Tilia (tilia)

[NL. (Tournefort, 1700), black variety of native cuprous oxid, or cuprite. used, especially in Ru ia, to make shoes, cords, nets, and tile-oven (til'uv"n), n. which tiles are baked. tile-pin (til'pin), n. A pin, usually of hard wood, pa ing through a hole in a tile into the lath, etc., to secure it to the roof. tiler (ti'ler), n. [Formerly also tyler, And that the Tylers of the towne compelle not straunge tylers to serue at their rule. And that they kepe no parliament; and that euery tyler marke his tyle. English Gilds (E. È. T. S.), p. 374. 2. One who lays tiles, or whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles. Nature therefore has played the tiler , and given it (the head] a most curious covering; speak more proper by she has thatched it all over, and that thatching is hair Dekker, Gull's Hornbook, p. 80. coarse cloth, and exported, under the name of Ru ia matting, to be used in packing, tying plants, etc. The soft pale wood is much used for interior finish, cabinetwork, turnery, woodenware, and carving, and especially in the manufacture of pianos and harps. The leaves are given as food to cattle in parts of Europe; the flowers yield a distilled oil called lime - flower oil, used in perfumery; their infusion is a domestic European remedy for indigestion and hysteria. The trunk sometimes reaches great size, especially in central Europe. The linden of Fribourg, planted in 1476 to commemorate the battle of Morat, was in 1830 nearly 14 feet in diameter; another, near Morat, 38 feet in girth, was then estimated to be 864 years old. Many species are planted as shade-trees, espe cially the three species of western Europe, all sometimes included under T. Europe a. Of these, T. vulgar is, a favorite avenue tree in Germany for nearly three centuries, is the linden commonly planted in Berlin, in England, and in the eastern United States. T. ulmifolia (T. cordata and T. parvifolia ), a small-leaved species, is the common linden of northern Europe, and is probably the only one native in England. In cultivation it is usually small; but one at Uckermark in Germany reaches nearly 23 feet in girth. T. platy phyllos, with yellowish-green leaves and four-ribbed fruit-common in southern Europe, and parent of most of the peculiar varieties of cultivation is the linden of Versailles and the Tuileries gardens. Three or four species are natives of southeastern Europe, of which T. petiolar is is remarkable for pendulous branches and elongated leafstalks, and T. argentea, the silver lime, for its freedom The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-0422.png:[blocks in formation] Brunswick and the A iniboine to Georgia and Texas, and often reaches 4 feet in diameter and 60 or sometimes 130 feet in height. Its wood, known as whitewood, or sometimes, from a faint reddish tinge, as red ba wood, is much used for soft woodwork, and especially as a source of paper pulp, and of packing-material for furniture. The other American species, T. pubescens and T. heterophylla, are principally southern, and produce a globose fruit. The latter species, known as bee - tree, white ba wood, or wahoo, is much admired for the beauty of its leaves, whitened and silvery underneath. Its young branches are fed to cattle in winter.