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The liquor of a tan vat.

A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeæ, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products. Piney dammar, Piney resin, Piney varnish, a pellucid, fragrant, acrid, bitter resin, which exudes from the piney tree (Vateria Indica) when wounded. It is used as…

A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit. Tumble me into some loathsome pit. Shak.

A stick for stirring a tan vat.

ft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay is placed.

suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity. Vattel (Trans. )

To reclaim; to demand the restoration of. [R.] Vattel (Trans. ).

The act of revendicating. [R.] Vattel (Trans. )

A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.

Of or pertaining to Pope Sixtus. Sistine chapel, a chapel in the Vatican at Rome, built by Pope Sixtus IV., and decorated with frescoes by Michael Angelo and others.

A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped.

; stentorian. [Obs.] Of this stentorophonic horn of Alexander there is a preserved in the Vatican. Derham.

A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.

in stripping bark for tan from trees. -- Tan stove. See Bark stove, under Bark. -- Tan vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.

An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation. The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes. Prescott. Thunder pumper. (Zoöl.) (a) The croaker (Haploidontus grunniens). (b) The American bittern or stake-driver. -- Thunder rod, a lightning rod. [R.] -- Thunder snake. (Zoöl.) (a) The ch…

te or another place. [R.] It [an obelisk] was transplaced . . . from the left side of the Vatican into a more eminent place. Bp. Wilkins.

A fermenting vat.