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Chub :: Chub (n.) A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc..

Taut :: Taut (a.) Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.

Tautologize :: Tautologize (v. i.) To repeat the same thing in different words.

Tautologic :: Tautologic (a.) Tautological.

Tight :: Tight (superl.) Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; -- applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out..

Tort :: Tort (a.) Stretched tight; taut.

Tautog :: Tautog (n.) An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll..

Tautomeric :: Tautomeric (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, tautomerism..

Tautologist :: Tautologist (n.) One who uses tautological words or phrases.

Timenoguy :: Timenoguy (n.) A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.

Tautochronous :: Tautochronous (a.) Occupying the same time; pertaining to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone..

Tautoousian :: Tautoousian (a.) Alt. of Tautoousiou.

Toght :: Toght (a.) Taut.

Taught :: Taught (a.) See Taut.

Tautomerism :: Tautomerism (n.) The condition, quality, or relation of metameric substances, or their respective derivatives, which are more or less interchangeable, according as one form or the other is the more stable. It is a special case of metamerism; thus, the lactam and the lactim compounds exhibit tautomerism..

Taut :: Taut (a.) Snug; close; firm; secure.

Tautologous :: Tautologous (a.) Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological.

Tautophony :: Tautophony (n.) Repetition of the same sound.

Tautegorical :: Tautegorical (a.) Expressing the same thing with different words; -- opposed to allegorical.

Tautochrone :: Tautochrone (n.) A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone..

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