intransitive verb. To convert (an animal hide) into leather by subjecting it to a chemical process that stabilizes the proteins, making it less susceptible to decay.

intransitive verb. To make (a person or a person's skin) darker by exposure to the sun.

intransitive verb. To thrash; beat.

intransitive verb. To become darker from exposure to the sun.

noun. A light or moderate yellowish brown to brownish orange.

noun. A suntan.

noun. Tanbark.

noun. undefined

noun. Tannin.

noun. A solution derived from tannin.

adjective. Light or moderate yellowish-brown to brownish-orange.

adjective. Having a suntan.

adjective. Used in or relating to tanning.

abbreviation. tangent

noun. A twig, or small switch.

noun. Same as fan-tan.

noun. An abbreviation of tangent.

noun. The term is often used to mean spent bark which has served for the manufacture of leather and is spread over streets to deaden the sound of vehicles, or over the floor of a riding-school or circus to diminish the danger of falls, or applied to clay land as a loosening material. It is also commonly used as fuel in tanneries.

noun. A Chinese unit of weight, a picul, equal to 133⅛ pounds avoirdupois.

noun. A Japanese measure of surface, equal to .245 of an acre.

noun. An obsolete Middle English contraction of taken, old infinitive or past participle of take.

noun. A Middle English contraction of to an.

To prepare, as skins of animals, by soaking in some liquid containing tannic acid, which is generally obtained from the bark of some tree, oak-bark being commonly thought to be the best.

By extension, to convert into leather by other means, as by the use of mineral salts (as those of iron and chromium), and even of oil or fat, as in the case of buckskin, chamois, and the like. See leather, taw, 2.

To make brown; embrown by exposure to the rays of the sun.

To deprive of the freshness of youth; impair the freshness and beauty of.

To beat; flog; thrash.

In the manufacture of so-called artificial marble, or an imitation of marble made from a mixture of gelatin and gum, to render (cast slabs of the mixture) hard and insoluble by steeping in a suitable preparation. See tannage, 3.

To treat with some hardening process as a preservation from rot, as fish-nets.

To be or become tanned: as, the leather tans easily.

To become tan-colored or tawny: as, the face tans in the sun.

noun. The bark of the oak, willow, chestnut, larch, hemlock, spruce, and other trees abounding in tannin, bruised and broken by a mill, and used for tanning hides.

noun. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan: as, gloves of gray or tan.

noun. An embrowning of the skin by exposure to the sun.

Of the color of tan, or of a color approaching that of tan; yellowish-brown.

adjective. Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.

adjective. See under Black, a.

intransitive verb. To get or become tanned.

noun. See picul.

noun. 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.

noun. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.

noun. A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun.

noun. a bed made of tan; a bark bed.

noun. the liquor used in tanning leather.

noun. a spud used in stripping bark for tan from trees.

noun. See Bark stove, under Bark.

noun. a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun.

transitive verb. To thrash or beat; to flog; to switch.

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Colours  black and tan  flowers of tan  spent tan  tanned pelt  

chromatic  

tannic acid  tannin  

Black and Tan  catch a tan  tan line  tan oak  tan someone's hide  

circular function  hyperpigmentation  light brown  trigonometric function  

An  Ann  Anne  Ariane  Bhutan  

Apo  anyrwpoiv  auta  bhvita  blepomena  

arrange  beige  bronze  brown  brownish  

picul  tan bark  tanned  tanner  tannest  

tanned  tanning  tans