tack3+ (tak)

[An una ibilated form of tache3, or else a corruption of tact, touch: see tache3, tact.] A spot; a stain; a blemish. IMG:content-2760.png:[blocks in formation] Whitgift , Works (Parker Soc.), II. 84. You do not the thing that you would; that is, perhaps, perfectly, purely, without some tack or stain. Hammond , Works, IV. 512. (Richardson.) tack4 (tak), n . [Said to be a corruption of tact (cf. tastel , ult. from the same source as tact ). Cf. tack3 , tack5 .] A distinctive taste or flavor; a continuing or abiding smack. [Old and prov. Eng.] Or cheese, which our fat soil to every quarter sends, Whose tack the hungry clown and plowman so commends. Drayton, Polyolbion, xix. 130. He told me that three-score pound of cherries was but a kind of washing meate, and that there was no tacke in them, for hee had tride it at one time. John Taylor , Works (1630), I. 145. ( Hall i well .) tack (tak), n. [Origin obscure; by some supposed to be a transferred use of tack4 .] 1. Substance; solidity: spoken of the food of cattle and other stock. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.]-2. Bad food. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] -3. Bad malt liquor. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] -4. Food in general; fare: as, hard tack , coarse fare; soft tack , good fare. tackey. Another spelling of tacky. tack-free (tak'fre), a. [Formerly also tacfree;