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The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor); -- called also tapperer, tabberer, little wood pie, barred woodpecker, wood tapper, hickwall, and pump borer. [Prov. Eng.]

Telling tales; babbling. "The telltale heart." Poe.

The laity; secular people. [Obs.] Abp. Abbot.

A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb.

Crabbedness; perverseness. [Obs.]

A textualist; a textman. [Obs.] The crabbed textualists of his time. Milton.

To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.

hrush (or thrasher). See Brown thrush. Ant thrush. See Ant thrush, Breve, and Pitta. -- Babbling thrush, any one of numerous species of Asiatic timaline birds; -- called also babbler. -- Fruit thrush, any species of bulbul. -- Shrike thrush. See under Shrike. -- Stone thrush, the missel thrush; -- said to be so cal…

Of or pertaining to the genus Timalus or family Timalidæ, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls.

us species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to Siva, Milna, and allied genera. -- Tit babbler (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small East Indian and Asiatic timaline birds of the genus Trichastoma. -- Tit for tat. Etym: [Probably for tip for tap. See Tip a slight blow.] An equivalent; retaliation. -- Tit thr…

rvice, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath. [Local, U.S.]

-- Toll gatherer, a man who takes, or gathers, toll. -- Toll hop, a toll dish. [Obs.] Crabb. -- Toll thorough (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost. Brande & C. -- Toll traverse (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for beasts driven across…

the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders.

The head, or upper part, of a plant. The buds . . . are called heads, or tops, as cabbageheads. I. Watts.

They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl. Abr. Abbot.

Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridæ, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails.

A kind of fishing net. [Obs.] Crabb.

A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.

Silly talk; gabble; fustian. I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. T. Hughes.

To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip. L'Estrange.