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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Tūt'-mouthed, a.p. 1428Having a projecting under-jaw; underhung; prognathous. [Obs.] Holland.
  2. Tŭt'-nōse, n.p. 1428A short, snub nose. [Prov. Eng.]
  3. Tū'tor, n.p. 1428One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, another; hence, specifically, (a.) (Civ. Law.) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian. (b.) A private or…
  4. Tū'tor, v. t.p. 1428To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct. Their sons are well tutored by you. Shak. 2. To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity. Addison.
  5. Tū'tor-age, n.p. 1428The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.
  6. Tū'tor-ess, n.p. 1428A female tutor; an instructress; a governess.
  7. Tu-tō'ri-al, a.p. 1428Belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor or instructor.
  8. Tū'tor-ism, n.p. 1428The same as TUTORSHIP. [Rare.]
  9. Tū'tor-shĭp, n.p. 1428The office of a tutor. 2. The care of one who is unable to take care of himself; tutelage.
  10. Tū'tor-y, n.p. 1428The same as TUTORAGE, q. v. [Obs.]
  11. Tū'tress, n.p. 1428The same as TUTORESS, q. v. [Obs.]
  12. Tū'trix, n.p. 1428A female guardian. [Rare.] Smollett.
  13. Tūt'san, n.p. 1428(Bot.) A plant of the genus Hypericum (H. Androsæmum).
  14. Tutti, n. pl.p. 1428(Mus.) All;—a direction for all the singers or players to perform together. Moore.
  15. Tūt'ty, n.p. 1428An impure protoxide of zinc, collected from the chimneys of smelting furnaces. It is said, also, to have been found native in Persia.
  16. Tăt'-work, n.p. 1428(Mining.) Work done by the piece, usually compensated by a certain price for the fathom. [Eng.]
  17. Tūt'-work'man, n.p. 1428(Mining.) One who does work by the piece, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom. Tomlinson.
  18. Tu-whīt' or Tu-whōō', n. or interj.p. 1428An imitation of the note of the owl. Thy tu-whits are lulled, I wot, Thy tu-whoos of yesternight. Tennyson.
  19. Tuyère, n.p. 1428The aperture in the side of blast-furnaces to admit the nozzle of the blast-pipe; also, the nozzle itself; a tweer.
  20. Tūz, n.p. 1428A lock or tuft of hair. [Obs.] Dryden.
  21. Twad'dle, v. i.p. 1428To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
  22. Twad'dle, n.p. 1428Silly talk; senseless verbiage; gabble; fustian; twaddle.
  23. Twad'dler, n.p. 1428One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.
  24. Twad'dling, n.p. 1428Silly talk, as of one whose faculties are decayed.
  25. Twad'dy, n.p. 1428Idle trifling; insignificant discourse; twaddle.
  26. Twāin, a. or n.p. 1428Two;—nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque. When old winter splits the rocks in twain. Dryden.
  27. Twāin'-cloud, n.p. 1428(Meteor.) The same as CUMULO-STRATUS, q. v.
  28. Twaite, n.p. 1428(Ichth.) A fish, a species of shad (Alosa finta), found on the British coast;—called also twaite-shad. Yarrell. 2. (O. Eng. Law.) Wood grubbed up and converted into arable land.
  29. Twăng, v. i.p. 1428To sound with a quick, harsh noise; to make the sound of a string which is stretched and suddenly pulled; as, the twanging bows.
  30. Twăng, v. t.p. 1428To make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly. Sound the tough horn, and twang the quivering string. Pope.
  31. Twăng, n.p. 1428A harsh, quick sound, like that made by a stretched string when pulled and suddenly let go; as, the twang of a bowstring. 2. An affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound. He has a twang…
  32. Twāng'ing, p. a.p. 1428Contemptibly noisy. [R.] Shak.
  33. Twāng'gle, v. i.p. 1428To twang. “While the twangling violin struck up.” Tennyson.
  34. Twāng, v. t.p. 1428To cause to make a sharp, twanging sound; to twang, or twangle. “Twanging headless arrows.” Tennyson.
  35. Twăng'kay or 'Twas, n.p. 1428The poorest kind of green tea. 'Twas. A contraction of it was.
  36. Twăt'tle, v. i.p. 1428To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip. L'Estrange.
  37. Twat'tle, v. t.p. 1428To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
  38. Twăt'tle, n.p. 1428Act of prating; idle talk; twaddle.
  39. Twat'tler, n.p. 1428One who twattles; a twaddler.
  40. Twāy, a. & n.p. 1428Two; twain. [Obs.] See TWAIN.
  41. Twāy'-blāde, n.p. 1428(Bot.) An orchidaceous plant of the genus Listera (L. ovata), growing in England;—so called because it has two leaves. [Written also twy-blade.]
  42. Twēag, v. t.p. 1428To tweak. [Obs.]
  43. Twēag or Twēague, n.p. 1428A pinching condition; perplexity; predicament; trouble; distress. [Obs.] This put the old fellow in a rare tweague. Arbuthnot.
  44. Twēak, v. t.p. 1428To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.
  45. Twēak, n.p. 1428A sharp pinch or jerk; as, a tweak of the nose. Swift. 2. Trouble; distress; tweag. 3. A prostitute. [Obs.] Webster, 1661.
  46. Tweed, n.p. 1428A light, twilled cotton or woolen stuff, used for summer clothing;—used also as an adjective. Simmonds.
  47. Tweē'dle, v. t.p. 1428To handle lightly; — said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had…
  48. Tweel, n. & v. t.p. 1428The same as TWILL.
  49. Tweer, n.p. 1428The point of the blast-pipe in a smelting furnace. [Written also twier or tuyere.]
  50. Tweese or Tweeze, n.p. 1428A surgeon's box of instruments.
  51. Twee'zers, n. pl.p. 1428Small pincers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.
  52. Twelfth, a.p. 1428The second after the tenth; next succeeding the eleventh;—the ordinal of twelve. 2. Constituting or being one of twelve equal parts into which any thing is divided.
  53. Twēlfth, n.p. 1428The quotient of a unit divided by twelve; one of twelve equal parts. 2. (Mus.) An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.
  54. Twelfth'-cāke, n.p. 1428An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night. Simmonds.
  55. Twĕlfth'-dāy, n.p. 1428See TWELFTH-TIDE.
  56. Twĕlfth'-night, n.p. 1428The evening of the twelfth-day after Christmas, or Epiphany, observed as a festival by the church of Rome and others.
  57. Twĕlfth'-tīde, n.p. 1428The twelfth day after Christmas; or Epiphany; — called also twelfth-day.
  58. Twĕlve, n.p. 1428One more than eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen. Twelve Tables. (Law.) See TABLE.
  59. Twĕlve, n.p. 1428The number next following eleven; the sum of ten and two, or of twice six. 2. A symbol representing twelve units, as 12, or xii.
  60. Twĕlve'mŏnth, n.p. 1428A year which consists of twelve calendar months. I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence. Shak.