Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 89

Tusky (a.) Having tusks.

Tussac grass () Tussock grass.

Tussah silk () A silk cloth made from the cocoons of a caterpillar other than the common silkworm, much used in Bengal and China.

Tussah silk () The silk fiber itself.

Tussicular (a.) Of or pertaining to a cough.

Tussle (v. i. & t.) To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.

Tussle (n.) A struggle; a scuffle.

Tussock (n.) A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge.

Tussock (n.) Same as Tussock grass, below.

Tussock (n.) A caterpillar of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. Some species are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. Called also tussock caterpillar. See Orgyia.

Tussocky (a.) Having the form of tussocks; full of, or covered with, tussocks, or tufts.

Tussuck (n.) See Tussock.

Tut () Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.

Tut (n.) An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.

Tut (n.) A hassock.

Tutelage (n.) The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage.

Tutelage (n.) The state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed.

Tutelar (a.) Alt. of Tutelary

Tutelary (a.) Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, tutelary goddesses.

Tutele (n.) Tutelage.

Tutenag (n.) Crude zinc.

Tutenag (n.) Packfong.

Tut-mouthed (a.) Having a projecting under jaw; prognathous.

Tut-nose (n.) A snub nose.

Tutor (n.) One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing.

Tutor (n.) A treasurer; a keeper.

Tutor (n.) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.

Tutor (n.) A private or public teacher.

Tutor (n.) An officer or member of some hall, who instructs students, and is responsible for their discipline.

Tutor (n.) An instructor of a lower rank than a professor.

Tutored (imp. & p. p.) of Tutor

Tutoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tutor

Tutor (v. t.) To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.

Tutor (v. t.) To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.

Tutorage (n.) The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.

Tutoress (n.) A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress.

Tutorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.

Tutorism (n.) Tutorship.

Tutorize (v. t.) To teach; to instruct.

Tutorship (n.) The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage.

Tutory (n.) Tutorage.

Tutress (n.) Tutoress.

Tutrix (n.) A female guardian; a tutoress.

Tutsan (n.) A plant of the genus Hypericum (H. Androsoemum), from which a healing ointment is prepared in Spain; -- called also parkleaves.

Tutti (n. pl.) All; -- a direction for all the singers or players to perform together.

Tutty (n.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide.

Tut-work (n.) Work done by the piece, as in nonmetaliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom.

Tut-workmen (pl. ) of Tut-workman

Tut-workman (n.) One who does tut-work.

Tu-whit (n. & interj.) Alt. of Tu-whoo

Tu-whoo (n. & interj.) Words imitative of the notes of the owl.

Tuyere (n.) A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge.

Tuz (n.) A lock or tuft of hair.

Tuza (n.) The tucan.

Twaddle (v. i. & t.) To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.

Twaddle (n.) Silly talk; gabble; fustian.

Twaddler (n.) One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.

Twaddling () a. & n. from Twaddle, v.

Twaddy (n.) Idle trifling; twaddle.

Twagger (n.) A lamb.

Twain (a. & n.) Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.

Twaite (n.) A European shad; -- called also twaite shad. See Shad.

Twaite (n.) A piece of cleared ground. See Thwaite.

Twang (n.) A tang. See Tang a state.

Twanged (imp. & p. p.) of Twang

Twanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Twang

Twang (v. i.) To sound with a quick, harsh noise; to make the sound of a tense string pulled and suddenly let go; as, the bowstring twanged.

Twang (v. t.) To make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly.

Twang (n.) A harsh, quick sound, like that made by a stretched string when pulled and suddenly let go; as, the twang of a bowstring.

Twang (n.) An affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound.

Twangle (v. i. & t.) To twang.

Twank (v. t.) To cause to make a sharp twanging sound; to twang, or twangle.

Twankay (n.) See Note under Tea, n., 1.

'T was () A contraction of it was.

Twattle (v. i.) To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip.

Twattle (v. t.) To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet.

Twattle (n.) Act of prating; idle talk; twaddle.

Twattler (n.) One who twattles; a twaddler.

Tway (a. & n.) Two; twain.

Twayblade (n.) Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis.

Tweag (v. t.) To tweak.

Tweag (n.) Alt. of Tweague

Tweague (n.) A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress.

Tweak (v. t.) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.

Tweak (n.) A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.

Tweak (n.) Trouble; distress; tweag.

Tweak (n.) A prostitute.

Tweed (n.) A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving.

Tweedle (v. t.) To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure.

Tweedle (v. t.) To twist.

Tweel (n. & v.) See Twill.

Tweer (n.) Same as Tuyere.

Tweese (n.) Alt. of Tweeze

Tweeze (n.) A surgeon's case of instruments.

Tweezers (n. pl.) Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.

Twelfth (a.) Next in order after the eleventh; coming after eleven others; -- the ordinal of twelve.

Twelfth (a.) Consisting, or being one of, twelve equal parts into which anything is divided.

Twelfth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts of one whole.

Twelfth (n.) The next in order after the eleventh.

Twelfth (n.) An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.

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