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Tartarian

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Tar`ta´ri`an
a.1.Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.
Tartarian lamb
(Bot.) Scythian lamb. See Barometz.
n.1.(Bot.) The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian.


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In this interval the poor Chinese came in who had lost the camel, but he had no weapon; however, seeing the Tartar down, and his horse fallen upon him, away he runs to him, and seizing upon an ugly weapon he had by his side, something like a pole-axe, he wrenched it from him, and made shift to knock his Tartarian brains out with it.
-- Another retiring gentleman, with a brimstone belly, doubtless got by scraping along the Tartarian tiles in some of his profounder divings.
 
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