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  • TARTAREOUS
    Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are tartareous. (more info) 1. Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.
  • TARTARUM
    See TARTAR
  • TARTAREAN; TARTAREOUS
    Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.
  • TARTAROUS
    Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous.
  • TARTARIC
    Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from, or resembling, tartar. Tartaric acid. An acid widely diffused throughout the vegetable kingdom, as in grapes, mountain-ash berries, etc., and obtained from tartar as a white crystalline substance, C2H2
  • TARTARINE
    Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar.
  • TARTARATED
    Tartrated.
  • TARTARIAN
    The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.
  • TARTAR
    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
  • TARTARIZE
    To impregnate with, or subject to the action of, tartar. Tartarized antimony , tartar emetic.
  • TARTARUS
    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
  • TARTARIAN; TARTARIC
    Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars. Tartarian lamb , Scythian lamb. See Barometz.
  • TARTARY
    Tartarus. Spenser.
  • PYROTRITARTARIC
    Designating an acid which is more commonly called uric acid.
  • SUBTARTAREAN
    Being or living under Tartarus; infernal. "Subtartarean powers." Pope.
  • PYROTARTARIC
    Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of tartaric acid.
  • MESOTARTARIC
    Pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also inactive tartaric acid.

 

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