\Tact\, n. [L. tactus a touching, touch, fr. tangere,
tactum, to touch: cf. F. tact. See {Tangent}.]
1. The sense of touch; feeling.
         Did you suppose that I could not make myself
         sensible to tact as well as sight?    --Southey.
         Now, sight is a very refined tact.    --J. Le Conte.
2. (Mus.) The stroke in beating time.
3. Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice
   perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and
   doing what is required by circumstances.
         He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and
         boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them
         into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of
         Mazarin.                              --Macaulay.
         A tact which surpassed the tact of her sex as much
         as the tact of her sex surpassed the tact of ours.
                                               --Macaulay.