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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tang" Quotes from Famous Books

... about him had an exotic tang, though what precisely his racial antecedents might have been was rather a riddle; a habit so thoroughly European went oddly with the hints of Asiatic strain which one thought to detect in his lineaments. Nevertheless, it were ...

— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance

... so firm and clear, so gorgeous yet so sober, so supple and so firm, he equals the writers of the seventeenth century. His method, so deeply and simply French, succeeds in giving an indescribable "tang" to his descriptions. If observation from nature imprints upon his tales the strong accent of reality, the prose in which they are shrined so conforms to the genius of the race as to smack ...

— Selected Writings of Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Maupassant

... of atrophy of other parts of the mind. There is the example of Darwin and his self-confessed loss of the aesthetic tastes he once possessed. Nor are scientific studies the only ones to produce such an effect. The amusing satire in The New Republic has, perhaps, lost some of its tang now that the prototype of its Professor of History is almost forgotten, but it has not lost its point. Lady Ambrose tells the tale: "He said to me in a very solemn voice, 'What a terrible defeat that was which we had at Bouvines!' I answered timidly—not ...

— Science and Morals and Other Essays • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle

... on the volumes but cooled at the price. How you smoothed and fingered them! With what triumph you bore them off! I bid you—for I see you in a slippered state, eased and unbuttoned after dinner—I bid you turn the pages with a slow thumb, not to miss the slightest tang of their humor. You will of course go first, because of its broad fame, to the page on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson and their wet-combats at the Mermaid. But before the night is too far gone and while yet you ...

— There's Pippins And Cheese To Come • Charles S. Brooks

... of each day that swept her further from her week in wonderland had ushered in the matchless spring weather of California,—the brilliant sunshine, the fleecy clouds, the gentle wind with just a tang in it from the distant mountains; and as the stage rolled slowly northward through beautiful valleys, bright with yellow poppies and silver-white lupines, every turn of the road varied her view of the hills lying under an enchantment unlike that of any other land. ...

— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco

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