Tube

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A Telescope.

II. Tube ·noun One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.

III. Tube ·vt To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.

IV. Tube ·noun The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.

V. Tube ·noun A priming tube, or friction primer. ·see under Priming, and Friction.

VI. Tube ·add. ·noun A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway.

VII. Tube ·noun A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.

VIII. Tube ·noun A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

IX. Tube ·noun 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.

X. Tube ·noun 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.

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