rare. [f. TARTAR sb.1 + -ISH1.] a. Of wine: Inclined to deposit tartar. b. Of the eyes: Inclined to form concretions (cf. TARTAROUS 2).
1757. A. Cooper, Distiller, II. ii. (1760), 118. Without the peculiar Taste and Flavour of the Plant, but generally somewhat tartarish and limpid.
1807. Southey, Lett. (1856), II. 4. My son is rather ailing just now … His eyes are as Tartarish as his sister’s.
