Tartan

A pattern cloth of different colors, printed side by side and cro ways, forming the well known checkered pattern. Each clan in Scotland nas its own pattern. Tartar. — A word used in the French army to distinguish officers' servants and batmen from the soldiers who serve in the ranks. Tartar likewise means a groom. -In the East Indies, a kind of drum, formed of a hemisphere of copper, hollowed out and covered with goat-skin. It is tans.hung before from the shoulders, and beat with two rat Taskwork. — Work done as a task. For instructional purposes, taskwork may be found better than time-work; but in the presence of the enemy, men must work to the utmost limit of. their powers during the whole of the time for which they are detailed for duty with a relief.