tavers, taivers (taverz)

pl. [Origin obscure.] Tatters. (Scotch.] They don't know how to cook yonder they have no gout - they boil the meat to tavers, and mak' sauce o' the brue to other dishes. Galt, The Steamboat, p. 288. (Jamie son.) tavert, taivert (tā'vert), a. [Origin obscure.] 1. Stupid; confused; sensele . Galt. -2. Stu pefied with drink; intoxicated. Galt. [Scotch in both senses.] tawl (ta), v. t. [Early mod. E. tawe, tewe; Sp. Pg. a - taviar, dre , adorn). From this root are also ult. E. team, teem1, tool, tow2. Cf. tew1.] 1. To work, dre , or prepare (some raw material) for use or for further manipulation. And whilst that they did nimbly spin, The hempe he needs must taw . Robin Goodfellow , p. 28. ( Hall i well .) Especially-2. To make (hides) into leather, specifically by soaking them, after cleaning, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary taw a solution of alum and salt. See leather, tan ning. We much maruel what you mean to buy Seale skins and tanne them. If you send 100 of them tawed with the haire on, they will bee solde, or else not. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 307. Frank. He's to be made more tractable, I doubt not. Clara. Yes, if they taw him, as they do whit-leather, Upon an iron, or beat him soft like stock-fish. Beau, and Fl., Captain, iii. 3. 3t. To harden or make tough. His knuckles knobde, his flesh deepe dinted in, 6201 which is gaudy challenges the eye by brilliant color or combinations of colors, but is not in good taste.