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.

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

Tp pay tithes.

One who collects tithes.

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

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

Tightly; nimbly.

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

The state or property of being tithonic; actinism.

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

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

Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias.

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.

The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation.

Tending or serving to titillate, or tickle; tickling.

Any one of numerous small spring birds belonging to Anthus, Corydalla, and allied genera, which resemble the true larks in color and in having a very long hind claw; especially, the European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

To call by a title; to name; to entitle.

The page of a book which contains it title.

Having or bearing a title.

Not having a title or name; without legitimate title.

A large truncated cone of refined sugar.

The hedge sparrow; -- called also titlene. Its nest often chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs.

The blue titmouse.

Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to Parus and allied genera; -- called also tit, and tomtit.

To analyse, or determine the strength of, by means of standard solutions. Cf. Standardized solution, under Solution.

Standardized; determined or analyzed by titration; as, titrated solutions.

The act or process of titrating; a substance obtained by titrating.

To seesaw. See Teeter.

See Teeter.

The whimbrel.

Titmouse.

To dress or smarten up; to spruce.

A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.

To talk idly; to prate.

The act or habit of parting idly or gossiping.

The three-spined stickleback.

The act of tittuping; lively, gay, or restless behavior or gait; a prance or caper.

Given to tittuping; gay; lively; prancing; also, shaky; unsteady.

A little teat; a nipple.

To stumble.

The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling.

A titulary.

The quality or state of being titular.

In a titular manner; nominally; by title only.

Consisting in a title; titular.

Having a title.

To mark with tiver.

A game resembling bagatelle, played on a special oblong board or table (Tivoli board or Tivoli table), which has a curved upper end, a set of numbered compartments at the lower end, side alleys, and the surface studded with pins and sometimes furnished with numbered depressions or cups.

With great speed; -- a huntsman's word or sound.

See Ulexite.

Thin Layer Chromatography. An initialism.

The Indians of a seafaring group of tribes of southern Alaska comprising the Koluschan stock. Previous to deterioration from contact with the whites they were the foremost traders of the northwest. They built substantial houses of cedar adorned with totem poles, and were expert stone carvers and copper workers. Slavery, the potlatch, and the use of immense labrets were characteristic. Many now (1913) work in the salmon industry.

The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words; as, in what place soever, for whatsoever place.

The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival, motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it, access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward; -- opposed to from.

An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under All, adv.

To beat thoroughly or severely.

To break completely; to break in pieces.

To burst or break in pieces.

The present day.

Bustle; stir; commotion; ado.

A lean-to. See Lean-to.

A name added, for the sake of distinction, to one's surname, or used instead of it.

To rend in pieces.

Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid.

A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady.

Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species (Batrachus tau) is very common in shallow water. Called also oyster fish, and sapo. The angler. A swellfish.

An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted.

The golden plover.

Like a toad.

A small toad.

A local name for the igneous rocks of Derbyshire, England; -- said by some to be derived from the German todter stein, meaning dead stone, that is, stone which contains no ores.

A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.

To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.