Definition of tap

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Tap (v. t.) Hence, to draw from (anything) in any analogous way; as, to tap telegraph wires for the purpose of intercepting information; to tap the treasury..

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Interstapedial :: Interstapedial (n.) The interstapedial part of the columella.
Wiggery :: Wiggery (n.) Any cover or screen, as red-tapism..
Cataphract :: Cataphract (n.) A horseman covered with a cataphract.
Lancet :: Lancet (n.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
Gusset :: Gusset (n.) A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement..
Tapestry :: Tapestry (n.) A fabric, usually of worsted, worked upon a warp of linen or other thread by hand, the designs being usually more or less pictorial and the stuff employed for wall hangings and the like. The term is also applied to different kinds of embroidery..
Antiaphrodisiac :: Antiaphrodisiac (a. & n.) Same as Antaphrodisiac.
Tralation :: Tralation (n.) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope.
Spinet :: Spinescent (a.) Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines..
Stal :: Staktometer (n.) A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette..
Tint :: Tint (n.) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
Cestoidea :: Cestoidea (n. pl.) A class of parasitic worms (Platelminthes) of which the tapeworms are the most common examples. The body is flattened, and usually but not always long, and composed of numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm..
School :: School (n.) One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning..
Suprasternal :: Suprastapedial (n.) The suprastapedial part of the columella.
Tap :: Tap (n.) A place where liquor is drawn for drinking; a taproom; a bar.
Metaphorical :: Metaphorical (a.) Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense..
Tapering :: Tapering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tape.
Metapeptone :: Metapeptone (n.) An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.
Syllepsis :: Syllepsis (n.) A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.
Epitapher :: Epitapher (n.) A writer of epitaphs.
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