ppl. a. [f. TAN v. + -ED1.]
1. Converted into leather; preserved by tanning.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker 118/7. ȝetannede hyd.
c. 1350. Usages Winchester, in Eng. Gilds (1870), 358. Euerych cart þt bereþ y-tanned leþer to selle.
1497. Naval Acc. Hen. VII. (1896), 102. Tanned hides.
1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VII., 4 b. Their brest plates … were made of tanned lether.
1666. Wood, Life, Jan. (O.H.S.), II. 98. For a tan’d paire of gloves, 1s.
1837. M. Donovan, Dom. Econ., II. 54. Herodotus says the tanned human skin excels all others in whiteness and brilliancy.
b. slang. Beaten, thrashed.
1905. Dundee Advertiser, 8 July, 6. Away back in boyhood’s happy days … ‘a tanned hide’ had a significance all its own.
2. That has been rendered brown or tawny, esp. by exposure to the sun; sunburnt.
1564–78. Bulleyn, Dial. agst. Pest. (1888), 29. A Lackey clothed in Orenge Taunie and White, with a paire of bare tanned legges.
c. 1600. Shaks., Sonn., lxii. Beated and chopt with tand antiquitie.
1632. Milton, L’Allegro, 90. If the earlier season lead To the tann’d Haycock in the Mead.
1709. O. Dykes, Eng. Prov. & Refl. (ed. 2), 190. As diligent as any toiling tann’d Hay-maker in the Field upon a Sunshiny Day.
1859. Jephson, Brittany, ix. 137. The healthy tanned complexions which mark a seafaring population.
b. Of a reddish brown or tawny color.
1575. Turberv., Venerie, 10. Such [deer] as be dunne on the backe hauing their foure quarters redde or tanned, and the legs of the same coloure, as it were the coloure of a hares legs.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 675. The white hound, the fallow or taund hound, the grey-hound, and the blacke hound.
1719. London & Wise, Compl. Gard., VII. vi. 166. A certain tann’d and red Colour which covers all the Rind.
1863. W. C. Baldwin, Afr. Hunting, iii. 76. [The inyala] is of the bush buck species,… with spiral horns, tanned legs, very long hair on his breast and quarters.
3. Spread or covered with tan.
1870. Daily News, 6 June. The thoroughbreds were led round the well-tanned enclosure. Ibid. (1891), 6 March, 3/5. A thick ring of spectators surrounded the tanned enclosure.
4. humorous nonce-use. Made or governed by Kett the tanner.
1549. Cheke, Hurt Sedit., 8. The other rable of Norfolke rebelles, ye pretend a common welth…. A marueylous tanned common welth.
