TI'AR
TIA'RA, noun [Latin tiara.]
1. An ornament or article of dress with which the ancient Persians covered their heads; a kind of turban. As different authors describe it, it must have been of different forms. The kings of Persia alone had a right to wear it straight or erect; the lords and priests wore it depressed, or turned down on the fore side. Xenophon says the tiara was encompassed with the diadem, at least in ceremonials.
2. An ornament worn by the Jewish high priest. Exodus 28:1.
3. The pope's triple crown. The tiara and keys are the badges of the papal dignity; the tiara of his civil rank, and the keys of his jurisdiction. It was formerly a round high cap. It was afterward encompassed with a crown, then with a second and a third.
TIA'RA, n. [L. tiara.]
1. An ornament or article of dress with which the ancient Persians covered their heads; a kind of turban. As different authors describe it, it must have been of different forms. The kings of Persia alone had a right to wear it straight or erect; the lords and priests wore it depressed, or turned down on the fore side. Xenophon says the tiara was encompassed with the diadem, at least in ceremonials.2. An ornament worn by the Jewish high priest. Ex. 28.3. The pope's triple crown. The tiara and keys are the badges of the papal dignity; the tiara of his civil rank, and the keys of his jurisdiction. It was formerly a round high cap. It was afterward encompassed with a crown, then with a second and a third.TIB'IAL, adjective [Latin tibia, a flute, and the large bone of the leg.]
1. Pertaining to the large bone of the leg; as the tibial artery; tibial nerve.
2. Pertaining to a pipe or flute.
TIB'URO, noun A fish of the shark kind.
OP'TIC, 'TICAL, adjective [Gr. from to see, the eye.]
1. Relating or pertaining to vision or sight.
2. Relating to the science of optics.
Optic angle, is that which the optic axes of the eyes make with one another, as they tend to meet at some distance before the eyes.
Optic axis, is the axis of the eye, or a line going through the middle of the pupil and the center of the eye.
OP'TIC, noun An organ of sight.
TICE, for entice. [Not in use.]
TICK, noun Credit; trust; as, to buy upon tick
TICK, noun A little animal of a livid color and globose-ovate form, that infests sheep, dogs, goats, cows, etc., a species of Acarus.
TICK, noun [Latin tego; Eng. to deck.] The cover or case of a bed, which contains the feathers, wool or other material.
TICK, verb intransitive [from tick credit.] To run upon score.
1. To trust.
TICK, verb intransitive [Latin tango, tago.] To beat; to pat; or to make a small noise by beating or otherwise; as a watch.
TICK'BEAN, noun A small bean employed in feeding horses and other animals.
TICK'EN, noun Cloth for bed-ticks or cases for beds.
TICK'ET, noun
1. A piece of paper or a card, which gives the holder a right of admission to some place; as a ticket for the play-house or for other exhibition.
2. A piece of paper or writing, acknowledging some debt, or a certificate that something is due to the holder.
3. A piece of paper bearing some number in a lottery, which entitles the owner to receive such prize as may be drawn against that number. When it draws no prize, it is said to draw a blank, and the holder has nothing to receive.
TICK'ET, verb transitive To distinguish by a ticket
TICK'LE, verb transitive [Latin titillo, corrupted.]
1. To touch lightly and cause a peculiar thrilling sensation, which cannot be described. A slight sensation of this kind may give pleasure, but when violent it is insufferable.
2. To please by slight gratification. A glass of wine may tickle the palate.
Such a nature
Tickled with good success.
TICK'LE, verb intransitive To feel titillation.
He with secret joy therefore
Did tickle inwardly in every vein.
TICK'LE, adjective Tottering; wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if in love, may sign it off.
The state of Normandy
Stands on a tickle point.
[This word is wholly obsolete, at least in noun England. Ticklish is the word used.]
TICK'LENESS, noun Unsteadiness. [Not in use.]
TICK'LER, noun One that tickles or pleases.
TICK'LING, participle present tense Affecting with titillation.
TICK'LING, noun The act of affecting with titillation.
TICK'LISH, adjective Sensible to slight touches, easily tickled. The bottom of the foot is very ticklish as are the sides. The palm of the hand, hardened by use, it not ticklish
1. Tottering; standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily moved or affected.
Ireland was a ticklish and unsettled state.
2. Difficult; nice; critical; as, these are ticklish times.
TICK'LISHNESS, noun The state or quality of being ticklish or very sensible.
1. The state of being tottering or liable to fall.
2. Criticalness of condition or state.
TICK'TACK, noun A game at tables.
TID, adjective Tender; soft; nice.
TID'BIT, noun [tid and bit.] A delicate or tender piece.
TID'DER, verb transitive To use with tenderness; to fondle.
TID'DLE
TIDE, noun
1. Time; season.
Which, at the appointed tide,
Each one did make his bride.
[This sense is obsolete.]
2. The flow of the water in the ocean and seas, twice in a little more than twenty four hours; the flux and reflux, or ebb and flow. We commonly distinguish the flow or rising of the water by the name of flood-tide, and the reflux by that of ebb-tide. There is much less tide or rise of water in the main ocean, at a distance from land, than there is at the shore, and in sounds and bays.
3. Stream; course; current; as the tide of the times.
Time's ungentle tide.
4. Favorable course.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
5. Violent confluence. [Not in use.]
6. Among miners, the period of twelve hours.
7. Current; flow of blood.
And life's red tide runs ebbing from the wound.
TIDE, verb transitive To drive with the stream.
TIDE, verb intransitive To work in or out of a river or harbor by favor of the tide, and anchor when it becomes adverse.
TIDE, n.
1. Time; season. Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride.[This sense is obsolete.]2. The flow of the water in the ocean and seas, twice in a little more than twenty four hours; the flux and reflux, or ebb and flow. We commonly distinguish the flow or rising of the water by the name of flood-tide, and the reflux by that of ebb-tide. There is much less tide or rise of water in the main ocean, at a distance from land, than there is at the shore, and in sounds and bays.3. Stream; course; current; as the tide of the times. Time's ungentle tide.4. Favorable course. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.5. Violent confluence. [Not in use.]6. Among miners, the period of twelve hours.7. Current; flow of blood. And life's red tide runs ebbing from the wound.TIDE, v.t. To drive with the stream.
TIDE, v.i. To work in or out of a river or harbor by favor of the tide, and anchor when it becomes adverse.
TI'DILY, adverb [from tidy.] Neatly; with neat simplicity; as a female tidily dressed.
TI'DINESS, noun Neatness without richness or elegance; neat simplicity; as the tidiness of dress.
1. Neatness; as the tidiness of rooms.
TI'DINGS, noun plural News; advice; information; intelligence; account of what has taken place, and was not before known.
I shall make my master glad with these tidings
Behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:10.
TI'DY, adjective [from tide, time, season.]
1. In its primary sense, seasonable; favorable; being in proper time; as weather fair and tidy
2. Neat; dressed with neat simplicity; as a tidy lass; the children are tidy; their dress is tidy; that is primarily, proper for the time or occasion.
3. Neat; being in good order. The apartments are well furnished and tidy
TIE
TIED
TIER, noun A row; a rank; particularly when two or more rows are placed one above another; as a tier of seats in a church or theater. Thus in ships of war, the range of guns on one deck and one side of a ship, is called a tier. Those on the lower deck are called the lower tier, and those above, the middle or upper tiers. Ships with three tiers of guns are three deckers.
The tiers of a cable are the ranges of fakes or windings of a cable, laid one within another when coiled.
TIEr, in organs, is a rank or range of pipes in the front of the instrument, or in the interior, when the compound stops have several ranks of pipes.
TIED
TIER, n. A row; a rank; particularly when two or more rows are placed one above another; as a tier of seats in a church or theater. Thus in ships of war, the range of guns on one deck and one side of a ship, is called a tier. Those on the lower deck are called the lower tier, and those above, the middle or upper tiers. Ships with three tiers of guns are three deckers.
The tiers of a cable are the ranges of fakes or windings of a cable, laid one within another when coiled.
Tier, in organs, is a rank or range of pipes in the front of the instrument, or in the interior, when the compound stops have several ranks of pipes.
TIERCE, noun ters. A cask whose content is one third of a pipe, that is, forty gallons; or it may be the measure.
1. In Ireland, a weight by which provisions are sold. The tierce of beef for the navy, is 304 lb. and for India, 336 lb.
2. In music, a third.
3. In gaming, a sequence of three cards of the same color.
4. A thrust in fencing.
TIERCEL
TIERCELET, noun In falconry, a name given to the male hawk, as being a third part less than the female.
TIERCET, noun ter'cet. [from tierce.] In poetry, a triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming.
TIFF, noun Liquor; or rather a small draught of liquor. [Vulgar.]
1. A pet or fit of peevishness.
[I know not where this word is used in the latter sense.]
TIFF, verb intransitive To be in a pet. [Low.]
TIFF, verb transitive To dress. [Not in use.]
TIF'FANY, noun [According to the Italian and Spanish Dictionaries, this word is to be referred to taffeta.]
A species of gauze or very thin silk.
Tiffe-de-mer, a species of sea plant, so called by Count Marsigli, from its resemblance to the heads of the Typha palustris, or cat's tail. It has a smooth surface and a velvety look. It grows to two feet in highth, and is elegantly branched. It grows on rocks and stones, and when first taken out of the sea, is full of a yellow viscous water, but when this is pressed out and the substance is dried, it becomes of a dusky brown color.
TIFO'RE, preposition or adverb Before; formerly.
TIG, noun A play. [See Tag.]
TIGE, noun The shaft of a column from the astragal to the capital.
TI'GER, noun [Latin tigris.] A fierce and rapacious animal of the genus Felis, one of the largest and most terrible of the genus, inhabiting Africa and Asia. The American tiger is the Felis onca. There is also the tiger cat or Felis capensis.
TI'GERISH, adjective Like a tiger.
TIGH, noun In Kent, a close or inclosure.
TIGHT, adjective [Latin taceo; that is, close, closely compressed.]
1. Close; compact; not loose or open; having the joints so close that no fluid can enter or escape; not leaky; as a tight ship, or a tight cask.
2. Close; not admitting much air; as a tight room.
3. Sitting close to the body; as a tight coat or other garment.
4. Close; not having holes or crevices; not loose; applied to many vessels, etc.
5. Close; hard; as a tight bargain. [In common use in America.]
6. Close; parsimonious; saving; as a man tight in his dealings. [In common use in America.]
7. Closely dressed; not ragged.
I'll spin and card, and keep our children tight
8. Hardy; adroit.
[Note. This is the taugt or taught of seamen, applied to a rope stretched. The primary sense is strained.]
TIGHTEN, verb transitive ti'tn. To draw tighter; to straiten; to make close in any manner.
TIGHTER, noun A ribin or string used to draw clothes closer. [Not used.]
1. More tight.
TIGHTLY, adverb Closely; compactly.
1. Neatly; adroitly.
TIGHTNESS, noun Closeness of joints; compactness; straitness.
1. Neatness, as in dress.
2. Parsimoniousness; closeness in dealing.
TI'GRESS, noun [from tiger.] The female of the tiger.
TIKE, noun A tick. [See Tick.]
TIKE, noun
1. A countryman or clown.
2. A dog.
TILE, noun [Latin tegula; tego, to cover; Eng. to deck.]
1. A plate or piece of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings.
The pins for fastening tiles are made of oak or fir.
2. In metallurgy, a small flat piece of dried earth, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.
3. A piece of baked clay used in drains.
TILE, verb transitive To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
1. To cover, as tiles.
The muscle, sinew and vein.
Which tile this house, will come again.
TI'LED, participle passive Covered with tiles.
TI'LER, noun A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.
TI'LING, participle present tense Covering with tiles.
TI'LING, noun A roof covered with tiles. Luke 5:19.
1. Tiles in general.
TILL, noun A vetch; a tare. [Local.]
TILL
TILL'ABLE, adjective Capable of being tilled; arable; fit for the plow.
TILL'AGE, noun The operation, practice or art of preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground free from weeds which might impede the growth of crops. tillage includes manuring, plowing, harrowing and rolling land, or whatever is done to bring it to a proper state to receive the seed, and the operations of plowing, harrowing and hoeing the ground, to destroy weeds and loosen the soil after it is planted; culture; a principal branch of agriculture. tillage of the earth is the principal as it was the first occupation of man, and no employment is more honorable.
TILL'ED, participle passive Cultivated; prepared for seed and kept clean.
TILL'ER, noun One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
1. The bar or lever employed to turn the rudder of a ship.
2. A small drawer; a till.
3. Among farmers, the shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; also, the sprout or young tree that springs from the root or stump.
4. A young timber tree. [Local.]
TILL'ER, verb intransitive To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as we say, wheat or rye tillers; it spreads by tillering. The common orthography is tiller. Sir Joseph Banks writes it tillow.
TILL'ER, noun A money box in a shop; a drawer.
TILL, prep or adverb
1. To the time or time of. I did not see the man till the last time he came; I waited for him till four o'clock; I will wait till next week.
Till now, to the present time. I never heard of the fact ill now.
Till then, to that time. I never heard of the fact till then.
2. It is used before verbs and sentences in a like sense, denoting to the time specified in the sentence or clause following. I will wait till you arrive.
He said to them, occupy till I come. Luke 19:1.
Certain Jews--bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. Acts 23:1.
Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to God.
[Note.--In this use, till is not a conjunction; it does not connect sentences like and, or like or. It neither denotes union nor separation, nor an alternative. It has always the same office, except that is precedes a single word or a single sentence; the time to which it refers being in one case expressed by a single word, as now, or the, or time, with this, or that, etc., and in the other by a verb with its adjuncts; as, occupy till I come. In the latter use, till is a preposition preceding a sentence, like against, in the phrase, against I come.]
TILL, verb transitive
1. To labor; to cultivate; to plow and prepare for seed, and to dress crops. This word includes not only plowing but harrowing, and whatever is done to prepare ground for a crop, and to keep it free from weeds.
The Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. Genesis 3:1.
2. In the most general sense, to till may include every species of husbandry, and this may be its sense in Scripture.
TILL'ERING, participle present tense Sending out new shoots round the bottom of the original stem.
TILLERING, noun The act of sending forth young shoots from the root or around the bottom of the original stalk.
TILL'ING, participle present tense Cultivating.
TILL'ING, noun The operation of cultivating land; culture.
TILL'MAN, noun A man who tills the earth; a husbandman.
TILT, noun
1. A tent; a covering over head.
2. The cloth covering of a cart or wagon.
3. The cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning of canvas or other cloth, extended over the stern sheets of a boat.
TILT, verb transitive To cover with a cloth or awning.
TILT, noun [See the verb.] A thrust; as a tilt with a lance.
1. Formerly, a military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; as tilts and tournaments.
2. A large hammer; a tilt-hammer; used in iron manufactures.
3. Inclination forward; as the tilt of a cask; or a cask is a-tilt.
TILT, verb transitive [Latin tollo.]
1. To incline; to raise one end, as a cask, for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
2. To point or thrust, as a lance.
Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.
3. To hammer or forge with a tilt-hammer or tilt; as, to tilt steel to render it more ductile.
4. To cover with a tilt
TILT, verb intransitive To run or ride and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting at each other on horseback.
1. To fight with rapiers.
Swords out and tilting one at other's breast.
2. To rush, as in combat.
3. To play unsteadily; to ride, float and toss.
The fleet swift tilting o'er the surges flew.
4. To lean; to fall, as on one side.
The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.
TILT'-BOAT, noun A boat covered with canvas or other cloth.
TILT'ED, participle passive Inclined; made to stoop; covered with cloth or awning.
1. Hammered; prepared by beating; as steel.
TILT'ER, noun One who tilts; one who uses the exercise of pushing a lance on horseback; one who fights.
Let me alone to match your tilter
1. One who hammers with a tilt.
TILTH, noun That which is tilled; tillage ground. [Not in use.]
1. The state of being tilled or prepared for a crop. We say, land is in good tilth when it is manured, plowed, broken and mellowed for receiving the seed. We say also, ground is in bad tilth When we say, land is in tilth we mean in good condition for the seed; not in tilth in a bad condition.
TILT'ING, participle present tense Inclining; causing to stoop or lean; using the game of thrusting with the lance on horseback; also, hammering with a tilt-hammer.
TIM'BAL, noun A kettle drum.
TIM'BER, noun [Latin domus, a house; Gr. the body.]
1. That sort of wood which is proper for building or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships and the like. We apply the word to standing trees which are suitable for the uses above mentioned, as a forest contains excellent timber; or to the beams, rafters, scantling, boards, planks, etc. hewed or sawed from such trees. Of all the species of trees useful as timber in our climate, the white oak and the white pine hold the first place in importance.
2. The body or stem of a tree.
3. The materials; in irony.
Such dispositions--are the fittest timber to make politics of.
4. A single piece or squared stick of wood for building, or already framed.
Many of the timbers were decayed.
5. In ships, a timber is a rib or curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united in one frame.
TIM'BER, verb transitive To furnish with timber [See Timbered.]
TIM'BER, verb intransitive To light on a tree. [Not in use.]
1. In falconry, to make a nest.
Timber or timmer of furs, as of martens, ermines, sables and the like, denotes forty skins; of other skins, one hundred and twenty.
Timber of ermine, in heraldry, denote the ranks or rows of ermine in noblemen's coats.
TIM'BERED, participle passive or adjective Furnished with timber; as a well timbered house. In the United States, we say, land is well timbered when it is covered with good timber trees.
1. Built; formed; contrived. [Little used.]
TIM'BERING, participle present tense Furnishing with timber.
TIM'BRE, noun A crest on a coat of arms. It ought to be written timber.
TIM'BREL, noun [Latin tympanum.] An instrument of music; a kind of drum, tabor or tabret, which has been in use from the highest antiquity.
And Miriam took a timbrel in her hand--and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Exodus 15:20.
TIM'BRELED, adjective Sung to the sound of the timbrel.
TIME, noun [Latin tempus; tempora, the falls of the head, also tempest, etc. See Tempest. time is primarily equivalent to season; to the Gr.wpa in its original sense, opportunity, occasion, a fall, an event, that which comes.]
1. A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future. The time was; the time has been; the time is; the time will be.
Lost time is never found again.
God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets. Hebrews 1:1.
2. A proper time; a season.
There is a time to every purpose. Ecclesiastes 3:1.
The time of figs was not yet. Mark 11:13.
3. Duration.
The equal and uniform flux of time does not affect our senses.
TIME is absolute or relative; absolute time is considered without any relation to bodies or their motions. Relative time is the sensible measure of any portion of duration, by means of motion. Thus the diurnal revolution of the sun measures a space of time or duration. Hence,
4. A space or measured portion of duration.
We were in Paris two months, and all that time enjoyed good health.
5. Life or duration, in reference to occupation. One man spends his time in idleness; another devotes all his time to useful purposes.
Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind.
6. Age; a part of duration distinct from other parts; as ancient times; modern times. The Spanish armada was defeated in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
7. Hour of travail.
She was within one month of her time
8. Repetition; repeated performance, or mention with reference to repetition. The physician visits his patient three times in a day.
9. Repetition; doubling; addition of a number to itself; as, to double cloth four times; four times four amount to sixteen.
10. Measure of sounds in music; as common time and treble time In concerts, it is all important, that the performers keep time or exact time
11. The state of things at a particular period; as when we say, good times, or bad times, hard times, dull times for trade, etc. In this sense, the plural is generally used.
12. In grammar, tense.
In time in good season; sufficiently early.
He arrived in time to see the exhibition.
1. A considerable space of duration; process or continuation of duration. You must wait patiently; you will in time recover your health and strength.
At times, at distinct intervals of duration. At times he reads; at other times, he rides.
The spirit began to move him at times. Judges 13:23.
TIME enough, in season; early enough.
Stanley at Bosworth-field, came time enough to save his life.
To lose time to delay.
1. To go too slow; as, a watch or clock loses time
Apparent time in astronomy, true solar time regulated by the apparent motions of the sun.
Mean time equated time a mean or average of apparent time
Siderial time is that which is shown by the diurnal revolutions of the stars.
TIME, verb transitive To adapt to the time or occasion; to bring, begin or perform at the proper season or time; as, the measure is well timed, or ill timed. No small part of political wisdom consists in knowing how to time propositions and measures.
Mercy is good, but kings mistake its timing.
1. To regulate as to time; as, he timed the stroke.
2. To measure; as in music or harmony.
TI'MED, participle passive Adapted to the season or occasion.
TI'MEFUL, adjective Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early. [Not much used.]
TI'MEIST, noun In music, a performer who keeps good time.
TI'MELESS, adjective Unseasonable; done at an improper time.
Nor fits it to prolong the heav'nly feast
Timeless-- [Not used.]
1. Untimely; immature; done or suffered before the proper time; as a timeless grave. [Not used.]
TI'MELESSLY, adverb Unseasonably.
TI'MELINESS, noun [from timely.] Seasonableness; a being in good time.
TI'MELY, adjective Seasonable; being in good time; sufficiently early. The defendant had timely notice of this motion. timely care will often prevent great evils.
1. Keeping time or measure. [Not used.]
TI'MELY, adverb Early; soon; in good season.
Timely advis'd, the coming evil shun.
TIM'ID, adjective [Latin timidus, from timeo, to fear.] Fearful; wanting courage to meet danger; timorous; not bold.
Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare.
TIMID'ITY, noun [Latin timiditas.] Fearfulness; want of courage or boldness to face danger; timorousness; habitual cowardice. timidity in one person may be a good trait of character, while in another it is a deep reproach.
TIM'IDLY, adverb In a timid manner; weakly; without courage.
TIM'IDNESS, noun Timidity.
TIMOC'RACY, noun [Gr. honor, worth, and to hold.] Government by men of property, who are possessed of a certain income.
TIMONEE'R, noun [Latin temo.] A helmsman.
TIM'OROUS, adjective [Latin timor. See Timid.]
1. Fearful of danger; timid; destitute of courage; as a timorous doubts; timorous beliefs.
TIM'OROUSLY, adverb Fearfully; timidly; without boldness; with much fear.
Let dastard souls be timorously wise.
TIM'OROUSNESS, noun Fearfulness; timidity; want of courage.
TIMOUS, adjective [from time.] Early; timely. [Not in use.]
TIMOUSLY, adverb In good season. [Not in use.]
TIN, noun [Latin stannum; stagnum.]
1. A white metal, with a slight tinge of yellow. It is soft, non-elastic, very malleable, and when a bar of it is bent near the ear, distinguished by a crackling sound called the cry of tin It is used for culinary vessels, being for this purpose usually combined with lead, forming pewter; and alloyed with small proportions of antimony, copper and bismuth, is formed into various wares resembling silver, under the names of block-tin, brittania, etc. Equal parts of tin and lead compose soder. tin united with copper in different proportions, forms bronze, bell-metal, and speculum-metal.
2. Thin plates of iron covered with tin
TIN, verb transitive To cover with tin or overlay with tinfoil.
TINCT, verb intransitive [Latin tingo, tinctus.] To stain or color; to imbue.
TINCT, noun Stain; color. [Obsolete. We now use tinge and tincture.]
TINC'TURE, noun [Latin tinctura.]
1. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a menstruum; or an extract of a part of the substance of a body, communicated to the menstruum. Hence,
2. In medicine, a spiritus solution of such of the proximate principles of vegetables and animals as are soluble in pure alcohol or proof-spirit; wine or spirits containing medicinal substances in solution.
3. A tinge or shade of color; as a tincture of red.
4. Slight taste superadded to any substance; as a tincture or orange-peel.
5. Slight quality added to any thing; as a tincture of French manners.
All manners take a tincture from our own.
TINC'TURE, verb transitive To tinge; to communicate a slight foreign color to; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.
A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors.
1. To imbue the mind; to communicate a portion of any thing foreign; as a mind tinctured with skepticism.
TINC'TURED, participle passive Tinged; slightly impregnated with something foreign.
TINC'TURING, participle present tense Tinging; imbuing; impregnating with a foreign substance.
TIND, verb transitive [Eng. tine; tinder.] To kindle. obsolete
TIND'ER, noun Something very inflammable used for kindling fire from a spark; as scorched linen.
TIND'ERLIKE, adjective [tinder and like.] Like tinder; very inflammable.
TINE, verb transitive To kindle, to set on fire. [See Tind.]
TINE, verb transitive [Latin teneo.] To shut or inclose; to fill. [Not in use or local.]
TINE, noun [Latin dens.]
1. The tooth or spike of a fork; a prong; also, the tooth of a harrow or drag.
2. Trouble; distress. [Not in use.]
TINE, verb intransitive To rage; to smart; to fight.
TI'NEMAN, noun Anciently an officer of the forest in England, who had the nocturnal care of vert and venison.
TI'NET, noun [tine, to shut, supra.] In old writers, brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.
TINFOIL, noun [tin and Latin folium, a leaf.] Tin reduced to a thin leaf.
TING, noun A sharp sound. [Not in use. Children use ding, dong. See Tingle.]
TING, verb intransitive To sound or ring. [Not in use.]
TINGE, verb transitive [Latin tingo; Eng. to dye.] To imbue or impregnate with something foreign; to communicate the qualities of one substance, in some degree, to another, either by mixture, or by adding them to the surface; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron; to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste. The jaundice tinges the eyes with yellow.
The virtues of sir Roger, as well as his imperfections, are tinged with extravagance.
TINGE, noun Color; dye; taste; or rather a slight degree of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; as a red color that has a tinge of blue; a dish of food that has a tinge of orange peel in its taste.
TING'ED, participle passive Imbued or impregnated with a small portion of something foreign.
TING'ENT, adjective Having the power to tinge.
As for the white part, it appeared much less enriched with the tingent property. [Little used.]
TING'ING, participle present tense Imbuing or impregnating with something foreign.
TIN'-GLASS, noun Bismuth, which see.
TIN'GLE, verb intransitive [Latin tinnio.]
1. To feel a kind of thrilling sound.
At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle 1 Samuel 3:11.
2. To feel a sharp thrilling pain.
The pale boy senator yet tingling stands.
3. To have a thrilling sensation, or a sharp slight penetrating sensation.
They suck pollution through their tingling veins.
TING'LING, participle present tense Having a thrilling sensation.
TING'LING, noun A thrilling sensation.
TINK, verb intransitive To make a sharp shrill noise; to tinkle. [The latter is generally used.]
TINK'AL, noun Borax in its crude state or unrefined. It consists of small crystals of a yellowish color, and is unctuous to the feel.
TINK'ER, noun A mender of brass kettles, pans and the like.
TINK'ERLY, adverb In the manner of a tinker.
TINK'LE, verb intransitive
1. To make small quick sharp sounds, as by striking on metal; to clink.
--And have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13:1. Isaiah 3:16.
The sprightly horse
Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
The moment the money tinkles in the chest, the soul mounts out of purgatory.
2. To hear a small sharp sound.
And his ears tinkled, and his color fled.
TINK'LE, verb transitive To cause to clink or make sharp quick sounds.
TINK'LING, participle present tense Making a small quick sharp noise.
TINK'LING, noun A small quick sharp sound.
Making a tinkling with their feet. Isaiah 3:16.
TIN'MAN, noun [tin and man.] A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tin ware.
TIN'-MINE, noun [tin and mine.] A mine where tin is obtained.
TIN'NED, participle passive Covered with tin.
TIN'NER, noun [from tin.] One who works in the tin mines.
TIN'NING, participle present tense [from tin.] Covering with tin or tinfoil.
TIN'NING, noun The act, art or practice of covering or lining any thing with melted tin or with tinfoil, as kitchen utensils, locks, bits, etc.
TIN'NY, adjective Abounding with tin.
TIN'PENNY, noun [tin and penny.] A customary duty in England, formerly paid to tithingmen.
TIN'SEL, noun Something very shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
Who can discern the tinsel from the gold?
If the man will too curiously examine the superficial tinsel good, he undeceives himself to his cost.
1. A kind of shining cloth.
2. A kind of lace.
TIN'SEL, adjective Gaudy; showy to excess; specious; superficial.
TIN'SEL, verb transitive To adorn with something glittering and showy without much value; to make gaudy.
She, tinsel'd o'er in robes of varying hues--
TIN'SELED, participle passive Decorated with gaudy ornaments.
TIN'SELING, participle present tense Adorning with tinsel or superficial luster.
TINT, noun [Latin tinctus, tingo. See Tinge.] A dye; a color, or rather a slight coloring or tincture distinct from the ground or principal color; as red with a blue tint or tint of blue. In painting, tints are the colors considered as more or less bright, deep or thin, by the due use and intermixture of which a picture receives its shades, softness and variety.
Or blend in beauteous tint the color'd mass.
Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline.
TINT, verb transitive To tinge; to give a slight coloring to.
TIN'-WORM, noun [tin and worm.] An insect.
TIN'Y, adjective [from the root of thin, which see.] Very small; little; puny. [A word used by children, and in burlesque.]
When that I was a little tiny boy.
TIP, noun
1. The end; the point or extremity of any thing small; as the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear; the tip of the tongue; the tip of the ear.
2. One part of the play at nine-pins.
3. In botany, an anther.
TIP, verb transitive To form a point with something; to cover the tip top or end; a, to tip any thing with gold or silver.
With truncheon tipp'd with iron head.
TIPp'd with jet,
Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
1. [for tap.] To strike slightly, or with the end of any thing small; to tap.
A third rogue tips me by the elbow.
2. To lower one end, or throw upon the end; as, to tip a cart for discharging a load. [N. England.]
To tip the wink, to direct a wink, or to wink to another for notice.
TIP, verb intransitive In the phrase, to tip off, that is, to fall headlong; hence, to die.
TIP'PED
TIP'PET, noun A narrow garment or covering for the neck, worn by females. It is now made of fur, though formerly of some kind of cloth.
TIP'PET, n. A narrow garment or covering for the neck, worn by females. It is now made of fur, though formerly of some kind of cloth.
TIP'PING, participle present tense Covering the end or tip.
TIP'PLE, verb intransitive To drink spiritus or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper use of spiritus liquors. When a man begins to tipple let his creditors secure their debts.
TIP'PLE, verb transitive To drink, as strong liquors, in luxury or excess.
--Himself for saving charges.
A peel'd, slic'd onion eats, and tipples verjuice.
TIP'PLE, noun Drink; liquor taken in tippling.
TIP'PLED, participle passive Drank in excess.
1. adjective Intoxicated; inebriated.
TIP'PLER, noun One who habitually indulges in the excessive use of spiritus liquors; a drunkard; a sot. It however signifies often a person who habitually drinks strong liquors, without absolute drunkenness.
TIP'PLING, participle present tense Indulging in the habitual use of strong or spiritus liquors.
TIP'PLING, noun The habitual practice of drinking strong or spiritus liquors; a drinking to excess.
TIP'SY, adjective [from tipple.] Fuddled; overpowered with strong drink; intoxicated.
TIPT, participle passive Having the end covered.
TIP'TOE, noun [tip and tow.] The end of the toe.
Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by.
To be or to stand a tiptoe to be awake or alive to any thing; to be roused; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.
TIRA'DE, noun
1. Formerly in French music, the filling of an interval by the intermediate diatonic notes.
2. In modern usage, a strain or flight; a series of violent declamation.
Here he delivers a violent tirade against all persons who profess to know any thing about angels.
TIRE, noun [Heb. tur, a row or series.]
1. A tier; a row or rank. This is the same word as tier, differently written. [See Tier and Tour.]
2. A head dress; something that encompasses the head. [See Tiara.] Ezekiel 24:17. Isaiah 3:18.
On her head she wore a tire of gold.
3. Furniture; apparatus; as the tire of war.
4. Attire. [See Attire.]
5. A band or hoop of iron, used to bind the fellies of wheels, to secure them from wearing and breaking; as cart-tire; wagon-tire. This tire however is generally formed of different pieces, and is not one entire hoop.
TIRE, verb transitive To adorn; to attire; to dress; as the head. obsolete [See Attire.] 2 Kings 9:30.
TIRE, verb transitive [Latin tero.]
1. To weary; to fatigue; to exhaust the strength by toil or labor; as, to tire a horse or an ox. A long day's work in summer will tire the laborer.
Tir'd with toil, all hopes of safety past.
2. To weary; to fatigue; to exhaust the power of attending, or to exhaust patience with dullness or tediousness. A dull advocate may tire the court and jury, and injure his cause.
To tire out, to weary or fatigue to excess; to harass.
TIRE, verb intransitive To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted. A feeble body soon tires with hard labor.
TI'RED, participle passive Wearied; fatigued.
TI'REDNESS, noun The state of being wearied; weariness.
TI'RESOME, adjective Wearisome; fatiguing; exhausting the strength; as a tiresome day's work; a tiresome journey.
1. Tedious; exhausting the patience; as a tiresome discourse. The debates in congress are said to be sometimes very tiresome
TI'RESOMENESS, noun The act or quality of tiring or exhausting strength or patience; wearisomeness; tediousness; as the tiresomeness of work or of a dull speaker.
TI'REWOMAN, noun [tire and woman.] A woman whose occupation is to make head dresses.
TI'RING, participle present tense Wearying; fatiguing; exhausting strength or patience.
TIR'WIT, noun A bird. [Latin vanellus.]
N.B. The lapwing is called teewit in Scotland, (Ed Encyc.) and the lapwing is the vanellus.
'TIS, a contraction of it is.
TIS'IC
TIS'ICAL, adjective s as z. [for phthisic, phthisical.] Consumptive.
TIS'IC, noun s as z. [supra.] Consumption; morbid waste.
TIS'RI, noun The first Hebrew month of the civil year, and the seventh of the ecclesiastical; answering to a part of our September and a part of October.
TISSUE, noun tish'u.
1. Cloth interwoven with gold or silver, or with figured colors.
A robe of tissue stiff with golden wire.
2. In anatomy, texture or organization of parts. The peculiar intimate structure of a part is called its tissue A part of a fibrous structure is called a fibrous tissue The organs of the body are made up of simpler elements, some generally diffused through the body, and others peculiar to particular organs. These simpler structures are called the tissues of the body; as the cellular tissue; the mucous tissue etc. The cellular tissue is the cellular membrane.
3. A connected series; as, the whole story is a tissue of forgeries or of falsehood.
TIS'SUE, verb transitive To form tissue; to interweave; to variegate.
The chariot was covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue.
TIS'SUED, participle passive Interwoven; formed with variegated work.
TIS'SUING, participle present tense Interweaving; forming with variegated work.
TIT, noun A small horse, in contempt; a woman, in contempt; a small bird; a titmouse or tomtit.
TIT, noun The projecting part of the female breast; the dug of a beast; the pap of a woman; the nipple. It consists of an elastic erectile substance, embracing the lactiferous ducts, which terminate on its surface, and thus serves to convey milk to the young of animals.
TI'TAN
TITA'NIAN
TITANIF'EROUS, adjective [titan or titanium, and Latin fero.]
Producing titanium; as titaniferous pyrites.
TI'TANITE, noun An ore or oxyd of titanium, commonly of a reddish brown color, when it is opake; it occurs also in prismatic crystals terminated by pyramids of a blood red color, and is then translucent or transparent.
TITANIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to titanium.
TITA'NIUM, noun In mineralogy, a metal of modern discovery, and of a dark copper color, first found in Cornwall in England. It occurs in different states of oxydation or intermixture, in various parts of the world. It exists in three different states of oxydation; the first is blue or purple, the second red, and the third white. The ores of this metal are called menachanite, from Menachan in Cornwall, where it was originally found; iserine; from the river Iser, in Silesia; nigrine, from its black color; sphene, rutile, and octahedrite.
TIT'BIT, noun A tender piece. [See Tidbit.]
TI'THABLE, adjective Subject to the payment of tithes.
TITHE, noun The tenth part of any thing; but appropriately, the tenth part of the increase annually arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support. Tithes are personal, predial, or mixed; personal, when accruing from labor, art, trade and navigation; predial, when issuing from the earth, as hay, wood and fruit; and mixed, when accruing from beasts, which are fed from the ground.
TITHE, verb transitive To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth.
When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase. Deuteronomy 26:12.
Ye tithe mint and rue. Luke 11:42.
TITHE, verb intransitive To pay tithes.
TI'THED, participle passive Taxed a tenth.
TI'THER, noun One who collects tithes.
TI'THING, participle present tense Levying a tax on, to the amount of a tenth.
TI'THING, noun A decennary; a number or company of ten householders, who dwelling near each other, were sureties or free- pledges to the king for the good behavior of each other. The institution of tithings in England is ascribed to Alfred.
TI'THINGMAN, noun [tithing and man.]
1. The chief man of a tithing; a headborrough; one elected to preside over the tithing.
2. A peace officer; an under constable.
3. In New England, a parish officer annually elected to preserve good order in the church during divine service, and to make complaint of any disorderly conduct.
TITH'YMAL, noun [Gr. the breast.] A plant, milk thistle, of the genus Euphorbia.
TIT'ILLATE, verb intransitive [Latin titillo.] To tickle.
The pungent grains of titillating dust.
TIT'ILLATING, participle present tense Tickling.
TITILLA'TION, noun [Latin titillatio.]
1. The act of tickling; or the state of being tickled.
2. Any slight pleasure.
The products of those titillations that reach no higher than the senses.
TIT'L'ARK, noun [tit and lark.] A small bird, a species of Alauda or lark.
TI'TLE, noun [Latin titulus. This may belong to the family of Gr. to set or put.]
1. An inscription put over any thing as a name by which it is known.
2. The inscription in the beginning of a book, containing the subject of the work, and sometimes the author's name.
3. In the civil and canon laws, a chapter or division of a book.
4. An appellation of dignity, distinction or pre-eminence given to persons; as duke, marquis and the like.
5. A name; an appellation.
Ill worthy I such title should belong
To me transgressor.
6. Right; or that which constitutes a just cause of exclusive possession; that which is the foundation of ownership; as a good title to an estate; or an imperfect title The lowest degree of title is naked possession, and lastly the right of property, all which united complete the title
But possession is not essential to a complete title A title to personal property may be acquired by occupancy. A claim is not a title
7. The instrument which is evidence of a right.
8. In the canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice. This is true and valid, or colorable. A valid title gives a right to the benefice. A colorable title appears to be valid, but is not.
9. In ancient church records, a church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
TI'TLE, verb transitive To name; to call; to entitle.
TI'TLED, participle passive Called; named.
1. adjective Having a title.
TI'TLELESS, adjective Not having a title or name. [Not in use.]
TI'TLING, participle present tense Calling; denominating; entitling.
TIT'MOUSE, noun [tit, small, and mouse.] A small bird of the genus Parus.
TIT'TER, verb intransitive To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint.
TIT'TER, noun A restrained laugh.
1. A weed.
TIT'TLE, noun [from tit, small.] A small particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.
TITUBA'TION, noun [Latin titubo, to stumble.] The act of stumbling.
TIT'ULAR, adjective [Latin titulus.]
1. Existing in title or name only; nominal; having or conferring the title only; as a titular king or prince.
2. Having the title to an office or dignity without discharging the duties of it.
Both Valerius and Austin were titular bishops.
TIT'ULAR
TITULAR'ITY, noun The state of being titular.
TIT'ULARLY, adverb Nominally; by title only.
TIT'ULARY, adjective Consisting in a title.
1. Pertaining to a title.
TIT'ULARY, noun A person invested with a title, in virtue of which he holds an office or benefice, whether he performs the duties of it or not.
TIV'ER, noun A kind of ocher which is used in marking sheep in some parts of England. [Local.]
TIV'ER, verb transitive To mark sheep with tiver in different ways and for different purposes. [Local.]
TIV'ERING, participle present tense Marking with tiver. [Local.]
TIV'ERING, noun The act or practice of marking with tiver. [Local.]
TIV'Y, adverb [See Tantivy.] With great speed; a huntsman's word or sound.