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Talien
- noun - a port and shipbuilding center in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda
Tamias
- noun - chipmunks of eastern North America
Tamils
- unknown - 1. A member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka
2. The Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil in southern India and Sri Lanka
Taming
- verb - Small, round shield from the Philippines, used by Moro and Visayas tribes. Made from wood or rattan and around 24" in diameter.
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
- correct by punishment or discipline
- make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"
- make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"
Taminy
- - A kind of woolen cloth; tammy.
Tanier
- - An aroid plant (Caladium sagittaefolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies.
Tanist
- - In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry.
- the heir apparent to a Celtic chief, typically the most vigorous adult of his kin, elected during the chief's lifetime.
Tanite
- - A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.
Taoism
- noun - a Chinese sect claiming to follow the teaching of Lao-tzu but incorporating pantheism and sorcery in addition to Taoism
- philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events
- popular Chinese philosophical system based in teachings of Lao-tzu but characterized by a pantheism of many gods and the practices of alchemy and divination and magic
- religion adhering to the teaching of Lao-tzu