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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Hag-taper :: Hag-taper (n.) The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).
Metaphrastical :: Metaphrastical (a.) Close, or literal..
Abroach :: Abroach (adv.) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped..
Yard :: Yard (v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship..
Tapet :: Tapet (n.) Worked or figured stuff; tapestry.
Club :: Club (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel..
Accensor :: Accensor (n.) One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.
Taplings :: Taplings (n. pl.) The strong double leathers by which the two parts of a flail are united.
Staphyline :: Stapes (n.) The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear..
Harmonica :: Harmonica (n.) A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers..
Plantain :: Plantain (n.) The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked..
Metapterygium :: Metapterygium (n.) The posterior of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.
Catapuce :: Catapuce (n.) Spurge.
Taper :: Taper (a.) Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers..
Kersey :: Kersey (n.) A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple..
Tap :: Tap (v. i.) To strike a gentle blow.
Acephalocyst :: Acephalocyst (n.) A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin..
Cue :: Cue (n.) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple..
Tralation :: Tralation (n.) The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope.
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