Definition of taut

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

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Tetaug :: Tetaug (n.) See Tautog.
Tort :: Tort (a.) Stretched tight; taut.
Atrip :: Atrip (adv.) Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails..
Labroid :: Labroid (a.) Like the genus Labrus; belonging to the family Labridae, an extensive family of marine fishes, often brilliantly colored, which are very abundant in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The tautog and cunner are American examples..
Wapp :: Wapp (n.) A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.
Tautological :: Tautological (a.) Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression..
Tautologist :: Tautologist (n.) One who uses tautological words or phrases.
Tautologic :: Tautologic (a.) Tautological.
Tautophonical :: Tautophonical (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, tautophony; repeating the same sound..
Tautegorical :: Tautegorical (a.) Expressing the same thing with different words; -- opposed to allegorical.
Tautologous :: Tautologous (a.) Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological.
Tautochronous :: Tautochronous (a.) Occupying the same time; pertaining to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone..
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.) Snug; close; firm; secure.
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..
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..
Tautoousious :: Tautoousious (a.) Having the same essence; being identically of the same nature.
Blackfish :: Blackfish (n.) The tautog of New England (Tautoga).
Tautologizing :: Tautologizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tautologiz.
Tautomeric :: Tautomeric (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, tautomerism..
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