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Tiptoe (?), a. 1. Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert.
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Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak.
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Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory. Byron.
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2. Noiseless; stealthy. “With tiptoe step.” Cowper.
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Coloq. Tiptoe mirth , the highest degree of mirth. Sir W. Scott.
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Tiptoe, v. i. To step or walk on tiptoe.
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Tiptop (?), n. [Tip end + top.] The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything. [Colloq.]
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Tiptop, a. Very excellent; most excellent; perfect. [Colloq.] “Four tiptop voices.” Gray. “Sung in a tiptop manner.” Goldsmith.
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Tipula (?), n.; pl. L. Tipulæ (#), E. Tipulas (#). [L., the water spider, or water spinner.] (Zoöl.) Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera. They have long and slender bodies. See Crane fly, under .
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Tipulary (?), a. [Cf. F. tipulaire.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the tipulas.
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Tip-up (?), n. (Zoöl.) The spotted sandpiper; -- called also teeter-tail. See under .
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Tirade (?), n. [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to redn. See to rend, and cf. to tear.] A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
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Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. Quarterly Review.
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Tirailleur (?), n. [F., from tirailler to skirmish, wrest, from tirer to draw.] (Mil.) Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
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Tire (?), n. A tier, row, or rank. See . [Obs.]
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In posture to displode their second tire
Of thunder. Milton.
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Tire, n. [Aphetic form of attire; OE. tir, a tir. See .] 1. Attire; apparel. [Archaic] “Having rich tire about you.” Shak.
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2. A covering for the head; a headdress.
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On her head she wore a tire of gold. Spenser.
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3. A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
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4. Furniture; apparatus; equipment. [Obs.] “The tire of war.” Philips.
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5. [Probably the same word, and so called as being an attire or covering for the wheel.] A ring, hoop or band, as of rubber or metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear. In Britain, spelled tyre.
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☞ The iron tire of a wagon wheel or cart wheel binds the fellies together. The tire of a locomotive or railroad-car wheel is a heavy hoop of iron or steel shrunk tightly upon an iron central part. The wheel of a bicycle or road vehicle (automobile, motorcyle, truck) has a tire of rubber, which is typically hollow inside and inflated with air to lessen the shocks from bumps on uneven roads.
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Tire, v. t. To adorn; to attire; to dress. [Obs.]
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[Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30.
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Tire, v. i. [F. tirer to draw or pull; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to rend. See .] 1. To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. [Obs.]
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Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast,
Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone. Shak.
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Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men,
That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits. B. Jonson.
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2. To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything. [Obs.]
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Thus made she her remove,
And left wrath tiring on her son. Chapman.
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Upon that were my thoughts tiring. Shak.
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Tire, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tired (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tiring.] [OE. teorien to become weary, to fail, AS. teorian to be tired, be weary, to tire, exhaust; perhaps akin to E. tear to rend, the intermediate sense being, perhaps, to wear out; or cf. E. tarry.] To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.
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Tire, v. t. To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade. Shak.
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Tired with toil, all hopes of safety past. Dryden.
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Coloq. To tire out , to weary or fatigue to exhaustion; to harass.
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Syn. -- To jade; weary; exhaust; harass. See .
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Tired (?), a. Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
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Tiredness, n. The state of being tired, or weary.
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Tire iron (?), n. a short steel bar with one end flattened so as to form a blade, used to remove rubber tires from the rim of a wheel.
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Tireless (?), a. Untiring.
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Tireling (?), a. Tired; fatigued. [Obs.]
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Tiresome (?), a. Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse. -- Tiresomely, adv. -- Tiresomeness, n.
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Tire-woman (?), n.; pl. Tire-women (#). [See attire, .] 1. A lady's maid.
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Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke.
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2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds.
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Tiring-house (?), n. [For attiring house.] A tiring-room. [Obs.] Shak.
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Tiring-room (?), n. [For attiring room.] The room or place where players dress for the stage.
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Tirl (?), v. i. [Cf. , .] [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] 1. To quiver; to vibrate; to veer about.
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2. To make a ratting or clattering sound by twirling or shaking; as, to tirl at the pin, or latch, of a door.
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Tirma (?), n. The oyster catcher. [Prov. Eng.]
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Tiro (?), n. [L.] Same as .
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T iron (?). See under .
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Tironian (?), a. [L. Tironianus, fr. Tiro, the learned freedman and amanuensis of Cicero.] Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.
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Tirralirra (?), n. A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark or a horn.
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The lark, that tirra lyra chants. Shak.
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“Tirralira, ” by the river,
Sang Sir Lancelot. Tennyson.
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Tirrit (?), n. A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.
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Tirwit (?), n. [Cf. .] (Zoöl.) The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]
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'T is (?). A common contraction of it is.
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Tisane (?), n. [F.] (Med.) See .
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Tisar (?), n. [F. tisard.] (Glass Manuf.) The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven. Knight.
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{ Tisic (?), Tisical (?), } a. [For phthisic, phthisical.] Consumptive, phthisical.
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Tisic, n. Consumption; phthisis. See .
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Tisicky (?), a. Consumptive, phthisical.
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Tisri (?), n. [Heb. tishrī, fr. Chald. sherā' to open, to begin.] The seventh month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of September with a part of October.
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Tissue (?), n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See .] 1. A woven fabric.
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2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
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A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. Dryden.
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In their glittering tissues bear emblazed
Holy memorials. Milton.
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3. (Biol.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.
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☞ The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing in structure and function, which go to make up an organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc.
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4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
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Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. A. J. Balfour.
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Coloq. Tissue paper , very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.
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Tissue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tissued (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing.] To form tissue of; to interweave.
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Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. Bacon.
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Tissued (?), a. Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper.
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And crested chiefs and tissued dames
Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
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Tit (?), n. 1. A small horse. Tusser.
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2. A woman; -- used in contempt. Burton.
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3. A morsel; a bit. Halliwell.
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4. [OE.; cf. Icel. titter a tit or small bird. The word probably meant originally, something small, and is perhaps the same as teat. Cf. , .] (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families Paridæ and Leiotrichidæ; a titmouse. (b) The European meadow pipit; a titlark.
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Coloq. Ground tit . (Zoöl.) See Wren tit, under . -- Coloq. Hill tit (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to Siva, Milna, and allied genera. -- Coloq. Tit babbler (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small East Indian and Asiatic timaline birds of the genus Trichastoma. -- Coloq. Tit for tat . [Probably for tip for tap. See a slight blow.] An equivalent; retaliation. -- Coloq. Tit thrush (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic and East Indian birds belonging to Suthora and allied genera. In some respects they are intermediate between the thrushes and titmice.
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Titan (tīt�n), a. Titanic.
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The Titan physical difficulties of his enterprise. I. Taylor.
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titanate (tīt�n�t), n. (Chem.) A salt of titanic acid.
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Titan crane. (Mach.) A massive crane with an overhanging counterbalanced arm carrying a traveler and lifting crab, the whole supported by a carriage mounted on track rails. It is used esp. for setting heavy masonry blocks for piers, breakwaters, etc.
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titanic (t�tănĭk), a. Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient mythology; hence, enormous in size or strength; as, Titanic structures.
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Titanic (?), prop. n. The name of a large ocean liner which hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage from England to New York in 1912, with the loss of hundreds of lives. Also, the name of several movies made about the incident.
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titanic (t�tănĭk), a. [Cf. F. titanique.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to titanium; derived from, or containing, titanium; specifically, designating those compounds of titanium in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with the titanous compounds.
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Coloq. titanic acid (Chem.), a white amorphous powder, Ti(OH)4, obtained by decomposing certain titanates; -- called also normal titanic acid. By extension, any one of a series of derived acids, called also metatitanic acid, polytitanic acid, etc. -- Coloq. Titanic iron ore . (Min.) See .
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Titaniferous (?), a. [Titanium + -ferous: cf. F. titanifère.] Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite.
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Titanite (?), n. [Cf. F. titanite; -- so called from containing titanic acid.] (Min.) See .
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Titanitic (?), a. Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic mineral.
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Titanium (?), n. [NL., fr. L. Titani or Titanes, Gr. �, the sons of the earth.] (Chem.) An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1.
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Titano- (?). (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain double compounds of titanium with some other elements; as, titano-cyanide, titano-fluoride, titano-silicate, etc.
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Titanotherium (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � a Titan + �, dim. of � a beast.] (Paleon.) A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.
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Titanous (?), a. Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that element has a lower valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.
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Titbit (?), n. Same as . [Chiefly Brit.]
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Tith (?), a. [See , a.] Tight; nimble. [Obs.]
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Of a good stirring strain too, she goes tith. Beau. & Fl.
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Tithable (?), a. Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.
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Tithe (?), n. [OE. tithe, tethe, properly an adj., tenth, AS. teó�a the tenth; akin to tién, t�n, tēn, ten, G. zehnte, adj., tenth, n., a tithe, Icel. tīund the tenth; tithe, Goth. taíhunda tenth. See , and cf. , .] 1. A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges.
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The tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil. Neh. xiii. 5.
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☞ Tithes are called personal when accuring from labor, art, trade, and navigation; predial, when issuing from the earth, as hay, wood, and fruit; and mixed, when accuring from beaste fed from the ground. Blackstone.
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2. Hence, a small part or proportion. Bacon.
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Coloq. Great tithes , tithes of corn, hay, and wood. -- Coloq. Mixed tithes , tithes of wool, milk, pigs, etc. -- Coloq. Small tithes , personal and mixed tithes. -- Coloq. Tithe commissioner , one of a board of officers appointed by the government for arranging propositions for commuting, or compounding for, tithes. [Eng.] Simmonds.
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Tithe, a. Tenth. [Obs.]
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Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand. Shak.
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Tithe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tithed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tithing.] [As. teó�ian.] To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on.
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Ye tithe mint and rue. Luke xi. 42.
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Tithe, v. i. Tp pay tithes. [R.] Tusser.
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Tither (?), n. 1. One who collects tithes. Milton.
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2. One who pays tithes. [R.] Chaucer.
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Tithing, n. [AS. teó�ung.] 1. The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe.
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To take tithing of their blood and sweat. Motley.
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2. (O. Eng. Law) A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary. Blackstone.
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Tithingman (?), n.; pl. Tithingmen (�). 1. (O. Eng. Law) The chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.
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2. (Law) A peace officer; an under constable.
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3. A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath. [Local, U. S.]
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Tithly (?), a. [From .] Tightly; nimbly. [Obs.] “I have seen him trip it tithly.” Beau. & Fl.
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Tithonic (?), a. [L. Tithonius belonging to Tithonus, the consort of Aurora, Gr. �.] Of, pertaining to, or denoting, those rays of light which produce chemical effects; actinic. [R.]
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Tithonicity (?), n. (Chem. & Physics) The state or property of being tithonic; actinism. [R.]
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Tithonographic (?), a. [Tithonic + -graph + -ic.] Of, relating to, or produced by, the chemical action of rays of light; photographic.
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Tithonometer (?), n. [Tithonic + -meter.] An instrument or apparatus for measuring or detecting tithonicity; an actinometer. [R.]
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Tithymal (?), n. [L. tithymalus a plant with a milklike sap, Gr. �: cf. F. tithymale.] (Bot.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias.
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Titi (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as .
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Titi (?), n. [Orig. uncert.] 1. A tree of the southern United States (Cliftonia monophylla) having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers succeeded by one-seeded drupes; -- called also black titi, buckwheat tree, and ironwood.
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2. Any related tree of the genus Cyrilla, often disting. as white titi.
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Titillate (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Titillated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Titillating.] [L. titillatus, p. p. of titillare.] To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather.
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The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope.
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Titillation (?), n. [L. titillatio: cf. F. titillation.] 1. The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation. A. Tucker.
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2. Any pleasurable sensation.
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Those titillations that reach no higher than the senses. Glanvill.
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Titillative (?), a. Tending or serving to titillate, or tickle; tickling.
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{ Titivate, Tittivate } (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Titivated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Titivating (?).] [Formed from an uncertain source, in imitation of words in -ate fr. L.] To dress or smarten up; to spruce. -- Titivation, Tittivation (#), n. [Both Humorous]

“Come here, an' let me titivate you.” He sat down beside her, and submitted to be dusted. Quiller-Couch.
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Titlark (?), n. [Tit a small bird + lark.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous small spring birds belonging to Anthus, Corydalla, and allied genera, which resemble the true larks in color and in having a very long hind claw; especially, the European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
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Title (?), n. [OF. title, F. titre, L. titulus an inscription, label, title, sign, token. Cf. , , .] 1. An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.
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2. The inscription in the beginning of a book, usually containing the subject of the work, the author's and publisher's names, the date, etc.
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3. (Bookbindng) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
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4. A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book.
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5. An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preëminence (hereditary or acquired), given to persons, as duke marquis, honorable, esquire, etc.
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With his former title greet Macbeth. Shak.
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6. A name; an appellation; a designation.
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7. (Law) (a) That which constitutes a just cause of exclusive possession; that which is the foundation of ownership of property, real or personal; a right; as, a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title. (b) The instrument which is evidence of a right. (c) (Canon Law) That by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
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8. (Anc. Church Records) A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
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Coloq. Title deeds (Law), the muniments or evidences of ownership; as, the title deeds to an estate.
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Syn. -- Epithet; name; appellation; denomination. See , and .
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