Tube

tub, n. A hollow cylinder, of any material, used tor various purposes; a pipe; conduit; a ve el of animal bodies or plants which conveys a fluid or other substance. — [tubed (tubd), tubixg.] To furnish with a tube. [F.; L. tub us; tuba, a trumpet = E. trump, q. v.] — Tub'ing. n. Act of making tubes a series of tubes piece of a tube material for tubes. — Tu'bular, a. Having the form of a tube or pipe: consisting of a pipe; iistular. [L. tubulus, dim. of tubv.*.]— Tabular boiler. A steam boiler in which the water heated in tubes exposed to the fire; also, one in which the products of combustion pa from the fire-box through a system of small flues, so as to heat the water by which they are Britannia Tubular Bridge. surrounded. — T. bridge. A bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or tube, made of iron plates riveted together. — T. girder. A plate-girder having 2 or more vertical webs with a space between them. — Tu'bulate, a. Tubular; tubulated; tubulous. — Tu'bula'- ted, a. Made in the form of a small tube; furnished with a tube. TL. tubulatus.] — Tu'bule, n. A small pipe; little tube.— Tubu'liform, a. Having the form of a small tube. TL. tubulus, and form a, form.] — Tu'bulous, -bu-lus. a. Resembling, or in the form of, a tube; containing small tubes; composed wholly of tubulous florets.