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The cloth itself; tammy. Tamis bird (Zoöl.), a Guinea fowl.

A tampion. Johnson (Dict.).

A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.

To drive in or down by frequent gentle strokes; as, to tamp earth so as to make a smooth place.

A venomous South African tick. Livingstone.

See Tampion. Farrow.

One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.

One who tampers; one who deals unfairly.

A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.

The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.

A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.

The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.

To plug with a tampon.

The stopper of a barrel; a bung.

Tamil.

One of a long-established English breed of large pigs. They are red, often spotted with black, with a long snout and erect or forwardly pointed ears, and are valued as bacon producers.

The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.

Same as Banxring.

Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager (Piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird (Piranga rubra) are common species of the United States.

Of or pertaining to the tanagers.