Tiff (v. i.) To be in a pet.
Tiff (v. t.) To deck out; to dress.
Tiffany (n.) A species of gause, or very silk.
Tiffin (n.) A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.
Tiffish (a.) Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.
Tift (n.) A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.
Tig (n.) A game among children. See Tag.
Tig (n.) A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.
Tigella (n.) That part of an embryo which represents the young stem; the caulicle or radicle.
Tigelle (n.) Same as Tigella.
Tiger (n.) A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.
Tiger (n.) Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
Tiger (n.) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
Tiger (n.) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger.
Tiger (n.) A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
Tiger-eye (n.) A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite.
Tiger-foot (n.) Same as Tiger's-foot.
Tiger-footed (a.) Hastening to devour; furious.
Tigerine (a.) Tigerish; tigrine.
Tigerish (a.) Like a tiger; tigrish.
Tiger's-foot (n.) A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.
Tigh (n.) A close, or inclosure; a croft.
Tight () p. p. of Tie.
Tight (superl.) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot.
Tight (superl.) Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight.
Tight (superl.) Fitting close, or too close, to the body; as, a tight coat or other garment.
Tight (superl.) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
Tight (superl.) Close; parsimonious; saving; as, a man tight in his dealings.
Tight (superl.) Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; -- applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out.
Tight (superl.) Handy; adroit; brisk.
Tight (superl.) Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy.
Tight (superl.) Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; -- said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.
Tight (v. t.) To tighten.
Tightened (imp. & p. p.) of Tighten
Tightening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tighten
Tighten (v. t.) To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
Tightener (n.) That which tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening pulley.
Tighter (n.) A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer.
Tightly (adv.) In a tight manner; closely; nearly.
Tightness (n.) The quality or condition of being tight.
Tights (n. pl.) Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.
Tiglic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7CO2H (called also methyl crotonic acid), homologous with crotonic acid, and obtained from croton oil (from Croton Tiglium) as a white crystalline substance.
Tigress (n.) The female of the tiger.
Tigrine (a.) Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.
Tigrine (a.) Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America.
Tigrish (a.) Resembling a tiger; tigerish.
Tike (n.) A tick. See 2d Tick.
Tike (n.) A dog; a cur.
Tike (n.) A countryman or clown; a boorish person.
Tikus (n.) The bulau.
Til (prep. & conj.) See Till.
Tilburies (pl. ) of Tilbury
Tilbury (n.) A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover.
Tilde (n.) The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, –, /], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.
Tile (v. t.) To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.
Tile (n.) A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.
Tile (n.) A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.
Tile (n.) A plate of metal used for roofing.
Tile (n.) A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.
Tile (n.) A draintile.
Tile (n.) A stiff hat.
Tiled (imp. & p. p.) of Tile
Tiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tile
Tile (v. t.) To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
Tile (v. t.) Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.
Tile-drain (v. t.) To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.
Tilefish (n.) A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.
Tiler (n.) A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.
Tiler (n.) A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.
Tileries (pl. ) of Tilery
Tilery (n.) A place where tiles are made or burned; a tile kiln.
Tilestone (n.) A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.
Tilestone (n.) A tile of stone.
Tiliaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Tiliaceae) of which the linden (Tilia) is the type. The order includes many plants which furnish a valuable fiber, as the jute.
Tiling (n.) A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles.
Tiling (n.) Tiles, collectively.
Till (n.) A vetch; a tare.
Till (n.) A drawer.
Till (n.) A tray or drawer in a chest.
Till (n.) A money drawer in a shop or store.
Till (n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.
Till (n.) A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
Till (v. t.) To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week.
Till (conj.) As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until.
Tilled (imp. & p. p.) of Till
Tilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Till
Till (prep.) To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm.
Till (prep.) To prepare; to get.
Till (v. i.) To cultivate land.
Tillable (a.) Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.
Tillage (n.) The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.
Tillage (n.) A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.
Tillandsia (n.) A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.
Tiller (v. t.) One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
Tiller (n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
Tiller (n.) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
Tiller (n.) A young timber tree.
Tillered (imp. & p. p.) of Tiller
Tillering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tiller
Tiller (v. i.) To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.