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▪ I. tuba1|ˈtjuːbə|
[L. and It. tuba.]
1. (pl. tubæ.) The straight bronze war-trumpet of the ancient Romans.
1882Athenæum 8 Apr. 452/1 Two other musicians blow long straight trumpets, exactly like the Roman tuba. 1890E. Custer Following Guidon Pref. 9 The tuba..was a kind of straight bronze clarion, about thirty-nine inches long.
2. Mus.
a. (pl. tubas.) A brass wind-instrument in the bass range of the sax-horn family; a sax-tuba or bombardon; cf. sax-horn; also, one who plays this instrument.
1852Crystal Palace 285/1 The Sax-horns in alto, soprano, tenor, tuba, bass, &c. 1888Pall Mall G. 10 Dec. 4/2 Three trombones and a tuba have..a free run for their money. 1889Ibid. 13 July 3/1 In ‘Otello’ Verdi..has written important parts for piccolo, cor anglais, bass clarinet, a third bassoon, two cornets, and a tuba. 1889W. H. Stone in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 184/1 Tubas are made in many keys, in F in Germany, in E♭ and B♭ in this country. 1909Punch 20 Jan. 38/2 A..nonagenarian with a voice like a bass tuba.
b. An 8-foot high-pressure reed-stop in an organ.
1858J. A. Symonds Let. Nov. (1967) I. 174 The stops of the organ were unusually fine—Tuba, [etc.]. 1876J. Hiles Catech. Organ x. (1878) 72 Tuba, Tuba Mirabilis, Ophicleide—a Trumpet stop (striking reed) of large scale and on a high pressure of wind. 1889Sir J. Stainer in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 184/1 The Tuba is not solely used as a Solo stop. 1907Westm. Gaz. 24 Aug. 15/3 The organ..soared and swelled.., a crash of trumpet and tuba that left a vibrant humming in the air.
▪ II. ‖ tuba2|ˈtuːba|
Also tooba.
[Arab. (in Koran xiii. 28) ṭūbah, supposed to be a. Aramaic ṭūbā beatitude, Heb. ṭobah. Some commentators suppose a tree to be meant, the opinion cited by Sale, and adopted in the quots.]
A mythical tree growing in the Muslim paradise: see quots. Also tuba-tree.
1817Moore Lalla R., Paradise & Peri 622 My feast is now of the Tooba Tree, Whose scent is the breath of Eternity! 1833A. Crichton Hist. Arabia I. vii. 317 The Tooba, or tree of happiness, so large that the fleetest horse could not gallop in a hundred years from one end of its shadow to the other. 1875Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims viii. 206 In [a Persian] poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix alighting on Tuba, the tree of Life. 1894W. R. Thayer Poems 26 The odors of blooming tuba-trees Thro' the gardens steal.
▪ III. ‖ tuba3|tuːˈbɑː, ˈtuːbə|
[Malay tūba.]
1. In the Malay archipelago, the Philippines, etc., the name of species of Derris from the roots of which an intoxicating juice is extracted; also, the juice itself, which is used as a fish-poison. Also applied to the berry of Anamirta Cocculus (known as Cocculus indicus), and to the fruits of Jatropha Curcas and Croton Tiglium, used for the same purpose. Also attrib.
1839T. J. Newbold Straits of Malacca II. xii. 189 The Malays sometimes resort to unfair means of securing the finny tribe, by inserting at low water the roots of the Tuba..into the holes and fissures of the coral reefs. 1890[see derrid, derride]. [ 1894Dennys Dict. Malaya 416 Tuba, the name of a creeping plant (dalbergia) the root of which..is used to stupefy fish for the purpose of capture.] 1895F. A. Swettenham Malay Sk. 225 The water is poisoned with the juice of the tuba root. 1898Blackw. Mag. Mar. 414/1 This is how we fished with the tuba six years ago. 1899W. H. Furness Folk Lore Borneo 27 The people go Tuba fishing, poisoning the stream with the juice of the Tuba root.
2. The fermented sap of the unopened flowerbuds of various palms, esp. the coco-nut and Palmyra palms; palm-wine; also, the alcoholic liquor distilled from this; arrack.
1704in A. & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. IV. 447/2 Their Wine or Liquor is drawn from the Palm, or Coco-Tree... The Poor put into it some Bark of Trees which give it a Colour, and a hotter Tast, and then it is call'd Tuba. 1902W. E. Safford in Amer. Anthropologist 728 He climbed a coconut-tree..and brought in a bamboo joint full of tuba, delicious as cider just beginning to turn sharp. 1912Contemp. Rev. Apr. 560 Long tumblers of pink tuba. |