tuckshop

A shop where sweet stuffs, pastry, ., are sold. ( Slang.) "Sally Harrowell's; that's our School-house tuck - shop ." -T. Hughes: Tom Brown's Schooldays , pt. i., ch. vi. tuck, *tuk-ken, *tuk-kyn, v . t . & i. [Low Ger. tukken , tokken =to pull up, to draw up, to tuck up, to entice, allied to tuken to tuck up, to lie in folds, as a badly-made garment; O. Dut. tochen =to entice; Ger. zucken =to draw up, to shrug. Tuck is a varient of tug (q. v.).] A. Transitive : 1. To thrust or pre in together; to gather into a narrow compa . (Generally with up .) "Her hair was in curl-papers, her sleeves tucked up to the elbow."- London Daily Telegraph . 2. To thrust into a narrow or close place. "With that he tucked the book under his arm."-Ca ell's Saturday Journal, Sept. 26, 1885. 3. To inclose by pushing the clothes close around. (With in or up .) "To have his maid always to lay all things in print, and tuck him in warm."- Locke : On Education. *4. To string up; to hang. (With up . ) "The hangman then calmly tucked up the criminal."-Richardson: Pamela, i. 141. 5. To full, as cloth. ( Prov .) 6. To pack in barrels. ( Prov .) "186 hogsheads of [pilchards] were tucked on Sunday." -London Morning Chronicle. *B. In trans.: To contract; to draw together. "An ulcer discharging a nasty thin ichor, the edges tuck in, and growing skinned and hard, give it the name of a callous ulcer."- Sharp : Surgery. (1) To tuck in : To eat heartily. ( Slang .) (2) To tuck up : To put in a fix or difficulty. "They have been playing the old game of skirting, eventually to find themselves fairly tucked up by wire fencing."- Field , Feb. 13, 1886. tuck-a-hõe, tuck-a-hoô, s. [North American (1) ( Pl . ): The pores of certain fungals. (2) ( Pl .): The ringed tubes found on the globule Indian.] of Chara. *Tû'-căn-ŭs, s. [TOUCAN A.] *tū-çět, s. [TUCKET (2).] A steak. 1. Bot .: A vegetable substance of doubtful affinity, dug up in various parts of the United States. Fries "Let the trumpets sound, The tucket sonance and the note to mount." Shakesp.: Henry V., iv. 2. tuck-ing, pr. par. or a. [TUCK, v.] tū-cům, s. (The South American name.] 1. Bot.: As trocar yum vulgare , a South American palm tree of medium height, having its leaves pinnate and ciliate, with prickles. A fine fiber or thread, obtained in Brazil from its young leaves, is woven into bowstrings, hammocks, and other articles requiring combined finene , lightne , and strength. 2. Comm.: The fiber described under 1. tû'-cu-tu-cû, s. [TUKOTUKO.] *tud-nöre, *tud-noore, subst . [Etym. doubtful. Prior took the name from Langham's Garden of Health , but it may be a misprint.] Bot.: Nepeta glechoma . ( Britten & Holland .) Tū'-dõr, a. . [Welsh Tewdyr Theodore.] A. As adjective : 1. Of, pertaining, or relating to the English royal line founded by Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first of the Tudor line was Henry VII., the last Elizabeth. IMG:content-1527.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors] Tudor Chimneys. Perpendicular style. Tudor-chimnied, adj . Having ornamental chimneys, as in the late Tudor style. "A Tudor- chimnied bulk Of mellow brickwork." Tennyson: Edw. Morris , 11. Tudor-flower, s . Arch.: A flat flower, or leaf, placed upright on its stalk, much used in Perpendicular work, especially late in the style, in long suits, as a crest or ornamental finishing on cornices, . (Glo . flesh." Jeremy Taylor: Sermons, p. 212. *tuch, s. [ToUCH, 8.] A kind of marble. *tuck (1), *tucke (1), s. [Fr. estoc =the stock of a rapier, a thrust, from Ital. stocco a tree a truncheon, a short sword, from German stock a stump, a stock (q. v.); Sp. estoque ; cf. also Welsh twca a knife; tuc a cut, a chip; Irish tuca =a rapier.] A long, narrow sword; a rapier. "Dismount thy tuck , be yare in thy preparation, for thy a ailant is quick, skillful, and deadly."- Shakesp .: Twelfth Night , iii. 4.