Bible Dictionaries
Tube

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tube'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tube.html. 1828.