Of or pertaining to a cough.

A cough.

Pertaining to a cough; caused by coughing.

A struggle; a scuffle.

A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge.

Having the form of tussocks; full of, or covered with, tussocks, or tufts.

See Tussock.

An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.

Having a projecting under jaw; prognathous.

A snub nose.

Work done by the piece, as in nonmetaliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom.

One who does tut-work.

Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, tutelary goddesses.

Tutelage.

Crude zinc. Packfong.

To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.

The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.

A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress.

Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.

A class{6} or short series of classes in which one or more instructors provide intensive instruction on some subject to a small group. Such short courses of instruction may be held at an institution of learning, or in any other place where a small group may desire a brief but thorough introduction to a topic.

Tutorship.

To teach; to instruct.

The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage.

Tutorage.

Tutoress.

A female guardian; a tutoress.

A plant of the genus Hypericum (Hypericum Androsoemum), from which a healing ointment is prepared in Spain; -- called also parkleaves.

All; -- a direction for all the singers or players to perform together.

A confection of different kinds of preserved fruits. Flavored with, or containing, various fruits.

A yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide.

Lit., thine; that which is thine; -- used in meum and tuum. See 2d Meum.

A kind of black jacket for semiformal evening dress made without tails, usually of black or dark blue color and having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels; -- so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York.

A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge.

A lock or tuft of hair.

The tucan.

A form of hydrometer for liquids heavier than water, graduated with an arbitrary scale such that the readings when multiplied by .005 and added to unity give the specific gravity.

Silly talk; gabble; fustian.

One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.

a. n. from Twaddle, v.

Idle trifling; twaddle.

A lamb.

Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.

A piece of cleared ground. See Thwaite.

A harsh, quick sound, like that made by a stretched string when pulled and suddenly let go; as, the twang of a bowstring.

To twang.

To cause to make a sharp twanging sound; to twang, or twangle.

See Note under Tea, n., 1.

Act of prating; idle talk; twaddle.

One who twattles; a twaddler.

Two; twain.

Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis.

To tweak.

A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress.

A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.

A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving.

To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.

See Twill.

Same as Tuy/re.

A surgeon's case of instruments.

Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.

An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.

See Twelfthtide.

The evening of Epiphany, or the twelfth day after Christmas, observed as a festival by various churches.

A unit for the measurement of small intervals of time, such that 1012 (ten trillion) of these units make one second.

The twelfth day after Christmas; Epiphany; -- called also Twelfth-day.

The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six; twelve units or objects; a dozen.

See Duodecimo.

A year which consists of twelve calendar months.

A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents.

Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.

Twelve times twenty; two hundred and forty.

The next in order after the nineteenth; one coming after nineteen others.

The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score.

Without interruption; non-stop; continuous; as, the computer manufacturer provides 24/7 technical help.

Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a twenty-fourmo form, book, leaf, size, etc. A book composed of sheets, each of which is folded into twenty-four leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 24mo, or 24/.

Twenty times as many.

Two.

Twofold.

A kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it.

Armed or provided with a twibil or twibils.

A slight twist with the fingers.

To plow, or fallow, a second time (land that has been once fallowed).

Twofold; double.

To beat with twigs.

Made of twigs; wicker.

A fornicator.

Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots.

p. p. of Twitch.

imp. of Twitch.

Having no twigs.

Full of, or abounding in, twigs; twiggy.

Seen or done by twilight.

An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.

A machine for cleansing or loosening wool by the action of a revolving cylinder covered with long iron spikes or teeth; a willy or willying machine; -- called also twilly devil, and devil. See Devil, n., 6, and Willy.

A quilt.

To depart from a place or thing.

Born at the same birth.

To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved.

Any plant which twines about a support.

A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.

The act of one who, or that which, twines; (Bot.) the act of climbing spirally.

A wink; a twinkling.

A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.

One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.

The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle.

See Jeffersonia.

Closely resembling; being a counterpart.

A young or little twin, especially a twin lamb.

Composed of parts united according to a law of twinning. See Twin, n., 4.

One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins.

The assemblage of two or more crystals, or parts of crystals, in reversed position with reference to each other in accordance with some definite law; also, rarely, in artificial twinning (accomplished for example by pressure), the process by which this reversal is brought about.

A domestic animal two winters old.

To sing, or twitter.

A vagabond musician.

The act of twirling; a rapid circular motion; a whirl or whirling; quick rotation.

The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.

imp. of Twist.

Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted.

One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.

Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest.