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