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tare |
6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tear \Tear\ (t[^a]r), v. t. [imp. {Tore} (t[=o]r), ((Obs. {Tare}) (t[^a]r); p. p. {Torn} (t[=o]rn); p. pr & vb n. {Tearing}.] [OE. teren, AS teran; akin to OS farterian to destroy, D. teren to consume, G. zerren to pull to tear, zehren to consume, Icel. t[ae]ra, Goth. gata['i]ran to destroy, Lith. dirti to flay, Russ. drate to pull to tear, Gr de`rein to flay, Skr. dar to burst. [root]63. Cf {Darn}, {Epidermis}, {Tarre}, {Tirade}.] 1. To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh. Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator. --Shak. 2. Hence to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as a party or government torn by factions. 3. To rend away to force away to remove by force; to sunder; as a child torn from its home. The hand of fate Hath torn thee from me --Addison. 4. To pull with violence; as to tear the hair. 5. To move violently; to agitate. ``Once I loved torn ocean's roar.'' --Byron. {To tear a cat}, to rant violently; to rave; -- especially applied to theatrical ranting. [Obs.] --Shak. {To tear down}, to demolish violently; to pull or pluck down {To tear off}, to pull off by violence; to strip. {To tear out}, to pull or draw out by violence; as to tear out the eyes. {To tear up}, to rip up to remove from a fixed state by violence; as to tear up a floor; to tear up the foundation of government or order From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tare \Tare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tared}; p. pr & vb n. {Taring}.] To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tare \Tare\, n. [Cf. Prov. E. tare brisk, eager, OE tarefitch the wild vetch.] 1. A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern naturalists to be the {Lolium temulentum}, or darnel. Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares? --Matt. xiii. 27. The ``darnel'' is said to be the tares of Scripture, and is the only deleterious species belonging to the whole order --Baird. 2. (Bot.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus {Vicia}; especially, the {V. sativa}, sometimes grown for fodder. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tare \Tare\, obs. imp. of {Tear}. Tore. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tare \Tare\, n. [F. tare; cf Pr., Sp., Pg., & It tara; all fr Ar tarah thrown away removed, fr taraha to reject, remove.] (Com.) Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it hence the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tare n 1: any of several weedy vetches grown for forage 2: weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous [syn: {darnel}, {bearded darnel}, {cheat}, {Lolium temulentum}] 3: empty container used as a counterbalance to obtain net weight
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