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  • English Word Tunic Definition A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.
  • English Word Tunic Definition A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed.
  • English Word Tunic Definition See Mantle, n., 3 (a).
  • English Word Tunicaries Definition of Tunicary
  • English Word Tunicary Definition One of the Tunicata.
  • English Word Tunicata Definition A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two openings, one for the entrance and one for the exit of water. The pharynx is usually dilated in the form of a sac, pierced by several series of ciliated slits, and serves as a gill.
  • English Word Tunicate Definition Alt. of Tunicated
  • English Word Tunicate Definition One of the Tunicata.
  • English Word Tunicated Definition Covered with a tunic; covered or coated with layers; as, a tunicated bulb.
  • English Word Tunicated Definition Having a tunic, or mantle; of or pertaining to the Tunicata.
  • English Word Tunicated Definition Having each joint buried in the preceding funnel-shaped one, as in certain antennae of insects.
  • English Word Tunicin Definition Animal cellulose; a substance present in the mantle, or tunic, of the Tunicates, which resembles, or is identical with, the cellulose of the vegetable kingdom.
  • English Word Tunicle Definition A slight natural covering; an integument.
  • English Word Tunicle Definition A short, close-fitting vestment worn by bishops under the dalmatic, and by subdeacons.
  • English Word Tuning Definition of Tune
  • English Word Tuning Definition a. & n. from Tune, v.
  • English Word Tunk Definition A sharp blow; a thump.
  • English Word Tunker Definition Same as Dunker.
  • English Word Tunnage Definition See Tonnage.
  • English Word Tunned Definition of Tun
  • English Word Tunnel Definition A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
  • English Word Tunnel Definition The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel.
  • English Word Tunnel Definition An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.
  • English Word Tunnel Definition A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
  • English Word Tunnel Definition To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
  • English Word Tunnel Definition To catch in a tunnel net.
  • English Word Tunnel Definition To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
  • English Word Tunneled Definition of Tunnel
  • English Word Tunneling Definition of Tunnel
  • English Word Tunnelled Definition of Tunnel