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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.

The science and art of disposing military and naval forces in 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.

Of or pertaining to the organs, or the 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 o…

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

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

Destitute of tact.

Of or pertaining to the sense, 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.

The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.

See Tedium.

or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third. [Written also tale.]

p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of Taken. [Poetic & Scot.] Burns.

A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.

A remedy to destroy tapeworms.

Same as Tænioidea.

A remedy to expel tapeworms.

Ill health due to tænia, or tapeworms.

A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.

The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheæ of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.

An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh- water.