tip 
6. To make a slight gift of money to ; gratify 
with a small present of money, as a child ; espe- 
cially, to make a present of money to (a servant 
or employee of another), nominally for a ser- 
vice, actual or pretended, rendered or expected 
to be rendered by such servant or employee in 
the course of his duty, and for which he is also 
paid by his employer. [Colloq.] 
Then I, sir, tips me the verger with half -a-crown. 
Farquhar, Beaux' Stratagem, ii. 3. 
Remember how happy such benefactions made you in 
your own early time, and go off on the very flrst flue day 
and tip your nephew at school ! 
Thackeray, Newcomes, xvi. 
7. In music, same as tongue, 3 To tip off liquor, 
to turn up the vessel till all is out. To tip over, to over- 
turn by tipping. To tip the scale or scales, to depress 
one end of a scale below the other, as by excess of weight : 
overbalance the weight at the opposite end of a scale; 
hence, to overcome one consideration or inducement by 
the preponderance of some opposite one : as, to tip the 
scales at 150 pounds ; his interest tipped the scale against 
his inclination. To tip the traveler. See traveler. To 
tip (one) the wink, to wink at (any one) as a sign of cau- 
tion, mutual understanding, or the like. 
The pert jackanapes Nick Doubt tipped me the wink, and 
put out his tongue at his grandfather. 
Addison, Tatler, No. 86. 
To tip UP, to raise one end of, as a cart, so that the con- 
tents may fall out. 
II. intrans. 1. To lean or slant from the per- 
pendicular ; incline downward or to one side ; 
slant over: as, a carriage tips on an uneven 
road ; to tip flrst one way and then the other. 
2. To give tips or gratuities. To tip over.to up- 
set ; capsize, as a boat. 
tip 2 (tip), n. [< tip 2 , r.] 1. A light stroke; a 
tap ; in base-ball, a light hitting of the ball with 
the bat. See foul tip, below. 2. A tram or 
other large container contrived for the rapid 
transfer of coal by tipping out a whole load of 
it at once. 
A number of coal tips are being erected at Warrington. 
The Engineer, LXIX. 527. 
3. A place or receptacle for the deposit of 
something by tipping; a place into which gar- 
bage or other refuse is tipped ; a dump. 
Near to the affected dwellings is the town tip for refuse. 
Lancet, 1890, 1. 1311. 
4. Private or secret information for the bene- 
fit of the person to whom it is imparted; espe- 
cially, a hint or communication pointing to suc- 
cess in a bet or a speculative venture of any 
kind, as in horse-racing, the buying and selling 
of stocks or other property, etc. [Colloq.] 
It should be the first duty of consuls to keep the Foreign 
Office promptly supplied with every commercial tip that 
can be of use to British trade. 
Quarterly Rev., CLXIII. 175. 
5. A small present of money ; a gratuity ; espe- 
cially, a present of money made to a servant or 
employee of another, nominally for a service 
rendered or expected. See tip 2 , v. 1,, 6. 
What money is better bestowed than that of a school- 
boy's tip' ... It blesses him that gives and him that 
takes. Thackeray, Newcomes, xvi. 
Foul tip, in base-ball, a foul hit, not rising above the 
batsman's head, caught by the catcher when playing with- 
in ten feet of the home base. National Playing Rules for 
The flrst catchers who came up under the bat were 
wont to wear a small piece of rubber in the month as a 
protection to the teeth horn foul tips. 
The Century, XXXVIII. 837. 
Straight tip, correct secret information ; a trustworthy 
hint in regard to chances in betting, speculation, etc. : a 
pointer: usually with the. [Slang.] 
He was a real good fellow, and would give them the 
straight tip [about a horse-race). 
A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, II. 33. 
Tip for tapt, one stroke for another ; like for like. See 
tit for tat, under (it*. To miss one's tip See misgi 
tip s (tip). H. [Perhaps < tip 2 , r. Cf. tipple, tipsy.'] 
A draught of liquor. HalliweU. [Prov. Eng.] 
ti-palm (te'pam), n. Same as ffl. 
tip-car (tip'kar), n. On a railroad, a gravel-car 
or coal-car pivoted on its truck, so that it can 
be upset to discharge its load at the side of 
the track ; a dump-car. 
tip-cart (tip'kart), n. A cart the platform of 
which is hung so that its rear end can be tip- 
ped or canted down to empty its contents. Also 
called dump-cart. 
tip-cat (tip'kat), n. 1. A game in which a 
piece of wood tapering to a point at each end 
is made to rise from the ground by being tipped 
or struck at one end with a stick, and while in 
the air is knocked by the same player as far as 
possible. Also called cat-and-dog'. 
In the middle of a game at tip-cat, he [Bunyan] paused 
and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand! 
Maravlay, .Inhn Bunyan. 
6350 
2. The piece of wood that is struck in this 
game. More commonly called the cat. 
tip-cheese (tip'chez), n. A boys' game in which 
a small stick is struck (as in tip-cat) by one, and 
hit forward by another. Davies. 
At tip-cheese, or odd and even, his hand is out. 
Dickens, Pickwick, xxxiv. 
tipett, ". A Middle English variant of tippet. 
tip-foot (tip'fut), . A deformity of the foot; 
talipes equinus. See talipes. 
Tiphia (tif'i-S), . [NL. (Fabricius, 1775), < Gr. 
ri^?/, a certain insect. Cf. Tipula.] 1. A genus 
of fossorial hymenopterous insects, or digger- 
Unadorned Tiphia (Tiphia inornata}. 
a, perfect wasp ; f>, head of larva, enlarged ; c. larva, ventral view ; 
d, cocoon, cut open. 
wasps, of the family Scotticise, having the eyes 
entire and the basal segment of the abdomen 
rounded at the base. T. inornata is common in the 
eastern United States. It makes perpendicular burrows 
in sandy soils, and the males frequent flowers. In its 
larval state it is a parasite of white grubs (the larvse of 
beetles of the genus Lachnosterna). 
2. [/. c.] A wasp of this genus: as, the un- 
adorned tiphia. 
tipi, n. Same as tepee. 
ti-plant (te'plant), n. Same as til. 
tip-paper (tip'pa"per), n. A stiff kind of pa- 
per for lining the tips or iusides of hat-crowns. 
E. H. Knight. 
tipped-stafft, See tipstaff. 
tippenny (tip'e-ni), . Same as twopenny. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
tipper 1 (tip'er), n. [< tip"* + -eri.] 1. A means 
of tipping; something with which to cause an 
object to tip or become canted ; especially, an 
arrangement for dumping coal on screens with 
a saving of manual labor. Also tippler. 
The top of this mass is provided with a tipper which 
catches against the end of a bent lever. 
Oanot, Physics (trans. X 79. 
2. One who tips, or operates by tipping; spe- 
cifically, a person employed to empty coal or 
the like from tips, as at a mine or a dock. 
The Bute Docks Company's tippers . . . did, by means 
of the movable tips on the west side of the Roath Basin, 
last week some remarkable work in coal shipping. 
The Engineer, LXIX. 175. 
3. One who gives tips or advice ; especially, one 
who gives hints or secret information in regard 
to betting or speculation. [Colloq.] 4. One 
who gives tips or gratuities. 
tipper 2 (tip'er), n. [Named after one Thomas 
Tipper, a brewer.] In England, a particular 
kind of ale. 
The peculiarity of this beverage [tipper] arises from its 
being brewed from brackish water, which is obtainable 
from one well only ; and all attempts to imitate the fla- 
vour have hitherto failed. Lower. 
If they draws the Brighton Tipper here, I takes that ale 
at night ; ... it bein' considered wakeful by the doctors. 
Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xxv. 
tippet (tip'et), i. [Formerly also ttppit; < ME. 
tippet, tipet, tipit, typet, tepet, < AS. tappet, a 
tippet (cf. tapped, tapestry, carpet, txppe, a fil- 
let, band), < L. tapete, ML. also tapetum, < Gr. 
Tdm/f, figured cloth, tapestry, carpet, rug, cov- 
erlet, etc.: see tappefl.'] 1. (a) A long and 
narrow pendent part of the dress, as the hang- 
ing part of a sleeve or the liripipium. (b) Any 
scarf or similar garment. 
Biforn hire wolde he go 
With his typet ybounde about his heed. 
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 33. 
The tippet, or circlet of cloth surrounding the crown [of 
Richard II.], hung loosely on one side of the head. . . . 
Richard I. ... wears a furred tippet round his shoulders. 
fairhnlt, Costume, 1. 177. 
2. A cape or muffler, usually covering the shoul- 
ders or coming, at most, half-way to the elbow, 
but longer in front ; especially, such a garment 
when made of fur ; in modern use, any covering 
for the neck, or the neck and shoulders, with 
hanging ends, especially a woolen muffler tied 
about the neck. Fur tippets still form part of 
the official costume of English judges. 
They ask for a Muff and Tippit of the best Seal Fur from 
five to Six pounds and Upwards, which at most doth not 
Consume more than two good Skins. 
Quoted in ff. ami (/., 7th Rer.. IV. 445. 
tipple 
She wore a small sable tippet, which reached just to her 
shoulders. George Eliot, M ill on the Floss, i. 7. 
3. In the Ch. of Eng., a kind of cape worn by 
literates (non-graduates), of stuff, and instead 
of the hood, and by graduates, beneficed clergy, 
and dignitaries, of silk, at times when they do 
not wear the hood. 4f. A hood of chain-mail: 
used sometimes for camail. 5. A length of 
twisted hair or gut in a fishing-line. 6f. A 
bundle of straw bound together at one end. 
used in thatching. [Scotch.] 7. In ornitli.. 
a formation of long or downy feathers about a 
bird's head or neck ; a ruff or ruffle. Cones. 
8. In entom., one of the patagia, or pieces at- 
tached to the sides of the pronotum, of a moth : 
so called because they are generally covered 
with soft, plumy scales, thus resembling tip- 
pets. Also .iliimliler-tippet Hempen tippet, a 
hangman's rope. 
When the hangman had put on his hempen tippet, he 
made such haste to his prayers as if he had had another 
cure to serve. Marlowe, Jew of Malta, iv. 4. 
St. Johnstone's tippet, a hangman's rope : a halter for 
execution : said to be named from the wearing of halters 
about their necks by Protestant insurgents of Perth (for- 
merly also called St. John's Town, St. Johnstone) in the 
beginning of the Reformation, in token of their willing- 
ness to be hanged if they flinched. [Scotch.] 
I'll hae to tak the hills wi' the wild whigs, as they ca' 
them, and then it will be my lot . . . to be sent to Heaven 
wi' a Saint JohnttoiUt'l tfppit about my bause. 
Scott, Old Mortality, vii. 
To turn tippet*, to turn one's coat that is, make a 
complete change in one's course or condition. Compart- 
turncoat. 
One that for a face 
Would put down Vesta, in whose looks doth swim 
The very sweetest cream of modesty 
You to turn tippet ! B. Jonson, Case is Altered, lit. 3. 
Tyburn tippett, a hangman's halter. 
He should have had a Tyburn tippet, a half-penny hal- 
ter, and all such proud prelates. 
JMtimer, 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
tippet-grebe (tip'et-greb), . A grebe, as the 
great crested, Podiceps cristatus, or red-necked, 
P. f/riseigena, having a ruff or tippet. Most 
grebes are of this character. 
tippet-grouse (tip'et-grous), . The ruffed 
grouse, Bonasa umbella. Also shoulder-knot 
rouse. See grouse, and cut under Bonasa. 
1 (tip'ing), u. [Verbal n. of tip*, .] 
The act of putting a tip to. 
tipping 2 (tip'ing), n. [Verbal n. of tip 2 , .] 1. 
The act of tilting or overturning : as, table-ftp- 
ping. 2. In the preparation of curled hair, the 
operation of tossing the carded hair about with 
a stick so that it will fall in tufts, to be afterward 
consolidated by rapid blows. 3. The practice 
of making presents to servants, etc., nominally 
for services rendered or expected. See tip?, 
v. t. } 6. 4. In music, same as tonguiny, 3. 
tipping-wagon (tip'ing-wag'on), . A wagon 
that can be canted up in order to discharge its 
load; a tip-cart. [Eng.] 
tippitt, n. An old spelling of tippet. 
tipple 1 - (tip'l), n. [Dim. of tipt, .] In hay- 
making, a bundle of hay collected from the 
swath, and formed into a conical shape. This 
is tied near the top so as to make it taper to a point, and 
set upon its base to dry. [Prov. Eng.] 
tipple 2 (tip'l), v. [Freq.oftip 2 . Ct. topple.] To 
turn over, as in tumbling; tumble. HalliweU. 
tipple 2 (tip'l ),. [<ppfe2,;.] Theplace where 
cars are tipped, or have their contents dumped ; 
a dump; a cradle-dump. Also tip. [Penn- 
sylvania coal region.] 
The law allows a check weighmaster on each tipple. 
N. A. Rev., CXLIII. 181. 
tipple 3 (tip'l), v. ; pret. and pp. tippled, ppr. 
tippling. [< Norvv. tipla, drink little and often, 
= G. gipfeln, eat or drink in small quantities; 
appar. connected with tip 2 , and so with tipple 2 . 
Cf. tipsy.'] I. intrans. To drink strong drink 
often in small quantities. As commonly used, 
the word implies reprehensible indulgence in frequent or 
habitual drinking, short of the limit of positive drunken- 
ness. 
He 's very merry, madam ; Master Wildbrain 
Has him in hand, i'th' bottom o' the cellar; 
He sighs and tipples. 
Fletcher and Shirley, Night- Walker, i. 
Walking the rounds was often neglected [by the watch], 
and most of the nights spent in tippling. 
B. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 161. 
Tippling Act, an English statute of 1751 (24 Geo. II., c. 
40, 12) prohibiting actions to recover any debt under 
twenty shillings contracted at one time for liquors. 
II. trans. 1. To imbibe slowly and repeat- 
edly; drink by sips or in small quantities, as 
liquor ; use in drinking. 
Himself, for saving charges. 
A pe*-r<i. slir'd onion eats, and tipples verjuice. 
Dryden, tr. of Persius's Satires, iv. 73. 
