Tartary

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)təɹi

Proper noun

Tartary

(archaic) The Eurasian Steppe.
Obsolete form of Tartarus.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, page 102:
  An huge great Dragon horrible in ſight,
  Bred in the loathly lakes of Tartary

Derived terms

Crim Tartary, Krim Tartary
Kuban Tartary
Little Tartary

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Tartary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Rattray

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