tanned, ppl. a.
(tænd)
[f. tan v. + -ed1.]
1. a. Converted into leather; preserved by tanning.
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 118/7 ᵹetannede hyd. c 1350 Usages Winchester in Eng. Gilds (1870) 358 Euerych cart þ{supt} bereþ y-tanned leþer to selle. 1497 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 102 Tanned hides. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VII 4 b, Their brest plates..were made of tanned lether. 1666 Wood Life Jan. (O.H.S.) II. 98 For a tan'd paire of gloves, 1s. 1837 M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 54 Herodotus says the tanned human skin excels all others in whiteness and brilliancy. |
b. slang. Beaten, thrashed.
| 1905 Dundee Advertiser 8 July 6 Away back in boyhood's happy days..‘a tanned hide’ had a significance all its own. |
2. a. That has been rendered brown or tawny, esp. by exposure to the sun; sunburnt.
| 1564–78 W. Bullein Dial. agst. Pest. (1888) 29 A Lackey clothed in Orenge Taunie and White, with a paire of bare tanned legges. c 1600 Shakes. Sonn. lxii, Beated and chopt with tand antiquitie. 1632 Milton L'Allegro 90 If the earlier season lead To the tann'd Haycock in the Mead. 1709 O. Dykes Eng. Prov. & Refl. (ed. 2) 190 As diligent as any toiling tann'd Hay-maker in the Field upon a Sunshiny Day. 1859 Jephson Brittany ix. 137 The healthy tanned complexions which mark a seafaring population. |
b. Of a reddish brown or tawny colour.
| 1575 Turberv. Venerie 10 Such [deer] as be dunne on the backe hauing their foure quarters redde or tanned, and the legs of the same coloure, as it were the coloure of a hares legs. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 675 The white hound, the fallow or taund hound, the grey-hound, and the blacke hound. 1719 London & Wise Compl. Gard. vii. vi. 166 A certain tann'd and red Colour which covers all the Rind. 1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting iii. 76 [The inyala] is of the bush buck species,..with spiral horns, tanned legs, very long hair on his breast and quarters. |
3. Spread or covered with tan.
| 1870 Daily News 6 June, The thoroughbreds were led round the well-tanned enclosure. 1891 Ibid. 6 Mar. 3/5 A thick ring of spectators surrounded the tanned enclosure. |
4. humorous nonce-use. Made or governed by Kett the tanner.
| 1549 Cheke Hurt Sedit. 8 The other rable of Norfolke rebelles, ye pretend a common welth... A marueylous tanned common welth. |
5. Immunol. tanned-(red-)cell, used attrib. to designate a test in which antibodies can be detected by observing the agglutination of red blood cells that have been coated with tannic acid which has then bound with the appropriate soluble antigen.
| 1956 Jrnl. Immunol. LXXVI. 409/1 The tanned cell hemagglutination test..was also applied to the problem. 1962 Lancet 5 May 951/2 In a series of 78 patients with pernicious anæmia, the tanned-red-cell agglutination test was positive in 24% of males. 1980 Canad. Jrnl. Zool. LVIII. 245 One group [of cattle] infected with only H[ypoderma] lineatum was followed using the tanned-cell hemagglutination technique. |