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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[OE.

tarien

terien

, to irritate, provoke, AS.

tergan

to pull, pluck, torment; probably akin to E.

tear

, v. t. √63. Cf.

Verb.

]

To set on, as a dog; to incite.

[Obs.]

Shak.

tarre ‎(third-person singular simple present tarres, present participle tarring, simple past and past participle tarred)

tarre

Obsolete form of tar.
- 1659, Richard Brome
  […] she takes not so much for curing a thousand mortal People, as I have spent in Turpentine and Tarre to keep my Flocklings cleanly in a Spring time.