Trustee stock. (Finance) High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested. [Colloq.]
Try, n. In Rugby and Northern Union football, a score (counting three points) made by grounding the ball on or behind the opponent's goal line; -- so called because it entitles the side making it to a place kick for a goal (counting two points more if successful).
Try cock. A cock for withdrawing a small quantity of liquid, as for testing.
Try"out (?), n. (Sports) A test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined.
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||Tsung"-li Ya"men (?). [Written also Tsung-li- Yamen or Tsungli Yamen.] [Chin.] The board or department of foreign affairs in the Chinese government. See Yamen.
||Tsung" tu` (?). A viceroy or governor-general, the highest provincial official in China, with civil and military authority over one or more provinces.
Tu`a*ta"ra (?), n. [Maori tuatàra; tua on the farther side (the back) + tara spine.] A large iguanalike reptile (Sphenodon punctatum) formerly common in New Zealand, but now confined to certain islets near the coast. It reaches a length of two and a half feet, is dark olive-green with small white or yellowish specks on the sides, and has yellow spines along the back, except on the neck.
Tube (?), n. (Elec. Railways) A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway. [Chiefly Eng.]
Tu*ber"cu*lar*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. -ized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. i-zing (?).] [Tubercular + -ize.] (Med.) To infect with tuberculosis. -- Tu*ber`cu*lar*i*za"tion (#), n.
Tu*ber"cu*lin test (?). The hypodermic injection of tuberculin, which has little or no effect with healthy cattle, but causes a marked rise in temperature in tuberculous animals.
Tu*ber"cu*lo*ci`din (?), n. [Tuberculum + root of L. caedere to kill.] (Physiol. Chem.) A special substance contained in tuberculin, supposed to be the active agent of the latter freed from various impurities.
Tu*ber"cu*loid (?), a. [Tuberculum + -oid.] (Med.) Resembling a tubercle.
Tu*ber"cu*losed` (?), a. (Med.) Affected with tuberculosis.
Tu*ber"cu*lous (?), a. (Med.) Pertaining to, or affected with, a tuberculosis.
Tuck"er, n. [Cf. Tuck, n., 5.] Daily food; meals; also, food in general. [Slang or Colloq.]
Tobacco, matches, and tucker, the latter comprising almost anything within the province of food.