TABBY
\tˈabi], \tˈabi], \t_ˈa_b_i]\
Definitions of TABBY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
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A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
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A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
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An old maid or gossip.
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Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat.
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Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.
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To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.
By Oddity Software
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A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
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A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
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A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
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An old maid or gossip.
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Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat.
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Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.
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To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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A taffeta silk with a wavy marking: often called watered silk; a gray and black striped cat; hence, any domestic cat.
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Having a wavy marking; brindled.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A coarser kind of waved or watered silk: an artificial stone, a mixture of shells, gravel, stones, and water.
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Brindled: diversified in color.
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To water or cause to look wavy:-pa.t. and pa.p. tabbied.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A kind of waved silk, or other stuff, usually watered; a mixture of lime with shells, gravel or stones, which becomes hard as rock.
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To water or cause to look wavy.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
