taut 
Hence 2. In good shape or condition; proper- 
ly ordered; prepared against emergency; tidy; 
neat. [Now chiefly nautical in both uses.] 
By breakfast-time the ship was clean and taut tore and 
aft, her decks drying fast in the sun. 
W. C. Russett, Sailor's Sweetheart, vii. 
To heave taut. See heave. 
tautaug (ta-tag'), 11. Same as tautog. 
tauted (ta'ted), a. [Also taw ted; < *taut, var. 
of tate, tait, a tuft of hair (see tate) (or < Icel. 
tot, a flock of wool), + -erf 2 .] Matted; touzled; 
disordered : noting hair or wool. Also tail-tie, 
tautie, tatty. [Scotch.] 
She was na get o' moorland tips, 
Wi' tauted ket an' hairy hips. 
Burns, Poor Mailie's Elegy. 
tautegorical (ta-te-gor'i-kal), a. [< Gr. ravru, 
the same (see tautochrone), + ayopei'eiv, speak: 
see agora, and cf. allegorical.'] Expressing the 
same thing in different words: opposed to al- 
legorical. Coleridge. (Imp. Diet.) [Rare.] 
tauten (ta'tn), v. < taut + -enl.] I. intrans. 
To become taut or tense. 
The rigging tautened and the huge sails flapped in thun- 
der as the Harpoon sped upon her course. 
H. R. Haggard, Mr. Meeson's Will, xii. 
II. trans. To make taut, tense, or tight; 
tighten ; stiffen. [Rare in both uses.] 
Every sense on the alert, and every nerve tautened to 
fullest tension. Sportsman's Gazetteer, p. 248. 
tautie (ta'ti), a. Same as tauted. [Scotch.] 
tautly (tat'li), adi: In a taut manner; tightly. 
tautness (tat'nes), n. The state of being taut; 
tightness; tenseness. 
tautobaryd (ta'to-bar-id), . [Irreg. < Gr. Tair6, 
the same, + fiapvf, heavy (jiapo*;, weight), + -d 
for -jrf 2 .] That curve upon which the pressure 
of a body moving under gravity is everywhere 
the same. 
tautochrone (ta'to-kron), . [< F. tautochrone, 
< Gr. Ttzi'To, Attic' rav-6v, the same (contr. of 
TO avro, the same : rd, neut. of 6, the ; amo, At- 
tic airrov, neut. of avrif, the same), + ;f/>dw>f, 
time.] In math., a curve line such that a heavy 
body descending along it by gravity will, from 
whatever point in the curve it begins to de- 
scend, always arrive at the lowest point in the 
same time. The cycloid possesses this prop- 
erty for a constant force witli no resistance. 
tautochronism (ta-tok'ro-nizm), n. [< taiito- 
clirone + -ism.~\ The characteristic property 
of the tautochrone. 
tautochronous (ta-tok'ro-nus), . [< tauto- 
chrone + -ous.] Pertaining to or of the nature 
of a tautochrone ; isochronous. 
tautog(ta-tog' ), n. [Also tautaug, tetaug, and for- 
merly tautuiiog (Roger Williams) ; Amer. Ind., 
*>1. of taut, the Indian name of the fish; said 
y Roger Williams to mean 'sheep's heads.'] 
A labroid fish, Tnutnga nmcricana or T. onitift, 
6200 
tautologize (tii-tol'p-jiz), c. . ; pret. and pp. 
tautologized, ppr. tautologizing. [< ttiutolog-ij 
+ -iM.J To use tautology. Also spelled tun 
tologise. 
That in this brief description the wise man should tail- 
tofoffize is not to be supposed. 
./. Smith, Solomon's Portraiture of Old Age, p. 2.1. 
tautolOgOUS (ta-tol'o-gus), a. [< Gr. rnwoAoj-of, 
repeating what has been said: see tautology.] 
Tautological: as, tatttologous verbiage. 
Clumsy tautoloyous interpretation. Ttie. Academy. 
tautology (ta-tol'o-ji), n. [= F. tautologie = 
Sp. tautologia = fg. It. tautologia, < L. taiitolo- 
gia, < Gr. Tavrofar/ia, the repetition of the same 
thing, < ravroM-yof, repeating the same thing, < 
TaiiTd, the same, + Leyeiv, speak (see -ology).] 
1. Repetition of the same word, or use of sev- 
eral words conveying the same idea, in the same 
immediate context. Seedilogy. 2. The repe- 
tition of the same thing in different words ; the 
useless repetition of the same idea or mean- 
ing: as, "they did it successively one after the 
other"; "both simultaneously made their ap- 
pearance at one and the same time." Tautology 
is repetition without addition of force or clearness, and is 
disguised by a change of wording ; it differs from the repe- 
tition which is used for clearness, emphasis, or effect, and 
which may be either in the same or in different words. 
How hath my unregarded language vented 
The sad tautologies of lavish passion ! 
taw 
i: 
Tautog ( Taii 
abundant on the Atlantic coast of the United 
States, and highly esteemed for food. Also 
called blackfish and oyster-fish. 
tautologie (ta-to-loj'i'k), a. [= F. tautologique 
= It. tautologieo; as tautolog-y + -ic.] Of, per- 
taining to, or characterized by tautology. 
tautological (ta-to-loj'i-kal), o. [< tautologie 
+ -al.] Characterized by or of the nature of 
tautology : as, tautological expressions. 
Pleonasms of words, tautological repetitions. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., To the Reader, p. 25. 
Tautological echo. See echo, i. 
tautologically (ta-to-loj'i-kal-i), adv. In a tau- 
tological manner ; by tautology. 
tautologise, v. i. See tautologize. 
tautologism (ta-tol'o-jism), . Same as tau- 
tology, 2. 
It [chaotic language] is reduced to order and meaning, 
. . . partly by . . . tautologism, i. e. by using a second syn- 
onym to define the word which is vague ; in point of fact 
by making two vague words into one definite word. 
F. W. Farrar, Language and Languages, p. 388. 
tautologist (ta-tol'o-jist), n. [< tautolog-y + 
-ist.] One who uses different words or phrases 
in succession to express tin- same sense. 
Quarles, Emblems, iv. 12. 
I wrote him an humble and very submissive Letter, all 
in his own stile : that is, I called the Library a venerable 
place ; the Books sacred reliques of Antiquity, &c., with 
half a dozen tautologies. 
Humphrey Wanley, in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. 358. 
= Syn. 2. Jtedundancy, etc. See pleonasm. 
tautodusian (ta-to-o'si-an), a. [< tautoousi-oit* 
+ -an.] Same as tautoousious. 
tautOOUSlOUS (ta-to-o'si-us), a. [< Gr. -avr6, 
the same, + ovaia, being, essence, + -om. Cf. 
homoiiusions."] In theol., having absolutely the 
same essence. [Rare.] 
tautophonical (ta-to-fon'i-kal), a. [< tautoph- 
on-y + -ic-al.~\ Repeating the same sound. 
[Rare.] Imp. Diet. 
tautophony (ta'to-fo-ni), . [= F. tautophonie, 
< Gr. Tawo0ww'n,' < rairo, the same, + 
sound.] Repetition of the same sound. 
tautopodic (ta-to-pod'ik), . [< tautopod-y + 
-ic.] Pertaining to or constituting a tautopody. 
tautopody (ta-top'o-di), n. [< LL. tautopodia, 
< Gr. TavToxodia, tautopody, < TQI'TO, the same, 
+ Troif (iro<5-) = E. foot.'] In anc. pros., imme- 
diate repetition of the same foot; a compound 
foot or measure consisting of a simple foot and 
its exact repetition. See dtpody and syzugy, 1. 
tau-topped (ta'topt), . Having the handle in 
the shape of a tau-cross, as the Greek pateressa, 
or pastoral staff. 
tautpusian (ta-to'si-an), a. Same as tauto- 
oiisian. Imp. Diet. 
tautousious (ta-to'si-us), n. Same as tauto- 
oimious. Imp. Diet. 
tautozonal (ta'to-zo-nal), a. [< Gr. ravr6, the 
same, + ^uvr/, zone, +-?.] Belonging to the 
same zone: noting the planes of a crystal. 
tautozonality (ta"to-zo-nari-ti), n. [< toto- 
zonal + -ity.\ The condition of being tauto- 
zonal. 
tavalure (tav'a-lur), n, [< F. tavelure, a spot- 
ting, spots, speckles, < taveler, spot, speckle.] 
In tier., one of the so-called spots of the fur er- 
mine. See ermine spot, under ermine^. 
tavelt, n. [ME., < AS. tsefel, game of tables, < 
L. tabula, table: see table. ~] The game of ta- 
bles. Layamon. 
tavelt, v. [ME. tavelen, tevelen, < AS. tseflan (= 
Icel. tefla), play at tables, < tsefel. game of ta- 
bles: see tavel, n.~\ To play at tables. 
tavern (tav'ern), . [Also dial, tabern; < ME. 
taverne, < OF. (and F.) taverne = Pr. taverna = 
Sp. taberna = Pg. taberna, taverna = It. taverna, 
< L. taberna, a booth, a shop, inn, tavern ; from 
the same root as tabula, a board, plank, table: 
see table. Cf. tabern, taberna, tabernacle.] A 
public house where wines and other liquors are 
sold, and where food is provided for travelers 
and other guests; a public house where both 
food and drink are supplied; an inn. Taverns 
existed in England as early as the thirteenth century. At 
first only wines and liquors were sold. 
After dinner we went to a blind tavern, where Congreve, 
Sir Richard Temple, Eastcourt, and Charles Main were 
over a bowl of bad punch. 
Su^ft, Journal to Stella, Oct 27, 1710. 
Plenty of the old Taverns still survive to show us In 
what places our fathers took their 
their punch. 
dinners and drank 
The floor was sanded; there was a 
great fire kept up all through the winter, with a kettle 
always full of boiling watt-r; the cloth was not always of 
the cleanest ; the forks were steel ; in the evening there 
was always a company of those who supped for they 
dined early on chops, steaks, sausages, oysters, and Welsh 
rabbit, of those who drank, those who smoked their long 
pipes, and those who sang. 
W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 180. 
To hunt a tavern foxt, to be drunk. Compare tavern- 
hunting. 
Else he had little leisure time to waste, 
Or at the ale-house huff-cap ale to taste ; 
Nor did he ever hunt a tavern fox. 
John Taylor, Old Parr (163S). (Davits.) 
= Syn. Inn, Tavern, Hotel, Bouse. In the United States 
inn and tavern are rarely now popularly applied to places 
of public entertainment, except sometimes as quaint or 
affected terms; but in law tavern is sometimes used for 
any place of public entertainment where liquor is sold 
under license. Hotel is the general word, or, often, house 
as the name of a particular hotel. 
tavern-bush (tav'ern-bush), n. The bush for- 
merly hung out as a sign for a tavern. 
taverner (tav'er-ner), n. [< ME. taverner, < OF. 
tai-ernier = Sp. tabernero = Pg. tarerneiro = It. 
tavernajo, taverniere, < LL. tabernarius (fern, ta- 
bernariu), the keeper of a tavern or inn, also the 
keeper of a shop, prop. adj. (> Sp. tabernario), 
pertaining to a tavern or shop, < L. taberna, a 
booth, shop, tavern : seetavern.] Onewho keeps 
a tavern; an innkeeper. 
Forth they goon towardes that village 
Of which the taverner had spoke biforn. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 245. 
Not being able to pay, hauing impauned himselfe, the 
Tauerner bringeth him out to the high way, and beates 
him. Hakluyt's Voyaijes, I. 314. 
tavern-haunter (tav'ern-han"ter), . One who 
frequents taverns. Encyc. J>ict. 
tavern-huntingt (tav'ern-hun"ting), 11. The 
frequenting of taverns. 
Their lazinesse, their Tavern-huntiny, their neglect of 
all sound literature, and their liking of doltish and monas- 
ticall Schoolemen daily increast. 
Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst. 
taverningt (tav'er-ning), n. [< tavern + -ing 1 .] 
Resort to a tavern, or to taverns generally; 
also, a festival or convivial meeting at a tavern. 
But who conjur'd this bawdie Peggie's ghost 
From out the stewes of his lewde home bred coast? 
Or wicked Rablais dronken revellings, 
To grace the mis-rule of our tavemings? 
Bp. Ball, Satires, IL i. 
tavern-keeper (tav'ern-ke"per), . One who 
keeps a tavern ; a 
taverner. 
tavern-token 
(tav'ern- to "kn), 
. A token is- 
sued by the keep- 
er of a tavern for 
Convenience Of Obverse. Reverse. 
Change. Tavern- Token of the Mermaid Tavern, Cheap- 
tokenS were larffe- s '^ e> I-ondon. British Museum. (Size of 
ly issued in Eng- 
land in the seventeenth century. See token, 6. 
To swallow a tavern-tokent, to get drunk. 
Drunk, sir ! you hear not me say so ; perhaps he swal- 
lowed a tavern-token, or some such device, sir, I have no- 
thing to do withal. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, L 3. 
tavern-tracert, Same as tavern-haunter. 
A crew of unthrifts, carelesse dissolutes, 
Licentious prodigals, vilde taveme-tracers. 
Heyicood, Fair Maid of the Exchange (Works, ed. Pearson, 
[1874, II. 28). 
tavers. taivers (ta'verz), n. pi. [Origin ob- 
scure.] Tatters. [Scotch.] 
They don't know how to cook yonder they have no 
gout they boil the meat to tavers, and mak' sauce o' the 
brue to other dishes. 
Gait, The Steamboat, p. 288. (Jamieson.) 
tavert, taivert (ta'vert), a. [Origin obscure.] 
1 . Stupid ; confused ; senseless. Gait. 2. Stu- 
pefied with drink; intoxicated. Gait. [Scotch 
in both senses.] 
taw 1 (ta), v. t. [Early mod. E. tawe, teu-e; < ME. 
tawen, tetven, < AS. tawian, prepare, get ready, 
dress, also scourge (cf. getawe, implements), = 
MD. tOHwen, prepare, taw, D. touu-en, taw, curry 
(leather), = MLG. tou wen, prepare, taw, = OHG. 
zaujan, stnijan, MHG. zouwen, zouwen, make, get 
ready, prepare, soften, taw, tan, = Goth, taujan, 
do, make, cause, work ( > Sp. Pg. a-taviar, dress, 
adorn). From this root are also ult. E. team, 
teem 1 , tool, tow 2 . Cf. tew 1 .] If. To work, dress, 
or prepare (some raw material) for use or for 
further manipulation. 
And whilst that they did nimbly spin, 
The hempe he needs must taw. 
Robin Good fellow, p. 28. (HattiweU.) 
Especially 2. To make (hides) into leather, 
specifically liy souking them, after cleaning, iii 
