tansy 
Dog'stansy. Same asgoose-tamy. [Scotland.] Double 
tansy a farm of the common tansy with the leaves more 
cut and crisped. - Like a tansyt, perfect; complete; 
thoroughly ; with nothing lacking : probably In allusion 
to the many ingredients of a tansy. 
Tis no news to him to have a leg broken or a shoulder 
out, with being turned o' the stones like a tansy. 
Beau, and Fl., King and No King, v. 1. 
0182 
tantrist 
luster under the burnisher, and which when gently tantity (tan'ti-ti), n. [< I/, tatituni, so much, + 
id took fire, and burned to an oxid. It was discov- _j tl , Qf_ quantity.'] The fact of being or bav- 
in ^o'/Sla^md'it haVshR'eteentound'Vnvari in g so much : used bv James Mill as correlative 
tallie lus 
heated took 
* 
ous rare minerals, as tantalite, columbite, pyrochlore, fer- to qminlili/. 
- 
niobium. It also occurs in small quantities in various 
tin, tungsten, and uranium ores. In its chemical rela- 
tions it is allied to bismuth, antimony, and niobium. 
Oil of tansy. See oil, and def. i. Tansy-mustard. T an talus (tan'ta-lus), n. [NL., so called be- 
See miMtomi.-- White tansy, the sneezewort, jUMifea t , ;;. geem to 1 have enoug h (they 
rtSA,^ agnm ny ' AgnmW hwpaton<1 - ar e very voracious) ; < L. 2bte/,< Gr. Tdvro- 
tantt'(tiuit), H. Same as tain ft, 5. >of, Tantalus: see tantalize.] The leading ge- 
tantalate (tan'ta-lat),w. [< tantal(um) + -fci.] nus of Tantalinie, now generally separated into 
t of tantalic acid. two. The Old World form is Tantalus ibis, with several 
Jl <lll UL Lllljuallv 01MUI - .. r. nrl i T.wH^a Tim 
L'usmii'te.'eTc" iii "which 7t is almost always associated with tantivy (tan-tiv'i), adv. [Supposed to be imi- 
tative of tlie note of a hunting-horn ; cf. tuii- 
tara and tiny.'] Swiftly; rapidly; at full spcrd. 
He is the merriest man alive. Up at five a' clock in 
the morning, . . . and Tantiey all the country over, where 
Hunting, Hawking, or any Sport is to be made. 
Bronte, Jovial Crew, iv. 1. 
How the palatine was restor'd to bis palatinate in Albion, 
and how he rode tantioy to Papimania. 
The Pagan Prince (1690). (A'ares.) 
tantalic (tan-tal'ik), n. [< tantal(nm) + -ic.] 
Of or pertaining to tantalum Tantalic acid, 
an acid formed by the hydration of tantalum pentoxid. 
Tantalin8e(tan-ta-li'ne),J..pZ. [NL., < Tantalus 
+ -iiiie.] A subfamily of Ciconiidie (formerly 
of Ardeidse), containing the wood-storks or 
wood-ibises, as distinguished from the true 
storks, or Cieoniinie. These birds are neither her- 
ons nor ibises, but modified storks, inhabiting warm 
countries of both hemispheres. The bill is long and 
large, stout at the base, and gradually tapering to a de- 
curved tip, with the nostrils pierced in its hard sub- 
stance high up at the base of the upper mandible ; the 
toes are lengthened; the hallux is nearly insistent; and 
the claws are less nail-like than in the true storks. The 
two genera, of the Old and New World respectively, 
differ in the conformation of the windpipe, which is fold- 
ed upon itself several times in the former, and is straight 
in the latter. See cut under Tantalm. 
tantaline (tan'ta-lin), a. Of or pertaining to 
the Tantalinie. Cones. 
totalisation, tantalise, etc. See tantaliza- 
tion, etc. 
tantalism (tan'ta-lizm), . [< Tantalus (see 
tantalize) + -ism.] A punishment like that of 
Tantalus ; a teasing or tormenting by the hope 
or near approach of something desirable but 
not attainable; tantalization. See tantalise. 
[Bare.] 
Think on my vengeance, choke up his desires, 
Then let his banquetings be Tantalism. 
Beau, and Fl., Wit at Several Weapons, ii. 2. 
tantalite (tan'ta-lit), . [< tantalum + -ite'*.] 
A rare mineral, occurring crystallized and mas- 
sive, of an iron-black color and submetallic 
luster. It is very heavy, having a specific gravity be- 
tween 7 and 7.5. In composition it is a tantalate of iron 
and manganese, corresponding to the niobate columbite ; 
between the two minerals there are many intermediate 
compounds. 
tantalium (tan-ta'li-um), n. See tantalum. 
tantalization (tan"ta-li-za'shpn), n. [< tan- 
talize + -at-ion.] The act of tantalizing, or the 
state of being tantalized. Also spelled tanta- 
lisation. 
Rose had no idea of tantalization, or she would have 
held him awhile in doubt. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, ix. 
related species, of Africa, Asia, and the East Indies. 
Tantalus tin's and Head of Tantalus locttlator. 
only American representative is T. loculator, the wood- 
ibis of the southern United States and southward. It is 
known in Arizona and southern California as the Colorado +--H /(,, t: 
turkey (or water-turkey), from the Colorado river. (See lamavy yt aii -11 
wood-ibis. ) 
. The name has been erroneously applied to 
several different ibises which belong to another family 
tantivy (tan-tiv'i), a. [Formerly also tantiri'f ; 
< tantivy, adv.] Swift; rapid; hasty; on tin- 
rush. 
This sort, however, is not in esteem with high tantivee 
scaramouches. Arbuthnot (Mason's Supp. to Johnson). 
Being Lady Certainly and Lady Perhaps and grand 
here and tantivy there. 
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, xxxi. 
tantivy (tan-tiv'i), n. ; pi. tantivies (-iz). [< 
tantiry, adv.] 1. A hunting cry, inciting to 
speed or denoting full chase. 
Aitop. To boot and saddle again they sound. 
Hog. Tara! tantantara! . . . Tantive! Tantive! Tantive! 
Vanbrugh, ^Esop, ii. 1. 
2. A rapid, violent movement; a gallop; a 
rush ; a torrent. 
The tantivy of wild pigeons, flying by twos and threes 
athwart my view. Thoreaii, Walden, p. 125. 
Sir, I expected to hear from you in the language of the 
lost groat, and the prodigal son, and not in such atantfoj/ 
of language; but I perceive your communication is not 
always yea, yea. Cleaveland, Works, xxi. (Nares.) 
3f. A High-church Tory of about the time of 
James II. . 
About half a dozen of the Tantivies were mounted [in 
a caricature] upon the Church of England, booted and 
spurred, riding it, like an old hack, Tantivy, to Rome. 
Roger North, Exarnen, I. ii. 130. 
He says that an ambitious tantivy, missing of his tower- 
ing hopes of preferment in Ireland, is come over to vent 
his spleen on the late ministry. 
Strift, Journal to Stella, xxxii. 
), v. i. ; pret. and pp. tuiilii'ivil, 
ppr. tantiniiiia. [(.tantivy, adv.] To hurry off. 
Pray, where are they gone tantivying? 
Mme. D'ArUay, Camilla, iii. S. (Danes.) 
a misnomer due in part to an old error which identified 
T. ibis with the Egyptian ibis, Ibis religiosa. 
?antalus cup. A philosophical toy, consisting 
of a siphon so adapted to a cup that, the short 
leg being in the cup, the long leg may go down 
through the bottom of it. The siphon is concealed . rti.,,'t n \ ,,,i,, ( T fnutai 
within the figure of a man, whose chin is on a level with tanto (tan to), adv. [It., < L. tantits,!* 
see tantity.] In music, so much or too much: 
as, allegro non tanto, not so quick, or quick but 
not too much so. Compare troppo. 
able pleasure; one exposed to be tantalized. 
Imp. Diet. 
tantalize (tan'ta-liz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. taiita- tantamount} (tan'ta-mount), 
, ppr. tantalizing. [= F. tantaliser; with 
suffix -ige, < L. Tantalus, < Gr. Tdvra/loc, in myth., 
son of Zeus and father of Pelops and Niobe, 
who, as a punishment for revealing the secrets 
of the gods, was condemned to stand in Tar- 
tarus up to his chin in water under a loaded 
fruit-tree, the fruit and water retreating when- 
ever he sought to satisfy hunger or thirst.] To tantamount (tan ta-mount), a 
tease or torment by presenting something de- 
sirable to the view, and frustrating expectation 
by keeping it out of reach ; excite expectations 
or hopes or fears in (a person) which will not be 
realized; tease; torment; vex. Also spelled 
tantalise. 
Thy vain desires, at strife 
Within themselves, have tantaliz'd thy life. 
Dryden. tantamountinglyt (tan-ta-moun'ting-li) 
The major was going on in this tantalizing way, not pro- J n effect ; equivalently. 
posing, and declining to fall in love. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xliii. 
I will tantalize her; keep her with me, expecting, doubt- 
ing. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xxix. 
the bend of the siphon. Hence, as soon as the water 
rises up to the chin of the image it begins to subside, so 
that the figure is in the position of Tantalus, who in the 
fable (see tantalize) is unable to quench his thirst tantonyt (tan'to-ni), .* [A\so tantany ; short 
for Tantony pig."] Same as Tantony pig; hence, 
fo 
taut, so much, as much (< L. tantus, so much), 
+ amonter, amount: see amount.] To be tanta- 
mount or equivalent. [Bare.] 
It will not stand with the consequence of onrgratitude to 
God to do that which, in God's estimate, may tantamount 
" ' "Jef. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), H. 193. 
[(.tantamount, 
Some association with paramount, a., prob. 
affected this adj. use.] Equivalent, as in value, 
force, effect, or signification. 
a petted follower ; a servile adherent. 
Some are such Cossets and Tantanies that they congratu- 
late their oppressors and flatter their destroyers. 
Bp. Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 595. (Dames.) 
Tantony crOSSt. Same as fit. Anthony's eroim. 
See pro** 1 , 1. 
Put the questions into Latin, we are still never the 
nearer ; they are plainly tantamount : at least, the differ- 
ence to me is undiscernible. Waterland, Works, IV. 16. 
I cannot make your consciousness tantamount to mine. 
Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 180. 
adv. 
Did it not deserve the stab of excommunication, for any 
dissenting from her practice, tantamountiugly to give her 
the lie? Fuller, Ch. Hist, II. ii. 28. (Dairies.) 
,n-tar'a), n. [Imitative of the sound 
Memoirs, p. 227. 
tantalizingly (tan'ta-li-zing-li), adv. In a tan- 
talizing manner; by tantalizing. 
Both of them [geysers] remained tantalizingly quiet. 
J. Qeikie, Geol. Sketches, ii. 20. 
tantalizingness (tan'ta-li-zing-nes), . The 
character or state of being tantalizing. Scrib- 
ner's Mag., VI. 555. 
tantalum (tan'ta-lum), n. 
rapid beating of a drum ; tararri, the sound of a 
trumpet ; OF. tantan, a cow-bell.] A blast on a 
trumpet or horn. 
On Pharan now no shining Pharvs showes ; 
A Heav'nly Trump, a shrill Tantara blowes. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Lawe. 
The baying of the slow-hound and the tantaras of the 
horn died away further and fainter toward the blue At- 
lantic. Kingsley, Westward Ho, iii. 
[NL., also tantali- 
um; < L. Tantalus, Tantalus, father of Niobe: Tantiny pigt. See Tantony pig. 
see tantalize, and cf. niobium.] Chemical sym- tantipartite (tan-ti-par'tit), a. [< L. tantus, 
bol, Ta; atomic weight, 192. One of the rare so much, + partitas, parted, divided: see par- 
metals occurring in various combinations, but tite.] Having n sets of n facients, and homo- tantnsm (tan trizm), . 
hardly known at all in the separate metallic geneous in each; linear in each of several sets The doctrines of the tantras. 
state. As prepared by Berzelius, but not entirely pure, it of variables Tantipartite function, a function of tantrist (ten trist), It. [< taiilni 
appeared as a black powder, which assumed a grayish me- several variables linear in each. devotee of t;mt 1'lsni. 
Antony pig or St. Antony's pig ; also called An- 
tony or Anthony pig: said to be so called in 
allusion to the pigs which figure in the legend 
of St. Anthony (prop. Antony), who is said to 
have had a pig for his page. The first quot. 
gives a different explanation.] The favorite 
or smallest pig in the litter To follow like a 
Tantony pig, to be constantly at the heels of a person. 
See the quotation from Stow. 
The Officers charged with oversight of the Markets in 
this City [London] did divers times take from the Market 
people Pigs starved, or otherwise unwholsome for mans 
sustenance. . . . One of the Proctors for St. Anthonies 
[Hospital] tyed a Bell about the necke, and let it feed on 
the Dunghils, no man would hurt, or take it up : but if 
any one gave to them bread, or other feeding, such would 
they know, watch for, and daily follow, whining till they 
had somewhat given them : whereupon was raised a Pro- 
verbe, Such an one wil follow such an one, & whine as it 
were an Anthonie Pig. 
Stmv, Survey of London (ed. 1633), p. 190. 
Lord ! she made me follow her last week tlirough nil the 
shops like a Tantiny pig. Su-ift, Polite Conversation, i. 
tantra (tan'trii), n. [Skt. tantra, thread, warp, 
fig. fundamental doctrine, the division of a 
work, < / tan, stretch: see fenrfand Iliin.] One 
of a class of recent Sanskrit religious works, in 
which mysticism and magic play a great part. 
They are chiefly in the form of a dialogue between Siva 
and his wife. There are also Buddhist tantras, of a some- 
what similar character. 
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