tussle (tusl)

[Formerly also tu el; a var., with shortened vowel, of tousle: see tousle.] A struggle; a conflict; a scuffle. [Colloq.] "It is some comfort, when one has had a sair tu el ," continued the captain, "that it is in a fair leddy's service." Scott , Heart of Mid-Lothian, li. tu le (tus'l), v. i.; pret. and pp. tu led, ppr. tu ling. [ Latimer , Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. 3. A tu ock-moth, as of the genus Orgyia (which see); a vaporer: so called from the tufted larvæ. The larva of the white-marked tu ock, O. leuco stigma, is a very destructive caterpillar in the United States. The pale tu ock is the European O. pud i bund a: so called in England. 4. Same as tu ock - gra . tu ock-caterpillar (tus'ok-kater-pil-är), n. The larva of any tu ock-moth. tu ock-gra (tus'ok-grás), n. 1. A tall and elegant gra , Poa flabellata (Dactyl is cæspitosa), a native of the Falk land Islands, Tierra del IMG:content-1126.png:[blocks in formation] Same as tu ertricts in Scotland. silk. Spons' Encyc. Manuf., I. 520. 2. In Australia, a plant of the lily family, Lo