1) Tait, Archibald Campbell. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Tait, Archibald Campbell, 1811-82, British churchman, archbishop of Canterbury, b. Edinburgh. He grew up a Presbyterian, but he early decided to enter the ministry...
2) Tait, Peter Guthrie. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901, Scottish physicist and mathematician. He was professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh from 1860 and conducted important investigations...
3) 57088. Tait, Katherine. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...I had heard it all my life, and it filled me with despair. ATTRIBUTION:Katherine Tait (b. 1923), daughter of Bertrand Russell. Quoted in Caroline Moorehead, Bertrand...
4) dictate. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...Stress the noun on the first syllable. The verb is usually pronounced that way too (DIK-TAIT), but it has a second, less common Standard pronunciation—dik-TAIT. 1...
5) Tatums. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Tatums (TAIT-uhms), village (1990 pop. 176), Carter co., S Okla., 25 mi/40 km NW of Ardmore; 34°28'N 97°28'W. Oil-producing area; agr. (cattle; grain)....
6) Tatum. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Tatum (TAIT-uhm), village (1990 pop. 49), Marlboro co., NE S.C., 5 mi/8 km ENE of Bennettsville; 34°38'N 79°35'W. Mfg. of paper and paperboard; agr. includes timber...
7) tete-a-tete. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...the character of a private conversation between two people. Americans pronounce it TAIT-ah-TAIT or TET-uh-TET, and in writing it usually retains the circumflex and...
8) Abdael (2 syl.). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...all his father s virtues graced Without one Hebrew s blood, restored the crown."Dryden and Tait: Absalom and Achitophel, Part ii. Tate s blunder for Abdiel (q.v.)....
9) 292. Midi. Lucas, St. John, comp. Charles-Marie-Rene Leconte de Lisle.
1920. The Oxford Book of French Verse
...étés, épandu sur la plaine, Tombe en nappes d argent des hauteurs du ciel bleu. Tout se tait. L air flamboie et brűle sans haleine; La terre est assoupie en sa robe...
10) 9708. Miscellaneous Translations. Bartlett, John, comp. 1919. Familiar
Quotations, 10th ed.
...ATTRIBUTION: The Death Feud. An Arab War-song. 1 Note 1. Anonymous translation from Tait s Magazine, July, 1850. The poem is of an age earlier than that of Mahomet....
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