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Tillet
() A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods.
Tillow
() See 3d Tiller.
Tilly-vally
() A word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as expressive of contempt, or when anything said was reject as trifling or impertinent.
Tilmus
() Floccillation.
Tilt
() A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
Tilt
() The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
Tilt
() A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
Tilted
() of Tilt
Tilting
() of Tilt
Tilt
() To cover with a tilt, or awning.
Tilt
() To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
Tilt
() To point or thrust, as a lance.
Tilt
() To point or thrust a weapon at.
Tilt
() To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
Tilt
() To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.
Tilt
() To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
Tilt
() A thrust, as with a lance.
Tilt
() A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
Tilt
() See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
Tilt
() Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
Tilter
() One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.
Tilter
() One who operates a tilt hammer.
Tilth
() The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth.
Tilth
() That which is tilled; tillage ground.
Tilt hammer
() A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.
Tilting
() The act of one who tilts; a tilt.
Tilting
() The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
Tilt-mill
() A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on.
Til tree
() See Teil.
Tilt-up
() Same as Tip-up.
Tilt-yard
() A yard or place for tilting.
Timal
() The blue titmouse.
Timaline
() Of or pertaining to the genus Timalus or family Timalidae, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls.
Timbal
() A kettledrum. See Tymbal.
Timber
() A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.
Timber
() The crest on a coat of arms.
Timber
() To surmount as a timber does.
Timber
() That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
Timber
() The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.
Timber
() Fig.: Material for any structure.
Timber
() A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.
Timber
() Woods or forest; wooden land.
Timber
() A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.
Timbered
() of Timber
Timbering
() of Timber
Timber
() To furnish with timber; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
Timber
() To light on a tree.
Timber
() To make a nest.
Timbered
() Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house.
Timbered
() Built; formed; contrived.