Definition of tang

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Tang (n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock..

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Object :: Object (v. t.) That which is put, or which may be regarded as put, in the way of some of the senses; something visible or tangible; as, he observed an object in the distance; all the objects in sight; he touched a strange object in the dark..
Tang :: Tang (v. t.) To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
Extricate :: Extricate (v. t.) To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc..
Contango :: Contango (n.) The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day..
Enmesh :: Enmesh (v. t.) To catch or entangle in, or as in, meshes..
Spatangus :: Spatangus (n.) A genus of heart-shaped sea urchins belonging to the Spatangoidea.
Noli-me-tangere :: Noli-me-tangere (n.) A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose..
Indicatrix :: Indicatrix (n.) A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic..
Ourang :: Ourang (n.) The orang-outang.
Micraster :: Micraster (n.) A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows..
Mesologarithm :: Mesologarithm (n.) A logarithm of the cosine or cotangent.
Dangleberry :: Dangleberry (n.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward..
Untwist :: Untwist (v. t.) To untie; to open; to disentangle.
Semita :: Semita (n.) A fasciole of a spatangoid sea urchin.
Tang :: Tang (n.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
Synclinal :: Synclastic (a.) Curved toward the same side in all directions; -- said of surfaces which in all directions around any point bend away from a tangent plane toward the same side, as the surface of a sphere; -- opposed to anticlastic..
Backwardation :: Backwardation (n.) The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango..
Complexity :: Complexity (n.) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
Immersed :: Immersed (p. p. & a.) Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.
Tang :: Tang (n.) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
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