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then incorporated with them testaceous tubules related to the 
siphuncuh or rather the vermieuli marini. Woodward. 
TUBURBO, a small town of Tunis, in Africa, supposed 
to be the ancient Tuburbum ; 16 miles west-north-west of 
Tunis. 
TUCAPEL, a fortress of Chili, in the province of La 
Conception, situated on the banks of the river of the same 
name; 106 miles east of Conception. Lat. 36. 45. S. 
TUCAPEL, a river of Chili, in the province of La Con¬ 
ception, which runs south, and changing its course to the 
west, is salt to the sea. 
TUCH, s. A kind of marble. See the fifth sense of 
Touch. —Several parts of it were as bright and splendent as 
tuck. Sir T. Herbert. 
TUCHEL, a small town of West Prussia, on the Brahe; 
25 miles west of Culm. Population 1400. 
TUCHEN, a large village of Prussian Saxony, in the 
duchy of Magdeburg, near Jerichow, with 1000 inha¬ 
bitants. 
TUCK, s. [tweca, Welsh, a knife; cstoc, Fr.; stocco, 
Ital.] A short narrow sword. 
These being prim'd, with force he labour’d 
To free his sword from retentive scabbard ; 
And after many a painful pluck. 
From rusty durance he bail’d tuck. Hudibras. 
A kind of net. [Blekingo-Goth. taeker, triplex rete pis- 
catorium. Sercnius.] The tuck is narrower meashed, and 
therefore scarce lawful with a long bunt in the midst. 
Carew. —A kind of fold ; a sort of pull; a kind of 
lugging. [ tucken , Teut. to strike.] If he was dull, no¬ 
thing was given to him but salted drink, or salt put in col¬ 
lege beer, with tucks to boot. Life of A. Wood. 
To TUCK, v. a. [ tucken , Germ., to press. Skmner.] 
To gather into a narrower compass; to crush together; to 
hinder from spreading. 
Dick adept! tuck back thy hair, 
And I will pour into thy ear. Prior. 
To inclose, by tucking clothes round.—Make his bed 
after different fashions, that he may not feel every little 
change, who is not to have his maid always to lay all things 
in print and tuck him in warm. Locke. 
To TUCK, r>. n. To contract. A bad word. —An ulcer 
discharging a nasty thin ichor, the edges tuck in, and grow¬ 
ing skinned and hard, give it the name of a callous ulcer. 
Sharp. 
TU'CKER, s. A small piece of linen that shades the 
breast of women.—A female ornament, by some called a 
tucker, and by others the neck-piece, being a slip of fine 
linen or muslin, used to run in a small kind of ruffle round 
the uppermost verge of the stays. Addison. 
TUCKER’S ISLAND, a small island of the United States, 
near the coast of South Carolina. Lat. 32. 36. N. long. 80. 
16. W. 
TUCKER’S ISLAND, a small island in the Pacific ocean, 
so called by captain Wilson of the Duff, from one of the 
crew who left the ship there. The island is from 2 to 3 
miles in circumference. The natives are of a dark copper 
colour, and a lively disposition, and much addicted to theft. 
Lat. 7. 22. N. long. 122. 5. E. 
TUCKEREAH, a small town in the southern part of the 
kingdom of Algiers, in Africa, bordering on the desert. It 
is the ancient Figava, and is situated on the river Midroe ; 
106 miles south of Algiers. 
TUCKERSV1LLE, a post village of the United States, 
in Wayne county, Georgia. 
TUCKERTON, a post village of the United States, in 
Burlington county, New Jersey, near the south end of Little 
Egg Harbour Bay. 
TU'CKET, or Tu'cet, s. [ toccheti , Italian; minced 
meat, coliops, &c. Florio; tucetum, low Lat. “jus 
crassum, in quo bubula caro conditur.” Du Cange.] A 
steak; a collop.—Neither will the pulse and leeks, Lavinian 
sausages, and the Cisalpine tucets or gobbets of condited 
bull’s flesh, minister such delicate spirits to the thinking 
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man. Bp. Taylor. —[ toccata , Italian.] A kind of flourish 
or prelude on a trumpet. 
(A tucket sounds:)- 
Your husband is at hand, I hear his trumpet. Shakspeare. 
TU'CKETSONANCE, s. The sound of the tucket. 
Let the trumpets sound. 
The tucketsonance and the note to mount. Shakspeare. 
TUCKUM, a small town in the north-west of European 
Russia, in Courland, near the Baltic. Population 1300; 23 
miles north-north-east of Mittau. 
TUCKUSH, a small sea-poitof Algiers, on the Mediterra¬ 
nean, near which is a little island of the same name. 
TUCOMBIRA, a river of Brazil, in the province of Los 
Uheos, which runs south, and changing its course to the 
east, enters the sea; 21 miles north of Los llheos. 
TUCOPIA, an island in the Pacific ocean, discovered by 
Quiros in 1606. Lat. 12. S. long. 167. E. 
TUCUMAN, a province and government of the viceroyal¬ 
ty of Buenos Ayres, bounded on the north-east by Chichas 
and Lipes in Charchas; north-west and west by Atacama ; 
west and south-west by Cuyo or Cujo ; south-east by the 
Pampas or territories inhabited by the Aucaes, Huarcas, or 
Pampas, Pihuenches, Puelches, Uncos, and other uncon¬ 
quered tribes which wander over the plains and mountains 
adjacent to Chili; on the south-east it has the jurisdiction 
of Santa Fe, in Buenos Ayres; and on the east it has the 
uncultivated Llanos de Manso, and the country of Chacos 
or Chaco Gualamba. Its extent is from lat. 22. to 33. 10. 
S.; its length 370 leagues; and its breadth 190 leagues from 
east to west. The climate of Tucuman is hot in those parts 
farthest from the main chain and branches of the Andes; 
but in general the seasons are regular, and the soil prolific 
and good. It produces all sorts of grain, esculent plants and 
fruits in abundance, with plenty of excellent pasture for the 
innumerable herds of cattle, mules, and horses it contains. 
The forests, which overspread a great part of it, contain good 
timber for building, and which forms one great article of its 
trade. In Tucuman, the desert places and woods abound 
with all kinds of game and wild animals, as pumas, jaguars, 
ant bears, bears, wild hogs, elks, deer, hares, rabbits, arma¬ 
dillos, guanucos, vicunas, and many other, kinds. The 
American ostrich or cassowary frequents the plains, and 
innumerable birds are seen in its woods, &c. The immense 
boa, called in this country ampolaba, destroys the smaller 
animals which come within its reach, and appears, when 
lying among the grass, like the huge trunk of an old tree. 
Besides the boa, there are also ratttle-snakes, vipers, and 
other reptiles common to warm climates. In the rivers and 
lakes are found abundance of fish, tapirs, cavies, water-pigs, 
and other amphibious animals. The great road from 
Buenos Ayres to Potosi and Lima, passes through Tucuman. 
The population, including the converted Indians, is 100,000. 
The Jesuits had formed about 24,000 of the natives into 
a militia, to repel the invasion of the Chaco Indians; but 
they are now employed in cultivating the land. The 
capital and chief towns of this government are Tucuman, 
Cordova, Rioxa, Jujuy, Santiago, Londres, and Salta, with 
thirty-eight other towns and villages, and ten missions. 
TUCUMAN, or San Miguel de Tucuman, the capital 
of the above proviuce, situated in a pleasant plain, though 
much in want of water, having a mild climate, producing 
abundance of fruits and grain, 1170 miles in a direct line 
from Lima, 462 south of La Plata, and 200 east of Copiapo. 
Lat. 26. 49- S. long. 64, 36. W. 
TUCUMAN, a settlement of Mexico, in the province of 
Mexico, in which there is a beautiful stone bridge on the 
road which leads to that city. 
TUCUMAN, a river of the above province, which takes 
a south-east course, and runs beyond the capital. 
TUCUMANILLA, a settlement of the province of Tucu¬ 
man ; 10 miles west of the capital. 
TUCUMARE, a river which has its rise in the extensive 
plains which bound the Amazons. It is small, and falls into 
the Madera, between the rivers Yamari and Macacipe. 
TUCUME, 
