tit (1)

[Icel. tittr = a tit, a bird; titlingr = a sparrow.) 1. A titmouse (q. v.). 2. A little horse. "Nay, should the tits get on for once, Each rider is so grave a dunce, That, as I've heard good judges say, 'Tis ten to one they'd lose their way." Lloyd: The Poetry Profe ors. 3. A contemptuous term for a woman. (In this sense perhaps from teat (q. v.).) "A vast virago or an ugly tit ."-Burton: Anat. Melan choly, p. 524. 4. A bit, a morsel. tit-warbler, s. Ornith.: Sylvicola minuta .