[f. TARE sb.2] trans. To ascertain, allow for, or indicate the tare of.
1812. J. Smyth, Pract. of Customs (1821), 168. Two Jars tared three pounds each. Ibid., 247. It is the practice at the West India Docks to make a memorandum of the packages which are tared, on the back of the blue book.
1880. Lomas, Alkali Trade, 246. It is usual not to tare the casks at all, but to invoice the gross weight as soda.
1890. Pall Mall G., 29 Sept., 8/2. The Custom House authorities have given notice that on and after October 1 their officers will have instructions to weigh and tare packages of tea to the half-pound instead of to the pound, as heretofore.
Hence Tared ppl. a., of which the tare or weight when empty has been ascertained.
1854. J. Scoffern, in Orr’s Circ. Sc., Chem., 333. Being collected on a tared filter, its weight may be estimated.
18[?]. U.S. Dispensatory 575 (Cent. Dict.). The neck of a bottle … marked for the quantity of liquid to be percolated,… or of a tared bottle, if the percolate is to be weighed.
