3. To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel
a mountain; to tunnel a river.
Tun"ny (tn"n), n.; pl. Tunnies (#). [L. thunnus, thynnus, Gr. qy`nnos,
qy^nos: cf. It. tonno, F. & Pr. thon.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several
species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family,
especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus or 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. [Written also thynny.]
The little tunny (Gymnosarda alletterata) of the Mediterranean and
North Atlantic, and the long-finned tunny, or albicore (see Albicore),
are related species of smaller size.
Tup (?), v. t. & i. [Probably akin to top summit, head.] 1. To butt, as
a ram does. [Prov. Eng.]