To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.

A low bed that is moved on trundles, or little wheels, so that it can be pushed under a higher bed; a truckle-bed; also, sometimes, a simiral bed without wheels.

One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion.

A round or curled-up tail; also, a dog with such a tail.

To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.

The leatherback.

Having (such) a trunk.

Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.

As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.

Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem.

See Treenail.

A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.

Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.

The act of pushing or thrusting.

To bind or pack close; to tie up tightly; to make into a truss.

The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively.

To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

To commit (property) to the care of a trustee; as, to trustee an estate.

The office or duty of a trustee.

One who trusts, or credits.

Full of trust; trusting.

In a trusty manner.

The quality or state of being trusty.

Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful.

That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful.

Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty.

Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.

To assert as true; to declare.

One who loves the truth.

One who tells the truth.

Full of truth; veracious; reliable.

Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless.

Truth.

Truthful; likely; probable.

The act of weighing.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trout; as, fish of the truttaceous kind.

Refined; select; excellent; choice.

to use (something not previously used) to determine its fitness for a particular purpose; also, to attempt (a deed) to determine if it will accomplish a particular purpose.

An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square.

Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.

Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive; as, a trying occasion or position.

a test of the performance capability of a person, to ascertain fitness for a particular task; in sports, a test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined.

A proteolytic enzyme present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.

The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.

Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.

The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.

A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer.

To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.

One who makes an appointment, or tryst; one who meets with another.

An appointment; a tryst.

The title of the emperor of Russia. See Czar.

The title of the empress of Russia. See Czarina.

The chameck.

A West African anthropoid ape allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and by some considered only a variety of the chimpanzee. It is noted for building large, umbrella-shaped nests in trees. Called also tscheigo, tschiego, nschego, nscheigo.

The springbok.

A venomous two-winged African fly (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of the year.

Words imitative of the notes of the owl.

A large iguanalike reptile (Sphenodon punctatum) formerly common in New Zealand, but by 1900 confined to certain islets near the coast. It reaches a length of two and a half feet, is dark olive-green with small white or yellowish specks on the sides, and has yellow spines along the back, except on the neck. It is the only surviving member of the order Rhyncocephala. Also called tuatera and hatteria.

Same as tuatara.

To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.

Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.

The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.

Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.

To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

an electrically powered railroad with tracks running through a tunnel underground; a subway.

Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds. Belonging to the Tubinares.

Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.

In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform.

A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous. A genus of fungi. See Truffle.

Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk.

Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

To infect with tuberculosis.

Tubercled; tubercular.

A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium.

The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles.

able to kill Mycobacterum tuberculosis.

A special substance contained in tuberculin, supposed to be the active agent of the latter freed from various impurities.

Resembling a tubercle.

Affected with tuberculosis.

A constitutional disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (also called the Tubercle bacillus), characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary phthisis (consumption). The Mycobacteria are slow-growing and without cell walls, and are thus not affected by the beta-lactam antibiotics; treatment is difficult, usually requiring simultaneous administration of multiple antibiotics to effect a cure. Prior to availability of antibiotic treatment, the cure required extensive rest, for which special sanatoriums were constructed.

Pertaining to, or affected with, a tuberculosis.

Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.

A tubercle.

Producing or bearing tubers.

Tuberous.

The state of being tuberous.

Any annelid which constructs a tube; one of the Tubicolae.

The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard.

As much as a tub will hold; enough to fill a tub.

To blow a trumpet.

A division of annelids including those which construct, and habitually live in, tubes. The head or anterior segments usually bear gills and cirri. Called also Sedentaria, and Capitibranchiata. See Serpula, and Sabella.

Tubicolous.

One of the Tubicolae.

Inhabiting a tube; as, tubicolous worms.

Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.

Having hollow horns.

Having the form of a tube; tubeform.

A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.

The act of making tubes.

A genus of halcyonoids in which the skeleton, or coral (called organ-pipe coral), consists of a mass of parallel cylindrical tubes united at intervals by transverse plates. These corals are usually red or purple and form large masses. They are natives of the tropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Any species of the genus Tubipora.

Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.

A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula.

One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer. Cf. Postman, 2.

Having the form of a tube, or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Also, containing, or provided with, tubes.

A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles.

See Tubularida.

Of or pertaining to the tubularians.

An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariae.

Tubular; tubulated; tubulous.

Made in the form of a small tube; provided with a tube, or elongated opening.

The act of shaping or making a tube, or of providing with a tube; also, a tube or tubulure; as, the tubulation of a retort.

A tubulure.

A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.

One of the Tubulibranchiata.

A group of gastropod mollusks having a tubular shell. Vermetus is an example.

Any hydroid which has tubular chitinous stems.

Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.

Having the form of a small tube.

Any one of numerous species of Bryozoa belonging to Tubulipora and allied genera, having tubular calcareous calicles.