A small silver coin formerly current on the Malabar coast, especially at Tellicherri and Calicut. Sixteen tars of Calicut equal one fanam; one tar of Tellicherri is equivalent to four reas, and one hundred tars equal one rupee, any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue, a man who serves as a sailor, verb_ coat with tar, computing To create a tar archive, transitive verb_ To coat with or as if with tar, To smear with tar, or as with tar

To state as a determination of fact, To give nonverbal expression to; signify or embody, To make a statement or express an opinion or judgment, transitive verb_ obsolete To try; to assay, adverb_ Approximately, For instance, noun_ The right or power to influence or make a decision, A turn or chance to speak, A kind of serge. In the sixteenth century it seems to have been a fine thin cloth used for outer garments

The 16th letter of the modern English alphabet, of the Latin punctum remotum, farthest point (namely, of accommodation to which the eye can adjust itself, sixteenth letter and twelfth consonant of the English alphabet, having a corresponding position in other alphabets

a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams, abbreviation_ Ounce; any of various units of weight and volume,