Blowtube :: Blowtube (n.) A blowgun.

Blowtube :: Blowtube (n.) A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles..

Blowtube :: Blowtube (n.) A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of metal (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe..

Bulbo-tuber :: Bulbo-tuber (n.) A corm.

Contubernal :: Contubernal (a.) Alt. of Contubernia.

Contubernial :: Contubernial (a.) Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship.

Crookes Tube :: 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..

Extuberance :: Extuberance (n.) A swelling or rising; protuberance.

Extuberancy :: Extuberancy (n.) Extuberance.

Extuberant :: Extuberant (a.) Swollen out; protuberant.

Extuberate :: Extuberate (v. i.) To swell out.

Extuberation :: Extuberation (n.) Protuberance.

Geissler Tube :: Geissler tube () A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plucker tube, from the German physicist who devised it..

Intertubular :: Intertubular (a.) Between tubes or tubules; as, intertubular cells; intertubular substance..

Intubation :: Intubation (n.) The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup..

Multitubular :: Multitubular (a.) Having many tubes; as, a multitubular boiler..

Pitot''s Tube :: Pitot's tube () A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter..

Protuberance :: Protuberance (n.) That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.

Protuberancy :: Protuberancy (n.) The quality or state of being protuberant; protuberance; prominence.

Protuberant :: Protuberant (a.) Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye..

Protuberate :: Protuberate (v. i.) To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out..

Protuberation :: Protuberation (n.) The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface.

Protuberous :: Protuberous (a.) Protuberant.

Sax-tuba :: Sax-tuba (n.) A powerful instrument of brass, curved somewhat like the Roman buccina, or tuba..

Stub :: Stryphnic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, obtained by the action of acetic acid and potassium nitrite on uric acid, as a yellow crystalline substance, with a bitter, astringent taste..

Stub :: Stub (n.) The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub..

Stub :: Stub (n.) A log; a block; a blockhead.

Stub :: Stub (n.) The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar..

Stub :: Stub (n.) A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded..

Stub :: Stub (n.) A pen with a short, blunt nib..

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