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.

Of or pertaining to tungsten; derived from, or resembling, tungsten; wolframic; as, tungstic oxide.

The oxide of tungsten, a yellow mineral occurring in a pulverulent form. It is often associated with wolfram.

A group of roving Turanian tribes occupying Eastern Siberia and the Amur valley. They resemble the Mongols.

Of or pertaining to the Tunguses; as, the Tungusic dialects.

Ground ivy; alehoof.

One of the Tunicata.

A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and in modern classifications considered a subphylum of the vertebrates; called also urochordata. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two openings, one for the entrance and one for the exit of water. The pharynx is usually dilated in the form of a sac, pierced by several series of ciliated slits, and serves as a gill.

One of the Tunicata.

Covered with a tunic; covered or coated with layers; as, a tunicated bulb.

Animal cellulose; a substance present in the mantle, or tunic, of the Tunicates, which resembles, or is identical with, the cellulose of the vegetable kingdom.

A slight natural covering; an integument.

a. n. from Tune, v.

A sharp blow; a thump.

Same as Dunker.

See Tonnage.

To make a tunnel; as, to tunnel under a river.

A ram.

Any one of the tupaiids.

Any one of several species of East Indian and Asiatic insectivores of the family Tupaiidae, somewhat resembling squirrels in size and arboreal habits. The nose is long and pointed.

A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) of the Dogwood family, having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. The wood is crossgrained and very difficult to split. Called also black gum, sour gum, and pepperidge.

An Indian of the tribe from which the Tupian stock takes its name, dwelling, at the advent of the Portuguese, about the mouth of the Amazon. Also, their language, which is the basis of the Indian trade language of the Amazon.

Designating, or pertaining to, a linguistic stock of South American Indians comprising the most important Brazilian tribes. Agriculture, pottery, and stone working were practiced by them at the time of the conquest. The Tupi and the Guarani were originally the most powerful of the stock, which is hence also called Tupi-Guaranian.

A man who breeds, or deals in tups.

A former U.K. silver coin; a U.K. bronze decimal coin worth two pennies.

the collective trade name for a type of plastic food-storage container with a translucent bottom and a close-fitting lid designed to seal the container tightly. It is in common use in the late 20th century and early 21st century in the U. S. It comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, suitable for storing a variety of items. Also used attributively.

a social gathering at which the host (or more typically hostess) entertains the guests, and provides them with an opportunity to order Tupperware. This was used as an effective sales strategy by the Tupperware manufacturer, and provided income to the host(ess) from commissions on sales.

A kind of warm cap winter wear, made from a knit bag with closed tapered ends by pushing one end within the other, thus making a conical cap of double thickness.

The urus.

A red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of turacou; whence the name. It contains nearly six per cent of copper.

Any one of several species of large brightly crested birds of the genus Turacus, native of Africa. They eat plantain and are remarkable for the peculiar green and red pigments found in their feathers.

A green pigment found in the feathers of the turacou. See Turacin.

One of the Turanians.

An extensive division of mankind including the Mongols and allied races of Asia, together with the Malays and Polynesians. A group of races or tribes inhabiting Asia and closely related to the Mongols.

The hare kangaroo.

A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by many Muslims of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.

A sea urchin when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.

A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus (Helvella esculenta syn. Gyromitra esculenta.).

A turban.

Wearing a turban.

A turban.

A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug.

An extensive group of worms which have the body covered externally with vibrating cilia. It includes the Rhabdoc/la and Dendroc/la. Formerly, the nemerteans were also included in this group.

One of the Turbellaria. Also used adjectively.

See Turpeth.

Not clear; having suspended matter that scatters light passing through; having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.

Turbidness.

In a turbid manner; with muddiness or confusion.

The quality or state of being turbid; muddiness; foulness.

A whirl; a vortex.

Of or pertaining to peat, or turf; of the nature of peat, or turf; peaty; turfy.

A turbinal bone or cartilage.

To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.

Whirling in the manner of a top.

The act of spinning or whirling, as a top.

A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.

A petrified shell resembling a member of the genus Turbo.

Like or pertaining to Turbo or the family Turbinidae.

A fossil turbo.

See Turpeth.

Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidae, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.

Sontaining or using a turbine; -- a combining form; as, turbojet.

An electric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven.

A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke. Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California. The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda. The trigger fish.

The quality or state of being turbulent; a disturbed state; tumult; disorder; agitation.

Turbulence.

Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.

In a turbulent manner.

A mode of speech peculiar to the Turks; a Turkish idiom or expression; also, in general, a Turkish mode or custom. Same as Turkism.

A member of a tribe of Turanians inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea.

A division of singing birds including the thrushes and allied kinds.

A genus of singing birds including the true thrushes.

A large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, at the table.

As much as a tureen can hold; enough to fill a tureen.

To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, or the border of a terrace.

Made of turf; covered with turf.