tarnish 
n i. ! all ic I ii si <T: usua My <lue to slight a It era t ion, 
lint also in sonic cases lo tin- deposition of ii 
very thin lilm of sonic foreign substance. Tims, 
a freahly fraet nted Mir la. 1 l. .rnlte soon yains a tarni.sh 
on cxpuMiiv, becoming a tu-i^lit i>m pi- oolor; il i- hem a 
often r 1 1. ! ,,,,,* </:il, <l .11 jmff,t,' ,;,/</ /<!,;; *< , a 1 s. col 11111- 
bltc crystals ollni .slum :i brilliant steel-blue tarnish. 
3. A coating. [Kare.] 
('an- is taken tu wash over tlic fonliieMs of the subject 
with a plcaHhiK tarnixh. 
fii-iill, niii/i t n*t ritcled, p. 308. (Davit*.) 
tarnishable (tiir'nish-a-bl), . [< tarnish + 
-iililc.\ That iimy 1)0 tarnished; capable of 
losing luster. 
The inventor, searching experimentally for a ineaiia of 
rendering ttirnih(tMt' metals and alloys II-SH taririxtiitW?. 
I'M. /CM/, .v,,,-., x.\.\ vin. MI. 
tarnisher (liir'nish-er). . |< taniixh + -cr 1 .] 
<>no who or that which tarnishes. 
tamowitzite (Iiir'no-wit-Mt), H. [< T<iniutri/: 
(see duf.) + -itt--.] A variety of arag.miti' c.m- 
tiiining a small percentage of leail carlion:itr. 
found at Tarnowitx, in Silesia. 
taro 1 (lii'ro), . [Also tarn; < Polynesian taro.] 
A food-plant, Cnlnrasia iiiitii/iiin-iiiii, especially 
the viiriet y i si- nli n tu, a native of India, but wide- 
ly cultivated in the wanner parts of the globe, 
particularly in the Pacific islands, it isastemless 
plant with the general lialilt of tlie unliullunii of house and 
u'arden culture. The leaves are heart-shaped and ahout 
a finii Ion;:. Its chief value lies In Its stem-like tuberous 
starchy rout, which is eaten boiled or baked, made into a 
bread or pudding, or In the Sandwich Islands, when- it is 
the staple food of the natives, In the form of pol (which 
see). The tubers, when haked, pounded, and pressed, keep 
fresh many months. An excellent starch can he had from 
them. The leaves and leafstalks are also edible, with tin- 
character of spinach or asparagus. All parts of the plant 
are acrid, l>ut this quality is removed by cooking. Taro is 
propagated l>y a cutting from the top of the tuber, which, 
in the l-'iji Islands at least, is planted as soon as tin- crop Is 
gathered. About fifteen inontnaare required to mature the 
root. Sue Cobmuia (with tint), also cocco, edduet, and tanya. 
We had ample opportunity to observe the native ways 
of living, ... an uninteresting mess of stewed fowl and 
taro. Lady ItraMcy, Voyage of Sunbeam, II. iv. 
taro- (ta-ro'), . [It.] A money of account 
and coin of silver, and also of copper, formerly 
used in Malta under the Grand Masters. The 
silver taro of 1777 weighed about 15 grains, and the copper 
taro of 1786 about 118 grains. 
taroc (tar'ok), . Same as tarot. 
One goes [at Turin] to see people play at Ombre and 
Taroc, a game with 72 cards, all painted with suns, and 
ni""iis. and devils, and monks. 
Gray, To Mr. West, Nov. 16th, N. ., 1739. 
tar-oil (tiir'oil), n. A volatile oil obtained by 
distilling tar. 
tarot (tar'ot), . [Also taroc (= G. tarock) (< 
It.); < F. tarots, < ft. tarocchi, a kind of check- 
ered cards, also the game called tarot; origin 
obscure.] 1. One of a pack of playing-cards 
first used in Italy in the fourteenth century, 
and so named from the design of plain or dot- 
ted lines crossing diagonally on the back of 
the cards. The original pack contained seventy-eight 
cards namely, four suits of ten numeral cards, as in the 
modern game, with four coat-cards (king, queen, chevalier, 
and valet) in each suit, and a series of twenty-two atuttl 
or atouts, these last being the trumps, and known specifi- 
cally as the tarot*. 
Tarott, a kind of great cards, whereon many several 
things are figured ; which make them much more intri- 
cate than ordinary ones. Cotyrave. 
2. A game played with the above cards : often 
used in the plural. 
Will you play at tables, at dyce, at lam!*, and ehesse? 
The French Alphabet (1615X p. U8. (HalliuxU.) 
tarpan (tiir'pan), . [Tatar name.] The wild 
horse of Tatary, belonging to one of those 
races which are by some authorities regarded 
as original, and not descended from domestic 
animals. Tarpans arc not larger than an ordinary mule, 
arc migratory, and have a tolerably acute sense of smell. 
Their color is invariably tan or mouse, with black mane 
and tall. During the cold season their hair Is long and 
(oft, lying so close as to feel like a bear's fur, and then it 
is frizzled ; in summer it falls much away, leaving only a 
quantity on the back and loins. They are sometimes cap- 
tured by the Tatars, but are reduced to subject!.!!' -vith 
great difficulty. 
tarpaulin (tiir pa'lin), n. [Formerly also tar- 
innrliii ; iv reduction in sailors' speech of tar- 
liini/iHi/. tar/iairling. prop, "tiirjxilliiii/, < tor 1 + 
/Milling, /iiui/iiii/. :\ covering, verbal n. of pall 1 , 
r. Hence, by abbreviation, tar 3 .] 1. Canvas 
ma.le water-proof with tar; hence, any water- 
proof cloth, especially when used in large sheets 
for covering anything exposed to the weather 
or to wet. 
Tarimiilin is a wat erproof sheeting consisting of a stout 
ranvas rlnth impregnated and coated with tar. 
Encyc. Brit.. XXUI. fi. 
2. \ sailor's hat made of or covered with 
pointed or tarred cloth. 
8181 
\ burly fellow in a tiirftaiUiiff and blue jacket 
.v. .1,1,1,1, Mar-ant, ii. 1|. 
3. A sailor. [Colin.,. J 
Adttt. ... If you Hun I < i.imcnl, u, II tbi" \..n and 
)itur Cabinet into tin- Sea together. 
.1 n! spoken like H 
A lliiili'i, ti. MI t 'oIl.MMii. s nf r.iasmii-, I. 1.T7. 
Tu a landsman tli. < tttrpaulin*, as they were called, 
sfemrd :i strange :md half SllVag' 
\l,i,;i,,l,i, t . Ili-t. ling., iii. 
Tarpaulin muster. *ec mutter. 
tarpauling, tarpawling (tar-pa/ling), n. Same 
us tariiaiitin. 
Tarpeian (tiir-pr-'an), . [= F. Tarpni-n, < L. 
'I'u I'/ifni mis, nsinilly Tin'/" in*. |ierlainin^' to Tar- 
]ieius or Tarpeia (Tur/i: ins Minis or Tur/mii 
/I'/I/M'.V. Hie Tarpeian Kock),< THI'/H in.-; 'I'ltr/nia. 
a Homan family name.] Noting a rock on the 
Capitoline Hill at Rome over which persons 
convicted of treason to the state were hurled. 
It was so named, ai-ecnding t" tradition, from Tarpeia, 
daughter of the governor of a citadel at Koine, who be- 
trayed the fortress to the Sabine soldiers, and was crushed 
to death under their shields and buried at the base of the 
rock. 
Itear him to the rock Tarptian, and from thence 
Into destruction cast him. filmic.. Cor, III. 1. 213. 
tarpon (tiir'pou), H. [Also tarpiiin ; origin not 
ascertained.] A large game-fish of the family 
/.Yn/jfV/,r and subfamily Mci/a/ii/iinte (which sec), 
specifically .U< >/"'"/''' ntliii/tii-ns, also called /< 
_ //A'/I . This is one of the so-calted big-eyed herrings, and 
a near relative of Elop naurwt; lint the pseudobranchiw 
are obsolete, the dorsal flu has a long filament, and the 
Tarpon (Mepalofi allamtinu). 
scales are very large. The form is elongate and com- 
pressed ; the color is brilliant-silvery, darker on the back ; 
and the length attained is about 6 feet. This fish is 
common in the warmer waters of the Atlantic, as on the 
southern coast of the United States, where it is sometimes 
called yrande ccaiUe, from the size of the scales, which 
are used in ornamental fancy work. Its technical syno- 
nym, M. thrixstndes, is erroneous, being based on Clupea 
thritsuidei of Bloch and Schneider, 1801, and that on Brous- 
sonet's Clttpra cypriiwiiteit. which is the East Indian repre- 
sentative of this genus (Mryaltipx cyprinaideg), a distinct 
though very similar species to which the name tarpon or 
tarpttm is extended by Jordan. 
tar-putty (tar'put'i), n. A viscous mixture of 
tar and well-calcined lampblack, thoroughly 
kneaded in and afterward carbonized. The 
Engineer, LXVI. 521. 
tarracet, . See terrace' 1 , terrace 1 *. 
tarradiddle (tar-a-did'l), n. [Appar. a made 
word, involving rfidrfiel.] A fictitious account ; 
a fib. [Colloq.] 
tarragon (tar'a-gon), H. [Also taragon; < OF. 
"taragoii, taraoii, tragon, tarcon, tarchon (dial. 
dragoun), also cstragim (= Pr. estragSo), also 
tragnncee = Sp. taragoncia, taragontia, < Ar. 
larkliuit, tttrkliuni, tarragon, < Gr. fpaKuv, a ser- 
pent, dragon (> f/MKovriov, a plant of the arum 
kind) : see dragon, 7, and cf. Dracontium, l)ra- 
runculus.'] A composite plant, Artemisia Dra- 
cuncitlus, native in Russia and temperate Asia. 
Its leaves, unlike those of most artemUias, are undivided, 
and they have an aromatic scent and taste, whence they 
are used as a condiment. 
tarrast, . and r. An old spelling of terrace. 
tarret. An old spelling of tor', tar-. 
tarrert, . See torrfar*. 
tarriance (tar'i-ans), n. [< tarrifi + -aw.] 
A tarrying; delay. [Rare.] 
Nor was my tarriance such that in that space 
He could recover strength to shift his ground. 
Brome, Queens Exchange, ii. 
So fcar'd the King, 
And, after two days' tarriancf there, retum'd. 
TVnnywm, Lancelot and Elaine. 
tarrier 1 (tar'i-er), . [Early mod. E. tarii'r ; < 
tnrry3 + -cr l .~\ 1. One who or that which tar- 
ries or delays. 
He is often called of them Fabius cunctator -that is to 
say, the tarirr or delayer. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, L 23. 
Sound the trumpet, no true knight's a tarrier. 
Browning, The Glove. 
2f. One who hinders, or causes tarrying. 
If you have such an itch in your feet to foot it to the 
Fair, why do you stop? am I |o'] your tarrienf 
B. Jonmn, Bartholomew Fair, i. 1. 
tarrier '-'t, . Same as terrier^. 
Tarrietia (tar-i-e'sbiii), H. [NL. (Blume, 1825), 
from the native name in Java.] A genusof poly- 
petalous plants, of the order mtin-iilian and 
tarrying-iron 
trilie fit, i-i'iilinr. disl in^'llisheil I'r 'he . 
Iv allie.l genus fill n-iilia liy its solitary ovules 
an. I in.lchis.ecnt cai-|>els bcsiring a Ion;; scylhe- 
shapeil WIIIU. Hi. ie \H-tla 
Ha, .lava, and .Malar.-a. 'I bey al e tall tl r.-s be.uing isincHilh 
. i\ .h-iiat. learesoM bree ot tiv. . 
nntin-lnn,- -III all ti..\* . I - t> .1 I.I bail \ ..: .| |,an- 
ndran, n ati\<- .>f sba.h " 1- in . > 
land and Nett S-.litli \N ab ^. an - \.a-l < en I. at limy "I to -.1 
feet high. Is there known a* xiln'r-trrr or inntwood. 
tarrist (lar'is), /<. An -ilis.iletc form of Ii //,, I. 
ii i ini-i '-'. 
tarrock (t.'ir'iik '. u. |.\lso lurrni-l, ; < Eskimo 
(I ircenlanil) tutun-nl. oi- lattanil.:'] 1. The kit- 
tr.vake gull, Iliwt tri'lm-li/ln. See cnl tin. ler 1,-il- 
turnl;i . [Orkneys.] 2. A tern orsea swallow. 
3. A giiillcinot or miirrc. 
tarrow (tar'6), r. i. [Sc. form of tarrifi (cf. 
liarrnir" anil harry]. The form is appropriate 
only as a var. of tar rip, w hich was confused with 
tarry'*.'} Todelay; hesitate; fee! reluctance ; 
loathe; refuse. [Scotch.] 
An' I hae seen their cogglu fon, 
That yet ha'e tamne't at It. 
Kvria, A Dream. 
tarry 1 (tiir'i), a. [< tar 1 + -yl.] Consisting 
of tar, or like tar; partnking of the character 
of tar; smeared with tar. 
Poor Mr. Dimmesdale longed ... to shake hands with 
the tarry blackguard, and recreate himself with a few im- 
proper jesU, such as dissolute sailors so abound with. 
Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, xx. 
Tarry fingers, fingers to which things adhere Improper- 
ly; thieving fingers ; pilfering fingers. (Scotch.) 
The gipsies hae tarry fingeri, and ye wud need an e'e in 
your necK to watch them. <;,iU . Sir Andrew u > lie. 
tarry 2 t (tar'i), r. t. [< ME. taryeu, tarien, tcryen, 
Ii rim, tcrtcen, (ergon, (argon, < AS. tcrqan, tyr- 
gait (= MI), terglien, D. tcrgrn = MLG. tcrgcn 
= G. zergen), vex, irritate, provoke ; perhaps = 
Russ. dergatl, pull, pluck. From the ME. form 
terren comes the E. form tar: see tar'*. Cf. tar- 
ry 3 .} To vex; irritate; provoke; incite. See 
tar'*. H'yclif, Deut. iv. 25. 
tarry-' (tar'i). r. ; pret. and pp. tarrird, ppr. tar- 
rying. [< ME. tarycn, tarien, delay, wait; de- 
veloped from ME. tarien, E. tarry'*, vex, with 
sense of ME. tarycn, E. obs. targe'*, delay: see 
targe 2 , which is the proper verb in the sense 
1 delay.'] I. in trans. 1 . To continue in a place ; 
remain; stay; sojourn; abide; lodge. 
Tarry all night, and wash your feet. Gen. xlx. 5. 
If you will go, I will stuff your purses full of crowns ; if 
you will not, tarry at home and be hanged. 
Shale., 1 Hen. IV., i. 2. 147. 
2. To wait or stay in expectation; wait. 
And concluded yt we shulde departe and holdc company 
with ye other galyes, and to tary for no man. 
Sir R. Ouyt/orde, 1 "ylgrymage, p. 63. 
Tarry for the mourners, and stay dinner. 
Shale., E. and J., Iv. 5. 150. 
3. To put off going or coming; delay; linger; 
loiter. 
He saint tlm semly all with sad wordys, 
And told iintb of his tale, taried no longur. 
Dettruction o/ Troy (E. E. T. S.\ 1. 1910. 
The years are slow, the vision tarrieth long. 
Whittier, Freedom in Brazil. 
II. trans. If. To cause to tarry ; delay. 
I wol not tarien yow, for it is pryme. 
Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 66. 
2. To wait for. 
He that will have a cuke out of the wheat must needs 
tarry the grinding. Shale.. T. and t'., I. 1. 16. 
tarry 3 t (tar'i ), H. [<t<irnj3,v.] Delay; stay. 
The French Secretary is came to London ; ... he saith 
his tarry is but short here. 
T. Aten (1516), in Lodge's Illnst. of Brit. Hist., I. ii. 
tarry-breeks (tiir'i-breks), . A sailor. 
[Scotch.] 
Young royal Tarry Breeln [Prince William Henry, after- 
ward William IV.]. Burnt, A Dream. 
No old tarry brceln of a sea-dog, like thy dad ! 
Kinydey, Westward Ho, xxx. 
tarrying (tar'i-ing), w. [< ME. taryingi- : verbal 
n. of tarry 3 , r.] The act or process of staying, 
waiting, or delaying ; a stay; a delay. 
The Castelein selde he wolde sende thider on the mo- 
rowe wlth-oute more taryinge. M erlin (E. F.. T. S ), 111. 546. 
I fear me he may obstruct your affairs by his frequent 
comings and long tarryingt. The Atlantic, LXV. 195. 
tarrying-iront(tar'i-ing-i'ern), H. Apparently, 
a clog of iron fastened to the foot ; an impedi- 
ment. 
As soon shall I behold 
That stone of which so many have us told, . . . 
The great Elixir, or to undertake 
The Rose-Cross Knowledge, which is ranch like that, 
A tarryiny iron for fools to labour at. 
Drayton, Elegies, To Master W. Jeffreys. 
