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The operation of cutting for anal fistula.

The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.

Telling tales officiously.

Becoming gradually smaller toward one end. -- Ta"per*ing*ly, adv.

The common tern; -- called also tarret, and tarrock. [Prov. Eng.]

as indicated by the color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil. Tempering color, the shade of color that indicates the degree of temper in tempering steel, as pale straw yellow for lancets, razors, and tools for metal; dark straw yellow for penknives, screw taps, etc.; brown yellow for axes, chisel…

To press, crowd, or throng. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Emitting thunder. Roll the thundering chariot o'er the ground. J. Trumbull.

Of or pertaining to Thuringia, a country in Germany, or its people. -- n.

A mineral occurring as an aggregation of minute scales having an olive-green color and pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and iron.

The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.

The act or work of a tinker.

A tiring-room. [Obs.] Shak.

The room or place where players dress for the stage.

So as to torture. Beau. & Fl.

In a tottering manner.

An automobile designed for touring; specif., a roomy car, not a limousine, for five or more passengers.

Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height. Pope.

A genus of limicoline birds including many species of sandpipers. See Dunlin, Knot, and Sandpiper.

A curtain rod for a bedstead.