Index of English words, starting with "ta"

(1) - Tardo (n.) A sloth.
(2) - Tardo (a.) Slow; -- a direction to perform a passage slowly.

(1) - Tardy (v. t.) To make tardy.
(2) - Tardy (superl.) Criminal; guilty.
(3) - Tardy (superl.) Unwary; unready.
(4) - Tardy (superl.) Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.
(5) - Tardy (superl.) Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift.

(1) - Tare () of Tear
(2) - Tare (v. t.) To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).
(3) - Tare (n.) Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc.
(4) - Tare (n.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder.
(5) - Tare (n.) A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel.
(6) - Tare (imp.) Tore.

(1) - Target (n.) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
(2) - Target (n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
(3) - Target (n.) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.
(4) - Target (n.) A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
(5) - Target (n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.

(1) - Targeteer (n.) One who is armed with a target or shield.