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Same as Tatou.

Any armadillo of the family Tatusiidæ, of which the peba and mule armadillo are examples. Also used adjectively.

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

Office of a dictator; dictatorship. [R.] Bacon.

A salt of metatungstic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid.

The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. Blackstone.

A statue. [Obs.] They spake not a word; But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones, Gazed each on other. Shak.

One who practices the art of making statues. On other occasions the statuaries took their subjects from the poets. Addison.

culptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion. I will raise her statue in pure gold. Shak.

Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.

Without a statue.

Like a statue; motionless.

Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude. Their characters are mostly statuesque even in this respect, that they have no background. Hare.

In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue. A character statuesquely simple in its details. Lowell.

A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.

To prop or support. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

ral height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body. Foreign men of mighty stature came. Dryden.

Arrived at full stature. [R.]