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noun

An adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods.

Any of several weedy vetches grown for forage.

Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous. Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, darnel, Lolium temulentum.

The weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo.

(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

... letters made a signification of King Arthur. Right so there came an horrible leopard and an old, and there they fought long, and did great battle together. And at the last the dragon spit out of his mouth as it had been an hundred dragons; and lightly all the small dragons slew the old dragon and tare him ...

— Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) - King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table • Thomas Malory

... are deductions usually made from the gross weight of goods. Tare is the weight of the case or covering, box, or such-like, containing the goods; deducting this the net weight is left. Tret is a further allowance (not now so commonly deducted) made at the rate of 4 lb. for every 104 lb. for ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... "Tare an' ages," Mike exclaimed, "but that was nately managed. Who would have thought that they would have let us give them the ...

— In the Irish Brigade - A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain • G. A. Henty

... Flash was his mother's joy, He seemed to her the magic alloy That made her glad, When her heart was sad, With the thought that "she lived for her darling boy." His dear good mother wasn't aware How her darling boy relished a "tare."— She said "one night He gave her a fright By coming home late and ...

— The Complete Works • James Whitcomb Riley

... asked the young lady, the school-teacher, if tare and tret were in her arithmetic? Upon her saying 'yes, in the older books,' he told her that there was, seemingly, a good deal of tare and tret in God's providence, when accomplishing his great purposes; and that to fix the mind inordinately on evils and miseries incident to a great system ...

— The Sable Cloud - A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) • Nehemiah Adams

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