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See Trass. [Obs.]

A plant of the genus Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring vinegar.

See Trass. [Obs.]

To set on, as a dog; to incite. [Obs.] Shak.

The act or time of tarrying; delay; lateness. [Archaic] Shak. And after two days' tarriance there, returned. Tennyson.

One who, or that which, tarries.

The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt.

Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.

Of or pertaining to the tarsus (either of the foot or eye). -- n.

One of the bones or cartilages of the tarsus; esp., one of the series articulating with the metatarsals.

tarsus.

The operation of excising one or more of the bones of the tarsus.

A male hawk. See Tercel. [Obs.]

pl. of Tarsus.

A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood.…

See Tarsius.

A genus of nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones; -- called also malmag, spectral lemur, podji, and tarsier.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tarsus; as, tarsometatarsus.

Of or pertaining to both the tarsus and metatarsus; as, the tarsometatarsal articulations.

The large bone next the foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus.