Vocabulary : Tachymetry to Tackey

Tachymetry : The science or use of the tachymeter.
Tachyscope : An early form of antimated-picture machine, devised in 1889 by Otto Anschutz of Berlin, in which the chronophotographs were mounted upon the periphery of a rotating wheel.
Tacit : Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.
Taciturn : Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.
Taciturnity : Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking.

Tack : A stain; a tache. ;; A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack. ;; A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head. ;; That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3. ;; A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom. ;; The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail). ;; The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction. ;; A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease. ;; Confidence; reliance. ;; To fasten or attach. ;; Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching
Tacked : of Tack
Tacker : One who tacks.
Tacket : A small, broad-headed nail.
Tackey : See Tacky.

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