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for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.

Having a large, protuberant belly, or one shaped like a tun; pot-bellied.

A tunnel. [Obs.] Shak.

Having the circumference of a tun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.

Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful. -- Tun"a*ble*ness, n. -- Tun"a*bly, adv. And tunable as sylvan pipe or song. Milton.

A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.

A sound; a note; a tone. "The tune of your voices." Shak.

Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes. " Tuneful birds." Milton. -- Tune"ful*ly, adv. -- Tune"ful*ness, n.

Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical. " Thy tuneless serenade." Cowley. How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire! Goldsmith.

One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.

A salt of tungstic acid; a wolframate.

Scheelite, or calcium tungstate. [Obs.] Tungsten ocher, or Tungstic ocher (Min.), tungstate.

An electric glow lamp having filaments of metallic tungsten. Such lamps, owing to the refractory nature of the metal, may be maintained at a very high temperature and require an expenditure of only about 1.25 watts per candle power.

A steel containing a small amount of tungsten, noted for tenacity and hardness, even under a considerable degree of heat. Magnets made of it are said to be highly permanent. It often contains manganese.

Of or pertaining to tungsten; containing tungsten; as, tungstenic ores. [R.]

Of or pertaining to tungsten; derived from, or resembling, tungsten; wolframic; as, tungstic oxide. Tungstic acid, an acid of tungsten, H2WO4, analogous to sulphuric and chromic acids.

The oxide of tungsten, a yellow mineral occurring in a pulverulent form. It is often associated with wolfram.

occupying Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley. They resemble the Mongols. [Written also Tungooses.]

Of or pertaining to the Tunguses; as, the Tungusic dialects.