taunt2 (tant)

[By apheresis from ataunt, q. v.] Naut., high or tall: an epithet particularly noting masts of unusual height. taunter (tän'- or tân'ter), n. [ tauntingly (tän'- or tân'ting-li), adv. In a taunting manner; teasingly; with bitter and sarcastic words; jeeringly; scoffingly. And thus most tauntingly she chaft Against poor silly Lot. Wanton Wife of Bath (Child's Ballads, VIII. 154). Taunton (tän'ton), n. [So called from the place of manufacture, Taunton , a town in Somerset, Eng.] A broadcloth of the seventeenth century. Taunusian (tâ-nū'si-an), n. [ L. taurinus, of or pertaining to a bull or ox, Lord Newton, full-blooded, full-brained, taurine with potential vigour. Dr. J. Brown, Spare Hours, 3d ser., p. 356. 2. Relating to the zodiacal sign Taurus; especially, belonging to the period of time (from about 4500 to 1900 в. с.) during which the sun was in Taurus at the vernal equinox: as, the taurine religions; the taurine myths. taurobolium (tâ-rō-boʻli-um), n.; pl. taurobolia (-8). [NL., ταυροβόλος , slaughtering bulls, βάλλειν , throw.] 1. The sacrifice of a bull in the Mithraic rites; the mystie baptism of a neophyte in the blood of a bull. See Mithras .-2. The representation in art, as in drawing or sculpture, of the killing of a bull, as by Mithras: a very common more or le conventional design. See cut in next column. taurocholic (ta-rō-kol'ik), a. [ ing the forward part of a bull. It contains the star Aldebaran of the first magnitude, the star Nath of the second magnitude, and the striking group of the Pleiads. Its sign is 8. 2t. In zoöl., a genus of cattle, to which the common bull and cow were referred. It is not now used, these animals representing the species called Bos taurus. - Taurus poniatovii, the bull of Poniatowski, a constellation named by the Abbé Poczobut in 1777, in honor of the last king of Poland. It was situated over the Shield of Sobieski, between the east shoulder of Ophiuchus and the Eagle. The constellation is obsolete.