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Ground ivy; alehoof.

TUNIC n. 6 definitions

Same as Tunicle.

One of the Tunicata.

rmerly 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…

One of the Tunicata.

TUNICATE; TUNICATED a. 3 definitions

Covered with a tunic; covered or coated with layers; as, a tunicated bulb.

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.

TUNICLE n. 2 definitions

A slight natural covering; an integument. The tunicles that make the ball or apple of the eye. Holland.

a. & n. from Tune, v. Tuning fork (Mus.), a steel instrument consisting of two prongs and a handle, which, being struck, gives a certain fixed tone. It is used for tuning instruments, or for ascertaining the pitch of tunes.

A sharp blow; a thump. [Prov. Eng. or Colloq. U. S.]

Same as Dunker.

TUNNEL n. 7 definitions

f a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel. And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence The smoke forth threw. Spenser.

TUNNEL STERN n.

gn of motor-boat stern, for use in shallow waters, in which the propeller is housed in a tunnel and does not extend below the greatest draft.

of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus or Albacora thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called horse ma…

To stun. [Obs.] "Breathless and astunned." Somerville.

ATTUNE v. 2 definitions

To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.

A lemon-yellow phosphate of uranium and calcium occurring in tabular crystals with basal cleavage, and in micalike scales. H., 2- 2.5. Sp. gr., 3.05-3.19.

To befall. [Poetic] I wish all good befortune you. Shak.

Weary; mournful. Shak.