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Definition of tartar

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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..

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Lithobilic :: Lithobilic (a.) Pertaining to or designating an organic acid of the tartaric acid series, distinct from lithofellic acid, but, like it, obtained from certain bile products, as bezoar stones..

Tartaric :: Tartaric (a.) Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars..

Tartar :: Tartar (n.) A person of a keen, irritable temper..

Crust :: Crust (n.) An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing..

Tartro- :: Tartro- () A combining form (also used adjectively) used in chemistry to denote the presence of tartar or of some of its compounds or derivatives.

Infernal :: Infernal (a.) Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients..

Argol :: Argol (n.) Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks..

Tartareous :: Tartareous (a.) Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.

Seljukian :: 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..

Pyrotritartaric :: Pyrotritartaric (a.) Designating an acid which is more commonly called uric acid.

Tartarize :: Tartarize (v. t.) To impregnate with, or subject to the action of, tartar..

Cherry :: Cherry (n.) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Medoc in France)..

Tartarum :: Tartarum (n.) See 1st Tartar.

Tartar :: Tartar (n.) A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime..

Pyrotartaric :: Pyrotartaric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of tartaric acid..

Tartarian :: Tartarian (n.) The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian..

Uhlan :: Uhlan (n.) One of a kind of light cavalry of Tartaric origin, first introduced into European armies in Poland. They are armed with lances, pistols, and sabers, and are employed chiefly as skirmishers..

Saiga :: Saiga (n.) An antelope (Saiga Tartarica) native of the plains of Siberia and Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears..

Argal :: Argal (n.) Crude tartar. See Argol.

Tartarous :: Tartarous (a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, a Tartar; ill-natured; irritable..