TARTAR
\tˈɑːtə], \tˈɑːtə], \t_ˈɑː_t_ə]\
Definitions of TARTAR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.
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A person of a keen, irritable temper.
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See Tartarus.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.
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A person of a keen, irritable temper.
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See Tartarus.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A white substance often found encrusting the teeth; the salt of tartaric acid, found in grape juice.
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A resident of Tartary: better called Tatary: tartar, a person of irritable temper; a person who is too strong for an assailant. Also, Tatar.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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A salt which forms on the sides of casks containing wine (when pure, called cream of tartar): a concretion which sometimes forms on the teeth: an irritable person, one unexpectedly too strong for his opponent.
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Hell. "Follow me. -To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit."-Shak.
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A native of Tartary: a name rather loosely applied to members of various Mongolian or Turanian peoples in Asia and Europe: a name given to couriers employed by the Ottoman Porte, and by the European ambassadors in Constantinople.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An acid substance deposited from fermenting grape-juice.
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A yellowish incrustation on the teeth.
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Tartaric.
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Same as TATAR.
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One of a people originating in Chinese Tatary (Manchuria and Mongolia); a Turk, Cossack, etc.; also, the dialects spoken by these peoples.
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One of the Mongols of the 13th century who ravaged Europe and Asia.
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A person of savage temper: in this sense always Tartar.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A substance deposited as a whitish or reddish crystalline crust on the inside of wine casks, consisting of a mixture of acids and normal tartrates, especially those of potassium and calcium.
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See sordes. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin, Greek] An acid concrete salt deposited from wines completely fermented-when pure, it is called cream of tartar, and when crude, argal or argol ;-a concretion which often incrusts the teeth;-a native or inhabitant of Tartary;-a person of a sharp, quick, irritable temper.
