tangn.1
/taŋ/, U.S. /tæŋ/ I. Something that projects.
1. A projecting pointed part or instrument.
a. The tongue of a serpent, formerly thought to be the stinging organ; the sting of an insect. (Now dialect.)
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > stinging organ
tanga1350
sting1398
stingle1398
spear1608
stinger1926
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > parts of > forked tongue
tanga1350
sting1530
tongue1581
fork1608
a1350 St. Matthew 58 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 132 Men þat þai [serpents] bifore had biten And with þaire tanges ful sare smetyn.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 496/2 Tongge, of a bee, aculeus.
c1440 W. Staunton St. Patrick's Purgatory (1900) 61 Þei maden to me an hudious noyse..with blaryng owt of here brennyng tanges.
1483 Cath. Angl. 378/1 A Tange of A nedyr, aculeus, acus, pugio.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 281/2 Tonge of a bee, esguillon.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Tang,..a sting.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Tang, a sting or point.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Tang,..the tongue of a snake, with which people believe it has the power of stinging... The sting of an insect.
b. figurative. A ‘sting’, a pang.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [noun] > a pang
stitch?c1225
prong1440
twitch?1510
pang1534
pincha1566
aculeusa1612
twinge1622
twang1721
tang1724
twinging1816
brain-ache1836
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > sudden pain
stitchc1000
showera1300
shutea1300
gridea1400
gripa1400
shota1400
stounda1400
lancing1470
pang1482
twitch?1510
shooting1528
storm1540
stitching1561
stub1587
twinge1608
gird1614
twang1721
tang1724
shoot1756
darting1758
writhe1789
catch1830
lightning pain1860
twitcher1877
rash1900
1724 A. Ramsay Health 156 The flagg'd embrace, and mercenary squeeze, The tangs of guilt, and terrors of disease.
1868 S. Lanier Jacquerie i. 73 Oh, sharper tangs pierced through this perfumed May.
c. dialect. A sharp point or spike; the pin of a buckle; one of the prongs or tines of a fork; a prong or tine of a stag's horn.The sense ‘leg of a pair of tongs’ in R. Holme may have been derived from the tang of a fork.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > [noun] > a sharp prominence
bill1382
pointa1387
tatter1402
beakc1440
spike1488
neb1578
prong1591
prow1601
taggera1687
tang1688
jog1715
nib1788
tusk1823
spur1872
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler > branch
antlera1398
startc1400
tinec1480
branch1484
advancer1486
knag1578
speer1607
spire1607
snag1673
tang1688
point1780
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 132/2 [Of a horn] The lower Tang [is] the Brow-Antlier.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xiv. 7/1 He beare[th] Sable, a paire of Tonges closed in ye tanges Argent.]
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. Tang, a pike.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Tang, Teng,..the prong of a fork. ‘A fork wi three tangs’.
1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 147/1 On the lower edge [of the excavator or shovel] are four tangs or points, which serve to penetrate and loosen the soil.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Tang, the tongue of a buckle, the prong of a fork.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Tang, the tongue of a buckle.
d. †The barb of a hook (obsolete); the tongue of a Jew's-harp (also figurative).
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 80/1 The tongue of the hooke is that little tang or slip on the inside of it, which..hinders the hooke from comeing out. Some call it the barbe.
1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. Tang o' the trump,..the tongue of the Scottish trump or Jew's harp;..the chief or most important person in a company.
e. (See quot. 1822) dialect. (So in Old Norse.)
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > promontory, headland, or cape > [noun]
starteOE
nessOE
snookc1236
head1315
bill1382
foreland?a1400
capec1405
nook?a1425
mull1429
headland?c1475
point?c1475
nese1497
peak1548
promontory1548
arma1552
reach1562
butt1598
promontorea1600
horn1601
naze1605
promonta1607
bay1611
abutment1613
promontorium1621
noup1701
lingula1753
scaw1821
tang1822
odd1869
1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 518 A narrow stripe of land stretches out that is named the Taing of Torness. The word Taing expresses the character of the low projecting cape. [Cf. p. 479 Ting of Torness.]
2.
a. An extension of a metal tool or instrument, as a chisel, file, knife, axe, coulter, pike, scythe, sword, etc., by which it is secured to its handle or stock. Also in certain firearms. Originally a spike or rod to thrust into the stock; hence extended to a piece of any shape or form having the same function: see quots. Now the chief literal sense.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > parts of tools generally > [noun] > tang
tang14..
shank1678
fang1769
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > breech > other parts of breech
base1626
bridge pin1686
breech-pin1727
finger-piece1767
tang1805
hut1848
breech-lever1862
breech-screw1862
plunger1866
shoe1866
breech-block1881
breech-plug1881
console1882
crossbar1884
obturator1891
tray1909
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 735/19, 20 Hoc tenaculum, Hic spirasmus, a tang.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 496/2 Tongge of a knyfe, pirasmus.
1483 Cath. Angl. 378/1 A Tange of A knyfe, parasinus.
1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver ix. 50 The stayle must be plated with Iron,..through which, as also the Wood, the tange of the Coulter must come.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 321/2 The Cheeks, or Plates, or Tangs [of a hammer are] the Irons which hold the Head on.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxii. 284/1 The handle is neere a yard long, with an Hoop at the end for the Tang of the Trowell to be fastned in.
1805 C. James New Mil. Dict. (ed. 2) Tang, the upper part of the plug, or breech pin.
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 281 The tang, or part by which it [a penknife blade] is to be held during grinding, and ultimately to be fixed in the haft.
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 226 In forming the tangs of most files, it is necessary to make the shoulders perfectly square and sharp.
1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele 44 African battle-axes with..the tangs set in the hafts.
1869 V. D. Majendie Milit. Breech-loading Rifles 62 The locking arrangements consists of the following parts:—Steel bolt..Recess in breech tang for bolt.
1884 W. H. Rideing in Harper's Mag. June 78/2 The blade..is welded, in the case of a dinner-knife, to a piece of iron, which forms the ‘tang’ or the part that is inserted in the handle.
1904 E. A. T. W. Budge Guide 3rd & 4th Egypt. Rooms Brit. Museum 7 Two bronze ribbed spear-heads, with tangs.
1909 Text Bk. Small Arms i. iv. 35 The rear end of the body is in the form of a tang with sides.
1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 605 Tang, the projecting portion of the breech of a musket, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
1929 War Office Textbk. Small Arms i. 12 On the underside of the cocking-piece is a projection..which travels in a groove, cut for it in the tang of the body.
1965 H. L. Blackmore Guns & Rifles of World 100 Butt tang engraved with Royal arms of France.
1976 Shooting Mag. Dec. 61/1 (advt.) Mode 801 Luxus O/U shotgun..10 mm wide ventilated barrel rib, sling swivels, top tang safety, double trigger.
b. A root or fang of a tooth; a root or branch of a tree. Now chiefly dialect.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > root
fang1667
tang1716
shank1851
the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > main branch or bough
master-bough1615
master branch1667
tang1886
1716 T. Molyneux in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 372 Strong Tangs or Roots,..by which the Tooth receives its sense and Nourishment.
1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester II. 352 Tangs,..(2) the principal roots or branches of a tree.
3. = surgeonfish n. at surgeon n. Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Acanthuroidei > member of family Acanthuridae (surgeon-fish)
tang1735
doctor1775
unicorn acanthurus1803
lancet-fish1840
surgeon1855
surgeonfish1871
shoemaker1891
medico1902
1735 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 317 Turdus rhomboïdalis. The Tang. This Fish hath on each side the Tail a sharp pointed Bone, which it can erect in its own Defence.
1902 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Tang,..any West Indian species of surgeon fish, as the common tang (Teuthis hepatus), the blue tang (T. cæruleus), and the ocean tang (T. Bahianus).
1925 D. S. Jordan Fishes (rev. ed.) xxxviii. 618 In the next family, Acanthuridæ, the surgeon-fishes or tangs, the scales remain small.
1965 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 3 June (1970) 281 These were lots of little bright yellow fish, young blue tang, they called them—as they grow up they change color.
1980 R. E. Thresher Reef Fish xx. 147 The surgeonfish, or tangs, are high-bodied, laterally compressed fish.
4.
a. Stereotyping. The piece of superfluous metal formed at the end of the plate; the pour-piece.
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society > communication > printing > type founding > [noun] > making plates > superfluous metal on plate
tang1880
1880 F. J. F. Wilson Stereotyping & Electrotyping 43 When the casting is sufficiently cool the superfluous metal at the head, called the ‘tang’, or ‘pour-piece’, may be removed by the circular saw or sharp-pointed hook.
1880 F. J. F. Wilson Stereotyping & Electrotyping 65 The ‘pour-piece’, or tang, is removed from the top end of the plate, and the bevel formed at the same time.
b. Stereotyping. That part of the papier-maché flong or mould which overlaps the tail end of the matrix so as to prevent the metal from flowing under the end of the mould in the casting-box; the tailpiece.
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society > communication > printing > type founding > type-founding equipment > [noun] > overlapping tail-piece of matrix
tang1891
1891 in Cent. Dict.
1910 H. Hart Let. to Editor Occasionally the tang is lengthened, for use in a large casting-box, by pasting on to it a piece of thick paper or thin cardboard.
c. Type-founding. The projection at the bottom of a piece of type which is formed by superfluous metal cooling in the opening of the mould.
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society > communication > printing > type founding > [noun] > superfluous metal on type
break1683
pick1683
pour-piece1885
tang1908
1908 Inst. Mech. Engineers: Proc. Dec. 1034 The gate through which the metal passes into the mould becomes also filled with type-metal and forms a projecting tang which must be broken from the type.
1921 W. H. Slater What Compositor should Know i. 23 Finishing means breaking off the ‘tang’ or ‘jet’ left at the bottom of each letter when this is not done on the machine. This tang occurs on all types cast by hand and all large sizes cast by machine.
1951 S. Jennett Making of Bks. ii. 32 When type is cast a fragment of metal, the tang, is left adhering at the base from the orifice in the mould through which the molten metal is injected. This tang is broken off and the resulting roughness of the fracture ground down.
II. Senses relating to taste or flavour.
5. figurative.1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 15 The sweetest sinnes would carry a bitter tang, if we would but remember what sweete comfort of the creatures we haue forfeited for them.
a. A penetrating taste or flavour; usually (but not always) an after-taste, or a disagreeable or alien taste from contact with something else.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun]
smacka1000
savour?c1225
relesec1330
tastea1382
sentimentc1400
smatchc1400
taragec1407
tangc1440
weffec1440
tallage14..
sapor1477
verdurea1513
verdour1526
relish1530
verder1532
gustc1540
waft1542
smacker1549
talent1550
tack1602
tache1607
tincture1610
twang1611
foretaster1632
flavour1693
gusto1713
goût1751
saporosity1794
gustativeness1827
savouring1840
sipidity1880
palate1973
the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [noun] > pungency
peppera1425
tangc1440
mordacity1583
heat1586
saltness1612
piquantness1648
quickness1652
subtilty1661
penetratingness1662
pungency1663
piquancy1664
poignancy1677
mordicancy1693
pertness1756
causticity1772
poignance1782
pungence1810
warmth1816
piquance1867
zinginess1938
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 496/2 Tongge, or sharpnesse of lycure yn tastynge, acumen.
1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. Miii At first, mee thought the tast was reasonable good, But..it left (alas) a bitter tang behinde.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Piccante, a tartenes vpon the toong, a tang left vpon the toong.
1624 A. Wotton Runne from Rome 3 (As new vessels doe) keeping a tang of the first liquor wherewith I was seasoned.
1660 T. Fuller Mixt Contempl. i. x. 17 The best oyle is said to have no Taste, that is, no Tang.
1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 100 Brandy either French or English, that has no burnt tang or other ill taste.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ix. 206 A strong tang of tallow, or onion, in your bread and butter.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Tang, a strong flavour; generally, but not always, an unpleasant one.
1883 E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones (new ed.) 180 Apples..picked freshly fallen from the earth had a keen spicy tang.
b. A pungent odour, a penetrating scent.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [noun]
smacka1000
breathOE
smella1175
irea1300
weffea1300
thefa1325
relesec1330
odour?c1335
incensea1340
flair1340
savoura1350
smellingc1386
flavourc1400
fumec1400
reflairc1400
air?a1439
scent?1473
taste?c1475
verdure1520
senteur1601
waft1611
effluvium1656
fluor1671
burning scent1681
aura1732
fumet1735
snuff1763
olfacient1822
odouret1825
waff1827
gush1841
sniff1844
tang1858
nose1894
1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem I. xxx. 117 All places smell of hangman, it is everywhere the same tang; we might as well be hooped up with the body of a deceased felon on a gibbet of the olden style.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 163 Like the smell of a washing-house, but with a shrewd tang of the sea salt.
1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy xxxvii. 262 The tang of the cottage peat reek hangs like the peculiar incense of home.
1903 Sat. Rev. 14 Nov. 607 The air has a tang of its own, recognisable even in the closest lanes.
c. ? A pungent or stinging effect; ‘something that leaves a sting or pain behind it’ (Johnson).But the meaning here is disputed: cf. tang n.2 Shakespeare may in this use have associated the two words.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 49 But none of vs car'd for Kate. For she had a tongue with a tang, Would cry to a Sailor goe hang. View more context for this quotation
6. figurative.
a. A slight ‘smack’ of some quality, opinion, habit, form of speech, etc.; a ‘suspicion’, a suggestion; a trace, a touch of something.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a slight touch or trace
specec1330
taste1390
lisounc1400
savourc1400
smatcha1500
smell?a1505
spice1531
smack1539
shadow1586
surmise1586
relish1590
tang1593
touch1597
stain1609
tincture1612
dasha1616
soula1616
twanga1640
whiff1644
haut-goût1650
casta1661
stricturea1672
tinge1736
tinct1752
vestige1756
smattering1764
soupçon1766
smutch1776
shade1791
suspicion1809
lineament1811
trait1815
tint1817
trace1827
skiff1839
spicing1844
smudgea1871
ghost1887
1593 G. Harvey New Let. in Wks. (1884) I. 285 I cannot but..conceiue as it were a tang of pleasure in mine owne displeasure.
a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qqq/1 Before I thought ye To have a little breeding, some tang of Gentry.
1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. F4v He had alwayes kept a tang of the Neapolitan Dialect.
1657 R. Austen Spirituall Use of Orchard (new ed.) 153 (margin) Although the graft changes the sap of the wild stock into its owne Nature, yet..a tang of the wild nature remaines.
1751 T. Gray Let. 20 Feb. in Corr. (1971) I. 343 The language has a tang of Shakespeare, that suits an old-fashioned fable very well.
1854 H. Rogers Ess. II. i. 74 A still more serious fault in Locke is what we may venture to call a tang, if not of materialism, of something that displays a latent tendency towards it.
b. Distinctive or characteristic flavour or quality.
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society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [noun]
tokenc1000
distinctionc1374
differencea1398
signeta1425
knowledge?c1475
smell?a1505
markc1522
badge1529
note1583
impress1590
monument1590
type1595
stamp1600
pressure1604
mintage1612
criterion1613
impressa1628
differencer1633
lineament1638
mole1644
discrimination1646
tessera1647
diagnostic1651
monumental1657
discretive1660
signate1662
footmark1666
trait1752
memorandum1766
fingerprint1792
insignia1796
identifier1807
designative1824
cachet1840
differentiator1854
tanga1867
trademark1869
signature1873
totem1875
differential1883
earmarkings1888
paw print1894
discriminator1943
ident1952
a1867 A. Smith Last Leaves (1868) 242 You cannot catch the tang of any literary coterie.
1900 H. Harland Cardinal's Snuff-box xv. 122 His speaking-voice..was sweet, but with a kind of trenchant edge upon it, a genial asperity, that gave it character, tang.
1903 Daily Chron. 8 Oct. Such a phrase as ‘Food-taxers’ has not the requisite tang.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
tangn.2
/taŋ/, U.S. /tæŋ/ a. A word sometimes apparently purely echoic, denoting the strong ringing note produced when a large bell or any sonorous body is suddenly struck with force, or a tense string is sharply plucked; but often denoting a sound of a particular tone, esp. (? under the influence of tang n.1) one of an unpleasant kind; a twang. (Some place here Shakespeare's ‘tongue with a tang’ (see tang n.1 5c), which has probably influenced some of the later uses here quoted.)
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > accent > [noun]
accent1596
tang1669
tonea1680
twang1699
cadence1726
blas1906
yack1957
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > [noun]
ringOE
ringingc1300
ringlinga1398
trongling1398
tinging1495
cling1578
sing-sing1659
tang1669
dingle-dangle1694
chang1788
dingling1822
ding-a-ling1886
clappering1891
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > unpleasant twang
tang1669
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > other resonant sounds > [noun] > of string
twanga1556
twang1565
twingle-twangle1634
tang1669
twing twang1761
twanging1788
plunk1822
plunking1913
plung1952
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of bell
knellc961
ringOE
bell-dreamc1175
ringingc1300
clinkingc1386
knellingc1440
ding-dong1611
tang1669
jangling1686
jow17..
steeple-music1732
dinging1767
bell-chimea1822
jowl1822
tintinnabulation1831
ring-a-ding1844
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of stringed instrument > sound of harp
tang1871
1669 W. Holder Elem. Speech 78 There is a pretty affectation in the Allemain, which gives their Speech a different Tang from ours.
1686 J. Bunyan Bk. for Boys & Girls xxix. 37 Nor is there anything gives such a tang When by these Ropes these Ringers ring them well.
1866 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 120 But he had hoped for a certain tang in the down-come of the bell.
1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew Pref. 2 Mony a tang o' his [David's] harp had its ain sugh eftirhen' in Gethsemane.
1880 R. Jefferies Great Estate vi. 123 ‘It's Johnson's flock; I know the tang of his tankards’. The flat-shaped bells hung on a sheep's neck are called tankards.
1883 Cent. Mag. 26 888 A sort of fever which lent a petulant tang to her speech.
1892 Star 9 Aug. 1/7 The organist has..a hard task in eradicating the awful Cambridgeshire tang from the voices of his raw material.
1897 R. Broughton Dear Faustina xiv Faustina is still fondly smiling, but in her tone there is the slight tang of displeasure.
1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy iii. 20 A..voice..with the snell Scottish scolding ‘tang’ in it, which is ever more humorous than alarming to those whom it addresses.
b. quasi-adv. As an imitation of the sound of a vibrating string.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > other resonant sounds > [adverb] > of string
tang1812
twangingly1825
plunkety-plunk1884
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [adverb] > sound of stringed instrument
tang1812
aeolianly1849
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 117 Tang goes the harpsichord, too too the flute.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tangn.3
/taŋ/, U.S. /tæŋ/ dialect.
A collective term for large coarse seaweeds, esp. species of Fucus; tangle, sea-wrack; also called sea-tang. yellow tang n. F. nodosus.black, prickly tang: see the first element.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > fucus seaweeds > tangle
hangera1483
tanglec1540
tang1547
sea-ragged-staff1633
tangle-wrack1721
sea-cabbage1764
prickly tang1795
yellow tang1809
tangle-weed1825
fucoid1848
saw-wrack1868
tangle-work1890
1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe Dylysc, Tang.
1655 Bp. J. Richardson Observ. Old Test. 11 The likeliest reason is from the Hebrew appellation, calling it the sea of weeds, or sedge, mare algosum, of flag, or rush, or tange.
a1733 Shetland Acts 33 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 1891–2 (1892) 26 201 That none take bait nor cast tang in another man's ebb.
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 169 Lying under the stones among the tang on the rocky coasts of Anglesea.
1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVII. 233* The sea-oak (Fucus vesiculosus, Lin.), which we denominate black tang.
1809 A. Edmondston View Zetland Islands II. viii. 6 Before 1808, the yellow tang and the black tang were the only species used in the manufacture of kelp.
1810 Edinb. Rev. 17 146 The prickly tang..often grows intermixed with the bladder-wrack.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxxiv Wet-footed and happy, dragging a yard or so of sea-tang behind her.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
tang-covered adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [adjective] > of or belonging to type of seaweed > covered with tangle
tangly1769
tangle-tasselled1812
tang-covered1888
1888 J. M. E. Saxby Lads of Lunda 122 The tang-covered crown of the Skerry.
C2.
tang-fish n. the seal.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > seal
sealc893
sea-seala1398
seal-fishc1420
sea-veal1576
phoca1594
sea tun1601
sea-calf1616
rubb1694
swile1802
tang-fish1809
sea-pig1826
earless seal1833
phocacean1842
phocid1871
floe-flat1883
phocine1890
1809 A. Edmondston View Zetland Islands II. 292 Seals are seen..[on] the coast of Zetland, and are vulgarly known by the name of tang-fish.
1822 S. Hibbert Descr. Shetland Islands 586 The smaller seals, or Tang-fish, so named from being supposed to live among the Tang.
tang-sparrow n. the rock pipit ( Anthus obscurus).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > anthus spinoletta (water-pipit)
sea-lark1602
rock-lark1771
rock pipit1830
water pipit1831
shore pipit1837
sea-titling1872
tang-sparrow1880
1880 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Tang-sparrow.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 46 Rock pipit..called from being exclusively confined to the sea shore..also..Tang sparrow (Shetland Isles).
tang-whaup n. the whimbrel ( Numenius phæopus).
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Numenius (miscellaneous) > numenius phaeopus (whimbrel)
spowe1519
whimbrel1530
May-chick1577
jack curlew1770
May-bird1791
tang-whaup1808
May-fowl1852
May jack1880
May curlew1885
crooked-bill marlin1886
1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Tang-whaup, the whimbrel, Orkn.
1833 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (new ed.) 534 Whimbrel... Provincial. Curlew knot... Tang-whaup.
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tangn.4
/taŋ/, U.S. /tæŋ/ = tenrec n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Tenrecidae (otter-shrew)
tenrec1729
Potamogale1860
otter shrew1876
tang1891
potamogalid1895
1891 in Cent. Dict.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Tangn.5
/taŋ/, U.S. /tæŋ/ a. The name of a dynasty which ruled in China from a.d. 618 to c906; a ruler belonging to this dynasty.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [noun] > specific Chinese or Mongol members of
Song1657
Tang1669
Sui1736
Yuan1788
Qin1790
Ming1795
Wei1952
Shang-Yin1958
1669 J. Ogilby tr. J. Nieuhof Embassy E.-India Company xviii. 282 At last having miserably worried and weakened each other, they were all subdued by the seventh Race called Tanga, which seized upon the whole Empire, and reigned with his Posterity till the Year of Christ 618.
1738 tr. J. B. Du Halde Descr. Empire China I. 194 (heading) The Thirteenth Dynasty, call'd Tang, which had Twenty Emperors, in the Space of Two hundred eighty nine Years.
1788 tr. J.-B. Grosier Gen. Descr. China II. vi. iii. 209 Under the Tang, this superstition still continued.
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 81/1 Ly-yuen..in A.D. 622 founded the dynasty of Tâng.
1925 B. Rackham in R. Fry et al. Chinese Art 15 When the classic period of T'ang is reached, the potters are working with the easy mastery of artists in their craft.
1940 E. Pound Cantos LII–LXXI liv. 41 Tang rising. And the first Tang was Kao Tseu, the starter.
1979 Mills & Mansfield Genuine Article iii. 62 Ming, Sung and T'ang have become names synonymous with the finest ceramics. T'ang was the dynastic name of the pottery of China in the eighth century AD.
b. attributive or as adj. Frequently used to designate artefacts, etc., of this period.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [adjective] > other specific Asian
Achaemenian1661
Seleucian1715
Han1736
Sui1738
Song1759
Sassanian1788
Seleucidan1803
Tang1831
Qin1834
Safavi1835
Ming1836
Yin1846
Achaemenid1852
Seleucidic1853
Sassanid1867
Tokugawa1876
Safavid1887
Timurid1889
Seleucid1904
Sargonid1913
1831 Canton Misc. No. 4. 246 The Tang Dynasty was founded at the commencement of the Seventh century.
1854 North-China Herald 17 June 184/1 The first emperor of the T'ang dynasty.
1910 Encycl. Brit. VI. 213/2 It is in fact from the early religious schools of Japan that we can best conjecture the grandeur of the T'ang style.
1924 M. Borden Three Pilgrims & Tinker ii. 21 The van was full of the favourite belongings of each member of the family: their mother's Tang horses.
1935 Burlington Mag. Jan. p. xiii/2 The T'ang and Sung ceramics..should arouse much interest.
1943 D. Welch Maiden Voy. xviii. 153 Chou bronzes, T'ang grave figures and Sung porcelain.
1955 Times 6 Aug. 7/6 Eight Bodhisattvas, typical of early T'ang painting, and clearly owing their inspiration to Indian models.
1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) xviii. 130 I..remembered the description of the scene by the T'ang poet Chen Chang.
1976 ‘M. Delving’ China Expert xiii. 179 How many T'ang horses..really came from T'ang graves?
1980 Times 1 Mar. 13/6 Two hours' drive north-west of Xian is the tomb complex of the Tang emperor.
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tangv.1
/taŋ/, U.S. /tæŋ/ 1. † b. figurative. To pierce with grief or compunction.
a. transitive. †To pierce; to prick (obsolete); to sting as a serpent or an insect. Also absol. (Now dialect.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > pierce
asnesec880
prickOE
stickOE
through-stitchc1230
threstc1275
rivec1330
dartc1374
gridea1400
tanga1400
prochea1425
launch1460
accloy1543
gag1570
pole1728
spigota1798
assegai1834
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > sting or bite
stingc888
pricka1200
to-sting?a1300
to-bite1375
bitea1382
stanga1400
tanga1400
strikec1480
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [verb (transitive)] > sting
tanga1400
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [verb (transitive)] > bite
tanga1400
a1400–50 Alexander 4798 At oþir time of oure tulkis was tangid to dede And slayn with þa serpents a sowme out of noimbre.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxi. 141 Þai had within þam nedders, þat taanged þe husbands.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 473 A serpent..tanged hym hugelie.
1684 G. Meriton Praise Yorks. Ale 149 Hee [an ox]'s teng'd, hee'l dee; Let's stick him.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 359 Teng, to sting, as the bee or the adder.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield (at cited word) That bee has tanged me.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > cause anguish to or torment [verb (transitive)] > afflict with pangs
pingeOE
prickOE
bite?c1200
to smite to a person's hearta1225
stingc1386
hita1400
tanga1400
prickle?a1513
pang1520
punch1548
stimulate1548
twinge1647
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > repentance or contrition > repent (sin, wrongdoing, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > affect with remorse > prick, smite, etc., with remorse
prickOE
smitea1382
tanga1400
grudgec1460
to hit home1627
twinge1647
a1400–50 Alexander 3637 Þan was he tangid with tene & turbled vnfaire.
2. † b. figurative. To give point or effective force to. Obsolete.
a. To furnish with a tang, spike, flange, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > project sharply from [verb (transitive)] > furnish with (a) sharp projection(s)
tooth1483
tang1566
spike1716
jag1748
teethe1775
prong1874
1566 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 169 Item sex pair of brasin calmes tangit with irne serving for battertis, moyanis, falconis.
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 84 But, I will have your carrion shoulders goar'd With scourges tangd with rowels [Fr. garnez de cloux].
1839 A. Bywater Sheffield Dial. (new ed.) 33 He mood'st blade... Then he tangs it.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 298/1 The end of the tube is bent and hammered over..and is afterwards ‘dubbed’ or ‘tanged’.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > imbue with vigour or force [verb (transitive)]
tanga1529
strengthen1605
to punch up1923
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Gii Tushe these maters yt ye moue are but soppys in ale your trymynge and tramynge by me must be tangyd.
3. To affect with a tang or (unpleasant) taste.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > disgust [verb (transitive)] > taint, add unpleasant taste
tang1686
1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Ἀνεκδοτα Ἑτερουιακα 330 They tang'd the good and added to the bad.
1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 36 The Liquor suffers, and will be tanged with a noxious Taste.
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tangv.2
/taŋ/, U.S. /tæŋ/ 1. transitive. To strike (a bell or the like) so as to cause it to emit a sharp loud ringing note.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (transitive)] > cause to ring
ringeOE
tang1556
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > strike in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > so as to make a sound > with ringing noise
tang1556
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (transitive)] > clang > cause to
tang1556
clang1850
1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 10 Is it ynough for him to tang the watchebell?
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. 590 Tang, to make a harsh discordant noise by striking against a piece of metal: chiefly used in reference to the swarming of bees. Ex. ‘Tang the fryingpan’.
1842 J. Y. Akerman Gloss. Provinc. Words Wilts. (at cited word) ‘To tang the bell’ is to pull it.
2.
a. To utter with a tang or ringing tone.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > utter in a ringing tone
tanga1616
twanga1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. v. 145 Let thy tongue tang arguments of state; put thy selfe into the tricke of singularitie. View more context for this quotation
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters ii. 54 Touchstone..can tang out a sarcasm with any professor of cynicism.
b. To impart a tang or twang to.Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > impart specific tone or quality [verb (transitive)]
modulatec1570
quiver1660
tone1811
inflect1828
tanga1849
a1849 H. Coleridge Young & Contemp. in Poems (1851) II. 328 So long shall Gray, and all he said and sung, Tang the shrill accents of the school-girl's tongue.
3. intransitive. To emit a sharp and loud ringing or clanging sound; to ring, clang.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak loudly or angrily
thundera1340
raisec1384
to speak outc1515
jowlc1540
fulmine1623
to talk big1680
tang1686
to speak upa1723
to go ona1753
rip1828
whalea1852
yap1864
to rip and tear1884
megaphone1901
to pop off1914
foghorn1918
to sound off1918
loudmouth1931
woof1934
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (intransitive)]
ringOE
chimea1340
outringa1425
dong1587
ding-dong1659
tang1686
re-ring1763
ding1820
dinglea1839
bong1855
dingle dongle1858
tinnitate1866
jing1884
gong1903
pring1927
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (intransitive)] > clang
clang1576
tang1686
clangor1837
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 69 Let thy tongue langer [1767 Capell tang] with arguments of state.]
1686 J. Bunyan Bk. for Boys & Girls xxix. 36 When ringers handle them with Art and Skill, They then the Ears of the observers fill, With such brave Notes they ting and tang so well As to out strip all with their ding, dong, Bell.
1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet iii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 159 The smallest urchin whose tongue could tang, Shock'd the Dame with a volley of slang.
1842 J. Y. Akerman Gloss. Provinc. Words Wilts. Tang, to make a noise with a key and shovel at the time of swarming of a hive.
4. transitive. dialect. To affect (swarming bees) with a clanging noise, so as to make them settle: = ting v.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [verb (transitive)] > settle by ringing
to ring bees1562
ting1623
tinglea1657
tang1881
1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. (at cited word) Mak' 'aste an' fatch the warmin'-pon an' the kay o' the 'ouse to tang the bees.
5. intransitive. To move on with a tang.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)] > move with specific sound
chug1896
tang1906
chug-chug1907
putter1937
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > ringing sound > ring [verb (intransitive)] > move with
tang1906
1906 Daily Chron. 7 June 4/7 The car ‘tanged’ on.
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