tightness ( gh silent)

[Eng. tight; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being tight; closene , imperviousne , compactne . 2. Tautne ; as, the tightne of a string. 3. Closene , firmne . "The bones are inflexible; which arises from the great ne of the number of corpuscles that compose them, and the firmne and tightne of their union." - Woodward : On Fo ils. 4. The quality or state of being straightened or stringent; stringency, severity, closene , parsimonious ne . 5. The state of being slightly intoxicated; tips i ne . *6. Capability, dexterity, adroitne , neatne . tights, ( gh silent), s. pl. [TIGHT, a.] 1. Tight-fitting underclothing worn by actors, acrobats, dancers, or the like. "Frozen in their tights or chilled to the bone in the midst of their carnivalesque revelry." - London Daily Telegraph. *2. Small clothes; breeches. "His elevated position revealing those tights and gaiters, which, had they clothed an ordinary man, might have pa ed without observation." - Dickens: Pickwick , ch. i. tig-lic, a. [Mod. Lat. (croton) tigl (ium); -ic.] Contained in or derived from croton-oil. tiglic-acid, s. Chem.: C5H8O2=CH3CH:C(CH3) COOH. Methyl crotonic acid. Found in croton-oil, and prepared synthetically by the action of phosphorus chloride on ethylic eth-meth-oxa-late. It crystallizes in triclinic prisms, melts at 63°, and boils at 198°.