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Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe…

Allied to the tapir, or the Tapir family.

Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table. On, or Upon, the tapis, on the table, or under consideration; as, to lay a motion in Parliament on the tapis.

A maker of tapestry; an upholsterer. [R.] Chaucer.

und, so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self. [Written also tappis, tappish, tappice.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] As a hound that, having roused a hart, Although he tappish ne'er so soft. Chapman.

Bad small beer; also, the refuse or dregs of liquor. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] The taplash of strong ale and wine. Taylor (1630).

The strong double leathers by which the two parts of a flail are united. Halliwell.

A small carnivorous marsupial (Phascogale penicillata) having long, soft fur, and a very long tail with a tuft of long hairs at the end; -- called also brush-tailed phascogale.

An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.

The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. [Prov. Eng.]

A female tapster. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A lever or projection moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, with a view to produce change or regulate motion. G. Francis. Tappet motion, a valve motion worked by tappets from a reciprocating part, without an eccentric or cam, -- used in steam pumps, etc.

A rod carrying a tappet or tappets, as one for closing the valves in a Cornish pumping engine.

See Tapish.

A hen having a tuft of feathers on her head. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A piece of wood or sheet metal fitted into a ditch to dam up the water so as to overflow a field. [U. S.]

A room where liquors are kept on tap; a barroom. The ambassador was put one night into a miserable taproom, full of soldiers smoking. Macaulay.

The root of a plant which penetrates the earth directly downward to a considerable depth without dividing.

One whose business is to tap or draw ale or other liquor.

Capable of blunting the venereal appetite. -- n.