tid, tidie, tydie

& s. [English tide = time; -; Dutch tijdig =timely; Dan. & Sw. tidig; Ger. zeitig.] A. As adjective : *1. Being in proper time or season; seasonable. "If weather be faire and tidie , thy grain Make speed i lie carriage, for feare of a raine." Tu er: Husbandry; August. 1. A fastening, a knot; espec., a knot such as is made by looping or binding with a cord, ribbon or the like. "A smart little tie in his smart cravat." Barham: In golds by Legends; The Execution . 2. Something used to tie, fasten, knot, or bind things together; spec if.: (2) The knot or bunch of hair at the back of old- fashioned wigs; the string binding such a knot. 3. Something which binds or unites morally or legally; a bond; an obligation legal or moral. "The Patriarchs had a religious care to recall the pro- pinquity which was dividing and separating too fast; and as it were, to bind it by the ties of marriage, and recall it when it was flying away." -Bp. Taylor: Rule of Conscience, bk. ii., ch. ii. "The steed being tied unto a tree." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 263. 2. To knot; to knit; as, to tie a knot. 3. To unite, so as not to be easily parted; to fasten, to hold. IMG:content-1116.png:[blocks in formation] straining-piece, which acts to keep objects apart, and is subject to a compre ing force. An angle tie or brace is a framing on the inner side of an angle, for the purpose of tying the work together. 2. Mining : A support for the roof, attached to a rib. 3. Music : A curved line placed over two or more notes in the same position on the stave. The tie is also called a bind, and the curved line, when used over notes representing different sounds, is called a slur. [BIND.] IMG:content-1117.png:[blocks in formation] "With so much judgment play'd his part, He had him both in tierce and quart." Somerville : Fable 2. 4. Her.: A term for the field when divided into three equal parts of different tinctures. 5. Music : IMG:content-1118.png:[blocks in formation] *tiff (1), v . t . & i. [TIFF, 8. ] A. Trans .: To sip, to drink. "He tiff'd his punch and went to rest." Combe: Dr. Syntax , i. v. B. In trans.: To be in a pet. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, tiff *tiff (2), v . t . [O. Fr. tifer , atifer =to deck, to trim, to adorn.] To deck out; to dre . "Her desire of tisfing out her mistre in a killing attire." Search: Light of Nature , vol. i., pt. 1., ch. v. tiff-an-, *tiff-an-ie, *tiff-en-ay, subst. [Prob. connected with tiff (2), v.] Fabric : A kind of thin silk gauze. "The invention of that fine silke, tiffanie , sarcenet, and cypres, which instead of apparell to cover and hide, shew women naked through them."- P . Holland : Pliny , bk. xi., ch. xxii. IMG:content-1119.png:[blocks in formation] tige, s. [Fr.=a stalk.] 1. Arch .: The shaft of a column from the astragal to the capital. 2. Ordn .: A pin at the base of the breech in the Thou venin system of firearms, for expanding the base of the ball; an anvil or support for the cap or primer in a central-fire cartridge. ti-gel-lạ, ti-gěl'-lūs, s . [Mod. Lat.] [TIGELLE.] ti-gel-late, a. [Mod. Lat. tigell (a); Eng. suff. -ate.J Bot.: Having a short stalk, as the plumule of a bean. ti-gělle', s. (Fr., dim in. from tige (q. v.).] Bot.: The caulicle or neck of an ovule. ti-ger, *ti-gre, *ty-ger, *ty-gre, s . [Fr. tigre , from Lat. tigrem , acc us. of tigris ; Greek tigris = a tiger, from O. Pers. tighri =an arrow, from tighra = sharp, pointed, whence Pers. tir = an arrow, also the river Tigris, from its rapidity.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit.: In the same sense as II. 2. 2. Figuratively : *(1) A person of a fierce, bloodthirsty disposition. *(2) A di olute, swaggering dandy; a ruffling blade; a swaggerer, a hector, a bully, a mohawk. ( Thackeray : Pen dennis, ch. xix.) (3) A boy in livery whose special duty is to attend on his master while driving out; a young male servant or groom. " Tiger Tim was clean of limb, His boots were polished, his jacket was trim." Barham: In golds by Legends; The Execution. (4) A kind of growl or screech after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger . (U.S. Colloq .) II. Technically : 1. Zool .: Felis tigris (* Tigris regal is , Gray), the largest and most dangerous of the Felidse, exceed ing the Lion slightly in size and far surpa ing him in destructivene . It is purely Asiatic in its habitat, but is not by any means confined to the hot plains of India, though there it reaches its highest development both of size and coloration. It is found in the Him a lay as at certain seasons, at a high altitude, and in 1887 one was captured near Wladiwos. tock, in Siberia, and another in the Caucasus, near the Black Sea. ( Nature , Nov. 10, 1887.) It is met with to the eastward throughout Chinese Tartary, as far north, it is said, as the island of Saghalien, where the winter is very severe. According to Fayrer ( Royal Tiger of Bengal , p. 30), the full grown male Indian tiger is from nine to twelve, and the tigre from eight to ten feet from the nose to the tip of the tail, and from thirty-six to forty-two inches high at the shoulder. It is the only member of the family ornamented with cro stripes on the body-a scarce type of coloration among mammals. These cro stripes help to render the animal inc on spicuous among the reeds in which it commonly hides itself, and where it would be seen with comparative ease if marked with spots or longitudinal bands. The ground color of the skin is rufous or tawny yellow, shaded with white on the ventral sur face. This is varied with vertical black stripes or boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, 4093 elongated ovals and brindlings. On the face and posterior surface of the ears the white markings are peculiarly well developed. The depth of the ground color and the intensity of the black markings vary, according to the age and condition of the animal. In old tigers the ground becomes more tawny, of a lighter shade, and the black markings better defined. The ground coloring is more dusky in young animals. Although po e ed of immense strength and ferocity, the tiger rarely attacks an armed man, unle provoked, though often carrying off women and children. When pre ed by hunger or enfeebled by age and incapable of dealing with larger prey, like buffaloes, the tiger prowls around villages, and, having once tasted human flesh, becomes a confirmed man-eater (q. v.). In a Government report it is stated that "one tigre caused the desertion of thirteen villages, and 250 square miles of coun try were thrown out of cultivation." The natives destroy tigers by traps, pitfalls, spring-guns, and poisoned arrows, but the orthodox method of keep ing down their numbers as pursued by Europe ans is to employ natives to beat the bush while the game, when started, is shot by the sportsmen seated on elephants. The sport is exciting, but dangerous; for a wounded tiger has been known to spring upon an elephant and to inflict serious wounds on the driver and occupants of the howdah, before it could be despatched. When taken young the tiger is capable of being tamed. The pair of adult animals which were presented to the Zoological Society of London by the Guicowar of Baroda, used to be led about by their attendants in the streets of that city; and Sir James Outram once po e ed a male which lived at large his quarters, and occasionally accompanied him in boat excursions. The Tiger was known to the ancients; frequent mention of it occurs in both Greek and Latin writers, and like the Lion, it was habitually seen in the Games of the Circus. No reference is made to it, however, in the Bible. The Jaguar ( Felis onca) is sometimes called the American Tiger, and Felis macro cel is , from the Malayan Peninsula, the Clouded Tiger. 2. Sugar : A tank having a perforated bottom, through which the mola es escape. To buck (or fight ) the tiger : To gamble. ( Slang .) tiger-beetles, s. pl. Entom.: The family Cicindelide. [CICINDELA.] tiger-bird, s. Ornithology: 1. Any species of the genus Capito; spec if., Capito cayanus . "On all the ripe fig-trees in the forest you see the bird called the small Tiger - bird. The throat and part of the head are a bright red; the breast and belly have black spots on a yellow ground; the wings are a dark green, black, and white; and the rump and tail black and green."-Water ton: Wanderings; Second Journey, ch. iii. 2. Any individual of the genus Tigrisoma (q. v.). ( Water ton : Wanderings. Explanatory Index by J. G. Wood.) tiger-bittern, s. Ornith.: Tigrisoma tigrinum . So called because of its reddish-brown color, marked with black, somewhat like a tiger. tiger-cat, s. Zool .: A popular name for any of the smaller felines, especially when the disposition of the darker coloration of the skin resembles that of the tiger (q. v.).