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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.

Tartrated.

Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish.

Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar.

The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.

Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars. Tartarian lamb (Bot.), Scythian lamb. See Barometz.

Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from, or resembling, tartar. Tartaric acid. (a) An acid widely diffused throughout the vegetable kingdom, as in grapes, mountain-ash berries, etc., and obtained from tartar as a white crystalline substance, C2H2(OH)2.(CO2H)2, having a strong pure acid taste. It is used in medicine, i…

Potassium carbonate, obtained by the incineration of tartar. [Obs.]

To impregnate with, or subject to the action of, tartar. [R.] Tartarized antimony (Med. Chem.), tartar emetic.

Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous.

See 1st Tartar.

The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general.

Tartarus. [Obs.] Spenser.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also inactive tartaric acid.

or designating, an acid obtained as a white crystalline substance by the distillation of tartaric acid.

Designating an acid which is more commonly called uric acid.

Being or living under Tartarus; infernal. "Subtartarean powers." Pope.

e baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the nat…

Combined or prepared with antimony; as, antimoniated tartar.

Crude tartar. See Argol.