tapshackledt (tapshak"ld)

Drunk. Being truly tapp - shackled , mistook the window for the dore. Healey , Disc. of New World, p. 82. ( Nares .) tapsman (taps'man), n.; pl. tapsmen (-men). A servant who has principal charge and direction: as, the tapsman of a drove. [Scotch.] tapster (tap's ter), n. [ tapstere , tappe stere, He knew the tavernes wel in every toun, And everich hostiler and tappestere . Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 241. A forlorn tapster , or some frothy fellow, That stinks of stale beer. Beau, and Fl., Captain, ii. 1. tapsterlyt (tap's ter-li), a. [ They count it a great peece of arte in an inkhorne man, in anie tapster lie tearmes whatsoeuer, to oppose his super i ours to enuie. Nashe, Int. to Greene's Menaphon (ed. Arber), p. 9. tar and us Rubrik and taar wormes & anntes sleth. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 215. She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch. Shak., Tempest, ii. 2. 54. Wood tar, known also as Stockholm and as Archangel tar, is principally prepared in the great pine forests of central and northern Ru ia, Finland, and Sweden. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 57. Barbados tar, a commercial name for petroleum or mineral tar found in some of the West Indian islands. See petroleum. - Mineral tar. See mineral.- Oil of tar. See oil. - Rangoon tar. See the quotation. Burmese naphtha or Rangoon tar is obtained by sinking wells about 60 feet deep in the soil; the fluid gradually oozes in from the soil, and is removed as soon as the quantity accumulated is sufficient. Ure, Dict., III. 398. Saccharated tar. See saccharated . - Tar bandage, an antiseptic bandage made by saturating a roller bandage, after application, with a mixture of 1 part of olive oil and 20 parts of tar. - Tar beer, a mixture composed of 2 pints of bran, 1 pint of tar, pint of honey, and 6 pints of water. - Tar ointment. See ointment. - Tar water. See tar water. tart (tär), v. t.; pret. and pp. tarred, ppr. tar ing. [ME. terren (= D. teren = MLG. teren = G. theeren = Sw. tjära = Dan. tjære ), tar, IMG:content-2860.png:[blocks in formation] To tar and feather (a person), to pour heated tar over him and then cover him with feathers. This mode of punishment is as old at least as the crusades; it is a kind of mob vengeance still applied, or said to be applied, to obnoxious persons in some parts of the United States. "Concerning the lawes and ordinances appointed by K. Richard [I.] for his Nauie [an. 1189], the forme thereof was this. Item, a thiefe or felon that hath stollen, being Heywood , Fair Maid of the West (Works, ed. 1874, II. 269), lawfully conuicted, shal haue his head shorne, and boyl- tapstre t (tap's tres), n. [ tapster + -e .] A female tapster. IMG:content-2861.png:[blocks in formation] A cup of small tapworte . behind the little bed, came out, with great appearance of joy, to greet the return of the youth. Scott, Castle Dangerous, xi.