tampon (tampon)

[See tampion.] 1. In surg., a plug inserted to stop hemorrhage.-2. In hair - dre ing, a cushion of curled hair or the like, used to support the hair in a puff or roll. -3. See the quotation. An engraved stone [in lithography] is printed by using a small wooden tapper or tampon , either round at the sides, flat below, with handle at top, or square, with the Encyc . Brit . , XIV. 701. tampon (tam'pon), v. t. [ corners rounded off. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary tam-tam, n. and v. See tom - tom . tamtam-metal (tam'tam-metal), n. Same as gong - metal . Tamul, Tamulian (tam'ul, ta-mū'li-an). Same as Tamil , Tamil i an . If he be so stout, we will have a bout, And he shall tan my hide too. Robin Hood and the Tanner (Child's Ballads, V. 229). The master couldn't tan him for not doing it. 6. In the manufacture of so-called artificial marble, or an imitation of marble made from a mixture of gelatin and gum, to render (cast slabs of the mixture) hard and insoluble by steeping in a suitable preparation. See tan- nage, 3.-7. To treat with some hardening pro- ce as a preservation from rot, as fish-nets.- Tanned pelt. See pelt2 . II. in trans. 1. To be or become tanned: as, the leather tans easily. 2. To become tan- colored or tawny: as, the face tans in the sun. tanl (tan), n. and a . [See tan1 , v. The noun is prob. earlier than the verb in Rom., but ap- pears later in E.] I. n. 1. The bark of the oak, willow, chestnut, larch, hemlock, spruce, and other trees abounding in tannin, bruised and broken by a mill, and used for tanning hides. Let no stiff cowhide, reeking from the tan ,... Disgrace the tapering outline of your feet. 2. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan: as, gloves of gray or tan .-3. An embrowning of the skin by exposure to the sun. The clear shade of tan , and the half a dozen freckles, friendly remembrancers of the April sun and breeze. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, v. Flower or flowers of tan. See flower . - Spent tan, tan that has been used in tanning: it is employed for covering walks, for mulshing, and for other purposes. The tan, the circus; the ring where a match is walked. [Slang.] - To smell of the tan, said of any act or expre ion which tan2 (tan), n . [Ult. tan , a twig, bough: see mistletoe .] A twig, or small switch. Hal- mistle to liwell. [Prov. Eng.] tan3t. An obsolete Middle English contraction northern Africa, and temperate parts of Asia. They of taken , old infinitive or past participle of take . are twining vines resembling species of Dioscorea , growing tant. A Middle English contraction of to an . from a tuberous root, and producing alternate heart- tan1 (tan), v .; pret. and pp. tanned , ppr. tanning. [Formerly also tann , early mod. E. tanne; tannian (found n (found once, in the pp. getanned ) = MD. tannen, tanen, taenen, teynen, D. tanen , tan; cf. OF. tanner , taner , F. tanner , dial. tener (ML. tannare , tanare ), tan, dye of a tawny color; appar. from a noun not found in AS., = MD. tanne , tane , taene , OF. and F. tan , ML. tanum , oak-bark for tanning, tan; cf. Bret. tann , oak, oak-bark for tanning; tanna , MHG. G. tanne , fir, oak. The relations of these forms are in part uncertain. Hence (through F.) E. tanny, tawny.] I. trans. 1. To prepare, as skins of animals, by soaking in some liquid containing tannic acid, which is generally ob- tained from the bark of some tree, oak-bark be- ing commonly thought to be the best. Other barks, especially that of hemlock, are also largely used. This proce converts the raw hide into leather. Ajax, to shield his ample Breast, provides Seven lusty Bulls, and tanns their sturdy Hides. Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 2. By extension, to convert into leather by other means, as by the use of mineral salts (as those of iron and chromium), and even of oil or fat, as in the case of buckskin, chamois, and the like. See leather , taw1, 2.-3. To make brown; embrown by exposure to the rays of His sandales were with toilsome travell torne, And face all tand with scorching sunny ray. tan. An abbreviation of tangent . tanal, tanna (tänä, tan'ä), n. [Also thannah ; thana , thānā , a military fortified post.] In India, a military post; also, a police station. tana2, n. [Native name.) A small insectivo- rous mammal of Sumatra and Borneo, Tupaia tana ; a banxring. Tan acetum (tan-a-se'tum), n. [NL. (Tourne- fort, 1700; earlier in Brunfels, 1530), tansy, an accom. form, with L. term. -etum , of OF. tana- sie , tansy: see tansy .] A genus of composite plants, of the tribe An them ideæ . It is characterized by small discoid corymbose flower-heads with a naked re- ceptacle, involucral bracts in nu numerous rows, pappus most- outer row female, slender and tubular, with an oblique or a two or three-toothed apex, and three-angled achenes, the central flowers numerous, perfect, cylindrical, five- toothed, and with five-angled achenes. There are about tanagers abound, and represent, with the man i king, co ting as, and tyrant-flycatchers, the leading pa erine birds of these regions. See cuts under Piranga, Procnias , Salt at or, Stephanophorus, Tanagra, Tanagridæ, Phœni- cophilus , and cashew - bird . Black-faced tanager, one of the bullfinch tanagers, Pitylus gro us , called by Latham white-throated grosbeak . - Black-headed tanager, Lanio at rica pill us , of an orange-yellow color varied with orange- brown, black, and white. It inhabits northerly parts of South America. - Brazilian tanager, Rhamphocelus bra- silius, 7 inches long, the male rich scarlet with black wings and tail, the bill black with the en- larged base of the under man- dible white. Also called tap- iranga . - Bull- finch tana- ger. See bull- Brazilian Tanager ( Rhamphocelus brasil i us), IMG:content-2826.jpg:[graphic] 30 species, natives of Europe, northern Africa, central and northern Asia, and North America. They are erect annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubby at the base, commonly strong-scented and hairy or silky. They bear alternate and usually variously di ected leaves, and yellow flowers. A few exceptional species produce larger solitary long- stalked flower-heads. Seven species are native to the west- ern United States, and T. vulgare (for which see tansy ) is naturalized in the Atlantic States and Canada. For T. Bal- samita , also called ale - cost and maudlin , see costmary . tanadar, tannadar (tä'na-där, tan'a-där), n. thanadar , thāna , a military post, + -dar , holding.] In India, the keeper or com- mandant of a tana. Tanæcium (ta-ne'si-um), n. [NL. (Swartz, 1800), so called from the elongated climbing The female is olive-green above and greenish-yellow be- stems; prop. * Tanaëcium , ταναήκης , long- stretching, ταναός , outstretched, + ἀκή , a point.] A genus of gamopetalous plants, of the order Big non i aceæ , tribe Bignonieæ , and group Pleio- I am acquainted with sad misery, As the tann'd galley-slave is with his oar. Webster , Duche of Malfi, iv. 2. Milton , L'Allegro, 1. 90. And one, whose Arab face was tanned By tropic sun and boreal frost. Whittier, Tent on the Beach. a truncate or minutely toothed calyx, an extremely long and slender cylindrical corolla-tube, and a large smooth capsule with very thick and finally indurated concave valves, containing numerous compre ed seeds in many rows. There are 4 or 5 species, natives of tropical Amer- ica, by some reduced to a single species. They are shrubby climbers, reaching a great height, and bearing compound leaves of three entire leaflets, the terminal leaflet some- times lacking or replaced by a tendril. The flowers are border surmounting a tube from 3 to 10 inches long. T. Jaroba is the pear-withe of Jamaica. 41. To deprive of the freshne of youth; imwhite, and consist of a spreading and somewhat two-lipped pair the freshne and beauty of. [Rare.] Reckoning time, whose million'd accidents. Tan sacred beauty. tanager (tan'ā-jer), n. [ Tanagra , q. v.] Some or any tanagrine bird; a member of the Tanagridæ. Few of these numerous brilliant birds are Scarlet Tanager ( Piranga rubra ), male. Tanagra Episcopal Tanager ( Tanagra episcopus). or the palm tanager, T. palmarum. They are le brilliant birds than most other tanagers, build open nests like those of finches, and lay spotted eggs. Tanagra figurine. See figurine. Tanagrella (tan-a-grel'ä), n. [NL. (Swains on, 1837), Tanagridæ (tā-nag'ri-dē), n. pl. [NL., Tana gra + -idæ.] A large family of American os cine pa erine birds; the tanagers, or so-called dentirostral finches. They have nine primaries, scutellate tarsi, and more or le conirostral bill, which usually exhibits a slight notch. They are confined to America, and almost entirely to the Neo tropical region, only one genus ( Piranga ) having any extensive dispersion in North America. They are small birds, the largest scarcely exceeding a thrush in size, and the average length being about 6 inches. They are remarkable even among tropical birds for the brilliancy and variety of the plumage, in Euphonia elegant is sima , male. one or both sexes. The Tanagridæ are closely related to the finches ( Fringillid a ), and some of them have the bill as stout as that of a bullfinch; in other cases the bill is slender and acute, approaching that of the American warblers and guitguits ( Mniotiltidæ and Cærebidæ ). In some instances the bill is strongly notched, and even toothed. The family has never been satisfactorily defined, and is probably insusceptible of exact technical delimitation. It includes several hundred species, of numerous genera. It is divided by Sclater into Procniatinæ, Euphon i in a, Tanagrinæ, Lamprotinæ, Phœnicophilinæ, and Pitylinæ. See cuts under Phœnicophilus, Procnias, Salt at or, Stepha nophorus, tanager, Tanagra, and cashew - bird. Tanagrinæ (tan-ā-gri'nē), n. pl. [NL., tanagrine (tan'ā-grin), a. and n. [ II. n. A member of the Tanagridæ . tanagroid (tan'ā-groid), a . [ Tanagra + -oid .] Resembling a tanager; related to the Tanagri dæ ; tanagrine.