Definitions for tares

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tares tare

Spelling: [tair]

IPA: /tɛər/

Tares is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in tares (aerst).

Definitions for tares

noun

1. any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
2. the seed of a vetch.
3. Bible. a noxious weed, probably the darnel.
4. the weight of the wrapping, receptacle, or conveyance containing goods.
5. a deduction from the gross weight to allow for this.
6. the weight of a vehicle without cargo, passengers, etc.
7. a counterweight used in chemical analysis to balance the weight of a container.
8. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter T.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of tear2 .

verb (used with object)

1. to ascertain, note, or allow for the tare of.

Origin of tares

1300-50; Middle English: vetch; akin to Dutch tarwe wheat

Examples for tares

Which is the wheat and which the tares, that must be garnered or sifted from our loves?

It buys whatever is offered it, and cannot tell of course the tares from the wheat.

She crawled about on her knees as she pulled up the tares and threw them into a basket.

Compare the lesson taught in the Parable of the tares, Matt.

Then shall the wheat be segregated from the tares, and the sheep divided from the goats.

Fill your pockets with tares or hay and feed him from his back.

I mix the tares when they are sown with a third of white pease and a third of oats.

It is an actual, material, final separation of the tares from the wheat.

The tares are the children of the wicked, and “the enemy that sowed them is the devil.”

These are the tares, or the children of the wicked one, in the church.