Part 256

Trust company. Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.

Trus*tee" proc"ess. (Law) The process of attachment by garnishment. [U. S.]

Trustee stock. (Finance) High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested. [Colloq.]

Try, n. In Rugby and Northern Union football, a score (counting three points) made by grounding the ball on or behind the opponent's goal line; -- so called because it entitles the side making it to a place kick for a goal (counting two points more if successful).

Try cock. A cock for withdrawing a small quantity of liquid, as for testing.

Try"out (?), n. (Sports) A test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined.

<! p. 2021 !>

||Tsung"-li Ya"men (?). [Written also Tsung-li- Yamen or Tsungli Yamen.] [Chin.] The board or department of foreign affairs in the Chinese government. See Yamen.

||Tsung" tu` (?). A viceroy or governor-general, the highest provincial official in China, with civil and military authority over one or more provinces.

Tu`a*ta"ra (?), n. [Maori tuatàra; tua on the farther side (the back) + tara spine.] A large iguanalike reptile (Sphenodon punctatum) formerly common in New Zealand, but now confined to certain islets near the coast. It reaches a length of two and a half feet, is dark olive-green with small white or yellowish specks on the sides, and has yellow spines along the back, except on the neck.

Tube (?), n. (Elec. Railways) A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway. [Chiefly Eng.]

Tu*ber"cu*lar*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. -ized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. i-zing (?).] [Tubercular + -ize.] (Med.) To infect with tuberculosis. -- Tu*ber`cu*lar*i*za"tion (#), n.

Tu*ber"cu*lin test (?). The hypodermic injection of tuberculin, which has little or no effect with healthy cattle, but causes a marked rise in temperature in tuberculous animals.

Tu*ber"cu*lo*ci`din (?), n. [Tuberculum + root of L. caedere to kill.] (Physiol. Chem.) A special substance contained in tuberculin, supposed to be the active agent of the latter freed from various impurities.

Tu*ber"cu*loid (?), a. [Tuberculum + -oid.] (Med.) Resembling a tubercle.

Tu*ber"cu*losed` (?), a. (Med.) Affected with tuberculosis.

Tu*ber"cu*lous (?), a. (Med.) Pertaining to, or affected with, a tuberculosis.

Tuck"er, n. [Cf. Tuck, n., 5.] Daily food; meals; also, food in general. [Slang or Colloq.]

Tobacco, matches, and tucker, the latter comprising almost anything within the province of food.

C. L. Money.

Tuck pointing. (Masonry) The finishing of joints along the center lines with a narrow ridge of putty or fine lime mortar.

Tu`me*fa"cient (?), a. [L. tumefaciens, -entis, p. pr. of tumefacere to tumefy; tumere to swell + facere to make.] Producing swelling; tumefying.

Tu*mes"cence (?), n. [L. tumescens, -entis, p.pr. of tumescere to swell up, v. incho. fr. tumere to swell.] The act of becoming tumid; the state of being swollen; intumescence.

Tu*mes"cent (?), a. Slightly tumid; swollen, as certain moss capsules.

||Tun"dra (?), n. [Russ.] One of the level or undulating treeless plains characteristic of northern arctic regions in both hemispheres. The tundras mark the limit of arborescent vegetation; they consist of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, but support a dense growth of mosses and lichens, and dwarf herbs and shrubs, often showy-flowered.

Tung"sten lamp. An electric glow lamp having filaments of metallic tungsten. Such lamps, owing to the refractory nature of the metal, may be maintained at a very high temperature and require an expenditure of only about 1.25 watts per candle power.

Tungsten steel. (Metal.) A steel containing a small amount of tungsten, noted for tenacity and hardness, even under a considerable degree of heat. Magnets made of it are said to be highly permanent. It often contains manganese.

Tun"nel stern. A design of motor-boat stern, for use in shallow waters, in which the propeller is housed in a tunnel and does not extend below the greatest draft.