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tartarum

tartarum [cf. Med. Gk. τάρταρον], bitartrate of potash, deposited during fermentation of wine and adhering to the sides of casks as a hard crust, argol, tartar. hoc ‥ balneum ‥ confectione quadam sulphuris et nigri salis et ~i Greg. Mir. Rom. 10; accipiebant de isto allumine rubeo et ‥ semine amborum arsenicorum sulphuris ~i talci cinabrii omnium ‥ et ex ipso extrahebant lunam pretiosam M. Scot Lumen 256; ~um est vini feculentia in modum crete vel mollis lapidis circa partes dolei indurata ‥ valet contra scabiem ‥ virtutem enim habet extenuandi, consumendi, mundificandi et laxandi Bart. Angl. XVI 99; ~um fex est vini tam albi quam rubei que doleo coheret et alio nomine dicitur petra vini SB 41; corrosiva sunt arsenicum sublimatum ‥ et realgar repressum et ~um et calx viva Gad. 127. 1; wyne draggis or lye, ~um PP; wyne lees, ~um, vinacium CathA.

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