tubage (tubaj)

[ Report of Chief of Ordnance, 1882, р. 244. 2. In med ., the insertion of a tube into one of the pa ages, usually the esophagus or larynx; intubation. Tubage of the glottis. Same as intu bation of the larynx (which see, under intubation ). tubal (tū'bal), a. [ tube + -al.] In med., of or relating to one of the pa ages called tubes in the body, more commonly the Fallopian tube. - Tubal dropsy, dropsy of one or both Fallopian tubes. - Tubal nephritis, Bright's disease of the kidneys. -Tubal pregnancy, the development of the embyro to some extent within the Fallopian tube instead of the uterus. The art of making tubs.-2. Material for tubs. -3. In mining, a method of keeping out the water in sinking a shaft in very watery ground; also, the material employed for this. It consists in providing a water-tight lining for the shaft, which is inserted piece by piece as the sinking progre es, thus reducing the extent of surface from which the water enters the shaft as quickly and as completely as is po ible. Tubbing was formerly usually made of oak timber in France, where this method of sinking was first introduced; but iron has been employed in England, in the form both of segments of cylinders and of complete rings. Tubbing of masonry has also been used in England and Germany. 4. The act or proce of bathing or of being bathed in a tub; a tub-bath. In spite of all the tubbing , rubbing, scrubbing, The routing and the grubbing, The Blacks, confound them! were as black as ever! Hood , A Black Job. 5. The act of racing in tubs. See tub - race . A good deal of tubbing has been got through in the morn- ings. The Field, March 5, 1887. ( Encyc . Dict .)