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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._

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