Ta*bas"co sauce (?). [So named after Tabasco, a river and state of Mexico.] A kind of very pungent sauce made from red peppers.
||Ta`bleau", n. (Solitaire) The arrangement, or layout, of cards.
||Ta"ble d'hôte". Now, commonly, a meal, usually of several courses, in a restaurant, hotel, or the like, for which one pays a fixed price irrespective of what one orders; -- often used adjectively; as, a table-d'hôte meal.
Table work. (Print.) Typesetting of tabular nmatter, or the type matter set in tabular form.
Tab"loid (?), n. [A table-mark.] A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.
Tab"loid, a. Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.
Ta*boo" (?), a. [Written also tapu.] [Polynesian tabu, tapu, sacred, under restriction, a prohibition.] Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo.
||Tac`-au-tac" (?), n. [F., fr. riposter du tac au tac to parry (where tac imitates the sound made by the steel).] (Fencing) The parry which is connected with a riposte; also, a series of quick attacks and parries in which neither fencer gains a point.
Ta*chis"to*scope (?), n. [Gr. &?;, superl. of &?; swift + -scope.] (Physiol.) An apparatus for exposing briefly to view a screen bearing letters or figures. It is used in studying the range of attention, or the power of distinguishing separate objects in a single impression.
Tach"o*graph (?), n. [Gr. &?; speed + -graph.] A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.
Ta*chom"e*try (?), n. Measurement by a tachometer; the science or use of tachometers.
Tach"y*graph (?), n. An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman tachygraphic manuscript.
Ta*chyg"ra*pher (?), n. [Gr. &?; a fast writer.] One who writes shorthand; a stenographer; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman notary.
Ta*chym"e*ter (?), n. [Tachy- + -meter.] 1. (Surveying) An instrument, esp. a transit or theodolite with stadia wires, for determining quickly the distances, bearings, and elevations of distant objects.