Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tare"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tear \Tear\ (t[^a]r), v. t. [imp. {Tore} (t[=o]r), ((Obs.
{Tare}) (t[^a]r); p. p. {Torn} (t[=o]rn); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tearing}.] [OE. teren, AS. teran; akin to OS. farterian to
destroy, D. teren to consume, G. zerren to pull, to tear,
zehren to consume, Icel. t[ae]ra, Goth. gata['i]ran to
destroy, Lith. dirti to flay, Russ. drate to pull, to tear,
Gr. de`rein to flay, Skr. dar to burst. [root]63. Cf. {Darn},
{Epidermis}, {Tarre}, {Tirade}.]
1. To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend;
to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear
the skin or flesh.
Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator. --Shak.
2. Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend;
as, a party or government torn by factions.
3. To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to
sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
The hand of fate Hath torn thee from me. --Addison.
4. To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
5. To move violently; to agitate. ``Once I loved torn ocean's
roar.'' --Byron.
{To tear a cat}, to rant violently; to rave; -- especially
applied to theatrical ranting. [Obs.] --Shak.
{To tear down}, to demolish violently; to pull or pluck down.
{To tear off}, to pull off by violence; to strip.
{To tear out}, to pull or draw out by violence; as, to tear
out the eyes.
{To tear up}, to rip up; to remove from a fixed state by
violence; as, to tear up a floor; to tear up the
foundation of government or order.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tare \Tare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Taring}.]
To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tare \Tare\, n. [Cf. Prov. E. tare brisk, eager, OE. tarefitch
the wild vetch.]
1. A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged
by modern naturalists to be the {Lolium temulentum}, or
darnel.
Didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From
whence then hath it tares? --Matt. xiii.
27.
The ``darnel'' is said to be the tares of Scripture,
and is the only deleterious species belonging to the
whole order. --Baird.
2. (Bot.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous
herbs of the genus {Vicia}; especially, the {V. sativa},
sometimes grown for fodder.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tare \Tare\, obs. imp. of {Tear}.
Tore.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tare \Tare\, n. [F. tare; cf. Pr., Sp., Pg., & It. tara; all fr.
Ar. tarah thrown away, removed, fr. taraha to reject,
remove.] (Com.)
Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of
the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the
commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or
abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller
makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask,
bag, etc.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
tare
n 1: any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
2: weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other
cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
[syn: {darnel}, {bearded darnel}, {cheat}, {Lolium
temulentum}]
3: counterweight consisting of an empty container that is used
as a counterbalance to obtain net weight
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