6194 
A sort of clay for making 
tartarum 
tartarum (tar'ta-rum), n. [NL., < ML. tarta- tasco (tas'ko), . 
rum, tartar: see tertarl.] A preparation of melting-pots. 
tartar also called petrified tartar. tasellt, . An obsolete form of 
Tartarus (tiir'ta-rus), . [< L. Tartarus. Tar- taseometer (tas-e-om e-ter), n 
tox,<Gr. Taprapor: see def. Cf. Tarter*.] A stretching, tension rvv, stretch: 
deep'and sunless abyss, according to Homer 
and the earlier Greek mythology as far below 
Hades as earth is below heaven. It was closed by 
adamantine gates, and in it Zeus imprisoned the rebel 
Titans Later poets describe Tartarus as the place in 
-Llfullo. j~ ~ mf *U! .Ilia TMInldtl- 
tass 
fc 
ges of the Mar- 
, measure.] 
[< Gr. rdmf, a 
see tend, 
An instrument for 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 113. 
Besides the above outlay, there were the usual tithes 
and taxes to be discharged. 13s. M. only was paid for 
Steiner of Vienna. It gives its indications by the 
tones of a wire so attached as to be subjected to the strain 
under consideration. E. H. Kniyht. 
wWch\he^pirttroi"theicked receive" their due'punish- t asn (tash), n. [< Hind, taxh, tax, brocade.] A 
ment; and sometimes the name is used as synonymous s ^ fabric in which gold or silver thread, or 
both, are used in great abundance : it is a va- 
riety of the kincob. Also tass. 
tasimeter (ta-sim'e-ter), n. [< Gr. TOO;?, a 
stretching (<! reiveiv (/ ran, rev), stretch), + 
with hades, for the lower world in general. 
Tartaryt (tar'ta-ri), . Tartarus. 
Lastly the squalid lakes of Tartarie, 
And griesly Feends of hell him terrifle. 
Spenser, Virgil's Onat, 1. 543. 
tarterine (tar'te-rin), . 
Compare tarse 1 . 
Tartini's tone. See tone. 
tartlet (tart'let), n. [< tart* + -kt.~\ A small 
tart. [Bare.] 
" Eat another tartlet. " " No, no ! my grief chokes me ! " 
Bulwer, Last Days of Pompeii, iv. 17. 
l-ioth at Axford ; but on several occasions we tind the 
taskers at Littlecote taking count of the corn stock, for 
u,,,:-,, , ^,^,.^,, a .. which service they were paid by the owner at 6d. per day. 
measuring strains m a structure, invented by * s B Jfc Soc ? ety in Elizabe than Age, U. 
2. One who imposes a task. 
But now to task the tasker. Shak., L. L. L., ii. 1. 20. 
3. One who performs a task, or piece of labor; 
in Scotland, often, a laborer who receives his 
wages in kind. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
He is a good days-man, or journeyman, or tasker. 
Rev. S. Ward, Sermons, p. 105. 
Old Martin, that is my tasker and the lady's servant, was 
Scott, Monastery, viii. 
[Obsolete or prov. 
ISCr V irCU 8 (illat, 1 I>4ii. *WWWM^ \ x - - / 7 * i mmfvutj viiuu 10 inj 1.1* 
. o uernav, measure, standard: see meter.] An in- driving out the cows to the pasture. 
Same as tartanne*. ', , TivKani, t nr /)nt.pRt,inir mi- I 
strument devised by Edison for detecting mi- 
nute changes of pressure and thereby small 
variations in temperature. It depends on the de- 
creased electrical resistance of soft carbon when subjected 
to increased pressure. The diminished resistance causes 
increased flow of an electric current, which is detected by 
a delicate galvanometer. See microtasimeter. 
DtUiWvr, IJUM j^j"3 w A vitij/wn, ... _ 
_ii /*"-*'i-\ <? r< MV ts,rth, < AS teart- tasimetric (tas-i-met'nk), a. [< tasimeter H 
tartly (tart h), adv. [< ME tartly < Ab. to or pertaining to the measurement of 
ner sharply "* ' ' * -~ pressures : also, of or pertaining to the tasime- 
verity ; in - *'" 
tartness 
see tart*. in a iarL man- j *: . . . . 
()' WHh acidity of taste. (6) With se- pressures ; also, of or pertaining 1 
ter Tasimetric surface. See surface. 
4. A thresher of grain, 
ling, and Scotch.] 
O, be thou a fan 
To purge the chaff, and keep the winnow'd grain : 
Make clean thy thoughts, and dress thy mix'd desires: 
Thou art Heaven s tasker. Quarles, Emblems, II. vii. 4. 
He suld a mantill hat, aid and bare, 
[Audi a flaill, as he a taskar ware. 
Barbour, Bruce (E. E. T. S.), v. 318. 
5. A reaper. [Prov. Eng.] 
tax; an assessment; an impost 
being of a faintish sweet, without any tartness. 
Beverley, Hist. Virginia, iv. H 13. 
(6) Sharpness of language or manner; acerbity; severity. 
Tills Marcius is grown from man to dragon ; . . . the 
tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. Shak. , Cor., v. 4. 18. 
= 8yn. (o) Asperity, Ilarshnegs, etc. See acrimony. 
tartrate (tar'trat), . [= F. tartrate; as tar- 
t(a)rl + -ate 1 .] A salt of tartaric acid. The 
tartrates have the general formula! MH.H^Op and 
MoHiCiOo, where M represents a univalent metal or 
radical. The salts represented by the first formula ex- 
hibit an acid reaction. A large number of double tar- 
trates also are known. 
Tartuffe, Tartufe (tar-tuf), . [< F. Tartufe, 
the name of the principal character, a reli- 
gious hypocrite, in the comedy "Tartufe," by 
Moliere.] A hypocritical pretender to devo- 
tion; a hypocrite. 
Tartuffish, Tartufish (tar-tuf 'ish), a. [< Tar- 
tuffe, Tartufe, + -is/ti.] Hypocritical; hypo- 
critically precise in behavior. [Rare.] 
God help her, said I ; she has some mother-in-law, or 
tartufish aunt, or nonsensical old woman, to consult upon 
the occasion as well as myself. 
Sterne, Sentimental Journey, p. 24. 
Tartuffism, Tartufism (tar-tuf 'izm), n. [< Tar- 
tnffe, Tartufe, + -ism."] Conduct or character 
like that of Tartuffe (see Tartuffe) ; the prac- 
tices of a hypocritical devotee. 
tarve (tarv), n. [Prob. a var. of "terve, n., < 
terve, ?. : see torve.] A turn; abend; a curve. 
Bartlett. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
I can't say much for your axe, stranger, for this helve 
has no tarve to 't. J. F. Cooper, Oak Openings, ii. 
Same as tare 2 . 
1. A cold infusion 
ye shold gran 
Ponton Letters, III. 82. 
J. S. Blackie, Lays of Highlands, p. 103. (Encyc. Diet.) 
task-lordt (task'lord), . A taskmaster. [Rare.] 
They labour hard, eat little, sleeping less, 
Fabyan, Chronicles, cc. taskmaster (task' 
One who im- 
tar-vetch (tar'vech), n. 
tar-water (tar'wa'ter), 
of tar, formerly a favorite remedy for many task (task), v. t. [< ME. 'tasken, < OF. "tasquer, 
chronic affections, especially of the lungs. tascher, impose a task upon, also labor, < tasque, 
tasche, a tax, task: see task,n. Cf. tax, p.] If. 
To tax ; charge. 
In short time after, he deposed the king ; . . . 
And, in the neck of that, task'd the whole state. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 3. 92. 
2f. To take to task ; charge with something. 
Hear me, great Pompey ; 
If thy great spirit can hear, I must task thee ; 
Thou hast most unnobly robb'd me of my victory. 
Fletcher (and another), False One, ii. 1. 
3. To impose a task upon; assign a definite 
amount of labor to. 
A harvest-man that 's task'd to mow 
Or all or lose his hire. Shak., Cor., i. 3. 39. 
Return, and, to divert thy thoughts at home, 
There task thy maids, and exercise the loom. 
Dryden, Iliad, vi. 184. 
I feel an ungovernable interest about my horses, or my 
pigs, or my pli 
to teak myself 
Sydney Smith, 
4. To oppress with severe or excessive labor or 
exertion ; occupy or engage fully, as in a task ; 
burden. 
We would be resolved, 
Before we hear him, of some things of weight 
That task our thoughts, concerning us and France. 
Shak., Hen. V., i. 2. 6. 
A wife 's a drug now ; mere tar-water, with every virtue 
under Heaven, but nobody takes it. 
Murphy, The Way to Keep Him, i. 1. 
I freelr own that I suspect tar-water is a panacea. 
Bp. Berkeley, First Letter to Thomas Prior on the Virtues 
[of Tar-water, 11. 
2. The ammoniacal water obtained by con- 
densation in the process of gas-manufacture. 
tar-weed (tar'wed), . Any one of various glan- 
dular, viscid, and heavy-scented plants of the 
genus Madia, of the similar Hemizonia, or of 
Grindelia, otherwise called gum-plant. 
tar-well (tar'wel), n. In gas-manuf., a recep- 
tacle in which is collected the tarry liquid 
which separates from the gas when it leaves 
the condensers. It contains water, through 
which the gas is made to pass, to cause it to 
give up its impurities. 
tast, A Middle English spelling of tass 1 . 
tasar. . Same as tusser. 
tascalt (tas'kal), n. [Also tascall; < Gael, tais- 
geal, the finding of anything that has been 
lost (> taisgealaeh, a spy, betrayer), < taisg, a 
pledge, stake, treasure; cf. taisg, lay up, hoard, 
bury.] In Scotland, in the seventeenth cen- 
tury, a reward given for information regarding 
cattle that had been carried off: to take this 
poses a task or burdens with labor; one whose 
function it is to assign tasks to others; an 
overseer. 
And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your 
works, your daily tasks. Ex. v. 13. 
All is, if I have grace to use it so, 
As ever in my great Task Master's eye. 
Milton, Sonnets, ii. 
taskmistress (task' mis "tres), n. A woman 
who imposes a task, as in a household. 
O willing slaves to Custom old, 
Severe taskmistress, ye your hearts have sold. 
Shflley, Revolt of Islam, xi. 17. 
task- work (task'werk), n. 1. Work imposed 
or performed as a task. 
For most men in a brazen prison live ; . . . 
With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly 
Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give. 
If. Arnold. A Summer Night. 
2. Work done by the job or the piece, as op- 
posed to time-work. 
taslett (tas'let), n. [Appar. < tassel + -let, but 
prob. an error for tasset.] Same as tasset. 
Thigh-pieces of steel, then termed taslets, met the tops 
of his huge jack-boots. Scott, Legend of Moutrose, ii. 
lanian (tas-ma'ui-an), a. and n. [< Tas- 
mania (see det.) + -a.]" I. a. Of or pertaining 
to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land, an island 
and colony belonging to Great Britain, situated 
south of Australia ; indigenous to Tasmania. 
Tasmanian cider- tree. See swamp-gum. Tasmanian 
cranberry, a much-branched prostrate shrub, Astrolama 
humifusum, of the Epacride/e, found in Australia and Tas- 
mania, bearing an edible drupaceous fruit. Tasmanian 
currant, a pretty evergreen bush, Leucopogon Richei, of 
the Epacrideac, bearing spikes of small white flowers fol- 
lowed by edible berry-like drupes. Tasmanian devil, 
the ursine dasyure. See Sarcophilus. Tasmanian dog- 
wood a composite shrub, Bedfordia salicina. found in 
Tasmania and Australia. Tasmanian honeysuckle. 
See honeysuckle, 2. Tasmanian hyacinth. See Thely- 
mitra. Tasmanian ironwood. See ironwood. Tas- 
manian laurel, a shrub (sometimes a tree), Anoptems 
Ulamlulosw, of the Saxifragacex, with dark-green glossy 
foliage, and abundant drooping racemes of white flowers. 
Tasmanian mountain-myrtle, a rutaceous shrub, 
Phebaliunt (Eriuste.mnn) montanum. Tasmanian myr- 
tle. See Fa</un. Tasmanian pepper. Same as pepper- 
tree, 2. Tasmanian plum. See ptumi. Tasmanian 
rope-grass. See /fcuMo. Tasmanian. sassafras. See 
Australian sassafras (a), under sassafras. Tasmanian 
stink wood. Same as stinkicood (b). Tasmanian wolf, 
See Thylacinus. 
2. Labor imposed; especially, a definite quan- 
tity or amount of labor ; work to be done ; one's 
stint; that which duty or necessity imposes; 
duty, or duties collectively. 
Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your 
daily task. Ex. v. 19. 
Specifically 3. Alesson to be learned ; a por- 
tion of study imposed by a teacher. 
Eftsoons the urchins to their tasks repair, 
Their books of stature small they take in hand. 
Shenstone, Schoolmistress. 
4. Work undertaken ; an undertaking. 
How oft in pleasing tasks we wear the day ! 
Pope, To Jervas, 1. 17. 
The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons 
is not to know their own task, or to take their ideas from 
others. Emerson, Fugitive Slave Law. 
5. Burdensome employment; toil. 
Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task 
Does not divide the Sunday from the week? 
Shak., Hamlet, i. 1. 76. 
Heavy, heavy is the task, 
Hopeless love declaring. 
Bunts, Blythe ha'e I Been. 
At task, reproved ; blamed. See attask. [Some editions 
of Shakspere give at task in Lear, i. 4. 866.] To take to Tasmania!! (tas-ma'ui-an), a. and n. [< Tas- 
task, to call to account ; reprove ; reprimand. 
Mrs. Baynes took poor madame severely to task for ad- 
mitting such a man to her assemblies. 
Thackeray, Philip, xxi. 
was looked upon as treachery to the clan. Com- tasker (tas'ker), n. [< ME. tasker, tavktir; < 
pare blackmail. tusk + -erl.] If. An assessor or regulator of 
tascal-moneyt, . Same as tascal, taxes. 
. 
the thylacine dasynre. 
. II. H. An inhabitant of Tasmania, 
plants; lam forced, and always was forced, tasmanito (tas'man-It), n. [< Tasmania (see 
:lf up into an interest for any higher objects. .,V -, i" tuMialwui* rpddish brown 
idney Smith, To Francis Jeffrey, Sept. 3, 1809. ? e H h : lte - J A translucent 
fossil resin, occurring m small scales or plates 
on the Mersey river, Tasmania, between the 
layers of a rock containing alumina and ferric 
oxid, forming from 30 to 40 per cent, of the en- 
tire deposit. 
tass 1 (tas), n. [< ME. tasse, tas. taas, < OF. (and 
F.) tas, a heap, pile, stack ; of Teut. origin; cf. 
AS. *tas (Somner; prop, "tees, if it existed) = 
D. tas = MLG. tas (tass-), a mow, = OHG. *-o.v 
(ML. tassia, tassits), a heap; cf. Gael, dais, a 
