Well, believe it or not, new research suggests that some people are tanorexic, addicted to what they call a tanner's high. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2004] Reference
The name tanner for a sixpence coin was first used at the beginning of the 19th century. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4] Reference
But back in the day, the tanner was the guy who made leather goods out of animal hides. From Wordnik.com. [Cracked: All Posts] Reference
The tanner was a tall, muscular man, clad in brown jeans, and with boots of a fair grade of leather drawn high over his trousers. From Wordnik.com. [Down the Ravine] Reference
The "tanner" has now become a florin, and this afternoon the. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920] Reference
"Then you will not sign the paper?" questioned the tanner. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
He lodgeth in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea side. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference
Australian settlements, and which are employed by the tanner. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
He spent his youth on a farm and as an apprentice to a tanner. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Like the farmer who endeavored to sell the tanner the murn hide. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference
Otherwise stretch and dry for transportation or to send to the tanner. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
He gave me eight dollars a month until the tanner got ready to use me. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives] Reference
Harris of Picton sold for £50 to Matthew Archibald of Truro, tanner, a. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
William's mother was Arletta, or Herleva, daughter of a tanner of Falaise. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference
The sensitive touch of the old tanner detected the diseased hide immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The advice given Alfred by the old tanner has saved him heart aches and much money. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The tie of friendship between Alfred and Sammy Steele lasted while the tanner lived. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The tanner deserts his hide, and the shoemaker throws down his last to save his all. From Wordnik.com. [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference
As Mitch grew older, his father grew tanner, and more expressive, than a sullen shadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Gift of the 12th Congressional District of Michigan] Reference
I'm nominated for East Elgin in place of Leverett, the tanner, who is leaving the town. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
When young Edwards began life as a tanner it took twelve months for the tanning of hides. From Wordnik.com. [Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity] Reference
At one time he was with the tanner, and at another time he was running his father's farm. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
The tanner folded it over as if to ascertain if it had been damaged in the skinning process. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Newton's father was a tanner; Pasteur's, a tanner; Darwin's, a doctor of considerable means. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
If a man was a tanner, and especially a foreign, hand-workin 'tanner, what would his markin's be?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Some manufacturers combine a moisturizer with a self-tanner so you can accomplish two things at once. From Wordnik.com. [Fake Bake Debate] Reference
The tanner looked after him in a contemptuous manner, turned to Alfred and inquired if he knew the farmer. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
D. Stephens was fourteen years old, and was apprenticed to a tanner, which naturally was on his mother's death. From Wordnik.com. [The Stephens Family A Genealogy of the Descendants of Joshua Stevens] Reference
His father was a man of good stock, though but a tanner or usurer; he purchased the land, and his son the title. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
His parents lived in Evansville, Indiana; was a tanner; moved to a farm in Warrick County, Indiana; died Feb. 28. From Wordnik.com. [The Stephens Family A Genealogy of the Descendants of Joshua Stevens] Reference
She overs her hands with loufah-type towels and starts to remove my self tanner tan, along with layers of dead skin. From Wordnik.com. [Norma Kamali: Am I at a Korean Day Spa or on Set With Italian Vogue?] Reference
Another remarkable escape of a whole family was that of William H. Rosensteel, a tanner, of Woodvale, a suburb of Johnstown. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
He went first, I believe, with his half-brother, Peter Grant, who, though not a tanner himself, owned a tannery in Maysville, Kentucky. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
That in-between time, twilight, an eerie glow in the sky and on her skin, even though she uses a moisturizer that is also a self-tanner. From Wordnik.com. [Caffeine-Fueled Revelation Machines] Reference
JOSH.A WING STEPH.NS, (18), son of David H. Stephens, (10), was a tanner at Evansville, Indiana; married Nancy Gibson; lived in Evansville. From Wordnik.com. [The Stephens Family A Genealogy of the Descendants of Joshua Stevens] Reference
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