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Tube
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A telescope.
(2):
(n.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
(3):
(n.) A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway.
(4):
(n.) A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
(5):
(n.) A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
(6):
(n.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
(7):
(n.) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.
(8):
(n.) A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.
(9):
(n.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
(10):
(v. t.) To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tube'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/tube.html. 1828.
