n.
Hence, any system or method of procedure.
a.
Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.
n.
The quality or state of being tactile; perceptibility by touch; tangibleness.
n.
The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.
a.
Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.
n.
The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also polliwig, polliwog, porwiggle, or purwiggy.
n.
A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.
p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of Taken.
n.
A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.
n.
A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.
n.
The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.
n. pl.
Same as Taenioidea.
n. pl.
A division of Ctenophora including those which have a long, ribbonlike body. The Venus's girdle is the most familiar example.
n.
The chitinous fiber forming the spiral thread of the tracheae of insects. See Illust. of Trachea.