Webster's Dictionary 1913

5887

Tutorage

Tu″tor‐age (?; 48), n. The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.

5888

Tutoress

Tu″tor‐ess (?), n. A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress. E. Moore.

5889

Tutorial

Tu‐to″ri‐al (?), a. [L. tutorius.] Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.

5890

Tutorism

Tu″tor‐ism (?), n. Tutorship.

5891

Tutorize

Tu″tor‐ize (?), v. t. To teach; to instruct.I... shall tutorize him some day. J. H. Newman.

5892

Tutorship

Tu″tor‐ship, n. The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage. Hooker.

5893

Tutory

Tu″tor‐y (?), n. Tutorage. Holinshed.

5894

Tutress

Tu″tress (?), n. Tutoress. Selden.

5895

Tutrix

Tu″trix (?), n. [L. See Tutor.] A female guardian; a tutoress. Smollett.

5896

Tutsan

Tut″san (?), n. [F. toutesaine; tout, toule, all (L. totus) + sain, saine, sound, healthy, L. sanus.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Hypericum (H. Androsœmum), from which a healing...

5897

Tutti

‖Tut″ti (?), n. pl. [It., fr. L. totus, pl. toti, all.] (Mus.) All; — a direction for all the singers or players to perform together. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

5898

Tutti-frutti

Tut″ti–frut′ti (?), n. A confection of different kinds of preserved fruits. — a. Flavored with, or containing, various fruits.

5899

Tutty

Tut″ty (?), n. [F. tutie; cf. Sp. tutia, atutia, LL. tutia; all from Per. tūtiyā.] (Chem.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a sublimation product in the flues o...

5900

Tuum

‖Tu″um (?), n. Lit., thine; that which is thine; — used in meum and tuum. See 2d Meum.

5901

Tuxedo coat

{ Tux‐e″do coat′, orTux‐e″do } (?), n. A kind of black coat for evening dress made without skirts; — so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York.

5902

Tuyère

‖Tu′yère″ (?), n. [F.; akin to tuyau a pipe; of Teutonic origin. Cf. Tweer, Tewel.] A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a bl...

5903

Tuz

Tuz (?), n. [Cf. W. tusw a wisp, a bunch, tus that binds or wraps, tusiaw to bind round, to wrap. Cf. Tussock.] A lock or tuft of hair. Dryden.

5904

Tuza

Tu″za (?), n.(Zoöl.) The tucan.

5905

Twaddell

{ Twad″dell (?), n., Twad″dell's hy‐drom″e‐ter (?) }. [After one Twaddell, its inventor.] A form of hydrometer for liquids heavier than water, graduated with an arbitrary scale ...

5906

Twaddle

Twad″dle (?), v. i. & t. [See Twattle.] To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst.

5907

Twaddle (2)

Twad″dle, n. Silly talk; gabble; fustian.I have put in this chapter on fighting... because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. T....

5908

Twaddler

Twad″dler (?), n. One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.

5909

Twaddling

Twad″dling (?), a. & n. from Twaddle, v.

5910

Twaddy

Twad″dy (?), n. Idle trifling; twaddle.

5911

Twagger

Twag″ger (?), n. A lamb.

5912

Twain

Twain (?), a. & n. [OE. twein, tweien, tweyne, AS. twēgen, masc. See Two.] Two;- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque. “Children twain.” Chaucer...

5913

Twaite

Twaite (?), n.(Zoöl.) A European shad; — called also twaite shad. See Shad.