Webster's Dictionary 1913

3025

Tipula

‖Tip″u‐la (?), n.; pl. L. Tipulæ (#), E. Tipulas (#). (Zoöl.) Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera. They have long and ...

3026

Tipulary

Tip″u‐la‐ry (?), a. [Cf. F. tipulaire.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the tipulas.

3027

Tirade

Ti‐rade″ (?), 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...

3028

Tirailleur

‖Ti′rail′leur″ (?), 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 us...

3029

Tire

Tire (?), n. A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.In posture to displode their second tireOf thunder. Milton.

3030

Tire (2)

Tire, n. [Aphetic form of attire; OE. tir, a tir. See Attire.] 1. Attire; apparel. “Having rich tire about you.” Shak.2. A covering for the head; a headdress.On her head she wor...

3031

Tire (3)

Tire, v. t. To adorn; to attire; to dress.painted her face, and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30.

3032

Tire (4)

Tire, v. i. [F. tirer to draw or pull; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to rend. See Tirade.] 1. To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.Even as an empty eagle, sha...

3033

Tire (5)

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 t...

3034

Tire (6)

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. Sha...

3035

Tire-woman

Tire″–wom′an (?), n.; pl.Tire-women (#). [See Tire attire, Attire.] 1. A lady's maid.Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke.2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds.

3036

Tired

Tired (?), a. Weary; fatigued; exhausted.

3037

Tiredness

Tired″ness, n. The state of being tired, or weary.

3038

Tireless

Tire″less (?), a. Untiring.

3039

Tireling

Tire″ling (?), a. Tired; fatigued.

3040

Tiresome

Tire″some (?), a. Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse. — Tire″some‐ly, adv. — Tire″some‐ness, n.

3041

Tiring-house

Tir″ing–house′ (?), n. [For attiring house.] A tiring-room. Shak.

3042

Tiring-room

Tir″ing–room′ (?), n. [For attiring room.] The room or place where players dress for the stage.

3043

Tirl

Tirl (?), v. i. [Cf. Twirl, Thirl.] 1. To quiver; to vibrate; to veer about.2. To make a ratting or clattering sound by twirling or shaking; as, to tirl at the pin, or latch, of...

3044

Tirma

Tir″ma (?), n. The oyster catcher.

3045

Tiro

Ti″ro (?), n. Same as Tyro.

3046

Tironian

Ti‐ro″ni‐an (?), 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 ...

3047

Tirralirra

Tir″ra‐lir′ra (?), n. A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark or a horn.The lark, that tirra lyra chants. Shak.“Tirralira, ” by the river,Sang Sir Lancel...

3048

Tirrit

Tir″rit (?), n. A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.

3049

Tirwit

Tir″wit (?), n. [Cf. Pewit.] (Zoöl.) The lapwing.

3050

Tisane

Ti‐sane″ (?), n.(Med.) See Ptisan.

3051

Tisar

Ti″sar (?), n. [F. tisard.] (Glass Manuf.) The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven. Knight.