n. A relatively large tub used to take a bath, usually a permanent fixture in a bathroom; it is an open container that is filled with water, in which a person immerses himself for the purpose of washing the body.
Syn. -- bath, tub. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. A blowgun. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Glassmaking) A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of “metal” (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bulb, n.+ tuber. ] (Bot.) A corm. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ L. contubernalis a tent companion, fr. contubernium tent companionship. ] Living or messing together; familiar; in companionship. [ 1913 Webster ]

Humble folk ben Christes friends: they ben contubernial with the Lord, thy King. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Phys.) A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A swelling or rising; protuberance. [ R. ] Moxon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Extuberance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. extuberare. ] Swollen out; protuberant. [ R. ] “Extuberant lips.” Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. extuberatus, p. pr. of extuberare to swell; ex out + tuber a swelling. ] To swell out. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. extuberatio. ] Protuberance. [ Obs. ] Farindon. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Elec.) A glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. It is called also Plücker tube, from the German physicist who devised it. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) (a) A highly exhausted glass tube with metallic electrodes nearly in contact so as to exhibit the insulating effects of a vacuum. It was used by the German physicist W. Hittorf (b. 1824). (b) A Crookes tube. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Between tubes or tubules; as, intertubular cells; intertubular substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. in- in + tube. ] (Med.) The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A tube for producing Lenard rays. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Bot.) A woody swelling on a tree or shrub, usually contained entirely below or just above the surface of the ground, and having buds which enable the plant to survive cutting or a fire that destroys the portion of the plant above ground. After such damage to the plant, sprouting commences from the lignotuber. [ Jeremy Lunn ]

a. [ Multi- + tubular. ] Having many tubes; as, a multitubular boiler. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Hydraul.) A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So named after Julius Plücker, a German physicist. ] (Physics) (a) A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. (b) Crookes tube. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. protubérance. See Protuberant. ] That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Solar protuberances (Astron.), certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which are seen to extend beyond the edge of the moon at the time of a solar eclipse. They may be discovered with the spectroscope on any clear day. Called also solar prominences. See Illust. in Append. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Projection, Protuberance. protuberance differs from projection, being applied to parts that rise from the surface with a gradual ascent or small angle; whereas a projection may be at a right angle with the surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being protuberant; protuberance; prominence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. protuberans, -antis, p. pr. of protuberare. See Protuberate. ] Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. -- Pro*tu"ber*ant*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. i. [ L. protuberare; pro forward + tuber a hump, protuberance. See Tuber. ] To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface. Cooke (1615). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Protuberant. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Saxhorn, and Tube. ] (Mus.) A powerful instrument of brass, curved somewhat like the Roman buccina, or tuba. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. stubbe, AS. stub, styb; akin to D. stobbe, LG. stubbe, Dan. stub, Sw. stubbe, Icel. stubbr, stubbi; cf. Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stubs sharp and hideous to behold. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

And prickly stubs instead of trees are found. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A log; a block; a blockhead. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A pen with a short, blunt nib. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stub end (Mach.), the enlarged end of a connecting rod, to which the strap is fastened. --
Stub iron, iron made from stub nails, or old horseshoe nails, -- used in making gun barrels. --
Stub mortise (Carp.), a mortise passing only partly through the timber in which it is formed. --
Stub nail, an old horseshoe nail; a nail broken off; also, a short, thick nail. --
Stub short, or
Stub shot (Lumber Manuf.), the part of the end of a sawn log or plank which is beyond the place where the saw kerf ends, and which retains the plank in connection with the log, until it is split off. --
Stub twist, material for a gun barrel, made of a spirally welded ribbon of steel and stub iron combined. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stubbed p. pr. & vb. n. Stubbing. ] 1. To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots. [ 1913 Webster ]

What stubbing, plowing, digging, and harrowing is to a piece of land. Berkley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove stubs from; as, to stub land. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Abounding in stubs; stubby. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged. “Stubbed, vulgar constitutions.” Berkley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being stubbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being stubby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. stobil, stoble, OF. estouble, estuble, F. étuele, LL. stupla, stupula, L. stipula stubble, stalk; cf. D. & G. stopped, OHG. stupfila. Cf. Stipule. ] The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. “After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble.” Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stubble goose (Zool.), the graylag goose. [ Prov. Eng. ] Chaucer. --
Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Covered with stubble. [ 1913 Webster ]

A crow was strutting o'er the stubbled plain. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Stubbed; as, stubbled legs. [ Obs. ] Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered with stubble; stubbled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. stoburn, stiborn; probably fr. AS. styb a stub. See Stub. ] Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule. “Bow, stubborn knees.” Shak. “Stubborn attention and more than common application.” Locke. “Stubborn Stoics.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

And I was young and full of ragerie [ wantonness ]
Stubborn and strong, and jolly as a pie. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

These heretics be so stiff and stubborn. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your stubborn usage of the pope. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Obstinate; inflexible; obdurate; headstrong; stiff; hardy; firm; refractory; intractable; rugged; contumacious; heady. -- Stubborn, Obstinate. Obstinate is used of either active or passive persistence in one's views or conduct, in spite of the wishes of others. Stubborn describes an extreme degree of passive obstinacy. -- Stub"born*ly, adv. -- Stub"born*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Abounding with stubs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Short and thick; short and strong, as bristles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. super- + tuber. ] (Bot.) The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. titubatus, p. p. of titubare to stagger, totter. ] 1. To stumble. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rock or roll, as a curved body on a plane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. titubatio: cf. F. titubation. ] The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling. Quain. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Nav.) A tube fixed below or near the water line through which a torpedo is fired, usually by a small charge of gunpowder. On torpedo vessels the tubes are on deck and usually in broadside, on larger vessels usually submerged in broadside and fitted with a movable shield which is pushed out from the vessel's side to protect the torpedo until clear, but formerly sometimes in the bow. In submarine torpedo boats they are in the bow. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (a) Having or designating teeth with three cusps or tubercles; tricuspid. (b) Pertaining to trituberculy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Pref. tri- + L. tuberculum tubercle. ] (Zool.) A theory of the development of mammalian molar teeth. The primitive stage is that of simple cones, as in reptiles. The simple cone then developed a smaller cone in front and another behind. Next, a cingulum was developed, and the three cones became arranged in a triangle, the two smaller cusps having moved to the outer side in upper and to the inner in lower molars. This primitive triangle is called the trigon or trigonid and this stage the tritubercular or trigonodont. The trigon being a cutting apparatus, an extension of the posterior part of the crown was developed in lower molars for crushing, and a smaller corresponding part appeared in upper molars. Another large cone then arose, usually from the cingulum. In more complex forms, smaller intermediate cusps appeared. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. tubbe; of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. LG. tubbe, D. tobbe. ] 1. An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously. [ 1913 Webster ]

All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A sweating in a tub; a tub fast. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A small cask; as, a tub of gin. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tub fast, an old mode of treatment for the venereal disease, by sweating in a close place, or tub, and fasting. [ Obs. ] Shak. --
Tub wheel, a horizontal water wheel, usually in the form of a short cylinder, to the circumference of which spiral vanes or floats, placed radially, are attached, turned by the impact of one or more streams of water, conducted so as to strike against the floats in the direction of a tangent to the cylinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tubbed p. pr. & vb. n. Tubbing. ] To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Don't we all tub in England ? London Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., trumpet. ] (Mus.) (a) An ancient trumpet. (b) A sax-tuba. See Sax-tuba. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. tubus; akin to tuba a trumpet: cf F. tube. ] 1. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A telescope. “Glazed optic tube.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Gun.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Steam Boilers) A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Zool.) (a) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm. (b) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Elec. Railways) A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway. [ Chiefly Eng. ] In the New York area, the subways running under the Hudson River are sometimes referred to as the tube. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

Capillary tube, a tube of very fine bore. See Capillary. --
Fire tube (Steam Boilers), a tube which forms a flue. --
Tube coral. (Zool.) Same as Tubipore. --
Tube foot (Zool.), one of the ambulacral suckers of an echinoderm. --
Tube plate, or
Tube sheet (Steam Boilers), a flue plate. See under Flue. --
Tube pouch (Mil.), a pouch containing priming tubes. --
Tube spinner (Zool.), any one of various species of spiders that construct tubelike webs. They belong to Tegenaria, Agelena, and allied genera. --
Water tube (Steam Boilers), a tube containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases. [ 1913 Webster ]