tartar

Part of speech: noun

An acid substance deposited from fermenting grape- juice.

Part of speech: noun

A yellowish incrustation on the teeth.

Part of speech: adjective

Tartaric.

Part of speech: noun

Same as TATAR.

Part of speech: adjective

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

Part of speech: noun

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

Part of speech: noun

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

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Usage examples "tartar":

  1. There are two descriptions of these formidable auxiliaries: those of clear Tartar race, the other mixed with Muscovites and their tributaries. - "Thaddeus of Warsaw", Jane Porter.
  2. Cream of tartar, half an ounce. - "The American Reformed Cattle Doctor", George Dadd.
  3. Long fought they, Nauder and the Tartar- chief, And the thick dust which rose from either host, Darkened the rolling Heavens. - "Persian Literature, Volume 1,Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan", Anonymous.