| Tube |
n. |
A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway. |
| Tube |
n. |
A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe. |
| Tube |
n. |
A telescope. |
| Tube |
n. |
A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. |
| Tube |
n. |
The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. |
| Tube |
n. |
A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction. |
| Tube |
n. |
A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through. |
| Tube |
n. |
A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm. |
| Tube |
n. |
One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. |
| Tube |
v. t. |
To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well. |
| Tube-nosed |
a. |
Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak;
said of certain sea birds. |
| Tube-nosed |
a. |
Belonging to the Tubinares. |
| Tube-shell |
n. |
Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell. |
| Tubed |
imp. & p. p. |
of Tube |
| Tubeform |
a. |
In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform. |
| Tuber |
n. |
A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous. |
| Tuber |
n. |
A genus of fungi. See Truffle. |
| Tuber |
n. |
A tuberosity; a tubercle. |
| Tubercle |
n. |
A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy. |
| Tubercle |
n. |
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. |
| Tubercled |
a. |
Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk. |
| Tubercula |
pl. |
of Tuberculum |
| Tubercular |
a. |
Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate. |
| Tubercular |
a. |
Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence. |
| Tubercular |
a. |
Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis. |
| Tubercularize |
v. t. |
To infect with tuberculosis. |
| Tuberculate |
a. |
Alt. of Tuberculated |
| Tuberculated |
a. |
Tubercled; tubercular. |
| Tuberculin |
n. |
A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium. |
| Tuberculin test |
|
The hypodermic injection of tuberculin, which has little or no effect with healthy cattle, but causes a marked rise in temperature in tuberculous animals. |
| Tuberculization |
n. |
The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles. |
| Tuberculocidin |
n. |
A special substance contained in tuberculin, supposed to be the active agent of the latter freed from various impurities. |
| Tuberculoid |
a. |
Resembling a tubercle. |
| Tuberculose |
a. |
Alt. of Tuberculous |
| Tuberculosed |
a. |
Affected with tuberculosis. |
| Tuberculosis |
n. |
A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption. |
| Tuberculous |
a. |
Pertaining to, or affected with, a tuberculosis. |
| Tuberculous |
a. |
Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular. |
| Tuberculum |
n. |
A tubercle. |
| Tuberiferous |
a. |
Producing or bearing tubers. |
| Tuberose |
n. |
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. |
| Tuberosities |
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. |
Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber. |
| Tubeworm |
n. |
Any annelid which constructs a tube; one of the Tubicolae. |
