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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.

Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the plot or personages of a play; introductory. = 32,500 yrs.) Also called brevium, Uranium X2 and UX2.

Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction. -- Syn*tac"tic*al*ly, adv.

Of or retaining to thermotaxis.

Of or pertaining to thigmotaxis.

inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative. [Plural in form but syntactically singular.] American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave.

an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. Ellicott.

oot hook, a hook with a handle, used for pulling on boots. -- Boots and saddles (Cavalry Tactics), the trumpet call which is the first signal for mounted drill. -- Sly boots. See Slyboots, in the Vocabulary.

e saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.

The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement. Some particles . . . in certain constructions have the sense of a whole sentence contained in them. Locke.

visions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry. Gen. Upton (U. S. Tactics. )

Belonging to declension. Declensional and syntactical forms. M. Arnold.

of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. Upton (Tactics).

Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection. Express the syntactical relations by flexion. Sir W. Hamilton.