Task"mas`ter (?), n. One who imposes a task, or burdens another with
labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11.
All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's
eye.
Milton.
Task"work` (?), n. Work done as a task; also, work done by the job;
piecework.
Tas"let (?), n. [See Tasse a piece of armor.] A piece of armor formerly
worn to guard the thighs; a tasse.
Tas*ma"ni*an (tz*m"n*an), a. Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van
Diemen's Land. — n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically
(Ethnol.), in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited
Tasmania, but is now extinct.
Tasmanian cider tree. (Bot.) See the Note under Eucalyptus. — Tasmanian
devil. (Zoöl.) See under Devil. — Tasmanian wolf (Zoöl.), a savage
carnivorous marsupial; — called also zebra wolf. See Zebra wolf, under
Wolf.
Tasse (?), n. [OF. tassette.] A piece of armor for the thighs, forming
an appendage to the ancient corselet.
Usually the tasse was a plate of iron swinging from the cuirass, but
the skirts of sliding splints were also called by this name.
Tas"sel (?), n. (Falconry) A male hawk. See Tercel.
Tas"sel, n. [See Teasel.] A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a
teasel.
Tas"sel, n. [OE., a fastening of a mantle, OF. tassel a fastening,
clasp, F. tasseau a bracket, Fr. L. taxillus a little die, dim. of
talus a die of a longish shape, rounded on two sides and marked only on
the other four, a knuckle bone.] 1. A pendent ornament, attached to the
corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of
loose threads or cords.