tullibee (tulibe)

[Amer. Ind. (?).] The mongrel whitefish, Coregonus tullibee, of the Great Lakes. Tully limestone. [ Tully's powder. See powder. tulwar (tul'wär), n. [Also tulwaur and erroneously thulwar; 6526 Mon. I'll write to her to-morrow. Bird. To-morrow! she'll not sleep, then, but tumble; an' if she might have it to-night, it would better please her. Dekker and Webster, Westward Ho, ii. 2. Just at this time a shoal of jolly porpoises came rolling and tumbling by, turning up their sleek sides to the sun. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 112. 2. To lose footing or support and fall to the ground; come down suddenly and violently; be precipitated: as, to tumble from a scaffold. He tit ouer his hors tayl tombled ded to therthe. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3866. And here had fall'n a great part of a tower, Whole, like a crag that tumbles from the cliff. Tennyson, Geraint. In making the ascent of some of these precipitous mountain sides, now and then a mule would lose its footing and go tumbling and rolling many feet down. The Century , XLI. 773. ple of northern India, as the Sikhs. The lance is the favorite weapon of the Indian cavalry soldier, although he can also make very deadly use of his tulwar (sword), which, kept in a wooden scabbard, has an edge so sharp that it cuts all it touches. Sir Garnet Wolseley, N. A. Rev., CXXVII. 155. tulyt, a. and n. [Early mod. E. also tewly ; tule ; origin obscure.] A kind of red or scarlet color. A mantel whit so melk, The broider is of tuli selk. a manner Beves of Hamtoun , p. 47. ( Hall i well .) A skane of tewly silk. Skelton , Garland of Laurell. For to make bokeram tuly or tuly thread,. of red colour, as it were of crop madder. Sloane MS . 73, f. 214. ( Hall i well .) tum1t (tum), v. t. [Origin obscure.] To card (wool) for the first time; according to Ray, to mix wool of divers colors. Hall i well . After your wooll is oyl'd and anointed thus, you shall then tum it, you shall put it forth as you did before when you mixed it, and card it over again upon your stock cards; and then those cardings which you strike off are called tummings, which you shall lay by till it come to a spinning. Markham, English House-Wife (1675), p. 126. ( Hall i well.) tum2 (tum). A vocable imitating the vibration of a musical string: generally repeated, tum, tum. Compare tom - tom. Since the day of the tum , tum , tum of the plantation banjo... there has been a wonderful improvement in construction. Musical Record, No. 328, p. 26.