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

A tampion. Johnson (Dict.).

Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.

A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.

Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.

the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.

An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

A strong, closely woven linen or cotton fabric, of which ticks for beds are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken.

A tocsin. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Any white regular soldier of the British army; also, such soldiers collectively; -- said to be fictitious name inserted in the models given to soldiers to guide them in filling out account blanks, etc.

The quality of being tricky.

Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.

The business of conveying goods on trucks.

An inferior kind. Dryden.

A subordinate or dependent kingdom. Tennyson.

Undertapster. [Obs.]

The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business. Hakluyt.

Deprived of the foreskin; circumcised. [R.] Milton.

Having no race or kindred; childless. [Obs. & R.] Shak.

Unkindness. Tennyson.