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tanning
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tan \Tan\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tanned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tanning .] [F. tanner, LL. tannare. See Tan , n.] To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "process of tanning leather," verbal noun from tan (v.). Intransitive sense "process of getting suntan" is from 1944.
Usage examples of tanning.
While Moria chattered away about the merits of various tanning preparations, Lusena was positive that the Rowan must be making some bizarre internal adjustments for in the space of about fifteen minutes, she acquired a nice sun-burnishing.
Bear Claw, the Miwok medicine man, had overseen the tanning of the hide.
There developed a variety of crafts in the cities, like shipbuilding and tanning, and traditional production in the surrounding areas, especially of wine, olive oil, salt and fish, both fresh and salted.
I still had a nice glow, thanks to the tanning bed at Bon Temps Video Rental.
Her prodigious research, begun in 1977, has led her to prehistoric sites in Europe to add to her firsthand knowledge of such arts as flint knapping, the construction of snow caves, tanning hides, and gathering and preparing wild foods and medicinal plants and herbs.
In the same way the use of the mill proliferated to other uses, from beer-making in 861, through tanning in 1138, paper-milling in 1276, to the blast furnace in 1384.
But it was good to be in the sun, anyway, the heat on my skin, drying me, tanning me around the middle where I was fishbelly white.
Their power drove mills for tanning and laundering, sawing wood, pressing olive oil, casting iron, mashing malt for beer and pulp for paper and pigment for paints, operating fullers’ vats for finishing woolen cloth, bellows for blast furnaces, hydraulic hammers for foundries, and wheels for grindstones used by armorers.
But I've been drinking close to twenty liters of Evian water a day and going to the tanning salon regularly and one night of binging hasn't affected my skin's smoothness or color tone.
Like Acacia arabica, the wood-extract of this species has, however, a larger field in the tanning industry than in medicine.
Ultraviolet light, which causes both erythema (sunburn) and tanning, ranges in wavelength from 4,000 angstrom units (A) down to about 100A.
As for livestock, the tending, slaughtering, and butchering of animals would have to be supplemented by shearing, tanning of hides, and harvesting of other useful animal products.
Arkady sorted quickly through the post for the doctors: medical journals and advertisements for car care and tanning salons.
Side by side with diggers and angels in the fields, out gathering in the forest, building fences and walls, gleaning and weeding, planting and harvesting, tanning hides and tooling leather, carding wool and spinning it into yarn-where in all this activity was there a moment when they needed to read something?
Side by side with diggers and angels in the fields, out gathering in the forest, building fences and walls, gleaning and weeding, planting and harvesting, tanning hides and tooling leather, carding wool and spinning it into yarnwhere in all this activity was there a moment when they needed to read something?