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Tineman

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

Tinet

Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.

Ting

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

Ting Thing

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

Tinge

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.

Tinger

One who, or that which, tinges.

Tingid

Of or pertaining to the genus Tingis.

Tingis

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

Tingle

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

Tink

A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.

Tinker

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

Tinkle

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

Tinkling

A tinkle, or succession of tinkles.

Tinman

A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tinware.

Tinned

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

Tinnen

Made or consisting of tin.

Tinner

One who works in a tin mine.

Tinning

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

Tinnitus

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

Tinny

Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.

Tinsel

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

Tint

To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

Tintamar

A hideous or confused noise; an uproar.

Tintinnabulous

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

Tintinnabulum

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

Tinto

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

Tintometer

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

Tinware

Articles made of tinned iron.

Tiny

Very small; little; puny.

Tip

A light touch or blow; a tap.

Tip-up

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

Tipcart

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

Tipcat

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.

Tipper

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

Tippet

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

Tipping

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

Tipple

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

Tippled

Intoxicated; inebriated; tipsy; drunk.

Tippler

One who keeps a tippling-house.

Tippling-house

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

Tipsily

In a tipsy manner; like one tipsy.

Tipster

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.

Tipstock

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

Tipsy

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

Tiptoe

To step or walk on tiptoe.

Tiptop

Very excellent; most excellent; perfect.

Tipula

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.

Tipulary

Of or pertaining to the tipulas.

Tirade

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

Tirailleur

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.

Tire

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.

Tire iron

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.

Tired

Weary; fatigued; exhausted.

Tiresome

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

Tiring-room

The room or place where players dress for the stage.

Tirl

To quiver; to vibrate; to veer about.

Tironian

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

Tirralirra

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

Tirrit

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

Tisar

The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven.

Tisic

Consumption; phthisis. See Phthisis.

Tisri

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

Tissue

To form tissue of; to interweave.

Tissued

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

Tit

A small horse.

titanic

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.

Titanic

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.

Titaniferous

Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite.

Titanitic

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

Titanium

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.

Titanotherium

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

Titanous

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

Tithable

Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.

Tither

One who collects tithes.

Tithing

The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe.

Tithingman

The chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.

Tithonic

Of, pertaining to, or denoting, those rays of light which produce chemical effects; actinic.

Tithonicity

The state or property of being tithonic; actinism.

Tithonographic

Of, relating to, or produced by, the chemical action of rays of light; photographic.

Tithonometer

An instrument or apparatus for measuring or detecting tithonicity; an actinometer.

Tithymal

Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias.

Titi

A tree of the southern United States (Cliftonia monophylla) having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers succeeded by one-seeded drupes; -- called also black titi, buckwheat tree, and ironwood.

Titillate

To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather.

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