Tan

1. a. Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
2. n. See Picul.
3. n. The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; — so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
4. n. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
5. n. A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.