public confidence. 
Maeavlay, William Pitt. 
tame-poison (tam'poi"zn), n. The swallow- 
wort, Cynanchum Vincetoxicum, once regarded 
an antidote to poison. See Vincetoxicum. 
tamer (ta'mer), n. [< tome 1 + -er 1 .] One who 
or that which tames. 
Thou, thou (true Neptune) Tamer of the Ocean. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. 
The lioness hath met a tamer here. 
Beau, and Fl., Love's Cure, ii. 2. 
Tamias (ta'mi-as), . [NL.: so called in allu- 
sion to their laying up stores ; < Gr. ran'iaq, a 
dispenser, steward, perhaps 'one who cuts or 
apportions food' (cf. meat*), < re/tveiv, ra/ieiv, 
cut.] A genus of ground-squirrels, of the 
family Sciuridas, connecting the Scivrinse, or 
true arboreal squirrels, with the Spermophilinse, 
or marmot-squirrels. They have a moderately long 
distichous tail, well-developed cheek-pouches, and a char- 
acteristic coloration in several stripes of alternating light 
and dark colors along the back and sides. There is one 
Eurasiatic species, T. osiaticus, the nearest relative of 
which in America is T. quadrivittatus, the four-striped 
chipmunk of the West. There occur also several other 
distinct species, as T. lateralis, together with numerous 
geographical races; but the best-known is the common 
striped ground-squirrel, chipmunk, or hackee of eastern 
North America, T. striatus. See cut under chipmunk. 
tamidine (tam'i-din), . [Trade-name.] A sub- 
stance used in the manufacture of electric glow- 
lamp filaments, obtained by treating collodion 
with a reducing agent, such as ammonium hy- 
drosulphid. 
Tamil (tam'il), n. [Also Tamul; Tamil name.] 
1. One of a race of men inhabiting southern 
India and Ceylon, belonging to the Dravidian 
stock. The Tamils form the most civilized and 
energetic of the Dravidian peoples. 2. A lan- 
guage spoken in southern India and in parts 
of Ceylon. It is a member of the Dravidian or 
Tamilian family. See Dravidian. 
Also Tamul, Tamulic. 
Tamil architecture, the native style of architecture 
characteristic of southern India, within the limits of the 
present Madras Presidency. The most prominent crea- 
tions of the style are numerous and large temples con- 
sisting of a square building with a pyramidal roof, and 
within a cella or adytum for the image of the god. A pe- 
culiar porch precedes the entrance to the cella. The tem- 
ple is contained in a quadrangular inclosure, the gates 
of which are surmounted by lofty pyramidal structures of 
numerous tiers or stories, in some respects recalling the 
Egyptian pylons. Pillared halls are always associated with 
the temples, and the sacred inclosures always contain wa- 
ter-tanks or wells. Sculptured decoration, both exterior 
and interior, is exceedingly elaborate and exuberant. In 
the older examples, from the tenth to the sixteenth cen- 
tury, the designs are often elegant; the later work is bar- 
barous from the overloading of its ornament. Also called 
Dramdian architecture. See cut in next column. 
Tamilian (ta-imTi-an), a. [Also Tamulian; < 
Tamil + -i-an.] Of or pertaining to the Tamils 
6176 
Tamil Architecture. Gopura or Gate-pyramid of the Great 
Temple, Seringham, India. 
or their language : same as Dravidian. See 
Tamil. Also Tamul, Tanmlic. 
tamin, tamine (tam'in), n. [Also tammin, and 
tammy, taminy; irreg. < F. etamine, or, by confu- 
sion with stamin, < OF. estamine: see stamin*.] 
1 . A thin woolen or worsted stuff, highly glazed. 
I took her up in an old tamin gown. 
Massinger, New Way to Pay Old Debts, iii. 2. 
Their stockings were of tamine, or of cloth serge. 
Ozett, tr. of Rabelais, i. 56. 
2. A strainer or bolter made of hair or cloth, 
taminy (tam'i-ni), n. Same as tamin. 
tamis (tam'is), ra. [< F. tamis, dial, taimi = Pr. 
tamis = Sp. tamiz = It. tamigio (Venetian te- 
miso) (ML. tamisium), a sieve: see temse.] A 
cloth made for straining liquids. 
tamisage (tam'i-saj), n. [= F. tamisage; as 
tamis T -age.] A method of finding invariants : 
a sifting process. 
tamise(ta-mez'),i. [Cf. tamis.'} A trade-name 
given to various thin woolen fabrics. 
tanikin (tam'kin), n. [For "tampkin, an altered 
form of tampion, tampon (cf. pumpkin, an al- 
tered form of pumpion, pompion, pompon).] 
Same as tampion. 
People do complain of Sir Edward Spragg, that he hath 
not done extraordinary ; and more of Sir W. Jenings, that 
he came up with his tamlcins in his guns. 
Pepys, Diary, III. 197. 
tamlin(tam'lin), . [Origin obscure.] A young 
cod, larger than a codling or skinner, farrell. 
[Local, Eng.] 
tammin, n. See tamin. 
Tammuz (tam'uz), n. [Heb.] 1. A Hebrew 
month of twenty-nine days, being the tenth of 
the civil and the fourth of the sacred year. It 
corresponds to part of June and part of July. 
2. A Syrian deity, same as the Phenician Adon 
or Adonis, in whose honor a feast was held 
every year, beginning with the new moon of 
the month Tammuz. Also Thammuz. 
And, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 
Ezek. viii. 14. 
tammy (tam'i), n. See tamin. 
tammy-norie (tam'i-n6''ri), . Some sea-bird, 
as the auk or puffin. [Scotch.] 
The screigh of a Tammie Norie. Scott, Antiquary, vii. 
tam-o'-shanter (tam'o-shan'ter), . [So called 
from Tarn o' Shanter, the hero of Burns's poem 
of that name.] Same as braid bonnet (which 
see, under bonnet) ; also, a lighter head-dress of 
the same general shape. 
His head was capped with a ruby-colored tam*>'-shanter 
with a yellow feather. St. Nicholas, XVIII. 222. 
tamp (tamp), v. t. [Appar. developed from 
tampion, tampon, formerly tampin, perhaps re- 
garded in some uses as a verbal n. *tamping, of 
a verb thence inferred and used as tamp. Other- 
wise, a var., due to association with tampion, of 
tap: see fey) 1 .] 1. In blasting for quarrying 
and mining purposes, to fill (the hole made by 
the drill or borer) with tamping, after the charge 
of powder or other explosive has been intro- 
duced.- -2. To force in or down by frequent 
and somewhat light strokes: as, to tamp mud 
so as to make a floor. 
Round the tamped earthen floor ran a raised bench of 
unbaked brick, forming a divan for mats and sleeping 
rugs. S. F. Burton, El-Medinah, I. xi. 
The track is raised, the gravel tamped well under the 
ties, and the track is ready for use. 
Scnbner's Mag., III. 667. 
tampan (tam'pan), n. [S. African.] A South 
African tick, remarkable for the venom of its 
bite. D. Livingstone. 
tamper 1 (tam'per), v. i. [A var. of temper, in 
like use.] 1. To experiment rashly; busy one's 
tampon 
self unwisely or officiously ; meddle : usually 
followed by with in this and the other senses. 
The physician answered, This boy has been tampering 
u-ith something that lies in his maw undigested. 
Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, ii. 
Yet scarce I praise their venturous part 
Who tamper with such dangerous art. 
Scott, L. of L. M., vt 5. 
2. To interfere, as for the purpose of alteration ; 
make objectionable or unauthorized changes 
(in) : as, to tamper with a will or other document. 
We do not blame the ingenious author previously al- 
luded to for her tamperings u-ith the original text. 
Academy, Dec. 7, 1890, p. 367. 
3. To use secret or underhand measures; exert 
unfair or corrupt influence ; especially, to use 
improper persuasions, solicitations, bribery, etc. 
You have already been tampering u-ith my Lady Plyant? 
Congreve, Double-Dealer, i. 6. 
There gleam 'd a vague suspicion in his eyes : 
Some meddling rogue has tamper' A u-ith him. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
tamper 2 (tam'per), n. [< tamp + -er 1 .] 1. One 
who tamps, or prepares for blasting by stop- 
ping the hole in which the charge is placed. 
2. An instrument used in tamping ; a tamping- 
bar or tamping-iron . 
tamperer (tam'per-er), n. [< tamper* + -er 1 .] 
One who tampers ; one who uses unfair or un- 
derhand means to influence another. 
He himself was not tortured, but was surrounded in the 
Tower by tamperers and traitors, and so made unfairly to 
convict himself out of his own mouth. 
Dickens, Hist. Eng., xxxil. 
Tampico fiber. A tough fiber, the piassava or 
the istle, used in place of bristles for brushes. 
Tampico jalap. See jalap. 
tampint, " An obsolete spelling of tampon. 
Topsell. (Bailiwell.) 
tamping (tam'ping), n. [Verbal n. of tamp, 
v.] 1. IB blasting, the act or operation of fill- 
ing up a blast-hole above the charge. This is 
done in order that the charge may not blow out through 
the hole instead of expending its force against the rock 
or other object of attack. 
2. In milit. mining, the operation of packing 
with earth, sand, etc., that part of a mine near- 
est to the charge, to increase its effectiveness 
in a given direction. 3. The material with 
which the hole made by the drill for blasting is 
filled after the introduction of the charge of 
powder or other explosive. Among the materials 
used for tamping are bore-meal or boring-dust, dried clay, 
dried flucan, pounded brick, soft slaty rock, and plaster of 
Paris. Tamping is called stemming in some parts of Eng- 
land. 
The tamping should extend from the charge for a dis- 
tance equal to at least \\ times the line of least resistance. 
/.';/..-'. Man. Mil. Eng., p. 40. 
tamping-bar (tam'ping-bar), n. A bar of iron, 
about 2| feet in length, used in rock-blasting 
for driving the tamping into the bore-hole after 
the charge has been introduced. It is grooved 
on one side so as to leave room for the needle or fuse. 
Tamping-bars are sometimes tipped or faced with copper 
or bronze, or made entirely of these metals, to avoid ac- 
cidents, which have frequently been caused by the iron 
striking fire from its contact with the quartzose rock. Also 
called, in England, stemming-bar or stemmer. 
tamping-iron (tam'ping-I"ern), n. Same as 
tamping-bar. 
tamping-machine (tam'ping-ma-sheii*'), n. A 
machine for packing into the mold the clay or 
other material for making pipe. E. H. If night. 
tamping-plug (tam'ping-plug), n. A mechan- 
ical substitute for tamping materials in blast- 
ing. It may be an iron cone, a tapering block, or other 
wedge-shaped casting, to be driven or jammed into the 
blast-hole. 
tampion (tam'pi-on), n. [Early mod. E. also 
tampyon and tompion; also tampon (used chief- 
ly in the surgical sense), formerly tampoon, 
and tampin; < OF. tampon, a nasalized form 
of tapon, dim. or aug. of tape, a plug, bung, 
tap, < D. tap = Fries, tap, a plug, hung, tap : 
see tap*. Hence prob. tamp.] A stopper; a 
plug; abung. Specifically (o) The stopper of a can- 
non or other piece of ordnance, consisting of a cylin- 
der of wood placed in the muzzle to prevent the'entrance 
of water or dust ; also, the wooden bottom for a charge of 
grape-shot. (6) A plug for stopping the upper end of an 
organ-pipe. Also tamkin. 
tampon (tam'pon), . [See tampion.] 1. In 
surg., a plug inserted to stop hemorrhage. 2. 
In hair-dressing, a cushion of curled hair or the 
like, used to support the hair in a puff or roll. 
3. See the quotation. 
An engraved stone [in lithography] is printed by using 
a small wooden tapper or tampon, either round at the 
sides, flat below, with handle at top, or square, with the 
corners rounded off. Encyc. Brit., XIV. 701. 
tampon (tiun'pon), . t. [< tampon, n.] In 
sury., to plug tightly, as a wound or a natural 
