tarantular (tar an tular)

[ tarantula. About the same season of the year at which the tar an tular poisoning took place he is liable to certain nervous seizures. O. W. Holmes, A Mortal Antipathy, xiv. tarantula ted (ta-ran'tū-lā-ted), a. [ tar an tulate ( tar an tola to , bitten by a tarantula).] Bitten by a tarantula; suffering from tarantism. To music's pipe the pa ions dance; Motions unwill'd its pow'rs have shewn, Tarantula ted by a tune. M. Green, The Spleen. tara patch (tar'a-pach), n. A stringed musical instrument used in the Sandwich Islands. This guitar, or tare patch , he took from its nail,... and stepped out on the balcony. Scribner's Mag., IX. 283. taraquira (tar-a-kē'rä), n . Same as taraguira , 1. Imp . Dict. taratantara (tar"a-tan-tar'ä), n. or adv. [Also taratantarra, = It. tara tantara (Florio), the family Lycosidæ (which see), the species of the sound of a drum.] A word imitative of which are numerous. See also cuts in next column. Divers sorts of tarantulas, being a monstrous spider with lark-like clawes, and somewhat bigger. Evelyn, Diary, Feb. 4, 1645. 2. Any one of the great hairy spiders of the warmer parts of America; a bird-spider or crab spider; any species of Mygale, or of some allied genus. See cuts under falx and Mygale. 3. [ cap.] [NL.] An old genus of spiders, formerly reputed to be poisonous, belonging to the family Lycosidæ, and now usually merged the sound of a trumpet: used indifferently as a noun or as an adverb. Let drums beat on, trumpets sound taratantarra . Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 380. taraxacin (ta-rak'sa-sin), n. [ Taraxacum + -in2.] A crystallizable substance extracted from the dandelion, on which the diuretic and tonic properties of its rootstock probably depend. Taraxacum (ta-rak'sa-kum), n. [NL. (Haller, 1742), also Taraxacon ; also, in a form given as Ar., taras a con , a kind of succory; prob. of Dandelion ( Taraxacum of ficin ale). also occurring in the southern hemisphere and sometimes in the tropics. They are mostly stemle herbs, bearing a rosette of radical leaves which are entire or variously toothed, and a leafle scape crowned by a single broad yellow flower-head, or rarely, by terminal branching, producing two or three heads. The only North American species is the polymorphous T. oficinale, the dandelion (which see). See also cuts under runcinate, pappus, and receptacle. 2. [l. c.] A plant of this genus, or a drug prepared from it. You are bilious, my good man. Go and pay a guinea to one of the doctors in those houses.. He will prescribe taraxacum for you, or pil: hydrarg. Thackeray , Philip, ii.