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

Crude native borax, formerly imported from Thibet. It was once the chief source of boric compounds. Cf. Borax.

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.

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

A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air.

A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper.

A cape, or scarflike garment for covering the neck, or the neck and shoulders, -- usually made of fur, cloth, or other warm material.

A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.

An apparatus by which loaded cars are emptied by tipping; also, the place where such tipping is done.

Intoxicated; inebriated; tipsy; drunk.

One who keeps a tippling-house.

A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises.

To make tipsy.

In a tipsy manner; like one tipsy.

The state of being tipsy.

A staff tipped with metal.

One who makes a practice of giving or selling tips, or private hints or information, esp. for use in gambling upon the probable outcome of events, as horse races.

The detachable or movable fore part of a gunstock, lying beneath the barrel or barrels, and forming a hold for the left hand.

Being under the influence of strong drink; rendered weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk; fuddled; intoxicated.

To step or walk on tiptoe.

Very excellent; most excellent; perfect.

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.

Of or pertaining to the tipulas.

A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.

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.

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.

a short steel bar with one end flattened so as to form a blade, used to remove rubber tires from the rim of a wheel.

A lady's maid.

Weary; fatigued; exhausted.

The state of being tired, or weary.

Untiring.

Tired; fatigued.

Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.

A tiring-room.

The room or place where players dress for the stage.

To quiver; to vibrate; to veer about.

The oyster catcher.

Same as Tyro.

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.

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.

To form tissue of; to interweave.

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

A small horse.

Titanic.

A salt of titanic acid.

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.

The name of a large ocean liner which hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage from England to New York in 1912, with the loss of hundreds of lives. Also, the name of several movies made about the incident.

Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite.

See Sphene.

Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic mineral.

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.

A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.

Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that element has a lower valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.

Same as Tidbit.

Tight; nimble.