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noun

Tang n. (Bot.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fucus nodosus).

Tang sparrow (Zool.), the rock pipit. (Prov. Eng.)

Tang n.

A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.

Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang. "Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny." "A cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics."

A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position. Specifically:

(a)

The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.

(b)

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

(c)

The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.

(d)

The tongue of a buckle. (Prov. Eng.)

Tang n. A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.

Tang n. A dynasty in Chinese history, from a. d. 618 to 905, distinguished by the founding of the Imperial Academy (the Hanlin), by the invention of printing, and as marking a golden age of literature.

verb

Tang v. t. (past & past part. tanged; pres. part. tanging) To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring. "Let thy tongue tang arguments of state."

To tang bees, to cause a swarm of bees to settle, by beating metal to make a din.

Tang v. i. To make a ringing sound; to ring. "Let thy tongue tang arguments of state."

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"Tang" Quotes from Famous Books

... dipping and rising, but hidden at all times by hills, resplendent with black and yellow and purple gorse, or great gray bowlders, so that impressions of Scotch moorlands alternated with those of an Arizona desert. The tang of September was in the breeze; from the moorlands which overlooked the jagged Brenton reefs came the faint aroma of burning sedge; from the wet distant cliff a saline exhalation was wafted. It was such a morning as one can see and feel only on the ...

— Prince or Chauffeur? - A Story of Newport • Lawrence Perry

... "Lamia," his two orchestral paraphrases of scenes from the Song of Roland, two concertos, and numerous songs and piano pieces. Not greatly important music, this, measured beside that which he afterward put forth; but possessing an individual profile, a savour, a tang, which gave it an immediately recognised distinction. A new voice spoke out of it, a fresh and confident, an eloquent and forceful, voice. It betrayed Germanic influences: of that there was no question; yet it was strikingly rich in personal accent. ...

— Edward MacDowell • Lawrence Gilman

... about a corner and off through a lane of canyon-like factories and sweatshop hives. Once they skirted huge railroad yards and twice they circled along the river's edge between towering warehouses, with the tang of salt winds swirling the flakes about them and a forest of tall masts ...

— The Fifth Ace • Douglas Grant

... with the history of the place, showing the pictures and the chapel, exhibiting curious relics of the past—a restless and energetic figure, holding its own in effectiveness against men of greater stature and more commanding presence by an inward force which has something of the tang of a ...

— Painted Windows - Studies in Religious Personality • Harold Begbie

... these ancient sovereigns of Britain, 'tang' throughout with Elizabethan 'arguments of state,' and even Goneril, in her somewhat severe proceedings against her father, justifies her course in a very grave and excellent speech, enriched with the choicest phrases of that particular order of state eloquence, in which majesty stoops graciously ...

— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon

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