tabbyl (tabi)

t.; pret. and pp. tabbied, ppr. tabbying. [ out water. The camlet marble is that which, retaining the same color after polishing, appears tabbied . Marble-Worker, $35. tabby2 (tab'i), n.; pl. tabbies (-iz). [Abbr. of tabby- cat .] 1. A tabby-cat. (a) A brindled cat, gray, streaked or otherwise marked with black or yellow. The wild original of the domestic cat is always of such coloration. The black, white, uniform mouse-gray (Maltese), yellow, and spotted (tortoise-shell) cats are all arti ficial varieties. IMG:content-2737.jpg:[blocks in formation] (b) A female cat: distinguished from tom -cat. "An' how hae ye been? an' how are ye?" Was aye the o'erword when she [the cat] came; To mony a queer auld tabby Sin' syne hae we said the same. I. Martin, My bairn, we aince were bairnies (tr. from [Heine). 6146 petalous plants, of the order Big non i aceæ, tribe Tecomeæ, and section Digitifoliæ. It is characterized by loosely racemose or cymose flowers with a tubular and at length variously ruptured calyx, an elongated and greatly enlarged corolla-tube, four perfect stamens, and a se ile ovary ripening into a somewhat cylindrical ecostate capsule with numerous flat seeds, each with a large hyaline wing. There are about 60 species, natives of tropical America from Brazil to the West Indies and Mexico. They are erect shrubs or trees, smooth or hairy, often drying black. They bear usually large flowers and alternate or scattered leaves, which are generally composed of five to seven digitate leaflets, sometimes reduced to three or to one. Several species are used medicinally, as T. im petiginosa, which yields a bitter mucilaginous bark and abounds in tannin. Many are valuable trees, yielding an almost indestructible timber; several are known in tropical America as roble - that is, oak -and are used for house and ship-building, or for making bows, as T. toxophora, the pao- d'arco of Brazil. The names whitewood and box wood are given to T. Leucoxylon in the West Indies, and the former name also to T. pentaphylla; both are timber trees with whitish bark and white or pink flowers. T. serrati folia, a small tree with yellow flowers, is known as pony in Trinidad. All the above species were formerly cla ed under Tecoma, but are removed to Tabebuia on account of their digitate, not pinnate, leaflets. A very different species, T. uliginosa, a shrub with simple entire leaves, is known as Brazilian cork - tree, from the use of its soft wood.