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shop. See Tally shop, below. Tally shop, a shop at which goods or articles are sold to customers on account, the account being kept in corresponding books, one called the tally, kept by the buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement. The trade th…

Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.

Accustomed; mannered. [Obs.] John Skelton. Yet would not seem so rude and thewed ill. Spenser.

Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, as red, yellow, and blue.

Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth. [Obs.] "Three-piled people." Beau. & Fl.

A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.

To ply or seek for customers. [Prov. Eng.]

One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. [Colloq.] The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the police. Dickens.

hree in company or acting together; a set of three; three united. The trio were well accustomed to act together, and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest. Dickens.

redit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.]

Not accustomed and not likely; not disposed. I am a soldier and unapt to weep. Shak. -- Un*apt"ly, adv. -- Un*apt"ness, n.

use of only one thread, wire, fiber, or the like; as, unifilar suspension. Unifilar magnetometer (Physics), an instrument which consists of a magnetic bar suspended at its center of gravity by a long thread, constituting a delicate means for accurately measuring magnetic intensities, also for determining declinations…

Not habituated; unaccustomed. Unused to bend, impatient of control. Thomson.

Unwonted; unused; unaccustomed. [Archaic] Sir W. Scott.

Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers. Milton.

Using; accustomed. [Obs.] "Usant for to steal." Chaucer.

To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to." They use to place him that shall be their captain on a stone. Spenser. Fears use to be represented in an imaginary. Bacon…

t Outer. [Eng.] -- Utter barrister (Law), one recently admitted as barrister, who is accustomed to plead without, or outside, the bar, as distinguished from the benchers, who are sometimes permitted to plead within the bar. [Eng.] Cowell.