قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

To allure; to tole.

In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses.

A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for veils, etc.

Belonging to, or in the style of, Tully (Marcus Tullius Cicero).

A whitefish (Coregonus tullibee) found in the Great Lakes of North America; -- called also mongrel whitefish.

A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.

To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.

To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.

To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.

To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.

Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.

Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.

See Tumbledung.

of Tumble

Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabaeus, Copris, Phanaeus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.

One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.

A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.

A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.

A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure.