Tar

tar, n. a viscous, liquid, resinous substance of 610 f , fir; mC, h4r; mine; Tartar us a dark colour, obtained from pine-trees a sailor, so called from his tarred clothes. v.t. to smear with, tar pr.p. tanking Pad. and pa.p. tarred. [A.S. teru cog. with Low Ger. tir.) Tarantula, tar-an'tQ-la, «. a kind of poisonous spider found in S. Italy. [It. tar art to i a--L>, i arettium, a town in S. Italy where the spider abounds.]