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.

Resembling, or in the form of, a tube; longitudinally hollow; specifically (Bot.), having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border; as, a tubulose flower.

A short tubular opening at the top of a retort, or at the top or side of a bottle; a tubulation.

The Mexican pocket gopher (Geomys Mexicanus). It resembles the common pocket gopher of the Western United States, but is larger. Called also tugan, and tuza.

See Tucket, a steak.

A dark-colored kind of marble; touchstone.

A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait.

See Tuck, n., 2.

A curious vegetable production of the Southern Atlantic United States, growing under ground like a truffle and often attaining immense size. The real nature is unknown. Called also Indian bread, and Indian loaf.

To tire; to weary; -- usually with out.

A steak; a collop.

A fine, strong fiber obtained from the young leaves of a Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum vulgare), used for cordage, bowstrings, etc.; also, the plant yielding this fiber. Called also tecum, and tecum fiber.

A Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum Tucuma) which furnishes an edible fruit.

Of or pertaining to a royal line of England, descended from Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first reigning Tudor was Henry VII.; the last, Elizabeth.

The parson bird.

See Tuy/re.

A pair of blacksmith's tongs.

See To-fall.

The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding Wednesday.

The lapwing.

A silk fabric formerly in use, having a nap or pile.

Pertaining to tufa; consisting of, or resembling, tufa.

Same as Tufa.

See Typhoon.

To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.

Adorned with a tuft; as, the tufted duck.

A hanger-on to noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady. See 1st Tuft, 3.

The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities.

Abounding with tufts.

A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort.

Same as Tucan.

See Tug, n., 3.

One who tugs.

In a tugging manner; with laborious pulling.

In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses.

Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.

Of or pertaining to tuition.

A burrowing South American rodent (Ctenomys Braziliensis). It has small eyes and ears and a short tail. It resembles the pocket gopher in size, form, and habits, but is more nearly allied to the porcupines.

A large bulrush (Scirpus lacustris, and Scirpus Tatora) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere.

Any plant of the liliaceous genus Tulipa. Many varieties are cultivated for their beautiful, often variegated flowers.

A large, handsomely colored, marine univalve shell (Fasciolaria tulipa) native of the Southern United States. The name is sometimes applied also to other species of Fasciolaria.

A person who is especially devoted to the cultivation of tulips.

A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips; -- a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage.

One who is affected with tulipomania.

The beautiful rose-colored striped wood of a Brazilian tree (Physocalymna floribunda), much used by cabinetmakers for inlaying.

To allure; to tole.

A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for veils, etc.

Belonging to, or in the style of, Tully (Marcus Tullius Cicero).

A whitefish (Coregonus tullibee) found in the Great Lakes of North America; -- called also mongrel whitefish.

A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.

Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.

Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.

See Tumbledung.

Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabaeus, Copris, Phanaeus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.

One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.

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

Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; such as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.

a. vb. n. from Tumble, v.

A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.

Producing swelling; tumefying.

The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a tumor; a swelling.

To rise in a tumor; to swell.

The act of becoming tumid; the state of being swollen; intumescence; -- applied especially to the state of swelling of the vascular tissue in the male and female sex organs when they have been stimulated to readiness for sexual intercourse.

Slightly tumid; swollen, as certain moss capsules.

Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.

The quality or state of being tumid.

A great quantity or heap.

A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.

Distended; swelled.

Swelling; protuberant.

To form a mass of earth or a hillock about; as, to tump teasel.

A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back.

Consisting in a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock.

To swell.

Tumulous.

The quality or state of being tumulous; hilliness.

Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.

To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.

A maker of tumults.

In a tumultuary manner.

The quality or state of being tumultuary.

Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous.

To make a tumult.

Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid.

Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.

An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.

To put into tuns, or casks.

Having a large, protuberant belly, or one shaped like a tun; pot-bellied.

A tunnel.

Having the circumference of a tun.

Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the mackerel family Scombridae, especially the bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus, formerly Orcynus thynnus or Albacora thynnus), called also the common tunny or great tunny, a native of the Mediterranean Sea and of temperate parts of the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is caught commercially in large quantity for use as food; -- also called, especially in Britain, tunny. It is also one of the favorite fishes used by the Japanese in preparing sushi. On the American coast, especially in New England, it is sometimes called the horse mackerel. Another well-known species is the yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) of warm seas. the See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse.

Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful.

One of the level or undulating treeless plains characteristic of northern arctic regions in both hemispheres; the term is most commony associated with the arctic plains of Siberia. The tundras mark the limit of arborescent vegetation; they consist of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, but support a dense growth of mosses and lichens, and dwarf herbs and shrubs, often showy-flowered.

To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.

Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes.

Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical.

One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.

A salt of tungstic acid; a wolframate.

A rare element of the chromium group found in certain minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic properties. When alloyed in small quantities with steel, it greatly increases its hardness. Symbol W (Wolframium). Atomic weight, 183.6. Specific gravity, 18.

Of or pertaining to tungsten; containing tungsten; as, tungstenic ores.