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a salt used especially in baking powder

a salt used especially in baking powder

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

A person of a keen, irritable temper.

See Tartarus.

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

A person of a keen, irritable temper.

See Tartarus.

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.

Abnormal concretion or calcified deposit that forms around the teeth or dental prostheses.

A white substance often found encrusting the teeth; the salt of tartaric acid, found in grape juice.

A resident of Tartary: better called Tatary: tartar, a person of irritable temper; a person who is too strong for an assailant. Also, Tatar.

1. Acid potassium tartrate, potassium bitartrate, forming a crust on the interior of winecasks. 2. A brownish or yellowish brown substance, chiefly calcium phosphate, deposited on the teeth from the saliva.

Substance collecting on teeth; it is cream colored.

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.

Hell. "Follow me. -To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit."-Shak.

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.

An acid salt deposited from wine; concretion on the teeth.

Tartareous, tartarous.

An acid substance deposited from fermenting grape-juice.

A yellowish incrustation on the teeth.

Tartaric.

Same as TATAR.

One of a people originating in Chinese Tatary (Manchuria and Mongolia); a Turk, Cossack, etc.; also, the dialects spoken by these peoples.

One of the Mongols of the 13th century who ravaged Europe and Asia.

A person of savage temper: in this sense always Tartar.

An acid concrete salt, being a tartrate of potash, formed from wines completely fermented, and adhering to the sides of casks in the form of a hard crust; common cream of tartar; the concretion which incrusts the teeth. Tartar emetic, a double salt, consisting of tartaric acid in combination with potassa and protoxide of antimony.

A native of Tartary; a person of a keen, irritable temper. To catch a tartar, to lay hold of or encounter a person who proves too strong for the assailant.

The white or reddish acid substance which gathers on the sides of casks and vats containing wine, in the form of a hard crust, and frequently as a white crust on the teeth.

An inhabitant or native of Tartary; one who proves too strong or cunning for his assailant, as in the phrase, "to catch a Tartar".

The sediment of wine-casks; crude potassium bitartrate.

Incrustation formed on neglected teeth.

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.

See sordes. [Lat.]

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.