Webster's Dictionary 1913

3052

Tisic

{ Tis″ic (?), Tis″ic‐al (?), } a. [For phthisic, phthisical.] Consumptive, phthisical.

3053

Tisic (2)

Tis″ic, n. Consumption; phthisis. See Phthisis.

3054

Tisicky

Tis″ick‐y (?), a. Consumptive, phthisical.

3055

Tisri

Tis″ri (?), 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.

3056

Tissue

Tis″sue (?), n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See Text.] 1. A woven fabric.2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; spec...

3057

Tissue (2)

Tis″sue, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Tissued (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tissuing.] To form tissue of; to interweave.Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. Bacon.

3058

Tissued

Tis″sued (?), a. Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper.And crested chiefs and tissued damesAssembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.

3059

Tit

Tit (?), n. 1. A small horse. Tusser.2. A woman; — used in contempt. Burton.3. A morsel; a bit. Halliwell.4. [OE.; cf. Icel. titter a tit or small bird. The word probably meant ...

3060

Titan

Ti″tan (?), a. Titanic.The Titan physical difficulties of his enterprise. I. Taylor.

3061

Titan crane

Ti″tan 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 ...

3062

Titanate

Ti″tan‐ate (?), n.(Chem.) A salt of titanic acid.

3063

Titanic

Ti‐tan″ic (?), a. Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient mythology; hence, enormous in size or strength; as, Titanic structures.

3064

Titanic (2)

Ti‐tan″ic (?), a. [Cf. F. titanique.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to titanium; derived from, or containing, titanium; specifically, designating those compounds of titanium in which...

3065

Titaniferous

Ti′tan‐if″er‐ous (?), a. [Titanium + -ferous: cf. F. titanifère.] Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite.

3066

Titanite

Ti″tan‐ite (?), n. [Cf. F. titanite; — so called from containing titanic acid.] (Min.) See Sphene.

3067

Titanitic

Ti′tan‐it″ic (?), a. Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic mineral.

3068

Titanium

Ti‐ta″ni‐um (?), 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, et...

3069

Titano-

Ti″tan‐o– (?). (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain double compounds of titanium with some other elements; as, titano-cyanide, titano-fluoride, t...

3070

Titanotherium

‖Ti′tan‐o‐the″ri‐um (?), n.(Paleon.) A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.

3071

Titanous

Ti″tan‐ous (?), a. Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that element has a lower valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.

3072

Titbit

Tit″bit′ (?), n. Same as Tidbit.

3073

Tith

Tith (?), a. [See Tight, a.] Tight; nimble.Of a good stirring strain too, she goes tith. Beau. & Fl.

3074

Tithable

Tith″a‐ble (?), a. Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.

3075

Tithe

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, Go...

3076

Tithe (2)

Tithe, a. Tenth.Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand. Shak.

3077

Tithe (3)

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.Ye tithe mint and rue. L...

3078

Tithe (4)

Tithe, v. i. Tp pay tithes. Tusser.