tietie (titi)

Naut., one of the small pieces of cord fastened to a hammock, and used sometimes to secure it in a roll instead of a hammock-lashing. tie-up (ti'up), п. [ In the event of a tie - up , or strike, these street boxes would be used as they now are. Sci . Amer . , N. S., LX. 32. tie-wig (ti'wig), n. 6333 tival also called Twelfth Day, concluding the Christmas holidays. The name as applied to a silk would thus mean 'Epiphany silk,' i. e. holiday silk; cf. Easter bonnet, i. e. spring bonnet; cf. also tawdry, applied orig. to lace sold at a fair held on the festival of St. Audrey.] I. n.; pl. tiffanies (-niz). 1t. A kind of thin silk; gauze. The Knights appeared first, as consecrated persons, all in veils like to copes, of silver tiffiny , gathered, and falling a large compa about them. Beaumont, Mask of Inner Temple and Gray's Inn. Let her have velvets, tiffanies, jewels, pearls. Fletcher (and another ), Noble Gentleman, i. 1. A vestal veil on her head of tiffany , striped with silver. Chapman , Mask of Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn. Doe we not descrie Some godde e in a cloud of tiffanie ? Herrick , A Nuptiall Song. 2. A kind of gauze muslin, resembling silk gauze. How much shall I measure you of this tiffany, Matty? S. Judd, Margaret, i. 6. 3. A portable flour-sieve made of tiffany. Hal liwell. [Prov. Eng.] II. a . Made of tiffany, or thin silk: as, a tif fany cloak; hence, transparent. Enter four Cupids from each side of the boscage, at tired in flame-coloured taffeta close to their body, like naked boys, with bows, arrows, and wings of gold, chap scarfs. Beaumont , Mask Inner Temple and Gray's lets of flowers on their heads, hoodwinked with tiffiny The wit that I took up Paul's tiffany cloak with sat in. out a hatband; now I have put him into a doublet of Shirley, Witty Fair One, ii. 1. Tiffany Natures are so easily impos'd upon. A wig having the hair be hind gathered and tied by a ribbon. Compare queue and pigtail. My uncle Toby, in his laced regimentals and the tie-wig, kept his rank with my father. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, iv. 25.