Tump (v. t.) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
Tumpline (n.) A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back.
Tum-tum (n.) A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.
Tumular (a.) Consisting in a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock.
Tumulate (v. t.) To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury.
Tumulate (v. i.) To swell.
Tumulose (a.) Tumulous.
Tumulosity (n.) The quality or state of being tumulous; hilliness.
Tumulous (a.) Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
Tumult (n.) The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion.
Tumult (n.) Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as, the tumult of the elements.
Tumult (n.) Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, the tumult of the spirits or passions.
Tumult (v. i.) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.
Tumulter (n.) A maker of tumults.
Tumultuarily (adv.) In a tumultuary manner.
Tumultuariness (n.) The quality or state of being tumultuary.
Tumultuary (a.) Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous.
Tumultuary (a.) Restless; agitated; unquiet.
Tumultuate (v. i.) To make a tumult.
Tumultuation (n.) Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid.
Tumultuous (a.) Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.
Tumultuous (a.) Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.
Tumultuous (a.) Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.
Tumultuous (a.) Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.
Tumuli (pl. ) of Tumulus
Tumulus (n.) An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.
Tun (n.) A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
Tun (n.) A fermenting vat.
Tun (n.) A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.
Tun (n.) A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.
Tun (n.) An indefinite large quantity.
Tun (n.) A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.
Tun (n.) Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.
Tunned (imp. & p. p.) of Tun
Tunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tun
Tun (v. i.) To put into tuns, or casks.
Tuna (n.) The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.
Tuna (n.) The tunny.
Tuna (n.) The bonito, 2.
Tunable (a.) Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful.
Tun-bellied (a.) Having a large, protuberant belly, or one shaped like a tun; pot-bellied.
Tun-dish (n.) A tunnel.
Tundra (n.) A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.
Tune (n.) A sound; a note; a tone.
Tune (n.) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.
Tune (n.) The state of giving the proper, sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune.
Tune (n.) Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.
Tuned (imp. & p. p.) of Tune
Tuning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tune
Tune (v. t.) To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin.
Tune (v. t.) To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
Tune (v. t.) To sing with melody or harmony.
Tune (v. t.) To put into a proper state or disposition.
Tune (v. i.) To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.
Tune (v. i.) To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.
Tuneful (a.) Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes.
Tuneless (a.) Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical.
Tuneless (a.) Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps.
Tuneless (a.) Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung.
Tuner (n.) One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.
Tun-great (a.) Having the circumference of a tun.
Tungstate (n.) A salt of tungstic acid; a wolframate.
Tungsten (n.) 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.
Tungsten (n.) Scheelite, or calcium tungstate.
Tungstenic (a.) Of or pertaining to tungsten; containing tungsten; as, tungstenic ores.
Tungstic (a.) Of or pertaining to tungsten; derived from, or resembling, tungsten; wolframic; as, tungstic oxide.
Tungstite (n.) The oxide of tungsten, a yellow mineral occurring in a pulverulent form. It is often associated with wolfram.
Tunguses (n. pl.) A group of roving Turanian tribes occupying Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley. They resemble the Mongols.
Tungusic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Tunguses; as, the Tungusic dialects.
Tunhoof (n.) Ground ivy; alehoof.
Tunic (n.) An under-garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes. It was made with or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and was confined at the waist by a girdle.
Tunic (n.) Any similar garment worm by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others.
Tunic (n.) Same as Tunicle.
Tunic (n.) A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.
Tunic (n.) A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed.
Tunic (n.) See Mantle, n., 3 (a).
Tunicaries (pl. ) of Tunicary
Tunicary (n.) One of the Tunicata.
Tunicata (n. pl.) A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. 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.
Tunicate (a.) Alt. of Tunicated
Tunicated (a.) Covered with a tunic; covered or coated with layers; as, a tunicated bulb.
Tunicated (a.) Having a tunic, or mantle; of or pertaining to the Tunicata.
Tunicated (a.) Having each joint buried in the preceding funnel-shaped one, as in certain antennae of insects.
Tunicate (n.) One of the Tunicata.
Tunicin (n.) 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.
Tunicle (n.) A slight natural covering; an integument.
Tunicle (n.) A short, close-fitting vestment worn by bishops under the dalmatic, and by subdeacons.
Tuning () a. & n. from Tune, v.
Tunk (n.) A sharp blow; a thump.
Tunker (n.) Same as Dunker.
Tunnage (n.) See Tonnage.
Tunnel (n. .) A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
Tunnel (n. .) The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel.
Tunnel (n. .) An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.
Tunnel (n. .) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
Tunneled (imp. & p. p.) of Tunnel
Tunnelled () of Tunnel
Tunneling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tunnel
Tunnelling () of Tunnel
Tunnel (v. t.) To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.