tartar : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tartar	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for tartar
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tartar n a salt used especially in baking powder [syn: {cream of tartar}, tartar, potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate] a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman Synonym(s): dragon, tartar a member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century Synonym(s): Tatar, Tartar, Mongol Tatar an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums Synonym(s): tartar, calculus, tophus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tartar \Tar"tar\, n. 1. [Per. T[be]t[be]r, of Tartar origin.] 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}. 2. A person of a keen, irritable temper. {To catch a tartar}, to lay hold of, or encounter, a person who proves too strong for the assailant. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tartar \Tar"tar\, n. [F. tartre (cf. Pr. tartari, Sp., Pg., & It. tartaro, LL. tartarum, LGr. [?]); perhaps of Arabic origin.] 1. (Chem.) 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. 2. A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime. {Cream of tartar}. (Chem.) See under {Cream}. {Tartar emetic} (Med. Chem.), a double tartrate of potassium and basic antimony. It is a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweetish metallic taste, and used in medicine as a sudorific and emetic.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tartar \Tar"tar\, a. Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tartar \Tar"tar\, n. [Cf. F. tartare.] See {Tartarus}. --Shak.