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(e) Disposition to be faithful to one's engagements; fidelity; constancy. resolved of your truth. Shak.

Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. Coleridge. (f) The state of not being counterfeited or adulterated; genuineness; purity. Shak.2. That which is true; as, (a) the opposite of falsehood; fact; reality; verity; as, a lover of truth: often personified.

Let Truth and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worst in free and open encounter? Milton.

It is in the determination to obey the truth, and to follow wherever she may lead, that the genuine love of truth consists. Whately.

(b) What conforms to fact or reality; the real or true state of things; true representation. Prov. viii. 7.

For truth is truth

To the end of reckoning.

Shak. (c) True religion; the doctrines of the gospel.

For the law was given by Moses; but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John i. 17.

(d) A verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like.

Fundamental truths, like the lights of heaven, are not only beautiful in themselves, but give light to other things, that, without them, could not be seen. Locke.

According to Dr. Reid, the truths that fall within the compass of human knowledge, whether they be self-evident or deduced from those that are self-evident, may be reduced to two classes, namely, necessary, immutable, or first truths, and contingent and mutable truths. A necessary truth is one that depends not upon the will and power of any being; it is immutably true, and its contrary impossible. A contingent truth is one which depends upon some effect of will and power, which had a beginning and may have an end. Of the first class are the relations of numbers (as that two and two make four), axioms in mathematics, and all the conclusions drawn from them; that is, the whole body of the science of mathematics. To the second class of truths, viz., those that are contingent, belong all those truths that express matters of fact or real existences (as that grass is green), depending upon the will and power of the Supreme Being.-In truth, in reality; in fact; in sincerity.

God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John iv. 24. -Of a truth, in reality; certainly.

Of a truth it is good to be with good people. Thackeray. -To do truth, to practise what God commands. John iii. 21.

Truth (tröth), v.t. To affirm or declare as true; to declare. [Rare.]

Had they dreamt this, they would have truth'd it heaven. Ford.

Truthful (tröth'ful), a. 1. Full of truth; loving and speaking the truth.

I profess to be as accurate as I can, and as truthful as the character of my records will allow. Berington.

2. Conformable to truth; correct; true; as, a truthful statement. Truthfully (tröth'ful-li), adv. In a truthful

manner.

Truthfulness (tröth'ful-nes), n.

The state or character of being truthful; as, the truthfulness of a person or of a statement. Truthless (tröth'les). a. 1. Wanting truth; wanting reality.-2. Faithless. What shall I call her? truthless woman. Beau. & Fl.

Truthlessness (tröth'les-nes), n. The state
of being truthless.
Truth-lover (troth'luv-ér), n. One devoted
to the truth.

Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named;
Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.

Truthnesst (tröth'nes), n. Truth. Marston. [Rare.]

Truth-teller (tröth'tel-ér), n. One who tells the truth. Tennyson. Truthy (tröth'i), a. Truthful; veracious. [Rare.]

The best coffee, let cavillers say what they will, is that of the Yemen, commonly entitled Mokha,' from the main port of exportation. Now I should be sorry to incur a lawsuit for libel and defamation from our wholesale or retail salesmen; but were the particle NOT prefixed to the countless labels in London shopwindows that bear the name of the Red Sea haven, they would have a more truthy import than what at present they convey. W. G. Palgrave.

Trutinate + (trö'ti-nāt), v.t. [L. trutinor, to weigh, from trutina, a balance.] To weigh; to balance. Whiting.

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Trutinationt (tro-ti-na'shou), n. above.] The act of weighing; examination by weighing. Sir T. Browne. Truttaceous (trut-a'shus), a.

trutta, trout.] Pertaining to the trout; as, fish of the truttaceous kind. Try (tri), v.t. pret. & pp. tried; ppr. trying. [Fr. trier, to pick, to cull, to select after examination; It. triare, tritare, to grind, to bruise, to examine, consider; from L. tritum (see TRITE), pp. of tero, to rub, to cleanse corn by thrashing, through a L. L. freq. form tritare. The original sense of the Fr. trier is, therefore, to separate grain from the husks, awns, &c. In Prov. E. try is the name of a kind of sieve. In O. E. the adjective trie, trye, choice, select, was common. 'Sugar that is so trye' Chaucer.] 1. To separate, as what is good from what is bad; to sift or pick out: with out.

The wylde corne, being in shape and greatnesse lyke to the good, if they be mengled, with great diffi Sir T. Elyot. cultie wyll be tryed out,

2. To purify; to assay; to refine, as metals; to melt out and procure in a pure state, as tallow, oil, lard, and the like. Silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.' Ps. xii. 6.

The fire seven times tried this;
Seven times tried that judgement is,
That did never choose amiss.

Shak.

3. To examine; to make experiment on; to prove by experiment. Doth not the ear try words.' Job xii. 11.

You must note beside,

That we have tried the utmost of our friends. Shak.

4. To experience; to have knowledge by experience of. Or try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold.' Dryden.-5. To prove by a test; to compare with a standard; as, to try weights and measures; to try one's opinions. Try your penitence, if it be sound, Or hollowly put on. Shak

6. To act upon as a test; to subject to severe trial; hence, to cause suffering or trouble to. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac. Heb. xi. 17.

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Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, and yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried.

Longfellow.

7. To examine; to inquire into in any manThat's a question; how shall we try it?' Shak. Hence-8. To examine judicially; to subject to the examination and decision or sentence of a judicial tribunal; as, causes tried in court. 'Guiltier than him they tried.' Shak.-9. To bring to a decision; to adjust; to settle; hence, to settle and decide by combat.

Nicanor... durst not try the matter by the sword. 2 Maccab. xiv. 18. Purposely therefore Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried. Shak. 10. To essay; to attempt; to undertake. Let us try advent'rous work.' Milton.-11. To use as means or as a remedy; as, to try remedies for a disease.

Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try. Shak. 12. To strain; as, to try the eyes or the muscles.-13. To incite to wrong; to tempt; to solicit.

In part she is to blame that has been tried; He comes too near that comes to be denied. Lady M. W. Montagu. 14. In joinery, to dress with a trying-plane. See TRYING-PLANE.-To try on, (a) to put on, as a garment, to see if it fits the person. (b) To attempt; to undertake. It wouldn't do to try it on there.' Dickens. [Colloq. ]To try a fall with, to engage in a bout of wrestling with; to match one's self against one in any contest.

She had in her time tried one or two falls with the doctor, and she was conscious that she had never got the better of him. Trollope.

Try (tri), v. i. 1. To exert strength; to endeayour; to make an effort; to attempt; as, try to learn; try to lift a weight; the horses tried to draw the load.-2. To find or show by experience what a person or a thing is; to prove by a test.

Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try. Shak.

-To try back, to go back, as in search of a road that one has missed; to go back, as in conversation, in order to recover some point that one has missed. 'The leading hounds are trying back.' T. Hughes.

She was marvellously quick to discover that she was astray, and try back.

Lever.

Try (tri), n. 1. The act of trying; attempt; a trial; experiment.

This breaking of his has been but a try for his friends. Shak.

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2. A corn-screen. [Provincial.]

They will not pass through the holes of the sieve, ruddle, or try, if they be narrow. Holland.

Tryable (tri'a-bl), a. Capable of being tried; fit to be tried or stand trial.

Hallam.

They objected to another, which made informations for assault upon officers tryable in any county of England. Try-cock (tri'kok), n. A gauge-cock (which see).

Trye,t a. Choice; select; refined.

Trygon (trigon), n. [Gr. trygōn, a sort of fish] A genus of cartilaginous fishes, to which the sting-ray belongs. See TRYGONIDE and STING-RAY. The sting

Trygonidæ (trī-gon’i-dē), n. pl. rays, a family of elasmobranchiate fishes, allied to the Raiidæ, or true rays, but having the tail armed with a single strong spine, notched on both sides, with which they can inflict severe wounds on their captors. Trying (tri'ing), a. Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive.

They were doubtless in a most trying situation. Macaulay. Trying-plane (trï'ing-plån), n. In joinery, a plane used after the jack-plane, for taking off a shaving the whole length of the stuff, which operation is called trying up. See PLANE.

Tryma (tri'ma), n. In bot. an inferior drupe, with a two-valved separable flesh, as the walnut.

Trynet (trin), a. Threefold; trine. Chaucer. Tryne compas, the threefold compass of the world-earth, sky, and sea. Try-sail (tri'sāl), n. Naut. a fore-and-aft sail, set with a boom and gaff, and hoisting on a lower mast or on a small mast abaft that mast, called a try-sail mast. Try-sail is also the name given to a sail set on a foreand-aft rigged vessel, if two-masted, on the main-mast, hoisted by a gaff, but having no boom at its lower edge; this is used only in bad weather as a storm-trysail. Tryst, Tryste (trist), n. [A form of Sc. and O.E. traist, trust, faith.] [A Scotch word sometimes used in English.] 1. An appointment to meet; an appointed meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst.-2. A market; as, Falkirk Tryst. At fair or tryst where I may be.' Border Minstrelsy. 3. Rendezvous. To bide tryst, to meet one with whom an engagement has been entered into at the appointed time and place; to keep an engagement or appointment.

'You walk late,' said I. I bide tryste,' was the reply, and so, I think, do you, Mr. Osbaldiston." Sir W. Scott. And Vivien, like the tenderest-hearted maid, That ever bided tryst at village style,, Made answer.

Tennyson. Tryst (trist), v.t. [Scotch.] 1. To engage a person to meet one at a given time and place. 2. To bespeak; to order or engage against a future time; as, to tryst a pair of boots. Tryst (trist), v. i. To agree to meet at any particular time or place. [Scotch.] Tryster (trist'èr), n. One who trysts; one who sets or makes a tryst; one who fixes a time and place of meeting. Trysting-day (trist'ing-da), n. An appointed day of meeting or assembling, as of military followers, friends, &c.

By the nine gods he swore it, and named a tryst ing-day. Macaulay. Trysting-place (trist'ing-plås), n. An arranged meeting-place; a place where a tryst or appointment is to be kept.

The frequent sigh, the long embrace,
Yet binds them to their frysting-place.

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Tschudi, Tschudic. See TCHUDI, TCHUDIC. Tse-hong (tse hong), n. A mixture of white lead with alumina, ferric oxide, and silica, used by the Chinese as a red colour for painting on porcelain.

Tsetse (tset'së), n. A South African dipterous insect of the family Tipulidae and genus Glossina (G. morsitans), akin to the gad-fly, whose bite is often fatal to horses, dogs, and cows, but is innoxious to man and wild beasts. It is a little larger than the common house-fly. The following account of the effect of its bite is given by Dr. Livingstone: 'In the ox the bite produces no more immediate effect than in man. It does not startle him as the gad-fly does, but in a few days the following symptoms supervene: the eyes

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and the nose begin to run, the coat stares as if the animal were cold, a swelling appears under the jaw and sometimes at the

Tsetse.

1, Insect. 2, Mouth organs (greatly magnified).

navel, and, though the animal continues to graze, emaciation commences, accompanied with a peculiar flaccidity of the muscles, and this continues unchecked until, perhaps months afterwards, purging comes on, and the animal, no longer able to graze, perishes in a state of extreme exhaustion. Those which are in good condition often perish soon after the bite is inflicted, with staggering and blindness, as if the brain were affected by it. Sudden changes of the temperature produced by falls of rain seem to hasten the progress of the complaint, but in general the emaciation goes on uninterruptedly for months, and, do what we will, the poor animals perish miserably.' Tsing-lien (tsingli-en), n. A red colour used for porcelain-painting in China, consisting chiefly of stannic and plumbic silicates, together with small quantities of oxide of copper, or cobalt and metallic gold. T-square (te'skwar), n. An instrument used in drawing plans of architectural and mechanical objects. It consists of two slips of hardwood, a and b, whose edges are dressed truly straight and parallel; the former, called the blade, is much thinner than the stock b, into which one of its extremities is fixed firmly at right angles; consequently, when the stock is applied to the edges of a rectangular drawing-board on which the paper is stretched, a pen or pencil pressed tightly against the blade will trace straight lines parallel or at right angles to each other as may be required. Sometimes

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shifting-stock, c, is also applied in the manner represented in the figure, for the convenience of drawing oblique lines parallel to each other.

Tub (tub), n. [L.G. tubbe, tubben, also tober, tover; D. tobbe, G. zuber, Ó. G. zuibar, zuipar, a compound word from elements corresponding to E. two and bear; lit., therefore, to be carried by two or with two handles for carrying. Distinguished from O. H.G. einbar (ein, one), Mod. G. eimer, an urn or cask, with one handle, or to be carried by one person.] 1. An open wooden vessel formed with staves, heading, and hoops; a small cask or half barrel with one bottom and open above; as, a washing tub; a meal tub; a mash tub, &c. Hence-2. The amount which a tub contains, reckoned as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of tea; a tub of camphor; a tub of vermilion.-3. A wooden vessel in which vegetables are planted, for the sake of being movable and set in a house in cold weather.-4. Any wooden structure shaped like or resembling a tub, as a certain form of pulpit.

All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and somne in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth. South.

5. A small cask; a barrel for holding liquor;

specifically, a barrel used by smugglers.

I made three seizures, besides sweeping up those thirty-seven tubs. Marryat.

6. In mining, (a) a corve or bucket for raising coal or ore from the mine. (b) A casing of wood or of cast-iron sections bolted together lining a shaft. (c) A kind of trough in which ores or slimes are washed to remove lighter refuse.-7. Sweating in a heated tub, formerly the usual cure of lues vencrea. Shak.-A tale of a tub, an idle or silly

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fiction; a cock-and-bull story. 'Which is a tale of a tub. Bale.

You shall see in us that we preached no lyes, nor tales of tubs, but even the true word of God. Coverdale.

Tub (tub), v.t. 1. To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub plants.-2. To bathe in a tub or bath.-3. In mining, to line (a shaft) with a casing of wood.

Tub (tub), v.i. To wash; to make use of a bathing-tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe. 'We all tub in England.' Spectator newspaper.

Tuba (tú'ba), n. [L., a trumpet.] 1. A brass wind-instrument, the lowest as to pitch in the orchestra. It has five cylinders, and its compass is four octaves. E. H. Knight.2. In anat. a canal resembling a trumpet. Tubber (tub'er), n. In mining, a sort of pick-axe: called also a Beele.

Tubber-man (tub'èr-man), n. In mining, the man who uses a tubber: called also a Beele-man.

Tubbing (tub'ing), n. 1. The act of making tubs; material for tubs. Hence-2. The lining or casing of the shaft of a mine, of an artesian well, or the like, to prevent the falling in of the sides as well as infiltration of water, originally of wood but now generally consisting of a series of cast-iron cylinders. Tubbing is especially employed to enable a shaft to be sunk through quicksand, or porous strata in which there are many springs.

Tubbish (tub'ish), a. Like a tub; tubby: round-bellied. 'A'short, round, large-faced, tubbish sort of man.' Dickens. Tubby (tub'i), a. 1. Tub-shaped; round like a tub or barrel. The fat, tubby little horse.' Dickens.-2. Having a sound like that of an empty tub when struck; wanting elasticity of sound; sounding dull and without resonance: applied to musical stringed instruments, as the violin.

Tub-drubber (tub'drub-ér), n. A tubthumper or tub- preacher (which see). "The famed tub-drubber of Covent Garden.' Tom Brown. [Slang.]

Tube (tub), n. [Fr. tube, from L. tubus, a tube, tuba, a trumpet.] 1. A pipe; a canal or conduit; a hollow cylinder, either of wood, metal, glass, india-rubber, &c., used for the conveyance of fluids and for various other purposes.-2. A vessel of animal bodies or plants which conveys a fluid or other substance; as, the eustachian and fallopian tubes in anatomy, the sap-tubes in plants.3. In bot. the part of a monosepalous calyx or monopetalous corolla formed by the union of the edges of the sepals or petals. The term is also applied to adhesions of stamens. Lindley.-4. A small cylinder placed in the vent of a gun, and containing a rapidly-burning composition whose ignition fires the powder of the charge; a priming-tube.-5. A telescope, or that part of it into which the lenses are fitted, and by which they are directed and used. 'His glazed optic tube.' Milton.-6. A pipe for water or fire in a steam-boiler. See Tubular Boiler under BOILER -7. The barrel of a

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Tubeform (tub'form), a. tube; tubular; tubiform. Tube-plate (tub'plat), n. In steam-boilers, the same as Flue-plate. Tube-plug (tüb'plug), n. In locomotive engines, a plug for driving into the end of tubes when burst by the steam. Tube-pouch (tub'pouch), n. A pouch for holding priming-tubes. See TUBE, 4. Tuber (tú'ber), n. [L., a swelling, a tumour,

a protuberance; same root as tumid, tumour.] 1. In bot. an underground fleshy stem, often considered as a modification of the root. It may be defined as an oblong or roundish body, of annual duration, composed chiefly of cellular tissue, with a great quantity of amylaceous matter intended for the development of the stems or branches which are to spring from it, and of which the rudiments, in the form of buds, are irregularly distributed over its surface. Examples are seen in the potato, the Jerusalem

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artichoke, and arrow-root. Tubers are distinguished, according to their forms, into didymous, that is, of an oblong form and in pairs; digitate, fasciculate, globular, oblong,

1, Palmate-Orchis maculata. 2, Didymous-Orchis mascula. 3, Fasciculate-Ficaria ranunculoides.

and palmate. See these terms.-2. A genus See of fungi comprising the truffles. TRUFFLE.-3. In surg. a knot or swelling in any part.-4. In anat. any rounded part; as, the annular tuber, an eminence of the medulla oblongata, called also pons varolii, tuber ischii, &c.

Tuberaceae, Tuberace! (tú-bér-a'sé-é, tüber-a'se-i), n. pl. A nat. order of fungi strictly analogous, amongst the sporidiferous kind, with the Hypogei amongst the sporiferous. All the genera with a single exception are strictly subterraneous, many are remarkable for their strong scent, and several

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are esteemed as great delicacies. The order includes the genus Tuber, the common truffle, and Rhizopogon, the white truffle.

Tuberated (tü'ber-ated), a. In her gibbous; knotted or swelled out, as the middle part of the serpent in the cut. Tubercle (tü'bér-kl), n. [O. Fr. tubercle, Fr. tubercule; from L.tubercu lum,dim. from tuber, a knob or bunch.] 1.In anat. a natural small rounded body or mass; as, the four white oval tubercles of the brain (technically called tubercula quadrigemina)

Tubercle of Lower, an eminence in the right auricle of the heart, where the two venæ cavæ meet: so named from Lower, who first described it. -2. In pathol. a small mass of morbid matter; especially, a small aggrega tion of an opaque matter of a pale yellow colour, having at first a consistence analogous to that of concrete albumen, subsequently becoming soft, and ultimately acquiring a consistence and appearance similar to pus. Tubercles may be developed in different parts of the body, but are most frequently observed in the lungs and mesentery. Tubercles in the lungs are the cause of the well-known fatal disease phthisis pulmonaris, or pulmonary consumption3. In bot. a little knob like a pimple on plants; a little knob or rough point on the fronds of some lichens, supposed to be the fructification.

Tubercled (tü'ber-kld), a. 1. Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; as, a tubercled lung.-2. In bot. tuberculate. Tubercular (tú-bérkü-lér), a. 1. Full of knobs or pimples; tuberculate.-2. Affected with tubercles; tuberculose. Tuberculate, Tuberculated (tü-berkü-lāt, tü-berku-lat-ed), a. 1. Tubercular; tuberculose.2. In bot. having small knobs or pimples, as a plant.

Tubercule (tuber-kül), n. A tubercle; a little tuber. Tuberculization (tü-bér'kü-liz-a"shon), n. In pathol. the formation of tubercles, or the condition of becoming tubercled. Tuberculose, Tuberculous (tü-bêr'ku-lós, tü-bêrkü-lus), a. Tubercular. Tuberiferous (tü-bér-if'èr-us), a. [L. tuber, a tuber, and fero, to bear.] Producing or bearing tubers; as, a tuberiferous root. Tuberiform (tü ber-i-form), a Tubershaped. Tuberont (tü'bér-on), n. [Sp. tiburon, a shark.] A shark.

A shark or tuberon that lay gaping for the flyingfish hard by ... snapt her up.

Nask

Tuberose (tü'ber-os), a. [Latin tuberosus, tuberous.] Tuberous; having knobs or tubers.

Tuberose (tüb'roz or tube-roz), n. [From the Latin specific name, which means simply tuberous;' so Fr. tubéreuse, Sp. tuber

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osa.] An odoriferous plant with a tuberous root, the Polianthes tuberosa. It is a favourite flower, and much cultivated. In this country it requires artificial protection and heat. See POLIANTHES. Tuberosity (tú-béros'i-ti), n. 1. State of being tuberous.-2. A swelling or prominence. Starched ruffs, buckram stuffings, and monstrous tuberosities.' Carlyle. Specifically, in anat. a projection or elevation on a bone, having a rough, uneven surface, to which muscles and ligaments are attached. Tuberous (tu'bėr-us), a. [See TUBEROSE, a.] 1. Covered with knobby or wart-like prominences; knobbed.-2. In bot. consisting of or containing tubers; resembling a tuber. Tuberousness (tu'bér-us-nes), n. Quality of being tuberous.

Tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa).

Tube-sheet (tub'shēt), n. See FLUE

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Tube-well (tub'wel), n. An apparatus for quickly obtaining a limited supply of water, and consisting of a cylindrical iron tube, having a sharp point of solid tempered steel, and perforated immediately above the point with many small holes. This, by means of a rammer or monkey, is driven into the earth till symptoms of water appear, when a small suction-pump is applied to the tube, and the water pumped up. By means of it water is got very quickly from small depths.

Tub-fast (tub'fast), n. A process of treatment for the cure of venereal disease by sweating in a heated tub for a considerable time, during which the patient had to observe strict abstinence. Shak. Tub-fish (tub'fish), n. A local name for the sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). Tubful (tub'ful), n. A quantity sufficient to fill a tub; as much as a tub will hold. Tubicinate (tu-bis'in-at), v.i. [L. tubicen, a trumpeter, from tuba, a trumpet.] To blow a trumpet. [Rare.]

Tubicolæ (tu-bik'o-le), n.pl. [L. tubus, a tube, and colo, to inhabit, live, or dwell in.] 1. A family of spiders, which inclose themselves in a silken tube, strengthened externally by leaves or other foreign substances. It includes two genera, Dysdera and Segestria.2. An order of annelids, comprehending those which live in calcareous tubes, composed of secretions from the animal itself, as in Serpula (which see); in tubes composed of sand and fragments of shell connected together by a glutinous secretion, as in Terebella (which see); or in a tube composed of granules of

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1, Terebella variabilis. 2, Serpula contortuplicata. 3, Sabella protula. 4. Spirorbis nautilioides.

sand and mud, as in Sabella (which see); or in membranous tubes, as the less known genera Pectinaria, Phoronis, &c. Reproduction in the Tubicolæ is generally sexual, the sexes being in different individuals, but spontaneous fissure has also been observed. As regards their development the young pass through a distinct metamorphosis. Tubicolar (tu-bik'ō-lèr), a. Of or pertaining to the Tubicolæ. H. A. Nicholson. Tubicole (tü'bi-kōl), n. An annelid of the order Tubicolæ.

Tubicolidæ (tu-bi-kol'i-dē), n. pl. [See TuBICOLE.] A family of lamellibranchiate 'mollusca deriving their name from being connected when fully grown with a long cal

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Tubiporida (tu-bi-por'i-dē), n. pl. [L. tubus, a tube, and porus, a pore.] The organ-pipe corals, a family of Actinozoa or corals, order Alcyonaria, comprehending those which are provided with internal ovaries, and eight pinnated tentacula, and contained in elongated cylindrical cells, which are calcareous or coriaceous, and attached by their base. They have their name from the coral consisting of a cluster of small tubes or pipes of a reddish colour, each tube being the abode of a polype. Tubiporite (tu'bi-por-it), n. merly given to Syringopora. Tubivalve (tu'bi-valv), n. An annelid of the order Tubicolidae. Tub-man (tub'man), n. A barrister who has a preaudience in the exchequer division of the high court, and also a particular place in court. See POSTMAN. Tub-preacher (tub'prech-er), n. [Tub, a kind of pulpit, and preacher.] A contemptuous term for a dissenting minister; hence, a ranting, ignorant preacher. Bp. Hacket. Tubster (tub'ster), n. Same as Tub-preacher or Tub-thumper. Tom Brown. Tub-thumper (tub'thump-ér), n. A violent or gesticulating preacher; one who employs violent action to give effect or appearance of earnestness to his sermons: used in derision. [Slang.]

Tubular (tü'bu-lér), a. [From L. tubulus, dim. of tubus, a tube.] Having the form of a tube or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout.-Tubular boiler. See BOILER-Tubular bridge. See BRIDGE. Tubularia (tū-bu-la'ri-a), n. A genus of Hydrozoa, of the sub-class Hydroida, order Corynidæ or Tubularida. In this genus the hydrosome consists of clustered horny, straw-like tubes, each of which is filled with a soft, semi-fluid reddish coenosarc, and gives exit at its distal extremity to a single bright red unretractile polypite. Tubularian (tu-bu-la'ri-an), n. A member of the order Tubularida. Tubularida (tu-bü-lar'i-da), n. pl. Same as Corynidae. See also TUBULARIA. Tubulated, Tubulate (tü'bu-lat-ed, tū'būlat), a. 1. Made in the form of a small tube. 2. Furnished with a small tube.-Tubulated retort, a retort having a small tube furnished with a stopper, so placed above the bulb as to enable substances to be introduced into the retort without soiling the neck. A receiver with a similar tube and stopper is called a tubulated receiver. Tubulation (tu-bu-la'shon), n. The act of making hollow, as a tube, or the act of forming a tube.

Tubulature (tü'bu-la-tür), n. [L. tubulus, a little tube.] The mouth or short neck at the upper part of a tubulated retort. Tubule (tü'bül), n. [L. tubulus, dim. of tubus, a tube.] A small pipe or fistular body. Woodward.

Tubulibranchian (tū'bu-li-brang''ki-an), n. A mollusc of the order Tubulibranchiata. Tubulibranchiata (tü'bu-li-brang 'ki-a"ta), n. pl. [L. tubulus, a tubule, and branchia, gills.] Cuvier's name, rarely used in modern

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zoology, for those gasteropods of which that part of the shell in which the branchia (and indeed the whole animal) are lodged is a more or less regularly shaped tube, including the genera Vermetus, Magilus, and Siliquaria (which see).

Tubulicolæ (tú-bu-lik'o-lē), n. pl. Cuvier's name for an order of polyps inhabiting tubes of which the axis is traversed by the gelatinous flesh, and which are open at the summits or sides to give passage to the digestive sacs and prehensile mouths of the polyps.

Tubulicole (tü'bu-li-kōl), n. A polyp of the order Tubulicolæ.

Tubuliflora (tü'bu-li-flo"re), n. pl. [L. tubu lus, a little tube, and flos, floris, a flower.] One of the three sub-orders into which De Candolle divided the Compositæ, including those species which have all, or at least the central, florets of each head regular and tubular. It comprises the Corymbiferæ and Cynarocephalæ of Jussieu.

Tubuliform (tū'bu-li-form), a. [L. tubulus, a tubule, and forma, form.] Having the form of a small tube.

Tubulose (tü'bu-los), a. Resembling a tube or pipe; fistular; tubular; tubulous. Tubulous (tü'bu-lus), a. Resembling a tube or pipe; longitudinally hollow; tubular; specifically, in bot. (a) containing small tubes; composed wholly of tubulous florets; as, a tubulous compound flower. (b) Having a bell-shaped border, with five reflex segments, rising from a tube; as, a tubulous floret.

Tubulure (tū'bu-l'r), n. In chem. a short open tube at the top of a retort. Tubulus (tubu-lus), n. pl. Tubuli (tü'bū-li). [L.] A little tube or pipe; in anat. a minute duct, as the tubuli lactiferi, or milk ducts. Tuburcinia (tu-bêr-sin'i-a), n. A genus of moulds. T. scabies is known by the name of potato-scab.

Tub-wheel (tub'whel), n. A horizontal water-wheel, usually in the form of a short cylinder, with a series of floats placed radially attached to its rim, turned by the impact or percussion of one or more streams of water so directed as to strike each float as it passes.

Tucett (tu'set), n. A steak. Tucets or gobbets of condited bull's flesh.' Jer. Taylor. See TUCKET.

Tucht (tuch), n. Same as Touch, a kind of marble.

Tuck+ (tuk), n. [Probably from Fr. estoc, a long sword (with falling away of initial & as in ticket); Sp. estoque, It. stocco; all from G. stock, a stick. Comp., however, W. twca, a knife, twc, a cut or chip; Ir. tuca, a rapier.] A long narrow sword; a rapier. Shak. Tuck (tuk), n. [From tuck, to draw.] 1. A pull; a lugging. A. Wood.-2. A kind of net.

The fuck is narrower meshed and therefore scarce lawful with a long bunt in the midst. Rich. Carew. 3. Naut. the part where the ends of the bottom planks are collected under the stern. 4. A fold in a dress; a horizontal fold made in the skirt of a garment or dress, in order to accommodate it to the height of a growing person, or for ornamental purposes.5. Food, especially sweet-stuff, pastry, &c. T. Hughes. [Slang.] Tuck (tuk), n. [From tucket.] The sound produced by beating a drum; beat.

Leslie's foot and Leven's troopers Marching to the tuck of drum. Aytoun. Tuck (tuk), v. t. [Same word as L.G. tucken, G. zucken, to draw in or together, to shrug: Sw. tocka, to draw, to contract. Same root as E. tug.] 1. To thrust or press in or together; to fold in or under; to gather up; as, to tuck up a bed; to tuck up a garment; to tuck in the skirt of anything.

She tucked up her vestments like a Spartan virgin, and marched directly forwards to the utmost suminit Addison. of the promontory.

2. To inclose by pushing the clothes close around; as, to tuck a child into a bed.

I declare you ought to go back to your schoolroom in Virginia again; have your black nurse to tuck you up in bed. Thackeray.

3. To gobble up; to eat: usually with in. [Slang.]-4. To string up; to hang. then calmly tucked up the Richardson.

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5. To full, as cloth. [Local.] Tuck (tuk), v.i. To contract; to draw together.

An ulcer discharging a nasty thin ichor, the edges tuck in, and growing skinned and hard, give it the name of a callous ulcer. Sharp.

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Tuckahoe (tuk'a-ho), n. [American Indian word for bread. ] A singular vegetable found in the southern seaboard states of the North American Union, growing underground, like the European truffle. also called Indian bread and Indian loaf. It is referred to a genus Pachyma of spurious fungi, but in all probability it is a peculiar condition of some root, though of what plant has not been properly ascertained. Tucker (tuk'èr), n. 1. One who or that which tucks.-2. An ornamental frilling of lace or muslin round the top of a woman's dress and descending to cover part of the bosom.-3. A fuller. [Local.]

Tucket (tuk'et), n. [It. toccata, a prelude, toccato, a touch, from toccare, to touch. See TOUCH.] A flourish on a trumpet; a fanfare. Shak

Tuckett (tuk'et), n. [It. tocchetto, a ragout of fish or flesh, from tocco, a bit, a morsel; perhaps from root of touch.] A steak; a collop.

Tucketsonancet (tuk'et-so-nans), n. The sound of the tucket.

Let the trumpets sound

Shak.

Mark

The tucketsonance and the note to mount. Tuck-net (tuk'net), n. A small net used to take out fish from a larger one. Tuck-pointing (tuk'point-ing), n. ing the joints of brickwork with a narrow parallel ridge of fine white putty. Tuck-shop (tuk'shop), n. A shop where tuck, that is food, particularly sweet-stuffs, pastry, &c., is sold. T. Hughes. [Slang.] Tucum (tu'kum), n. [The name given by the Indians of Brazil.] A species of palm (Astrocaryum vulgare) of great importance to the Brazilian Indians, who make cordage, bowstrings, fishing-nets, &c., from the fine durable fibre consisting of the epidermis of its unexpanded leaves. Hammocks, hats, fans, &c., are also fabricated of this thread. Where not indigenous the tree is cultivated with care. The name is also given to the fibre or thread.

Tucu-tucu (tu'ku-tu-ku), n. The Ctenomys braziliensis, a small rodent animal, native of South America. It is of nocturnal habits, lives almost entirely underground, forming extensive burrows near the surface, and is about the size of the common water-rat, but with fur like that of a squirrel. It receives its name in imitation of the sound it utters. Tudas (tu'das), n. pl. Same as Todas. Tudor (tu'dor), a. [W. Tewdyr, Theodore.] 1. Of, pertaining, or relating to an English royal line founded by Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first of the Tudor sovereigns was Henry VI., the last Elizabeth.-2. Of, pertaining, or belonging to the Tudor style of architecture; as, a Tudor window or arch. 'Tudorchimneyed bulk of mellow brickwork.' Tennyson.-Tudor style, in arch, a name frequently applied to the latest Gothic style in England, being the last phase of the

Tudor Architecture, Hengrave Hall, Essex, 1538. Perpendicular, and sometimes known as Florid Gothic. The period of this style is from 1400 to 1537, but the term is sometimes extended so as to include the Elizabethan period also, which brings it down to 1603. It is the result of a combination of

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the Italian style with the Gothic. It is characterized by a flat arch, shallow mouldings, and a profusion of panelling on the walls.

Tudor - flower (tu'dor-flou-ér), n. A trefoil ornament much used in Tudor architecture. It is placed upright on a stalk, and is employed in long rows as a

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crest or ornamental finishing on cornices, ridges, &c.

Tuefall (tu'fal), n. [A corruption from tofall-to and fall.] A building with a sloping roof on one side only; a pent-house. Written more properly To-fall.

Tue-iron (tū'i-èrn), n. 1. Same as Tuyère.
2. pl. A pair of blacksmiths' tongs.
Tuelt (tu'el), n. [Lit. a pipe. See TEWEL.]
The anus.

Tuesday (tüz'da), n. [A. Sax. Tiwesdag, that is, Tiw's day, the day of Tiw, the Northern Mars, or god of war. (See TIU.) So Icel. týsdagr (Sc. tiseday), tyrsdagr, Sw. tisdag, Dan. tirsdag, D. dingsdag, G. dienstag. Comp. Thursday Thor's day.] The third day of the week.

Tufa (tü'fa), n. [It. tufa, Fr. tuf, a kind of porous stone, from L. tophus, tuff, tufa.] In geol. a term originally applied to a light porous rock composed of cemented scoria and ashes, but now to any porous vesicular compound. See TUFF.

Tufaceous (tü-fa'shus), a. Pertaining to tufa; consisting of tufa or tuff, or resembling it.

Tuff (tuf), n. [See TUFA.] The name originally given to a kind of volcanic rock, consisting of accumulations of scoria and ashes about the crater of a volcano, which are agglutinated together so as to make a coherent or solid mass. Sometimes tuff is composed of volcanic ashes and sand, transported and deposited by rain-water. The name is now applied to any porous vesicular compound; thus rounded fragments of greenstone, basalt, and other trap rocks, cemented into a solid mass, are termed trap-tuff, while a vesicular carbonate of lime, generally deposited near the sources and along the courses of calcareous springs, incrusting and incorporating twigs, moss, shells, and other objects that lie in its way, is called calc-tuff

A corruption of Ty.

Tuffoon (tuf-fön'), n. phoon. [Rare.] Tufftaffaty, n. Same as Tuf-taffeta. Tuft (tuft), n. [Formerly tuffe, from Fr. touffe, a tuft, a thicket or clump of trees, with addition of a t (comp. graft and graff): from the Teutonic: G. zopf, Icel. toppr, a tuft of hair = E. top. See TOP.] 1. A collection of small flexible or soft things in a knot or bunch; as, a tuft of flowers; a tuft of feathers; a tuft of grass or hair. Edged round with moss and tufts of

matted grass.' Dryden.-2. A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of trees; a tuft of olives.

Behind the tuft of pines I met them. Shak. 3. In bot. a head of flowers, each elevated on a partial stock, and all forming together a dense roundish mass. The word is sometimes applied to other collections, as little bundles of leaves, hairs, and the like.-4. In English universities, a young nobleman entered a student at a university: so called from the tuft on the cap worn by him. Several young tufts, and others of the faster men.' T. Hughes. [Slang.]

Tuft (tuft), v. t. 1. To separate into tufts. 2. To adorn with or as with tufts or a tuft.

To make old bareness picturesque

And tuft with grass a feudal tower. Tennyson.

Tuftt (tuft), v.i. To grow in tufts; to Holland. form a tuft or tufts. Tuf-taffeta, Tuftaffatyt (tuf-taf'fe-ta, tuf-taf'fa-ti), n. A shaggy, long piled, or villous kind of silk fabric. Donne. Tufted (tuft'ed), p. and a. 1. Adorned with a tuft or tufts; as, the tufted duck.2. Growing in tufts or clusters. Tufted trees and springing corn.' Pope. Tuft-hunter (tuft'hunt-ér), n. One who covets the society of titled persons; one who is willing to submit to the insolence of the great for the sake of the supposed honour

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of being in their company. The term took its rise at the English universities of Oxford and Cambridge, where the young noblemen wear a peculiarly formed cap with a tuft. [Slang.]

At Eton a great deal of snobbishness was thrashed out of Lord Buckram, and he was birched with perfect impartiality. Even there, however, a select band of sucking tuft-hunters followed him. Thackeray. Tuft-hunting (tuft'hunt-ing), n. The practice of a tuft-hunter.

Tufty (tuf'ti), a. 1. Abounding with tufts. "The tufty frith and. mossy fell. Drayton.-2. Growing in tufts. Tufty daisies." W. Browne.

Tug (tug), v.t. pret. & pp. tugged; ppr. tugging. (A. Sax. teóhan, teón, to tug or pull; pret. pl. tugon, pp. togen; Icel. toga, tjuga, to draw; G. zug, a pull, from stem of ziehen, to draw; Goth. tiuhan, to draw. Akin tow, tuck, L. duco. See DUKE.] 1. To pull or draw with great effort or with a violent strain; to haul with great labour or force. "There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar.' Roscommon.-2. To pull; to pluck. To ease the pain,

His tugg'd ears suffer'd with a strain. Hudibras. 3. To drag by means of a steam-tug; as, the vessel had to be tugged into port. Tug (tug), v.i. 1. To pull with great effort; as, to tug at the oar.

We have been tugging a great while against the
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3. A sort of carriage, used in some parts of England for conveying bavins or faggots and other things.-4. A tug-boat.-5. A chain, strong rope, or leather strap used as a trace.-6. In mining, an iron hoop to which a tackle is affixed.-To hold tug,t to stand severe handling or hard work.-To hold one tug,t to keep one busily employed; to keep one in work.

This was work enough for a curious and critical antiquary that would hold him tugg for a whole yeare. Life of A. Wood. A strongly built Tug-boat (tug'bōt), n. steam-boat, used for dragging sailing and other vessels. Such a boat is also sometimes called a Steam-tug. Tugger (tuger), n. Tuggingly (tug'ing-li), adv. With laborious with great effort. pulling.

One who tugs or pulls

Tug-iron (tug'i-èrn), n.

The iron on the shaft of a wagon, to which the traces are attached. [United States.]

Tuille, Tuillette (twil, twil-et'), n. [Fr. tuile, from L. tegula, a tile.] In milit. antiq. one of the guard plates appended to the tasses, to which they were frequently fastened by straps. They hung down and covered the upper part of the thigh, and were first introduced during the reign of Henry V.

Tuilyie, Tuilzie (tül'ye), n. [See TOOLYE.] A broil; a quarrel; a skirmish. [Scotch.]

He said that Callum Beg and your honour were killed that same night in the tuilyie. Sir W. Scott. Tuition (tu-i'shon), n. [L. tuitio, tuitionis, guardianship, from tueor, tuitus, to see, to look to.] 1. Guardianship; superintending care or keeping generally.

Afterwards turning his speech to his wife and bis son, he commended them both with his kingdom to the tuition of the Venetians. Knolles.

2. The particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward.-3. Instruction; the act or business of teaching the various branches of learning.

Whatever classical instruction Sir Joshua received was under the tuition of his father. Malone.

Tuitionary (tu-i'shon-a-ri), a. Pertaining to tuition.

Tula (to'la), n. [Hind.] A native cooking-place in India. A plain... charred by campfires, and ragged with tulas or native cooking-places.' Russell.

Tula-metal (to'la-met-al), n. [From Tula, the Russian town where it is extensively made.] An alloy of silver, with small pro

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portions of lead and copper, forming the base of the celebrated Russian snuff-boxes popularly called platinum boxes. Tulchan, Tulchin (tulch'an, tulêh'in), n. [Comp. Sc. tulchan, tulehet, an ill made up bundle; Gael. and Ir. tulach, a heap.] A calf's skin stuffed with straw, and set beside a cow, to make her give her milk: used formerly in Scotland. - Tulchan bishops, a name derisively applied to the persons appointed as titular bishops to the Scottish sees immediately after the Reformation, in whose names the revenues of the sees were drawn by the lay barons who had impropriated them. [Scotch]

Tule (to'la), n. [Sp.] A large club-rush or sedge, Scirpus validus,nat. order Cyperaceæ, which grows to a great height, and covers large tracts of marshy land in some parts of California.

Tulip (tū'lip), n. [Fr. tulipe, from Sp. tulipa, tulipan, It. tulipano, a tulip, from Turk. tolipend, a name given to the flower on account of its resemblance to a turban. See TURBAN] A genus of plants (Tulipa), nat. order Liliaceæ. The species are herbaceous plants, developed from a bulb, inhabiting the warmer parts of Europe and Asia Minor, and are much cultivated for the beauty of the flowers. About forty species have been described, of which the most noted is the common garden tulip (T. gesneriana), a native of the Levant, and introduced into England about 1577. Upwards of 1000 varieties of this plant have been enumerated, and these varieties have been divided into four families, viz. bizarres (characterized by a yellow ground marked with purple or scarlet), byblemens (a white ground variegated with violet or purple of various shades), roses (a white ground, marked with rose, scarlet, or crimson), and selfs (a white or yellow ground without any marks). Several other species are cultivated. The wild tulip (T. sylvestris) is a doubtful native of Britain, and grows in chalk pits and quarries. It has yellow flowers, and blooms in April and May. The sweet-scented tulip or Van Thol tulip (T. suaveolens), although far inferior as a flower to the common or garden tulip, is much prized for its fragrance, and for appearing more early in the season. It is much grown in pots in windows. Tulipist (tu lip-ist), n. A cultivator of tulips. Tulipomania (tulip-ō-ma"ni-a), n. [Tulip, and L. mania, madness. Beckman says the word was coined by Menage.] A violent passion for the cultivation or acquisition of tulips. This species of mania began to exhibit itself in Holland about the year 1634, when it seemed to seize on all classes like an epidemic, leading to disasters such as result from great financial catastrophes. Tulip-marts were established in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Leyden, and other towns, where roots were sold and resold as stocks on the exchange. A single root of Semper Augustus was thought cheap at 5500 florins, and on one occasion 12 acres of building lots was offered for a single root of this species at Haarlem. The mania raged for several years till the government found it necessary to interfere. Dutch floriculturists still hold the tulip in especial esteem. Tulipomaniac (tu'lip-ō-ma"ni-ak), n. One who is affected with tulipomania. Tulip-tree (tūlip-trẻ). a. An American tree bearing flowers resembling the tulip, the Liriodendron tulipifera, nat. order Magnoliaceæ. It is one of the most magnificent

Flower of Tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera).

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wood is light, compact, and fine-grained, and is employed for various useful purposes, such as the interior work of houses, coachpanels, door-panels, wainscots, mouldings of chimney-pieces, bedsteads, trunks, &c. The Indians of the Middle and Western States prefer this tree for their canoes. The bark, especially of the roots, has an aromatic smell and bitter taste, and has been used in medicine as a tonic and febrifuge. In this country the tulip-tree is cultivated as an ornamental tree. See LIRIODENDRON. Tulip-wood (tū’lip-wyd), n. See PHYSOCALYMMA.

Tulle (tul), n. A kind of thin, open net, silk fabric, originally manufactured at Tulle in France, in narrow strips, and much used in female head-dresses, collars, &c. Tulle,+ Tull, v.t. [See TOLE.] To allure; to entice. Chaucer.

Tullian (tul'li-an), a. [From Marcus Tullius Cicero, the great Roman orator.] Of, pertaining to, or resembling Tully or Cicero; Ciceronian.

Tulwar (tul'war), n. [Hind.] The East Indian sabre.

The wounds, many of them very serious and severe, were inflicted by the sabre or native tulwar, W. H. Russell. Tumbeki (tum'bek-i), n. See TOUMBEKL Tumble (tum'bl), v.i. [Directly from the Scandinavian: Dan. tumle, Sw. tumla, to tumble, to toss, to reel, freq. forms allied to A. Sax. tumbian, to dance, which gives rise to meaning 3; allied also to D. tuimelen, to tumble, G. taumeln, to reel, to stagger. The word has passed from the Germanic into the Romance languages, hence Fr. tomber, to fall. See TUMBREL.] 1. To roll about by turning one way and the other; to toss; to roll; to pitch about; as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses; waves tumble. 'Hedgehogs which lie tumbling in my barefoot way. Shak.-2. To lose footing or support and fall to the ground; to come down suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold. 'To stand or walk, to rise

or tumble.' Prior.

And here had fall'n a great part of a tower
Whole, like a crag that tumbles from the cliff.
Tennyson.

3. To play mountebank tricks, by various librations, movements, and contortions of the body.-To tumble in, to tumble home, said of a ship's sides when they incline in above the extreme breadth.-To tumble to, to understand; to comprehend. [Slang.]

To other ears than mine the closing remark would have appeared impertinent; but Itumbled to' it immediately. Mayhew.

Tumble (tum'bl), v.t. pret. & pp. tumbled; ppr. tumbling. 1. To turn over; to turn or throw about for examination or searching: often with over; as, to tumble over books or papers; to tumble over clothes. Tumbling it over and over in his thoughts.' Bacon. They tumble all their little quivers o'er To choose propitious shafts.

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2. To disturb; to disorder; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.-3. To throw by chance or violence.

I learnt more from her in a flash Than if my brainpan were an empty hull, And every Muse tumbled a science in. Tennyson. 4. To throw down; to overturn or overthrow; to cast to the ground; to precipitate. 'To tumble down thy husband and thyself.' Shak.

King Lycurgus, while he fought in vain His friend to free, was tumbled on the plain. Dryden. -To tumble in, in carp. to fit, as a piece of timber, into other work. Tumble (tum'bl), n. A fall; a rolling over. A country fellow got an unlucky tumble from a tree. Sir R. L'Estrange. Tumble-bug, Tumble-dung (tum'bl-bug, tum'bl-dung), ". A species of dung-beetle, the Coprobius volrens, common in the United States, which rolls about balls of dung containing its eggs.

Tumble-down (tum'bl-doun), a. In a falling state; ruinous. Slovenly tumble-down cottages of villanous aspect.'" Lord Lytton. [Colloq]

Tumble-home (tum′bl-hōm), n. Naut. the part of a ship which falls inward above the extreme breadth.

of the forest trees in the temperate parts of Tumbler (tumbler), n. 1. One who tumbles;

North America. Throughout the States it is generally known by the name of poplar, white wood, or canoe-wood. It attains a height of from 80 to 140 feet, the trunk being from 3 to 8 or 9 feet in diameter. The

one who plays the tricks of a mountebank, such as turning summersaults, walking on the hands, and the like.

What incredible and astonishing actions do we find rope-dancers and tumblers bring their bodies to. Locke.

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3. A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from his practice of tumbling or turning over in flight. It is a short-bodied pigeon, of a plain colour, black, blue, or white. 4. A sort of dog, so called from his practice of tumbling before he attacks his prey. This kind of dog was formerly employed for catching rabbits.-5. A sort of spring-latch in a lock which detains the bolt so as to prevent its motion, until a key lifts it and sets the bolt at liberty.-6. A tumbrel. Sir W. Scott. 7. One of the religious sect known as Tunkers (which see). Tumblerful (tumbler-ful), n. A quantity sufficient to fill a tumbler; as much as a tumbler can contain. Tumbling-bay (tum'bling-bā), n. An overfall or weir in a canal.

Tumbling-net (tum'bling-net), n. See TRAMMEL-NET.

Tumbrel, Tumbril (tum'brel, tumʼbril), n. [O. Fr. tomberel, Fr. tombereau, a dung-cart, from tomber, to fall, from the body of the cart being capable of being turned up and the contents tumbled out without unyoking. See TUMBLE.] 1. A ducking stool formerly used for the punishment of scolding women. See DUCKING-STOOL. 2. A dungcart; a sort of low carriage with two wheels occasionally used by farmers for the most ordinary purposes.

My corps is in a tumbril laid, among
The filth and ordure, and inclosed with dung.
Dryden.

3. A covered cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, for conveying the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.-4. A sort of circular cage or crib, made of osiers or twigs, used in some parts of England for feeding sheep in the winter.

Tumefaction (tu-me-fak'shon), n. [L. tumefacio, to make tumid. See TUMID.] The act or process of swelling or rising into a tumour; a tumour; a swelling. Tumefac tions in the whole body or parts.' Arbuthnot.

Tumefy (tū'mē-fi), v. t. pret. & pp. tumefied; ppr. tumefying. [Fr. tuméfier, from L. tumefacio tumeo, to swell, and facio, to make] To swell or cause to swell or be tumid. To swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought." De Quincey.

Tumefy (tu'mē-fi), v.i. To swell; to rise in

a tumour.

Tumescence (tù-mes'ens), n. The state of growing tumid; tumefaction.

Tumid (tú'mid), a. [L. tumidus, from tumeo, to swell, from root tu, producing also tumulus, tumultus, tumor, tuber, &c., whence E. tumult, tumour, &c. Akin tomb.] 1. Being swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh. -2. Protuberant; rising above the level. 'So high as heaved the tumid hills.' Milton.-3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; bombastic; falsely sublime; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style.

Byron.

Shall gentle Coleridge pass unnoticed here, To turgid ode and tumid stanza dear! Tumidity (tu-mid'i-ti), n. The state or quality of being tumid; a swelled state. Tumidly (tü'mid-li), adv. In a tumid manner or form.

Tumidness (tū'mid-nes), n. A swelling or swelled state; tumidity.

Tummals (tum'alz), n. [Probably a corruption of L. tumulus, a mound, a heap.] In mining, a heap, as of waste. Tumor (tu'mor), n. See TUMOUR. Tumorous (tu'mor-us), a. 1. Swelling; protuberant. Sir H. Wotton.-2. Vainly pompous; bombastic, as language or style; fustian; falsely magnificent.

According to their subject, these styles vary; for that which is high and lofty, declaring excellent matter, becomes vast and tumorous, speaking of petty and inferior things. B. Jonson. Tumour (tü'mor), n. [L. tumor, from tumeo, to swell. See TUMID.] 1 In surg. in its widest sense, a morbid enlargement or swelling of any part of the body or of any kind; more strictly, however, it implies a permanent swelling occasioned by a new

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