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TAURE, a town of Bengal, district of Mongier. Lat. 24. 
31. N. long. 86 . 50. E. 
TAVR1A, a small town in the north of Italy, in Piedmont, 
province of Turin. Population 2300. 
TAURICASTitO, or Tauro Castro, a small town of 
Greece, in Livadia, opposite to Negroponte 5 20 miles north- 
north-east of Athens. 
TAURICO'RNOUS, adj. \taurus and cornu, Latin.] 
Having horns like a bull.—Their descriptions must be rela¬ 
tive, or the tauricornous picture of the one the same with 
the. other. Brown. 
TAURIDA, a government in the south of European Rus¬ 
sia, which consists in the following parts:—1st. The penin¬ 
sula of the Crimea; 2d, a considerable track to the north of 
the peninsula, between the Dnieper and the Berda; 3d, the 
island of Taman, or Tmutarakan; 4th, the land of the 
Tschernomorski, or Black Sea Cossacs, lying to the east of 
the Crimea. This province lies between lat. 44. 32. and 47. 
50. N. 5 and between long. 31. 36. and 40. 24. E.: has a 
superficial extent of 25,000 square miles, fully equal to that 
of Scotland ; but the inhabitants are so thinly scattered, that 
their number does not exceed 260,000, making hardly 74 to 
the square mile. The province is divided into six circles, 
besides the isle of Taman, and the land of the Czernomorski 
Cossacs. This name is also given to the range of moun¬ 
tains which form a sweep along the whole coast of k the 
Crimea from east to west. 
TAURIS, a great city of Persia, which at different periods 
has been" the capital of the empire. Its antiquity has been 
the subject of much discussion, Sir William Jones and other 
writers conceiving it to be the ancient Ecbatana. D’An- 
ville, however, imagines it to be Gaza, or Ganzaca, where 
Cyrus deposited the treasures of Crcesus, and which was af¬ 
terwards taken by Heraclius. It was a favourite city of 
Haroun al Raschid, and, according to Persian tradition, 
which, however, is little to be trusted, was founded by Zo- 
beida, one of his wives. It was probably to him at least 
that it was indebted for that extraordinary magnitude and 
splendour which it once exhibited. Situated near the fron¬ 
tier of contending empires, it has alternately been the object 
of contest to Turks, Tartars, and Persians, and has been 
taken and sacked eight different times. It has suffered still 
more by earthquakes, which have repeatedly levelled its 
proudest edifices with the ground. The last, in 1724, is 
supposed to have destroyed 100,000 inhabitants. At pre¬ 
sent Tauris does not contain more than 30,000 people, and 
is, on the whole, one of the most wretched cities in Persia. 
It is seated in an immense plain at the foot of a mountain, 
on the banks of a small river, the waters of which are con¬ 
sumed in the cultivation of the land. The ruins of the an¬ 
cient city cover a great extent of ground, but exhibit a very 
mean appearance, being nothing but a confused heap of old 
mud walls. Lat. 38. 10. N. long. 46. 37. E. 
TAUROBOLIUM, or Taurqbolion, among the an¬ 
cients, sacrifices of bulls, which were offered to Cybele, 
the mother of the gods, to render thanks to the goddess of 
the earth, for her teaching men the art to tame those animals, 
and fit them for labour. 
TAUROGEN, a small and ill built town of Russian Li¬ 
thuania, in Samogitia, government of Wilna; 35 miles 
south of Miedniki. 
TAVROV, a town in the south-east of European Russia, 
in the government of Voronez, situated near a river of the 
same name. It consists of two adjoining villages, and is 
inhabited by soldiers, and carpenters who build the boats 
used in the navigation of the Don. In 1744, all the public 
buildings were destroyed by fire; 47 miles south east of 
Voronez. 
TAURUS, the name which Europeans give to a lofty 
chain of mountains, situated in the eastern part of Asia 
Minor, where it borders on Syria, called by the Turks Gebel 
Kurin. 
TAU'RUS, s. The second sign in the zodiac.—Were we 
not born under Taurus ? Shakspeare. 
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TAURUS, in some ancient customs, signifies a husband- 
—Leg. H. I. cap. 7. “ Videtur autem matris ejus, cujus- 
cunque taurus alluserit.” 
TAURUS, in Entomology, a speci§s of scarabaeus.— 
Also, a species of cicada, found in Coromandel.—Also, a 
species of cimex.—In Ornithology, the bittern or butter- 
pump.—In Zoology. See Bos. 
TAUSS, Domaglieze, or Drastow, a town of Bohe¬ 
mia, 15 miles west of Klatau, and 80 west-south-west of 
Prague. It is surrounded with a wall, contains 4400 inha¬ 
bitants, and has large manufactures of thread and linen. 
TAUSTE, a neat town in the north east of Spain, in Arra- 
gon, on the small river Riguel, near its influx into the Ebro. 
It contains 3200 inhabitants, and is situated in a fruitful 
district. A canal from this place forms the great canal of 
Arragon, and promotes the internal trade of the country; 27 
miles north-west of Saragossa, and 170 east-north-east of 
Madrid. 
T AUTENBURG, a large village of Germany, in the grand 
duchy of Saxe Weimar; 1 mile east-south-east of Dornburg. 
TAUTOLO'GICAL, adj. [ tautolog/que, Fr.] Repeat¬ 
ing the same thing.—Pleonasms of words, tautological re¬ 
petitions. Burton. 
TAUTO’LOGIST, s. One who repeats the same thing. 
To TAUTO'LOGIZE, v. n. To repeat the same thing. 
—That in this brief description the wise man should tauto¬ 
logize, is not to be supposed. Smith. 
TAUTO'LOGY, S. [t avloXoynz ; ravro and Xoyoi;, Gr. ; 
tautologic, Fr.] Repetition of the same words, or of the 
same sense in different words. 
Saint Andre’s feet ne’er kept more equal time. 
Not ev’n the feet of thy own Psyche’s rhime; 
Though they in numbers as in sense excel, 
So just, so like tautology they fell. Dry den. 
Every paper addressed to our beautiful incendiaries, hath 
been filled with different considerations, that enemies may 
not accuse me of tautology. Addison. 
TAUVES, a petty town of France, in Auvergne, depart¬ 
ment of the Puy de Dome, on the small river Mourlagne. 
Population 2100; 23 miles south-west of Clermont, and 30 
west of Issoire. 
TAVY, St. Mary, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 
4 miles north-east of Tavistock. Population 631. 
TAVY, St. Peter’s, a parish in the above county, half- 
a-mile distant from the foregoing. 
TAW, a river of England, in the county of Devon. It 
rises near the centre of the county, about 3 miles south-east 
of Oakhampton, flows to Barnstaple, and then turns westerly, 
and joins the Towridge, at its mouth, in the Bristol Channel. 
To TAW, v. a. [touwen , Dutch; cajnan, Sax.] To 
dress white leather commonly called alum leather, in contra¬ 
distinction from tan leather, that which is dressed with bark. 
He’s to be made more tractable, I doubt not—* 
Yes, if they taw him as they do whit-leather 
Upon an iron, or beat him soft like stock-fish, Beaum . 
TAW, s. A marble to play with. 
Trembling I’ve seen thee 
Mix with the children as they play’d at taw ; 
Nor fear the marbles as they bounding flew. 
Marbles to them, but rolling rocks to you. Swift x 
TAWALLY ISLE, one of the Gilolo islands; 35 miles 
long from north to south, and 6 in average breadth. Lat 0. 
21. S. long. 127. 14. E. 
TAWANDEE, a township of the United States, in Brad¬ 
ford county, Pennsylvania. Population 788. 
TAWANDEE CREEK, a river of the United States, in 
the north part of Pennsylvania, which runs east into the Sus- 
quehannah, about 10 miles above Asylum. 
TAWAY TOWN, an Indian station in North America, 
on the Ohio, near the sources of the Au-Glaize. . 
TA'WDRILY, ado. In a tawdry manner. Pulteney 
uses it in a letter to Swift. 
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