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TALISHE. Fabulous. This word occurs in Palsgrave's Acolastus , 4to. 1540.

TALL. (1) Explained by Junius, "obedient, obsequious, every way flexible." See the Glossary to Urry's Chaucer , p. 81.

(2) Valiant; bold; fine; great. This is a very common word in old plays.

They leaping overboord amidst the billowes,
We pluck'd her up (unsunke) like stout tall fellows.

Taylor's Workes , 1630, ii. 23.

TALL-BOYS. High cups or glasses. Grose says, bottles or two-quart pots.

TALLE. To mock. (A.-S.)

Unarmed were the paiens alle,
Our folk hem gun to talle.

Arthur and Merlin , p. 257.

TALLEE. "When they hale aft the sheate of maine or fore-sailes, they say, Tallee aft the sheate ," MS. Harl. 6268. Taylia , Reliq. Antiq. i. 2.

TALLICHE. The same as Tally (6).

TALLIT. A hayloft. West. "When the prisoner came in he was watcherd , which shewed he had not been all night in the tallit ."

TALL-MEN. Dice so loaded as to come up with high numbers. A cant term.

TALLOW-CAKE. A cake of tallow; tallow made up in the form of a cake. Var. dial.

TALLOW-CATCH. Same as Keech (2).

TALLOW-CRAPS. See Craps (1).

TALLOW-HUED. Pale as tallow. North.
Burton uses the phrase tallow-faced .

TALLOW-LAFE. Congiarium , MS. Dict. c. 1500.

TALL-WOOD. "Tall woode, pacte wodde to make byllettes of, taillee ," Palsgrave. The term is still used in Kent.

TALLY. (1) A term in playing ball, when the number of aces on both sides is equal. North.
(2) To reckon. See Becon's Works , p. 134.

(3) In counting any articles which are sold by the hundred, one is thrown out after each hundred; that is called the tally . The number of tallies of course shows the number of hundreds. They are given in to the purchaser. Hunter.

(4) A kind of small ship.

(5) A company or division of voters at an election. Somerset.

(6) Stoutly; boldly.

(7) Seemly; decently; elegantly.

TALME. To become dumb?

Hur fadur nere-hande can talme ,
Soche a sweme hys harte can swalme.

Le Bone Florence of Rome , 769.

I donke upon David. til mi tonge talmes :
I ne rendrede nowt. sithen men beren palmes:
Is it also mikel sorwe. in song so is in salmes?

Reliq. Antiq. i. 292.

TALSHIDES. "One pound of white lights, ten talshides , eight faggotts," Ord. and Reg. p. 162.

TALT. Pitched.

There was talt many pavyloun
Of riche sendel and siclatoun.

Kyng Alisaunder , 5234.

TALVACE. A kind of buckler or shield, bent on each side, and rising in the middle.

Aither broght unto the place
A mikel rownd talvace .

Yvaine and Gawin , 3158.

And after mete that it was,
The children pleide at the talvas .

Beves of Hamtoun , p. 145.

TALWHE. Tallow. Nominale MS.

TAM. The abbr. of pr. n. Thomasine.

TAMARA. A compound of spices.

TAME. (1) To broach or taste liquor. "To tame, tap, dolium relinere ," Coles.

Nowe to weete our mouthes tyme were,
This flagette will I tame, yf thou reade us.

Chester Plays , 1. 124.

(2) To cut; to divide. West.

TAME-GOOSE. A foolish fellow. "I say cast away; yea, utterly cast away upon a noddy, a ninny-hammer, a tame-goose ," The Case is Altered , 4to. Lond. 1605.

TAMER. A team of horses. Norf.

TAMINE. A sort of woollen cloth.

TAMLIN. A miner's tool. Cornw.

TAMMY. Glutinous, or sizy. Cumb.

TAMPIN. A long pellet.

Make two stiffe long rowles or tampins of linnen clowtes, or such like stuffe, sharpe pointed like suger-loves; which tampins are called of the physitians in Latine pessi , and being annointed with the ointment aforesaid, thrust them up into the horses nostrils, and let them abide therein a pretty whilk; then pul them out, and you shall see such abundance of matter come forth at his nose as is marvellous to behold.

Topsell's Four-Footed Beasts , 1607, p. 372.

TAMPING-IRON. A tool used for beating down the earthy substance in the charge used for blasting. Cornw.

TAMPION. A piece of wood fitted to the mouth of a large gun. "Tampyon for a gon, tampon ," Palsgrave, subst. f. 69.

Unadvisedly gave fire to a peece charged with a pellet instede of a tampion , the which lighting on the palace wall, ranne through one of the privie lodgings, and did no further harme.

Lambardes Perambulation , 1596, p. 433.

TAN. (1) Taken. (A.-S.)

When pese was cryed and day tan ,
Kyng Ardus was a yoyfulle man.

MS. Cantab. Ff. li. 38, f. 78.

Baptem the first is holden than,
That falleth at the fonte be tan .

MS. Sloan. 1785, f. 34.

(2) To entice. (A.-S.)

The fende of helle agayn skylle
Put in hir a harde wille

Hur fadur luf to wynne;

And also temped was that man
His owne douzter for to tan ,
To do a dedly synne.

MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48, f. 43.

(3) Then. Var. dial.

(4) To dun. (5) To beat. Var. dial.

(6) A twig, or small switch. Lanc.

TANACLES. A kind of pincers, used formerly for torturing. "To pinch or tanacle with tongs, with pincers or tanacles," Florio, p. 552, ed. 1611.

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