=Tattycoram=, a handsome girl, with lustrous dark hair and eyes, who dressed very neatly. She was taken from the Foundling Asylum (London) by Mr. Meagles to wait upon his daughter. She was called in the hospital Harriet Beadle. Harriet was first changed to Hatty, then to Tatty, and Coram was added because the Foundling stands in Coram street. She was most impulsively passionate, and when excited had no control over herself. Miss Wade enticed her away for a time, but afterwards she returned to her first friends.--C. Dickens, _Little Dorrit_ (1857) =Tawny= (_The_). Alexandre Bonvici´no, the historian, was called _Il Moretto_ (1514-1564). =Taylor=, “the water-poet.” He wrote four score books, but never learnt “so much as the accidences” (1580-1654). Taylor, their better Charon, lends an oar, Once Swan of Thames, tho’ now he sings no more. Pope, _The Dunciad_, iii. 19 (1728). _Taylor_ (_Dr. Chevalier John_). He called himself “Opthalminator, Pontificial, Imperial and Royal.” He died, 1767. Hogarth has introduced him in his famous picture, “The Undertaker’s Arms.” He is one of the three figures atop, to the left hand of the spectator; the other two are Mrs. Mapp and Dr. Ward. =Teacher of Germany= (_The_), Philip Melancthon, the reformer (1497-1560). =Teachwell= (_Mrs._), a pseudonym of Lady Ellinor Fenn, wife of Sir John Fenn, of East Dereham, Norfolk. =Teague= (_1 syl._), an Irish lad, taken into the service of Colonel Careless, a royalist, whom he serves with exemplary fidelity. He is always blundering, and always brewing mischief, with the most innocent intentions. His bulls and blunders are amusing and characteristic.--Sir Robert Howard, _The Committee_ (1670), altered by T. Knight into _The Honest Thieves._ Who...has not a recollection of the incomparable Johnstone [_Irish Johnstone_] in “Teague,” picturesquely draped in his blanket, and pouring forth his exquisite humor and mellifluous brogue in equal measure.--Mrs. C. Mathews, _Tea Table Talk._ =Tearless Battle= (_The_), a battle fought B. C. 367, between the Lacedæmonians and the combined armies of the Arcadians and Argives (_2 syl._). Not one of the Spartans fell, so that, as Plutarch says, they called it “The Tearless Battle.” ⁂ Not one was killed in the Abyssinian expedition under Sir R. Napier (1867-8). =Tears--Amber.= The tears shed by the sisters of Pha´ëton were converted into amber.--_Greek Fable._ According to Pliny (_Natural History_, xxxvii. 2, 11), amber is a concretion of birds’ tears, but the birds were the sisters of Meleāger, who never ceased weeping for his untimely death. =Tearsheet= (_Doll_), a common courtezan.--Shakespeare, 2 _Henry IV._ (1598).