tinty (tint i)

[ Athenæum, Feb. 4, 1888, p. 153. tintype (tin'tīp), п. A photographic positive taken on a thin plate of japanned iron; a ferrotype. tinware (tin'war), n. Wares of tin; articles, especially ve els for holding liquids, made of tin-plate. tin-witts (tin'wits), n. pl. Dre ed tin ore containing so much pyrites, arsenic, or other deleterious ingredients that it must be roasted or calcined in a reverberatory furnace, or in a specially contrived calciner, before being pa ed through the proce es of jigging, to ing, dilluing, etc. [Cornwall, Eng.] tin-works (tin'wėrks), n. sing. and pl. Works or an establishment for the mining or manufacture of tin, or for the making of tin ware. tin-wormt (tin'wėrm), n. A small red worm, round, and having many legs, much like a hog louse. Bailey, 1731. tiny (ti'ni or tin'i), a. [Also teeny (common in childish use); formerly also tinny, tyny; early mod. E. and late ME. also tine, tyne; origin uncertain; if the early forms tine, tyne are intended for tiny, with which, at any rate, they have merged, the formation is prob. Sec . Pas . Haylle, lytylle tyne mop! rewarder of mede!... Haylle, lytylle mylk sop! haylle, David sede! Towneley Mysteries , p. 96. When that I was and a little tine boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain. tip nipple, D. tipje = LG. tipje, tip, nipple; appar. a derived form, and generally regarded as a dim., of top1 (ef. tiptop ); but the phonetic rela tions present a difficulty. Cf. Icel. typp i, a tip, In love, i' faith, to the very tip of the nose. Shak., T. and C., iii. 1. 138. His eares were not quite cutt off, only the upper part, his tippes were visible. Aubrey, Lives (William Prinne), note. Clomb above the eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright star Within the nether tip . Cole ridge, Ancient Mariner, iii. Thackeray , Pen dennis, xxv. The tips cut off the fingers of her gloves. 2. A small piece or part attached to or forming the extremity of something; an end-piece, an attached point, a ferrule, or the like: as, the iron or copper tips of some shoes; the tip of a scabbard; the tip of a gas-burner; the tip of a stamen (the anther).-3. (a) The upper part of the crown of a hat. (b) The upper part of the lining of a hat.-4. A tool made of pasteboard and long fine hair, used by gilders, as to lay the gold upon the edges of a book; also, a piece of wood covered with Canton flannel, used by book-stampers. The gilding tip is a thin layer of flexible hair held together between two pieces of cardboard, and made of various widths, and the length of hair varies also. Gilder's Manual, p. 37. 5. The separate piece or section of a jointed fishing-rod from the point of which the line runs off the rod through an eye, loop, or ring; a top. A tip made of split bamboo is called a quarter section tip, and by English makers a rent and glued tip. The soft inner part of the bamboo is removed, and only the hard, elastic exterior is used. 6. Same as foothold , 2. From tip to tip, from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other when the wings are expanded: as, the eagle measured 6 feet from tip to tip. Shak ., T. N., v. 1. 398 (fol. 1623). On the tip of one's tongue, just on the point of being All that heard a little tinny page, By his ladyes coach as he ran. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (Child's Ballads, II. 17). But Annie from her baby's forehead clipt A tiny curl, and gave it. Tennyson , Enoch Arden. Tiny perches, the ela omes. -tion. [ME. -tion, -cion, -cioun, -ciun, -ciun , also -çon, -son, -sun, F. -tion , -çon Sp. -cion = Pg. -cão = It. -zione = D. -tie = G. -tion, tio (n-), saying, dic - ere , say, accusa - tio ( n- ), accusation, accusa -re, accuse, mon i - tio ( n- ), warning, mone - re , warn, audi - tio ( n- ), hearing, audi -re, hear (see the corresponding E. words).] A suffix occurring in many abstract (and concrete) nouns of Latin origin. It appears, according to the Latin original, either without a preceding vowel, as in diction, action, reception, etc., or with a preceding vowel, as in accusation, monition, audition, etc., the vowel being often, however, radical, as in station, completion, ambition, motion, ablution, revolution, etc. Preceded by -a-, the suffix has become a common English formative (see- ation ). The suffix- tion after a radical &- in the Latin stem appears as -sion, as in mi ion, pa ion, etc. In words derived through the Old French it also appears as -son, as in benison, malison, men is on, venison, etc. -tious. [ME. -tious, -cio us, etc., It. -zioso, E. -ous, -ose ) added to stems in- t: see- ous. The termination also represents in E. the L. adj. termination -cius, -tius, in -i - cius, -i - tius, prop. -ic - ius, as in adventicius, advent it i us, adventitious.] A termination of many adjectives of Latin origin, some a ociated with nouns in -tion, as ambitious, expeditious, disputatious, etc., a ociated with ambition, expedition, dis put at i on, etc. (see -atious, -itious). In some cases the termination is of other origin, as in adventitious, fac titious, fictitious, etc. See the etymology, and the words mentioned.