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TAMBOR, a settlement of New Granada, in the province 
of Popayan; 13 miles west of the city of Popayn. 
TAMBORA, a town of the island of Sumbawa, which is 
much resorted to by the dealers in horses, the surrounding 
country being celebrated for its breed of these animals. 
TAMBOV, a large province or government in the central 
part of European Russia, lying to the west of those of Penza 
and Saratov, between lat. 51. 30. and 55. 20. N. and long. 
39. 40. and 43. 40. E. Its territorial extent is calculated at 
about 21,000 square miles, and its population in 1817, was 
supposed to amount to 1,135,000. Like the far greater 
part of European Russia, it is level, and all the country from 
the river Choper to the borders of Saratov, is occupied by 
extensive steppes. Many tracks in this province are woody 
and marshy, but in general a sandy soil pervades the north, 
and a black and fertile mould the south. It is well watered 
both by rivers and small lakes. The winter has all the seve¬ 
rity of the Russian climate, but in summer the heat is such 
that the Polish cochineal and the Spanish fly are common. 
The domestic animals do not differ from those in the sur¬ 
rounding governments: the steppes contain various beasts 
of game. The mineral products are iron, sulphur, and salt¬ 
petre. 
TAMBOV, a considerable town of Russia, and the capital 
of the government of Tambov, is situated on the river Zna. 
It contains 10,700 inhabitants, and is the see of a Greek 
bishop; with a seminary, a gymnasium, and schools for the 
families of the better classes. It has a large monastery, in 
which there are two churches; and the town contains 14 
other churches or chapels. It has manufactures of woollen, 
canvas, linen, and alum, and a considerable carrying trade; 
but the chief employment of the inhabitants is agriculture; 
286 miles south-east of Moscow. Lat. 52. 43. 44. N. long. 
41. 45. 15. E. 
TAMBO'UR, s. [oldFr., tambour, a small drum; tam- 
lur, Arab., the same.] A tambourine; which see. A frame 
resembling a drum, on which a kind of embroidery is 
worked; the embroidery so made. [In Architecture.] A 
member of the Corinthian and composite capital, somewhat 
resembling a drum; a kind of porch; a round stone, or 
course of stones. 
TAMBOURI'NE, s. [tamborin , Spanish; from the Arab. 
tarn bur.'] A kind of drum. What we now call the tam- 
bourin , is different from the tabor; as it is played on with 
the hand or fingers, not with a stick. Spenser writes this 
word tamburin, and B. Jonson timburine. 
Calliope with Muses moe. 
Soon as thy oaten pipe began to sound. 
Their ivory lutes and tamburines forego. Spenser . 
TAMBRE, a river of Spain, in Galicia, which flows into 
the Atlantic at Noya, on the west coast. 
TAMBUCO, or Tabuco, a town on the east coast of the 
island of Celebes, situated in a bay, to which it gives name. 
Lat. 3.50. S. 
TAME, a river of England, in the counties of Bucking¬ 
ham and Oxford. It rises near Winslow, in Buckingham¬ 
shire, and runs in the Thames below Dorchester.—Also a 
river in Staffordshire, which rises near Dudley, and falls 
into the Trent, not far from Eadinghall, about 7 miles above 
Burton. 
TAME, a settlement of New Granada, in the province of 
San Juan de los Llanos, containing 700 Indians; 58 miles 
south of Pampeluna. 
TAME, a river of Guiana, which enters the Meta. 
TAME, adj. [came, Sax.; taem, Dutch; tam, Danish.] 
Not wild ; domestic.—Thales the Milesian said, That of all 
wild beasts, a tyrant is the worst, and of all tame beasts, a 
flatterer. Addison. —Crushed ; subdued; depressed; de¬ 
jected; spiritless; heartless. 
If you should need a pin, 
You could not with more tame a tongue desire it. 
S/iakspeare. 
Spiritless; unanimated: as, a tame poem. A lose 
phrase. 
To TAME, v. a. [gatamjan , Gothic; eamian, Saxon; 
tammen, Dutch.] To reduce from wildness; to reclaim; to 
make gentle. 
Those that tame wild horses, 
Pace ’em not in their hands to make ’em gentle; 
But stop their mouths with stubborn bits. Sha/cspeare. 
To subdue; to crush ; to depress; to conquer. 
If the heavens do not their visible spirits 
Send quickly down to tame the offences. 
Humanity must perforce prey on itself. Sha/cspeare. 
TA'MEABLE, adj. Susceptive of taming.—Ganzas are 
supposed to be great fowls, of a strong flight, and easily 
tameable; divers of which may be so brought up as to join 
together in carrying the weight of a man. Wilkins. 
TAMEGA, a river which rises in the mountains of Mou- 
rao, in the north-west of Spain, flows southward, and joins 
the Douro in Portugal, after passing by Amarante. 
TA'MELESS, adj. Wild; untamed.—The tameless 
steed could well his waggon wield. Bp. Hall. 
TA'MELY, adv. Not wildly; meanly; spiritlessly. 
True obedience, of this madness cur’d. 
Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty. Sha/cspeare. 
TA'MENESS, s. The quality of being tame; not wild¬ 
ness. Want of spirits; timidity.—Such a conduct must ap¬ 
pear rather like tameness than beauty, and expose his autho¬ 
rity to insults. Rogers. 
TA'MER, s. Conqueror; subduer. 
He, great tamer of all human art, 
Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend. Pope. 
TAMERTON, North, a parish of England, in Corn¬ 
wall ; 8 miles north-by-west of Launceston. Population 
420. 
TAMERTON, Foliot, a parish of England, in De¬ 
vonshire ; 4| miles north-by-west of Plymouth. Popula¬ 
tion 949. 
TAMETAVE, a sea-port on the eastern coast of Madagas¬ 
car. Lat. 18. 5. S. long. 49. 41. E. 
TAMIAGUA, a settlement of Mexico, situated on a nar¬ 
row isthmus on the west coast of the gulf of Mexico. The 
population consists of 40 Spanish families, and 400 mulat- 
toes and negroes; 146 miles north-north-west of Vera Cruz, 
and 68 south-east of Tampico. Lat. 21. 16. N. long. 97. 
29. W. 
TAMIAGUA, a lake of Mexico, which joins the sea be¬ 
tween the river Tampico and the Punta Delgada. It has a 
long and narrow outlet towards the south, running parallel 
with the shore, and forming an extraordinary large basin, in 
which are several islands. 
TAMIEH, a village of Fayoum, in Egypt, on a canal 
which forms a communication between the Nile and the 
Birket el Kairoun; 12 miles north-east of Fayoum. 
TA'MINY, s. [ estamine , Fr., whence our old word 
stamin, which see.] A kind of woollen stuff: called also 1 
tammin and tammy. — “ Estamine” is the stuff’ tamine. 
Cot grave. 
TAMISE, or Themesche, an inland town of the Nether¬ 
lands, in East Flanders, on the Scheldt, containing 5700 
inhabitants. It has some manufactures of linen and lace, 
and enjoys, like most other towns in this level country, the 
advantages of inland navigation ; 8 miles north of Dender- 
monde. 
TA'MKIN, s. The stopple of the mouth of a great gun. 
TAMMANY, St., a parish of the United States, in the 
state of Louisiana. 
TAMMANY, St., a county of the United States, in Loui¬ 
siana, on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain, and west of 
Pearl river. 
TAMMANY’S, St., a village of the United States, in 
Mecklenburg county, Virginia, on the north side of the 
Roanoke, about 75 miles south-south-west of Petersburg. 
TAMMARO, a small river in the north of the kingdom 
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