tavIstockite

[After Tav i stock, England, where it was first found; suff. -ite ( Min.).] Min.: A mineral occurring as small acicular crystals, sometimes in stellar groups, and sometimes closely aggregated as a minutely mammillary crust. Luster, pearly; color, white; fragile. Phosphoric-acid, 30-36; alumina, 22-40; lime, 36-27; water, 12.00-101.03. Since found at Stenna Gwyn, near St. A us tell, Cornwall. tâw, *tawe, tew, *tewe, t. [A. S. tawian = to prepare, to dre , to get ready, to scourge; Dut. touwen to curry leather.] 1. To dre , as skins, with mineral agents asalum, instead of vegetable extracts. The leather produced is known as Hungarian, white, or alum leather, the latter from the use of alum as the principal agent. *2. To beat, to scourge. "He's to be made more tractable, I doubt not.- Yes, if they taw him as they do whit-leather." Beaum. & Flet .: Captain . *3. To torture, to torment. tâw, s. [Etym. doubtful.] A marble to play with; a game at marbles. "To whip a top, to knuckle down at taw ." Church ill: The Candidate. *tâw'-dered, a. [TAWDRY.] Dre ed in a tawdry fashion. IMG:content-0849.png:[blocks in formation] (1) A government imposition, or charge made by the state on the income or property of individuals, or on products consumed by them. A tax is said to be direct when it is demanded from the very per- sons who it is intended or desired should pay it, as a poll-tax, income-tax, property-tax, taxes for keep- ing dogs, . An indirect tax is one demanded from one person, who is expected and intended to recoup or indemnify himself at the expense of another, as customs and excise duties. "Poets, of all men, ever least regret Increasing taxes and the nation's debt." Tax applies to or implies whatever is paid by the people to the Government, according to a cer- tain estimate: the customs are a species of tax which are le specific than other taxes , being regu- lated by custom rather than any definite law; the customs apply particularly to what was customarily given by merchants for the goods which they im- ported from abroad. The predominant idea in con- tri but i on is that of common consent; it supposes a degree of freedom in the agent which is in comp at i- ble with the exercise of authority expre ed by the other terms, hence the term is with more propriety applied to those cases in which men voluntarily unite in giving toward any particular object; as charitable contributions , or contributions in support of a war; but it may be taken in the general sense contribution. IMG:content-0850.png:[blocks in formation] tax-cart, taxed-cart, s . A light English spring- cart on which only a low rate of tax is charged. tax-free, a . Exempt or free from taxation. tax-gatherer, s. A collector of taxes. "The Protestant ministers were hara ed by the tax- gatherers."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. vi. wood with circular disks. Leaves evergreen, gen- erally narrow, rigid, entire, veinle , alternate or distichous, sometimes dilated and lobed, in which case the veins are forked and of equal thickne . Flowers diœcio us, naked, surrounded by imbricated bracts. Males having several stamens; filaments usually monadelphous. Female solitary, ovules naked, the foramen at the apex, the outer skin finally becoming hard. Pericarp imperfect, usually cup-shaped, succulent; embryo, dicotyledonous. Known genera nine, species fifty. ( Lindley .) tăx-ad, s . [Lat. tax ( us ); Eng. suff. -ad.] Bot . ( pl .): Lindley's name for Taxaceae (q. v.). tăx-ā-tion, subst . [Fr., from Lat. taxationem , acc us. of taxatio , from taxatus , pa. par. of taro to handle to tax (q. v.); Ital. ta azione .] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of imposing a tax or taxes on the sub- jects of a state or government, or on the members of a corporation or company by the proper authority, for the raising of revenue to meet the expenses of public services; the raising of revenue by means of taxes; the system by which such revenue is raised. "There are two different circumstances, which render the interest of money a much le proper subject of direct taxation than the rent of land."- Smith : Wealth of Nations , bk. v., ch. ii. tăxed, pa . par . or a. [TAX, v.] taxed-cart, s. A tax-cart (q. v.). tăx'-el, s . [Late Lat. taxus =a badger.] "The taxing of living creatures by the poll, propounded first in Edward the sixth his reign, she would not suffer to be so much as once named."-Camden: Hist. of Queen Elizabeth (an. 1590). 2. To a e to a tax; to levy a tax on. "The arable lands which are given in lease to farmers are tazed at a tenth of the rent."-Smith: Wealth of Nations , bk. v., ch. ii. 3. To load with a burden or burdens; to make demands on; to put to a certain strain. tăx-a-ble, a . [Eng. tax ; -able.] Liable to be taxed; capable of being taxed; subject to taxation. "Leave America, if she has taxable matter in her, to tax herself."-Burke: American Taxation. tăx'-a-ble-ne , s. [Eng. taxable ; -ne .] The quality or state of being taxable; taxability. tăx-a-bly, adverb . [Eng. taxab ( le ); -ly.] taxable manner. tăx-ā-çě-æ, s . [Lat. tax ( us ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceæ.] Bot.: Taxads; an order of Gymnogens. Trees or shrubs with continuous in articulated branches, the IMG:content-0851.png:[blocks in formation] tăx-i-der-mỹ, subst . [Gr. taxis =order, arrangement, and derma =skin.] The art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals, and also of stuffing and mounting them, so as to cause them to resemble the living forms as nearly as po ible. tăx-In, s. [Lat.tax( us )=a yew-tree; -in.] Chem.: A resinous substance extracted from the leaves of the yew-tree by treatment with alcohol containing tartaric acid. It is slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol, ether, and dilute acids, and precipitated from acid solutions by alkalies in white bulky flocks.