tube compass

A compa having tubular legs containing sliding extension-pieces adjustable to any required length by means of set-screws. One leg carries a reversible needle-point and pencil holder, and the other a reversible needle-point and pen. tube-condenser, s . A bent tube, provided with a stopper at each end, through which a small tube is inserted, used in obtaining solutions of ammonia and other gases which are absorbable in water. tube-door, s. Steam: A door in the outer plate of a smoke "You look for men whose heads are rather tubbish." Wolcott: Peter Pindar, p. 136. tub-by, a. [Eng. tub; -y.] 1. Tub-shaped; round-bellied, like a tub. "We had seen him coming up to Covent Garden in his green chaise-cart with the fat tubby little horse."-Dickens: Sketches by Boz; Mon mouth Street. 2. Having a sound like that of an empty tub when struck; wanting elasticity of sound; sound. ing dull and without resonance. (Applied to musical stringed instruments, as the violin.) tübe (1), subst. [Fr., from Lat. tubum, acc us. of tub us a pipe, tube, akin to tuba a trumpet; Sp. & Ital. tubo.] IMG:content-1519.png:[blocks in formation]