| taw | 1. To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge. 2. To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them. Origin: OE. Tawen, tewen, AS. Tawian to prepare; cf. D. Touwen, Goth. Tewa order, taujan to do, and E. Tool. 64. Cf. 1st Tew, Tow the coarse part of flax. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Tawara | K. Sunao, Japanese pathologist, 1873-1952. See: Tawara's node, His-Tawara system, node of Aschoff and Tawara. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Tawara's node | <cardiology> The location in the heart's conduction system, between the atria and the ventricles, which conducts the normal electrical impulse from the atria to the ventricles. (27 Sep 1997) |
| tawery | A place where skins are tawed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |