Tike

tlk, n. A countryman or clown; a dog cur. [Ic. and Sw. tik, a bitch.] Tile, n. A plate or thin piece or arch of slate-stone or of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, etc. — v. [tiled (tild), tiling.] To cover with tiles; to cover, as [AS. tigele, L. teoula, that which covers, tegere, to cover see Tegument.] — Til'er, n. A man who covers buildings with tiles a doorkeeper at a lodge of freemasons.—Til'ery, -er-Y, w. A place where tiles are made or burned. Till, n. A money-box in a shop a drawer. [Lit. a drawer, that which may be pulled in and out, ME. tillen, to draw, pull, D. tillen, to heave, lift up, LG. tillen, to move.] — Till'er, n. The lever used to turn the rudder of a ship or boat a helm. [Lit., a puller, ME. tillen.} Till, prep. To the time of until up to the time, — that is to the time specified in the sentence or clause following. [ME., Ic, and Dan. to same as until; not to.] — Till now. To the present time. — T. To that time. Till, v. [tilled (tild), tilling.] To plow and prepare for seed, and to dre crops of to cultivate. [AS. tilian, to labor, strive after, land, good, excellent, profitable, cultivation, crop.] — a, Till'able, a. Capable of being tilled for the plow arable. — age, -ej, n. The operation, ridge-piece practice, or art of tilling a place tilled or cultimer, vated cultivation culture husbandry farming; timrjan, agriculture.— TiU/er, n. One who a husbandman cultivator. (Agric.) The shoot of a plant, with springing from the root of the original stalk the Timbre, sprout or young tree that springs from the root or ermine; stump.— v. [tillered (-lerd), -lering.] To put The forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom ments. — of the original stalk. Tilth, n. State of being to tilled or prepared for a crop; culture. [AS. tildh.] Timbrel, Tiller, a helm. See under Till, a money-box. kind Tilt, n. A covering over head a tent the cloth clock covering of a cart or wagon a small awning extumpanon,a, tended over the stern-sheets of a boat. — v. To to cover with a or awning. [AS. teld, a covering, Time, tent perh. rt. Gr. deros, a skm, Skr. dara, a cave, absolute; shell. E. tear.] ce ive Tilt, v. To raise one end (as of a cask) for disa charging liquid from; to tip; to point or thrust, as a present, lance; to hammer or forge with a tilt-hammer, or etc.; — v. To run, or ride, and thrust with a lance to and fight with rapiers; to rush, as in combat; to play unany steadily to ride, float, and to to lean to fall, as period; on one side. — n. A thrust, as with a lance a milition; tary exercise on horseback, in which the combatants event, attacked each other with lances a tournament a State tilt-hammer inclination forward. [ME. tilten, to ure totter, fall, fr. style AS. tealt, unperceptive steady, tot- (timd), tering to totter.] — tion, Tilt'er, n. — One who prac- [AS. tices the ex- The ercise of pusho'clock ing a lance on the horseback; distinct one who hammon mers with a in tilt, or in hammer.— which Tilt'-ham'- time, mer, ». A son; heavy ham- Tilt-Hammer. duration; mer, used in wheel upright shaft fly-wheel ly.— iron-w o r k d frame-work / lever cushion average which anvil. ted ed or tilted by projections, cams, or wipers on the —T. axis of a wheel; a trip-hammer. time Tilth. See under Till, to plow. —