Tie () A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.

Tie () A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.

Tie () An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.

Tie () A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.

Tie () A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.

Tie () Low shoes fastened with lacings.

Tied () of Tie

Tight () of Tie

Tying () of Tie

Tie () To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.

Tie () To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot.

Tie () To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.

Tie () To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.

Tie () To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.

Tie () To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.

Tie () To make a tie; to make an equal score.

Tiebar () A flat bar used as a tie.

Tiebeam () A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof.

Tier () One who, or that which, ties.

Tier () A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore.

Tier () A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater.

Tierce () A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons.

Tierce () A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

Tierce () The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.

Tierce () A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.

Tierce () A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

Tierce () The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

Tierce () Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; -- said of an escutcheon.

Tiercel () Alt. of Tiercelet

Tiercelet () The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk.

Tierce-major () See Tierce, 4.

Tiercet () A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.

Tie-rod () A rod used as a tie. See Tie.

Tiers etat () The third estate, or commonalty, in France, answering to the commons in Great Britain; -- so called in distinction from, and as inferior to, the nobles and clergy.

Tietick () The meadow pipit.

Tiewig () A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up; also, a wig tied upon the head.

Tiff () Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.

Tiff () A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.

Tiffed () of Tiff

Tiffing () of Tiff

Tiff () To be in a pet.

Tiff () To deck out; to dress.

Tiffany () A species of gause, or very silk.

Tiffin () A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.

Tiffish () Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.

Tift () A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.

Tig () A game among children. See Tag.

Tig () A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

Tigella () That part of an embryo which represents the young stem; the caulicle or radicle.

Tigelle () Same as Tigella.

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