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An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis.

An immovable articulation in which the union is formed by cartilage. -- Syn`chon*dro"si*al, a.

Growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of Selaginella.

An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of…

h cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.

Confidence; reliance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Tack of a flag (Naut.), a line spliced into the eye at the foot of the hoist for securing the flag to the halyards. -- Tack pins (Naut.), belaying pins; -- also called jack pins. -- To haul the tacks aboard (Naut.), to set the courses. -- To hold tack, to last or hold ou…

. The taille, as it still subsists in France, may serve as an example of those ancient tallages. It was a tax upon the profits of the farmer, which they estimate by the stock that he has upon the farm. A. Smith.

rough the part and receiving a nut. See Illust. under Bolt. -- Tap cinder (Metal.), the slag of a puddling furnace.

A tarsal bone or cartilage; a tarsale. Tarsal tetter (Med.), an eruptive disease of the edges of the eyelids; a kind of bleareye.

One of the bones or cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with the metatarsals.

The operation of cutting or removing the tarsal cartilages.

The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones.

studies; as, to teach a child or a class. "He taught his disciples." Mark ix. 31. The village master taught his little school. Goldsmith.

; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. Cowper. He . . . suffered them to tease him into acts directly opposed to his strongest inclinations. Macaulay.

A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.

An igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or both.

newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle.

hat thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. [Eng.]

A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe. "Within a little thorp I staid." Fairfax. Then thorpe and byre arose in fire. Tennyson.

A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.