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Definition of Tan

Tan
Tan Tan, v. t. To thrash or beat; to flog; to switch. [Colloq.]
Tan
Tan Tan, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tanned; p. pr. & vb. n. Tanning.] [F. tanner, LL. tannare. See Tan, n.] 1. To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water. Note: The essential result in tanning is due to the fact that the tannins form, with gelatins and albuminoids, a series of insoluble compounds which constitute leather. Similar results may be produced by the use of other reagents in place of tannin, as alum, and some acids or chlorides, which are employed in certain processes of tanning. 2. To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
Tan
Tan Tan, n. [Chin.] See Picul.
Tan
Tan Tan, n. [F. tan, perhaps fr. Armor. tann an oak, oak bar; or of Teutonic origin; cf. G. tanne a fir, OHG. tanna a fir, oak, MHG. tan a forest. Cf. Tawny.] 1. The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark. 2. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan. 3. A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan. Tan bed (Hort.), a bed made of tan; a bark bed. Tan pickle, the liquor used in tanning leather. Tan spud, a spud used in stripping bark for tan from trees. Tan stove. See Bark stove, under Bark. Tan vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.
Tan
Tan Tan, a. Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown. Black and tan. See under Black, a.
Tan
Tan Tan, v. i. To get or become tanned.

Meaning of Tan from wikipedia

- Look up tan or TAN in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tan or TAN may refer to: Black and Tans, a nickname for British special constables during the Irish...
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- Tan is a pale tone of brown. The name is derived from tannum (oak bark) used in the tanning of leather. The first recorded use of tan as a color name...
- nitride (TaN) is a chemical compound, a nitride of tantalum. There are multiple phases of compounds, stoichimetrically from Ta2N to Ta3N5, including TaN. As...
- Tan-1, TAN-1, tan-1, or tan−1 may refer to: tan−1y = tan−1(x), sometimes interpreted as arctan(x) or arctangent of x, the compositional inverse of the...
- Tan Tan may refer to: Tan-Tan Province, in southern Morocco Tan-Tan, a city in Morocco Tan-tan, a small drum Eddie Thornton, Jamaican trumpeter known by...
- A tan line is a visually clear division on the human skin between an area of pronounced comparative paleness relative to other areas that have been suntanned...
- Tân An is the capital city of Long An Province in Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. It was upgraded from town status to city status on 26 August 2009. The...