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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TARE, n. [I know not the origin of this word. See the next word.]
1. A weed that grows among corn.
Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13.
2. In agriculture, a plant of the vetch kind, of which there are two sorts, the purple flowered spring or summer tare, and the purple-flowered wild or winter tare. It is much cultivated in England for fodder.
TARE, n.
1. In commerce, deficiency in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag or other thing containing the commodity, and which is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity from the weight or quantity of a commodity sold in a cask, chest, bag or the like, which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, chest or bag; or the abatement may be on the price of the commodity sold. When the tare is deducted, the remainder is called the net or neat weight.
TARE, v.t. To ascertain or mark the amount of tare.
TARE, old pret. of tear. WE now use tore.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
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 [syn: darnel, tare, bearded darnel, cheat, 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

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English; probably akin to Middle Dutch tarwe wheat Date: 14th century 1. a. the seed of a vetch b. any of several vetches (especially Vicia sativa and V. hirsuta) 2. a weed of grain fields especially of Biblical times that is usually held to be the darnel 3. plural an undesirable element II. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Old Italian tara, from Arabic ?ar?a, literally, that which is removed Date: 15th century 1. a deduction from the gross weight of a substance and its container made in allowance for the weight of the container; also the weight of the container 2. counterweight III. transitive verb (tared; taring) Date: 1812 to ascertain or mark the tare of; especially to weigh so as to determine the tare

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 vetch, esp. as corn-weed or fodder. 2 (in pl.) Bibl. an injurious corn-weed (Matt.
13:24-30). Etymology: ME: orig. unkn. 2. n. 1 an allowance made for the weight of the packing or wrapping around goods. 2 the weight of a motor vehicle without its fuel or load. Phrases and idioms: tare and tret the arithmetical rule for computing a tare. Etymology: ME f. F, = deficiency, tare, f. med.L tara f. Arab. tarha what is rejected f. taraha reject

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tare Tare, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tared; p. pr. & vb. n. Taring.] To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tare Tare, obs. imp. of Tear. Tore.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

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