Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader Part 127

=suspender=, to hang, to stop, to delay.

=suspendido, -a=, hung; stopped, delayed.

=taba=, _f._, ankle bone; astragalus.

=tabaco=, _m._, tobacco; =---- de hoja=, leaf tobacco; =---- cortado=, shredded tobacco; =---- picadura al grano=, grain tobacco; =---- hebra=, tobacco in fiber.

=taburete=, _m._, footstool, small bench.

=taco=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), heel-piece of a shoe.

=tacha=, _f._, fault, defect, imperfection, blemish.

=tacho=, _m._, caldron; =---- al vacio=, vacuum pan.

=tajada=, _f._, slice, cut.

=tal=, such, such a; =un ----=, a certain; =con ---- que=, provided that; =---- vez=, perhaps; =que ----?= how?; =si, ----=, yes, indeed.

=talega=, _f._, a wide, short sack.

=taleguita=, _f._, _dim. of_ =talega=.

=taller=, _m._, workshop, office, laboratory.

=tallo=, _m._, stem which bears leaves, sprout, shoot.

=tamal=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), a small flat cake _or_ croquette made of grated corn, filled with minced meat or other eatables, and either boiled or baked in the husk of corn.

=tambo=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), dairy, cow-stable; inn.

=tamboril=, _m._, tambourine.

=tampoco=, as little, neither, nor ... either; =ni ... ----=, not ... either, nor ... either.

=tan=, so, so much, as well, as much; =---- asi es=, it is so much so.

=tango=, _m._, a dance which originated in the River Plate region.

=tanque=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), vat, large trough, tank.

=tanto, -a=, as much, so much; =---- que=, as much as; =---- como=, as much as; =en ---- que=, while; =---- uno como otro=, both one and the other; =algun ----=, a little; =en ----, entre ----=, in the meanwhile; =por lo ----=, for the same reason, therefore; =---- cuanto=, as much as; =---- por ciento=, percentage.

=tanido=, _m._, a clinking _or_ metallic sound.

=tapete=, _m._, a small carpet _or_ rug.

=tapicero=, _m._, one who makes tapestry or works with it; a paper hanger; an upholsterer.

=tapiz=, _m._, tapestry; covering.

=taquigrafo=, _m._, stenographer.

=tarea=, _f._, task, work.

=tarima=, _f._, movable platform.

=tartamudo, -a=, stammerer.

=tasacion=, _f._, valuation, apprais.e.m.e.nt.

=tasajo=, _m._, jerked beef.

=taura=, _m._, _gaucho word meaning_ accomplished in manly sports.

=tazon=, _m._, a large bowl or basin.

=tejer=, to weave cloth or other substance.

=tejido=, _m._, textile, woven goods.

=telar=, _m._, loom.

=temperamento=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), climate; temperament.

=templa=, _f._ (_Sp. A._), boiled down juice of the sugar cane.

=temple=, _m._, temper given to metals; temperature.

=temporada=, _f._, the opera or play season; season.

=tenazas=, _f._, tongs; large pincers.

=tenca=, _f._ (_Sp. A._), Chilean bird; tench.

=tender=, to spread or stretch, to make up (_the bed_); to hang; to tend.

=tenedor=, _m._, holder; bookkeeper; fork.

=tenoriada=, _f._, amorous adventure or escapade.

(_The allusion is to the amorous hero of the play "Don Juan Tenorio."_)

=tenso, -a=, stretched.

=tentar=, to tempt; to attempt, to try: to prove, to sound.

=tenir=, to dye.