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:

• 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