TALLOW, tal'[=o], _n._ the fat of animals melted: any coarse, hard
fat.--_v.t._ to grease with tallow.--_ns._ TALL'OW-CAN'DLE, a candle made
of tallow; TALL'OW-CATCH, -KEECH, (_Shak._), a keech or lump of tallow: a
low mean fellow; TALL'OW-CHAND'LER, a dealer in tallow, candles, &c.;
TALL'OW-CHAND'LERY, the trade or place of business of a tallow-chandler;
TALL'OWER, a tallow-chandler; TALL'OW-FACE, a yellow pasty-faced
person.--_adj._ TALL'OW-FACED.--_n._ TALL'OW-TREE, the name given to trees
of different kinds which produce a thick oil or vegetable tallow, or a
somewhat resinous substance, capable of making candles.--_adj._ TALL'OWY,
like tallow, greasy. [Old Dut. _talgh_, _talch_; Low Ger. _talq_, Ice.
_tólgr_, _tólg_.]
TALLY, tal'i, _n._ a stick cut or notched to match another stick, used to
mark numbers or keep accounts by--(down to the beginning of the 19th
century these were used in England for keeping accounts in Exchequer,
answering the double purpose of receipts and public records): anything made
to suit another:--_pl._ TALL'IES.--_v.t._ to score with corresponding
notches: to make to fit.--_v.i._ to correspond: to suit:--_pa.t._ and
_pa.p._ tall'ied.--_ns._ TALL'IER, one who keeps a tally; TALL'YMAN, one
who keeps a tally-shop: one who lives with a woman without marriage;
TALL'YSHOP, a shop where goods are sold to be paid by instalments, the
seller having one account-book which tallies with the buyer's;
TALL'Y-SYS'TEM, -TRADE, a mode of dealing by which dealers furnish certain
articles on credit to their customers upon an agreement for the payment of
the stipulated price by certain weekly or monthly instalments.--LIVE TALLY,
to cohabit without marriage. [Fr. _taille_ (It. _taglia_)--L. _talea_, a
cutting. Cf. _Tail_ (law).]
TALLY-HO, tal'i-h[=o], _interj._ the huntsman's cry betokening that a fox
has gone away: a four-in-hand pleasure-coach.--_v.t._ to urge on, as
hounds.
TALMA, tal'ma, _n._ a woman's loose cloak, generally hooded: a similar form
of overcoat for men. [From F. J. _Talma_, the actor (1763-1826).]
TALMUD, tal'mud, _n._ the name of the fundamental code of the Jewish civil
and canonical law, comprising the _Mishna_ and the _Gemara_, the former as
the text, the latter as the commentary and complement.--There are two
Talmuds, the one called the Talmud of the Occidentals, or the JERUSALEM
(Palestine) TALMUD, which was closed at Tiberias in the end of the 4th
century, and the other the BABYLONIAN TALMUD, emphatically styled 'our
Talmud,' not completed till the end of the 5th century, and making use of
the former.--_adjs._ TALMUD'IC, -AL.--n, TAL'MUDIST, one learned in the
Talmud.--_adj._ TALMUDIST'IC, relating to, or contained in the Talmud.
[Chaldee _talm[=u]d_, instruction--_l[=a]mad_, to learn.]
TALON, tal'on, _n._ the claw of a bird of prey.--_adj._ TAL'ONED. [Fr.
_talon_, through Low L., from L. _talus_, the heel.]
TALPA, tal'pa, _n._ the chief genus of the family _Talpidæ_, the moles: an
encysted tumour on the head, a wen. [L., a mole.]
TALUK, ta-l[=oo]k', _n._ in south and western India, a subdivision of a
district presided over as regards revenue matters by a
_tahs[=i]ld[=a]r_--in Bengal, a tract of proprietary land.--_n._ TALUK'DAR.
[Hind.]
TALUS, t[=a]'lus, _n._ the ankle-bone: (_arch._) a slope: (_fort._) the
sloping part of a work: (_geol._) a sloping heap of fragments at the foot
of a steep rock. [L.]
TAMAL, tä-mal', _n._ a dish of crushed Indian corn highly seasoned, sold on
the streets in Mexico, Texas, &c.--Also TAMA'LE. [Sp.]
TAMANDUA, tä-man'd[=u]-a, _n._ an arboreal ant-eater with prehensile
tail.--_n._ TAMANOIR (tam'a-nwor), the great ant-eater of tropical America.
[Braz.]
TAMANU, tam'a-n[=oo], _n._ a lofty gamboge tree of the East Indies and
Pacific Islands, its trunk yielding tacamabac. [East Ind.]
TAMARA, tam'a-ra, _n._ a condiment much used in Italy, made of powdered
cinnamon, cloves, coriander, &c. [East Ind.]