=Tabarin=, a famous vender of quack medicines, born at Milan, who went to Paris in the seventeenth century. By his antics and rude wit he collected great crowds together, and in ten years (1620-30) became rich enough to buy a handsome château in Dauphine. The French aristocracy, unable to bear the satire of a charlatan in a château, murdered him. The jests and witty sayings of this _farceur_ were collected together in 1622, and published under the title of _L’inventaire Universel des Œuvres de Tabarin, contenant ses Fantaisies, Dialogues, Paradoxes, Farces, etc._ In 1858 an edition of his works was published by G. Aventin. =Tachebrune= (2 _syl._), the horse of Ogier le Dane. The word means “brown spot.” =Taciturnian=, an inhabitant of _L’Isle Taciturne_, or Taciturna, meaning London and the Londoners. A thick and perpetual vapor covers this island, and fills the souls of the inhabitants with a certain sadness, misanthropy, and irksomeness of their own existence. Alaciel [_the genius_] was hardly at the first barriers of the metropolis when he fell in with a peasant bending under the weight of a bag of gold ... but his heart was sad and gloomy ... and he said to the genius, “Joy! I know it not; I never heard of it in this island.”--De la Dixmie, _L’Isle Taciturne et l’Isle Enjouée_ (1759). =Tacket= (_Tibb_), the wife of old Martin, the shepherd of Julian Avenel, of Avenel Castle.--Sir W. Scott, _The Monastery_ (time, Elizabeth). =Tackleton=, a toy merchant, called Gruff and Tackleton, because at one time Gruff had been his partner; he had, however, been bought out long ago. Tackleton was a stern, sordid, grinding man; ugly in looks, and uglier in his nature; cold and callous, selfish and unfeeling; his look was sarcastic and malicious; one eye was always wide open, and one nearly shut. He ought to have been a money-lender, a sheriff’s officer, or a broker, for he hated children and hated playthings. It was his greatest delight to make toys which scared children, and you could not please him better than to say that a toy from his warehouse had made a child miserable the whole Christmas holidays, and had been a nightmare to it for half its child-life. This amiable creature was about to marry May Fielding, when her old sweetheart, Edward Plummer, thought to be dead, returned from South America, and married her. Tackleton was reformed by Peerybingle, the carrier, bore his disappointment manfully, sent the bride and bridegroom his own wedding-cake, and joined the festivities of the marriage banquet.--C. Dickens, _The Cricket on the Hearth_ (1845). =Taffril= (_Lieutenant_), of H. M. gunbrig _Search_. He is in love with Jenny Caxton, the milliner.--Sir W. Scott, _The Antiquary_ (time, George III.).