tutania

[Etym. doubtful.] A white alloy for tableware, . German: copper, in, 48; antimony, 4. Spanish: steel, 1; tin, 24; antimony, 2. tu-tel-age (age as Ig), s. [Lat. tutela =protection, from tutus =safe; tue or =to protect.] 1. Guardianship, protection. (Applied to the per son.) "He submitted without reluctance to the tutelage of a council of war nominated by the lord-lieutenant."Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xvii. 2. The state of being under a guardian or protector; care or protection enjoyed. tū-tě-lar, tu-tě-lar-ỹ, a. [Lat. tutelar is, from tutela guardianship, tutelage (q.v.); French tuté laire.] 1. Guarding, protecting; having the charge, care, or protection of a person or thing; guardian. "Where wast thou then, sweet Charity? where then, Thou tutelary friend of helple men?" Cowper: Charity , 142. of tousle (q. v.).] A. In trans.: To struggle; to scuffle. "Did tustle with red-ey'd pole-cat." Percy: Reliques; St. George for England . B. Trans.; To struggle with. "Muzzle and tuzzle and hug thee." - Cent livre: Busie Body (1709), p. 44. tus-sock, tŭs-suck, tus-sac, subst . [A dim in. from Dan. tusk =a tuft, a ta el; Sw. dial. tu =a wisp of hay; cf. Welsh tusu , tuswy =a wisp, a bundle.] 1. A clump, a tuft or small hillock of growing gra . "Both were constructed in thick fu ocks of coarse gra or rushes." -Scribner's Magazine , Dec., 1878, p. 170. 2. A tuft or lock, as of hair or the like; a tangled knot. mer. Such laying of the hair in tu ocks and tufts."-Lati 3. The same as TUSSOCK-GRASS (q. v.). 4. The same as TUSSOCK-MOTH (q.v.). chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; silver. The alloy has various names and proportions of the ingredients; a small quantity of lead or iron is added in some for mule. 2. Zinc or spelter.