English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
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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.
Tissue
(v. t.)
To form tissue of; to interweave.