tubbish (tubish)

[ He was a short, round, large-faced, tubbish sort of man. Dickens , Sketches, Characters, vii. You look for men whose heads are rather tubbish , Or drum-like, better formed for sound than sense. Wolcot (Peter Pindar), Works, p. 136. ( Davies . ) tubby (tub'i), a. [ We had seen him coming up to Covent Garden in his green chaise-cart with the fat, tubby little horse. Dickens, Sketches, Scenes, vi. 2. Having a sound like that of an empty tub when struck; sounding dull and without resonance: applied to stringed musical instruments. sub-drubbert (tub'drub"ėr), n. A tub-thumper or tub-preacher. [Slang.] Busine and poetry agree as ill together as faith and reason: which two latter, as has been judiciously observ'd by the fam'd tub - drubber of Covent Garden, can never be brought to set their horses together. Tom Brown , Works, III. 198. ( Davies .) tube (tūb), п. [ tube = Sp. Pg. It. tubo , tub us , a pipe, tube; cf. tuba , a trumpet.] 1. A pipe or hollow cylinder, especially when of small size and used as a conduit for liquids, or for containing liquids, as in some forms of scientific apparatus. Mechanically there is no distinction between a pipe and a tube ; but in use the two words are often somewhat arbitrarily distinguished. Thus, when the form of the thing is chiefly considered, tube is regularly used: as, a steam-boiler having the shape of a large tube - not pipe ; so, also, with reference to certain mechanical uses one word or the other is exclusively used: as, a gas pipe , a drain - pipe , a test- tube . The words are also distinguished in use, but le clearly, according to the material employed: as, an iron pipe , a rubber tube , a bra tube , etc. He lifts the tube [a gun], and levels with his eye; Straight a short thunder breaks the frozen sky. Pope, Windsor Forest, 1. 129. 2. Specifically, the main body of a musical instrument of either the wood wind or the bra wind group. The bore of such instruments is usually conical, but sometimes cylindrical.3. In an at. and zoöl., a hollow tubular organ; a pipe, canal, or duct conveying fluid or gas; especially, a pipe which seems to be empty that is, conveys air: as, the bronchial tubes; the Eustachian tube. An artery or a vein is a tube, but nearly if not all the structures which convey special fluids receive distinctive names. See tuba, tubule. elongated 4. In bot., any hollow elongated body or part of an organ: applied especially to a gamopetalous corolla or gamosepalous calyx, also to a united circle of stamens (see cut 9 under sta men ).-5. A priming-tube.-6. A telescope, or that part of it into which the lenses are fitted. tube A spot like which, perhaps, Astronomer in the sun's lucent orb Through his glazed optic tube yet never saw. Philosophic tube , IMG:content-1015.png:[blocks in formation] That brings the planets home into the eye Of Observation. Cowper , Task, iii. 229. 7. The barrel of a chain-pump.-8. A small re itself, and havin ceptacle of drawn lead, of approximately tubular form, closed at the bottom by bending it over twice or three times on itself, and having a screwcap at the top, used to hold pigments or similar matter in a semifluid condition. - Auricular tube, See auricular.- Bellini's tubes, the excretory tubes of the kidneys, opening on the papilla.- Bowman's corneal tubes. See corneal. - Bronchial tubes. See bronchial. Capillary, cardiac, cere bro medullary, conarial tube. See the adjectives.- Circulating tubes, tubes placed in steam-generators to afford or establish a circulation of the water. -Conversation-tube. See conversation. Crookes tubes. See vacuum - tube. - Dentinal, deto nating, diffusion tube. See the qualifying words. Esophageal tube. Same as stomach -tube. - Eustachian, Fallopian, gelatinous, hepatic tubes the to the an pa ed into Impregnating-tube. See impregnate . Intubation tube, a short hollow cylinder of peculiar shape, having a flange at its upper extremity, which is inserted between the vocal cords in cases of laryngeal obstruction, especially in croup. - Laryngeal tube, a short hollow cylinder of special form, used in intubation of the larynx.-Laticiferous tubes. See laticiferous. - Leiter's tube or coil, a long flexible tube made into a coil surrounding the body or a a limb, through which hot or cold water is allowed to flow in order to raise or lower the temperature of the part.-Lightning-tube. Same as fulgurite. - Lobular bronchial tube, Malpighian tubes, medullary tube. See Malpighian, medullary. A Pitot's Tube. B A, tube; B, line to which water is raised by the force of the current. -Milk-testing tubes, a form of lactometer containing a number of tubes graduated alike, in which different samples of milk can be put for comparison under identical conditions, -Muscular, nasal, pericentral tube. See the adjectives. - Pitot's tube, in hydraulics, an instrument for ascertaining the velocity of water in rivers, etc.; a current-meter. It consists in its simplest form of a bent gla tube A, which is held in the water in such a manner that its lower end is horizontal, and opposed to the direction of the flowing water. In consequence of the momentum of the moving fluid, the level rises within the tube to a height B, proportional to the velocity of the stream. Pneumatic despatch tube. See pneumatic. - Pneumatic tube, a tube through which packets chandise, or me ages, as telegraphic despatches or items of news inclosed in suitable boxes, are rapidly transmitted from one point to another by means of air-pre ure. The difference of IMG:content-1016.png:[blocks in formation] ing tubes of the kidney. See qualifying words. Rectal tube, an elastic rubber tube introduced into the rectum to give exit to the intestinal gases, or to facilitate the giving of enemata. Resistance tube, in elect., a tube containing powdered bon, water, or other conducting material used for introducing resistance into an elec car tric circuit. The resistance is usu L.. Pneumatic Tubes. a, one of the exhaust-pipes connecting exhaust-fan apparatus with series of transmitting boxes of central station, one of which is shown in section at f; b, valve; c, different style of valve; c ', valve closed; d, window in top of box; perforated covering entrance to a; g, ally made adjust-transmitting-tubes; A, office-box able either by sist i an smitting tube part single office bonding, changing the dist', for receiving me ages, separated by pertance between forated partition; 4, carrier-box of leather of the terminal diameter to fit tubes, and adapted to contain me age; 1, open tubes for receiving and sending the carrier-boxes; m, door to boxf, where me ages are received through tubes n. plates in the case of a fluid, or Test tube. See test -tube.- Torr i cell i an tube. See tube-hearted (tūb'härted), a . Having a sim- Torr i cell i an.- Tracheal tube, the trachea or windpipe. ple tubular heart: specifying the Lep to cardia . See trachea .-Tracheotomy-tube. See tracheotomy. tube-machine (tūb'ma-shēn"), n. A machine Tube of force, in elect. and magnetism, a space bounded by a number of lines of force. The total electric force is constant acro any section of a tube of force. - Tube of safety. Same as safety - tube. - Tubes of Ferrein. Same as tubuli of Ferrein. - Uterine tubes, the Fallopian tubes. See Fallopian and uterus. Visceral, vocal tube. See the adjectives. (See also air - tube, blowing - tube, breathing tube, drainage - tube, stomach - tube, test - tube, vacuum - tube.) tube (tub), v. t.; pret. and pp. tubed, ppr. tub ing. [ IMG:content-1017.png:[blocks in formation]