English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Tasker (n.)

One who imposes a task.

Tasker (n.)

One who performs a task, as a day-laborer.

Tasker (n.)

A laborer who receives his wages in kind.

Tasking (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Task

Taskmaster (n.)

One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer.

Taskwork (n.)

Work done as a task; also, work done by the job; piecework.

Taslet (n.)

A piece of armor formerly worn to guard the things; a tasse.

Tasmanian (a.)

Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically (Ethnol.), in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct.

Tasse (n.)

A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.

Tassel (n.)

A male hawk. See Tercel.

Tassel (n.)

A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.

Tassel (n.)

A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords.

Tassel (n.)

The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent.

Tassel (n.)

A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between the leaves.

Tassel (n.)

A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States.

Tassel (v. i.)

To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.

Tassel (v. t.)

To adorn with tassels.

Tasseled (imp. & p. p.)

of Tassel

Tasseling (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Tassel

Tasselled

of Tassel