Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 83
Tubercle (n.) (Med.) A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. It is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption.
Tubercle bacillus (Med.), A minute vegetable organism ({Mycobacterium tuberculosis, formerly Bacillus tuberculosis, and also called Koch's bacillus) discovered by Koch, a German physician, in the sputum of consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue. It is the causative agent of tuberculosis.
Tubercle (n.) A swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.
Tubercle (n.) Small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant [syn: nodule, tubercle].
Tubercle (n.) A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament [syn: tuberosity, tubercle, eminence].
Tubercled (a.) Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk.
Tubercular (a.) Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.
Tubercular (a.) Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.
Tubercular (a.) (Med.) Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.
Tubercular (a.) Characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles; "tubercular leprosy."
Tubercular (a.) Pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle; "a tubercular process for the attachment of a ligament or muscle."
Tubercular (a.) Relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it; "a tubercular hospital."
Tubercular (a.) Constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus; "a tubercular child"; "tuberculous patients"; "tubercular meningitis" [syn: tubercular, tuberculous].
Tubercular (n.) A person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: consumptive, lunger, tubercular].
Tuberculate (a.) Alt. of Tuberculated.
Tuberculated (a.) Tubercled; tubercular.
Tuberculate (a.) Covered with tubercles.
Tuberculin (n.) A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium.
Tuberculin (n.) A sterile liquid containing a purified protein derivative of the tuberculosis bacterium; used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis.
Tuberculization (n.) (Med.) The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles.
Tuberculose (a.) Alt. of Tuberculous.
Tuberculous (a.) Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.
Tuberculosis (n.) (Med.) 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.
Tuberculosis (n.) Infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages) [syn: tuberculosis, TB, T.B.]
Tubercula (n. pl. ) of Tuberculum.
Tuberculum (n.) (Zool.) A tubercle.
Tuberiferous (a.) Producing or bearing tubers.
Tuberose (n.) (Bot.) A plant ({Polianthes tuberosa) with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower. It is much cultivated for its beautiful and fragrant white blossoms.
Tuberose (a.) Tuberous.
Tuberose (n.) A tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers [syn: tuberose, Polianthes tuberosa].
Tuberosities (n. pl. ) of Tuberosity.
Tuberosity (n.) The state of being tuberous.
Tuberosity (n.) An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.
Tuberous (a.) Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.
Tuberous (a.) (Bot.) Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber. -- Tu"ber*ous*ness, n.
Tuberous (a.) Of or relating to or resembling a tuber; "a tuberous root."
Tube-shell (n.) (Zool.) Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.
Tubeworm (n.) (Zool.) Any annelid which constructs a tube; one of the Tubicolae.
Tubfish (n.) (Zool.) The sapphirine gurnard ({Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard. [Prov. Eng.]
Tubfuls (n. pl. ) of Tubful.
Tubful (n.) As much as a tub will hold; enough to fill a tub.
Tubicinate (v. i.) To blow a trumpet.
Tubicolae (n. pl.) (Zool.) 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.
Tubicolar (a.) (Zool.) Tubicolous.
Tubicole (n.) (Zool.) One of the Tubicolae.
Tubicolous (a.) (Zool.) Inhabiting a tube; as, tubicolous worms.
Tubicorn (n.) (Zool.) Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.
Tubicornous (a.) Having hollow horns.
Tubiform (a.) Having the form of a tube; tubeform. "Tubiform cells." -- Carpenter.
Tubinares (n. pl.) (Zool.) A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils.
Tubing (n.) The act of making tubes.
Tubing (n.) A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.
Tubing (n.) Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases [syn: tube, tubing].
Tubipora (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Tubipore (n.) (Zool.) Any species of the genus Tubipora.
Tubiporite (n.) (Paleon.) Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.
Tubivalve (n.) (Zool.) A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula.
Tubmen (n. pl. ) of Tubman.
Tubman (n.) (Eng. Law) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer. Cf. Postman, 2.
Tubman (n.) United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913) [syn: Tubman, Harriet Tubman].
TUB-MAN, () Eng. law. A barrister who has a pre-audience in the Exchequer, and also one who has a particular place in court, is so called.
Tubular (a.) 管狀的；管子做成的；有管的；【醫】管性的 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.
Tubular boiler. See under Boiler.
Tubular breathing (Med.), A variety of respiratory sound, heard on auscultation over the lungs in certain cases of disease, resembling that produced by the air passing through the trachea.
Tubular bridge, A bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or tube, made of iron plates riveted together, as the Victoria bridge over the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, Canada, and the Britannia bridge over the Menai Straits.
Tubular girder, A plate girder having two or more vertical webs with a space between them.
Tubular (a.) Constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) [syn: tubular, cannular, tubelike, tube-shaped, vasiform].
Tubularia (n.) [NL.] (Zool.) 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.
Tubulariae (n. pl.) [NL.] See Tubularida.
Tubularida (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariae.
Tubularian (n.) (Zool.) Any hydroid belonging to the suborder Tubularida.
Note: These hydroids usually form tufts of delicate tubes, and both gonophores and hydranths are naked. The gonophores of many of the species become free jellyfishes; those of other species remain permanently attached as medusoid buds or sporosacs. See Illust. under Gonosome, and Cymnoblastea.
Tubularian (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the tubularians.
Tubularida (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) An extensive division of Hydroidea; the tubularians; -- called also Athecata, Gymnoblastea, and Tubulariae.
Tubulate (a.) Tubular; tubulated; tubulous.
Tubulated (a.) Made in the form of a small tube; provided with a tube, or elongated opening.
Tubulated bottle or Tubulated retort (Chem.), A bottle or retort having a stoppered opening for the introduction or removal of materials.
Tubulation (n.) (Chem.) 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.
Tubulature (n.) (Chem.) A tubulure.
Tubule (n.) A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.
Tubule (n.) (Anat.) A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the uriniferous tubules of the kidney.
Tubule (n.) A small tube.
Tubulibranchian (n.) (Zool.) One of the Tubulibranchiata.
Tubulibranchiata (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of gastropod mollusks having a tubular shell. Vermetus is an example.
Tubulicole (n.) (Zool.) Any hydroid which has tubular chitinous stems.
Tubulidentate (a.) (Zool.) Having teeth traversed by canals; -- said of certain edentates.
Tubuliform (a.) Having the form of a small tube.
Tubulipore (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of Bryozoa belonging to Tubulipora and allied genera, having tubular calcareous calicles. Tubulose
Tubuloalveolar (a.) [醫] 管泡狀的 O f, relating to, or being a gland having branching tubules which end in secretory alveoli.
// Cowper's gland is tubuloalveolar.
Tubulose (a.) Alt. of Tubulous.
Tubulous (a.) 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.
Tubulous (a.) Containing, or consisting of, small tubes; specifically (Bot.), composed wholly of tubulous florets; as, a tubulous compound flower.
Tubulous boiler, A steam boiler composed chiefly of tubes containing water and surrounded by flame and hot gases; -- sometimes distinguished from tubular boiler.
Tubulure (n.) (Chem.) A short tubular opening at the top of a retort, or at the top or side of a bottle; a tubulation.
Tucan (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Tucet (n.) See Tucket, a steak. [Obs.]
Tuch (n.) A dark-colored kind of marble; touchstone. [Obs.] -- Sir J. Harrington.
Tuck (v. i.) To contract; to draw together. [Obs.]
Tuck (n.) A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait.
Tuck (n.) A small net used for taking fish from a larger one; -- called also tuck-net.
Tuck (n.) A pull; a lugging. [Obs.] See Tug. -- Life of A. Wood.
Tuck (n.) (Naut.) The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern.
Tuck (n.) Food; pastry; sweetmeats. [Slang] -- T. Hughes.
Tuck (n.) A long, narrow sword; a rapier. [Obs.] -- Shak.
He wore large hose, and a tuck, as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length. -- Sir W. Scot.
Tuck (n.) The beat of a drum. -- Scot.
Tucked (imp. & p. p.) of Tuck.
Tucking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tuck.
Tuck (v. t.) To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves.
Tuck (v. t.) To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress.
Tuck (v. t.) To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place; as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's arm, or into a pocket.
Tuck (v. t.) To full, as cloth. [Prov. Eng.]
Tuck (n.) Eatables (especially sweets).
Tuck (n.) (Sports) A bodily position adopted in some sports (such as diving or skiing) in which the knees are bent and the thighs are drawn close to the chest.
Tuck (n.) A narrow flattened pleat or fold that is stitched in place.
Tuck (n.) A straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges [syn: rapier, tuck].
Tuck (v.) Fit snugly into; "insert your ticket into the slot"; "tuck your shirttail in" [syn: tuck, insert].
Tuck (v.) Make a tuck or several folds in; "tuck the fabric"; "tuck in the sheet."
Tuck (v.) Draw together into folds or puckers [syn: gather, pucker, tuck].
Tuckahoe (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Tucker (n.) One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.
Tucker (n.) A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.
Tucker (n.) A fuller. [Prov. Eng.]
Tucker (n.) Daily food; meals; also, food in general. [Slang or Colloq.]
Tobacco, matches, and tucker, The latter comprising almost anything within the province of food. -- C. L. Money.
Tucker (v. t.) To tire; to weary; -- usually with out. [Colloq. U. S.]
Tucket (n.) A slight flourish on a trumpet; a fanfare. [Obs.]
Tucket sonance, The sound of the tucket. [Obs.]
Let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount. -- Shak.
Tucket (n.) A steak; a collop. [Obs.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Tucket (n.) (Music) A short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare" [syn: flourish, fanfare, tucket].
Tuck-net (n.) See Tuck, n., 2.
Tucum (n.) 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.
Tucuma (n.) (Bot.) A Brazilian palm ({Astrocaryum Tucuma) which furnishes an edible fruit.
Tudor (a.) 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.
Tudor style (Arch.), The latest development of Gothic architecture in England, under the Tudors, characterized by flat four-centered arches, shallow moldings, and a profusion of paneling on the walls.
Tue (n.) (Zool.) The parson bird.
Tuefall (n.) (Arch.) See To-fall. [Eng.]
Tue-iron (n.) See Tuyere.
Tue-irons (n. pl.) A pair of blacksmith's tongs.
Tuesday (n.) The third day of the week, following Monday and preceding Wednesday.
Tuesday (n.) [ C ] (Written abbreviation Tue., Tues.) (A1) 星期二 The day of the week after Monday and before Wednesday.
// We'll meet at eight on Tuesday.
// We always meet on Tuesdays.
// The work has to be finished by next Tuesday.
// Where were you last Tuesday?
// The 29th is a Tuesday, isn't it?
// Tuesday morning/ afternoon/ evening/ night.
Tuet (n.) (Zool.) The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]