Tarsal tetter(Med.), an eruptive disease of the edges of the eyelids; a kind of bleareye.

Tarsal
(Tar"sal) n. (Zoöl.) Same as Tercel. [Obs.]

Tarsale
(||Tar*sa"le) n.; pl. Tarsalia [NL.] (Anat.) One of the bones or cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with the metatarsals.

Tarse
(Tarse) n. [Cf. Tassel, Tiercel.] (Falconry) The male falcon.

Tarse
(Tarse) n. [Cf. F. tarse.] (Anat.) tarsus.

Tarsectomy
(Tar*sec"to*my) n. [Tarsus + Gr. to cut out.] (Surg.) The operation of excising one or more of the bones of the tarsus.

Tarsel
(Tar"sel) n. A male hawk. See Tercel. [Obs.]

Tarsi
(||Tar"si) n., pl. of Tarsus.

Tarsia
(||Tar"si*a ||Tar`si*a*tu"ra) n. [It.] A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood.

Tarsier
(Tar"si*er) n. [Cf. F. tarsier.] See Tarsius.

Tarsius
(||Tar"si*us) n. [NL. See Tarsus.] (Zoöl.) A genus of nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones; — called also malmag, spectral lemur, podji, and tarsier.

2. To delay; to put off going or coming; to loiter.

Come down unto me, tarry not.
Gen. xic. 9.

One tarried here, there hurried one.
Emerson.

3. To stay; to abide; to continue; to lodge.

Tarry all night, and wash your feet.
Gen. xix. 2.

Syn. — To abide; continue; lodge; await; loiter.

Tarry
(Tar"ry), v. t.

1. To delay; to defer; to put off. [Obs.]

Tarry us here no longer than to-morrow.
Chaucer.

2. To wait for; to stay or stop for. [Archaic]

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding.
Shak.

He plodded on, . . . tarrying no further question.
Sir W. Scott.

Tarry
(Tar"ry), n. Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.] E. Lodge.

Tarsal
(Tar"sal) a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the tarsus n. A tarsal bone or cartilage; a tarsale.


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