TUNIC

(Lat. tunica.) A garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes, under the tnga (which see), and next to the skin. It was generally of wool, of a white colour, and it reached below the knee. The senators wore their tunics with a broad stripe of purple sewed on the breast: the equitcs had narrow stripes; hence the epithets /afeclavii and angustiQ\ai\\i, applied respectively to these orders. TUN I CARIES, Tunic at a. (Lat. tunica, a tunic.) The name of an order of Acephalous MoUusks, comprehending those in which the exterior covering is uncalcified, soft, and elastic: it is equivalent to the Ascidies of Savigny, and the Acephales sai is Coquilles of Cuvier. TUNKERS, or [s. 1282]