Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 45
Tippler (n.) One who habitually indulges in the excessive use of spirituous liquors, whether he becomes intoxicated or not.
Tippler (n.) Someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities [syn: tippler, social drinker].
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. [Colloq.] -- Thackeray.
Tipsily (adv.) In a tipsy manner; like one tipsy.
Tipsiness (n.) The state of being tipsy.
Tipsiness (n.) A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol [syn: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety] [ant: soberness, sobriety].
Tipstaff (n. pl. ) of Tipstaff.
Tipstaff (n.) A staff tipped with metal. -- Bacon.
Tipstaff (n.) An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a constable. -- Macaulay.
Tipstaff (n.) Staff with a metal tip carried as a sign of office by e.g. a bailiff or constable.
Tipstaff. () An officer appointed by the marshal of the court of king's bench, to attend upon the judges with a kind of a rod or staff tipped with silver.
Tipstaff. () In the United States, the courts sometimes appoint an officer who is known by this name, whose duty it is to wait on the court and serve its process.
Tipsy (a.) 喝醉的，微醉的；不穩的，搖搖晃晃的；歪斜的，傾斜的 Being under the influence of strong drink; rendered weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk; fuddled; intoxicated.
Tipsy (a.) Staggering, as if from intoxication; reeling.
Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. -- Milton.
Tipsy (a.) Slightly intoxicated [syn: {potty}, {tiddly}, {tipsy}].
Tipsy (a.) Unstable and prone to tip as if intoxicated; "a tipsy boat".
Tiptoes (n. pl. ) of Tiptoe.
Tiptoe (n.) The end, or tip, of the toe.
He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes]. -- Chaucer.
Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by. -- Spenser.
To be a tiptoe, To stand a tiptoe, To stand on tiptoe or To be on tiptoe, To be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.
Tiptoe (a.) Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. -- Shak.
Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory. -- Byron.
Tiptoe (a.) Noiseless; stealthy. "With tiptoe step". -- Cowper.
Tiptoe mirth, The highest degree of mirth. -- Sir W. Scott.
Tiptoe (v. i.) To step or walk on tiptoe.
Tiptoe (adv.) On tiptoe or as if on tiptoe; "standing tiptoe".
Tiptoe (a.) Walking on the tips of ones's toes so as to make no noise; "moving with tiptoe steps".
Tiptoe (n.) The tip of a toe.
Tiptoe (v.) Walk on one's toes [syn: tiptoe, tip, tippytoe].
Tiptop (n.) The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything. [Colloq.]
Tiptop (a.) Very excellent; most excellent; perfect. [Colloq.] "Four tiptop voices." -- Gray. "Sung in a tiptop manner." -- Goldsmith.
Tiptop (a.) Of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops" [syn: ace, A-one, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch, top-notch, tops(p)].
Tiptop (n.) The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession" [syn: acme, height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, meridian, tiptop, top].
Tiptop (n.) The extreme top or summit.
Tipulae (n. pl. ) of Tipula.
Tipulas (n. pl. ) of Tipula.
Tipula (n.) (Zool.) 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.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the tipulas.
Tip-up (n.) (Zool.) The spotted sandpiper; -- called also teeter-tail. See under Sandpiper.
Compare: Collapsible
Collapsible (a.) Capable of collapsing or being collapsed; as, a collapsible boat. [Narrower terms: telescopic; tip-up] Also See: folded. Antonym: noncollapsible.
Syn: collapsable.
Tip-up (a.) Constructed so as to tip up or out of the way; "the little tip-up seat of the taxi".
Tirade (n.) A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. -- Quarterly Review.
Tirade (n.) A speech of violent denunciation [syn: tirade, philippic, broadside].
Tirailleur (n.) (Mil.) 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. [Obs.]
In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. -- Milton.
Tire (n.) Attire; apparel. [Archaic] "Having rich tire about you." -- Shak.
Tire (n.) A covering for the head; a headdress.
On her head she wore a tire of gold. -- Spenser.
Tire (n.) A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
Tire (n.) Furniture; apparatus; equipment. [Obs.] "The tire of war." -- Philips.
Tire (n.) A ring, hoop or band, as of rubber or metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear. In Britain, spelled tyre.
Note: The iron tire of a wagon wheel or cart wheel binds the fellies together. The tire of a locomotive or railroad-car wheel is a heavy hoop of iron or steel shrunk tightly upon an iron central part. The wheel of a bicycle or road vehicle (automobile, motorcyle, truck) has a tire of rubber, which is typically hollow inside and inflated with air to lessen the shocks from bumps on uneven roads.
Tire (v. t.) To adorn; to attire; to dress. [Obs.]
[Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head. -- 2 Kings ix. 30.
Tire (v. i.) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. [Obs.]
Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone. -- Shak.
Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits. -- B. Jonson.
Tire (v. i.) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything. [Obs.]
Thus made she her remove, And left wrath tiring on her son. -- Chapman.
Upon that were my thoughts tiring. -- Shak.
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. -- Shak.
Tired with toil, all hopes of safety past. -- Dryden.
To tire out, To weary or fatigue to exhaustion; to harass.
Syn: To jade; weary; exhaust; harass. See Jade.
Tire (n.) Hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air" [syn: tire, tyre].
Tire (v.) Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" [syn: tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade].
Tire (v.) Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue] [ant: freshen, refresh, refreshen].
Tire (v.) Deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength" [syn: run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire].
Tire (v.) Cause to be bored [syn: bore, tire] [ant: interest].
Tired (a.) Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
Tired (a.) Depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat" [ant: rested].
Tired (a.) Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn].
Tiredness (n.) The state of being tired, or weary.
Tiredness (n.) Temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work; "he was hospitalized for extreme fatigue"; "growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills"; "weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep" [syn: fatigue, weariness, tiredness].
Tireless (a.) Untiring.
Tireless (a.) Showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality; "an indefatigable advocate of equal rights"; "a
tireless worker"; "unflagging pursuit of excellence" [syn: indefatigable, tireless, unflagging, unwearying].
Tireless (a.) Characterized by hard work and perseverance [syn: hardworking, industrious, tireless, untiring].
Tireling (a.) Tired; fatigued. [Obs.]
Tiresome (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.
Tiresome (a.) So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is" -- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket" -- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome].
Tire-women (n. pl. ) of Tire-woman.
Tire-woman (n.) A lady's maid.
Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. -- Locke.
Tire-woman (n.) A dresser in a theater. -- Simmonds.
Tiring-house (n.) A tiring-room. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Tiring-room (n.) The room or place where players dress for the stage.
Tirma (n.) The oyster catcher. [Prov. Eng.]
Tiro (n.) [L.] 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.
The lark, that tirra lyra chants. -- Shak.
"Tirralira, " by the river, Sang Sir Lancelot. -- Tennyson.
Tirrit (n.) A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.
Tirwit (n.) (Zool.) The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]
'T is () A common contraction of it is.
Tisane (n.) [F.] (Med.) See Ptisan.
Tisane (n.) Infusion of e.g. dried or fresh flowers or leaves
Tisar (n.) (Glass Manuf.) The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven. -- Knight. Tisic
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.
Tisri, () The first month of the civil year, and the seventh of the ecclesiastical year. See ETHANIM (1 Kings 8:2). Called in the Assyrian inscriptions Tasaritu, i.e. "beginning".
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.
A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. -- Dryden.
In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials. -- Milton.
Tissue (n.) (Biol.) 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.
Note: The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing in structure and function, which go to make up an organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc.
Tissue (n.) Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. -- A. J. Balfour.
Tissue paper, Very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.
Tissued (imp. & p. p.) of Tissue.
Tissuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tissue.
Tissue (v. t.) To form tissue of; to interweave.
Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. -- Bacon.
Tissue (n.) Part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function
Tissue (n.) A soft thin (usually translucent) paper [syn: tissue, tissue paper].
Tissue (v.) Create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles" [syn: weave, tissue].
Tissued (a.) Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. -- Cowper.
And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. -- T. Warton.
Tit (n.) [古] 小馬；劣馬 [C] A small horse. -- Tusser.
Tit (n.) 女人 A woman; -- used in contempt. -- Burton.
Tit (n.) 一口；少量 A morsel; a bit. -- Halliwell.
Tit (n.) (Zool.) 山雀 Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families {Paridae} and {Leiotrichidae}; a titmouse.
Tit (n.) (Zool.) 【鳥】鷚；草地鷚 The European meadow pipit; a titlark.
{Ground tit}. (Zool.) See {Wren tit}, under {Wren}.
{Hill tit} (Zool.), Any one of numerous species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to {Siva}, {Milna}, and allied genera.
{Tit babbler} (Zool.), Any one of several species of small East Indian and Asiatic timaline birds of the genus {Trichastoma}.
{Tit for tat}. [Probably for tip for tap. See {Tip} A slight blow.] An equivalent; retaliation.
{Tit thrush} (Zool.), Any one of numerous species of Asiatic and East Indian birds belonging to {Suthora} and allied genera. In some respects they are intermediate between the thrushes and titmice.
Titmouse (n.; pl. {Titmice}) (Zool.) 山雀類的小鳥 Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to {Parus} and allied genera; -- called also {tit}, and {tomtit}.
Note: The blue titmouse ({Parus coeruleus}), the marsh titmouse ({Parus palustris}), the crested titmouse ({Parus cristatus}), the great titmouse ({Parus major}), and the long tailed titmouse ({Aegithalos caudatus}), are the best-known European species. See {Chickadee}.
Tit (n.) 奶頭 Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman [syn: {breast}, {bosom}, {knocker}, {boob}, {tit}, {titty}].
Tit (n.) 奶頭 The small projection of a mammary gland [syn: {nipple}, {mammilla}, {mamilla}, {pap}, {teat}, {tit}].
Tit (n.) 山雀類的小鳥 Small insectivorous birds [syn: {titmouse}, {tit}].
Titan (a.) Titanic.
The Titan physical difficulties of his enterprise. -- I. Taylor.
Titan (n.) A person of exceptional importance and reputation [syn: colossus, behemoth, giant, heavyweight, titan].
Titan (n.) (Greek mythology) Any of the primordial giant gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus; the Titans were offspring of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth).
Titan (n.) The largest of the satellites of Saturn; has a hazy nitrogen atmosphere.
Titanate (n.) (Chem.) 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 (prop. n.) The name of a large ocean liner which hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage from England to New York in 1912, with the loss of hundreds of lives. Also, the name of several movies made about the incident.
Titanic (a.) (Chem.) 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.
Titanic acid (Chem.), A white amorphous powder, Ti(OH)4, obtained by decomposing certain titanates; -- called also normal titanic acid. By extension, any one of a series of derived acids, called also metatitanic acid, polytitanic acid, etc.
Titanic iron ore. (Min.) See Menaccanite.
Titanic (a.) Of great force or power.
Titaniferous (a.) Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite.
Titanite (n.) (Min.) See Sphene.
Titanitic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic mineral.
Titanium (n.) (Chem.) 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.
Titanium (n.) A light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite [syn: titanium, Ti, atomic number 22].
Titanium
Symbol: Ti
Atomic number: 22
Atomic weight: 47.90
White metallic transition element. Occurs in numerous minerals. Used in strong, light corrosion-resistant alloys. Forms a passive oxide coating when exposed to air. First discovered by Gregor in 1789.
Titano- () (Chem.) 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.) (Paleon.) 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.
Tidbit (n.) A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel. [Written also titbit.]
Titbit (n.) Same as Tidbit. [Chiefly Brit.]
Titbit (n.) A small tasty bit of food [syn: choice morsel, tidbit, titbit].
Tith (a.) Tight; nimble. [Obs.]
Of a good stirring strain too, she goes tith. -- Beau. & Fl.
Tithable (a.) Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.
Tithe (a.) Tenth. [Obs.]
Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand. -- Shak.
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.
The tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil. -- Neh. xiii. 5.
Note: Tithes are called personal when accuring from labor, art, trade, and navigation; predial, when issuing from the earth, as hay, wood, and fruit; and mixed, when accuring from beaste fed from the ground. -- Blackstone.
Tithe (n.) Hence, a small part or proportion. -- Bacon.
Great tithes, Tithes of corn, hay, and wood.
Mixed tithes, Tithes of wool, milk, pigs, etc.
Small tithes, Personal and mixed tithes.
Tithe commissioner, One of a board of officers appointed by the government for arranging propositions for commuting, or compounding for, tithes. [Eng.] -- Simmonds.
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.
Ye tithe mint and rue. -- Luke xi. 42.
Tithe (v. i.) Tp pay tithes. [R.] -- Tusser.
Tithe (n.) A levy of one tenth of something.
Tithe (n.) An offering of a tenth part of some personal income.
Tithe (v.) Exact a tithe from; "The church was tithed".
Tithe (v.) Levy a tithe on (produce or a crop); "The wool was tithed".
Tithe (v.) Pay one tenth of; pay tithes on, especially to the church; "He tithed his income to the Church".
Tithe (v.) Pay a tenth of one's income, especially to the church; "Although she left the church officially, she still tithes".
Tithe, () A tenth of the produce of the earth consecrated and set apart for special purposes. The dedication of a tenth to God was recognized as a duty before the time of Moses. Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek (Gen. 14:20; Heb. 7:6); and Jacob vowed unto the Lord and said, "Of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee".
The first Mosaic law on this subject is recorded in Lev. 27:30-32. Subsequent legislation regulated the destination of the tithes (Num. 18:21-24, 26-28; Deut. 12:5, 6, 11, 17; 14:22, 23). The paying of the tithes was an important part of the Jewish religious worship. In the days of Hezekiah one of the first results of the reformation of religion was the eagerness with which the people brought in their tithes (2 Chr. 31:5, 6). The neglect of this duty was sternly rebuked by the prophets (Amos 4:4; Mal. 3:8-10). It cannot be affirmed that the Old Testament law of tithes is binding on the Christian Church, nevertheless the principle of this law remains, and is incorporated in the gospel (1 Cor. 9:13, 14); and if, as is the case, the motive that ought to prompt to liberality in the cause of religion and of the service of God be greater now than in Old Testament times, then Christians outght to go beyond the ancient Hebrew in consecrating both themselves and their substance to God.
Every Jew was required by the Levitical law to pay three tithes of his property (1) one tithe for the Levites; (2) one for the use of the temple and the great feasts; and (3) one for the poor of the land.
Tither (n.) One who collects tithes. -- Milton.
Tither (n.) One who pays tithes. [R.] -- Chaucer.
Tither (n.) Someone who pays tithes.
Tithing (n.) The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe.
To take tithing of their blood and sweat. -- Motley.
Tithing (n.) (O. Eng. Law) 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. -- Blackstone.
Tithing, () Eng. law. Formerly a district containing ten men with their families. In each tithing there was a tithing man whose duty it was to keep the peace, as a constable now is bound to do. St. Armand, in his Historical Essay on the Legislative Power of England, p. 70, expresses, an opinion that the tithing was composed not of ten common families, but of ten families of lords of a manor.