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Tun [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In a general sense, a large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops.

2. A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, oil, etc.

3. A quantity of wine, consisting of two pipes or four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.

4. In commerce, the weight of twenty hundreds gross, each hundred consisting of 112 lb = 2240 lb. But by a law of Connecticut, passed June 1827, gross weight is abolished, and a tun is the weight of 2000 lb. It is also a practice in noun York to sell by 2000 lb. to the tun

5. A certain weight by which the burden of a ship is estimated; as a ship of three hundred tuns, that is, a ship that will carry three hundred times two thousand weight. Forty two cubic feet are allowed to a tun

6. A certain quantity of timber, consisting of forty solid feet if round, or fifty four feet if square.

7. Proverbially, a large quantity.

8. In burlesque, a drunkard.

9. At the end of names, tun ton, or don, signifies town, village, or hill.

Tun [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To put into casks.

Tun [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.

2. A fermenting vat.

3. A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.

4. A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.

5. An indefinite large quantity.

6. A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.

7. Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.

Tun [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To put into tuns, or casks.

Tun-bellied [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having a large protuberant belly.

Tun-bellied [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A tunnel.

Tun-bellied [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Tun-dish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A tunnel.

Tun-great [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the circumference of a tun.

Tuna [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.

2. The tunny.

3. The bonito, 2.

Tunable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Harmonious; musical.

2. And tunable as sylvan pipe or song.

3. That may be put in tune.

Tunable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful.

Tunableness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Harmony; melodiousness.

Tunably [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Harmoniously; musically.

Tunbridge Encyclopedia Britannica

TUNBRIDGE, or Tonbridge, a town of Kent, England, is situated on rising ground above the Medway, and on the South-Eastern Railway, 41 miles (by rail) south-east of London and 33 north-west of Hastings. The Medway is crossed by a stone bridge, erected in 1775. The town consists chiefly of one long main street and a large number of suburban villas. The church of St Peter and St Paul, chiefly Decorated and Perpendicular with some portions of an earlier date, has lately been restored. The grammar school, founded by Sir Andrew Judd, an alderman of London, in the 1st year of Edward VI., was rebuilt in 1865, remodelled in 1880, and extended in 1887. Among other public buildings are the town hall and market house, the public hall, and the free library. Some traffic is carried on by the Medway, which has been made navigable for barges. Tunbridge ware, chiefly sold at Tunbridge Wells, is largely manufactured. There are gunpowder mills on the banks of the Medway; and wool-stapling, brewing, and tanning are carried on. The population of the urban sanitary district (area 1200 acres) in 1871 was 8209 and in 1881 it was 9317....

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 23, p. 606
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Tunbridge wells Encyclopedia Britannica

TUNBRIDGE WELLS, an inland watering-place of England, chiefly in Kent but partly in Sussex, is situated in the midst of charming and picturesque scenery, on the South-Eastern Railway and at the terminus of a branch line of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 46 miles (by rail) south-east of London and 5 south of Tunbridge. It owes its popularity to its chalybeate spring and its romantic situation. The wells are situated near the Parade (or Pantiles), a walk associated with fashion since the time of their discovery. The houses and shops in the Parade somewhat resemble the Rows at Chester. It was paved with pantiles in the reign of Queen Anne. The town is built in a picturesquely irregular manner, and a large part of it consists of districts called “parks,” occupied by villas and mansions. On Rusthall common, about a mile from the town, is the curiously shaped Toad Rock, and about a mile south-west the striking group called High Rocks. The principal public buildings are the pump-room, the town-hall, the corn exchange, the public hall, the mechanics’ institute, the friendly society’s hall, the dispensary and infirmary, and the provident dispensary. The Tunbridge Wells sanatorium is situated in grounds sixty acres in extent, and is capable of receiving 150 visiters. There is a large trade in Tunbridge ware, which is made chiefly at Tunbridge, and includes work tables, boxes, toys, &c., made of hard woods, such as beech, sycamore, holly, and cherry, and inlaid with mosaic. The town is governed by a local board of twenty-four members. The population of the urban sanitary district (area 3351 acres) in 1871 was 19,410 and in 1881 24,308....

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 23, p. 607
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Tundra [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A rolling, marshy, mossy plain of Northern Siberia.

Tune [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A series of musical notes in some particular measure, and consisting of a single series, for one voice or instrument, the effect of which is melody; or a union of two or more series or parts to be sung or played in concert, the effect of which is harmony. Thus we say, a merry tune a lively tune a grave tune a psalm tune a martial tune

2. Sound; note.

3. Harmony; order; concert of parts.

4. A continual parliament I thought would but keep the commonweal in tune

5. The state of giving the proper sounds; as when we say, a harpsichord is in tune; that is, when the several chords are of that tension, that each gives its proper sound, and the sounds of all are at due intervals, both of tones and semitones.

6. Proper state for use or application; right disposition; fit temper or humor. The mind is not in tune for mirth.

7. A child will learn three times as fast when he is in tune as he will when he is dragged to this task.

Tune [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To form one sound to another.

2. While tuning to the waters'fall

3. The small birds sang to her.

4. To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice.

Tune [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; as, to tune a forte-piano; to tune a violin.

2. TUNE your harps.

3. To sing with melody or harmony.

4. Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow

5. Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.

6. So we say of birds, they tune their notes or lays.

7. To put into a state proper for any purpose, or adapted to produce a particular effect. [Little used.]

Tune [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A sound; a note; a tone.

2. A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.

3. The state of giving the proper, sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune.

4. Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.

Tune [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.

2. To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum.

Tune [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin.

2. To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.

3. To sing with melody or harmony.

4. To put into a proper state or disposition.

Tuned [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Uttered melodiously or harmoniously; put in order to produce the proper sounds.

Tuned [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Tune

Tuneful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Harmonious; melodious; musical; as tuneful notes; tuneful birds.

Tuneful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes.

Tuneless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Unmusical; unharmonious.

2. Not employed in making music; as a tuneless harp.

Tuneless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical.

2. Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps.

3. Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung.

Tuner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who tunes.

2. One whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.

3. A name given by the Indians to a small insect, called by the Spaniards pique, which inserts its eggs within the human skin; an insect very troublesome in the East and West Indies.

4. In man, the instrument of taste, and the chief instrument of speech. [ See Tongue .]

Tuner [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Tung [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In man, the instrument of taste, and the chief instrument of speech; and in other animals, the instrument of taste. It is also an instrument of deglutition. In some animals, the tongue is used for drawing the food into the mouth, as in animals of the bovine genus, etc. Other animals lap their drink, as dogs.

2. The tongue is covered with membranes, and the outer one is full of papillae of a pyramidical figure, under which lies a thin, soft, reticular coat perforated with innumerable holes, and always lined with a thick and white or yellowish mucus.

3. Speech; discourse; sometimes, fluency of speech.

4. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

5. The power of articulate utterance; speech.

6. Parrots imitating human tongue.

7. Speech, as well or ill used; mode of speaking.

8. Keep a good tongue in thy head.

9. The tongue of the wise is health. Proverbs 12:1 .

10. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation. The English tongue, within two hundred years, will probably be spoken by two or three hundred millions of people in North America.

11. Speech; words or declarations only; opposed to thoughts or actions.

12. Let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:1 .

13. A nation, as distinguished by their language.

14. I will gather all nations and tongues. Isaiah 66:1 .

15. A point; a projection; as the tongue of a buckle or of a balance.

16. A point or long narrow strip of land, projecting from the main into a sea or a lake.

17. The taper part of any thing; in the rigging of a ship, a short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc. to the size of the mast-head.

18. To hold the tongue, to be silent.

19. TONGUE

Tung [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To talk; to prate.

Tung [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To chide; to scold.

2. How might she tongue me.

3. TONGUE

Tunged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Having a tongue.

2. Tongued like the night-crow.

Tungless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Having no tongue.

2. Speechless; as a tongueless block.

3. Unnamed; not spoken of.

4. One good deed dying tongueless. [Not used.]

Tungstate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A salt formed of tungstenic acid and a base.

Tungstate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A salt of tungstic acid; a wolframate.

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Exodus 28:4

And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make these holy garments for your brother Aaron and his sons, so that they may serve Me as priests.

Exodus 28:39

And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.

You are to weave the tunic with fine linen, make the turban of fine linen, and fashion an embroidered sash.

Exodus 28:40

And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.

Make tunics, sashes, and headbands for Aaron’s sons, to give them glory and splendor.

Exodus 29:5

And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:

Take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic, the robe of the ephod, the ephod itself, and the breastplate. Fasten the ephod on him with its woven waistband.

Exodus 29:8

And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them.

Present his sons as well and clothe them with tunics.

Exodus 39:27

And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,

For Aaron and his sons they made tunics of fine linen, the work of a weaver,

Exodus 40:14

And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:

Bring his sons forward and clothe them with tunics.

Leviticus 8:7

And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.

He put the tunic on Aaron, tied the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He tied the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him.

Leviticus 8:13

And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Then Moses presented Aaron’s sons, put tunics on them, wrapped sashes around them, and tied headbands on them, just as the LORD had commanded him.

Leviticus 10:5

So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.

So they came forward and carried them, still in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses had directed.

Leviticus 16:4

He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.

He is to wear the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments. He must tie a linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are holy garments, and he must bathe himself with water before he wears them.

1 Samuel 17:38

And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.

Then Saul clothed David in his own tunic, put a bronze helmet on his head, and dressed him in armor.

1 Samuel 17:39

And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.

David strapped his sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not accustomed to them. “I cannot walk in these,” David said to Saul. “I am not accustomed to them.” So David took them off.

1 Samuel 18:4

And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

And Jonathan removed the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with his tunic, his sword, his bow, and his belt.

2 Kings 20:20

And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

Ezra 9:3

And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.

When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.

Ezra 9:5

And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God.

At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

Job 30:18

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.

Job 30:31

My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

Psalms 58:5

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell.