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.) 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 (n. 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.) [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.) 山雀 Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families {Paridae} and {Leiotrichidae}; a titmouse.
Tit (n.) 【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.
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.
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.
Tithe (a.) Tenth. [Obs.]
Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand. -- Shak.
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.
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.