tityretut (titiretu)

[So called in some fanciful allusion to the first line of the first eclogue of Virgil: “ Tityre, tu patulæ recubans sub tegmine fag i."] One of a band of roisterers or street-ruffians in London in the seventeenth century, similar to the Mohawks, Hawcubites, Hectors, etc. Also spelled tittery -tu. For the dyet of some of the noble science, some for roaring boyes, and rough-hewd tittery -tues. John Taylor , Works (1630). ( Nares .) Some of the Tityre - tu's , not long after the appearance of this drama (1624), appear to have been brought the Council, and committed on a suspicion of state delinquency. From every shires ende Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. Т., 1. 16. Be-hold [look] to thi souereyn in the face with they eyene. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 58. Adonis hied him to the chase. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 3. Me longeth sore to Bernysdale, I may not be therfro. Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 121). Thou shalt to the Mall with us. Congreve, Way of the World, i. 9. The natural disposition to any particular art, science, profe ion, or trade is very much to be consulted in the care of youth. Steele , Spectator, No. 157. The General has fallen to one side in his large chair, whose arms support him from falling to the floor. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 260. 2. As far as: indicating a point or limit reached or to be reached in space, time, or degree; ex to Let me infold thee, And hold thee to my heart. Shak., Macbeth, i. 4. 32. Then doe they sew a long and black thong to that thick hide or skin. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 195. When all night long a cloud clings to the hill. Tennyson, Geraint. 7. Compared with: denoting comparison, proportion, or measure. Hence it is used in a strictly limited sense in expre ing ratios or proportions: as, three is to twelve as four is to sixteen. There is no music to a Christian's knell. Marlowe , Jew of Malta, iv. 1. No, there were no man on the earth to Thomas, If I durst trust him. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iii. 2. Name you any one thing that your citizen's wife comes short of to your lady. Dekker and Webster , Westward Ho, i. 1. 8. Against; over against: denoting opposition, contrast, or antithesis: as, to wager three to one; they engaged hand to hand. He sets the le e by the greater, or the greater to the le e, the equall to his equall, and by such confronting of them together driues out the true ods that is betwixt them. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 197. For now we see through a gla , darkly; but then face to face. 1 Cor. xiii. 12. My hat to a halfpenny, Pompey proves the best worthy. Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 563. Tho that they were nine to ane, They caused [them] take the chace. Battle of Balrinnes (Child's Ballads, VII. 229). Why will you fight against so sweet a pa ion, And steel your heart to such a world of charms? Add is on, Cato, i. 6. A sharp conflict, hand to hand and man to man, took place on the battlements. Irving , Granada, p. 54. pre ing extent of continuance, or proceeding, 9. In accordance, congruity, or harmony with: or degree of comprehension, or inclusion. Gifford, Note on Dekker and Ford's Sun's Darling, i. 1. Tityrinæ (tit-i-ri'nē), n. pl . [NL., Tityra + -inæ.] One of six subfamilies into which the Cotingidæ have been divided, typified by the genus Tityra , and characterized by the ex- tremely short second primary of the adult males. day. The tarsi are pycnaspidean, and the bill is strong and shrike-like; the plumage is not generally bright, and the sexes as a rule are differently colored. There are 3 genera and about 25 species, two or three of which reach the Mexican border of the United States. The range of the subfamily is nearly coextensive with that of the family. A form of Tiw . Tiu, n.