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Taw [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A marble to be played with.

Taw [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To dress white leather or alum leather; to dress and prepare skins in white, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats and kids, for gloves and the like.

Taw [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Tow.

2. A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles.

3. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.

Taw [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To push; to tug; to tow.

2. To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge.

3. To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.

Tawdries [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tawdrily [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a tawdry manner.

Tawdrily [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a tawdry manner.

Tawdriness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Tinsel in dress; excessive finery; ostentatious finery without elegance.

2. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress.

Tawdriness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Quality or state of being tawdry.

Tawdry [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Very fine and showy in colors without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; as a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.

2. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers.

Tawdry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A slight ornament.

Tawdry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A necklace of a rural fashion, bought at St. Audrey's fair; hence, a necklace in general.

Tawdry [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.

2. Very fine and showy in colors, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors.

Tawed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Dressed and made white, as leather.

Tawed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tawer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A dresser of white leather.

Tawer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who taws; a dresser of white leather.

Tawery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A place where skins are tawed.

Tawing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The art and operation of preparing skins and forming them into white leather.

Tawing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Dressing, as white leather.

Tawing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tawing Encyclopedia Britannica

TAWING. See Leather.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 23, p. 85
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Tawniness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being tawny.

Tawny [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Of a yellowish dark color, like things tanned, or persons who are sun-burnt; as a tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny sons of Numidia; the tawny lion.

Tawny [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of a dull yellowish brown color, like things tanned, or persons who are sunburnt; as, tawny Moor or Spaniard; the tawny lion.

Taws [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster.