tatter1 (tater)

[Formerly and dial. also totter; Tear a pa ion to tatters , to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 11. IMG:content-2893.png:[graphic] Time, go hang thee! I will bang thee, Though I die in totters . Dekker and Ford , Sun's Darling, i. 1. bler-like character, related to the warblers of 2. A ragged fellow; a tatterdemalion. the genus Acrocephalus. Seven species are described. The best-known is that above named, formerly called long billed thrush (Latham, 1783). Also Tatarea (Reichenbach, 1849). Hig . Should the grand Ruffian come to mill me, I Would scorn to shuttle from my poverty. Pen. So, so; well spoke, my noble English tatter . Randolph , Hey for Honesty, iii. 1. [ Two Tartar i ans then of the King's Stable were sent for; but they were able to answer nothing to purpose. Milton , Hist. Moscovia, v. 503. 2t. A thief. (Cant.) (In this sense only Tar tarian .] The Wandering Jew (1640). If any thieving Tartar i an shall break in upon you, I will with both hands nimbly lend a cast of my office to him. Tataric, Tartaric2 (tä-, tär-tar'ik), a . [The older form is Tartaric , Tartaric us , Tar 2 tar us , Tartar: see Tatar , Tartar3 .] Of or pertaining to the Tatars or Tartars. Tatarize, Tartarize2 (tä'-, tär'ta-rīz), v . t .; pret. and pp. Tatarized , Tartarized , ppr. Tatar i zing , Tartarizing . [ The Tchuvashes are a Tatarized branch of the Finns of the Volga. Encyc. Brit., VIII. 702. tatarwagt, n. [ME.; cf. tatter1 .] A tatter (?). A goodly Heifer, there a lusty Steer,.. Strouts in his Rage, and wallows in his Prey. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay. To tatter a kip. See the quotation. [Slang.] My busine was to attend him at auctions, to put him in spirits when he sat for his picture, to take the left hand in his chariot when not filled by another, and to a ist at tattering a kip, as the phrase was, when he had a mind for a frolic. Goldsmith, Vicar, xx. II. in trans. To fall into rags or shreds; become ragged. After such bloody toil, we bid good night, And wound our tattering colours clearly up. Shak., K. John, v. 5. 7.