Definition of Tunics

1. Noun. (plural of tunic) ¹

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Definition of Tunics

1. tunic [n] - See also: tunic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tunics

tunicaries
tunicary
tunicata
tunicate
tunicated
tunicates
tunicin
tunicins
tunick
tunicked
tunicks
tunicle
tunicles
tunicless
tuniclike
tunics (current term)
tunicwise
tunier
tuniest
tuning
tuning fork
tuning forks
tuning in
tuning out
tunings
tunisia
tunisite
tunker
tunnage
tunnages

Literary usage of Tunics

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A System of Surgery: Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Operative by Samuel David Gross (1862)
"237 The annexed sketches afford a good idea of the arrangement of the tunics of the arteries in the principal varieties of spontaneous aneurism. In 6g. ..."

2. The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man by Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman (1857)
"The whole of the intestinal tube is composed of certain tunics, which, ... Of these tunics, the mucous membrane, the muscular coat, and the serous coat, ..."

3. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"The protective parts, or tunics. 2d. Parts subsidiary to the perfection of ... I. PROTECTIVE PAKTS OR tunics OF THE EYEBALL. In a horizontal section of the ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1865)
"They appear in two tunics, the one reaching to the ankles, the other having short sleeves, and reaching about halfway down the thigh : in other words, ..."

5. A Treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Lawrence (1854)
"INFLAMMATION OF THE INTERNAL tunics. ferri e. myrrha gr. x omni nocte.) September 1. Cupping on the temples to 12 oz. 5th. Vision of the right eye nearly ..."

6. Flowers and Their Friends by Margaret Warner Morley (1897)
"tunics. A TUNIC, as everybody knows, is a dress worn by the old Romans. ... tunics did very well in a climate where it was always summer and upon people who ..."

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