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- Tiger - n. - A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.
- Tiger - n. - Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
- Tiger - n. - A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
- Tiger - n. - A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger.
- Tiger - n. - A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
- Tiger's-foot - n. - A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.
- Tiger-eye - n. - A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite.
- Tiger-foot - n. - Same as Tiger's-foot.
- Tiger-footed - a. - Hastening to devour; furious.
- Tigerine - a. - Tigerish; tigrine.
- Tigerish - a. - Like a tiger; tigrish.
- Jacaranda - n. - The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood.
- Chati - n. - A small South American species of tiger cat (Felis mitis).
- Make - v. i. - To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.
- Bulblet - n. - A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.
- Rapacious - a. - Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
- Dhole - n. - A fierce, wild dog (Canis Dukhunensis), found in the mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs.
- Sparkler - n. - A tiger beetle.
- Man-eater - n. - One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh.
- Tigrine - a. - Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America.
- Turnus - n. - A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, / Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail. See Illust. under Swallowtail.
- Rimau dahan - - The clouded tiger cat (Felis marmorata) of Southern Asia and the East Indies.
- Cat - n. - An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.
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