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TUTELAGE, or Tu'tele, s. [French; tutela, Lat.] 
Guardianship; state of being under guardian.—He accoupled 
the ambassage with an article in the nature of a request, that 
the French king might, according unto his right of seigniory 
or tutelage, dispose of the marriage of the young duchess of 
Britany. Bacon. —He was to have the tutele and ward of 
his children. Howell. 
TUTELAR, or Tu'telary, adj. [tutelaire, Fr. Cot- 
grave; tutela , Lat.] Having the charge or guardianship 
of any person or thing; protecting; defensive; guardian. 
—'According to the traditions of the magicians, the tutelary 
spirits will not remove at common appellations, but at the 
proper names of things, whereunto they are protectors. 
Brown. —Ye tutelar gods who guard this royal fabric. 
Rowe. 
TUTEPEC, a settlement of Mexico, in the province of 
Oaxaca, containing 112 Indian families. 
TUTICORIN, a town of the south of India, province of 
the Carnatic, and district of Tinnevely. At this place there 
is a pearl fishery, but the pearls are not so valuable as those 
found on the coast of Ceylon, being frequently discoloured. 
Lat. 8. 54. N. long. 78. 23. E. 
TUTNAL, a hamlet of England, in Warwickshire; 2 
miles east-south-east of Broomsgrove. Population 342. 
TUTOR, s. [tutor, Lat.; tuteur, Fr.] One who has 
the care of another’s learning and morals; a teacher or in¬ 
structor. 
When I am as I have been, 
Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast. 
The tutor and the feeder of my riots; 
Till then I banish thee on pain of death. Shahspeare. 
To TUTOR, v. a. To instruct; to teach; to document. 
This boy is forest born, 
And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments 
Of many desperate studies by his uncle. Shahspeare. 
To treat with superiority or severity. 
I hardly yet have learn’d 
T’ insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my knee: 
Give sorrow leave a while to tutor me 
To this submission. Shalcspeare. 
TUTORAGE, s. The authority or solemnity of a tutor. 
—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 a tutorage. Gov. of the 
Tongue. 
TUTORESS, or Tu'trix, s. [tuteresse, tutrice, old 
French.] Directress; instructress; governess. 
And what still more his stagg’ring virtue try’d. 
His mother, tufress of that virtue, dy’d. Harte. 
TUTORSHIP, s. Office of a tutor.—He that should 
grant a tutorship, restraining his grant to some one certain 
thing or cause, should do but idly, because tutors are given 
for personal defence generally, and not for managing a few 
particular things or causes. Hooker. 
TUTOTEPEC, a settlement of Mexico, in the inten¬ 
dancy of Mexico, containing 952 Indian families. 
TUTSAN, s. [French; androsmmum, Lat.] Parkleaves. 
A plant.—The healing tutsan then, and plantan for a sore. 
Drayton. 
TUTSEEWAS, or Flat Heads, a tribe of Indians who 
reside on the west side of the Rocky mountains. 
TUTTINGTON, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 
miles east of Aylesham. 
TU'TTY, s. [tutia, low Lat.; tuthie, Fr.] A sublimate 
of zinc or calamine collected in the furnace.—Near it stood a 
phial of rosewater and powder of tutty. Tatler. 
TUTUBEN, a small river of Chili, in the province of 
Maule, which runs east, and falls into the river Cauquenes. 
TUTUTEPEC, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendancy 
of Mexico, containing 124 families of Indians, muiattoes, 
and Spaniards. 
TUXFORD, or Tuxford in the Clay, a market town 
of England, in the county of Nottingham, situated in a 
clayey soil, on the great road to York, between Newark and 
Bawtry. Market on Monday. Population 841 ; 13 miles 
north-by-west of Newark. 
TUXPAN, a settlement of Mexico, containing 100 
families. There is another settlement of the same name, 
containing 62 Indian families. 
TUXTLA, an Indian village of Mexico. There is a 
very powerful volcano of this name in its neighbourhood. 
TUY, an ancient town of the north-west of Spain, in 
Galicia, and the chief place of a small district. It stands on 
the summit of a rising ground, at the foot of which flows-the 
Minho. It has always been a fortified place, and one of the 
keys of the kingdom on the side of Portugal, standing within 
cannon shot of the Portuguese town of Valenqa. 
TUY, a river of the Caraccas, in the province of Vene¬ 
zuela, which falls into the ocean 30 leagues east of the port 
of Guaira. This river takes its rise from the mountains of 
San Pedro, ten leagues from Caraccas. Of all the rivers in 
the district of the captain-generalship of Caraccas, this is 
indisputably that which waters the greatest quantity of com¬ 
mercial productions. 
TUZ, s. [perhaps from tuss or tussy, an old word for 
a wreath or tuft: “A girdle of flowers, and tussies of all 
fruits, infertyed and following together.” Donne.'] A lock 
or tuft of hair. 
With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; 
And then thou kemp’st the tuzzes on thy cheek ; 
Of these thy barbers take a costly care. Dryden. 
TUZANTALPA, a settlement of Mexico, containing 
143 Indian families. 
TUZANTLA, a settlement of Mexico, consisting of 52 
families of Spaniards, mestizoes, and muiattoes, and 108 
Indians. 
TUZLA, a town of Caramania, in Asiatic Turkey, situ¬ 
ated in an elevated plain in the interior, at the western 
extremity of a chain of salt lakes; 28 miles north of Ko- 
nieh. 
TUZLA, a village of Anatolia, in Asiatic Turkey; 24 
miles east of Constantinople. 
TWAIN, adj. [epegen. Sax.] Two. An old word, not 
now used hut ludicrously. 
’Tis not the tryal of a woman’s war. 
The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, 
Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain. Shahspeare. 
TWAMBROOKE, a hamlet of England, in the parish 
of Great Budworth, Cheshire. 
To TWANG, v. n. [a word formed from the sound.] 
To sound with a quick sharp noise. 
A thousand twanging instruments 
Will hum about mine ears. Shahspeare. 
To TWANG, r. a. To make to sound sharply.—A 
swaggering accent sharply twang'd off, gives manhood 
approbation. Shahspeare. 
TWANG, s. A sharp quick sound. 
They by the sound and twang of nose. 
If all be sound within, disclose. Hudibras. 
An affected modulation of the voice.—He has such a 
twang in his discourse, and ungraceful way of speaking 
through his nose, that one can hardly understand him. 
Arluthnot. 
TWANG, interj. A word marking a quick action, ac¬ 
companied with a sharp sound; Tittle used, and little 
deserving to be used. 
There’s one, the best in all my quiver. 
Twang! thro’ his very heart and liver. Prior. 
To TWA/NGLE, v. n. To make a sharp quick sound. 
She did call me rascal fidler, 
And twangling jack, with twenty such vile terms. 
Shahspeare. 
To TWANK, v. n. [corrupted from twang.] To make 
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