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- Tube - n. - A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
- Tube - n. - A telescope.
- Tube - n. - A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
- Tube - n. - The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
- Tube - n. - A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
- Tube - n. - A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.
- Tube - n. - A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.
- Tube - n. - One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
- Tube - v. t. - To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
- Tube-nosed - a. - Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
- Tube-nosed - a. - Belonging to the Tubinares.
- Tube-shell - n. - Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.
- Tubed - imp. & p. p. - of Tube
- Tubeform - a. - In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform.
- Tuber - n. - A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.
- Tuber - n. - A genus of fungi. See Truffle.
- Tuber - n. - A tuberosity; a tubercle.
- Tubercle - n. - 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.
- Tubercle - n. - A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. It is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption.
- Tubercled - a. - Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk.
- Tubercula - pl. - of Tuberculum
- Tubercular - a. - Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.
- Tubercular - a. - Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.
- Tubercular - a. - Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.
- Tuberculate - a. - Alt. of Tuberculated
- Popgun - n. - A child's gun; a tube and rammer for shooting pellets, with a popping noise, by compression of air.
- Strangulation - n. - Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.
- Gullet - n. - The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.
- Phoneidoscope - n. - An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.
- Barker's mill - - A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.
- Duct - n. - Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
- Calumet - n. - A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.
- Air vessel - - A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheae, of plants spiral vessels.
- Pipe - n. - A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.
- Fuse - n. - A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze.
- Vessel - n. - Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.
- Cop - n. - A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
- Regurgitation - n. - the reversal of the natural direction in which the current or contents flow through a tube or cavity of the body.
- Collimator - n. - A tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used.
- Siphuncle - n. - The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.
- Gamopetalous - a. - Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.
- Antiguggler - n. - A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise.
- Tubule - n. - A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the uriniferous tubules of the kidney.
- Crookes tube - - A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
- Chyometer - n. - An instrument for measuring liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.
- Siphon - n. - A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for mercury, near the sea level.
- Vessel - n. - A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.
- Monte-acid - n. - An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.
- Spile - n. - A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
- Quill - n. - The tube of a musical instrument.
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- H6119 עָקֵב - 6119 עָקֵב - עָקֵב - - ʻâqêb - aw-kabe' - or (feminine) עִקְּבָה; from עָקַב; a heel (as protuberant); hence, a track; figuratively, the rear (of an army); heel, (horse-) hoof, last, lier in wait (by mistake for עָקֵב), (foot-) step. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H650 אָפִיק - 650 אָפִיק - אָפִיק - - ʼâphîyq - aw-feek' - from אָסַף; properly, containing, i.e. a tube; also a bed or valley of astream; also a strong thing or a hero; brook, channel, mighty, river, [phrase] scale, stream, strong piece. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H4166 מוּצָקָה - 4166 מוּצָקָה - מוּצָקָה - - mûwtsâqâh - moo-tsaw-kaw' - or מֻצָקָה; from יָצַק; properly, something poured out, i.e. a casting (of metal); by implication, a tube (as cast); when it was cast, pipe. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H7070 קָנֶה - 7070 קָנֶה - קָנֶה - - qâneh - kaw-neh' - from קָנָה; a reed (as erect); by resemblance a rod (especially for measuring), shaft, tube, stem, the radius (of the arm), beam (of a steelyard); balance, bone, branch, calamus, cane, reed, [idiom] spearman, stalk. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H7166 קַרְסֹל - 7166 קַרְסֹל - קַרְסֹל - - qarçôl - kar-sole' - from קָרַס; an ankle (as a protuberance or joint); foot. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H6804 צַנְתָּרָה - 6804 צַנְתָּרָה - צַנְתָּרָה - - tsantârâh - tsan-taw-raw' - probably from the same as צִנּוּר; a tube; pipe. - Noun Feminine - heb