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† ˈtarand, taˈrandre 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.
1572J. 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. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 559 The Tarandus is a Beast somewhat resembling an Oxe, in quantitie, a Hart in shape. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Tarandus, in zoology, a name given by Agricola and some other authors, to the rein-deer.
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.
It is not certain that tarand (applied scurrilously to Christ) in quot. c 1440, is the same word.
c1440York Myst. xxxiii. 381 (iii Miles) All þin vntrew techyngis þus taste I, þou tarand. 1642R. Carpenter Experience ii. xi. 218 Like the Tarrand, which walking in a Garden, represents the colour of every flower in his skin. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. ii. i. 1702Eng. 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. |