tilt 
4. pi. The dregs of beer or ale ; washings <it 
beer-barrels. 
Mu>t\ , unsavory or unwholesome tilt*, or dregs of beer 
and ale. ,v. /MiwU, Taxes In Krurland, I \ " 
5. A tilt-hammer. 
Tin; ImuiincriiiK midrr the h<:,\\ tilt r,Mrdcne the 
metal, anil causes the dross and ftcale ti tly off. 
If. If. llffenfr 'Hi,' Him, p. .'_'!. 
6. A median ii-al device fur fishing through an 
opening ill the ire. A imple lilt U a lath or nar. 
row hoard with a hole hored through one end. through 
which a round stick is run, both mils of the hoard re.stintr 
on the sides of the hole In the Ice. The line is attitdinl 
to the short el)d of the lath, and when a tlslr Is hooked his 
weight tips tip tin- larger end, thus indicating that he Is 
caught. An improved tilt consists of an upright with an 
arm over which the line passes down Into the water. 
When a tlsh hitcs, the line Is cast off, and the arm falls and 
automatically hoists a little flag on the upright as a sig- 
nal. There are many other modifications of the same de- 
vice. Also called titter, tilt-up, and tip-up. 
7. A pier, built of brush and stone, on which 
fishermen unload and dress their fish. [New- 
fomroMMiiclJ-Full tilt, nt full speed and with direct 
thrust ; without wavering ; direct and with full force : 
as, tn run. ni'/ ti/t against something. 
The beast . . . comes full tilt at the Canoa. 
l>ampirr. Voyages, an. 1676. 
/'"// mi against their foe*. 
Where thickest fell the blows, 
And war cries mingling rose, 
"8t George ! " "St. Denya !" 
R. H. Stoddard, Ballad of Crecy. 
tilt 2 (tilt), n. [An altered form of ME. telt, 
itself altered, prob. by the influence of the 
Dan. telt = Sw. tail, from teld, < AS. teld, ge- 
teld = MD. telde = LG. telt =_- OHG. MHG. 
lelt (more commonly gizelt), G. zelt = Icel. tjald 
= Sw. talt = Dan. telt (with final -t, after G. t), 
a tent; hence, from Teut. (Goth, t), Sp. Pg. 
toldo,a tent; from the verb shown in AS. "tel- 
dan (in comp. beteldan), cover (> OF. Itnulir, 
cover, > taudix, a hut). The noun tilt, for teld, 
may have been influenced in part by associa- 
tion with tUft, as if lit. 'a sloping cover.'] A 
covering of some thin and flexible stuff, as a 
tent-awning; especially, in modern use, the 
cloth cover of a wagon. 
Being on shore, wee made a '/// with our oarea and aayle. 
Hakluytt Voyagei, n. U. 84. 
These pleasure barges were more or less ornate, and 
varied from the ordinary boat with a tiff of canvas or 
green boughs to very elaborately carved arid gilded ones. 
.'- .1 -7.ir.,i. Social I. if i- in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 148. 
tilt 2 (tilt), r. t. [< tilft, .] To furnish with 
an awning or tilt, as a wagon or a boat. 
tilt 3 (tilt), M. [Prob. short for tilt-up, 2.] The 
North American stilt, Himantopux mexicanu*. 
See cut under stilt. J. E. De Kay, 1842. 
tilt-boat (tilt'bot), n. A boat having a tilt or 
awning. 
Where the Ships, Hoys, Barks, Tiltboatt, Barges, and 
Wherries do usually attend to carry Passengers and Goods. 
John Taylor (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 223). 
Your wife Is a tnt-hit ; any man or woman may go In 
her for money ; she 's a coney catcher. 
DeUrer and Webtkr, Northward Ho, v. 1. 
tilter(til'ter). . [< l + -<ri.] 1. One who 
or that which tilts, inclines, or gives a slope to 
something; a contrivance for tilting a cask, 
cannon, or other object. 
The tilt' r, which takes the place of carrier or lifter In 
other guns, is constructed of one piece, and Is pivoted in 
line with the magazine tube. &t. Amrr., N. a, LXIII. 230. 
2. One who tilts, or joins in a tilting-match. 
While he was in England, he was a great Tiller. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 46. 
A fine hobby-horse, to make your son a filter t a drum, 
to make him a soldier? 
B. Jontnn, Bartholomew Kalr. lit 1. 
3. A forger who uses a tilt-hammer. 4. In 
ffhinif, same as tilft, 6. 
tilth (tilth), H. [< ME. tilths, < AS. tilth, till- 
ing, crop, < tilinn, till: see till' 1 .'] 1. The act 
of tilling; plowing, sowing, and the round of 
agricultural operations; tillage: cultivation. 
One high steeple, where the Arabians after they haue 
ended their tilth lay vp their instruments of husbandry, 
none daring to steale his neighbours tooles, In reuerence 
of a Saint of theirs, time buried. 
Piirchan, Pilgrimage, p. fllfi. 
I ;n and wide stretches a landscape rich with tilth and 
husbandry, boon Nature paying back to men tenfold for all 
their easy toil. J. A. Symontlt. Italy and Greece, p. 200. 
2. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a 
crop: as, land is in good tilth when it is ma- 
nured, plowed, broken, and mellowed for receiv- 
ing the seed. 3. That which is tilled: tillage- 
ground. 
Bote Treuthe schal techen ow his teeme for to dryue, 
Bothe to sowe a and to getten and sanen his tillhe. 
rirr* Plmnnan (A>, vli. !> 
Strew silently the fruitful seed. 
As softly "'er the tilth ye trend. 
| ' if the Sower. 
4. Crop; prod u<- 1 
Sent the sonne to sane a cursed marines tilth. 
Fieri Plouman (B), jcix. 480. 
5. The degree or depth of soil turned by tin- 
plow or spade in cultivation; that available 
soil on the earth's surface into which the roots 
of crops strike. 
The tilth, or depth of the ploughing, rarely exceeded six 
Inches, and oftener was less. A". S. Shalrr, Kentucky, p. 56. 
tilt-hammer (tilt'ham'er), n. In meeh., apow- 
er machine-tool for hammering, forging, etc. 
It Is a development from the trip-hammer, and. though for 
large work it baa been superseded by the steam-hammer, 
and for light work by drop-presses and drop-hammers, It 
Is still used In shovel-making and other light forging. It 
Tilting helmet. l6th 
century. 
consists essentially of a lever of the first or third order, 
and is operated by a cam-wheel or eccentric, the hammer 
being placed at the end of the longer arm of the lever. 
One type, known as the cushioned hammer, is fitted with 
rubber cushions to prevent jarring and noise. See trip- 
hammer. 
tilting-fillet (til'ting-fil'et), n. See fillet. 
tilting-gauntlet (til'ting-gantMet), H. A vari- 
etyof gauntlet which could be secured firmly 
with a hook, so that the hand could not be 
opened nor the lance struck from its grasp. 
Compare main-de-fcr. 
tilting-helmet (til'ting-hel'met), B. A heavy 
helmet used for the just from the time when 
this sport was no longer pur- 
sued in the arras of war. In the 
fifteenth century these helmets were 
so large that the head could move 
freely within them, their whole 
weight coming upon the gorgerin. 
The lumlere, or slit for vision, was 
In such a position that when the 
knight had couched his lance and 
stooped forward for the course he 
could see the helmet of his adver- 
sary, but when seated in the saddle 
he could not see before him, but 
only upward ; the afr-openlng of this 
helmet was on the right side, as the 
blow of the lance came on the left. In the sixteenth cen- 
tury the helmet* were still heavier, 
tilting-lance (til'ting-lans), n. A lance used in 
the just or tilt which often differed from the war- 
lance, especially in the head (see coronal, n.. 2). 
It was also furnished more generally than the war-lance 
with the roundel, and with the bur to secure the grasp of 
the hand, and was frequently decorated with painting 
and gilding. Some tilttng-lances have been preserved 
which from their extreme lightness are evidently hollow, 
and representations in manuscripts show some of so great 
a diameter that they must have been built up as with 
staves ; but these perhaps were used only for the quin- 
tain and similar sports. Compare iv>v , n., 6 (a), coticAl, 
e. t, 8, charge, 19. See cuts under morne and quintain. 
tilting-shield (til'ting-sheld), n. See shield. 
tilting-spear (til'ting-sper), n. 1. Same as 
tilting-lance. 2. In her., th representation of 
a tilting-lance used as a bearing, the shaft be- 
ing much shortened, and the coronal, bur, vam- 
plate, etc., exaggerated in size, 
tllting-target (til'ting-tar'get), n. The shield 
of the fifteenth century, used especially at 
justs, rounded oonvexly 
from side to side and con- 
cavely from top to bot- 
tom, so that the thrust of 
the lance would glance off 
side wise. These targets were 
often of great breadth propor- 
tionally and curved Into nearly 
a semicircle ; they were some- 
times covered with thin plates 
of horn, secured to wood, the 
surface of that material being 
especially calculated to cause f 'Sjh century. IF 
the coronal U, glance. SSCfiS...? 
tilt-mill (tilt'mil). H. 1. 
The machinery by which tilt-hammers are 
worked. 2. The building in which a tilt- 
hammer is operated. 
til-tree (til'tre), ii. [< L. tilia : see tei/.] The 
linden, chiefly Tilia Europtea. Canary Island 
til-tree, Oeotea (Oreoilaphne) fateni, noted for its Ill- 
smelling wood. Also tile, tile-tree. 
tilt-up (tilt'up), 11. 1. Ill Jisliintj, same as tilft. 
6. 2. In omith., a fiddler or teetortail. See 
pill under Trhirjoiilin. 
timber 
tilturet (til'tur), M. [Irreg. < till' + -turr. ap- 
par.in Imitation <>( mlturi. \ Hii>l>iin<!ry: i-ul- 
tivntion; tilth. 
Good tilth brings seeds, 
III tiltnrr weeds. 
Tu**rr, Husbandry, March's Abstract. 
tilt-yard ttilt'yiird), w. A place fur tilting, dif- 
fering from the lists in being permanent. The 
outer court of a castle wax often used as the 
tilt-yard. 
When Solyman onerthrew King Lewis of llungarle, he 
carried away three Images of cunning worke In BnuM, 
representing Hercules with his Club, Apollo with hi* 
Harpe, liiana with her Bow and Quiiier, and placed them 
In the tiltyard at n>nsUntin|>le. 
Purehat, Pilgrimage, p. -OH. 
Squiring to till-yanlt, play houses, pageants, and all such 
public places. B. Jftnton, Cynthia's Revels, Palinode. 
tilwood (til'wud), . f< til- (as in til-tree) + 
tfiMitn.] The timber of the Canary Island til- 
tree. See ti/-t>-" . 
tilyet. tilyert. Middle English forms of W>, 
Mm*. 
timal (ti'mal), H. The blue titmouse, Partm 
I'll fill' lln. Al-ll tltllllll. 
Timalia, Timalidse (ti-maMi-ft, ti-mal'i-de). 
Bee Timeli<i, Timeliidee. 
timariot (ti-ma'ri-ot), n. [< Turk, timar, < Pers. 
/i in in-, care, attendance on the sick, etc., also 
a military fief in the former feudal system of 
Turkey.] One of a body of Turkish feudal 
militia. 
(Us Timariati, which hold laud In Fee, to malntaliie so 
many horae men In bin serulce. 
Purehai, Pilgrimage, p. 291. 
timbal (tim'bal), 11. [Also timbul, tymbal ; < F. 
tin/hull' = S]>. timbal = Pg. timbal, tintbale, < It. 
timballo, var. of taballo (= Sp. atabal = Pg. 
atabal, atabale), < Ar. tabl. with art. at-tabl, a 
drum, timbal. Cf. atabal. 1 A kettledrum. 
timbale (tan-bal'), H. [F.J In cookery, a con- 
fection of pastry with various fillings: so called 
from the French name of the mold it takes its 
shape from. 
timber 1 (tim'ber), . and a. [Also dial, timmer; 
< ME. timber, tyntber, tymbre, < AS. timber, stuff 
or material to build with, = OS. timbar = 
OFries. timber, a building, = D. timmer, a room, 
= MLG. timber, timtner = OHG. simbar, MHG. 
zimber, wood to build with, timber-work, struc- 
ture, dwelling, room, G. Dimmer, room, chamber 
(zimmerholz, timber, :immermann, carpenter), 
= Icel. timbr = Sw. timmer = Dan. tommer = 
Goth. *timrs(in the deriv. timrjan, build, timrja, 
builder), timber; orig. material (of wood) to 
build with ; akin to L. domus = Or. <W/uof = Skt. 
dn mil = OBulg. iinnifi. house (lit. a building of 
wood) ; from the verb seen in Gr. il/ictv, build : 
see rfflwif 1 .] I. H. 1. Wood suitable for build- 
ing houses or ships, or for use in carpentry, 
joinery, etc.; trees cut down and squared or 
capable of being squared and cut into beams, 
rafters, planks, Doards, etc. 
Of this pyece off tymbre made the Icwes the crorae of 
oure lord. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 155. 
Ye've taken the timber out of my aln wood. 
And burnt my aln dear jewel! 
Lady Marjorie (Child's Ballads, II. 341). 
2. Growing trees, yielding wood suitable for 
constructive uses; trees generally; woods. See 
timber-tree. 
The old ash, the oak, and other timber rhewed no signs 
of winter. Gray, Letters, 1. 247. 
3. In British law, the kind of tree which a ten- 
ant for life may not cut; in general, oak, ash, 
and elm of the age of twenty years and upward, 
unless so old as not to have a reasonable quan- 
tity of useful wood in them, the limit being, ac- 
cording to some authorities, enough to make a 
good post. Local customs Include also (a) some other 
treea, such as beech or hornbeam, and (6) trees of leas or 
greater age or tested by girth Instead of age. 
4. Stuff; material. 
They are the fittest timber to make great politics of. 
Bacon, Ooodnes(ed. 1S87). 
5. A single piece of wood, either suitable for 
use in some construction or already in such use ; 
a beam, either by itself or forming a member of 
any structure : as, the timbers of a house or of 
a bridge. 6. \aiit., one of the curving pieces 
of wood branching upward from the keel of a 
vessel, forming the ribs. 7. The wooden part 
of something, as the beam or handle of a spear. 
He bowed on Us hone nekke, and the tymbir of the 
spores fly in peccs. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), Hi. G41. 
8. The stocks. [Rare.] 
The squire . . . gives me over to the beadle, who claps 
me here In the titnber. 
D. JemM, Men of rbararter, Christopher Snub, L 
