Tabby

['tæbɪ] or ['tæbi]

Definition

(noun.) female cat.

(noun.) a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black.

Checker: Roderick--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.

(n.) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.

(n.) A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.

(n.) An old maid or gossip.

(a.) Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat.

(a.) Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.

(v. t.) To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.

Edited by Annabel

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Watered silk.[2]. Brindled cat, tabby cat.

v. a. Water.

a. [1]. Of a waved or watered appearance.[2]. Brindled, brinded.

Checker: Mattie

Definition

n. a coarser kind of waved or watered silk: an artificial stone a mixture of lime shells gravel stones and water: a female cat—also Tabb′y-cat.—adj. brindled: diversified in colour.—v.t. to water or cause to look wavy:—pa.t. and pa.p. tabb′ied.—n. Tabb′inet a more delicate kind of tabby resembling damask used for window-curtains.

Editor: Verna