<B>tanker plane,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an airplane equipped with large tanks to carry fuel. <BR> <I>Ex. The Air Force announced ... that it had converted a B-47 jet bomber into a tanker plane capable of refueling other B-47's in flight (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tankfarm">
<B>tank farm,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of storage tanks around an oil field or refinery. </DL>
<A NAME="tankfarming">
<B>tank farming,</B> =hydroponics.</DL>
<A NAME="tankful">
<B>tankful, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fuls.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> as much as a tank will hold. <BR> <I>Ex. Florists sometimes release tankfuls of carbon dioxide in greenhouses to promote plant growth (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tankie">
<B>tankie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Naval Slang.) an officer or sailor in charge of the freshwater tanks; captain of the hold. </DL>
<A NAME="tankless">
<B>tankless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without a tank. <BR> <I>Ex. a tankless toilet.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tanklocomotive">
<B>tank locomotive,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a railway engine carrying fuel and water itself, not in a separate tender. </DL>
<A NAME="tankman">
<B>tankman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a tank crew. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=tankie.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tankrunner">
<B>tank runner,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a jacana of Indonesia, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and surrounding areas with a tail like a pheasant's that lives near watering places and marshes. </DL>
<B>tank station,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a place with tanks, especially to supply water to railroad engines. </DL>
<A NAME="tanksuit">
<B>tank suit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a one-piece bathing suit for women, of a type popular in the 1920's. </DL>
<A NAME="tanktop">
<B>tank top,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) an upper garment with wide shoulder straps, similar to the tops of one-piece bathing suits. <BR> <I>Ex. a tall, pretty ballerina dressed in a purple tank top and baggy rubber warm-up pants ... (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 1. </B>(Nautical.) the plating that forms the inner bottom of a ship, creating a watertight space above the outer bottom. </DL>
<A NAME="tanktown">
<B>tank town,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a small town where trains stop mainly to get water. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) any small town; hick town. adj. <B>tank-town.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tanktrailer">
<B>tank trailer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a trailer for transporting liquid cargoes, such as oil, milk, or chemicals. </DL>
<A NAME="tanktrap">
<B>tank trap,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a number of obstacles, such as concrete blocks, ditches, and mines, put up to stop tanks. </DL>
<A NAME="tanktruck">
<B>tank truck,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a truck for carrying liquids. <BR> <I>Ex. an oil tank truck, a milk tank truck.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tankwagon">
<B>tankwagon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tank truck for transporting liquid cargoes. </DL>
<A NAME="tankwaste">
<B>tank waste,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the insoluble sediment from the dissolving tanks in alkali works. </DL>
<A NAME="tankworm">
<B>tankworm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a parasitic nematode worm found in the mud in India, probably the young of the Guinea worm. </DL>
<A NAME="tanna">
<B>tanna, </B>noun, pl. <B>tannaim.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of the Jewish scholars whose teachings are found in the Mishnah. The tannaim lived about 10-200 A.D. Also, <B>tana.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tannable">
<B>tannable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be tanned. </DL>
<A NAME="tannadar">
<B>tannadar, </B>noun. =tanadar.</DL>
<A NAME="tannage">
<B>tannage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or process of tanning hides. <DD><B> 2. </B>the result of tanning; material which has been tanned. <DD><B> 3. </B>a browning of the skin; tan. <BR> <I>Ex. They should have got his cheek fresh tannage (Robert Browning).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Scottish.) a tannery. </DL>
<A NAME="tannaim">
<B>tannaim, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of <B>tanna.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tannaite">
<B>tannaite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the tannaim; tanna. </DL>
<A NAME="tannaitic">
<B>tannaitic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with the tannaim. <DD><B> 2. </B>like the tannaim. </DL>
<A NAME="tannate">
<B>tannate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a salt or ester of tannic acid. </DL>
<A NAME="tanned">
<B>tanned, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(of a hide) made into leather. <DD><B> 2. </B>made brown by the sun or wind. <DD><B> 3. </B>reddish-brown; tawny color. </DL>
<A NAME="tanner">
<B>tanner</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person whose work is making hides into leather by tanning them. <DD><B> 2. </B>a chemical substance applied to the skin to produce a tan. </DL>
<A NAME="tanner">
<B>tanner</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) a sixpence. </DL>
<A NAME="tanners">
<B>tanner's</B> or <B>tanners' bark,</B> =tanbark.</DL>
<A NAME="tannerssumac">
<B>tanners' sumac,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a European sumac whose leaves and shoots are dried and chopped for tanning. Also, <B>tanning sumac.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tannerstree">
<B>tanners' tree,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a low deciduous shrub of southern Europe used in tanning. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=tanners' sumac.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tannery">
<B>tannery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-neries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a place where hides are tanned; tanyard. </DL>
<A NAME="tannhauser">
<B>Tannhauser, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (German Legend.) knight and poet who, after a time of wicked pleasure, was refused pardon by the pope. </DL>
<A NAME="tannic">
<B>tannic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or like tannin. <DD><B> 2. </B>derived from tanbark. </DL>
<A NAME="tannicacid">
<B>tannic acid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the white, amorphous, strongly astringent principle derived from nutgalls. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various other astringent organic substances, especially the principle derived from oak bark. </DL>
<A NAME="tannier">
<B>tannier, </B>noun. =tania.</DL>
<A NAME="tanniferous">
<B>tanniferous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> containing or yielding tannin. </DL>
<A NAME="tannin">
<B>tannin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a vegetable acid, especially common tannin, the whitish tannic acid obtained from the bark or galls of oaks and from certain other plants. Tannis is used in tanning, dyeing, and making ink, and in medicine. adj. <B>tanninlike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tanning">
<B>tanning, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the work, process, or art of converting hides or skins into leather. <BR> <I>Ex. True tanning, as opposed to curing with animal fats, is limited to the Old World and to the technologically more advanced cultures (Beals and Hoijer).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the action of making or an instance of becoming brown by exposure to the sun. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) a beating; thrashing; whipping; flogging. </DL>
<A NAME="tanningbooth">
<B>tanning booth,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small enclosure with ultraviolet lamps for producing a tan. <BR> <I>Ex. A man is much better off using a bronzer instead of a tanning booth during the winter months because of the cancer hazards of ultraviolet radiation (New York Times Magazine).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tanninglycerol">
<B>tannin glycerol,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> glycerin of tannic acid. </DL>
<A NAME="tanningsumac">
<B>tanning sumac,</B> =tanners' sumac.</DL>
<A NAME="tannoy">
<B>tannoy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a public-address system. <BR> <I>Ex. It was just one of the hundreds of routine messages broadcast daily over the tannoy of any international airport (Manchester Guardian).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tanoak">
<B>tan oak,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an oak that yields tanbark. </DL>
<A NAME="tanoan">
<B>Tanoan, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a family of American Indian languages spoken in northern New Mexico. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with this family of languages. </DL>
<A NAME="tanrec">
<B>tanrec, </B>noun. =tenrec.</DL>
<A NAME="tansy">
<B>tansy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-sies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a coarse, strong-smelling, bitter-tasting plant with notched, divided leaves and clusters of small, yellow flowers. Tansy belongs to the composite family. It was formerly much used as a seasoning and in medicine as a stomachic. <BR> <I>Ex. Equally vivid along the road and in winter bouquets is the pungent herb called tansy (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any other plant of the same genus. <DD><B> 3. </B>any one of various other plants, such as the silverweed. <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=tansy ragwort.</B> <DD><B> 5. </B>a cake or pudding flavored with tansy. <BR><I>expr. <B>like a tansy,</B> </I>(Archaic.) perfectly. <BR> <I>Ex. I would work ... like a horse, and make fortifications for you ... like a tansy (Laurence Sterne).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tansyragwort">
<B>tansy ragwort,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a toxic weed of the composite family native to Europe and naturalized in North America, poisonous to cattle; felonweed. </DL>
<A NAME="tantalate">
<B>tantalate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a salt of tantalic acid. </DL>
<A NAME="tantalean">
<B>tantalean</B> or <B>tantalian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with Tantalus. <DD><B> 2. </B>like that of Tantalus; tantalizing. </DL>
<A NAME="tantalic">
<B>tantalic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with tantalum. <DD><B> 2. </B>containing tantalum, especially with a valence of five. </DL>
<A NAME="tantalicacid">
<B>tantalic acid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a colorless, crystalline acid, known mainly in the form of its salts, the tantalates. </DL>
<B>tantalite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a rare, heavy, black crystalline mineral with a submetallic luster, iron tantalate, rarely found without manganese or niobium. It is the chief ore of tantalum. </DL>
