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~Tulchane bishop~, one who received the episcopate, on condition of a.s.signing the temporalities to a secular person.
_Calderwood._
2. A bag or budget, generally of the skin of an animal, S. B.
_Journ. Lond._
3. Applied to a chubby, sometimes to a dwarfish, child, Ang.
Isl. _tulk-a_, pellicere.
TULSURELIKE, _adj._ Apparently, fierce or furious.
_Henrysone._
Gael. _tulchoir_, obstinate.
TUMDEIF, _s._ Perh. swooning.
_Roull._
Isl. _tumb-a_, cadere praeceps; and _deyfa_, hebetudo.
_To_ TUME, _v. a._ To empty, S.
V. ~Teym~.
Dan. _tomm-er_, Su. G. Isl. _toem-a_, vacuare.
~Tume~, ~Toom~, ~Tome~, _adj._
1. Empty, S.
_Wyntown._
2. Untenanted, S.; as, a _tume house_.
_S. Prov._
3. In a state of inanition, as to food, S.
4. Lank, tall and meagre, S.
5. Shadowy, unsubstantial.
_Douglas._
6. Vain, having no real cause for boasting.
_Douglas._
7. Unprofitable, what brings no return, S.
_Ramsay._
8. Deficient in mind, S.
~Tume~, _s._ _A tume of rain_, a sudden and heavy fall of rain, S. B.
~Tume-handit~, _adj._ Empty handed, in whatever respect, S.
_Ross._
Dan. _tomhaendet_, id.
TUMFIE, _s._ A dumpish sort of fellow.
~Tumfie~, _adj._ Dull and stupid, S. O.
Dan. _dumt-fae_, a blockhead.
TUP, _s._
1. The common term for a ram, S.
2. A foolish fellow, S.
3. An unpolished store-farmer, S. A.
_Mannering._
TUQUHEIT, TEUCHIT, _s._ The lapwing, S.
_Houlate._
Probably meant to imitate the sound made by this bird.
TURBOT, _s._ The name commonly given, in our markets, to halibut, S.
_Stat. Acc._
