Tanagra 
Episcopal Tanager {Tanagra efiscopus). 
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the oral law from the time of the great symi- 
ijogne to that of the compilation of theMislina. 
L. Mlmtt, Diet. Eel. Knowledge. 
tan-balls (tan'bal/.), . j>l. The spent bark of 
a tanner's yard pressed into balls, which harden 
and serve for fuel. Also called tan-turf. 
tan-bark (tan'bark), n. Same as tan 1 , 1 Tan- 
bark desiccator. See desiccator. Tan-bark oak. See 
tan-bath ( t an ' bath ) , n . A bath in which the ex- 
tract of 10 to 12 handfuls of oak-bark is added 
to 60 gallons of water. 
tan-bay (tan'ba), . Same as loblolly-bay. 
tan-bed (tan'bed), n. In Itort., a bed made of 
tan ; a bark-bed or bark-stove. See bark-bed. 
Tanchelmian (tang-kel'mi-an), n. [< Taii<-/ii Im 
(see def.) + -ian.~] One of a sect in the Nether- 
lands, in the twelfth century, followers of one 
Tancheltn or Tanquelin, who claimed to be 
equal to the Messiah. Also Tanqueliniaii. 
or the palm tanager, T. palmarum. They are less Ml- tan-Colored (tan'kul"ord), (I. Of the color of 
!rA 1 ' i ^'' h A" 8 , t ,' h !L^ 1 g ^ build0pen " est8llke tan, or somewhat resembling 
those of finches, and lay spotted eggs. 
tan in color. _ 
tangent 
flowing under the mold in the casting-box. 
Also called tail-piece. 
tang 1 (tang), v. t. [< tang' 1 , .] 1. To furnish 
with a tang, or with something resembling one. 
I will haue your carrion shoulders goar'd 
With scourges tanyd with rowels. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Schisme. 
2. To tie. Hullmell. [Prov. Eng.] 3f. To 
sting. 
tang 2 (tang), n. [Also dial, tank and tn-iiti//: 
< ME. "tangc, tongge, a sharp taste; prob. lit. 
'sting,' a particular use of tang*, sting; cf. MD. 
tanglier, tant/cr = MLG. hG. tangcr = OHG. 
itnliiar. -dn'kdi; MHG. stinger, biting, sharp; 
from the same root as to)/;/ 1 .] 1. A strong 
taste or flavor; particularly, a taste of some- 
thing extraneous to the thing itself. 
Tontine, or scharpnesse of lycure yn tastynge. Acumen. 
Prompt. Pan., p. 496. 
A tang of the cask. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. i. 17. 
This is nothing but Vino Ttnto of La Mancha, with a 
tang of the swine-skin. Longfellow, Spanish Student, i. 4. 
2. A specific flavor or quality ; a characteristic 
1837) ^ Ttinfuii'd- i* dim. -etMt.j ** tscjiuo \n o , -- 
very small slender-billed tanagers, mostly of with ref . to space, 'at length, stretched out in 
a brilliant blue color, ranging from Guiana to a single file,' < tarn so much as, + -dem a de- 
zsttZLSzs&Gr 1 - ssr-rsi-rfflatrfs 
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cine passerine birds] the tauagers, or so-called tandem (tan dem), n. [< tandfni, a*.] 1. A 
dentirostral finches. They have nine primaries, sen- P^r of horses (sometimes more) harnessed one 
- SES before the other. 2. A carnage drawn by two 
or more horses harnessed one before the other. 
tellate tarsi, and more or less conirostral bill, which usu- 
ally exhibits a slight notch. They are confined to Amer- 
ica, and almost entirely to the Neotropical region, only 
one genus (Piraruja) having any extensive dispersion in 
North America. They are small birds, the largest scarce- 
. 
cal birds for the brilliancy and variety of the plumage, in one in front of the other. 
The Duke of St. James now got on rapidly, and also 
found sufficient time for his boat, his tandem, and his 
toilette. Dixraeli, Young Duke, i. 2. 
3. A bicycle or tricycle on which two can ride, tang 4 (tang), v. 
Before, I thought you 
To have a little breeding, some tang of gentry. 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, i. 1. 
Something with a spiteful tang to it was rankling in her 
mind. R. D. Blackmore, Kit and Kitty, vi. 
D v D-/ [< Dan. tang = Sw. tang = 
Norw. tang, iaang = Icel. thang, seaweed, kelp. 
Hence ult. Norm. F. tangon, seaweed, and 
(through Icel. tliongull) E. tangle^, seaweed, 
whence tangle 2 , interlace : see tangle^, tangle 2 .] 
A kind of seaweed; tangle. See tangle^. 
Calling it the sea of weeds, or flag, or rush, or tang. 
Bp. Richardson, Obs. on Old Test. (1655), p. 11. (Latham.) 
[An imitative word ; cf . i 
Some cyclers were making the most of the fine day. . . . 
Two rode a tandem ; the third a bicycle. 
J. and E. 11. Pennell, Canterbury Pilgrimage on a Tricycle. 
Tandem engine, a steam-engine having two cylinders in 
line, with a piston-rod uniting their pistons: used with 
compound marine and stationary horizontal engines. 
tane 1 (tan). A spelling of ta'en for taken, past 
participle of take. 
tane 2 (tan), indef. pron. A Scotch form of tone 2 . 
Yield me thy life, or thy lady bright, 
Or here the tane of us shall die. 
Erlinton (Child's Ballads, III. 222). 
ting, ting-tang, tingle-tangle, etc.] I. trans. I. 
To ring; twang; cause to sound loudly : as, to 
ta ng a bell ; also, to utter loudly, or with a twang. 
Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. 
Shak., T. N., ii. 5. 163. 
2. To affect in some way by a twanging sound : 
as, to tang bees (to strike two* pieces of metal 
together so as, by producing a loud sound, to 
induce a swarm of bees to settle). 
II. intrans. To ring; twang; sound loudly. 
The smallest urchin whose tongue could tang 
Shock'd the dame with a volley of slang. 
Hood, Tale of a Trumpet. 
That the heat o' the tane might cool the tither. 
Burnt, There was a Wife, tang 4 (tang), n. [< tang*, t'.] Sound; tone; 
tanekaha (tan-e-ka'ha), n. [New Zealand.] 
One of the celery-pines, rhyllocladus triclio- 
manoides. Its bark contains 28 per cent, of tannin, and 
F.Hthonia elrgantiisima. male. is imported into Europe, where it is used chiefly for dye- 
ing glove-leather. See^wnei. 
one or both sexes. The Tanagridte are closely related to tan-extractor (tan 'eks-trak"tor), n. A ma- 
thc finches (FringilKdir), and some of them have the c hi ne for crushing tan-bark and' digesting the J have observed a pretty affectation in t 
bill as stout as that of a bullfinch; in other cases the bill is , 52? to .tract the tlnnic acid * other8 ' whlch give8 tl %L2?3i2? l &SL 
slender and acute, approaching that of the American war- crushed material, to extract the tannic acid 
biers and guitguits (M niutiltidfe and Caerelndx). In some and other astringent matter. Such machines are fanffS ftano-) n 
instances the bill is strongly notched, and even toothed, made with crushing-rollers, tanks, and conveyers, for " '"6 > UQ 
The family has never been satisfactorily defined, and is crushing and leaching the bark, and drying the residue. 
probably insusceptible of exact technical delimitation. It JS. II. Knight. 
includes several hundred species, of numerous genera, tan-fatt (tan'fat), n. Same as tan-rat. 
Had she as many twenty pound bags as I haue knobs 
of barke in my tan-fat. 
Ueywood, 1 Edw. IV. (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, 1. 90). 
Tahagrin8e(tan-a-gri'ne), n.pl. [NL.,< Tanagra tang 1 (tang), . [< ME. tang, tange, a point, 
+ -iiue.] If. Tne tanager family, Tanagri'dfe, sting, dagger; < Icel. tangi = Norw. tange, the 
regarded as a subfamily of Fringillidee.2. The tang of a knife, a spit, or projection of land ; re- 
typical subfamily of Tanagridsp, embracing nu- lated to Icel. tong (tang-) = AS. tange, tang, etc., 
morons tanagers with a comparatively length- E. tong, in pi. tongs (see tong) ; akin to Gr. <!<JK- 
ened dentirostral bill, the tail and tarsi of mod- veiv, bite, Skt. V dani; , dac, bite. Cf . tang 2 . The 
word in some senses (as the ' tongue ' of a 
buckle) seems to be confused with ME. tong, 
foHj/c, E. tongue.] 1. A point; a projection; es- 
ring; especially, a twang, or sharp sound. 
For she had a tongue with a tang, 
Would cry to a sailor, Go hang ! 
Shak., Tempest, ii. 2. 52, old song. 
Very good words ; there 's a tang in 'em, and a sweet one. 
Fletcher (and another), fair Maid of the Inn, Hi. 1. 
I have observed a pretty affectation in the Alleman and 
ig from 
Holder, Elem. of Speech, p. 78. 
[Also tangue (F. tangue) ; from 
Same as tenrec. 
a native name.] 
tangalung (tang 'ga- lung), . [Native name 
in Sumatra.] The" civet-cat of Sumatra, It- 
crate dimensions. There are upward of 200 species, 
of 30 genera, in this group, of most brilliant colors, highly 
characteristic of the Neotropical region. 
tanagrine (tan a-grm),o.and. [< Tanagra + pec i a u v a i ong a nd slender projecting strip, 
-fowl.] I. . 1. Of or pertaining to tanagers; tongue, or prong, forming part of an object 
belonging to the Tanagndas, and especially to aiu f servillg to hold or secure it to another. 
, - - . emu serving to hold or secure it to anotner. Tangalung (rrt. 
the Tanagrmie: as, a tanagrine bird; tanagrine , a) Sucll a pa t made solid with the blade of a sword, 
characters. 2. Inhabited by tanagers: as, the knife, chisel, or other implement, its use being to secure verra tangalimga, about 2-J feet m length, ot 
tanagrine area of the Neotropical region. P L the handle firmly to the blade. In some cases the handle which the tail is about one third. 
consists merely of two rounded plates of wood ivory, or Tanearat. n. Same as Tanat/ra. Jlrisson, 1760. 
the like, secured on the two sides of the flat ribbon-like " ./., 'ionc'V r V tnnnmre ns tan 
tang ; in others the spike-shaped tang is driven into the tangence (tan tens), n. [= t . tangoice, as tan- 
solid handle. See cuts under scorper and scythe, (b) In gen(t) + -c.] Same as tangency. 
old-fashioned guns and pistols, a strip prolonged from the tangency (tan'ien-si), n. ', pi. tant/encies (-si/). 
breech of the barrel, having screw-holes which allow it to rA /,,/,,, ( S 7,p /.,/) 1 The state of being 
be screwed fast to the stock. See cuts under breech-pin A1 
and rifle (Winchester), (c) A projecting slender and <">"< o ,>(-o,>t nr tnnchi 
pointed member, as the tongue of a buckle. 
2. The sting of an insect or a reptile. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
tanagrine area of the Neotropical region, 
Sclatcr. 
II. n. A member of the Tanagridx. 
tanagroid (tan'a-groid), a. [< Tanagra + -oid.'] 
Resembling a tanager; related to the Tanagri- 
dx; tanagrine. 
Tanaidse (ta-na'i-de), n.pl. [NL.,< Tanais + 
-iW.r.] A family of isopods, typified by the ge- 
nus Tanais; the so-called cheliferous slaters. 
Tanais(ta'na-is),. [NL.,< L. Tanais, Gr.ldvaif, 
the river Don.] The typical genus of Tanaidx. 
touching. Also called 
A tanffe of a nedyr [an adder], acus. 
MS. Diet., c. 1500. 
faction Problem of tangencles, among the old ge- 
ometers, a branch of the geometrical analysis, the general 
object of which was to describe a circle passing through 
given points, and touching straight lines or circles given 
in position, the number of data being always limited to 
three. 
tanaist (tan'a-ist), w. Same as tanist. Maine, jtfS. jbict., c. 1500. (HalUmll.) 
Early Hist, of Institutions, p. 37. 3t. A dagger. 4. In the papier-mach6 process tangent (tan'jeut), a. and n. [= F. tangent = 
tanakint, . See tannikin. of stereotyping, a piece of thin sheet-iron or Sp. Pg. It. tnngeiitc, < Ij. tiiiii/en(t-)f,-ppr. of tan- 
Tanarite (tan'a-rit), n. One of an order of cardboard used to overlap the tail-end of the gere (pp. tactus) (< / tag), touch, akin to E. 
Jewish doctors'which taught the traditions of matrix, and prevent the molten metal from take : see take. From the L. tangerc are also 
