4. Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.

Syn. — Disorderly; irregular; noisy; confused; turbulent; violent;

agitated; disturbed; boisterous; lawless; riotous; seditious.

— Tu*mul"tu*ous*ly, adv. — Tu*mul"tu*ous*ness, n.

||Tu"mu*lus (?), n.; pl. Tumuli (#). [L., a mound, a sepulchral mound,

||probably from tumere to swell. Cf. Tumid.] An artificial hillock,

||especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of

||persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.

||

Tun (?), n. [AS. tunne. See Ton a weight.] 1. A large cask; an oblong

vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with

hoops; a wine cask.

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