BATH, TAN
\bˈaθ], \bˈaθ], \b_ˈa_θ]\
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An astringent bath, prepared, at times, by boiling two or three handfuls of ground oak-bark,-such as is used by tanners-in two or three quarts of water, for half an hour, and then adding the decoction to the water of the bath.
By Robley Dunglison
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).