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English Idioms :: tall order
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tall.html - See: LARGE ORDER. |
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Traditional English :: tall
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tall.html - adj. & adv. --adj. 1 of more than average height.
2 of a specified height (looks about six feet tall).
3 higher than the surrounding objects (a tall building).
4 colloq. extravagant or excessive (a tall story; tall talk). --adv. as if tall; proudly; in a tall or extravagant way (sit tall). tall drink a drink served in a tall glass. tall hat = top hat (see TOP(1) )). tall order an exorbitant or unreasonable demand. tall ship a sailing ship with a high mast. tallish adj. tallness n. [ME, repr. OE getól swift, prompt] |
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Traditional English :: tallage
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tall.html - n. hist. 1 a form of taxation on towns etc., abolished in the 14th c. 2 a tax on feudal dependants etc. [ME f. OF taillage f. tailler cut: see TAIL(2) )] |
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Traditional English :: tallboy
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tall.html - n.
a tall chest of drawers sometimes in lower and upper sections or mounted on legs. |
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Traditional English :: tallith
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tall.html - n.
a scarf worn by Jews esp. at prayer. [Rabbinical Heb. tallit f. tillel to cover] |
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Traditional English :: tallow
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tall.html - n. & v. --n. the harder kinds of (esp. animal) fat melted down for use in making candles, soap, etc. --v.tallow-tree any of various trees, esp. Sapium sebiferum of China, yielding vegetable tallow. vegetable tallow a vegetable fat used as tallow. tallowish adj. tallowy adj. [ME talg, talug, f. MLG talg, talch, of unkn. orig.] |
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