Webster's Dictionary 1828

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TAN-VAT

TAN'-VAT, noun [tan and vat.] A vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.

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TANG

TANG, noun [Gr. rancor; rancid.]1. A strong taste; particularly, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.2. Relish; taste. ...

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TANGENT

TAN'GENT, noun [Latin tangens, touching. See Touch.]In geometry, a right line which touches a curve, but which when produced, does not cut it. In trigonometry, the tangent of an...

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TANGIBILITY

TANGIBIL'ITY, noun [from tangible.] The quality of being perceptible to the touch or sense of feeling.

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TANGIBLE

TAN'GIBLE, adjective [from Latin tango, to touch.]1. Perceptible by the touch; tactile.2. That may be possessed or realized.

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TANGLE

TAN'GLE, verb transitive1. To implicate; to unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to ravel the knot.2. To ensnare...

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TANIST

TAN'IST, noun [Gr. a lord, to be powerful or able; Latin teneo.]Among the descendants of the Celts in Ireland, a lord, or the proprietor of a tract of land; a governor or captai...

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TANISTRY

TAN'ISTRY, noun In Ireland, a tenure of lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, and to this he was admitted by election. The primitive intention seems to have been...

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TANK

TANK, noun A large bason or cistern; a reservoir of water.

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TANKARD

TANK'ARD, noun A large vessel for liquors, or a drinking vessel, with a cover.Marius was the first who drank out of a silver tankard after the manner of Bacchus.

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TANKARD-TURNEP

TANK'ARD-TURNEP, noun A sort of turnep that stands high above the ground.

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TANLING

TAN'LING, noun One tanned or scorched by the heat of the sun.

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TANNED

TAN'NED, participle passive [from tan.] converted into leather. [See Tan.]1. Darkened by the rays of the sun.

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TANNER

TAN'NER, noun One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

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TANNERY

TAN'NERY, noun The house and apparatus for tanning.

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TANNIERS

TAN'NIERS, noun A variety of the arum esculentum, an esculent root.

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TANNIN

TAN'NIN, noun The chimical name of that astringent substance contained in vegetables, particularly in the bark of the oak and chestnut, and in gall-nut; the substance used to ch...

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TANNING

TAN'NING, participle present tense Converting raw hides into leather.

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TANREC

TAN'REC, noun A quadruped of the Indies, larger than a rat.

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TANSY

TAN'SY, noun s as z. [Latin tanacetum.] A plant of the genus Tanacetum, of many species. It is extremely bitter to the taste, and used for medicinal and culinary purposes.

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TANT

TANT, noun A small spider with two eyes and eight long legs, and of an elegant scarlet color.

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TANTALISM

TAN'TALISM, noun [See Tantalize.] The punishment of Tantalus, a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable.Is not such a provision like t...

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TANTALITE

TAN'TALITE, noun The ore of tantalum or columbium, a newly discovered metal. It is an iron black color, sometimes with a tinge of blue. It is imbedded in angular pieces, from th...

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TANTALIZATION

TANTALIZA'TION, noun The act of tantalizing.

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TANTALIZE

TAN'TALIZE, verb transitive [from Tantalus, in fable, who was condemned for his crimes to perpetual hunger and thirst, with food and water near him which he could not reach.]To ...

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TANTALIZED

TAN'TALIZED, participle passive Teased or tormented by the disappointment of the hope of good.

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TANTALIZER

TAN'TALIZER, noun One that tantalizes.