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a.
Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir.
v. t.
To make or cause to taper.
n.
A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
a.
Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; -- said especially of sawed boards or timber when tapering or uneven, from being cut too near the outside of the log.
n.
A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
a.
Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.
n.
Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.
a.
Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
n.
A tapering mandrel.
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.
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v.
The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
n.
In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.
n.
The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper.
n.
The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper.
n.
A plant of the genus Verbascum (V. Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper.]
v. i.
To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
n.
An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical parts of South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed of small, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round and tapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feet are very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo.
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