Chapter Tastily to Tawniness of T by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Taurine
(Tau"rine) n. [So named because it was discovered in the bile of the ox. See Taurus.] (Physiol. Chem.) A body occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially characterized by containing both nitrogen and sulphur, being chemically amido-isethionic acid, C₂H₇NSO₃.

Taurocholate
(Tau`ro*cho"late) n. (Physiol. Chem.) A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile.

Taurocholic
(Tau`ro*chol"ic) a. [Taurine + cholic.] (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid) composed of taurine and cholic acid, present abundantly in human bile and in that of carnivora. It is exceedingly deliquescent, and hence appears generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water and alcohol. It has a bitter taste.

Taurocol
(Tau"ro*col Tau`ro*col"la) n. [NL. taurocolla, fr. Gr. tayro`kolla; tay^ros a bull + ko`lla glue: cf. F. taurocolle.] Glue made from a bull's hide.

Tauromachian
(Tau`ro*ma"chi*an) a. [See Tauromachy.] Of or pertaining to bullfights. — n. A bullfighter.

Tauromachy
(Tau*rom"a*chy) n. [Gr. tayromachi`a; tay^ros bull + ma`chh fight.] Bullfighting.

Taurus
(||Tau"rus) n. [L., akin to Gr. tay^ros, and E. steer. See Steer a young ox.]

1. (Astron.) (a) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; — marked thus [&taurus] in almanacs. (b) A zodiacal constellation, containing the well- known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran.

2. (Zoöl.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle.

Taurylic
(Tau*ryl"ic) a. [L. taurus a bull + E. phenylic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat cattle, and probably identical with cresol.

Taut
(Taut) a. [Dan. tæt; akin to E. tight. See Tight.]

1. (Naut.) Tight; stretched; not slack; — said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.

2. Snug; close; firm; secure.

Taut hand (Naut.), a sailor's term for an officer who is severe in discipline.

Tautegorical
(Tau`te*gor"ic*al) a. [Gr. for the same + to speak. Cf. Allegory.] Expressing the same thing with different words; — opposed to allegorical. [R.] Coleridge.

Tautochrone
(Tau"to*chrone) n. [Gr. for the same + time: cf. F. tautochrone.] (Math.) A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.

Tautochronous
(Tau*toch"ro*nous) a. (Math.) Occupying the same time; pertaining to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone.

Tautog
(Tau*tog") n. [The pl. of taut, the American Indian name, translated by Roger Williams sheep's heads, and written by him tautaúog.] (Zoöl.) An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll. [Written also tautaug.]