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A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

A series of tubes; tubes, collectively; a length or piece of a tube; material for tubes; as, leather tubing.

(Chem.), a bottle or retort having a stoppered opening for the introduction or removal of materials.

when reached by the tunnel. Tunnel head (Metal.), the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. -- Tunnel net, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. -- Tunnel p…

djoining countries, having a deep pile and composed of pure wool with a weft of different material. It is distinguishable by its coloring and patterns from similar carpets made in India and elsewhere. -- Turkey oak. (Bot.) See Cerris. -- Turkey red. (a) A brilliant red imparted by madder to cottons, calicoes, etc., t…

The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned.

made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials.

A lithographic drawing or painting material of the same nature as lithographic ink. It is also used as a resistant in the biting-in process.

A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist.

f silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol. Underneath the umbrella's oily shed. Gay.

Not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. Flies o'er unbending corn, and skims along the main. Pope.

A subordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.

That by which a building is underpinned; the material and construction used for support, introduced beneath a wall already constructed.

A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.

Not material; immaterial. [Obs.] Daniel.

d; -- applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata.

To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects. Chaucer. Taverners until them told the same. Piers Plowman. He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until. Spenser.

A small sack or case, usually of leather, but sometimes of other material, for containing the clothes, toilet articles, etc., of a traveler; a traveling bag; a portmanteau.

The act of laying on varnish; also, materials for varnish.

her kind is pressed from the seeds of cocoa (Theobroma). -- Vegetable flannel, a textile material, manufactured in Germany from pine-needle wool, a down or fiber obtained from the leaves of the Pinus sylvestris. -- Vegetable ivory. See Ivory nut, under Ivory. -- Vegetable jelly. See Pectin. -- Vegetable kingdom. (N…