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The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc.

A sax-tuba. See Sax-tuba.

Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.

The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.

Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.

A telescope. "Glazed optic tube." Milton.

Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.

Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.

In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform.

aining starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.

A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy.

Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk.

Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

To infect with tuberculosis. --Tu*ber`cu*lar*i*za"tion (#), n.

Tubercled; tubercular.

A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium.

The hypodermic injection of tuberculin, which has little or no effect with healthy cattle, but causes a marked rise in temperature in tuberculous animals.

The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles.

A special substance contained in tuberculin, supposed to be the active agent of the latter freed from various impurities.

Resembling a tubercle.