Cream of tartar. (Chem.) See under Cream.Tartar emetic(Med. Chem.), a double tartrate of potassium and basic antimony. It is a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweetish metallic taste, and used in medicine as a sudorific and emetic.

Tartar
(Tar"tar) n.

1. [Per. Tatar, of Tartar origin.] A native or inhabitant of Tartary in Asia; a member of any one of numerous tribes, chiefly Moslem, of Turkish origin, inhabiting the Russian Europe; — written also, more correctly but less usually, Tatar.

2. A person of a keen, irritable temper.

To catch a tartar, to lay hold of, or encounter, a person who proves too strong for the assailant. [Colloq.]

Tartar
(Tar"tar), a. Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.

Tartar
(Tar"tar), n. [Cf. F. tartare.] See Tartarus. Shak.

2. A correction which often incrusts the teeth, consisting of salivary mucus, animal matter, and phosphate of lime.


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