tattooing

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• Tattooing — Tattoo Tat*too , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tattooed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tattooing}.] [Of Polynesian origin; cf. New Zealand ta to tattoo, tatu puncturation (in Otaheite).] To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Tattooing —    The tattooing of prisoners was first used in Auschwitz in March 1942 for the purpose of keeping a record and identifying the bodies in the mortuary and the crematorium …   Historical dictionary of the Holocaust

• Tattooing of Minors Act 1969 — The Tattooing of Minors Act 1969 (1969 c. 24) is an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It gained Royal Assent on 16th May 1969, and is currently in force.The Act made it an offence to tattoo a person under the age of… …   Wikipedia

• tattooing — a means of marking fish for identification and mark recovery studies by pricking the skin with a dye …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• tattooing — noun a) The act of beating out a rhythm on a drum b) The act of marking the skin with a tattoo …   Wiktionary

• tattooing — tat·too·ing (tă tooґing) [from Polynesian] the insertion of permanent colors in the skin by introducing them through punctures …   Medical dictionary

• TATTOOING —    a practice of imprinting various designs, often pictorial, upon the skin by means of colouring matter, e. g. Chinese ink, cinnabar, introduced into punctures made by needles; widely in vogue in past and present times amongst uncivilised… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• tattooing — tat·too || tÉ™ tuː n. permanent skin decoration in which ink is inserted under the skin; cry, call, shout; trumpet or bugle call that directs soldiers to return to their quarters v. permanently mark the skin with designs …   English contemporary dictionary

• tattooing — noun ( s) 1. : the act or practice of marking the skin with tattoos 2. : a tattoo or a set of tattoos …   Useful english dictionary

• History of tattooing — Tattooing in prehistoric times Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice since Neolithic times. Ötzi the Iceman , dated circa 3300 BC, bearing 57 tattoos: a cross on the inside of the left knee, six straight lines 15 centimeters long above the… …   Wikipedia

• tattooing of the cornea — the permanent coloring of the cornea chiefly to conceal spots of leukoma …   Medical dictionary