Vocabulary : Tull to Tumbler
Tull : To allure; to tole.
Tulle : In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses. ;; A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for veils, etc.
Tullian : Belonging to, or in the style of, Tully (Marcus Tullius Cicero).
Tullibee : A whitefish (Coregonus tullibee) found in the Great Lakes of North America; -- called also mongrel whitefish.
Tumble : To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses. ;; To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold. ;; To play tricks by various movements and contortions of the body; to perform the feats of an acrobat. ;; To turn over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers. ;; To disturb; to rumple; as, to tumble a bed. ;; Act of tumbling, or rolling over; a fall.
Tumblebug : See Tumbledung.
Tumbled : of Tumble
Tumble-down : Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
Tumbledung : Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabaeus, Copris, Phanaeus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it.
Tumbler : One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat. ;; A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking. ;; A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter. ;; A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure. ;; A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight. ;; A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits. ;; A kind of cart; a tumbrel.
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