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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
- Firework - n. - A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.
- 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.
- Vestlet - n. - Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.
- Spire - n. - A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
- Chimney - n. - A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.
- 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.
- Pipestem - n. - The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc.
- Bore - n. - The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
- Gamopetalous - a. - Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.
- Anticathode - n. - The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge.
- 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.
- Fulgurite - n. - A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge.
- 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.
- Reed - n. - A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
- Auget - n. - A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.
- 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.
- Ranz des vaches - - The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.
- Regurgitation - n. - the reversal of the natural direction in which the current or contents flow through a tube or cavity of the body.
- Box - n. - A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.
- Gun - n. - A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
- 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.
- Tube - v. t. - To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
- Caloriduct - n. - A tube or duct for conducting heat; a caliduct.
- 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.
- Cop - n. - A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
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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