These goods thyself can on thyself bestow. NWAD THYSELF.2
1. An ornament or article of dress with which the ancient Persians covered their heads; a kind of turban. As different authors describe it, it must have been of different forms. The kings of Persia alone had a right to wear it straight or erect; the lords and priests wore it depressed, or turned down on the fore side. Xenophon says the tiara was encompassed with the diadem, at least in ceremonials. NWAD TIAR.2
2. An ornament worn by the Jewish high priest. Exodus 28:4. NWAD TIAR.3
3. The pope’s triple crown. The tiara and keys are the badges of the papal dignity; the tiara of his civil rank, and the keys of his jurisdiction. It was formerly a round high cap. It was afterward encompassed with a crown, then with a second and a third. NWAD TIAR.4
1. Pertaining to the large bone of the leg; as the tibial artery; tibial nerve. NWAD TIBIAL.2
2. Pertaining to a pipe or flute. NWAD TIBIAL.3
1. To trust. NWAD TICK.5
1. A piece of paper or a card, which gives the holder a right of admission to some place; as a ticket for the play-house or for other exhibition. NWAD TICKET.2
2. A piece of paper or writing, acknowledging some debt, or a certificate that something is due to the holder. NWAD TICKET.3
3. A piece of paper bearing some number in a lottery, which entitles the owner to receive such prize as may be drawn against that number. When it draws no prize, it is said to draw a blank, and the holder has nothing to receive. NWAD TICKET.4
1. To touch lightly and cause a peculiar thrilling sensation, which cannot be described. A slight sensation of this kind may give pleasure, but when violent it is insufferable. NWAD TICKLE.2
2. To please by slight gratification. A glass of wine may tickle the palate. NWAD TICKLE.3
Such a nature NWAD TICKLE.4
Tickled with good success. NWAD TICKLE.5
He with secret joy therefore NWAD TICKLE.7
Did tickle inwardly in every vein. NWAD TICKLE.8
Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if in love, may sign it off. NWAD TICKLE.10
The state of Normandy NWAD TICKLE.11
Stands on a tickle point. NWAD TICKLE.12
[This word is wholly obsolete, at least in N. England. Ticklish is the word used.] NWAD TICKLE.13
1. Tottering; standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily moved or affected. NWAD TICKLISH.2
Ireland was a ticklish and unsettled state. NWAD TICKLISH.3
2. Difficult; nice; critical; as, these are ticklish times. NWAD TICKLISH.4
1. The state of being tottering or liable to fall. NWAD TICKLISHNESS.2
2. Criticalness of condition or state. NWAD TICKLISHNESS.3
1. Time; season. NWAD TIDE.2
Which, at the appointed tide, NWAD TIDE.3
Each one did make his bride. NWAD TIDE.4
[This sense is obsolete.] NWAD TIDE.5
2. The flow of the water in the ocean and seas, twice in a little more than twenty four hours; the flux and reflux, or ebb and flow. We commonly distinguish the flow or rising of the water by the name of flood-tide, and the reflux by that of ebb-tide. There is much less tide or rise of water in the main ocean, at a distance from land, than there is at the shore, and in sounds and bays. NWAD TIDE.6
3. Stream; course; current; as the tide of the times. NWAD TIDE.7
Time’s ungentle tide. NWAD TIDE.8
4. Favorable course. NWAD TIDE.9
There is a tide in the affairs of men, NWAD TIDE.10
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. NWAD TIDE.11
5. Violent confluence. [Not in use.] NWAD TIDE.12
6. Among miners, the period of twelve hours. NWAD TIDE.13
7. Current; flow of blood. NWAD TIDE.14
And life’s red tide runs ebbing from the wound. NWAD TIDE.15
1. Among seamen, a place where the tide runs with great velocity. NWAD TIDE-GATE.2
1. Neatness; as the tidiness of rooms. NWAD TIDINESS.2
I shall make my master glad with these tidings. NWAD TIDINGS.2
Behold I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:10. NWAD TIDINGS.3
1. In its primary sense, seasonable; favorable; being in proper time; as weather fair and tidy. NWAD TIDY.2
2. Neat; dressed with neat simplicity; as a tidy lass; the children are tidy; their dress is tidy; that is primarily, proper for the time or occasion. NWAD TIDY.3
3. Neat; being in good order. The apartments are well furnished and tidy. NWAD TIDY.4
1. To bind; to fasten with a band or cord and knot. NWAD TIE.2
My son, keep thy father’s commandments-- bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. Proverbs 6:21. NWAD TIE.3
2. To fold and make fast; as, to tie a knot. NWAD TIE.4
3. To knit; to complicate. NWAD TIE.5
We do not tie this knot with an intention to puzzle the argument. NWAD TIE.6
4. To fasten; to hold; to unite so as not to be easily parted. NWAD TIE.7
In bond of virtuous love together tied. NWAD TIE.8
5. To oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. People in their jealousy, may tie the hands of their ministers and public agents, so as to prevent them from doing good. NWAD TIE.9
Not tied to rules of policy, you find NWAD TIE.10
Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind. NWAD TIE.11
6. In music, to unite notes by a cross line, or by a curve line drawn over them. NWAD TIE.12
To tie up, to confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion or action; as, to tie up the tongue; to tie up the hands. NWAD TIE.13
To tie down, to fasten so as to prevent from rising. NWAD TIE.14
1. To restrain; to confine; to hinder from action. NWAD TIE.15
1. Bond; obligation, moral or legal; as the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance. NWAD TIE.17
2. A knot of hair. NWAD TIE.18
The tiers of a cable are the ranges of fakes or windings of a cable, laid one within another when coiled. NWAD TIER.2
Tier, in organs, is a rank or range of pipes in the front of the instrument, or in the interior, when the compound stops have several ranks of pipes. NWAD TIER.3
1. In Ireland, a weight by which provisions are sold. The tierce of beef for the navy, is 304 lb. and for India, 336 lb. NWAD TIERCE.2
2. In music, a third. NWAD TIERCE.3
3. In gaming, a sequence of three cards of the same color. NWAD TIERCE.4
4. A thrust in fencing. NWAD TIERCE.5
1. A pet or fit of peevishness. NWAD TIFF.2
[I know not where this word is used in the latter sense.] NWAD TIFF.3
A species of gauze or very thin silk. NWAD TIFFANY.2
Tiffe-de-mer, a species of sea plant, so called by Count Marsigli, from its resemblance to the heads of the Typha palustris, or cat’s tail. It has a smooth surface and a velvety look. It grows to two feet in highth, and is elegantly branched. It grows on rocks and stones, and when first taken out of the sea, is full of a yellow viscous water, but when this is pressed out and the substance is dried, it becomes of a dusky brown color. NWAD TIFFANY.3
1. Close; compact; not loose or open; having the joints so close that no fluid can enter or escape; not leaky; as a tight ship, or a tight cask. NWAD TIGHT.2
2. Close; not admitting much air; as a tight room. NWAD TIGHT.3
3. Sitting close to the body; as a tight coat or other garment. NWAD TIGHT.4
4. Close; not having holes or crevices; not loose; applied to many vessels, etc. NWAD TIGHT.5
5. Close; hard; as a tight bargain. [In common use in America.] NWAD TIGHT.6
6. Close; parsimonious; saving; as a man tight in his dealings. [In common use in America.] NWAD TIGHT.7
7. Closely dressed; not ragged. NWAD TIGHT.8
I’ll spin and card, and keep our children tight. NWAD TIGHT.9
8. Hardy; adroit. NWAD TIGHT.10
[Note. This is the taugt or taught of seamen, applied to a rope stretched. The primary sense is strained.] NWAD TIGHT.11
1. More tight. NWAD TIGHTER.2
1. Neatly; adroitly. NWAD TIGHTLY.2
1. Neatness, as in dress. NWAD TIGHTNESS.2
2. Parsimoniousness; closeness in dealing. NWAD TIGHTNESS.3
1. A countryman or clown. NWAD TIKE.3
2. A dog. NWAD TIKE.4
1. A plate or piece of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings. NWAD TILE.2
The pins for fastening tiles are made of oak or fir. NWAD TILE.3
2. In metallurgy, a small flat piece of dried earth, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused. NWAD TILE.4
3. A piece of baked clay used in drains. NWAD TILE.5
1. To cover, as tiles. NWAD TILE.7
The muscle, sinew and vein. NWAD TILE.8
Which tile this house, will come again. NWAD TILE.9
1. Tiles in general. NWAD TILING.3
1. To the time or time of. I did not see the man till the last time he came; I waited for him till four o’clock; I will wait till next week. NWAD TILL.4
Till now, to the present time. I never heard of the fact ill now. NWAD TILL.5
Till then, to that time. I never heard of the fact till then. NWAD TILL.6
2. It is used before verbs and sentences in a like sense, denoting to the time specified in the sentence or clause following. I will wait till you arrive. NWAD TILL.7
He said to them, occupy till I come. Luke 19:13. NWAD TILL.8
Certain Jews--bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. Acts 23:12. NWAD TILL.9
Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to God. NWAD TILL.10
[Note.--In this use, till is not a conjunction; it does not connect sentences like and, or like or. It neither denotes union nor separation, nor an alternative. It has always the same office, except that is precedes a single word or a single sentence; the time to which it refers being in one case expressed by a single word, as now, or the, or time, with this, or that, etc., and in the other by a verb with its adjuncts; as, occupy till I come. In the latter use, till is a preposition preceding a sentence, like against, in the phrase, against I come.] NWAD TILL.11
1. To labor; to cultivate; to plow and prepare for seed, and to dress crops. This word includes not only plowing but harrowing, and whatever is done to prepare ground for a crop, and to keep it free from weeds. NWAD TILL.13
The Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. Genesis 3:23. NWAD TILL.14
2. In the most general sense, to till may include every species of husbandry, and this may be its sense in Scripture. NWAD TILL.15
1. The bar or lever employed to turn the rudder of a ship. NWAD TILLER.2
2. A small drawer; a till. NWAD TILLER.3
3. Among farmers, the shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; also, the sprout or young tree that springs from the root or stump. NWAD TILLER.4
4. A young timber tree. [Local.] NWAD TILLER.5
1. A tent; a covering over head. NWAD TILT.2
2. The cloth covering of a cart or wagon. NWAD TILT.3
3. The cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning of canvas or other cloth, extended over the stern sheets of a boat. NWAD TILT.4
1. Formerly, a military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; as tilts and tournaments. NWAD TILT.7
2. A large hammer; a tilt-hammer; used in iron manufactures. NWAD TILT.8
3. Inclination forward; as the tilt of a cask; or a cask is a-tilt. NWAD TILT.9
1. To incline; to raise one end, as a cask, for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel. NWAD TILT.11
2. To point or thrust, as a lance. NWAD TILT.12
Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. NWAD TILT.13
3. To hammer or forge with a tilt-hammer or tilt; as, to tilt steel to render it more ductile. NWAD TILT.14
4. To cover with a tilt. NWAD TILT.15
1. To fight with rapiers. NWAD TILT.17
Swords out and tilting one at other’s breast. NWAD TILT.18
2. To rush, as in combat. NWAD TILT.19
3. To play unsteadily; to ride, float and toss. NWAD TILT.20
The fleet swift tilting o’er the surges flew. NWAD TILT.21
4. To lean; to fall, as on one side. NWAD TILT.22
The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. NWAD TILT.23
1. Hammered; prepared by beating; as steel. NWAD TILTED.2
Let me alone to match your tilter. NWAD TILTER.2
1. One who hammers with a tilt. NWAD TILTER.3
1. The state of being tilled or prepared for a crop. We say, land is in good tilth, when it is manured, plowed, broken and mellowed for receiving the seed. We say also, ground is in bad tilth. When we say, land is in tilth, we mean in good condition for the seed; not in tilth, in a bad condition. NWAD TILTH.2
1. That sort of wood which is proper for building or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships and the like. We apply the word to standing trees which are suitable for the uses above mentioned, as a forest contains excellent timber; or to the beams, rafters, scantling, boards, planks, etc. hewed or sawed from such trees. Of all the species of trees useful as timber, in our climate, the white oak and the white pine hold the first place in importance. NWAD TIMBER.2
2. The body or stem of a tree. NWAD TIMBER.3
3. The materials; in irony. NWAD TIMBER.4
Such dispositions--are the fittest timber to make politics of. NWAD TIMBER.5
4. A single piece or squared stick of wood for building, or already framed. NWAD TIMBER.6
Many of the timbers were decayed. NWAD TIMBER.7
5. In ships, a timber is a rib or curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united in one frame. NWAD TIMBER.8
1. In falconry, to make a nest. NWAD TIMBER.11
Timber or timmer of furs, as of martens, ermines, sables and the like, denotes forty skins; of other skins, one hundred and twenty. NWAD TIMBER.12
Timber of ermine, in heraldry, denote the ranks or rows of ermine in noblemen’s coats. NWAD TIMBER.13
1. Built; formed; contrived. [Little used.] NWAD TIMBERED.2
And Miriam took a timbrel in her hand--and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Exodus 15:20. NWAD TIMBREL.2
1. A particular portion or part of duration, whether past, present or future. The time was; the time has been; the time is; the time will be. NWAD TIME.2
Lost time is never found again. NWAD TIME.3
God, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets. Hebrews 1:1. NWAD TIME.4
2. A proper time; a season. NWAD TIME.5
There is a time to every purpose. Ecclesiastes 3:1. NWAD TIME.6
The time of figs was not yet. Mark 11:13. NWAD TIME.7
3. Duration. NWAD TIME.8
The equal and uniform flux of time does not affect our senses. NWAD TIME.9
Time is absolute or relative; absolute time is considered without any relation to bodies or their motions. Relative time is the sensible measure of any portion of duration, by means of motion. Thus the diurnal revolution of the sun measures a space of time or duration. Hence, NWAD TIME.10
4. A space or measured portion of duration. NWAD TIME.11
We were in Paris two months, and all that time enjoyed good health. NWAD TIME.12
5. Life or duration, in reference to occupation. One man spends his time in idleness; another devotes all his time to useful purposes. NWAD TIME.13
Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind. NWAD TIME.14
6. Age; a part of duration distinct from other parts; as ancient times; modern times. The Spanish armada was defeated in the time of Queen Elizabeth. NWAD TIME.15
7. Hour of travail. NWAD TIME.16
She was within one month of her time. NWAD TIME.17
8. Repetition; repeated performance, or mention with reference to repetition. The physician visits his patient three times in a day. NWAD TIME.18
9. Repetition; doubling; addition of a number to itself; as, to double cloth four times; four times four amount to sixteen. NWAD TIME.19
10. Measure of sounds in music; as common time, and treble time. In concerts, it is all important, that the performers keep time, or exact time. NWAD TIME.20
11. The state of things at a particular period; as when we say, good times, or bad times, hard times, dull times for trade, etc. In this sense, the plural is generally used. NWAD TIME.21
12. In grammar, tense. NWAD TIME.22
In time, in good season; sufficiently early. NWAD TIME.23
He arrived in time to see the exhibition. NWAD TIME.24
1. A considerable space of duration; process or continuation of duration. You must wait patiently; you will in time recover your health and strength. NWAD TIME.25
At times, at distinct intervals of duration. At times he reads; at other times, he rides. NWAD TIME.26
The spirit began to move him at times. Judges 13:25. NWAD TIME.27
Time enough, in season; early enough. NWAD TIME.28
Stanley at Bosworth-field, came time enough to save his life. NWAD TIME.29
To lose time, to delay. NWAD TIME.30
1. To go too slow; as, a watch or clock loses time. NWAD TIME.31
Apparent time, in astronomy, true solar time, regulated by the apparent motions of the sun. NWAD TIME.32
Mean time, equated time, a mean or average of apparent time. NWAD TIME.33
Siderial time, is that which is shown by the diurnal revolutions of the stars. NWAD TIME.34
Mercy is good, but kings mistake its timing. NWAD TIME.36
1. To regulate as to time; as, he timed the stroke. NWAD TIME.37
2. To measure; as in music or harmony. NWAD TIME.38
Nor fits it to prolong the heav’nly feast NWAD TIMELESS.2
Timeless-- [Not used.] NWAD TIMELESS.3
1. Untimely; immature; done or suffered before the proper time; as a timeless grave. [Not used.] NWAD TIMELESS.4
1. Keeping time or measure. [Not used.] NWAD TIMELY.2
Timely advis’d, the coming evil shun. NWAD TIMELY.4