Taylor

, Cecil Percival Born 1929.

American pianist and composer who was a leader of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, which emphasized unrestrained, often dissonant improvisation.

Taylor

, Charles McArthur Ghankay Born 1948.

Liberian political leader whose tenure as president of Liberia (1997-2003) was marked by widespread conflict and rebellion. In 2012, an international criminal court found him guilty of war crimes committed in Sierra Leone.

Taylor

, Edward 1642?-1729.

English-born American Puritan cleric and metaphysical poet. His works, unpublished until 1939, include "God's Determinations Touching His Elect" (c. 1685).

Taylor

, Dame Elizabeth Rosemond 1932-2011.

British-born American actress. A childhood star after her appearance in National Velvet (1944), she later won an Academy Award for BUtterfield 8 (1960) and for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).

Taylor

, Frederick Winslow 1856-1915.

American inventor, engineer, and efficiency expert noted for his innovations in industrial engineering and management.

Taylor

, Paul Born 1930.

American choreographer whose avant-garde work includes Three Epitaphs (1956) and Orbs (1966).

Taylor

, Zachary Known as "Old Rough and Ready." 1784-1850.

The 12th president of the United States (1849-1850). An army officer in the Black Hawk War (1832) and the Second Seminole War (1835-1842), he became a national hero during the Mexican War (1846-1848), was elected president (1848), and died in office (1850).

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Taylor

(ˈteɪlə)

1. (Biography) A(lan) J(ohn) P(ercivale). 1906–90, British historian whose many works include The Origins of the Second World War (1961)

2. (Biography) Brook. 1685–1731, English mathematician, who laid the foundations of differential calculus

3. (Biography) Dame Elizabeth. 1932–2011, US film actress, born in England: films include National Velvet (1944), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Suddenly Last Summer (1959), and Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for both of which she won Oscars

4. (Biography) Frederick Winslow. 1856–1915, US engineer, who pioneered the use of time and motion studies to increase efficiency in industry

5. (Biography) Jeremy. 1613–67, English cleric, best known for his devotional manuals Holy Living (1650) and Holy Dying (1651)

6. (Biography) Zachary. 1784–1850, 12th president of the US (1849–50); hero of the Mexican War

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Tay•lor

(ˈteɪ lər)

n.

1. (James) Bayard, 1825–78, U.S. poet and travel writer.

2. Jeremy, 1613–67, English prelate and theological writer.

3. Maxwell (Davenport), 1901–87, U.S. army general.

4. Paul (Belville), born 1930, U.S. choreographer.

5. Peter (Hillsman), 1917–94, U.S. short-story writer, novelist, and playwright.

6. Robert Lewis, 1912–98, U.S. biographer, humorist, and newspaperman.

7. Zachary ( “Old Rough and Ready” ), 1784–1850, 12th president of the U.S. 1849–50.

8. a city in SE Michigan. 71,640.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	Taylor - United States composer and music critic (1885-1966) Deems Taylor, Joseph Deems Taylor
	2.	Taylor - United States film actress (born in England) who was a childhood star; as an adult she often co-starred with Richard Burton (born in 1932) Elizabeth Taylor
	3.	Taylor - 12th President of the United States; died in office (1784-1850) President Taylor, Zachary Taylor

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The want of Miss Taylor would be felt every hour of every day.

Weston, only half a mile from them, and a Miss Taylor in the house; and with all her advantages, natural and domestic, she was now in great danger of suffering from intellectual solitude.

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Van Busche Taylor is the distinguished American critic.

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"You are going to try to make Europe, sir?" asked Taylor, the young man who had last spoken.

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She had Jeremy Taylor's thought that some time in the future those who had known her would say: "It is the--th, the day that poor Tess Durbeyfield died"; and there would be nothing singular to their minds in the statement.

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There never was such an impatient man born as old Job Taylor over harbor."

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He was reading Osler's Medicine, which had recently taken the place in the students' favour of Taylor's work, for many years the text-book most in use.

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Taylor, with Porphyry's Introduction, 9 vols., 1812; under editorship of J.

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As he warily moved about, he heard the gen- eral call out irritably: "Tompkins, go over an' see Taylor, an' tell him not t' be in such an all- fired hurry; tell him t' halt his brigade in th' edge of th' woods; tell him t' detach a reg'ment --say I think th' center 'll break if we don't help it out some; tell him t' hurry up."

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Besides all this, he had read his Bible, including the apocryphal books; Poor Richard's Almanac, Taylor's Holy Living and Dying, The Pilgrim's Progress, with Bunyan's Life and Holy War, a great deal of Bailey's Dictionary, Valentine and Orson, and part of a History of Babylon, which Bartle Massey had lent him.

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Taylor told me of it half an hour ago, and she was told it by a particular friend of Miss Grey herself, else I am sure I should not have believed it; and I was almost ready to sink as it was.

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And to say the truth, there is, in all points, great difference between the reasonable passion which women at this age conceive towards men, and the idle and childish liking of a girl to a boy, which is often fixed on the outside only, and on things of little value and no duration; as on cherry-cheeks, small, lily-white hands, sloe-black eyes, flowing locks, downy chins, dapper shapes; nay, sometimes on charms more worthless than these, and less the party's own; such are the outward ornaments of the person, for which men are beholden to the taylor, the laceman, the periwig-maker, the hatter, and the milliner, and not to nature.

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