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A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc.

A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub. Ure.

A tub; a brewer's vessel. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food. Cooper.

A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.

A tub. See Kemelin. [Obs.] She knew not what a kimnel was Beau. & Fl.

A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel. Wright.

hen. Kitchen garden. See under Garden. -- Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] " A brazen tub of kitchen lee." Ford. -- Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. Donne.

A knot in wood; a protuberance. Wright.

A protuberance; a swelling; a knob; a button; hence, rising ground; a summit. See Knob, and Knop. The highest part and knap of the same island. Holland.

Having knaps; full of protuberances or humps; knobby. [Obs.] Huloet.

A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.

t of Antenna. The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Grew.

Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances. Dr. H. More.

A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance. With lips serenely placid, felt the knot Climb in her throat. Tennyson.

A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.

Having the limb of a tubular corolla or calyx divided into two unequal parts, one projecting over the other like the lips of a mouth, as in the snapdragon, sage, and catnip.

To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern. And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way. Shak.

with an iron hook at one end a handle at the other, used in firing cannon with a friction tube.

A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation.