英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
字典
Tull
(v. t.)
To allure; to tole.
Tulle
(n.)
In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See
Illust. of Tasses.
Tulle
(n.)
A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for veils, etc.
Tullian
(a.)
Belonging to, or in the style of, Tully (Marcus Tullius
Cicero).
Tullibee
(n.)
A whitefish (Coregonus tullibee) found in the Great Lakes
of North America; -- called also mongrel whitefish.
Tum-tum
(n.)
A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain
quite soft in a wooden mortar.
Tumble
(v. i.)
To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about;
as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
Tumble
(v. i.)
To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be
precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold.
Tumble
(v. i.)
To play tricks by various movements and contortions of
the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat.
Tumble
(v. t.)
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.
Tumble
(v. t.)
To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed.
Tumble
(n.)
Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
Tumble-down
(a.)
Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down
house.
Tumblebug
(n.)
See Tumbledung.
Tumbled
(imp. & p. p.)
of Tumble
Tumbledung
(n.)
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.
Tumbler
(n.)
One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions
of the body; an acrobat.
Tumbler
(n.)
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.
Tumbler
(n.)
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.
Tumbler
(n.)
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.