TIRESOME
TI'RESOME, adjective Wearisome; fatiguing; exhausting the strength; as a tiresome day's work; a tiresome journey.1. Tedious; exhausting the patience; as a tiresome discourse. Th...
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TIRESOMENESS
TI'RESOMENESS, noun The act or quality of tiring or exhausting strength or patience; wearisomeness; tediousness; as the tiresomeness of work or of a dull speaker.
TIREWOMAN
TI'REWOMAN, noun [tire and woman.] A woman whose occupation is to make head dresses.
TIRING
TI'RING, participle present tense Wearying; fatiguing; exhausting strength or patience.
TIRING-HOUSE
TI'RING-HOUSETI'RING-ROOM, noun The room or place where players dress for the stage.
TIRING-ROOM
TI'RING-ROOM, n. The room or place where players dress for the stage.
TIRWIT
TIR'WIT, noun A bird. [Latin vanellus.]N.B. The lapwing is called teewit in Scotland, (Ed Encyc.) and the lapwing is the vanellus.
TIS
'TIS, a contraction of it is.
TISIC
TIS'ICTIS'ICAL, adjective s as z. [for phthisic, phthisical.] Consumptive.TIS'IC, noun s as z. [supra.] Consumption; morbid waste.
TISRI
TIS'RI, noun The first Hebrew month of the civil year, and the seventh of the ecclesiastical; answering to a part of our September and a part of October.
TISSUE
TISSUE, noun tish'u.1. Cloth interwoven with gold or silver, or with figured colors.A robe of tissue stiff with golden wire.2. In anatomy, texture or organization of parts. The ...
TISSUED
TIS'SUED, participle passive Interwoven; formed with variegated work.
TISSUING
TIS'SUING, participle present tense Interweaving; forming with variegated work.TIT, noun A small horse, in contempt; a woman, in contempt; a small bird; a titmouse or tomtit.
TIT
TIT, noun The projecting part of the female breast; the dug of a beast; the pap of a woman; the nipple. It consists of an elastic erectile substance, embracing the lactiferous d...
TITAN
TI'TANTITA'NIANTITANIF'EROUS, adjective [titan or titanium, and Latin fero.]Producing titanium; as titaniferous pyrites.
TITANITE
TI'TANITE, noun An ore or oxyd of titanium, commonly of a reddish brown color, when it is opake; it occurs also in prismatic crystals terminated by pyramids of a blood red color...
TITANITIC
TITANIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to titanium.
TITANIUM
TITA'NIUM, noun In mineralogy, a metal of modern discovery, and of a dark copper color, first found in Cornwall in England. It occurs in different states of oxydation or intermi...
TITBIT
TIT'BIT, noun A tender piece. [See Tidbit.]
TITHABLE
TI'THABLE, adjective Subject to the payment of tithes.
TITHE
TITHE, noun The tenth part of any thing; but appropriately, the tenth part of the increase annually arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their ...
TITHE-FREE
TI'THE-FREE, adjective Exempt from the payment of tithes.
TITHE-PAYING
TI'THE-PAYING, adjective Paying tithes; subjected to pay tithes.
TITHED
TI'THED, participle passive Taxed a tenth.
TITHER
TI'THER, noun One who collects tithes.
TITHING
TI'THING, participle present tense Levying a tax on, to the amount of a tenth.TI'THING, noun A decennary; a number or company of ten householders, who dwelling near each other, ...
TITHINGMAN
TI'THINGMAN, noun [tithing and man.]1. The chief man of a tithing; a headborrough; one elected to preside over the tithing.2. A peace officer; an under constable.3. In New Engla...