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..

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.

Supertuberation :: Supertragical (a.) Tragical to excess.

Tube :: Tube (n.) A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe..

Tube :: Tube (n.) A telescope.

Tube :: Tube (n.) A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance..

Tube :: Tube (n.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla..

Tube :: Tube (n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction..

Tube :: 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 :: 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 :: Tube (n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.

Tube :: Tube (v. t.) To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well..

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