Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 84
Tufa (n.) (Min.) A soft or porous stone formed by depositions from water, usually calcareous; -- called also calcareous tufa.
Tufa (n.) (Min.) A friable volcanic rock or conglomerate, formed of consolidated cinders, or scoria.
Tufa (n.) A soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime [syn: tufa, calc-tufa].
Tufa (n.) Hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash [syn: tuff, tufa].
Tufaceous (a.) (Min.) Pertaining to tufa; consisting of, or resembling, tufa.
Tuff (n.) (Min.) Same as Tufa.
Tuff (n.) Hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash [syn: tuff, tufa].
Tuffoon (n.) See Typhoon. [R.]
Tuft (n.) A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.
Tuft (n.) A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
Under a tuft of shade. -- Milton.
Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade. -- Keble.
Tuft (n.)
A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English
universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap
worn by them. [Cant, Eng.]
Several young tufts, and others of the faster men. -- T. Hughes.
Tufted (imp. & p. p.) of Tuft
Tufting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tuft
Tuft (v. t.) To separate into tufts.
Tuft (v. t.) To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
Tuft (v. i.) To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
Tuf-taffeta (n.) A silk fabric formerly in use, having a nap or pile.
Tufted (a.) Adorned with a tuft; as, the tufted duck.
Tufted (a.) Growing in tufts or clusters; tufty.
Tufthunter (n.) A hanger-on to noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady. See 1st Tuft, 3.
Tufthunting (n.) The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities.
Tufty (a.) Abounding with tufts.
Tufty (a.) Growing in tufts or clusters.
Tugged (imp. & p. p.) of Tug
Tugging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tug
Tug (v. t.) To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.
Tug (v. t.) To pull; to pluck.
Tug (v. i.) To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.
Tug (v. i.) To labor; to strive; to struggle.
Tug (n.) A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort.
Tug (n.) A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
Tug (n.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; -- called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat.
Tug (n.) A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
Tug (n.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
Tugan (n.) Same as Tucan.
Tugboat (n.) See Tug, n., 3.
Tugger (n.) One who tugs.
Tuggingly (adv.) In a tugging manner; with laborious pulling.
Tulle (n.) In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses.
Tuition (n.) Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.
Tuition (n.) Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough.
Tuition (n.) The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction.
Tuitionary (a.) Of or pertaining to tuition.
Tuko-tuko (n.) 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.
Tula metal () An alloy of silver, copper, and lead made at Tula in Russia.
Tule (n.) A large bulrush (Scirpus lacustris, and S. Tatora) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere.
Tulip (n.) (Bot.) 【植】鬱金香；鬱金香花；鬱金香球莖 [C] Any plant of the liliaceous genus Tulipa. Many varieties are cultivated for their beautiful, often variegated flowers.
Tulip tree. () A large American tree ({Liriodendron tulipifera) of the magnolia family ({Magnoliaceae) bearing tuliplike flowers. See Liriodendron.
Tulip tree. () A West Indian malvaceous tree ({Paritium tiliaceum syn. Hibiscus tiliaceum).
Tulip (n.) Any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower.
Tulip-eared (a.) (Zool.) Having erect, pointed ears; prick-eared; -- said of certain dogs.
Tulipist (n.) A person who is especially devoted to the cultivation of tulips. -- Sir T. Browne.
Tulipomania (n.) A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips; -- a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage.
Note: In Holland, in the first half of the 17th century, the cultivation of tulips became a mania. It began about the year 1634, and, like a violent epidemic, seized upon all classes of the community, leading to disasters and misery such as the records of commerce or of bankruptcies can scarcely parallel. In 1636, tulip marts had been established in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Leyden, and various other towns, where tulip bulbs were sold and resold in the same manner as stocks are on the Stock Exchange of London. -- Baird.
Tulipomaniac (n.) One who is affected with tulipomania.
Tulip-shell (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Tulipwood (n.) The beautiful rose-colored striped wood of a Brazilian tree ({Physocalymna floribunda), much used by cabinetmakers for inlaying.
Queensland tulipwood, The variegated wood of an Australian sapindaceous tree ({Harpullia pendula). -- J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
Tulipwood (n.) The variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees.
Tulipwood (n.) Light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer [syn: tulipwood, true tulipwood, whitewood, white poplar, yellow poplar].
Tull (v. t.) To allure; to tole. [Obs.]
With empty hands men may no hawkes tull. -- Chaucer.
Tull, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 358
Housing Units (2000): 167
Land area (2000): 3.421715 sq. miles (8.862200 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.014234 sq. miles (0.036866 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.435949 sq. miles (8.899066 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70220
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 34.446405 N, 92.581518 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tull, AR
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Tulle (n.) A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for veils, etc.
Tulle (n.) A fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns.
Tullian (a.) Belonging to, or in the style of, Tully (Marcus Tullius Cicero).
Tullibee (n.) (Zool.) A whitefish ({Coregonus tullibee) found in the Great Lakes of North America; -- called also mongrel whitefish.
Tumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Tumble
Tumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tumble
Tumble (v. i.) To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
Tumble (v. i.) To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill. -- South.
Tumble (v. i.) To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. -- Rowe.
To tumble home (Naut.), To incline inward, as the sides of a vessel, above the bends or extreme breadth; -- used esp. in the phrase tumbling home. Cf. Wall-sided.
Tumble (v. t.) To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.
Tumble (v. t.) To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
Tumble (n.) Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
Tumble (n.) An acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end.
Tumble (n.) A sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice" [syn: spill, tumble, fall].
Tumble (v.) Fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it" [syn: tumble, topple].
Tumble (v.) Cause to topple or tumble by pushing [syn: topple, tumble, tip].
Tumble (v.) Roll over and over, back and forth.
Tumble (v.) Fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke whirled in the air" [syn: whirl, tumble, whirl around].
Tumble (v.) Fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down" [syn: crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse].
Tumble (v.) Throw together in a confused mass; "They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern".
Tumble (v.) Understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on" [syn: catch on, get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it].
Tumble (v.) Fall suddenly and sharply; "Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency".
Tumble (v.) Put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying; "Wash in warm water and tumble dry".
Tumble (v.) Suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat.
Tumble (v.) Do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully.
Tumblebug (n.) See Tumbledung.
Tumblebug (n.) Any of various dung beetles.
Tumble-down (a.) Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house. [Colloq.]
Tumble-down (a.) In deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken- down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down].
Tumbledung (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Tumbler (n.) [C] 翻筋斗者；雜技演員；平底無腳酒杯；一杯的容量 One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
Tumbler (n.) A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
Tumbler (n.) (Firearms) A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
Tumbler (n.) A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure.
Tumbler (n.) (Zool.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
Tumbler (n.) (Zool.) A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.
Tumbler (n.) A kind of cart; a tumbrel. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Tumbler (n.) A gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc..
Tumbler (n.) A glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom.
Tumbler (n.) A movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown.
Tumbler (n.) Pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground [syn: roller, tumbler, tumbler pigeon].
Tumbler (n.). [Originally from the Xanadu hypertext project] A tumbler is a magic cookie generated as part of a record or message to give it a unique identity. Usually a tumbler includes an encoded form of its creation date, but if a software system has more than one concurrent process that could generate tumblers it must also include an encoding of the process ID. If tumblers will be shared across multiple network hosts, they must also include the host name or network address. Tumblers often include a hash of the rest of the message or record content so that it is possible to verify the correctness of the data the tumbler is attached to.
Tumbler (n.) Variant text added to spam instances (often in the Subject line) to make them unique. This kind of tumbler is used to defeat schemes that check an exact hash of an incoming message against known spam signatures; it also compromises some kinds of statistical spam recognition.
Tumblerfuls (n. pl. ) of Tumblerful
Tumblerful (n.) As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler.
Tumbleweed (n.) 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; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.
Tumbleweed (n.) Any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass.
Tumbleweed (n.) Prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States [syn: Russian thistle, Russian tumbleweed, Russian cactus, tumbleweed, Salsola kali tenuifolia].
Tumbleweed (n.) Bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds [syn: winged pigweed, tumbleweed, Cycloloma atriplicifolium].
Tumbleweed (n.) Bushy plant of western United States [syn: tumbleweed, Amaranthus albus, Amaranthus graecizans].
Tumbling () a. & vb. n. from Tumble, v.
Tumbrel (n.) Alt. of Tumbril
Tumbril (n.) A cucking stool for the punishment of scolds.
Tumbril (n.) A rough cart. -- Tusser. -- Tatler.
Tumbril (n.) (Mil.) A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, to convey the tools of pioneers, cartridges, and the like.
Tumbril (n.) A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep. [Eng.]
Tumbril (n.) A farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution [syn: tumbrel, tumbril].
Tumefaction (n.) The act or process of tumefying, swelling, or rising into a tumor; a swelling. -- Arbuthnot.
Tumefaction (n.) The process of tumefying; the organic process whereby tissue becomes swollen by the accumulation of fluid within it.
Tumefied (imp. & p. p.) of Tumefy
Tumefying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tumefy
Tumefy (v. t.) To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up.
To swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought. -- De Quincey.
Tumefy (v. i.) To rise in a tumor; to swell.
Tumefy (v.) Cause to become very swollen.
Tumefy (v.) Expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" [syn: swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce].
Tumid (a.) Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.
Tumid (a.) Rising above the level; protuberant.
So high as heaved the tumid hills. -- Milton.
Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style. -- Tu"mid*ly, adv. -- Tu"mid*ness, n.
Tumid (a.) Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
Tumid (a.) Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" [syn: puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid].
Tumid (a.) Of sexual organs; stiff and rigid [syn: tumid, erect].
Tumidity (n.) The quality or state of being tumid.
Tumidity (n.) Slight swelling of an organ or part [syn: tumidity, tumidness].
Tummals (n.) (Mining) A great quantity or heap. -- Weale.
Tumor (n.) (Med.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm.
Tumor (n.) Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. [R.]
Better, however, to be a flippant, than, by a revolting form of tumor and perplexity, to lead men into habits of intellect such as result from the modern vice of English style. -- De Quincey.
Encysted tumor, A tumor which is inclosed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance.
Fatty tumor. See under Fatty.
Innocent tumor, or Benign tumor, One which does not of itself threaten life, and does not usually tend to recur after extirpation; a tumor which has not metastesized.
Malignant tumor, A tumor which tends continually to spread, to become generalized in different parts of the body, and to recur after extirpation, and which, if left to itself, causes death.
Tumor (n.) An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose [syn: tumor, tumour, neoplasm].
Tumored (a.) Distended; swelled. [R.] "His tumored breast." -- R. Junius.
Tumorous (a.) Swelling; protuberant. [R.] -- Sir H. Wotton.
Tumorous (a.) Inflated; bombastic. [R.] -- B. Jonson.
Tumour (n.) [ C ] (UK) (US tumor) 腫瘤；腫塊 A mass of diseased cells that might become a lump or cause illness.
// They found a malignant tumour in her breast.
// A benign tumour.
// A brain tumour.
Tump (n.) A little hillock; a knoll. --Ainsworth.
Tumped (imp. & p. p.) of Tump
Tumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tump
Tump (v. t.) To form a mass of earth or a hillock about; as, to tump teasel.