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- Tartar - n. - 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.
- Tartar - n. - A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.
- Tartar - n. - 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.
- Tartar - n. - A person of a keen, irritable temper.
- Tartar - a. - Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
- Tartar - n. - See Tartarus.
- Tartarated - a. - Tartrated.
- Tartarean - a. - Alt. of Tartareous
- Tartareous - a. - Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.
- Tartareous - a. - Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.
- Tartareous - a. - Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are tartareous.
- Tartarian - a. - Alt. of Tartaric
- Tartarian - n. - The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.
- Tartaric - a. - Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
- Tartaric - a. - Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from, or resembling, tartar.
- Tartarine - n. - Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar.
- Tartarize - v. t. - To impregnate with, or subject to the action of, tartar.
- Tartarize - v. t. - To cause to resemble the Tartars and their civilization, as by conquest.
- Tartarized - imp. & p. p. - of Tartarize
- Tartarizing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Tartarize
- Tartarous - a. - Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous.
- Tartarous - a. - Resembling, or characteristic of, a Tartar; ill-natured; irritable.
- Tartarum - n. - See 1st Tartar.
- Tartarus - n. - The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general.
- Tartary - n. - Tartarus.
- Tartro- - - A combining form (also used adjectively) used in chemistry to denote the presence of tartar or of some of its compounds or derivatives.
- Cathay - n. - China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)
- Saleratus - n. - Aerated salt; a white crystalline substance having an alkaline taste and reaction, consisting of sodium bicarbonate (see under Sodium.) It is largely used in cooking, with sour milk (lactic acid) or cream of tartar as a substitute for yeast. It is also an ingredient of most baking powders, and is used in the preparation of effervescing drinks.
- Scale - v. t. - To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- Scaler - n. - One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.
- Turk - n. - A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey.
- Seljukian - a. - Of or pertaining to Seljuk, a Tartar chief who embraced Mohammedanism, and began the subjection of Western Asia to that faith and rule; of or pertaining to the dynasty founded by him, or the empire maintained by his descendants from the 10th to the 13th century.