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  • English Word Tub Definition A small cask; as, a tub of gin.
  • English Word Tub Definition A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.
  • English Word Tub Definition To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.
  • English Word Tub Definition To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe.
  • English Word Tuba Definition An ancient trumpet.
  • English Word Tuba Definition A sax-tuba. See Sax-tuba.
  • English Word Tubal Definition Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.
  • English Word Tubbed Definition of Tub
  • English Word Tubbing Definition of Tub
  • English Word Tubbing Definition The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.
  • English Word Tubbing Definition A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety.
  • English Word Tubby Definition Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.
  • English Word Tube Definition A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
  • English Word Tube Definition A telescope.
  • English Word Tube Definition A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
  • English Word Tube Definition The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
  • English Word Tube Definition A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
  • English Word Tube Definition 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.
  • English Word Tube Definition 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.
  • English Word Tube Definition One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
  • English Word Tube Definition To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
  • English Word Tube-nosed Definition Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
  • English Word Tube-nosed Definition Belonging to the Tubinares.
  • English Word Tube-shell Definition Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.
  • English Word Tubed Definition of Tube
  • English Word Tubeform Definition In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform.
  • English Word Tuber Definition A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.
  • English Word Tuber Definition A genus of fungi. See Truffle.
  • English Word Tuber Definition A tuberosity; a tubercle.
  • English Word Tubercle Definition 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.