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f large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species (Tarantula apuliæ). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are large species of Mygale. [Written also tarentula.] Tarantula killer, a very large wasp (Pompilus formosus), which captures the Texan tarantula (Mygale Hentzii)…

Bitten by a tarantula; affected with tarantism.

See Toboggan.

A red cap worn by Turks and other Eastern nations, sometimes alone and sometimes swathed with linen or other stuff to make a turban. See Fez.

The act of retarding, or delaying; retardation. [Obs.]

A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth, 3.

Of or pertaining to the Tardigrada.

Moving slowly; slow-paced. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

In a tardy manner; slowly.

The quality or state of being tardy.

Tardiness. [Obs.] To instruct them to avoid all snares of tarditation, in the Lord's affairs. Herrick.

Slowness; tardiness. [R.] Sir K. Digby.

Slow; -- a direction to perform a passage slowly.

Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys. Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. Prior.

temulentum, or darnel. Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field From whence then hath it tares Matt. xiii. 27. The "darnel" is said to be the tares of Scripture, and is the only deleterious species belonging to the whole order. Baird.

Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.

A harmless lizard of the Gecko family (Platydactylus Mauritianicus) found in Southern Europe and adjacent countries, especially among old walls and ruins.

See Tarantism.

See Tarantula.

A shield or target. [Obs. or Poetic] "A buckler on a targe." Chaucer.