tuing.html - n.
NZ a large honey-eater, Prosthemadura novaeseelandiae, native to New Zealand and having a long protrusible bill and glossy bluish-black plumage with two white tufts at the throat. [Maori]

tuing.html - n.
1 teaching or instruction, esp. if paid for (driving tuition; music tuition).
2 a fee for this.

tuitional adj. [ME f. OF f. L tuitio -onis f. tueri tuit- watch, guard]

tuing.html - See: NIP AND TUCK.

tuing.html - {v. phr.} To place the covers carefully around the person (usually a child) in bed. * /When I was a child, my mother used to tuck me into bed every night./

tuing.html - See: BEST BIB AND TUCKER.

tuing.html - {n.} 1. A game in which two teams pull on opposite ends of a rope, trying to pull the other team over a line marked on the ground. * /The tug-of-war ended when both teams tumbled in a heap./ 2. A contest in which two sides try to defeat each other; struggle. * /A tug-of-war developed between the boys who wanted to go fishing and those who wanted to go hiking./ * /Betty felt a tug-of-war between her wish to go to the movies and her realizing she had to do her homework./ * /The tug of war between the union men and management ended in a long strike./