A thrust, as with a lance.

A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on.

Same as Tip-up.

A yard or place for tilting.

One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.

The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth.

The act of one who tilts; a tilt.

A kind of carriage. See Whiskey.

The blue titmouse.

Of or pertaining to the genus Timalus or family Timalidae, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls.

A kettledrum. See Tymbal.

A seasoned preparation, as of chicken, lobster, cheese, or fish, cooked in a drum-shaped mold; also, a pastry case, usually small, filled with a cooked mixture.

To light on a tree.

Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house.

The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.

The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.

A small tree.

A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine.

Work made of timbers.

The crest on a coat of arms.

A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity.

Sung to the sound of the timbrel.

A city on the southern edge of the Sahara, in central Africa, some nine miles from the Niger. It is about three miles around, and was formerly surrounded by a clay wall. Timbuctoo has a large caravan trade, gold dust being the most important export. The people are negroes, Tuariks, Mandingoes, Arabs, Foolahs, etc. The city was founded in the 12th century, but was first seen by a white man in 1826. Timbuctoo now belongs to France, and a railroad is proposed to connect Algiers, Timbuctoo and Senegambia. Population, 13,000 (1893), greatly increased during the trading season from November to January.

A tambourine.

To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.

Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.

A tabular statement of the time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.

Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early.

A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.

Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.

In a timeless manner; unseasonably.

The quality or state of being timely; seasonableness; opportuneness.

A timeserver.

Early; soon; in good season.

A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.

Timely; seasonable.

A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.

One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver.

A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.

Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.

One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.

An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.

Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy.

The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.

Timid.

A performer who keeps good time.

Same as 1st Timber.

A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive. A state in which honors are distributed according to a rating of property.

Belonging to, or constituted by, timocracy.

A helmsman.

Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage.

Easily frightened; timorous.

A kind of grass (Phleum pratense) with long cylindrical spikes; -- called also herd's grass, in England, cat's-tail grass, and meadow cat's-tail grass. It is much prized for fodder. See Illustration in Appendix.

See Tamerlane.

Timely; seasonable.

See Tympano.

See Tamerlane.

To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.

A division of struthious birds, including the tinamous.

Any one of several species of South American birds belonging to Tinamus and allied genera.

A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass.

To color or stain; to imblue; to tint.

Of or relating to color or colors; imparting a color; as, tinctorial matter.

To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.

To kindle.

A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain.

Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.

A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.

A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.

Any species of Tinea, or of the family Tineidae, which includes numerous small moths, many of which are injurious to woolen and fur goods and to cultivated plants. Also used adjectively.

Furnished with tines; as, a three-tined fork.

Same as Tinean.

An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night.

Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.

The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.

In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly; -- used, esp. in composition, in titles of such bodies. See Legislature, Norway.

A degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste.

Having the power to tinge.

One who, or that which, tinges.

Of or pertaining to the genus Tingis.

A genus of small hemipterous insects which injure trees by sucking the sap from the leaves. See Illustration in Appendix.

To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound.

A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.

To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.

The act or work of a tinker.

After the manner of a tinker.

A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.

The common guillemot.

A tinker.

A tinkle, or succession of tinkles.

A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tinware.

The crappie.

Covered, or plated, with tin; as, a tinned roof; tinned iron.

Made or consisting of tin.

One who works in a tin mine.

Emitting a clear sound.

The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like.

A ringing, whistling, or other imaginary noise perceived in the ears; -- called also tinnitus aurium.

The blue titmouse.

Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.

To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.

In a showy and cheap manner.

One who works in tin; a tinner.

Cassiterite.

To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

A hideous or confused noise; an uproar.

A certain old dance.

The wren.

Having or making the sound of a bell; tinkling.

A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the tinkling of a bell; having a tinkling sound; tintinnabular.

A bell; also, a set or combination of bells or metal plates used as a musical instrument or as a toy.

A red Madeira wine, wanting the high aroma of the white sorts, and, when old, resembling tawny port.

An apparatus for the determination of colors by comparison with arbitrary standards; a colorimeter.

Same as Ferrotype.

Articles made of tinned iron.

Very small; little; puny.

A light touch or blow; a tap.

The spotted sandpiper; -- called also teeter-tail. See under Sandpiper.

A cart so constructed that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load.