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† Tarand, tarandre. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. † Tarand, tarandre Obs. Also tarandule, and in L. forms tarandus, -andrus. [a. F. tarande, obs. tarandre, ad. med.L. tarand-us, L. tarandr-us (Pliny), name of a northern beast, supposed to be the reindeer.] A name given to some northern quadruped, at length identified with the reindeer.

1 1572.  Bossewell, Armorie, II. 57. The fielde is of the Topaze, a Tarandre tripping, Rubye, unguled Diamonde. Tarandrus is a beaste in bodye like a great Oxe, hauing an head like to an harte, and hornes full of branches. Ibid., III. 22 b. The Tarandule is a beaste commonly called a Buffe, which is like An Oxe, but that he hath a bearde like a Goate.

2 1613.  Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 559. The Tarandus is a Beast somewhat resembling an Oxe, in quantitie, a Hart in shape.

3 1753.  Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Tarandus, in zoology, a name given by Agricola and some other authors, to the rein-deer.

4   b.  Said to have, like the chameleon, the power to ‘change himselfe into the thing he toucheth or leaneth vnto’ (Florio); so Rabelais IV. ii. Also fig.

5   It is not certain that tarand (applied scurrilously to Christ) in quot. c. 1440, is the same word.

6 c. 1440.  York Myst., xxxiii. 381 (iii Miles). All þin yntrew techyngis þus taste I, þou tarand.

7 1642.  R. Carpenter, Experience, II. xi. 218. Like the Tarrand, which walking in a Garden, represents the colour of every flower on his skin.

8 1694.  Motteux, Rabelais, IV. ii. 1.

9 1702.  Eng. Theophrast., 363. As the tarand changes its colour with every plant that it approaches so the wise man adapts himself to the several humours and inclinations of those he converses with.

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