[-ING2.] That tans.
a. 1717. Parnell, Health, 35. Her hardy face repels the tanning wind.
1828. P. Cunningham, N. S. Wales, II. 75. If our … tanning barks, and bark extracts, do not continue to pay.
1857. Miller, Elem. Chem., III. xi. 672. Sewing up the hide, filling it with the tanning infusion.
