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See Tactics.

Of or pertaining to the art of military and naval tactics. -- Tac"tic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.

order for battle, and performing military and naval evolutions. It is divided into grand tactics, or the tactics of battles, and elementary tactics, or the tactics of instruction.

sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations. "Tactile sweets." Beaumont. "Tactile qualities." Sir M. Hale. Tactile sense (Physiol.), the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See Touch. The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on differen…

The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.

The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency. "External taction." Chesterfield.

Destitute of tact.

e, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch. In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body. Tyndall.

Leathery.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.

Resembling, or consisting of, an ament or aments; as, the chestnut has an amentaceous inflorescence.

A remedy for acidity of the stomach, as an alkali or absorbent. -- a.

Corrective of acrimony of the humors.

One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.

A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.

An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals.

Black, like ink; inky; atramental. [Obs.] Derham.

Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.

To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. Paley. A huge stone to which the cable was attached. Macaulay.