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ufually breaks of itfclf into little pieces, and may be crum- 

 bled to powder between the fingers. This is a very ftrong 

 proof, among others, of its not being of the nature of tlie 

 (punge. 



when viewed by the microfcope, the whole furface is 

 toiind to be covered with extremely fnic and llender hairs ; 

 and, among thcfe, there is an infinity of httle apertures, 

 through which the fea-water makes its way. 



When a branch of it is cut tranfverfely, there are feen a 

 number of long and fine canals, by means of which the water, 

 received at thefe fuperficial apertures, is conveyed to its 

 whole fubftance. Marfig. Hill, de la Mer, p. 82. 



Subllances of this kind are now known to be of animal 

 and not of vegetable origin. See Coral. 



TIFFENETH, in Geography, a town of Pruflla, in the 

 province of Natangen ; 10 miles S. of Brandenburg. 



TIFFESCH, or TiFAS, anciently Thevejle, a town of 

 Algiers ; 40 miles S. of Bona. N. lat. 36° 20'. E. long. 



TIFLISBERG, a mountain of Switzerland, between 

 the cantons of Uri and Unterwalden. 



TIGA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa, in Mau- 

 ritania Casfariaiia, near the coall of the Atlantic. Strabo. 



TiGA, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Eaft Indian 

 'ea, near the north-weft coaft of the ifland of Borneo. 

 N. lat. 6' 25'. E. long. 1 12'' 14'. 



TIGAON, an ifland in the Indian fea, near the north- 

 weft coaft of the ifland of Borneo. N. lat. 6"^ lo'. E. ' 

 long. 128" 48'. 



TIGARA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa, in 

 the interior of Mauritania Csfariana. Ptol. 



TIGAREA, in Botany, a barbarous or ai-bitrary name, 



of which its publiflier Aublet has given no explanation 



Aubl. Guian. 917. Juft". 339. Lamarck Illuftr. t. 826. — 

 Schreber admitted the genus, under the name of Rbinium, 

 in his Gen. 701, but in his Addenda to that work, 833, re- 

 duced it to Tetracera ; fee that article. Mr. Purfti, how- 

 ever, has reftored the genus and the name, in his Flora 

 America Septentrionalis^ 333, where he has, not without fome 

 doubt, referred hither a very curious new flirub, found in the 

 meadows of the Rocky-mountains, and on the Columbia 

 river, by the name of T. tridentata, t. 15. This has crowded, 

 wedge-fhaped, hoary, three-toothed leaves, and folitary, ter- 

 minal, yeAovi Jloiuers, the fize of hawthorn-bloffoms. That 

 it is very diftinft in genus from Aublet's Tigarea we have no 

 doubt, being very nearly akin to the Rubus japonicus of 

 Linnsus, Corchorus japonicus of Thunberg, as has lately 

 teen pointed out by M. De CandoUe, in a paper rfead be- 

 fore the Linnaean Society. But it feems to us that the genua 

 of neither of thefe flirubs can as yet be determined, for want 

 of perfeft fruit. 



TIGAUDA, in Ancient Geography, a municipal town 

 of Africa, in Mauritania Cxfariana, upon the route from 

 Rufucurrum to Cala, between Caftellum Tingitanum and 

 Oppidum Novum. Anton. Itin. 



TiGE, in Architedure, a French term for the ftiaft or 

 fuft of a column, comprehended between the aftragal and 

 the capital. 



TIGEGUACU, in Ornithology, the name of a fmall Bra- 

 filian bird, of the fize of a fparrow, and with a ridged and 

 triangular bill, in which it refembles the mouche-roUe ; its 

 eyes are of a fine blue, and its legs and feet yellow ; it is all 

 over of a deep black, but that it has a lai-ge blood-red fpot 

 on the top of its head ; its tail is fliort and black. 



TIGELLIUS, in Biography, a mufician, born in Sar- 

 dinia, grandfon of Phamea, a mufician in great favour at 

 Reme in the time of Julius Csefar. Horace has handed him 



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down to pofterity as a mercilefs fpendthrift, and an egregious 

 coxcomb. 



" Ambubajarum collegia Pharmacopolx 



Mendici, Mimx, Balatrones, iioc genus omne 

 Ma-ftum, ac folicitum eft cantoris morte Tigelli ; 

 Quippc benignus erat." — Sat. lib. i. 2. 



Tigellius was not only much in Tavour with Julius Caefar, 

 but afterwards with Cleopatra and Auguftus : he was an 

 able mufician, an ingenious buffoon, and fubtle courtier. 

 What Horace has faid of his caprice, has often been applied, 

 and we fear will ever continue to be applied, to muficians of 

 a fimilar difpofition. 



" Omnibus hoc vitium ut cantoribus'j%iter amicos 

 Ut nunquam inducant animum cantare rogati ; 

 Injuffi nunquam defiftant." — Sat. lib. i. 3. 



TIGENHAGEN, in Geography, a town of Prndiai. 

 Pomerelia ; 1 2 miles N. of Marienburg. 



TIGENWIT, a town of Africa, in Negroland ; 45 

 miles N. of Arguin. 



TIGER, a fmall ifland in the Spanifli Main, near the 

 coaft of Darien. N. lat. 8° 35'. W. long. 77° 30'. 



Tiger, Tigris, in the Linnaean fyftem of Zoology, is a 

 fpecies of cat, or Felis Tigris ; which fee. 



The tiger (formed of '\^ }, fagitla, a dart, whence "l^Jlfl) 

 has its name from its fuppofed fwiftnefs. See tlie article 

 Felis Tigris. 



Tiger, American. See Felis Onca. 



TiGER-Cal. See Felis Capenfts. 



Tiger, Hunting, or Leopard. See Felis Leopardus. 



Tiger, M-an. See Mantegar. 



TiGER-Shell, a name given to the red voluta, with large 

 white fpots. 



In the Linnaean fyftem, the tiger-ftiell is a fpecies of the 

 cyprsea. See Shells. 



TIGGREE, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 the circar of Sumbul ; 17 miles S. of Nidjibabad. 



TIGH, in our Old Writers, a clofe or inclofure meu- 

 tioned in ancient charters, and is ftill ufed in Kent in the 

 fame fenfe. 



TIGHMAN's Island, in Geography, a fmall ifland in 

 the Chefapeak. N. lat. 38° 48'. E. long. 76° 21'. 



TIGHT, in Sea Language, exprefles the quality by 

 which a velfel refifts the penetration of any fluid, whether 

 comprefTing its furface, or contained within it. Hsnce a 

 ftiip is faid to be tight, when her planks are fo compact and 

 folid, as to prevent the entrance of the water in which ftie is 

 immerfed ; and a caflc is called tight, whea the ftaves are fo 

 clofe, that none of the liquid contained in it can iflue through 

 or between them. In both fenfesi tight is oppofed to leaky. 

 Falconer. 



TIGILLUM, a word ufed by fome chemifts to exprefs 

 the tile with which they cover the mouth of their crucibles ; 

 and, by others, for the crucible itfelf. 



TIGILSKOI, in Geography, a town of Kamlfchatka ; 

 80 miles W. of Ukinflioi. N. lat. 57° 20'. E. long, 



157° 44'- 



TIGINE. SeeBENDER. 



TIGIS Herba, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa, 

 in the interior of Mauritania Ca;fariana, near a river, and S. 

 of Icofium. In the Itin. of Anton, it is marked on the 

 route from Rufucurrum to Scalda:. 



TIGLIUM, in Botany. See PlNEi Nuclei, &c. 



TIGNALE, in Geography, a town of the ifland of Cor- 

 fica : ■?o miles S.E- of Corte. 



TIGNARES, 



