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One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist. There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay.

That talks; able to utter words; as, a talking parrot.

High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall. Milton.

To lay an impost upon; to cause to pay tallage.

A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses. [Written also tailage, taillage.]

A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top.

One who keeps tally.

Same as Tallith.

overing the chest and the upper part of the back. It has an opening for the head, and has tassels, called zizith, on its four corners.

The quality or state of being tall; height of stature.

The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds. Tallow candle, a candle made of tallow. -- Tallow catch, a keech. See Keech. [Obs.] -- Tallow chandler, one whose occupation is to make, or to sell, tallow candles. -…

One who has a sickly, pale complexion. Shak.

Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.

An animal which produces tallow.

The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow; also, the property in animals of producing tallow.

Having the qualities of tallow.

Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.

Firewood cut into billets of a certain length. [Obs.] [Eng.]

One thing made to suit another; a match; a mate. They were framed the tallies for each other. Dryden.

A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.