tipple 
Have yc tippled drink more line 
Than mine Dolt's Canary wine? 
Kent*, Lines on the .Mermaid Tavern. 
2. To affect by tippling, or frequent drinking: 
bring under the infinenoe of strong drink ; make 
boozy or drunk. 
If the head be well lii'i'lxl, he [Satan] gets In, and 
make* the eyes wanton, tin- tongue blnsiiheiimiis, tin- 
liuiid- iv:niy I., stall. T. Adam*, Works, II. 4*. 
Merry, merry, merry, wo sail from the east, 
ilalf tippled at a rain-bow feast. 
Dryden, Tyrannic Love, IT. 1. 
He si. iir It, Indeed, out of his own Bottles, rather than 
be nib'd ot his Liquor. Misers use to tipple themselvcx 
so. Bromt, Jovial Crew, v. 
tipple 3 (tip'l), H. [< Hi>iilrX. c.] Liquor taken 
in tippling; stimulating drink: sometimes used 
figuratively. 
While the tipplf was paid for, all went merrily on. 
.*> K. L'Eslrantje. 
Men who never enter a church . . . procure their tip- 
pie from a circulating library. /'op. Sd. Mo., XXII. 780. 
tippler 1 (tip'ler), H. [< tipple? + -erl.] 1. 
One who or that which tipples or turns over; 
a tumbler. [Prov. Kng.] 
When they talk of a tumbler pigeon, you hear them say 
"Whataftwjferhels!" HaUiwrll. 
2. Same as tipper^, 1. 
tippler'- (tip'ler), n. [< tipple* + -erl.] 1. One 
who tipples ; especially, a person who drinks 
strongliquor habitually without positive drunk- 
enness; H moderate toper. 
Gamesters, tipplers, tavern banters, and other such dis- 
solute people. Harmon, tr. of Beza, p. 813. (Latham.) 
2f. One who sells tipple ; the keeper of a tav- 
ern or public house; a publican. 
They were but tipplers, such as keep ale-houses. 
Latimer, Sermons (Parker 8oc.), I. MS. 
tippling-house (tip'ling-hous), n. A dram-shop. 
tippy (tip'i), a. [< ttp2 + -yi.] j. Liable to 
tip; given to tipping or tumbling; wabbling; 
unsteady. [Colloq.J 
The tippy sea. Philadelphia Times, Jan. 18, 1888. 
2. Characterized by a tipping action or move- 
ment, as a person; hence, gingerly; smart; 
fine. [Colloq.] 
It was not one of your tippy, fashionable, silver-slip- 
pered kind of conversions, but it was a backwoods con- 
version. Peter Carturight, Fifty Years as Presiding Elder. 
tipsify (tip'si-fi), v. t. ; pret. and pp. tipsijicd, 
ppr. tipsifying. [< tipsy + -fij.] To make 
tipsy ; fuddle ; inebriate. [Colloq.] 
She was In such a passion of tears that they were 
obliged to send for Dr. Floss, and half tipsify her with sal- 
volatile. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, I. 
tipsily (tip'si-li), adr. In a tipsy manner. 
tipsiness (tip'si-nes), n. The state of being 
tipsy; partial intoxication ; inebriation. 
tip-sled (tip'sled), n. A sled the box of which 
is supported on trunnions aiid on a front post 
to which it is secured by a hook ; a dumping- 
sled. E. H. Knight. 
tipstaff (tip'staf). .; pi. tipstarea (-stavz). 
[Reduced trom ME. tipped staf, a spiked or 
piked staff; cf. pikestaff as related to piked 
staff.'} 1 . A staff tipped or capped with metal ; 
a staff having a crown or cap, formerly the 
badge of a constable or sheriff's officer. 
tirailleur 
which the dtMOHIi nil nf the wings Is present and unite 
two veins, the upper always forked, ana In which the an- 
tenn* are thirteen- jointed. Over 70 species occur in North 
America. T. oleracea of England, the cabbage-gnat or 
cabbage crane-fly, often does great damage to cabbages, 
its larva? gnawing through the roots. This Is one of the 
insects called In Great Britain daddy-lonpjeffs or father- 
long-legs (a name given In the I nited States to certain 
ally checkered for the firmer grasp of the shooter s left 
hand, 
tip-stretcher (tip'strech'er), n. A macliine 
for stretching hat-bodies, 
tipsy (tip'si), a. [< tip'*, i-., or tips, .. + .ay 
an in rrW.ii/, flimsy, etc. Cf. O. dial. (Hwistt) 
tipx, intoxication, tipaeln, fuddle with drink; cf. 
also ttppfes.] i. Overcome with drink so as -, 
to stagger slightly; partially intoxicated; fnd- Tlpularia (tii-u-la n-tt), . [XL.. < Tipula + 
died; boozy. -'inn.] 1. A genus of fossil crane-flies, found 
in the lithographic limestone rocks of Bavaria. 
T. tfyleri in the only specie... H'I 1/1 nliiinjh, li!> 
2. [(Nuttall, 1H18): 
so named from a re- 
semblance of the flow- 
er to a crane-fly: see 
Tipula.] A genus of 
terrestrial orchids, of 
Tile riot of the tipsy Bacchanals, 
Tearing the Thraclan singer In their rage. 
Shot., M. N. D., v. t. 48. 
2. Manifesting or characterized by tipsiness; 
proceeding from or giving rise to inebriation. 
Midnight shout, and revelry, 
Tipsy dance, and jollity. 
Milton, I omus, 1. 104. i/i-iiunniui ini-iimn, MI 
tipsy-cake (tip'si-kak), n. A kind of cake com- the tribe Epidendreir 
posed of pastry stuck with almonds, saturated and subtribe Liparirr. 
with wine, and served with custard sauce ; also, 
any stale cake similarly treated and served. It 
is used as a dessert, 
tipsy-key (tip'si-ke), w. A watch-key, invented 
by Breguet, having a pair of ratchets which 
clutch the pipe of the key when turned in the 
right direction, but slip when it is wrongly 
turned, so as to prevent any wrenching of the 
watch-movement. The principle has been ap- 
plied to the winder in stem-winding watches, 
tip-tilted (tip'til'ted), a. Having the tip or 
point tilted or turned up. [Rare.] 
Lightly was her slender nose 
Tip-tilted like the petal of a flower. 
Tennyson, (lareth and Lynette. 
tiptoe (tip'to), n. [< ME. tipto ; < ttpl + toe.] 
1. The tip of a toe: used in the plural, with 
reference to posture or movement on the ends 
(balls) of the toes of both feet, literally or 
figuratively. 
He moste wlnke, so Ipude he wolde cryen, 
It Is characterized by flow- 
ers with a long >lender spur, 
a lip with the two lateral 
lobes small and short, a nar- 
row erect column, and four 
unappendaged and finally 
slender-stalked pollinla. 
The 2 species are natives, 
one of the Himalayas, the 
other of the I' tilted States. 
They are herbs with large 
solid bulbs on a short root- 
t. the inflorescence of Tifulario 
Jtsreler; 3, the rhizome with the 
leaf; a. a (lower ; It. the fruit 
t What? use the virtue of your snaky tipsta/ 
there upon us? 
Mercury. No, boy, but the smart vigour of my palm 
about your ears. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, i. 1. 
2. An officer bearing a tipstaff; especially, in 
England, a sheriffs officer charged with the 
execution of laws against debtors. 
Then coinineth the tipped-staves for the Marshals*, 
And saye they haue prisoners mo than lnniii.ii 
<Jod Spede the Plough (E. E. T. S.), 1. 77. 
A Puritan divine . . . had, while pouring the baptismal 
water or distributing the eucharistic bread, been anxious- 
ly listening for the signal that the tipstaves were approach- 
Ing. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., Til. 
tipster (tip'ster), H. [< ti/>- + -xtrr.] A per- 
son specially employed in furnishing tips or 
secret information to persons interested, for 
lietting or speculative purposes, in the issue of 
horse-races, the rise and fall of stocks, etc. : 
distinguished from a tout, who may be in the 
tipster's employment. [Colloq.] 
The crowd of touts and tipsters whose advertisement 
nil up the columns of the sporting press. 
Nineteenth Century, XXVI. MI.. 
tip-stock (tip'stok), . The movable tip or fore 
end of a gunstock, situated under the barrel or 
barrels, especially when it is a separate piece. 
in front of the breech ortrisiger-enard. A hinged 
or detachable tip-stock is required for breech-loaders 
which break In MM vertical plane. The surface Is usu- 
stock, producing a solitary 
orate leaf and an unbranch- 
ed elongated scape bearing 
a loose raceme of small 
greenish and purple-tinged 
flowers. T. discolor Is a rare 
plant of sandy woods from 
Vermont and Michigan to 
Florida: a book-name Is 
crane-Ay orchis; about 
Washington. D. C., It Is known as tallmmot, from the ap- 
pearance of the cut bulbs. It resembles the puttyroot In 
developing its leaf In autumn after flowering, and differs 
in the smaller size, ovate shape, and purple under surface 
And stonden on his tiptoon therwithal. /.. - ,-/ . 
CAoutrrVNun's Priest's Tale 1 487 tlpulanan (tip-u-la'ri-an), . and . [< Tipulu 
Upon his tiptoes nicely up he went f "<*<} I. Pertaining or related to the 
Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 1009. genus Tipula ; belonging to the Tipulidsp, as a 
O how on tip-toes proudly mounts my muse ! crane-fly; tipulary. 
Stalking a loftier gait than satires use. IT. . A crane-fly, daddy-long-legs, or some 
Harston, Scourge of VUlanle, ix. 6. similar insect. 
2. The ends of the toes collectively ; the for- tipulary (tip'u-la-ri), n. [< Tipula + -ary.] 
ward extremity of the foot, or of the feet joint- Same as tipulariiin. 
ly: in the phrase on tiptoe (a tiptoe), indicating Tipulidae (ti-pu'li-de), n. pi. [NL. (Leach, 
cautious or mincing movement, or a stretching 1819), < Tipula + -/.] A large and wide- 
spread family of nematocerons dipterous in- 
sects, the crane-flies of the United States and 
the daddy-long-legs of England, including the 
largest of the Xematocera. The legs are extremely 
long and slender, the thorax bears a V-shaped suture, 
the wings have numerous veins and a peifect discal cell, 
and the ovipositor is composed of two pairs of long horny 
pointed valves, for laying eggs In the ground or other flrm 
substances. The larva; are footless, gray In color, pointed 
at one end, and move by means of transverse swellings 
below the body. They live usually in the earth or In de- 
composing wood, seldom In the water, and rarely on the 
leaves of trees. When feeding underground on the roots 
of plants, they occasionally do great damage to cultivated 
crops. The species of the anomalous genus Chionea are 
wingless and are found on snow. (See>noir-/fy.) The fam- 
ily Is divided Into nine or more sections. About 300 spe 
cies, of 52 genera, have been described from North America. 
rup (tip'up), n. 1. la fishing, same as tt/fi. 
-2. In ornith., same as ./Mrf/rr, 4. See teeter- 
tail, and cut under Tringnides. 
up to the greatest possible height: also used 
figuratively. 
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, 
Will stand a tiptoe, when this day is named, 
And rouse him at the name of (Yisplan. 
Shot., Hen. V., IT. 3. 41 
They stoop forward when they should walk upright : 
they snuffle along a tip Toe. curtesy on one Side. 
C. Shadmll, Humours of the Army, if. 1. 
Our enemies, . . . from being In a state of absolute de- 
spair, and on the point of evacuating America, are now 
on tiptoe. 
Washington, quoted In Bancroft's Hist. Const, I. '281. 
She . . . slept across the room on tip-tnr. as Is the custom- 
ary gait of elderly women. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, II. 
tiptoe (tip'to), v. i. ; pret. and pp. tiptoed, ppr. 
tiptoeing. [< tiptoe, n.] To go or move on the 
tips of the toes, or with a mincing gait, as from 
caution or eagerness. 
Mabel! tiptrrd It to her door. 
Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, IV. xllv. 
tiptoe (tip'to), adr. [Abbr. of a tiptoe, on tip- 
toe.] On tiptoe, literally or figuratively. 
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day 
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. 
Shot:., E-and J., III. & in. 
w. and a. [( tipi + topi.] j t 
IB extreme top; the highest point in alti- 
tude, excellence, etc. [Colloq.] 
Everything that accomplishes a flue lady Is practised to 
the last perfection. Madam, she herself is at the very tip 
top of It Vanbrugh, Journey to London, ilL 1. 
I needn't tell you, Mr. Transome, that it 's the apex., 
which, I take it, means the tip-top and nobody can get 
higher than that, I think. George Eliot. Felix Holt, xvil. 
II. a. Of the highest order or kind; most 
excellent; first-rate. [Colloq.] 
What appeared amiss was ascribed to tip-top quality 
breeding. Qoldsm&h, Vicar, Ix. 
tiptop (tip'top'), arfc. [< tiptop, a.] In a tip- 
top manner; in the highest degree; to the top 
notch. [Colloq.] 
"That suits us tipJop, ma'am," said the coxswain. 
The Century, XXiV. S1. 
Tipula t tip'u-lii), H. [NL. (Linnaeus, 1733), < L. 
tip-wagon (tip'wag'on), n. A wagon that can 
The^"a of a nil 
w^fch works ?n*?he 
terminal buds of the cranberry-vine. [U. 8.] 
tirade (ti-rad'), n. [< F. tirade, a passage, a 
in a play, formerly a pull, draught, 
long: see tire*.] 1. A long-drawn passage in 
speech or writing; an uninterrupted sequence 
of expression or declamation on a single theme. 
as in poetry, the drama, or conversation. 
Sometimes the tirade (In the chanson de geste] Is com- 
pleted by a shorter line, and the later chansons are regu- 
larly rhymed. Kncyc. Brit., IX. 888. 
2. In specific English use, a long vehement 
speech ; an outpour of vituperation or censure. 
Gabriel took the key, without waiting to hear the con- 
clusion of the tirade. 
T. Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, xxxvl. 
3. In music, a diatonic run or slide inserted 
between two tones that are separated by a con- 
siderable interval, producing a kind of porta- 
, mento effect . 
/i/i/)ii/n. a water-spider. Cf. TSpAiVi.] A tirailleur (ti-ra-lyer'). . [F., a soldier (shoot - 
genus of crniie-lhes. typical of the fam- er) in the skirmish-line, < tirailler, shoot often 
or irregularly, < tirrr. draw, shoot: see fir?-.] 
ily li/mliila-. it n<> Includes only those species in 
