tataupa

[Native name.] Ornith: Crypturus tataupa ; a native of Eastern Brazil. It is about ten inches long; plumage gray on head, throat, and breast, back wings and tail coverts reddish-brown, rump-feathers deep brown edged with white and yellow. Their flesh is much esteemed article of food. *tătch, *tătche, *taich, s. [Fr. tache =a spot, stain, or blemish.] ( Scotch .) 1. A spot, a stain, a blemish. "More ouer, to the nouryse shuld be appoynted an other womanne, of approued vertue, dyscretion, and grauitie, who shal not suffre in the childes presence to be shewed any acte or tatche dyshoneste." - Elyot : Governor , bk. i., ch. iii. 2. A trick, a contrivance, a plot. "Fawnus oppon a dey, when Beryn came at eve, Was set oppon a purpose to make his sone leve All his shrewd taichis wyth goodnes if he myght." Tale of Beryn. *tăt'-ěr, v. i. [TATTLE, v.] To tattle, to prate. tăth, taith, s. [Iceland tath =dung; tath a =a manured field.] 1. Dung or manure left on lands when live-stock is fed on it. 2. Strong gra growing round the dung of cattle. (Also spelled tea the .) Ta-ti-an-ite (ti as shi), s. [See def.] Ecclesiol. & Church Hist . ( pl .): The followers of Tatian, an A yrian, who flourished about A. D. 170. He was a rhetorician and a disciple of Justin Martyr. He wrote an Apology called Oratio contra Græcos , a Harmony of the Gospels , ., and founded the sect called Encratites (q. v.).