tube-shell 
Tubicolidff, as the watering-pot shell and re- 
lated forms. They agree in secreting a shelly tube 
about the long siphons, and in extreme cases this for- 
mation makes them look very unlike ordinary bivalves. 
The case is like that of the related teredos or ship- worms. 
Both valves may be of considerable size and separate 
from the tube (see cut under Gastroch&na), or one may be 
free from the tube and the other fixed to it, as in Clava- 
gella; or both may be very small and soldered to a large 
tube of singular construction, as in the true watering- 
pots. See cut under waterimj-pot. 
tube-spinner (tub'spin"er), M. A tube-weaver. 
tube-stopper (tub'stop"er), w. In steam-eni/iii., 
a tube-plug. 
tube-valve (tub'valv), n. A valve consisting 
of a tube, which is held against its seat by a 
ball-weighted lever. E. H, Knight. 
tube- vise (tub'vis), n. A vise especially adapted 
for seizing tubes or pipes ; a pipe-vise. 
tube-weaver (tub'we"ver), n. Any spider of 
the group Tubicolee or Tubltelse; a tube-spinner. 
Compare orb-tveaver, tunnel-weaver, etc. 
tube-well (tub'wel), n. A device for obtain- 
ing water from beneath the ground, consisting 
of a wrought-iron pipe armed with a sharp 
point, and having a series of perforations at 
the lower end above the point. It is driven into 
the soft ground until water is reached. For many local- 
ities, where water is comparatively near the surface, a 
tube-well answers for all domestic purposes. In soils 
where the water is abundant near the surface, four or 
more tube- wells may be driven a few feet apart and united 
at the top by branch pipes, and may serve to supply a 
steam fire-engine, etc., by a direct connection, or to feed 
a steam-pump. It is commonly called, in the United 
States, a driven well, or drive-well. 
tube-worm (tub' werm), n. A tubicoloiis worm ; 
one of the sedentary annelids which live in 
cases ; especially, a serpula. See Tubicolee, 2 (b). 
tube-wrench (tub'rench), n. A pipe-wrench. 
tub-fake (tub'fak), n. A coil of tow-line in the 
line-tub of a whale-boat. J. W. Collins. 
tubfastt (tub'fast), . A process of treatment 
for the cure of venereal disease by sweating in 
a heated tub for a considerable time, during 
which strict abstinence had to be observed. 
Bring down rose-cheeked youth 
To the tub-fast and the diet. 
Shttk., T. of A., iv. 3. 87. 
tub-fish (tub'fish), n. The sapphirine gurnard, 
Trigla Itirundo. See gurnard. [Local, Eng.] 
tubful (tub'ful), n. [< tub + -ful.~\ A quantity 
sufficient to fill a tub; as much as a tub will 
hold, 
tub-gig (tub'gig), . A Welsh car. See the 
quotation. 
The brothers [Carlyle] went in a steamer from Liverpool 
to Bangor, and thence to Llanberis, again in a tub-gig, or 
Welsh car. Froude, Carlyle (Life in London, xi.). 
tubi, n. Plural of tubus. 
tubicen (tu'bi-sen), . [L., a trumpeter, < tuba, 
trumpet, + canere, sing, play.] A trumpeter. 
tubicinate (tu-bis'i-nat), . i. ; pret. and pp. tu- 
bicinated, ppr. tubicinating. [< L. tubicen (-cm-), 
a trumpeter (see tubicen), + -ate 1 .] To blow a 
trumpet. [Rare.] 
TubiCOlffi (tu-bik'o-le), n. pi. [NL., pi. of tu- 
bicola: see tubicole.] 1. A group of spiders 
which spin and inhabit a tubular web of silk, 
often strengthened outside with leaves or other 
materials; the tube-spinners. Compare Tubitelte. 
2. A group of annelids, (at) In Cuvier's classifica- 
tion, the first order of Annelides, consisting of sucli genera 
as Serpula, Sabella, Terebel- 
Itt, Amphilrite, and Dentali- 
um: thus a heterogeneous 
association of certain mol- 
lusks and worms. (6) Now, 
the sedentary or tubicolous 
annelids, or those worms 
which live in tubes. They 
comprise a part of the poly- 
chcetous annelids, and in- 
clude several families, as 
Serpulidse, Sabellidss, Tere- 
bellidse, Amphictenidte, and 
others. They are also called 
Sedentaria, from their hab- 
it* (as distinguished from 
Errantia), and Cephalobran- 
chia or Capitibranchia, for 
the reason that the branchi- 
al organs are confined to the 
head or anterior part of the 
body. These are the pro- 
cesses which project so con- 
spicuously from the tube. 
The tubes are of various sub- 
stance and texture; they 
may be calcareous secre- 
tions of the animal, as in 
the serpulas, or composed 
of sandy and shelly or stony 
grit agglutinated together 
by a viscid secretion, as in the terebellas and others or 
simply membranous. The tubes are straight or curved 
sometimes spirally coiled, and usually form a complete 
case or covering into which the animal can withdraw for 
A Serpula, one of the Tubieolse, 
withdrawn from its tube, which ib 
shown separately. 
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protection. Also Tubicolidie . See also cuts under Prntula 
and Serpula. 
tubicolar (tfi-bik'o-ljir), . [< tubicole + -aA] 
Same as tubicolous. 
Spirorbis and other tubicolar annelids occur as early as 
the Silurian period. Pascoe, Zool. Class., p. 62. 
tubicole (tu'bi-kol), a. and n. [< NL. tubirola, 
living in a tube (i. e. in a tubular web), < L. 
titbits,^ tube, + colere, dwell, inhabit.] I. <i. In- 
habiting a tube or a tubular web, as a spider ; 
tubicolar or tubicolous, as an annelid. 
II. >i. A tubicolous annelid. 
Tubicolidae (tu-bi-kol'i-de), . pi. [NL., < Tu- 
bicolx + -Ma?.] 1. In conch., a family of bi- 
valves : same as Gastrochteiiidie. See tube-shell. 
2. Same as Tubicolee, 2 (b). 
tubicolous (tu-bik'o-lus), a. [< tubicole + -OMS.] 
Ineool., inhabitiug'a tube ; tubicole; tubicolar; 
spinning a tubular web, as a spider ; secreting 
a tubular case, as an annelid or a rotifer ; hav- 
ing a tubular or fistulous shell, as a mollusk. 
See Tubicolas, tube-shell, and cuts under Protula 
and Serpula Tubicolous rotifers, those wheel- 
animalcules, as distinguished from the free forms, which 
are inclosed in gelatinous cases which they secrete. The 
elongated body ends behind in an adhesive disk, by which 
the animalcules, singly or several together, are fixed. 
The foot or peduncle, by which they are attached, is a 
process of the neural side of the body, and thus differs 
from the foot of most free rotifers, which is a median 
process from the opposite side of the body, usually seg- 
mented and ending in a pair of movable stylets. 
tubicorn (tu'bi-k6ru), a. and n. [< L. tubus, 
tube, + cornu, horn.] I. a. Hollow-horned, as 
a ruminant; cavicorn. 
II. n. A tubicorn or cavicorn ruminant. 
Tubicornia (tu-bi-kor'ui-a), n. pi. [NL. : see 
tubicorn."] The hollow-horned ruminants: same 
as Cavicornia. 
tubifacient (tu-bi-fa'shient), a. [< L. titbits, 
tube, + faeieii(t-)s, ppr. offacere, make.] Con- 
structing a tube in which to dwell ; tubicolous. 
tubifer (tu'bi-fer), n. [< L. tubus, tube, + ferre 
= E. Sear 1 .] That which bears a tube, as a tu- 
bicolous annelid. 
tubiflorous (tu'bi-flo-rus), a. [< L. tubus, tube, 
+ flos (flor-), flower.] In bot., having tubular 
flowers or florets. 
tnbiform (tu'bi-form), a. [= F. tubiforme, < 
L. tubus, tube, + forma, form.] Tubular; ca- 
nalicular; having the form or character of a 
tube. Also ttibseform. 
tubilingual (tu-bi-ling'gwal), a. [< L. tubus, 
tube, + lingua, tongue : see lingual.] Having 
a tubular tongue, as various honey-suckers and 
other birds. 
Tubilingues (tu-bi-ling'gwez), n.pl. [NL. : see 
tubilingual.] In ornith., in Sundevall's system, 
a synonym of Cinnyrimorplise : so named be- 
cause the long extensile tongue constitutes a 
tubular suctorial organ. 
Tubinares (tu-bi-na'rez), n. pi. [NL. (Illiger, 
1811), < L. tub-US, tube, + wares, nostrils.] The 
tube-nosed or tubinarial water-birds, having 
the nostrils formed into a tube which lies upon 
the base of the culmen, as in the petrels, or into 
a pair of tubes, one on each side of the base of 
the bill, as in the albatrosses ; the petrel family, 
or Procellariidee. Also called Nasutse, See cuts 
under albatross, fulmar, hagden, and (Estrelala. 
tubinarial (tu-bi-na'ri-al), a. [As Tubinares 
+ -ial.] Having tubular nostrils, as a petrel ; 
tube-nosed ; of or pertaining to the Tubinares. 
tubing (tu'bing), n. [Verbal n. of tube, v.] 1. 
The act of making tubes, or providing with 
tubes. 2. A tube or tubes collectively: as, 
ten feet of tubing. Rubber tubing, flexible tubing 
made of caoutchouc. Such tubing is made impervious 
to coal-gas by coating it with a solution of sodium sili- 
cate, or water-glass. 
Tubingen school. See school 1 . 
tubiparous(tu-bip'a-rus), a. [< L. tubus, tube, 
+ parerc, produce.] Giving rise to tubes or 
tubules: as, a tubinarous gland. Micros. Sci., 
XXXI. 186. 
Tubipora (tu-bip'o-ra), n. [NL. (Linnseus, 
1748), < L. tubus, tube, T porus, pore, passage.] 
The leading genus of Tubiporidse, or organ-pipe 
corals. T. musica is the best-known species. 
See cut in next column. 
Tubiporacese (tu"bi-po-ra'se-e), n. pi. [NL., 
neut. pi. of tubiporaceus : see tubiporaceous.] 
An order of alcyonarian polyps, containing the 
Tubiporidse or organ-pipe corals. 
tubiporacean (tu"bi-po-ra'se-an), a. and n. [< 
tubiporace-ous + -an.] ' Same as tubipore. 
tubiporaceous (tu''bi-po-ra'shius), a. [< L. 
tabus, tube, -I- porus, pore, passage, + -aceous.] 
Having the character of organ-pipe coral; be- 
longing to Ihe Tiiliiporaceee. 
tu-brugge 
Organ-pipe Coral ( Titbtpora 
tubipore (tu'bi-por), . and n. [< L. tubus, tube, 
+ porus, pore, passage.] I. a. Having tubu- 
lar corallites, each one of which opens by a pore ; 
tubiporaceous; belonging to the Tubiporidse. 
II. n. An organ-pipe coral. 
Tubiporidse (tu-bi-por'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < 
Tubipora + -idee.] A family of alcyonarian 
polyps, typified by the genus Tubipora, which 
secrete a hard corallum in the form of tubular 
thecse bound together by epithecse and with- 
out internal septa ; the organ-pipe corals. The 
polyps have eight pinnately fringed tentacles, and are 
therefore octocoralline, not hexacoralline as most corals. 
They are completely retractile within their tubes, and are 
of a violet or grass-green color. The coral grows in large 
masses, usually red or purplish, and is found in the Indian 
and Pacific oceans. See cut under Tubipora. 
tubiporite (tu'bi-po-rit), n. [< Tubipora + -ite 2 .] 
A fossil organ-pipe coral, or some similar organ- 
ism. 
Tubiporites (tu"bi-po-ri'tez), n. [NL. (Schlot- 
heim): see tubiporite.'] A genus of tubipo- 
rites. 
tubiporous (tu'bi-po-rus), a. [As tnbipore + 
-ous.] Same as tubipore. 
Tubitelae (tu-bi-te'le), n. pi. [NL., < L. tubus, 
tube, + tela, a web.] A group of rectigrade 
spiders, the tapestry-weavers, which have cy- 
lindrical spinnerets and spin tubular webs, as 
the genera Agclena, Tegenaria, and others : op- 
posed to Inequitelee, Orbitelse, etc. 
tubitelar (tu-bi-te'lar), a. [< Tubitelx + -ar^.] 
Of or pertaining to the Tubitelse. 
Tubitelariae (tu*bi-te-la'ri-e), n. pi. [NL.: see 
Tubitelse.] Same as Tubitelse. 
tubitelarian (tu"bi-te-la'ri-an), a. and )i. [< 
Tubitelariee, + -an.] 1. a. Of or pertaining to 
the Tubitelarite; tubitelar. 
II. n. A spider of the division Tubitelariee. 
tubivalve (tu'bi-valv), n. and a. [< L. tiibus, 
tube, + vah-a, door: see valve.] I. n. A bi- 
valve mollusk with tubular siphonal sheath; 
a tube-shell. 
II. a. Having a tubular or fistulous shell. 
tubman (tub'man), .; pi. tubmen (-men). A 
barrister in the Court of Exchequer in England 
who had a precedence in motions. See post- 
man 1 . 
tubo-abdominal (tu // b6-ab-dom'i-nal), a. [< L. 
tubus, tube, + abdomen (-min-), abdomen, + 
-al.] Pertaining to a Fallopian tube and to 
the cavity of the abdomen. Tubo-abdominal 
pregnancy, a form of extra-uterine pregnancy in which 
the ovum is arrested near the fimbriated extremity of 
the Fallopian tube, projecting thence in the course of its 
development into the abdominal cavity. 
tub-oar (tub'or), n. In whale-Jishing, the oar 
which is pulled opposite the line-tub ; also, 
the tub-oarsman. 
tub-Oarsman (tub'6rz // man), n. In whale-fish- 
ing, a man whose place in a whale-boat is near 
the tub containing the whale-line, and whose 
business is to see that no entanglement of the 
line takes place. 
tubo-ovarian (tu"b6-o-va'ri-an), a. [< L. tubus, 
tube, + ovariwu, ovary, + -an.] Pertaining to 
the ovary and to the Fallopian tube. 
tubovarian (tu-bo-va'ri-an), a. Same as tubo- 
ovarian. 
tub-preacher (tub'pre'cher), n. [< tub, a kind 
of pulpit, + preacher.] A contemptuous term 
for a dissenting minister; hence, a ranting, 
ignorant preacher. Also tubster. 
Here are your lawful ministers present, to whom of late 
you do not resort, I hear, but to tub-preachers in conven- 
ticles. Bp. Hacket, Abp. Williams, ii. 165. (Danes.) 
tub-race (tub'ras), . A race in which the con- 
testants paddle with the hands in tubs. 
tu-brugget, . [ME., < tu, a form of tow 1 , + 
brui/gt; bridge: see tou'l and brulyf^.] A draw- 
bridge. Htillitcell. 
