J. H. Newman.
Tu"tor*ship, n. The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship;
tutelage. Hooker.
Tu"tor*y (?), n. Tutorage. [Obs.] Holinshed.
Tu"tress (?), n. Tutoress. [Obs.] Selden.
Tu"trix (?), n. [L. See Tutor.] A female guardian; a tutoress. [R.]
Smollett.
Tut"san (?), n. [F. toutesaine; tout, toule, all (L. totus) + sain,
saine, sound, healthy, L. sanus.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Hypericum
(H. Androsœmum), from which a healing ointment is prepared in Spain; —
called also parkleaves.
||Tut"ti (?), n. pl. [It., fr. L. totus, pl. toti, all.] (Mus.) All; —
||a direction for all the singers or players to perform together. Moore
||(Encyc. of Music).
||
Tut"ty (?), n. [F. tutie; cf. Sp. tutia, atutia, LL. tutia; all from
Per. ttiy.] (Chem.) A yellow or brown amorphous substance obtained as a
sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and
consisting of a crude zinc oxide.
Tut"-work` (?), n. (Mining) Work done by the piece, as in
nonmetaliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the
fathom. Tomlinson.
Tut"-work`man, n.; pl. Tut- workmen (&?;). (Mining) One who does
tut-work. Tomlinson.
{ Tu-whit" (?), Tu-whoo" (?), } n. & interj. Words imitative of the
notes of the owl.
Thy tu-whits are lulled, I wot, Thy tu-whoos of yesternight.
Tennyson.
||Tu`yère" (?), n. [F.; akin to tuyau a pipe; of Teutonic origin. Cf.
||Tweer, Tewel.] A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the
||blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire
||of a forge. [Corruptly written also tweer, and twier.]
||
Tuyère arch, the embrasure, in the wall of a blast furnace through
which the tuyère enters.
Tuz (tz), n. [Cf. W. tusw a wisp, a bunch, tus that binds or wraps,
tusiaw to bind round, to wrap. Cf. Tussock.] A lock or tuft of hair.
[Obs.] Dryden.
Tu"za (?), n. (Zoöl.) The tucan.
Twad"dle (?), v. i. & t. [See Twattle.] To talk in a weak and silly
manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
Stanyhurst.
Twad"dle, n. Silly talk; gabble; fustian.
I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and
twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days.
T. Hughes.
Twad"dler (?), n. One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one
whose faculties are decayed.
Twad"dling (?), a. & n. from Twaddle, v.
Twad"dy (?), n. Idle trifling; twaddle.