English English Dictionary

Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.

A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark or a horn.

A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.

The lapwing.

See Ptisan.

The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven.

Alt. of Tisical

Consumption; phthisis. See Phthisis.

Consumptive, phthisical.

Consumptive, phthisical.

The seventh month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of September with a part of October.

A woven fabric.

A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.

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.

Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.

To form tissue of; to interweave.

of Tissue

Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers.

of Tissue

A small horse.