English English Dictionary

Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.

A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.

A reddish crust or sediment in wine casks, consisting essentially of crude cream of tartar, and used in marking pure cream of tartar, tartaric acid, potassium carbonate, black flux, etc., and, in dyeing, as a mordant for woolen goods; -- called also argol, wine stone, etc.

A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.

A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; -- written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar.

A person of a keen, irritable temper.

Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.

See Tartarus.

Tartrated.

Alt. of Tartareous

Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.

Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.

Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are tartareous.

Alt. of Tartaric

The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.

Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.

Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from, or resembling, tartar.

Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar.

To impregnate with, or subject to the action of, tartar.

To cause to resemble the Tartars and their civilization, as by conquest.