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  • English Word Tumult Definition The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion.
  • English Word Tumult Definition Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as, the tumult of the elements.
  • English Word Tumult Definition Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, the tumult of the spirits or passions.
  • English Word Tumult Definition To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.
  • English Word Tumulter Definition A maker of tumults.
  • English Word Tumultuarily Definition In a tumultuary manner.
  • English Word Tumultuariness Definition The quality or state of being tumultuary.
  • English Word Tumultuary Definition Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous.
  • English Word Tumultuary Definition Restless; agitated; unquiet.
  • English Word Tumultuate Definition To make a tumult.
  • English Word Tumultuation Definition Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid.
  • English Word Tumultuous Definition Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.
  • English Word Tumultuous Definition Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.
  • English Word Tumultuous Definition Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.
  • English Word Tumultuous Definition Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.
  • English Word Tumulus Definition An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.
  • English Word Tun Definition A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
  • English Word Tun Definition A fermenting vat.
  • English Word Tun Definition 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.
  • English Word Tun Definition A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.
  • English Word Tun Definition An indefinite large quantity.
  • English Word Tun Definition A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.
  • English Word Tun Definition Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.
  • English Word Tun Definition To put into tuns, or casks.
  • English Word Tun-bellied Definition Having a large, protuberant belly, or one shaped like a tun; pot-bellied.
  • English Word Tun-dish Definition A tunnel.
  • English Word Tun-great Definition Having the circumference of a tun.
  • English Word Tuna Definition The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.
  • English Word Tuna Definition The tunny.
  • English Word Tuna Definition The bonito, 2.