قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

One who tampers; one who deals unfairly.

of Tamper

Alt. of fibre

of Tamp

The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.

The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1.

A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use.

A plug for upper end of an organ pipe.

The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.

A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine.

To plug with a tampon.

The stopper of a barrel; a bung.

Tamil.

See Picul.

The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.

A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.

A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.

Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.

To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.

To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.