Tsuga 
mountains, is plnnted about temples, and yields a fine- 
Kraincil yellowish timber, Illllch llM-tl by I he .I;tp:tn 
t'biiic>r t*"i tut Mini; :inl for furniture. It- v:uii ty /mna, 
iduitit species -J ur :! feet hi;:h, known as Jimi' i 
there. :i favorite c:inleii slirnb. '/'. <linitntut (T. I'.i 
",nn, thr l:(ii--siii{; cif ithntiin :i t:ill tree with Kl'act'flll 
ilniopin- linuieblcls. iLM-ii fur incense by the Ilillllus IB 
mi. nt tin- linmlsiuiic.st forest ti cc> ..r the Himalayas, often 
growing to from ti to 8 feet in ilKuni-'ter. 
2. [/.'. | A t i-cc of this genus. 
tsun (Isiui), a. [Chinese.] An inch, being the 
tenth part til' a Chinese chill or foot. 
tsung-tuh (tsung'tu'). .*/</ and /</. [Chinese, 
< tan HI/, general, + ///, overseer.] The high- 
est provincial ollieer in China; a viceroy or 
governor-general, having the general control 
of all civil ami military affairs of one or more 
provinces, anil subject only to the throne. The 
eighteen provinces of China proper are governed by eight 
tsung-tuh or viceroys, and sixteen futai or governor*. 
tuart, n. See liidiiii. 
tuatera (tO-a-til'i*), n. The gigantic lizard of 
New Zealand, IIattcria(orHj>lienu<li>n)])iiiii -lulu. 
See cut under Hatteria. 
tuath (tu'atli), n. [< Ir. limit,, people: see 
lintch.} An Irish territorial division, or an as- 
sociation of persons. See the quotation. 
The term Tuath was at the same time genealogical anil 
geographical, having been applied to the people occupy- 
ing a district which had a complete political and legal ad- 
ministration, a chief or Rig, and could bring into the field 
a battalion of seven hundred men. The word was also ap- 
plied, however, to a larger division, consisting of three or 
four, or even more, Tuathg, called a Mdr Tuath, or great 
Tuath, which were associated together for certain legal 
and k'KMativf purposes, anil the troops of which were 
united together in war under one commander. 
W. K. Sullivan, Introd. to O'Curry's Anc. Irish, p. Ixxlx. 
tub (tub), ii. [< ME. table, < MD. D. tobbe = 
MLG. tnbbe. tobbe, LG. tubbf, a tub ; origin un- 
known. Some suppose, against phonetic proba- 
bility, a connection with LG. tiiver = OHG. zu- 
IHH-. MHG. zuber,zober, Or. zuber, zober, a vessel, 
a contracted form of OHG. zwibar, zuipar, a 
vessel with two handles (cf. OHG. einbar, MHG. 
einber, timber, G. rimer, a vessel with one han- 
dle) ; < LG. to, OHG. cirri, ziei-, two, + -bar, 
connected with E. bear 1 (see antber^).} 1. An 
open wooden vessel made of staves, held toge- 
ther by hoops, surrounding a bottom: as, a 
wash-<i(6; a butter-6/ the tub in which the 
tow-line is coiled in a whale-boat. 2. The con- 
tents of a tub ; as much as a tub will hold ; as 
a measure of capacity, sometimes erroneous- 
ly confounded with firkin. A tub of butter, by a 
statute of George III., was 84 pounds or 1J firkins, but lo- 
cally still larger. As a measure of corn, oy a statute of 
(1 eorge 1 1 ., the tub was 4 bushels. A tub of tea Is 60 pounds. 
3. Any wooden structure shaped like or resem- 
bling a tub. (a) A pulpit : used contemptuously. Com- 
pare tub-preacher, tub-thumper. [Slang, Eng.J 
High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shone 
Henley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne. 
Pope, Duuclad, Ii. 2. 
" The Rev. Moses Barraclongh: t'tub orator you call him 
sometimes. I think." " Ah !" said the Rector. . . . "He's 
a tailor by trade." Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, vlil. 
(6) A clumsy, slow boat or vessel : so called in contempt. 
There Is no uglier vessel than a real old north-country 
Oeordle or coalman, with the run of a sugar-box. . . . The 
name of this deep and wallowing tub was the Richard and 
Ann. If. C. /;. <7, A Sea Queen, xvl. 
(c) A boat used for practice-rowing. 
The freshmen arc put into harness in tub-pairs or four- 
oars. Dickens't Diet. Oxford, p. 17. 
Practice in gigs, or more technically styled tubs (small 
boats to hold a pair of oarsmen, and In the stern of which 
the coach steers and advises the rowers). 
Daily Teleyraph, Feb. 9, 1887. (Encyc. Diet.) 
4. A small cask for holding liquor, especially in 
the eighteenth century, and before tne change 
in English revenue laws; such a cask in which 
brandy, gin, or the like was smuggled from the 
Continent. 
I made three seizures, besides sweeping up those thir- 
ty-seven tubs. Marryat, Three Cutters, Ii. 
6. A receptacle for water or other liquid for 
bathing the person. See bath-tub. 
The retiring bower, 
So furnish'd as might force the Persian's envy, 
The silver bathing-full, the cambric rubbers. 
Massinger, Guardian, II. 5. 
6. Hence, the act or process of bathing in a 
tub; specilically, a sponge-bath taken while 
standing in a tub. [Colloq.] 
From early morn till dewy eve, when she had It out of 
him in the colil tub before putting him to bed. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, I. 2. 
7f. Sweating in a.heated tub, formerly the com- 
mon mode of treatment of lues venerea. Com- 
pare potetli I'iiiii-tuh, 12. 8. In niininq : (a) A 
bucket for raising ore from a mine, (b) A box, 
w:ij;on, or tram for conveying coal from the 
working-face to the pit-bottom or gangway, or 
8517 
for underground haulage in general. The names 
given to the various vehicles or receptacles used for trans 
porting ciml, as well ns their shape and size and the mate- 
rial of which they are mailc, vary c<>nsi<icnt!ily In differ- 
ent Knglixh collieries. Heebugini*. (<) (Same as /.< < n . 
9. The top of a malt-kiln, llnllurcll. [Prov. 
Eng.] 10. The gurnet. Iliilliicrll. [I'rov. 
Eng.] Cat under a tub (""'.), a supposed hindrance 
or obstacle: an accidental unavoidable delay. Thus, when 
a vessel Is prevented from sailing by unavoidable circum- 
stances, It Is said that some otie has a cat under a tub, It 
being a superstition that If a cat Is put under a tub it will 
hinder the vessel from sailing. [New Kng.) Culling- 
tub, a receptacle Into which mackerel are thrown to be 
sorted. Orog-tub (naut.\ a tub for holding the grog 
which used to form part of the crew's rations. Powder- 
ing tub. See powdering-tub. Quenching-tub. See 
(/tiencMny. Tale Of a tub, an Idle or silly Action ; a cock- 
and-bull story. 
Ye say they follow your law, 
And vary not a shaw, 
Which Is a tale of a tub. 
Bp. Bate, Comedy Concerning Three Laws. (Xares.) 
You shall see in us that we preached no lyes, nor tales 
of tubs, but even the true word of God. Coeerdale. 
To throw a tub to a whale, to create a diversion in or- 
der to avoid a danger. Tub-camphor. See the quota* 
tlon. 
Japanese camphor is distinguished from Formosan by 
being coarser grained, clearer, of pinker hue, ami by sub- 
liming at a lower temperature. It Is also known as 
"Dutch " or "tub" camphor, the latter name arising from 
its being Imported to Europe In tubs covered with matting, 
each placed within a second tub secured on the outside by 
hoops of twisted cane. Spons' Encyc. Manuf., p. 574. 
tub (tub), v. ; pret. and pp. tubbed, ppr. tubbing. 
[< tub, n.] I. trans. 1. To plant or set in a 
tub: as, to tub plants. 2. To bathe in a tub 
or bath. 
You shall be soaked, and stroked, and tubbed, and 
rubbed. B. Jonson, Alchemist, iv. 1 . 
3. In mining, to line (a shaft) with a casing of 
wood or iron. See tubbing. 
II. intrans. 1. To bathe or wash the person 
in a bathing-tub ; especially, in colloquial use, 
to take the morning bath. [Eng.] 
We all '"/' in England. Spectator. 
2. To row in a tub ; practise in a tub. See tub, n. 
tuba (tu'bft), .; pi. tubes, tubas (-be, -bits). 
[L., a trumpet: see tube.'} 1. A musical in- 
strument of the 
trumpet family, 
of very large size 
and low pitch, it 
Is essentially similar 
to the bombardon, 
though not always 
made In the same 
shape. Its compass is 
nearly fouroctaves, In- 
cluding, by means of 
three or five valves, all 
the chromatic tones. 
The fundamental tone 
is usually the third F 
or I :- below middle C. 
Lower varieties are of- 
ten called baft or con- 
tra-bass tubas. The 
tuba Is much used in 
military bands, and Is 
more or less common 
In the orchestra, where 
It Ii used In conjunc- 
tion with the trom- 
bones. 
2. In organ-build- Tuba. 
ing, a reed-stop of 
large scale, so connected with a separate bel- 
lows with extra weights that the tones are of ex- 
ceptional power and majesty. Usually called 
tuba mirabilis. 3. In anat. and zool., a tube or 
tubular part or organ ; specifically, the Eusta- 
chian tube, or salpinx. See hydra tuba (under 
hydra), and cut under seypJiistoma.'StMt tuba, 
a musical instrument, the largest of the trumpet family, 
and the deepest and most sonorous member of the brass 
wind division of the orchestra, having a large and long 
metal tube and flve valves : its compass Is about four oc- 
taves from the fourth A below middle C. It was invented 
In 1835. Dilatator tubs. See dilatator. 
tubage(tu'baj), n. [< tube + -age.} I. In gun., 
the act or process of lining a heavy gun by in- 
serting a tube of wrought-iron, bronze, or steel. 
The present short steel tube has been the result of the 
essays in the tubay? of guns. 
Report of Chief of Ordnance, 1882, p. 244. 
2. In med., the insertion of a tube into one of 
the passages, usually the esophagus or larynx ; 
intubation. Tubage of the glottis. Same as inlu- 
bation of the lartfiix (which see, under intubation). 
tubal (tu'bal), a. [< tube + -a/.] In med., of 
or relating to one of the passages called tubes 
in the body, more commonly the Fallopian 
tube Tubal dropsy, dropsy of one or both Fallopian 
tubes. Tubal nephritis. Hi ight's disease of the kidneys. 
-Tubal pregnancy, the development of the embyro 
t" some extent within the Fallopian tube instead of the 
uterus 
tube 
tubar (tu'biir), a. [< tube + -or 3 .] Same as di- 
b/tl : as, lnl,iir pregnancy. 
tubarium an), .: pi. iiilmnn (-ii). 
[NL., < L. Illlnis, pipe, tube : see //;<.] A tube 
nr system ui' tubes secreted anil inhabited by 
polypides or polypites ; a tubular /.oceeiuin or 
zoothecium. 
tubate (tu'bat), . [< XI,. ////*, < L. ?/<>. 
tube: see tube.} Forming a tube; tubiform ; 
tubar; tubular; also, provided with a tube or 
tubes; tubulate. 
tubbeck (tubVk), n. [Burmese.] A sash of 
silk, or silk and cotton, usually red, worn by 
women in Burma, 
tubber (tub'er), H. [6 + -*r 1 .] 1. A cooper. 
lltilliir/'ll. [Prov. Eng.] 2. In mining, a sort 
of pickax. Also called bcele. 
tubber-man (tub'er-mau), ii. In mining, the 
man who uses a tubber. Also called betle-man. 
tubbing (tub'ing), . [Verbal n. of tub. v.} 1. 
The art of making tubs. 2. Material for tubs. 
3. In mining, a method of keeping out the 
water in sinking a shaft in very watery ground ; 
also, the material employed for this, it consists 
In providing a water-tight lining for the shaft, which Is 
Inserted piece by piece as the sinking progresses, thus re- 
ducing the extent of surface from which the water enters 
the shaft as quickly and as completely as is possible. 
Tubbing was formerly usually made of oak timber in 
France, where this method of sinking was first introduced ; 
but Iron has been employed In England, In the form both 
of segment* of cylinders and of complete rings. Tubbing 
of masonry has also been used in England and Germany. 
4. The act or process of bathing or of being 
bathed in a tub ; a tub-bath. 
In spite of all the tubbing, rubbing, scrubbing, 
The routing and the grubbing, 
The Blacks, confound them ! were as black as ever t 
Hood, A Black Job. 
5. The act of racing in tubs. See tub-race. 
A good deal of tubbing has been got through In the mom- 
Ings. The Field, March 5, 1887. (Encyc. Diet.) 
tubbing-wedge (tub'ing-wej), it. A wedge of 
yellow pine, about 4 inches in length. Wedges 
of this kind are driven in between the Joints of tubbing in 
order to make them water-tight. 
tubbish (tub'ish), a. [< tub + -ix/i.] Like a 
tub ; tubby ; round and fat. 
He was a short, round, large-faced, tubbuh sort of man. 
Diclcens, Sketches, Characters, Til. 
You look for men whose heads are rather tubbish, 
Or drum-like, better formed for sound than sense. 
Wolcot (Peter Pindar), Works, p. 136. (Danes.) 
tubby (tub'i), a. [< tub + -yl.} 1. Tub- 
shaped ; round like a tub or barrel. 
We had seen him coming up to Covent Garden In hia 
green chaise cart with the fat, tubby little hone. 
Dickens, Sketches, Scenes, vl. 
2. Having a sound like that of an empty tub 
when struck ; sounding dull and without reso- 
nance: applied to stringed musical instruments, 
tub-drubbert (tub'drub'er), . A tub-thumper 
or tub-preacher. [Slang.] 
Business and poetry agree as 111 together as faith and 
reason : which two latter, as has been judiciously obsenr'd 
by the fam'd tub-drubber of Covent Garden, can never be 
brought to set their horses together. 
Tom Brown, Works, III. 198. (Daciet.) 
tube (tub), ii. [< F. tube = Sp. Pg. It. tubo, < 
L. in inix. a pipe, tube; cf. tuba, a trumpet.] 1. 
A pipe or hollow cylinder, especially when of 
small size and used as a conduit for liquids, or 
for containing liquids, as in some forms of sci- 
entific apparatus. Mechanically there Is no distinc- 
tion between a pipe and a tube ; but in use the two words 
are often somewhat arbitrarily distinguished. Thus, when 
the form of the thing is chiefly considered, tube Is regular- 
ly used : as, a steam-boiler having the shape of a large tube 
not pipe; so, also, with reference to certain mechanical 
uses one word or the other Is exclusively used : as, a gas- 
tripe, a drain-pipe, a tent-fate. The words are also distin- 
guished in use, but less clearly, according to the material 
employed : as, an iron pipe, a rubber tubr, a brass tube, etc. 
He lifts the tube [a gun], and levels with his eye; 
Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky. 
Pope, Windsor Forest, 1. 128. 
2. Specifically, the main body of a musical in- 
strument of either the wood wind or the brass 
wind group. The bore of such instruments is 
usually conical, but sometimes cylindrical. 
3. In mult, and zool., a hollow tubular organ; 
a pipe, canal, or duct conveying fluid or gas; 
especially, a pipe which seems to be empty 
that is, conveys air: as, the bronchial ttiben ; 
the Eustachian tube. An artery or a vein is a tube, 
but nearly If not all the structures which convey special 
fluids receive distinctive names. See tuba, tubule. 
4. In bot., any hollow elongated body or part 
of an organ : applied especially to a gamopet- 
alons corolla or gamosepalous calyx, also to a 
united circle of stamens (see cut 9 under sta- 
inrii). 5. A priming-tube. 6. A telescope, or 
that part of it into which the lenses are fitted. 
