Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TU-BER'CU-LATE, a.

having small knobs or pimples, as a plant. Lee.

TU-BER-IF'ER-OUS, a.

Producing or bearing tubers.

TU'BER-OSE, n. [L. tuberosa.]

A plant with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower, the Poliandes tuberosa; formerly called the tuberous hyacinth. Cyc. [This is a mere misapprehension and mispronunciation of the Latin adjective tuberosa, i. e. knobby.]

TU'BER-OUS, a. [from L. tuber, a bunch.]

Knobbed. In botany, consisting of roundish fleshy bodies or tubers, connected into a bunch by intervening threads as the roots of potatoes. Martyn.

TUB'FISH, n. [tub and fish.]

A species of Trigla, sometimes called the flying-fish. Cyc

TU'BI-CORN, n. [L. tubus and cornu.]

One of a family of ruminant animals having horns composed of a horny axis covered with a horny sheath.

TUB-ING, ppr.

Furnishing with a tube.

TU'BI-PORE, n. [tube and pore.]

The English name of the genus of zoophytes, organ-pipe coral. Cyc.

TU'BI-PO-RITE, n.

Fossil tubipores.

TUB'MAN, n.

In the exchequer, a barrister so called. Eng.

TU'BU-LAR, a. [from L. tubus.]

Having the form of a tube or pipe; consisting of a pipe fistular; as, a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. Martyn.

TU'BU-LA-TED, or TU'BU-LOUS, a. [or pp.]

1. Made in the form of a small tube. Fife.
2. Furnished with a small tube; as, a tubulated retort.

TUBULE, n. [L. tubulus.]

A small pipe or fistular body. Woodward.

TU'BU-LI-FORM, a.

Having the form of a small tube. Kirwan.

TU'BU-LOUS, a.

1. Longitudinally hollow.
2. Containing small tubes; composed wholly of tubulous florets; as, a tubulous compound flower.
3. In botany, having a bell-shaped border, with five reflex segments, rising from a tube; as, a tubulous floret. Martyn.

TUCH, n.

A kind of marble. Herbert.

TUCK, n. [Gaelic, tuca; W. twca; from the sense of cutting or thrusting, and the root of dock. The It. has stocco, and the Fr. estoc.]

1. A long narrow sword.
2. A kind of net. Carew.
3. [from the verb following.] In a ship, the part where the ends of the bottom planks are collected under the stern. Cyc.
4. A fold; a pull; a lugging. [See Tug.]

TUCK, v.i.

To contract; to draw together. [Not in use.] Sharp.

TUCK, v.t. [In G. zucken signifies to stir, to stoop, to shrug In some parts of England, this verb signifies to full, cloth; Ir. tucalam.]

1. To thrust or press in or together; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck up a bed; to tuck up a garment; to tuck in the skirt of any thing. Addison.
2. To inclose by pushing close around; as, to tuck a child into a bed. Locke.
3. To full, as cloth. [Local.]

TUCK'ED, pp.

Pressed in or together.

TUCK'ER, n.

1. A small piece of linen for shading the breast of women. Addison.
2. A fuller, whence the name. [Local.]

TUCK'ET, n. [It. tocato, a touch.]

1. A flourish in music; a voluntary; a prelude.
2. [It. tocchetto.] A steak; a collop.

TUCK'ET-SO-NANCE, n.

The sound of the tucket, an ancient instrument of music. Shak.

TUCK'ING, ppr.

Pressing under or together; folding.

TUE-FALL, n.

A building with a sloping roof on one side only. Eng.