Tippler (n.) One who habitually indulges in the excessive use of spirituous liquors, whether he becomes intoxicated or not.
Tippling-house (n.) A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises.
Tipsify (v. t.) To make tipsy.
Tipsily (adv.) In a tipsy manner; like one tipsy.
Tipsiness (n.) The state of being tipsy.
Tipstaff (pl. ) of Tipstaff
Tipstaff (n.) A staff tipped with metal.
Tipstaff (n.) An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a constable.
Tipsy (superl.) Being under the influence of strong drink; rendered weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk; fuddled; intoxicated.
Tipsy (superl.) Staggering, as if from intoxication; reeling.
Tiptoes (pl. ) of Tiptoe
Tiptoe (n.) The end, or tip, of the toe.
Tiptoe (a.) Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert.
Tiptoe (a.) Noiseless; stealthy.
Tiptoe (v. i.) To step or walk on tiptoe.
Tiptop (n.) The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.
Tiptop (a.) Very excellent; most excellent; perfect.
Tipulae (pl. ) of Tipula
Tipulas (pl. ) of Tipula
Tipula (n.) 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 Crane.
Tipulary (a.) Of or pertaining to the tipulas.
Tip-up (n.) The spotted sandpiper; -- called also teeter-tail. See under Sandpiper.
Tirade (n.) A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Tirailleur (n.) 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.
Tire (n.) A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.
Tire (n.) Attire; apparel.
Tire (n.) A covering for the head; a headdress.
Tire (n.) A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
Tire (n.) Furniture; apparatus; equipment.
Tire (n.) A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.
Tire (v. t.) To adorn; to attire; to dress.
Tire (v. i.) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
Tire (v. i.) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
Tired (imp. & p. p.) of Tire
Tiring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tire
Tire (v. i.) To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.
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.
Tired (a.) Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
Tiredness (n.) The state of being tired, or weary.
Tireless (a.) Untiring.
Tireling (a.) Tired; fatigued.
Tiresome (a.) Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.
Tire-women (pl. ) of Tire-woman
Tire-woman (n.) A lady's maid.
Tire-woman (n.) A dresser in a theater.
Tiring-house (n.) A tiring-room.
Tiring-room (n.) The room or place where players dress for the stage.
Tirma (n.) The oyster catcher.
Tiro (n.) Same as Tyro.
T iron () See under T.
Tironian (a.) Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.
Tirralirra (n.) A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark or a horn.
Tirrit (n.) A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.
Tirwit (n.) The lapwing.
'T is () A common contraction of it is.
Tisane (n.) See Ptisan.
Tisar (n.) The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven.
Tisic (a.) Alt. of Tisical
Tisical (a.) Consumptive, phthisical.
Tisic (n.) Consumption; phthisis. See Phthisis.
Tisicky (a.) Consumptive, phthisical.
Tisri (n.) The seventh month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of September with a part of October.
Tissue (n.) A woven fabric.
Tissue (n.) A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
Tissue (n.) 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.
Tissue (n.) Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
Tissued (imp. & p. p.) of Tissue
Tissuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tissue
Tissue (v. t.) To form tissue of; to interweave.
Tissued (a.) Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers.
Tit (n.) A small horse.
Tit (n.) A woman; -- used in contempt.
Tit (n.) A morsel; a bit.
Tit (n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families Paridae and Leiotrichidae; a titmouse.
Tit (n.) The European meadow pipit; a titlark.
Titan (a.) Titanic.
Titanate (n.) A salt of titanic acid.
Titanic (a.) Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient mythology; hence, enormous in size or strength; as, Titanic structures.
Titanic (a.) 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.
Titaniferous (a.) Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite.
Titanite (n.) See Sphene.
Titanitic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic mineral.
Titanium (n.) 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.
Titano- () A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain double compounds of titanium with some other elements; as, titano-cyanide, titano-fluoride, titano-silicate, etc.
Titanotherium (n.) A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.
Titanous (a.) Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that element has a lower valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.
Titbit (n.) Same as Tidbit.
Tith (a.) Tight; nimble.
Tithable (a.) Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.
Tithe (n.) 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.
Tithe (n.) Hence, a small part or proportion.
Tithe (a.) Tenth.
Tithed (imp. & p. p.) of Tithe
Tithing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tithe
Tithe (v. t.) To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on.
Tithe (v. i.) Tp pay tithes.
Tither (n.) One who collects tithes.
Tither (n.) One who pays tithes.
Tithing (n.) The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe.
Tithing (n.) 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.