Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TU-TO'RI-AL, a.

Belonging to or exercised by a tutor or instructor.

TU'TOR-ING, n.

The act of instructing; education.

TU'TOR-ING, ppr.

Teaching; directing; correcting.

TU'TRIX, n.

A female guardian. Smollet.

TUT'SAN, n.

A plant, park-leaves, of the genus Hypericum. Lee.

TUT'TI, n. [L. toti.]

In Italian music, a direction for all to play in full concert.

TUT'TY, n. [It. tuzia; Low L. tutia.]

1. An argillaceous ore of zink, found in Persia, formed on cylindrical molds into tubular pieces, like the bark of a tree. It is said to be made of a glutinous, argillaceous earth, like clay which is put into pots, moistened and baked. Cyc.
2. An impure protoxyd of zink, used in medicine.

TUZ, n. [Qu. touse.]

A lock or tuft of hair. [Not in use.] Dryden.

TWAD'DLE, v.i. [Sax. twæde, double.]

To be guilty of duplicity.

TWAD'DLER, n.

One who practices duplicity.

TWAD'DY, n.

Idle trifling; insignificant discourse.

TWAIN, a. [or n. Sax. twegen; Sw. tvenne; Dan. tvende, for tvegende. Whether two is contracted from tweg, is not apparent, but we see in the Danish tvende, the first syllable of twenty; twen-tig, two tens.]

Two. When old winter splits the rocks in twain. Dryden. [Nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.]

TWAIT, n.

1. A fish.
2. In old writers, wood grubbed up and converted into arable land. [Local.] Cyc.

TWANG, n.

1. A sharp quick sound; as, the twang of a bow-string; a twang of the nose. Butler.
2. An affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound. He has a twang in his discourse. Arbuthnot.

TWANG, v.i. [D. dwang, Dan. tvang, Sw. tvång, G. zwang, force, compulsion; G. zwängen, zwingen, D. dwingen, Sw. tvinga, Dan. tvinger, to constrain.]

To sound with a quick sharp noise; to make the sound of a string which is stretched and suddenly pulled; as, the twanging bows. Phillips.

TWANG, v.t.

To make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly. Skak. Sound the tough horn, and twang the quivering string. Pope.

TWANG'ING, ppr.

1. Making a sharp sound.
2. adj. Contemptibly noisy. Shak.

TWAN'GLE, v.i.

To twang. Shak.

TWANK, n.

A corruption of Twang. Addison.

TWAN'KAY, n.

A sort of green tea.

TWAS, v. ['TWAS.]

A contraction of It was.

TWAT'TLE, v.i.

To pet; to make much of. [Local.] Grose.

TWAT'TLE, v.i. [G. schwatzen, with a different prefix. See Twitter.]

To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; as a twattling gossip. L'Estrange.

TWAT'TLING, n.

The act of prating; idle talk.

TWAT'TLING, ppr. [or adj.]

Prating; gabbling; chattering.