Tillandsia 
often covered with furfuraceous dusty particles. The flow- 
ers form a terminal spike, or are rarely solitary. Ten or 
more species occur in Florida, all rigid erect epiphytes with 
blue fugacious petals (red in T. flemom), except one, the 
well-known T. umeoides, which is peculiar in its filiform 
Long-moss ^Tillandsia ustteoides). 
a, branch, showing the leaves and stem. 
pendent stems, clothing the branches of trees, and forming 
a characteristic feature of southern forests, extending far 
westward, and north to the Dismal Swamp of Virginia. This 
species bears two- ranked awl-shaped recurved leaves, and 
small solitary green flowers, ana is variously known as 
Florida mass, hanging-moss, etc. (See black-moss and long- 
moss.) It is used for decoration in the natural state, and 
is gathered in large quantities for upholsterers, for whose 
use it is steeped in water or buried In earth till the outer 
part is rotted off, leaving a coarse tough fiber used for stuff- 
ing mattresses. The leaves of T. utriculata, a native of 
southern Florida and the West Indies, are dilated at the 
base into large cavities, often containing a pint of clear 
water, eagerly sought by wayfarers. Several species are 
occasionally cultivated as greenhouse epiphytes. 
2. [I. c.] A plant of this genus. 
The long hairy tillandsia, like an old man's beard, three 
or four feet long, hung down from the topmost branches. 
Lady Braisey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. viii. 
tillart, n. An obsolete variant of tiller 1 *. 
tiller 1 (til'er), n. [< ME. tilier, tylyere (= MLG. 
teler); < tilll + -er 1 .] One who tills; a hus- 
bandman ; a cultivator ; a plowman. 
I am a verri vyne and my fadir is an erthe-MKer. 
WycHf, John xv. 1. 
The tylyere of the feld. Chaucer, Boethius, v. prose 1. 
Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the 
ground. Gen. Iv. 2. 
tiller 2 (til'er), . [Formerly also tittar, tyllcr, 
telar; < tUP + -tc 1 .] If. A drawer in a table, 
chest, or counter ; a till. 
Search her cabinet, and thou shalt find 
Each tiller there with love epistles lin'd. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, vi. 384. 
2. A bar or staff used as a lever, or as the han- 
dle of an implement. Specifically -(at) The handle 
of a crossbow ; hence, the crossbow itself. 
If the shooter use the strength of his bowe within his 
owne tiller, he shal neuer be therwith grleued or made 
more feble. Sir T. Elyot, The Qovernour, i. 27. 
Balestra, a crosse-bowe. a stone-bowe, a tittar. a little pil- 
lar, an engine of war to batter wals. Florio (1698). 
A Cros-bowe or a Long-bowe in a Tyller. 
Barwick, Weapons of Fire, p. ii. 
Use exercise, and keep a sparrow-hawk ; yon can shoot 
in a titter. Beau, and Ft., Philaster, ii. 2. 
(&) Navt., the bar or lever fitted to the head of a rudder, 
and employed to turn the helm of a ship or boat in steer- 
ing. See cut under rudder, (c) The handle of a spade, (rf) 
The handle of a pit-saw, especially the upper one, having 
a cross-head. Wright. See cut under pit-saw. 
tiller 3 (til'er), n. [< ME. *tel$er,< AS. telgor, a 
branch, bough, twig, shoot; cf. telga = D. tely 
= LG. telge = G. dial, zelke, a branch, bough, 
twig; cf . Icel. tag (for 'talg ?), willow-twig ; Sw. 
telning, a young shoot or twig.] A shoot of a 
plant which springs from the root or bottom of 
the original stalk ; also, a sapling or sucker. 
tiller 3 (til'er), v. i. [< tiller*, n.] To put forth 
new shoots from the root, or round the bottom 
of the original stalk; stool: said of a plant: 
as, wheat or rye tillers, or spreads by tillering. 
Also tiltow. 
To keep the fields with room upon them for the corn to 
fer - A D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, xxii. 
tiller-chain (tH'er-chan), n. Xaut., one of the 
chains leading from the tiller-head to the wheel, 
by which a vessel is steered. 
tiller-head (til'er-hed), n. Naut., the extrem- 
ity of the tiller, to which the tiller-rope or 
-chain is attached. 
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tiller-rope (til'er-rop), n. Naut. : (a) A rope 
serving the same purpose as a tiller-chain. (6) 
In small vessels, a rope leading from the tiller- 
liead to each side of the deck, to assist in steer- 
ing in rough weather. 
tillet 1 t (til'et). . [Early mod. E. also teylet- 
(trce); < OF. fillet, the linden-tree, < L. tilia, 
the linden-tree: see Tilia, tfil.] The linden: 
in the compound tillet-tree. 
tillet 2 t (til'et), n. [Early mod. E. also tyllet; 
perhaps a var. of toilet.] A piece of coarse 
material used as a wrapper or covering. 
Item : A scarlet cloke faced w tn gray with the tillet. 
Inventory of Sir Thomas Ramsey (1590) (Archaaologia, 
[XL. 327). 
Tilletia (ti-le'shi-ii), . [NL. (Tulasne, 1854).] 
A genus of ustilagineous fungi; the stinking 
smut, characterized by having the teleutospores 
simple, produced separately as outgrowths from 
the gelatinized mycelium, and when mature 
pulverulent. T. tritici is the well-known stink- 
ing smut of cereals. See smut, 3, and bunt*, 1. 
tillet-treet (til'et-tre), n. [Formerly also tey- 
let-tree ; < tilled + tree."} The linden. 
They use their cordage of date tree leaves and the thin 
barks of the Linden or Tillet tree. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xlx. 2. (Dames.) 
tilley-seed, . See tilly-seed. 
tillie-vallie, tillie-wallie (til'i-val'i. -wal'i), 
interj. Same as tilly-vally. [Scotch.] 
till-lock (til'lok), re. A lock especially adapted 
for tills or money-drawers. 
tillmant (til'man), n. [Early mod. E. also til- 
man; < ME. titman; < titt^ + man,] A man 
who tills the earth ; a husbandman. 
Now every grayne almest hath flouies swete, 
Untouched now the Tilman lete hem prowe. 
Palladium, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 149. 
tillodont (til'9-dont), a. and n. I. a. Of or 
pertaining to the Tillodontia. 
II. n. A member of the Tillodontia. 
Tillodontia (til-o-don'shi-a), n. pi. [NL., < Gr. 
t-'Mziv, pluck, tear, + bdovf (bSovr-) = E. tooth.] 
A remarkable group of fossil perissodactyl ani- 
mals from the Middle and Lower Eocene of 
North America, represented by generalized or 
synthetic types which seem to combine some 
characters of ungulates, rodents, and carni- 
vores. As an order it is represented by the 
family Tillodontidee. Also Tillodonta. 
Tillodontidae (til-o-don'ti-de), n. pi. [NL., < 
Tillodontia + -idee.] A family of extinct mam- 
mals, representing the Tillodontia. 
Tillotheriidae (til"o-the-ri'i-de), n. pi. [< Tillo- 
therium + -idee.'] A family of fossil mammals, 
represented by the genus Tillotherium. 
Tillptherium (til-o-the'ri-um), n. [NL. (Marsh, 
1873), < Gr. r'Mxiv, pluck, tear, + fir/piov, a wild 
beast.] 1 . A genus of Eocene American mam- 
mals, referred to the Tillodontia: probably the 
same as Anchippodus. T. fodiens had a skeleton 
resembling that of carnivores ; the skull like that of a 
bear; molars as in ungulates; rodent-like incisors; the 
femur with three trochanters; the feet plantigrade, with 
five clawed digits; and scaphoid and lunar carpals distinct. 
2. [(. c.] An animal of this genus. 
tillow (til'6), v. i. A corruption of tiller^. 
tills (tilz), . pi. [Shortened from lentils, on the 
ground that Lent "agreeth not with the mat- 
ter."] The lentil. [Old prov. Eng.] 
tillt (tilt). Till (or to) it. See tilP, prep., 1. 
[Scotch.] 
tilly (til'i), a. [<K* + -yl.] Having the char- 
acter of till or boulder-clay: as, soil resting on 
a Mlii bed. 
tilly-fallyt, interj. See tilly-vally. 
tilly-seed. (til'i-sed), n. [Also tilley-seed; < "filly 
NL. Tiglium f) + seed.] The seed of a tree 
formerly distinguished as Croton Pavana, but 
found to be not different from C. Tiglium, whose 
seeds yield croton-oil. 
tilly-vally (til'i-val'i), interj. [Also (Sc.) tillie- 
vallie, tillie-wallie, and formerly tillu-fally; ori- 
gin obscure.] An interjection, equivalent to 
nonsense! bosh! 
She [his wife] used to say afterwards T&lie rallie. tillif 
vallie, what will you do, Mr. More ? will you sit and make 
goslings in the ashes? Sir T. Ware's Utopia, Int., p. xv. 
Tilly f ally, Sir John, ne'er tell me ; your ancient swag- 
gerer conies not in my doors. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 90. 
tilmus (til'mus), n. [NL., < Gr. ivA/zcif, a pulling. 
tearing (of the hair), < r'Meiv, pluck, pull, tear.] 
In med., floccillation, or picking of bedclothes. 
See floccillation. 
til-oil (til'oil), n. Same as teel-oiJ. See of 7 and 
sesame. 
til-seed (til'sed), H. The seed of the til or 
sesame. 
tilt 
tilsentt, tilsont, . Same as tinsel 2 . 
tilt 1 (tilt), r. [< ME. tilten, tylten, tulten, < AS. 
'tyltan (by mutation from "tealtian) = OHG. 
'gelten, amble (in deriv. zeltdri. MHG. G. zelter, 
an ambler, a horse that ambles), = Icel. tolta, 
amble. = Sw. tultn, waddle; from the adj. seen 
in AS. tealt, unsteady, unstable, tottering. Cf. 
D. tel-ganger for *tclt-ganger, an ambler; MHG. 
zelt, G. dial, zelt, pace, amble; Icel. "toll, pace, 
amble, in hof-tolt, lit. 'hoof -tilt'; root unknown. 
Connection with till s , ' draw' or ' lift,' is improb- 
able.] I. intranx. If. To totter; tumble; fall; 
be overthrown. 
Whon he com in-to the lond leeue thon for sothe. 
Feole temples ther-inne tulten to the eorthe. 
Joseph ofArimathie (E. E. T. S.), p. 4. 
2. To move unsteadily ; toss. 
The fleet swift tilting o'er the surges flew. 
Pope, Odyssey, iv. 797. 
The long green lances of the corn 
Are tilting in the winds of morn. 
Whittier, The Summons. 
3. To heel over ; lean forward, back, or to one 
side ; assume a sloping position or direction. 
I am not bound to explain how a table tUts any more 
than to indicate how, under the conjuror's hands, a pud- 
ding appears in a hat. Faraday, Mental Education. 
4. To charge with the lance ; join in a tilting 
contest, or tilt; make rushing thrusts in or as 
in combat or the tourney; rush with poised 
weapon; fight; contend; rush. 
Our Glass is heer a bright and glist'ring shield ; 
Our Satten, steel; the Musick of the Field 
Doth rattle like the Thunders dreadfull roar : 
Death tilteth heer. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Vocation. 
Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast. 
Shah., Othello, ii. 3. 188. 
We'l frisk in our shell; . . . 
Now Mortals that hear 
How we Tilt and Carrier 
Will wonder with fear. 
Buckingham, Rehearsal, v. 1. 
I'm too discreet 
To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. i. 70. 
5. To rush; charge; burst into a place. [Col- 
loq.] 
The small young lady tilted into the buttery after my 
grandmother, with the flushed cheeks and triumphant 
air of a victor. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, xx. 
To tilt at the ring. See rtn^i. 
II. trans. 1. To incline ; cause to heel over; 
give a slope to; raise one end of: as, to tilt a 
barrel or cask in order to facilitate the empty- 
ing of it; to tilt a table. 
A favourite game with Shelley was to put Polly on a 
table and lilt it up, letting the little girl slide its full 
length. E. Dowden, Shelley, II. 123. 
They spent a good deal of time, also, asleep in their ac- 
customed corners, with their chairs tilted back against the 
walL Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, Int., p. 15. 
2. To raise or hold poised in preparation for 
attack. 
Sons against fathers //" the fatal lance. 
J. Philips, Cider, ii. 60S. 
3. To attack with a lance or spear in the ex- 
ercise called the tilt. 4. To hammer or forge 
with a tilt-hammer or tilt : as, to tilt steel to 
render it more ductile Tilted steel. Same mshear- 
steel. To tilt up, in geol. , to turn up or cause to incline, 
and, aa this word is more generally used, at a somewhat 
steep angle. 
tilt 1 (tilt), n. [< tilft, r. Cf. E. dial, tolt, a 
blow against a beam or the like.] 1. A slop- 
ing position; inclination forward, backward, 
or to one side : as, the tilt of a cask ; to give a 
thing a tilt. 
A gentleman of large proportions, . . . wearing his 
broad-brimmed, steeple-crowned felt hat with the least 
possible tut on one side. 
0. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 62. 
2. A thrust. [Rare.] 
Two or three of his liege subjects, whom he very dex- 
terously put to death with the tilt of his lance. 
Addison, Freeholder, No. 10. 
3. An exercise consisting in charging with the 
spear, sharp or blunted, whether against an 
antagonist or against a mark, such as the quin- 
tain. During the middle ages citizens tilted on horse- 
back, and also in boats, which were moved rapidly against 
one another, so that the defeated tilter was thrown into 
the water. 
There shalbe entertained into the said Achademy one 
good horsman, to teache noble men and gentlemen' . . . 
to m ii in- at Ringe, TUte, Towrney, and cowrse of the fielde. 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S.), p. 4. 
See at the Southern Isles the tides at tilt to run. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, ii. 219. 
The tilt was now opened, and certain masqued knights 
appeared in the course. 
/. D'Israeli, Calam. of Authors, II. 224. 
