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Taotai
- - In China, an official at the head of the civil and military affairs of a circuit, which consists of two or more fu, or territorial departments; -- called also, by foreigners, intendant of circuit. Foreign consuls and commissioners associated with taotais as superintendants of trade at the treaty ports are ranked with the taotai.
Tapers
- noun - a convex shape that narrows toward a point
- a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
- diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"
- give a point to; "The candles are tapered"
- Grow gradually narrower.
- stick of wax with a wick in the middle
- the property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)
Tapeti
- - A small South American hare (Lepus Braziliensis).
Taping
- verb - a recording made on magnetic tape; "the several recordings were combined on a master tape"
- fasten or attach with tape; "tape the shipping label to the box"
- record on videotape
- register electronically; "They recorded her singing"
Tapirs
- noun - large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical America and southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout
Tapish
- - To lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self.
Tappan
- noun - United States abolitionist (1786-1865)
Tappas
- noun - a paperlike cloth made in the South Pacific by pounding tapa bark
- the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus
Tapped
- verb - cut a female screw thread with a tap
- dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes; "Glover tapdances better than anybody"
- draw (liquor) from a tap; "tap beer in a bar"
- draw from or dip into to get something; "tap one's memory"; "tap a source of money"
- draw from; make good use of; "we must exploit the resources we are given wisely"
- furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it; "tap a cask of wine"
- in a condition for letting out liquid drawn out as by piercing or drawing a plug; "latex from tapped rubber trees"
- make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently; "Henry IV solicited the Pope for a divorce"; "My neighbor keeps soliciting money for different charities"
- make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently"
- pierce in order to draw a liquid
Tappen
- - An obstruction, or indigestible mass, found in the intestine of bears and other animals during hibernation.