tutenag 
in to Europe from Chi mi a ml thcKast Indies. and 
formerly. especially in (he second half of the 
eighteenth century, an article of considerable 
commercial im]inrtance this metal havini; 
been |)iiivhased liy the Dutch in China ami by 
them distributed through the Ka*t Indies and 
supplied to India proper, whence more or h->s 
nf it found its way to Europe, where its manu- 
factm-e seems to have- been lie^'iin on a small 
scale, both in (ieniiany and in Kn^land, about 
I 71(1). It is said that (lie name ttttenafi was tlrst given to 
JIM all"\ irnpoi -ted fi-ntii tlir Kust liy tin- Portuguese, and 
lti:il thi- alloy as I lie Rung-metal Of tllC Chinese, whidl 
is a variety of bn-ii/r. 'I liis would seem to be probable, 
since the ttrst mention of this alloy, HO far an known, ia 
that of l.ibavins, who, in liis woik " l>e Natnra \l. l:,lln 
rum," inil'liMlied in 1M)7, describes a white bron/e (** al- 
to/, n\ uhirh In- says Is not zinc, hut a peculiar kind of 
tin brought from the Kast Indies, and which is sonorous, 
for which reason it was culled hy the Spaniards tintinaw, 
from tintinnare, 'to rcsounil.' Whether this name was a 
variant of tutenag (also spelled in a great variety of other 
ways, among which tittiinaque) or an independent desig- 
nation of the alloy is not known. The whole matter of 
the early nomenclature of zinc is extremely obscure. See 
zinc. 
tutiorism (tu'ti-or-izm), w. [< L. tutior, corn- 
par. of tutus, safe (pp. of tiieri, watch, guard: 
see tuition), + -ism.'] Rigorism, especially in a 
mild form. 
tutiorist (tu'ti-or-ist), . [< tutior(imn) + -int.] 
A rigorist ; especially, one who holds the doc- 
trines of rigorism in a less rigid or severe form. 
Tutivillust, . [ML.: see titiril.] A demon 
who was said to collect all the fragments of 
words which the priests had skipped over or 
mutilated in the performance of the service, 
and to carry them to hell. Halliwell. 
Tutivillus, the devyl of hell, 
He wryteth bar names, sothe to tel, 
admissa extrahantes. . . . 
For his love that gou der hojth, 
Hold ,;<iu stil, and fangel n<>,;t li. 
sordem aperte deprecantes. 
net. Antiq., I. 267. 
tut-mouthedt (tut'moutht), a. Having a pro- 
jecting under jaw. Hollnntl. 
tut-nose (tut'noz), . A snub-nose. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
tutor (tu'tor), n. [Early mod. E. also tutour, tit- 
ter; < ME" tutour, < OF. tuteur, F. tutaur = Sp. 
Pg. tutor = It. tutorc, < L. tutor, a watcher, pro- 
tector, guardian, < titeri, protect: see tuition. 
In the legal sense the word is directly from the 
L. tutor.] 1. A guardian. 
And kynde wit he wardeyn joure welthe to kcpe, 
And tutour of sowre tresoure and take hit gow atte nede. 
Piers Plowman (('), ii. 62. 
I'll have mine own power here, 
Mine own authority ; I need no tutor. 
Fletcher, Double .Marriage, v. 1. 
The guardian the tutor in Scottish phrase of the or- 
phans and their land. 
E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, V. 252. 
2. In Jatr, the guardian of a boy or girl in pu- 
pilarity. In the absence of other provision, the fa- 
ther is the tutor, and failing him there may bo a tutor 
nominate, a tutor-at-law, or a tutor dative. A tutor nomi- 
nate is one nominated in a testament, etc., hy the father 
of the child or children to be placed under guardianship. 
A father may nominate any number of tutors. A tutor- 
at-law is one who acquires his right by the mere disposi- 
tion of law, in cases where there is no tutor nominate, or 
where the tutor nominate is dead, or cannot act, or has not 
accepted. A tutor dative Is one named by the sovereign 
on the failure of both tutors nominate and tutors-at-law. 
In civil law it was originally considered as a right of the 
nearest relative to be named the tutor in order to preserve 
the fortune for the family, and it was only gradually that 
the protection of the infant himself came to be considered 
the principal object, and the tilling of the office of tutor 
more as a duty which had to be fulfilled unless there were 
special circumstances to excuse, than as a right which a 
relative could claim. 
3. One who has the care of instructing another 
in various branches or in any branch of learn- 
ing; a private instructor; also, a teacher or 
instructor in anything. 
Thou shalt he as thon wast, 
The tutor and the feeder of my riots. 
Shale., 2 Hen. I V., v. 5. 06. 
4. lu KIII/. iniirt !>/ tirs, an officer who is special- 
ly intrusted with the care of the undergraduates 
of his college. 
By the middle of the sixteenth century, the modem sys- 
tem of admitting students not on the foundation was fully 
established ; and, as a natural result, the office of tutor in 
the present meaning of the term then first appears, being 
probably introduced at King's Hall, thechief of the earlier 
foundations absorbed in Trinity t'ollege. " where the 
students were much younu'cr than clsewhci. 
-r.. c'XLV. 4(W. 
I'lir college officer with whom the I'lnlerurailllatc has 
most frci|iu-iit contact is the 7'w'"C. He nut only directs 
the studies of his pupils, luit also deals with them in all 
points, material as well as intellectual. He collects the 
Collect- bills. ;iml uenorally acts as agent for the College 
-, 17 
in nil business transactions with its members. . . . The 
'1'uiiir himself does not necessarily lecture or teach. 
Didceni'i iJict. oj Cambridge, p. 124. 
5. In f. .S'. colleges, a teacher subordinate t., 
a professor, usually appointed for a year or 
a term of years. 
tutor (tu'tor), r. /. [< lutiir, n.] 1. To have 
the guardianship or care of. 2. To instruct ; 
teach. 
Then gave I her, . . . tutnr'd by my art, 
A sleeping potion. Shalt., 1C. and .1., v. 
She trills her song with tutored powers, 
Or mocks each casual note. 
Wordsworth, The Contrast, I. 
tutorage (tu'tor-aj), . [< tutor + -age.'] The 
office, occupation, or authority of a tutor or 
guardian ; guardianship. 
Children care not for the company of their parents or 
tutors, and men will care less for theirs, who would make 
them children by usurping & tutorage. 
Government of the Tongue. 
tutoress (tu'tor-es), n. [Formerly also tutfrtxxi; 
tiitrcxn ; < tutor + -ess.'] A female tutor; an in- 
structress ; a governess. 
What a good helper, what a true instructor ! 
In all good arts a tutrette and conducter. 
lleywood, Dialogues (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, VI. 177). 
tutorial (t\i-to'ri-al), a. [< LL. tutoring, belong- 
ing to a guardian (< L. tutor, a guardian : gee tv- 
tor), + -/.] Of, pertaining to, or exercised by 
a tutor or instructor. 
The Commissioners had two purposes plainly before 
them, which events have shown to be incompatible in the 
form which they were mode to take. The one was to en- 
large and strengthen the Professoriate, the other was to 
extend and encourage what is called the Tutorial system, 
by which is meant the instruction of the undergraduates 
in work for their examinations by certain College officials. 
Contemporary Ken., LVI. 928. 
tutorlally (tu-to'ri-al-i), adv. In a tutorial man- 
ner; as a tutor. tJte Academy, Jan. 31, 1891, 
p. 1I)L>. 
tutorism (tu'tor-izm), n. [< tutor + -ism.] 
The office, state, or duty of a tutor or of tutors; 
tutorship. North British Rev. [Kare.] 
tutorlyt (tu'tor-li), a. [< tutor + -ly 1 .] Like, 
befitting, or belonging to a tutor; pedagogic. 
The King had great reason to be weary of the Earl, who 
was grown so infirm, peevish, and forgetful, as also not a 
little tutorly in his Majesty's affairs. 
Roger North, Examen, p. 453. (Dames.) 
tutorship (tu'tor-ship), . [< tutor + -ship.'] 
1. Guardianship; tutelage. 
This young Duke William, the second of that name and 
seauenth Duke of Xormandie, being vnder tutonhip, ami 
not of htmselfe to gouerne the country. 
Vmtegan, Rest, of Decayed Intelligence (ed. 162S), p. 189. 
2. The office of a tutor or instructor. 
tutpry (tu'tor-i), n. [< tutor + -i/3.] Tutor- 
ship; tutorage; guardianship; instruction. 
The guardianship or tutorie of a king. 
Uolinthed, Hist Scotland, an. 1524 (Chron. I.). 
Their reciprocal prospective rights of tutory were de- 
feated, and the minutioof either tutor or ward put an end 
to a subsisting guardianship. Encyc. Brit., XX. 687. 
tutrice, . See tuteitr. 
tutrix (tu'triks), n. [< LL. tutrix, fern, of L. tu- 
tor, a guardian : see tutor.'] A female guardian. 
The Jacobites submitted to the queen, as ft/friz or regent 
for the prince of Wales, whom they firmly believed she 
Intended to establish on the throne. 
StnoUett, Hist. Eng., I. vii. } 28. 
tutsan (tut'san), n. [Formerly also tittnain ; < 
OF. toittesaiiif, also tutsan, F. toutesaine, < tout 
(< L. tutus), all, + sain (< L. sanus), sound : see 
tutiil ami stiin-1. Cf. allheal.'] A species of St- 
John's-wort, Hypericum Aiidrosxniuni, once re- 
garded as a panacea, or particularly as healing 
to wounds. Also parklcaves. Sometimes ex- 
tended to the whole genus; by Lindley to the 
order Hypcricnceae. 
The healing Tutian then, and Plantan for a sore. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, xiii. 204. 
tutti (tet'ti), a. and n. [It., pi. of tutto, all, < L. 
totus, pi. toti, all: see total.] I. a. In music, 
all the voices or instruments together; concert- 
ed : opposed to solo. In concertos the term is applied 
to passages in which the orchestra is used without the solo 
instrument. It is also loosely used of any loud concerted 
passage. 
II. M. A concerted movement or passage in- 
t ended for or performed by all the voices or in- 
struments together, or by most of them: op- 
posed to xolo. 
They were bent upon a surfeit of music : tutti*, finales, 
choruses, must be performed. 
Longjelloir, Hyperion, iv. 4. 
tutti-frutti ( tot 'ti-f Hit 'ti),. [It.] A confec- 
tion flavored with or containing different kinds 
of fruit ; specifically, ice-cream so made. 
tuzzimuzzy 
tUtty 1 (tnt'i), .; pi. IntiiiK (-i/.j. |Als<> /.>(/. 
>ii.ili/,nn<\ in many other confused forms; part- 
ly due to t~. In:?;/, q. v., but perhaps in pai t 
connected with tuft, in sense 'tuft.'J A nose- 
gay; a posy. [Prov. Kng.] 
Joan can call by name her cows, 
And deck her windows with green boughs; 
She can wreathes and tuttye* make, 
And trim with plums a bridal cake. 
T. Campion (Arbor's Eng. Oarner, II. 383). 
tutty 2 (tnt'i). . [Formerly also lull/, tut": 
MK. tutu, )F. (and F.) tutu = Sp. hitm.nl, it,,, 
= Pg. tutia, < ML. tutia, < Ar. Pers. tiitiya, an 
oxid of zinc. Cf. tut f nay.] Impure zinc pro- 
toxid, collected from the chimneys of smelt- 
ing-furnaces. It Is said also to be found native In Per- 
sia. In the state of powder tutty is used for polishing, and 
in medicine to dust Irritated surfaces. 
Ttitir (tntla) a medlclnable stone or dust, said to be the 
heavier foil of Brass, cleaving to the upper sides and tops 
of brass-melting houses; and such ordinary Apothecaries 
pass away for Tutu; whereas the true Tuty is not heavy, 
but light, and white like flocks of wood, falling Into dust 
so soon as It Is touched ; this is bred of the sparkles of 
brawn furnaces, wherelnto store of the mineral Calaminc 
hath been cast Blount, Glossographta (1870). 
Tutty ointment. See ointment. 
tutty-more (t"t'i-m6r), 11. [< tutti/i + more 2 .] 
A ffower-root. [Prov. Eng.] 
tutucuri, . The European mink, 1'ntnrinx lu- 
Iri'iila. 
tutulus (tu'tu-lus), . ; pi. tutuli(-\\). [L.] 1. 
In arc.hxol., an ancient Etruscan female head- 
dress of conical form ; hence, any similar head- 
dress. 
In rainy weather a hood like the Etruscan tululut was 
worn. Kneyc. Brit., VI. 457. 
2. One of the hollow conical objects thought 
to be covers of the round hanging vases with 
which they are found associated in Scandina- 
vian lauds. H'orsaac, Danish Arts, p. 101. 
tut-work (tut'werk), . 1. Work done by the 
piece. Hatliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 2. Specifi- 
cally, in mining, any work which is paid for 
according to the number of fathoms sunk or 
run, or according to the amount actually ac- 
complished, and not by the day or in tribute. 
[Cornwall, Eng.] 
tut-worker (tut'wer'ker), w. A tut-workman. 
tut- Workman (tut'werk'man), n. One who 
does tut-work. 
tuum (tu'um). [L., neut. of tuus, thine, < tu, 
thou: see thou.] Thine; that which is thine. 
Meum and tuum. See mtumi. 
tu-whit (tij-hwif), . A word imitating the 
cry of the owl. 
Then nightly sings the staring owl, 
Tu-whit, 
Tu-who. a merry note. 
Shot., L. L. L, v. 2. 928. 
tu-whoo (tij-hwo'), n. Same as tu-irhit. Also 
lu-tcho and too-whoo. 
tu-whoo (t$-hw8'), c. i. [< tu-whoo, n.] To cry 
tu-whoo: said of owls. Also too-tchoo. 
An owl was toowhooing from the church tower. 
Thackeray, Bluebeard's Ghost. 
tuyere (twe-ar' or to-yar'), . [< F. tuyere: 
see ticyer.] Same as tiryer. 
tnyforint, a. A variant of ticiform for twiformed. 
tuza (tii'zii), n. Same as tucan. It is now also 
the technical specific name of the common pocket-gopher 
of the southern United States, (jeoinys tuza, otherwise (J. 
pinetis. 
tUZZ (tux), n. [< W. tusw, wisp, bunch: see 
/wi' 3 , tussock. Hence dim. tuzsy.] A tuft or 
knot of wool or hair. [Prov. Eng. ] 
With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek ; 
And then thou kemb'st the tunes on thy cheek. 
Vryden, tr. of IVrsins's Satires, IT. 90. 
tuzzimuzzy (tuz'i-muz'i), n. and a. [Also 
tti::ic-muz:ie, tuttny-niussy, tu:;y muzzy; a rimed 
form, < ME. tussemose, tusmose, a form appar. 
associated with tytetust, tytetnste, E. dial, tccxtii, 
tosty, or simply tosty, a nosegay, appar. con- 
A nosegay; a posy. 
nected with tu::, tn::y, tusk 3 , tmtoet, etc. ; cf. 
also ttittyi.] I. . 1. 
Florio, [Prov. Eng.] 
I'n Iwuquet. A garland of flowers : a nosegay: a (uzzte- 
muaie : a sweet posle. Nomendatnr. (Naret.) 
Another commanded to remove the tuzzimuzoft of flow- 
ers from his feete, and to take the branch of life out of 
his hand. 
Treirnfife oj the Chrwtian Religion, p. 391. (Lnttiam.) 
2. The feather-hyacinth, a monstrous variety 
of Mimi'tiri rumoaHin, with the perianth parted 
into filaments. Krittrn <nul Ili>//uiid. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
II. n. Rough; ragged; disheveled. Halli- 
[Prov. Eng.] 
