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

Tautoousious :: Tautoousious (a.) Having the same essence; being identically of the same nature.

Tautology :: Tautology (n.) A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: --//The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,/And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison..

Tautologized :: Tautologized (imp. & p. p.) of Tautologiz.

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

Tautozonal :: Tautozonal (a.) Belonging to the same zone; as, tautozonal planes..

Tautologizing :: Tautologizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tautologiz.

Tetaug :: Tetaug (n.) See Tautog.

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

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

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

Wapp :: Wapp (n.) A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set 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..

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..

Blackfish :: Blackfish (n.) The tautog of New England (Tautoga).

Taught :: Taught (a.) See Taut.

Toght :: Toght (a.) Taut.

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..

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..

Atrip :: Atrip (adv.) Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails..

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