Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tattooing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tattoo \Tat*too"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tattooed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Tattooing}.] [Of Polynesian origin; cf. New Zealand ta to
tattoo, tatu puncturation (in Otaheite).]
To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as
to form marks or figures which can not be washed out.
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