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Full of tact; characterized by a discerning sense of what is right, proper, or judicious.

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 different…

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

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

Destitute of tact.

, 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.

Act of tepefying.

Any species of sponge of the division Tetractinellida. Also used adjectively.

spicules are siliceous and have four branches diverging at right angles. Called also Tetractinellinæ.

Tetradactylous.

Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand.

Any one of a group of lizards of the Gecko tribe, having the toes broad, and furnished with a groove in which the claws can be concealed.

Of or retaining to thermotaxis.

Of or pertaining to thigmotaxis.

The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied. Bp. Hall.

n discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion. The church clergy at that writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. Swift. Tracts for the Times. See Tractarian.