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The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

Tobacco. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies.

wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds. [Spelt also taberd.]

One who wears a tabard.

A stout silk having satin stripes, -- used for furniture.

A kind of very pungent sauce made from red peppers.

A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases.

A fabric like poplin, with a watered surface. [Written also tabinet.]

A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.

To cause to waste gradually, to emaciate. [R.] Harvey.

A secretary or notary under the Roman empire; also, a similar officer in France during the old monarchy.

Same as Tabor. Nahum ii. 7.

See Tabard.

A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.

Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.

Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.

Withering, or wasting away.

Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid. -- n.

Affected by tabes; tabetic.