TRUSTINGLY — TUNICATED NWAD TRUSTINGLY.1

TRUSTINGLY, adv. With trust or implicit confidence. NWAD TRUSTINGLY.1

TRUSTLESS, a. Not worthy of trust; unfaithful. NWAD TRUSTLESS.1

TRUSTY, a. That may be safely trusted; that justly deserves confidence; fit to be confided in; as a trusty servant. NWAD TRUSTY.1

1. That will not fail; strong; firm; as a trusty sword. NWAD TRUSTY.2

TRUTH, n. NWAD TRUTH.1

1. Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be. The truth of history constitutes its whole value. We rely on the truth of the scriptural prophecies. NWAD TRUTH.2

My mouth shall speak truth. Proverbs 8:7. NWAD TRUTH.3

Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth. John 17:17. NWAD TRUTH.4

2. True state of facts or things. The duty of a court of justice is to discover the truth. Witnesses are sworn to declare the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. NWAD TRUTH.5

3. Conformity of words to thoughts, which is called moral truth. NWAD TRUTH.6

Shall truth fail to keep her word? NWAD TRUTH.7

4. Veracity; purity from falsehood; practice of speaking truth; habitual disposition to speak truth; as when we say, a man is a man of truth. NWAD TRUTH.8

5. Correct opinion. NWAD TRUTH.9

6. Fidelity; constancy. NWAD TRUTH.10

The thoughts of past pleasure and truth. NWAD TRUTH.11

7. Honesty; virtue. NWAD TRUTH.12

It must appear NWAD TRUTH.13

That malice bears down truth. NWAD TRUTH.14

8. Exactness; conformity to rule. NWAD TRUTH.15

Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the iron work. [Not in use.] NWAD TRUTH.16

9. Real fact of just principle; real state of things. There are innumerable truths with which we are not acquainted. NWAD TRUTH.17

10. Sincerity. NWAD TRUTH.18

God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth. John 4:24. NWAD TRUTH.19

11. The truth of God, is his veracity and faithfulness. Psalm 71:22. NWAD TRUTH.20

Or his revealed will. NWAD TRUTH.21

I have walked in thy truth. Psalm 26:3. NWAD TRUTH.22

12. Jesus Christ is called the truth. John 14:6. NWAD TRUTH.23

13. It is sometimes used by way of concession. NWAD TRUTH.24

She said, truth, Lord; yet the dogs eat of the crums-- Matthew 15:27. NWAD TRUTH.25

That is, it is a truth; what you have said, I admit to be true. NWAD TRUTH.26

In truth, in reality; in fact. NWAD TRUTH.27

Of a truth, in reality; certainly. NWAD TRUTH.28

To do truth, is to practice what God commands. John 3:21. NWAD TRUTH.29

TRUTHFUL, a. Full of truth. NWAD TRUTHFUL.1

TRUTHLESS, a. Wanting truth; wanting reality. NWAD TRUTHLESS.1

1. Faithless. NWAD TRUTHLESS.2

TRUTINATION, n. [L. trutina, a balance; trutinor, to weigh.] NWAD TRUTINATION.1

The act of weighing. [Not used.] NWAD TRUTINATION.2

TRUTTACEOUS, a. [from L. trutta, trout.] Pertaining to the trout; as fish of the truttaceous genus. NWAD TRUTTACEOUS.1

TRY, v.i. To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort; to attempt. Try to learn; try to lift a weight. The horses tried to draw the load. [These phrases give the true sense.] NWAD TRY.1

TRY, v.t. To examine; to make experiment on; to prove by experiment. NWAD TRY.2

Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me. NWAD TRY.3

1. To experience; to have knowledge by experience of. NWAD TRY.4

Or try the Libyan heat, or Scythian cold. NWAD TRY.5

2. To prove by a test; as, to try weights and measures by a standard; to try one’s opinions by the divine oracles. NWAD TRY.6

3. To act upon as a test. NWAD TRY.7

The fire sev’n times tried this. NWAD TRY.8

4. To examine judicially by witnesses and the principles of law; as causes tried in court. NWAD TRY.9

5. To essay; to attempt. NWAD TRY.10

Let us try advent’rous work. NWAD TRY.11

6. To purify; to refine; as silver seven times tried. NWAD TRY.12

7. To search carefully into. Psalm 11:4. NWAD TRY.13

8. To use as means; as, to try remedies for a disease. NWAD TRY.14

9. To strain; as, to try the eyes; the literal sense of the word. NWAD TRY.15

To try tallow, etc. is to melt and separate it from the membranes. NWAD TRY.16

To tryout, to pursue efforts till a decision is obtained. NWAD TRY.17

TRYING, ppr. Exerting strength; attempting. NWAD TRYING.1

1. Examining by searching or comparison with a test; proving; using; straining, etc. NWAD TRYING.2

2. a. Adapted to try, or put to severe trial. NWAD TRYING.3

TRY-SAIL, n. A sail used by a ship in a storm; literally the strain-sail. NWAD TRY-SAIL.1

TUB, n. NWAD TUB.1

1. An open wooden vessel formed with staves, heading and hoops; used for various domestic purposes, as for washing, for making cheese, etc. NWAD TUB.2

2. A state of salivation; so called because the patient was formerly sweated in a tub. [Not in use.] NWAD TUB.3

3. A certain quantity; as a tub of tea, which is 60 pounds; a tub of camphor, from 56 to 80 pounds; a tub of vermilion, from 3 to 4 hundred pounds. [local.] NWAD TUB.4

4. A wooden vessel in which vegetables are planted, for the sake of being movable and set in a house in cold weather. NWAD TUB.5

TUB, v.t. To plant or set in a tub. NWAD TUB.6

TUBBER, n. In Cornwall, a mining instrument, called in other places a beele. The man who uses this tool is called tubber-man or beel-man. NWAD TUBBER.1

TUBBING, ppr. Setting in a tub. NWAD TUBBING.1

TUBE, n. [L. tubus.] A pipe; a siphon; a canal or conduit; a hollow cylinder, either of wood, metal or glass, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes. NWAD TUBE.1

1. A vessel of animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. NWAD TUBE.2

2. In botany, the narrow hollow part of a monopetalous corol, by which it is fixed to the receptacle. NWAD TUBE.3

3. In artillery, an instrument of tin, used in quick firing. NWAD TUBE.4

TUBE, v.t. To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well. NWAD TUBE.5

TUBER, n. In botany, a knob in roots, solid, with the component particles all similar. NWAD TUBER.1

TUBERCLE, n. [L. tuberculum, from tuber, a bunch.] NWAD TUBERCLE.1

1. A pimple; a small push, swelling or tumor on animal bodies. NWAD TUBERCLE.2

2. A little knob, like a pimple, on plants; a little knob or rough point on the leaves of some lichens, supposed to be the fructification. NWAD TUBERCLE.3

TUBERCULAR, TUBERCULOUS, a. Full of knobs or pimples. NWAD TUBERCULAR.1

1. Affected with tubercles. NWAD TUBERCULAR.2

TUBERCULATE, a. Having small knobs or pimples, as a plant. NWAD TUBERCULATE.1

TUBEROSE, n. [L. tuberosa.] A plant with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower, the Polianthus tuberosa; formerly called the tuberous hyacinth. NWAD TUBEROSE.1

TUBEROUS, a. [from L. tuber, a bunch.] Knobbed. In botany, consisting of roundish fleshy bodies, or tubers, connected into a bunch by intervening threads; as the roots of artichokes and potatoes. NWAD TUBEROUS.1

TUB-FISH, n. [tub and fish.] A species of Trigla, sometimes called the flying-fish. NWAD TUB-FISH.1

TUBIPORE, n. [tube and pore.] A genus of zoophytes or corals. NWAD TUBIPORE.1

TUBIPORITE, n. Fossil tubipores. NWAD TUBIPORITE.1

TUB-MAN, n. In the exchequer, a barrister so called. NWAD TUB-MAN.1

TUBULAR, a. [from L. tubus.] Having the form of a tube or pipe; consisting of a pipe; fistular; as a tubular snout; a tubular calyx. NWAD TUBULAR.1

TUBULE, n. [L. tubulus.] A small pipe or fistular body. NWAD TUBULE.1

TUBULIFORM, a. Having the form of a tube. NWAD TUBULIFORM.1

TUBULOUS, a. Longitudinally hollow. NWAD TUBULOUS.1

1. Containing tubes; composed wholly of tubulous florets; as a tubulous compound flower. NWAD TUBULOUS.2

2. In botany, having a bell-shaped border, with five reflex segments, rising from a tube; as a tubulous floret. NWAD TUBULOUS.3

TUCH, n. A kind of marble. NWAD TUCH.1

TUCK, n. NWAD TUCK.1

1. A long narrow sword. NWAD TUCK.2

2. A kind of net. NWAD TUCK.3

3. [from the verb following.] In a ship, the part where the ends of the bottom planks are collected under the stern. NWAD TUCK.4

4. A fold; a pull; a lugging. [See Tug.] NWAD TUCK.5

TUCK, v.t. [In some parts of England, this verb signifies to full, as cloth.] NWAD TUCK.6

1. To thrust or press in or together; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck up a bed; to tuck up a garment; to tuck in the skirt of anything. NWAD TUCK.7

2. To inclose by tucking close around; as, to tuck a child into a bed. NWAD TUCK.8

3. To full, as cloth. [Local.] NWAD TUCK.9

TUCK, v.i. To contract; to draw together. [Not in use.] NWAD TUCK.10

TUCKER, n. A small piece of linen for shading the breast of women. NWAD TUCKER.1

1. A fuller, whence the name. [Local.] NWAD TUCKER.2

TUCKET, n. A flourish in music; a voluntary; a prelude. NWAD TUCKET.1

1. A steak; a collop. NWAD TUCKET.2

TUCKETSONANCE, n. The sound of the tucket, an ancient instrument of music. NWAD TUCKETSONANCE.1

TUCKING, ppr. Pressing under or together; folding. NWAD TUCKING.1

TUESDAY, n. s as z. The third day of the week. NWAD TUESDAY.1

TUFA, TUF, n. A stone or porous substance formed by depositions from springs or rivulets, containing much earthy matter in solution. Tufa is also formed by the concretion of loose volcanic dust or cinders, cemented by water, or by the consolidation of mud thrown out of volcanoes. The disintegration and subsequent consolidation of basaltic rocks, forms a kind of tufa, called by the German geologists, trap-tuff. NWAD TUFA.1

TUFACEOUS, a. Pertaining to tufa; consisting of tufa, or resembling it. NWAD TUFACEOUS.1

TUFFOON, n. [a corruption of typhon.] A violent tempest or tornado with thunder and lightning, frequent in the Chinese sea and the gulf of Tonquin. NWAD TUFFOON.1

TUFT, n. NWAD TUFT.1

1. A collection of small things in a knot or bunch; as a tuft of flowers; a tuft of feathers; a tuft of grass or hair. A tuft of feathers forms the crest of a bird. NWAD TUFT.2

2. A cluster, a clump; as a tuft of trees; a tuft of olives. NWAD TUFT.3

3. In botany, a head of flowers, each elevated on a partial stalk, and all forming together a dense roundish mass. The word is sometimes applied to other collections, as little bundles of leaves, hairs and the like. NWAD TUFT.4

TUFT, v.t. To separate into tufts. NWAD TUFT.5

1. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. NWAD TUFT.6

TUF-TAFFETA, n. A villous kind of silk. [Not in use.] NWAD TUF-TAFFETA.1

TUFTED, pp. or a. Adorned with a tuft, as the tufted duck; growing in a tuft or clusters, as a tufted grove. NWAD TUFTED.1

TUFTY, a. Abounding with tufts; growing in clusters; bushy. NWAD TUFTY.1

TUG, v.t. [L. duco. See Tow, to draw.] NWAD TUG.1

1. To pull or draw with great effort; to drag along with continued exertion; to haul along. NWAD TUG.2

There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar. NWAD TUG.3

2. To pull; to pluck. NWAD TUG.4

--To ease the pain NWAD TUG.5

His tugg’d ears suffer’d with a strain. NWAD TUG.6

TUG, v.i. To pull with great effort; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream. NWAD TUG.7

1. To labor; to strive; to struggle. NWAD TUG.8

They long wrestled and strenuously tugged for their liberty. [This is not elegant.] NWAD TUG.9

TUG, n. A pull with the utmost effort. NWAD TUG.10

At the tug he falls-- NWAD TUG.11

Vast ruins come along-- NWAD TUG.12

1. A sort of carriage, used in some parts of England for conveying bavins or faggots and other things. NWAD TUG.13

2. In some parts of New England, the traces of a harness are called tugs. NWAD TUG.14

TUGGER, n. One who tugs, or pulls with great effort. NWAD TUGGER.1

TUGGING, ppr. Pulling or dragging with great exertion; hauling. NWAD TUGGING.1

TUGGINGLY, adv. With laborious pulling. NWAD TUGGINGLY.1

TUITION, n. [L. tuitio, from tueor, to see, behold, protect, etc.; L. duco, to lead.] NWAD TUITION.1

1. Guardianship; superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward. NWAD TUITION.2

2. More especially, instruction; the act or business of teaching the various branches of learning. We place our children under the preceptors of academies for tuition. [This is now the common acceptation of the word.] NWAD TUITION.3

3. The money paid for instruction. In our colleges, the tuition is from thirty to forty dollars a year. NWAD TUITION.4

TULIP, n. [L. tulipa.] A plant and a flower of the genus Tulipa, of a great variety of colors, and much cultivated for its beauty. NWAD TULIP.1

TULIP-TREE, n. An American tree bearing flowers resembling the tulip, of the genus Liriodendron. Also, a tree of the genus Magnolia. NWAD TULIP-TREE.1

TUMBLE, v.i. [L. tumulus, tumultus, tumeo.] NWAD TUMBLE.1

1. To roll; to roll about by turning one way and the other; as, a person in pain tumbles and tosses. NWAD TUMBLE.2

2. To fall; to come down suddenly and violently; as, to tumble from a scaffold. NWAD TUMBLE.3

3. To roll down. The stone of Sisyphus is said to have tumbled to the bottom, as soon as it was carried up the hill. NWAD TUMBLE.4

4. To play mountebank tricks. NWAD TUMBLE.5

TUMBLE, v.t. To turn over; to turn or throw about for examination or searching; sometimes with over; as, to tumble over books or papers; to tumble over clothes. [To tumble over in thought, is not elegant.] NWAD TUMBLE.6

1. To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed. NWAD TUMBLE.7

To tumble out, to throw or roll out; as, to tumble out casks from a store. NWAD TUMBLE.8

To tumble down, to throw down carelessly. NWAD TUMBLE.9

TUMBLE, n. A fall. NWAD TUMBLE.10

TUMBLED, pp. Rolled; disturbed; rumpled; thrown down. NWAD TUMBLED.1

TUMBLER, n. One who tumbles; one who plays the tricks of a mountebank. NWAD TUMBLER.1

1. A large drinking glass. NWAD TUMBLER.2

2. A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from his practice of tumbling or turning over in flight. It is a short-bodied pigeon, of a plain color, black, blue or white. NWAD TUMBLER.3

3. A sort of dog, so called form his practice of tumbling before he attacks his prey. NWAD TUMBLER.4

TUMBLING, ppr. Rolling about; falling; disturbing; rumpling. NWAD TUMBLING.1

Tumbling-home, in a ship, is the inclination of the top-sides from a perpendicular, towards the center of the ship; or the part of a ship which falls inward above the extreme breadth. NWAD TUMBLING.2

TUMBLING-BAY, n. In a canal, an overfall or weir. NWAD TUMBLING-BAY.1

TUMBREL, n. NWAD TUMBREL.1

1. A ducking stool for the punishment of scolds. NWAD TUMBREL.2

2. A dung-cart. NWAD TUMBREL.3

3. A cart or carriage with two wheels, which accompanies troops or artillery, for conveying the tools of pioneers, cartridges and the like. NWAD TUMBREL.4

TUMBRIL, n. A contrivance of the basket kind, or a kind of cage of osiers, willows, etc. for keeping hay and other food for sheep. NWAD TUMBRIL.1

TUMEFACTION, n. [L. tumefacio, to make tumid. See Tumid.] The act or process of swelling or rising into a tumor; a tumor; a swelling. NWAD TUMEFACTION.1

TUMEFIED, pp. [from tumefy.] Swelled; enlarged; as a tumefied joint. NWAD TUMEFIED.1

TUMEFY, v.t. [L. tumefacio; tumidus, tumeo, and facio.] NWAD TUMEFY.1

To swell, or cause to swell. NWAD TUMEFY.2

TUMEFY, v.i. To swell; to rise in a tumor. NWAD TUMEFY.3

TUMEFYING, ppr. Swelling; rising in a tumor. NWAD TUMEFYING.1

TUMID, a. [L. tumidus, from tumeo, to swell.] NWAD TUMID.1

1. Being swelled, enlarged or distended; as a tumid leg; tumid flesh. NWAD TUMID.2

2. Protuberant; rising above the level. NWAD TUMID.3

So high as heav’d the tumid hills. NWAD TUMID.4

3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; bombastic; falsely sublime; as a tumid expression; a tumid style. NWAD TUMID.5

TUMIDLY, adv. In a swelling form. NWAD TUMIDLY.1

TUMIDNESS, n. A swelling or swelled state. NWAD TUMIDNESS.1

TUMITE, n. A mineral. [See Thumerstone.] NWAD TUMITE.1

TUMOR, n. [L. from tumeo, to swell.] In surgery, a swelling; a morbid enlargement of any part of the body; a word of very comprehensive signification. NWAD TUMOR.1

The morbid enlargement of a particular part, without being caused by inflammation. NWAD TUMOR.2

Any swelling which arises from the growth of distinct superfluous parts or substances, which did not make any part of the original structure of the body, or from a morbid increase in the bulk of other parts, which naturally and always existed in the human frame. NWAD TUMOR.3

The term tumor is limited by Abernathy to such swellings as arise from new productions, and includes only the sarcomatous and encysted tumors. NWAD TUMOR.4

An encysted tumor is one which is formed in a membrane called a cyst, connected with the surrounding parts by the neighboring cellular substance. There are also fatty tumors, called lipomatous or adipose, (adipose sarcoma,) formed by an accumulation of fat in a limited extent of the cellular substance. NWAD TUMOR.5

1. Affected pomp; bombast in language; swelling word or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. [Little used.] NWAD TUMOR.6

TUMORED, n. Distended; swelled. NWAD TUMORED.1

TUMOROUS, a. Swelling; protuberant. NWAD TUMOROUS.1

1. Vainly pompous; bombastic; as language or style. [Little used.] NWAD TUMOROUS.2

TUMP, n. [infra.] A little hillock. NWAD TUMP.1

TUMP, v.t. [L. tumulus. See Tomb.] In gardening, to form a mass of earth or a hillock round a plant; as, to tump teasel. [This English phrase is not used in America, but it answers nearly to our hilling. See Hill.] NWAD TUMP.2

TUMPED, pp. Surrounded with a hillock of earth. NWAD TUMPED.1

TUMPING, ppr. Raising a mass of earth round a plant. NWAD TUMPING.1

TUMULAR, a. [L. tumulus, a heap.] Consisting in a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock. NWAD TUMULAR.1

TUMULATE, v.i. To swell. [Not in use.] NWAD TUMULATE.1

TUMULOSITY, n. [infra.] Hilliness. NWAD TUMULOSITY.1

TUMULOUS, a. [L. tumulosus.] Full of hills. NWAD TUMULOUS.1

TUMULT, n. [L. tumultus, a derivative from tumeo, to swell.] NWAD TUMULT.1

1. The commotion, disturbance or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar and confusion of voices. NWAD TUMULT.2

What meaneth the noise of this tumult? 1 Samuel 4:14. NWAD TUMULT.3

Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose. NWAD TUMULT.4

2. Violent commotion or agitation with confusion of sounds; as the tumult of the elements. NWAD TUMULT.5

3. Agitation; high excitement; irregular or confused motion; as the tumult of the spirits or passions. NWAD TUMULT.6

4. Bustle; stir. NWAD TUMULT.7

TUMULT, v.i. To make a tumult; to be in great commotion. NWAD TUMULT.8

TUMULTUARILY, adv. [from tumultuary.] In a tumultuary or disorderly manner. NWAD TUMULTUARILY.1

TUMULTUARINESS, n. Disorderly or tumultuous conduct; turbulence; disposition to tumult. NWAD TUMULTUARINESS.1

TUMULTUARY, a. [L. tumultus.] NWAD TUMULTUARY.1

1. Disorderly; promiscuous; confused; as a tumultuary conflict. NWAD TUMULTUARY.2

2. Restless; agitated; unquiet. NWAD TUMULTUARY.3

Men who live without religion, live always in a tumultuary and restless state. NWAD TUMULTUARY.4

TUMULTUATE, v.i. [L. tumultuo.] To make a tumult. [Not used.] NWAD TUMULTUATE.1

TUMULTUATION, n. Commotion; irregular or disorderly movement; as the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid. NWAD TUMULTUATION.1

TUMULTUOUS, a. Conducted with tumult; disorderly; as a tumultuous conflict; a tumultuous retreat. NWAD TUMULTUOUS.1

1. Greatly agitated; irregular; noisy; confused; as a tumultuous assembly or meeting. NWAD TUMULTUOUS.2

2. Agitated; disturbed; as a tumultuous breast. NWAD TUMULTUOUS.3

3. Turbulent; violent; as a tumultuous speech. NWAD TUMULTUOUS.4

4. Full of tumult and disorder; as a tumultuous state or city. NWAD TUMULTUOUS.5

TUMULTUOUSLY, adv. In a disorderly manner; by a disorderly multitude. NWAD TUMULTUOUSLY.1

TUMULTUOUSNESS, n. The state of being tumultuous; disorder; commotion. NWAD TUMULTUOUSNESS.1

TUN, n. [L. teneo, to hold; Gr. to stretch.] NWAD TUN.1

1. In a general sense, a large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops. NWAD TUN.2

2. A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, oil, etc. NWAD TUN.3

3. A quantity of wine, consisting of two pipes or four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity. NWAD TUN.4

4. In commerce, the weight of twenty hundreds gross, each hundred consisting of 112 lb = 2240 lb. But by a law of Connecticut, passed June 1827, gross weight is abolished, and a tun is the weight of 2000 lb. It is also a practice in N. York to sell by 2000 lb. to the tun. NWAD TUN.5

5. A certain weight by which the burden of a ship is estimated; as a ship of three hundred tuns, that is, a ship that will carry three hundred times two thousand weight. Forty two cubic feet are allowed to a tun. NWAD TUN.6

6. A certain quantity of timber, consisting of forty solid feet if round, or fifty four feet if square. NWAD TUN.7

7. Proverbially, a large quantity. NWAD TUN.8

8. In burlesque, a drunkard. NWAD TUN.9

9. At the end of names, tun, ton, or don, signifies town, village, or hill. NWAD TUN.10

TUN, v.t. To put into casks. NWAD TUN.11

TUNABLE, a. [from tune.] Harmonious; musical. NWAD TUNABLE.1

And tunable as sylvan pipe or song. NWAD TUNABLE.2

1. That may be put in tune. NWAD TUNABLE.3

TUNABLENESS, n. Harmony; melodiousness. NWAD TUNABLENESS.1

TUNABLY, adv. Harmoniously; musically. NWAD TUNABLY.1

TUN-BELLIED, a. [tun and belly.] Having a large protuberant belly. NWAD TUN-BELLIED.1

TUN-DISH, n. [tun and dish.] A tunnel. NWAD TUN-DISH.1

TUNE, n. [L. tonus.] NWAD TUNE.1

1. A series of musical notes in some particular measure, and consisting of a single series, for one voice or instrument, the effect of which is melody; or a union of two or more series or parts to be sung or played in concert, the effect of which is harmony. Thus we say, a merry tune, a lively tune, a grave tune, a psalm tune, a martial tune. NWAD TUNE.2

2. Sound; note. NWAD TUNE.3

3. Harmony; order; concert of parts. NWAD TUNE.4

A continual parliament I thought would but keep the commonweal in tune. NWAD TUNE.5

4. The state of giving the proper sounds; as when we say, a harpsichord is in tune; that is, when the several chords are of that tension, that each gives its proper sound, and the sounds of all are at due intervals, both of tones and semitones. NWAD TUNE.6

5. Proper state for use or application; right disposition; fit temper or humor. The mind is not in tune for mirth. NWAD TUNE.7

A child will learn three times as fast when he is in tune, as he will when he is dragged to this task. NWAD TUNE.8

TUNE, v.t. To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; as, to tune a forte-piano; to tune a violin. NWAD TUNE.9

Tune your harps. NWAD TUNE.10

1. To sing with melody or harmony. NWAD TUNE.11

Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow NWAD TUNE.12

Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. NWAD TUNE.13

So we say of birds, they tune their notes or lays. NWAD TUNE.14

2. To put into a state proper for any purpose, or adapted to produce a particular effect. [Little used.] NWAD TUNE.15

TUNE, v.i. To form one sound to another. NWAD TUNE.16

While tuning to the waters’fall NWAD TUNE.17

The small birds sang to her. NWAD TUNE.18

1. To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice. NWAD TUNE.19

TUNED, pp. Uttered melodiously or harmoniously; put in order to produce the proper sounds. NWAD TUNED.1

TUNEFUL, a. Harmonious; melodious; musical; as tuneful notes; tuneful birds. NWAD TUNEFUL.1

TUNELESS, a. Unmusical; unharmonious. NWAD TUNELESS.1

1. Not employed in making music; as a tuneless harp. NWAD TUNELESS.2

TUNER, n. One who tunes. NWAD TUNER.1

1. One whose occupation is to tune musical instruments. NWAD TUNER.2

TUNG, n. A name given by the Indians to a small insect, called by the Spaniards pique, which inserts its eggs within the human skin; an insect very troublesome in the East and West Indies. NWAD TUNG.1

TUNG, n. In man, the instrument of taste, and the chief instrument of speech. [See Tongue.] NWAD TUNG.2

TUNGSTATE, n. A salt formed of tungstenic acid and a base. NWAD TUNGSTATE.1

TUNGSTEN, n. In mineralogy, a mineral of a yellowish or grayish white color, of a lamellar structure, and infusible by the blowpipe. It occurs massive or crystallized, usually in octahedral crystals. This is an ore. The same name is given to the metal obtained from this ore. This metal is procured in small panes as fine as sand, of a strong metallic luster, an iron gray color, and slightly agglutinated. It is one of the hardest of the metals, and very brittle. NWAD TUNGSTEN.1

TUNGSTENIC, a. Pertaining to or procured from tungsten. NWAD TUNGSTENIC.1

TUNIC, n. [L. tunica. See Town and Tun.] NWAD TUNIC.1

1. A kind of waistcoat or under garment worn by men in ancient Rome and the east. In the later ages of the republic, the tunic was a long garment with sleeves. NWAD TUNIC.2

2. Among the religious, a woolen shirt or under garment. NWAD TUNIC.3

3. In anatomy, a membrane that covers or composes some part or organ; as the tunics or coats of the eye; the tunics of the stomach, or the membranous and muscular layers which compose it. NWAD TUNIC.4

4. A natural covering; an integument; as the tunic of a seed. NWAD TUNIC.5

The tunic of the seed, is the arillus, a covering attached to the base only of the seed, near the hilum or scar, and enveloping the rest of the seed more or less completely and closely. NWAD TUNIC.6

TUNICATED, a. In botany, covered with a tunic or membranes; coated; as a stem. NWAD TUNICATED.1

A tunicated bulb, is one composed of numerous concentric coats, as an onion. NWAD TUNICATED.2