Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 40

Ticklenburg (n.) A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.

Tickleness (n.) Unsteadiness.

Tickler (n.) One who, or that which, tickles.

Tickler (n.) Something puzzling or difficult.

Tickler (n.) A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity.

Tickler (n.) A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.

Ticklish (a.) Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.

Ticklish (a.) Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.

Ticklish (a.) Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.

Tickseed (n.) A seed or fruit resembling in shape an insect, as that of certain plants.

Tickseed (n.) Same as Coreopsis.

Tickseed (n.) Any plant of the genus Corispermum, plants of the Goosefoot family.

Ticktack (n.) A noise like that made by a clock or a watch.

Ticktack (n.) A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.

Ticktack (adv.) With a ticking noise, like that of a watch.

Ticpolonga (n.) A very venomous viper (Daboia Russellii), native of Ceylon and India; -- called also cobra monil.

Tid (a.) Tender; soft; nice; -- now only used in tidbit.

Tidal (a.) Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters.

Tidbit (n.) A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel.

Tidde (obs.) imp. of Tide, v. i.

Tidder (v. t.) Alt. of Tiddle

Tiddle (v. t.) To use with tenderness; to fondle.

Tide (prep.) Time; period; season.

Tide (prep.) The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence, when the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than the usual tide, called the spring tide, as represented in the cut. When the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.

Tide (prep.) A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood.

Tide (prep.) Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.

Tide (prep.) Violent confluence.

Tide (prep.) The period of twelve hours.

Tide (v. t.) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.

Tide (n.) To betide; to happen.

Tide (n.) To pour a tide or flood.

Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

Tided (a.) Affected by the tide; having a tide.

Tideless (a.) Having no tide.

Tide-rode (a.) Swung by the tide when at anchor; -- opposed to wind-rode.

Tidesmen (pl. ) of Tidesman

Tidesman (n.) A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.

Tidewaiter (n.) A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties.

Tideway (n.) Channel in which the tide sets.

Tidife (n.) The blue titmouse.

Tidily (adv.) In a tidy manner.

Tidiness (n.) The quality or state of being tidy.

Tiding (n.) Tidings.

Tidings (n.) Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news.

Tidley (n.) The wren.

Tidley (n.) The goldcrest.

Tidology (n.) A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides.

Tidy (n.) The wren; -- called also tiddy.

Tidy (superl.) Being in proper time; timely; seasonable; favorable; as, tidy weather.

Tidy (superl.) Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy.

Tidies (pl. ) of Tidy

Tidy (n.) A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like.

Tidy (n.) A child's pinafore.

Tidied (imp. & p. p.) of Tidy

Tidying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tidy

Tidy (v. t.) To put in proper order; to make neat; as, to tidy a room; to tidy one's dress.

Tidy (v. i.) To make things tidy.

Tidytips (n.) A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.

Ties (pl. ) of Tie

Tie (v. t.) A knot; a fastening.

Tie (v. t.) A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.

Tie (v. t.) A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.

Tie (v. t.) An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.

Tie (v. t.) A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.

Tie (v. t.) A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.

Tie (v. t.) Low shoes fastened with lacings.

Tied (imp. & p. p.) of Tie

Tight () of Tie

Tying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tie

Tie (v. t.) To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.

Tie (v. t.) To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot.

Tie (v. t.) To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.

Tie (v. t.) To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.

Tie (v. t.) To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.

Tie (v. t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.

Tie (v. i.) To make a tie; to make an equal score.

Tiebar (n.) A flat bar used as a tie.

Tiebeam (n.) A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof.

Tier (n.) One who, or that which, ties.

Tier (n.) A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore.

Tier (v. t.) A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater.

Tierce (n.) A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons.

Tierce (n.) A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

Tierce (n.) The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.

Tierce (n.) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.

Tierce (n.) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

Tierce (n.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

Tierce (a.) Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.

Tiercel (n.) Alt. of Tiercelet

Tiercelet (n.) The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk.

Tierce-major (n.) See Tierce, 4.

Tiercet (n.) A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.

Tie-rod (n.) A rod used as a tie. See Tie.

Tiers etat () The third estate, or commonalty, in France, answering to the commons in Great Britain; -- so called in distinction from, and as inferior to, the nobles and clergy.

Tietick (n.) The meadow pipit.

Tiewig (n.) A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up; also, a wig tied upon the head.

Tiff (n.) Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.

Tiff (n.) A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.

Tiffed (imp. & p. p.) of Tiff

Tiffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tiff

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