tydy

[TIDY, 8.] Some unidentified kind of singing-bird. (Drayton: Polyolbion, s. 3.) tye, s. [TIE, 8.] *I. Ord. Lang.: A tie, a bond, a fastening. II. Technically: 1. Mining : An inclined trough for separating ore by means of a flowing stream of water. The slimes are allowed to flow in a thin wide stream upon the upper part of the trough, then disturbed by a broom, and collected, according to relative weight and quality, at different parts of the length of the trough. The sorts are known as heads, middles, and tails; the first going to pile, the second is retyed, the third is refuse. 2. Naut .: A rope by which a yard is hoisted. It pa es through the mast; one end is attached to the middle of the yard, and the other end is hooked to a purchase composed of the tye-block and fly-block, by which the hoisting is effected. tye-block, 8. Naut.: An iron-bound swiveled block, bolted into an eye in the hoop round the yard; through it the tye for hoisting the yard is rove. IMG:content-1627.png:[blocks in formation] ty-10-, prefix. [Greek tylos =a knot or callus, a knob, a protuberance.] Having a swelling or protuberant proce or proce es.