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Tare

noun
1.
An adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods.
2.
Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.
3.
Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous.  Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, darnel, Lolium temulentum.
4.
The weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo.
5.
(chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals.



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"Tare" Quotes from Famous Books



... with our own toil, We, Cadmus' daughters! Not with leathern-set Thessalian javelins, not with hunter's net, Only white arms and swift hands' bladed fall Why make ye much ado, and boast withal Your armourers' engines? See, these palms were bare That caught the angry beast, and held, and tare The limbs of him! ... Father! ... Go, bring to me My father! ... Aye, and Pentheus, where is he, My son? He shall set up a ladder-stair Against this house, and in the triglyphs there Nail me this lion's ...
— Hippolytus/The Bacchae • Euripides
... he was a bad parishioner, a bunch of tare in the field of God, a scabby sheep in the flock of ...
— The Grip of Desire • Hector France
... "Tare-an-ounds!" I cried, clenching my fists and making for the door; but Lady Mary rattled it so I could not be heard, and the next instant she placed her snow-flake hand across my mouth, which was as pleasant ...
— The O'Ruddy - A Romance • Stephen Crane
... the hostile shore, Devouring dogs and greedy vultures tare, Since first Atrides and Achilles strove; Such was the sovereign doom, and such ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes - Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II • Samuel Johnson
... unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him grievously; and he fell on the ground, and ...
— His Life - A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels • William E. Barton, Theodore G. Soares, Sydney Strong


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