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n. A rich watered silk.

n. A fabric of plain weave.

n. A domestic cat with a striped or brindled coat of a gray or tawny color.

n. A domestic cat, especially a female.

n. A spinster.

n. A prying woman; a gossip.

n. South Atlantic U.S. A mixture of oyster shells, lime, sand, and water used as a building material.

adj. Having light and dark striped markings: a tabby cat.

adj. Made of or resembling watered silk.

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

n. An old maid or gossip.

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

adj. Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.

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.

adj. Having a wavy or watered appearance.

adj. Brindled; diversified in color.

v. To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender

n. A watered material.

n. A worsted material, as a watered moreen.

n. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a silken stuff not necessarily watered.

n. In entomology, a pyralid moth of the genus Aglossa: a British collectors' name. A. pinguinalis is the common tabby, also called grease-moth; A. cuprealis is the small tabby.

Made of or resembling the fabric tabby; diversified in appearance or color like tabby.

Performed as in making the plain material from which tabby is produced: said of weaving.

To cause to look like tabby, or watered silk; give a wavy appearance to, as stuffs: as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc. This is done by the use of a calender without water.

n. A tabby-cat.

n. A female cat: distinguished from tom-cat

n. An old maid; a spinster; hence, any spiteful female gossip or tattler.

n. A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water, forming a mass which when dry becomes as hard as rock. This is used in Morocco as a substitute for bricks or stone in building.

n. a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black

n. female cat

adj. having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats

"Weir, was derived from a kind of taffeta or ribbed silk which used to be called tabby silk."

patterned   

tabbied    tabbies    tabbying   

felis catus    felis domesticus    house cat    domestic cat   

watered silk   

tabbied    tabbying   

brindled    water    calender    old woman   

Abbey    Abbie    Abby    Abie    Gabby    Gaby    abbe    abbey    cabbie    cabby   

Maltese    crêpe    weasel-like    tortoise-shell    bright-coloured    linsey-wolsey    she-cat    alpaca    beribboned    peach-colored