timidity (timid it i)

[F. timid ité timid it a, timid ità, This proceed eth from nothing else but extreame folly and timidity of heart. Holland , tr. of Plutarch, p. 234. "Viglius," wrote Margaret to Philip, "is so much afraid of being cut to pieces that his timidity has become incredible." Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 574. IMG:content-0446.png:[blocks in formation] His lordship knew him to be a mere lawyer, and a tim idous man. Roger North , Lord Guilford, II. 31. ( Davies .) timing (ti'ming), n. [Verbal n. of timel , v.] In the design and construction of machinery, the proper adjustment of the parts of any machine so that its operations will follow in a given order to produce a given result, as in the movement of the needle, shuttle, and feed of a sewing-machine in consecutive order. timisht (ti'mish), a. [ A timish gentleman accoutered with sword and peruke, hearing the noise this man caused in the town, had a great desire to discourse with him. Life of Lodowick Mugg let on, 1676 (Harl. Misc., I. 612). [ ( Davies.) time-serving (tim's erving), a. Characterized by an obsequious or too ready compliance with timist (tī'mist), n. [ IMG:content-0447.png:[blocks in formation] also, fancifully, in Plato, a state in which the love of honor is the ruling principle; An innovation of great extent and importance was the so-called timocracy , according to which a certain amount of means was a nece ary qualification for a share in the offices of state. Von Ranke, Univ. Hist. (trans.), p. 142.