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Belonging to the same zone; as, tautozonal planes.

A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

One who keeps a tavern. Chaucer. Camden.

A feasting at taverns. [Obs.] "The misrule of our tavernings." Bp. Hall.

The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler. [Obs.]

Tow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In a tawdry manner.

Quality or state of being tawdry. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. Richardson.

t at the festival of St. Audrey. [Obs.] And gird in your waist, For more fineness, with a tawdry lace. Spenser.

One who taws; a dresser of white leather.

A place where skins are tawed.

The quality or state of being tawny.

Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion. "A leopard's tawny and spotted hide." Longfellow.

A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster. [Written also tawes, tawis, and tawse.] [Scot.] Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn. Ramsay.

arge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government. A farmer of taxes is, of all creditors, proverbially the most rapacious. Macaulay.

The certificate issued to the purchaser of land at a tax sale certifying to the sale and the payment of the consideration thereof, and entitling the purchaser upon certain conditions and at a certain time thereafter to a deed or instrument of conveyance (called a tax deed) of the land, to be executed by the proper offi…

The quality or state of being taxable; taxableness.

Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable commodities.

Having the posterior tarsal scales, or scutella, rectangular and arranged in regular rows; -- said of certain birds.

The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.