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of Tunnel
a. & n. from Tune, v.
of Tunnel
TUN
a.
Having a tunic, or mantle; of or pertaining to the Tunicata.
n.
A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed.
v. t.
To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
n.
Animal cellulose; a substance present in the mantle, or tunic, of the Tunicates, which resembles, or is identical with, the cellulose of the vegetable kingdom.
a.
Covered with a tunic; covered or coated with layers; as, a tunicated bulb.
pl.
of Tunicary
n. .
A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
n.
Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus / Albacora thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called horse mackerel. See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse.
imp. & p. p.
of Tunnel
n.
One of the Tunicata.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Tunnel
pl.
of Tunny
a.
Alt. of Tunicated
n.
One of the Tunicata.
v. t.
To catch in a tunnel net.
v. t.
To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
n. pl.
A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two openings, one for the entrance and one for the exit of water. The pharynx is usually dilated in the form of a sac, pierced by several series of ciliated slits, and serves as a gill.
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