(a) Wood tar; also, the residue of the distillation of wood tar; (b) blak ~, cedar gum; also, = ~ navale; hard ~, solidified wood tar; ~ liquide, fleting ~, neshe ~, ~ molten (melt), wood tar in the liquid state; ~ grek, ~ of grece, a residue from distillation of crude resin and water, colophony; also, = ~ liquide; ~ navale, ship ~, a thick residue of the distillation of ~ liquide; ~ smolt, a mixture of grease and wood tar; oile of ~, ?oil mixed with liquid wood tar; ~ colour, a dark color, ~ barel, ~ ketel, ~ pot; (c) ~ and (or) ter, ter and (or) ~, ~ and brimston (fatnesse, grese, rosin); led and ~, melted lead and liquid wood tar; (d) crude resin; ~ album, ~ rosin, whit ~; (e) natural asphalt, mineral pitch.

(a) As an ingredient of medicinal preparations; (b) as a means of torture or punishment, esp. in hell; (c) in conventional comparisons; (d) in proverbs; (e) in place names; (f) in surnames.