TYE, verb transitive [Latin taceo, to be silent.]
1. To bind; to fasten with a band or cord and knot.
My son, keep thy father's commandments-- bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. Proverbs 6:1.
2. To fold and make fast; as, to tie a knot.
3. To knit; to complicate.
We do not tie this knot with an intention to puzzle the argument.
4. To fasten; to hold; to unite so as not to be easily parted.
In bond of virtuous love together tied.
5. To oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. People in their jealousy, may tie the hands of their ministers and public agents, so as to prevent them from doing good.
Not tied to rules of policy, you find
Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.
6. In music, to unite notes by a cross line, or by a curve line drawn over them.
To tie up, to confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion or action; as, to tie up the tongue; to tie up the hands.
To tie down, to fasten so as to prevent from rising.
1. To restrain; to confine; to hinder from action.
TIE, noun A knot; fastening.
1. Bond; obligation, moral or legal; as the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.
2. A knot of hair.
TYED, participle passive Bound; fastened with a knot; confined; restrained; united, as notes.
TY'ER, noun One who ties or unites.
TYGER. [See Tiger.]
TY'ING, participle present tense [See Tie and Tye.] Binding; fastening. [As this participle must be written with y, it might be well to write the verb tye.]
TYKE, noun A dog; or one as contemptible as a dog.
TYM'BAL, noun A kind of kettle drum.
A tymbal's sound were better than my voice.
TYM'PAN, noun [Latin tympanum. See Tymbal.]
1. A drum; hence, the barrel or hollow part of the ear behind the membrane of the tympanum.
2. The area of a pediment; also, the part of a pedestal called the trunk or dye.
3. The pannel of a door.
4. A triangular space or table in the corners or sides of an arch, usually enriched with figures.
5. Among printers, a frame covered with parchment or cloth, on which the blank sheets are put in order to be laid on the form to be impressed.
TYM'PANITES, noun In medicine, a flatulent distention of the belly; wind dropsy; tympany.
TYM'PANIZE, verb intransitive To act the part of a drummer.
TYM'PANIZE, verb transitive To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum.
TYM'PANUM, noun The drum of the ear. [See Tympan.]
1. In mechanics, a wheel placed round an axis.
TYM'PANY, noun A flatulent distention of the belly. [See Tympanites.]
TYN'Y, adjective Small. [See Tiny.]
TYPE, noun [Latin typus; Gr. from the root of tap; to beat, strike, impress.]
1. The mark of something; an emblem; that which represents something else.
Thy emblem, gracious queen, the British rose,
TYPE of sweet rule and gentle majesty.
2. A sign; a symbol; a figure of something to come; as, Abraham's sacrifice and the paschal lamb, were types of Christ. To this word is opposed antitype. Christ, in this case, is the antitype.
3. A model or form of a letter in metal or other hard material; used in printing.
4. In medicine, the form or character of a disease, in regard to the intension and remission of fevers, pulses, etc.; the regular progress of a fever.
5. In natural history, a general form, such as is common to the species of a genus, or the individuals of a species.
6. A stamp or mark.
TYPE, verb transitive To prefigure; to represent by a model or symbol beforehand. [Little used.]
TY'PHOID, adjective [typhus and Gr. form.] Resembling typhus; weak; low.
TY'PHUS, adjective [from Gr. to inflame or heat. Hippocrates gave this name to a fever which produced great heat in the eyes.] A typhus disease or fever is accompanied with great debility. The word is sometimes used as a noun.
TYP'IC
TYP'ICAL, adjective Emblematic; figurative; representing something future by a form, model or resemblance. Abraham's offering of his only son Isaac, was typical of the sacrifice of Christ. The brazen serpent was typical of the cross.
Typic fever, is one that is regular in its attacks; opposed to erratic fever.
TYP'ICAL, a. Emblematic; figurative; representing something future by a form, model or resemblance. Abraham's offering of his only son Isaac, was typical of the sacrifice of Christ. The brazen serpent was typical of the cross.
Typic fever, is one that is regular in its attacks; opposed to erratic fever.
TYP'ICALLY, adverb In a typical manner; by way of image, symbol or resemblance.
TYP'ICALNESS, noun The state of being typical.
TYP'IFIED, participle passive Represented by symbol or emblem.
TYP'IFY, verb transitive To represent by an image, form, model or resemblance. The washing of baptism typifies the cleansing of the soul from sin by the blood of Christ. Our Savior was typified by the goat that was slain.
TYP'IFYING, participle present tense Representing by model or emblem.
TYP'OCOSMY, noun A representation of the world. [Not much used.]
TYPOG'RAPHER, noun [See Typography.] A printer.
TYPOGRAPH'IC
TYPOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to printing; as the typographic art.
1. Emblematic.
TYPOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to printing; as the typographic art.
1. Emblematic.TYPOGRAPH'ICALLY, adverb By means of types; after the manner of printers.
1. Emblematically; figuratively.
TYPOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. type, and to write.]
1. The art of printing, or the operation of impressing letters and words on forms of types.
2. Emblematical or hieroglyphic representation.
TYP'OLITE, noun [Gr. form, and stone.] In natural history, a stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures of plants and animals.
TY'RAN, noun A tyrant. [Not in use.]
TYR'ANNESS, noun [from tyrant.] A female tyrant.
TYRAN'NIC
TYRAN'NICAL, adjective Pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; arbitrary; unjustly severe in government; imperious; despotic; cruel; as a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government or power.
Our sects a more tyrannic power assume.
Th' oppressor rul'd tyrannic where he durst.
TYRAN'NICAL, a. Pertaining to a tyrant; suiting a tyrant; arbitrary; unjustly severe in government; imperious; despotic; cruel; as a tyrannical prince; a tyrannical master; tyrannical government or power.
Our sects a more tyrannic power assume. Th' oppressor rul'd tyrannic where he durst.TYRAN'NICALLY, adverb With unjust exercise of power; arbitrarily; oppressively.
TYRAN'NICALNESS, noun Tyrannical disposition or practice.
TYRAN'NICIDE, noun [Latin tyrannus, tyrant, and coedo, to fill.]
1. The act of killing a tyrant.
2. One who kills a tyrant.
TYR'ANNING, participle present tense or adjective Acting as a tyrant. [Not used.]
TYR'ANNIZE, verb intransitive To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power over others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government. A prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; republican legislatures sometimes tyrannize over their fellow citizens, masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices. A husband may not tyrannize over his wife and children.
TYR'ANNOUS, adjective Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic.
TYR'ANNY, noun
1. Arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; the exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government. Hence tyranny is often synonymous with cruelty and oppression.
2. Cruel government or discipline; as the tyranny of a master.
3. Unresisted and cruel power.
4. Absolute monarchy cruelly administered.
5. Severity; rigor; inclemency.
The tyranny o' th' open night.
TY'RANT, noun [Latin tyrannus.]