TUNIC

(Lat. tunica.) A garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes, under the toga (which s'eej, and next to the skin. It was generally of wool, of a white colour, and it reached below the knee. The senators wore their tunics with a broad stripe of purple sewed on the breasts the equites had narrow stripes; hence the epithets Uticlavii and angusticl , applied respectively to these ordors TUN I CARIES, Tunic at a. (Lat. tunica, a tunic.) The name of an order of Acephalous Mollusks, comprehending those in which the exterior covering is uncalcified, soft, and elastic: it is equivalent to the Jlscidies of Savigny, and the Acephalcs sans Coquillcs of Cuvier. TUNKERS, or [s. 1292]