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1: widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity [syn: {ragwort}, {ragweed}, {benweed}, {Senecio jacobaea}]

1: perennial stellate and hairy herb with small yellow flowers of mountains of southern Europe; sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium [syn: {Hugueninia tanacetifolia}, {Sisymbrium tanacetifolia}]

1: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: {tea...

1: someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach [syn: {tantalizer}]

1: arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach; "a tantalizing taste of success" [syn: {tantalizing}] 2: very pleasantly inviting; "a tantalizing aroma"; "a tem...

1: a mineral consisting of tantalum oxide of iron and manganese that occurs with niobite or in coarse granite; an ore of tantalum

1: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: {tea...

1: someone who tantalizes; a tormentor who offers something desirable but keeps it just out of reach [syn: {tantaliser}]

1: arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach; "a tantalizing taste of success" [syn: {tantalising}] 2: very pleasantly inviting; "a tantalizing aroma"; "a tem...

1: in a tantalizing manner; "she smiled at him tantalizingly" [syn: {invitingly}]

1: a hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite [syn: {Ta}, {atomic number 73}]

1: (Greek mythology) a wicked king and son of Zeus; condemned in Hades to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink and beneath fruit that receded when he reached for it

1: being essentially equal to something; "it was as good as gold"; "a wish that was equivalent to a command"; "his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt" [syn: {equivalent}, {tantamount(p)...

1: black-headed snakes [syn: {genus Tantilla}]

1: any of a fairly recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature concerned with ritual acts of body and speech and mind 2: doctrine of enlightenment as the realization of the oneness of one's...

1: of or relating to Tantrism; "tantric rituals" [syn: {Tantrik}]

1: of or relating to Tantrism; "tantric rituals" [syn: {Tantric}]

1: movement within Buddhism combining elements of Hinduism and paganism 2: doctrine of enlightenment as the realization of the oneness of one's self and the visible world; combines elements of Hinduis...

1: an adherent of Tantrism

1: a display of bad temper; "he had a fit"; "she threw a tantrum"; "he made a scene" [syn: {fit}, {scene}, {conniption}]

1: a republic in eastern Africa [syn: {United Republic of Tanzania}]

1: of or relating to the republic of Tanzania or its people n : a native or inhabitant of Tanzania

1: monetary unit in Tanzania

1: the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents [syn: {shilling}]

1: a terrorist group organized by Yasser Arafat in 1995 as the armed wing of al-Fatah; serves a dual function of violent confrontation with Israel and serves as Arafat's unofficial militia to prevent ...

1: an Islamic terrorist group organized in the 1980s; seeks to purify Islam through violence; the cells in North American and the Caribbean insulate themselves from Western culture and will even attac...

1: an adherent of any branch of Taoism [syn: {Taoist}] 2: the ultimate principle of the universe

1: a Chinese sect claiming to follow the teaching of Lao-tzu but incorporating pantheism and sorcery in addition to Taoism 2: religion adhering to the teaching of Lao-tzu 3: popular Chinese philosophi...

1: of or relating to the popular Chinese religious system based on the teachings of Lao-tzu but including a pantheon of gods along with divination and magic; "Taoist temples" 2: of or relating to the ...

1: the three pure ones; the three chief gods of Taoism

1: a member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico 2: an artist colony in northern New Mexico

1: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: {pat}, {rap}] 2: a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask [syn: {water faucet}, {water tap}, {spigot}, {hydrant}] 3: a gentle blow [syn: {rap}, {strike}]...

1: a dance step tapped out audibly with the feet [syn: {tap dancing}] v : perform a tap dance

1: a dancer who who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes [syn: {tapper}]

1: a dance step tapped out audibly with the feet [syn: {tap dance}]

1: a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks [syn: {tavern}]

1: beat out a rhythm [syn: {beat out}, {thump out}]

1: water directly from the spigot

1: a wrench for turning a tap to create an internal screw thread

1: the act of starting a basketball game with a jump ball [syn: {tip-off}]

1: thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus [syn: {tappa}] 2: a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark [syn: {tappa}]

1: dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes; "Glover tapdances better than anybody" [syn: {tap}]

1: a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening; "he used a piece of tape for a belt"; "he wrapped a tape around the package" 2: a recording made on magnetic tape; "the several...

1: a cartridge containing magnetic tape; for use with audio or video recorders or computer systems

1: electronic equipment for making or playing magnetic tapes (but without amplifiers or speakers); a component in an audio system

1: a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder [syn: {tape transport}, {transport}]

1: submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia [syn: {eelgrass}, {wild celery}, {Vallisneria spiralis}]

1: a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape [syn: {tape recorder}]

1: measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths; "the carpenter should have used his tape measure" [syn: {tape}, {t...

1: electronic equipment for playing back magnetic tapes

1: record with a tape recorder

1: a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape [syn: {tape machine}]

1: a recording made on magnetic tape; "the several recordings were combined on a master tape" [syn: {tape}, {taping}]

1: a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder [syn: {tape drive}, {transport}]

1: recorded on tape [syn: {taped}]

1: secured or held in place by tape; "carefully taped pieces of glass served as a windowpane" 2: recorded on tape [syn: {tape-recorded}]

1: measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths; "the carpenter should have used his tape measure" [syn: {tape}, {t...

1: a spread consisting of capers and black olives and anchovies made into a puree with olive oil

1: a convex shape that narrows toward a point 2: the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone) 3: a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by...

1: a file with converging edges [ant: {blunt file}]

1: end weakly; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending" [syn: {peter out}, {fizzle out}, {fizzle}] 2: become smaller or less active; "Business tapered off"

1: gradually narrowed toward a point; "a tall tapering spire" [syn: {tapering}] 2: becoming gradually narrower; "long tapering fingers"; "trousers with tapered legs" [syn: {tapering}, {narrowing}]

1: gradually narrowed toward a point; "a tall tapering spire" [syn: {tapered}] 2: becoming gradually narrower; "long tapering fingers"; "trousers with tapered legs" [syn: {tapered}, {narrowing}] 3: gr...

1: gradually decreasing until little remains [syn: {dwindling}, {tapering}]

1: hung or decorated with tapestry

1: something that is felt to resemble a tapestry in its complexity; "the tapestry of European history" 2: a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery [syn: {tapis}] 3: a wall...

1: larvae feed on carpets and other woolens [syn: {carpet moth}, {Trichophaga tapetzella}]

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1: ribbon-like flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates [syn: {cestode}]

1: intestinal infection by a species of parasitic tapeworm; usually the result of eating inadequately cooked meat or fish

1: a morbid fear of being buried alive

1: tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals [syn: {public house}, {pub}, {saloon}, {pothouse}, {gin mill}]

1: a recording made on magnetic tape; "the several recordings were combined on a master tape" [syn: {tape}, {tape recording}]

1: granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings

1: cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca [syn: {bitter cassava}, {manioc}, {mandioc}, {mandioca}, {gari}, ...

1: sweet pudding thickened with tapioca

1: large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout

1: tapirs and extinct related forms [syn: {family Tapiridae}]

1: type genus of the Tapiridae [syn: {genus Tapirus}]

1: a tapir found in Malaya and Sumatra [syn: {Malayan tapir}, {Indian tapir}]

1: a tapir found in South America and Central America [syn: {New World tapir}]

1: a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery [syn: {tapestry}]

1: massage in which the body is tapped rhythmically with the fingers or with short rapid movements of the sides of the hand; used to loosen mucus on the chest walls of patients with bronchitis

1: thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus [syn: {tapa}] 2: a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark [syn: {tapa}]

1: United States abolitionist (1786-1865) [syn: {Arthur Tappan}]

1: a cantilever bridge across the Hudson River

{tap}

1: a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks [syn: {tapster}] 2: a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly; "finger tappers irritated her" 3: a worker who uses a tap to cut screw thre...

1: a lever that is moved in order to tap something else

1: a wrench having parallel jaws at fixed separation (often on both ends of the handle) [syn: {open-end wrench}]

{tap}

1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: {barroom}, {bar}, {saloon}, {ginmill}]

1: (botany) main root of a plant growing straight downward from the stem 2: something that provides an important central source for growth or development; "the taproot of his resentment"; "genius and ...

1: (military) signal to turn the lights out [syn: {lights-out}]

1: a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks [syn: {tapper}]

1: any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue [syn: {pitch}] 2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: {mariner}, {seaman}, {Jack-tar}, {Jack}, {old salt}, {seafarer}, {gob}, {sea d...

1: a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: {North Carolina}, {Old North State}, {NC}]

1: a heavy paper impregnated with tar and used as part of a roof for waterproofing [syn: {roofing paper}]

1: a natural accumulation of bitumens at the surface of the earth; often acts as a trap for animals whose bones are thus preserved

1: smear the body of (someone) with tar and feathers; done in some societies as punishment; "The thief was tarred and feathered"

1: New Zealand shrub [syn: {tarwood}, {New Zealand mountain pine}, {Halocarpus bidwilli}, {Dacrydium bidwilli}] 2: New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted...

1: a village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin); seat of Irish kings until 6th century

1: high-climbing Asiatic vine having long finely serrate leaves and racemes of white flowers followed by greenish-yellow edible fruit [syn: {bower actinidia}, {Actinidia arguta}]

1: the capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC [syn: {Tripoli}, {capital of Libya}]

1: a port city and commerical center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea [syn: {Tripoli}, {Trablous}]

1: a member of a group of peoples of Mexico

1: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: {fib}, {story}, {tale}, {tarradiddle}] 2: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: {...

1: a member of the Taracahitian people of north central Mexico

1: Mexican frog found within a jump of two or water [syn: {Rana tarahumarae}]

1: medium to large Indonesian and Malaysian trees [syn: {Hydnocarpus}, {genus Hydnocarpus}, {genus Taraktagenos}, {Taraktogenos}, {genus Taraktogenos}]

1: East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy [syn: {chaulmoogra}, {chaulmoogra tree}, {chaulmugra}, {Hydnocarpus kurzii}, {Taraktogenos kurzii}]

1: medium to large Indonesian and Malaysian trees [syn: {Hydnocarpus}, {genus Hydnocarpus}, {Taraktagenos}, {genus Taraktagenos}, {genus Taraktogenos}]

1: East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy [syn: {chaulmoogra}, {chaulmoogra tree}, {chaulmugra}, {Hydnocarpus kurzii}, {Taraktagenos kurzii}]

1: music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella 2: a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons [syn: {tarantelle}]

1: a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons [syn: {tarantella}]

1: United States filmmaker (born in 1963) [syn: {Quentin Tarantino}, {Quentin Jerome Tarantino}]

1: a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider

1: large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement) [syn: {European wolf spider}, {Lycosa tarentula}] 2: large hairy tropical spider that can i...

{tarantula}

1: Ukranian poet (1814-1861) [syn: {Shevchenko}]