Results for tabby
Definitions of tabby:
part of speech: verb transitive
To water or cause to look wavy:- pa. t. and pa. p. tabbied.
part of speech: noun
A coarser kind of waved or watered silk: an artificial stone, a mixture of shells, gravel, stones, and water.
part of speech: verb
To brindle; to cause to look wavy, as watered silk.
part of speech: adjective
Having a wavy marking; brindled.
part of speech: adjective
Brindled: diversified in color.
part of speech: adjective
Brindled with dark- grey or black, like the waves of watered silk- applied to cats.
part of speech: noun
A taffeta silk with a wavy marking: often called watered silk; a gray and black striped cat; hence, any domestic cat.
Usage examples for tabby:
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I needed money- I've told old tabby Tappan so again and again.
"The Danger Mark", Robert W. Chambers -
I'm not afeard of 'em;" and Tabby tossed her head defiantly, as she paused to shift her basket from one arm to the other.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories", Louisa May Alcott -
Mistress Mary that morning wore a tabby petticoat of a crimson colour, and a crimson satin bodice shining over her arms and shoulders like the plumage of a bird, and down her back streamed her curls, shining like gold under her gauze love- hood.
"The Heart's Highway A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeeth Century", Mary E. Wilkins -
It's men that are the cat tribe: tame cats, tabby cats, wild cats, Cheshire cats, tomcats and stray cats!
"This Freedom", A. S. M. Hutchinson