tartan (tartan)

[Formerly also tartane; IMG:content-2878.jpg:[ocr errors] ταρίτης, in the Medi terrane an for commercial and other poses. It is pur Tartan. furnished with a single mast, on which is rigged a large lateen sail, and with a bowsprit and foresail. When the wind is aft a square sail may be hoisted. On the twelfth of December, 1699, I set out from Marseilles to Genoa in a Tartane , and arrived late at a small French port called Ca is. Add is on , Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bohn, I. 358). tartar1 (tär'tär), n. [OF. (also F.) tartre = Pr. Pg. It. tartaro , tartar i = Sp. tártaro = tartarum, MGr. τάρταρον, tartar incrusting the sides of casks; appar. so called for some fanciful reason, Tartarous as an emetic, purgative, diaphoretic, sedative, febrifuge, and counter-irritant. - Tartar-emetic ointment. See ointment.