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A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance
of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe. |
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A telescope. |
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A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or
other substance. |
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The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla. |
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A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and
Friction. |
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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. |
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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. |
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One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk. |
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To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well. |
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