A Mexican spinous lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare) having a head somewhat like that of a toad; -- called also horned toad.

A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.

A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.

A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.

A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.

A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.

Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.

of Taper

of Taper

To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.

To make or cause to taper.

Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.

Becoming gradually smaller toward one end.

The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper.

of Tapestry

A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery.

of Tapestry

of Tapestry

To adorn with tapestry, or as with tapestry.

Worked or figured stuff; tapestry.

of Tapeti

A small South American hare (Lepus Braziliensis).

An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.

Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.

Same as Bothrenchyma.

A lurking or skulking.

A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava.

Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. They have three toes on the hind feet, and four toes on the fore feet, but the outermost toe is of little use.

Allied to the tapir, or the Tapir family.

Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table.