tit2 (tit)

[ E. titling ); perhaps connected with tits, 'a small thing. The word appears also in titlark, titling1, tit mouse, and terminally in tomtit, bottle - tit, coal tit, thrush - tit, wren - tit, and other names.] One of several small birds. Specifically-( a ) A titling or pipit. See titlark. (b) A tomtit or titmouse. (c) With a tit5t (tit), n. [ Hampole , MS. Bowes, p. 210. ( Hall i well .) Yf that tre war tite pulled oute At a titte, with al the rotes oboute. part blue, and widely distributed in the northern Pale arctic region. Pennant, 1785; Latham, 1787. - Bearded tit. titet, adv. A Middle English variant of titel. See bearded. - Cape tit, a penduline titmouse of South Africa, Ægithalus pendu lin us. - Gold tit, an an American titmouse, Auriparus flaviceps, of Texas to California and southward, 4 inches long, ashy and whitish with the whole head golden-yellow. See tilmouse. - Ground tit. See wren-tit. - Hill tit, one of numerous and various small oscine birds of the hill-countries of India: very loosely Hill tit ( Minla igneotincta).