tithe 
Me 1 .] Same as titcli/. 
I have seen him trip it tithly. 
Bean, and Fl. 
(Imp. Diet.) 
Tithonian (ti-tho'ni-an), u. [< L. TitJioims, < 
Gr. 'I'iduvw, in Gr. myth, the brother of Priam 
and consort of Eos or Aurora, and endowed 
with immortality.] A name given by Oppel to 
a peculiar facie's of Upper Jurassic rocks ex- 
tensively developed in southern France and on 
the southern side of the Alps. The series thus 
named is characterized by limestones of very uniform 
lithological character, as if deposited in deep water when 
To tithe mint and cumin, to exercise rigid authority 
or close circumspection in small mutters, while neglecting 
greater or more important ones : with reference to Mat. 
xxiii. 23. 
II. t intraits. To pay tithes. Piers Plmeman 
(A), viii. 65. 
For lamb, pig, and calf, ami for other the like, 
Til he so as thy cattle the Lord do not strike. 
Turner, January's Husbandry, St. 42. 
tithe'-t, r. t. [ME. litlien, tiitlien, < AS. titliiaii, 
ti/tlii(in (= OS. tugithon = MHG. ge-noiden), 
concede, grant.] To concede; grant. Sub. of 
Gloucester. 
tithe-commissioner (ti?H'ko-mish"on-er), . 
One of a board of officers appointed by the 
English government for arranging propositions 
for commuting or compounding for tithes. Sim- 
nontfo, 
tithe-free (tiTH'fre). . Exempt from the pay- 
ment of tithes. 
tithe-gatherer (tiTH'gaTH"er-er), . 
collects tithes. 
titheless(tiTH'les),. [< tithe 1 + -less.] Tithe- 
free. 
tithe-owner (tiTH'o'ner), . A person to whom 
tithes are due ; one who owns the right to re- 
ceive and use the tithes of a parish or locality. 
In Great Britain many laymen are tithe-owners, 
through impropriation. Eiici/c. Brit., XXIII. tithonometer (tith-o-nom'e-ter), 
412. 
tithe-payer (tiTH'pa''er), w. One who pays 
tithes; a person from whom tithes are due. 
tithe-pig (tiTH'pig), 11. One pig out of ten, paid 
as a tithe or church-rate, filial,:, K. and J., 
i. 4. 79. 
tithe-proctor (tiTH'prok"tpr), . A levier or 
collector of tithes or church-rates. 
tither 1 (ti'sner), n. [< ME. titlierc, t y there ; < 
tithe 1 + -er 1 .] 1. One who levies or collects 
tithes. 2. A tithe-payer. 
Smale tytheres weren foule ysheut. 
Chaucer, Friar's Tale, 1. 12. 
title 
small Let me go down and settle whilst you call in your black 
man and titivate a lilt Thackeray, Virginians, xlviii. 
titivilt, w. [Also titifiU, early mod. E. tytty- 
fi/lle; origin obscure.] A knave; a jade. 
titlark (tit'lark), n. [< tit* + />/,!. Of. tit- 
mouse. Of. Shetland tfetick, titlark.] A small 
lark-like bird; hence, specifically, in ornith., a 
titling; a pipit; any bird of the genus An thus 
or subfamily Anthiiix. (see these words, and 
pipit). There are many species, of most parts of the 
world. The common titlark of the United States is A. 
ludovicianus, which abounds in eastern parts of the coun- 
try and in Canada. Several are common English birds, as 
. 
the meadow-pipit or moss-creeper, A. urateims; the tree- 
pipit or field-titlark, A. arboretis; and the sea-titlark or 
rock-pipit, A. obscuius. See rock-pipit, cut under Anthux, 
and phrases under lark. 
liuioio^iciti i naiitcier, as u uepuaitou ui uoau nwci irumi .... ,.-,.,* r s -\m *-j? j-t 7 j-*-7 j'*'7l 
the conditions of deposition were for a long time remark- title (tl tl), w. [< ME. title, titel, Mil, Mill, a 
ably uniform in character. 
tithonic (ti-thon'ik), a. [= F. tithouiqiie, < Gr. 
liHuvuf, Tithonus: see Titlionian.] Pertaining 
to or denoting those rays of light which pro- 
duce chemical effects; actinic. See actinism. 
tithonicity (tith-o-nis'i-ti), 11. [< tithonic + 
-itij.~\ That property of light by which it pro- 
duces chemical effects; actinism. 
One who tithonographic (ti-tho-no-graf ik), a. [< Gr. 
'IVtai'of (see tithonic) + vpSfuv, write.] Fixed 
or impressed by the tithonic rays of light; 
photographic. 
title, a stroke over an abridged word (a tittle), 
an epistle, < OF. title, titre, tiltre, a title, a 
stroke over an abridged word to indicate let- 
ters wanting, F. titre, a title, a stroke over an 
abridged word, right, claim, standard (of gold 
and silver), document, title in law, title-deed, 
head (of a page), etc., = Pr. titol, tiltre, titutr. 
point or dot over ', = Sp. titulo, title, tilde, a 
stroke over a word, an accent, tilde, = Pg. 
titulo, title, til, a stroke over a word, an accent, 
tilde, = Cat. tittla, mark, sign, character, = It. 
titolo, title. = Wallach. title, circumflex, = D. 
Ln/V\nci DMUlvt ( e ('f/M/j 1 11 11.7 j = TV cincdi'ii. if t (t, j v;ii v.. UIIJII^A., a^ MS* 
Draper also did something like the same thing, but not titel = OHG. Mill, MHG. titel, tittel, G. titel = 
quite the same thing, in what he called a tithonographic 
representation of the solar spectrum. 
J. N. Lockyer, Sped. Anal., p. 81. 
who maintains the principle of ecclesiastical 
tithing. [Rare.] 
Tithers themselves have contributed to thir own con- 
futation, by confessing that the Church liv'd primitively 
on Alms. Milton, Touching Hirelings. 
tither 2 (tiTii'er), iutlef.proii. 
father. 
The tane o' them is fu' o' corn, 
The tither is fu' o' hay. 
Willie and May Margaret (Child's Ballads, II. ITS). 
tithe-stealer (tiTH'ste *ler), . One who evades 
(see tithonic) + /itr/iov, ineasure.] An 
instrument devised by Dr. John W. Draper 
(1844) to measure the tithonic or chemical ac- 
tion of light-rays by their effect in causing the 
chemical union of chlorin and hydrogen. See 
the quotation. 
The tithonometer consists essentially of a mixture of 
equal measures of chlorine and hydrogen gases evolved 
from and confined by a fluid which absorbs neither. This 
mixture is kept in a graduated tube so arranged that the 
gaseous surface exposed to the rays never varies in extent, 
notwithstanding the contraction which may be going on 
in its volume, and the muriatic acid resulting from its 
union is removed by rapid absorption. 
Amer. Jour. Set., XLVI. 218. 
^.^SSS^SL JSS2J* l L < 12*ffL2S tithymalt (tith'i-mal), n. [Also titln jm all, tithi- 
mill, titin/al, < OF. tithymale, < L. tithymaliis, 
titliynidUun, < Gr. rtOi-/taAof, spurge, euphorbia.] 
A plant of the genus Euphorbia; spurge. 
iti 1 , n. See tee-tee. 
"--""" > titi 2 (te'te), w. Same as buckwheat-tree. 
" Titianesque (tish-ia-nesk'), . [< Titian (see 
def.) + -eisquc.] Characteristic of or resem- 
bling the works of the Venetian painter Titian 
(Tiziano Vecellio, 1477-1576). Atheiixum, No. 
3261, p. 537. 
the payment of tithes, or who dishonestly with- titifillt, . See titifil. 
holds some part of the tithes due from him. tltllt, n. and r. An obsolete form of title, tittle*. 
The 'squire has made all his tenants atheists and tythe- titillate (tit'i-lat), i: t. ; pret. and pp. titillated, 
Addison, Spectator, No. 112. 
[< ME. tithing, tething. 
stealers. 
tithing 1 (ti'THing), 
tending, bonding, < AS. teothing, tcothung, a 
tithing, tithe, decimation, a band of ten men ; 
verbal n. of teothian, tithe: see tithe 1 , v.] 1. 
In old Eng. law, a decennary; a number or 
company of about ten householders, or one 
ppr. titillating. [< L. titillatus, pp. of titillare 
(> It. titillare = Sp. titilar =. Pg. titillar = F. 
titiller), tickle.] To tickle; excite a tickling 
or tingling sensation in; hence, to excite plea- 
surably; exhilarate; elate. 
The gnomes direct, to every atom just, 
The pungent grains of titillating dust. 
Pope, R. of the L., v. 84. 
Sw. Dan. titel, < L. tituhis, title, a superscrip- 
tion, label, notice, token, etc., ML. also a stroke 
over an abridged word, a tittle; with dim. 
term, -tilns, from a root unknown. Cf. tittle? 
and tilde, doublets of ti tie.] 1. An inscription 
placed on or over something to distinguish or 
specialize it; an affixed individualizing term 
or phrase. [Obsolescent.] 
And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. 
John xix. 10. 
Tell me once more what title thou [a casket] dost bear. 
S/iak., M. of V., 11. 9. 35. 
2. A prefixed designating word, phrase, or 
combination of phrases; an initial written or 
printed designation; the distinguishing name 
attached to a written production of any kind : 
as, the title of a book, a chapter or section of 
a book, etc. ; the title of a poem. The title of a 
book in the fullest sense Includes all the matter in the 
title-page preceding the author's name or whatever stands 
in place of it It may be either a single word or a short 
phrase, or be divided into a leading and a subordinate 
title connected by or; or it may be extended by way of 
description to the larger part of a closely printed page, 
according to a practice formerly very common. The title 
by which a book is quoted, however, is nearly always the 
shortest form that will serve to designate it distinctively. 
For bibliographical purposes, especially in the cases of 
old, rare, and curious books, the entire title-page, word for 
word and point for point, is regarded as the title, and 
when copied the actual typography is often indicated, as 
by a vertical bar after each word which ends a line, etc. 
They live by selling titles, not books, and if that carry 
off one impression, they have their ends. 
Lryden, Life of Lucian. 
3. Same as title-page, in some technical or oc- 
casional uses. 4. In bookbinding, the panel 
on the back of which the name of the book is 
imprinted. 5. A descriptive ca.ption or head- 
ing to a document; the formula by which a le- 
gal instrument of any kind is headed : as, the 
title of an act of Congress or of Parliament ; 
rv ,.,,.,., i V i__ 1 ^ t ' ttliv Ul uu act UJ ouiitrress ur ui jrarnitjuciii , 
tenth ot a hundred (which see), who, dwell- titillation (tit-i-la'shon), . [< F. titillation = the title of a deed, a writ, or an affidavit.- 6. 
,ior ii^av finnn nrhov ii'nt'A Mk0ftW1a*1 oi; f.r\ncTi_ **../.' * _~ (&.< ..* T. 
ing near each other, were regarded as consti- 
tuting a distinct community for some purposes 
of civil order and police regulation, the sev- 
eral members being treated as sureties or free 
pledges to the king for the good behavior of 
each other. Although this institution has long ceased, 
the name and corresponding territorial division are still 
retained in many parts of England. 
2. The act of levying or taking tithe; that 
which is taken as tithe ; a tithe. 
tithing 2 t, '. Tidings. Alliterative Poems (ed. 
Morris), ii. 498. 
tithing-man (ti'THing-man), ii. [< ME.*iJHry- 
man, < AS. tiothingmcmn ; < tithing 1 + man.] 
1. In old Eng. law, the chief man of a tithing: 
same as headborough. 2. In England, a peace- 
Pr. titillacio = Sp. iitilacion'= Pg. titillac,ii<> 
= It. titillaeione, < L. titillatio(n-), a tickling, < 
titillare, pp. titillatus, tickle: see titillate.'] 1. 
The act of titillating, or the state of being tit- 
illated; a tickling or itching sensation or state 
of feeling; hence, a passing or momentary ex- 
citation, physical or mental. 
A poor auricular transient titillation. 
Ilev. S. Ward, Sermons, p. 166. 
The vulgar intellectual palate hankers after the titilla- 
tion of foaming phrase. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 281. 
2. That which titillates; something having tit- 
illating properties. [Rare.] 
Your Spanish titillation in a glove 
The best perfume. B. Jotwon, Alchemist iv. 2. 
officer; an trader-constable; in early \eii Eng- titillative (tit'i-la-tiv), . [< titillate + -ire.] 
limit liist., a town officer elected each year Tending to titillate or tickle. Imp. Diet. 
to exercise a general moral police (derived titimalet, . Same as titliymal. Halliirdl. 
from the constabulary functions of the English titivate, tittivate (tit'i-vat), r. i. and t. ; pret. 
tithing-man) in the town. Later his functions were and pp. titirateil, tittivatcd, ppr. titirating, titti- 
rating. [Appar. a factitious word, based per- 
haps on titty 1 , with a Latin-seeming termination 
as in cultirate.] To dress or spruce up; get or 
put into good trim ; smarten, or smarten one's 
self. [Colloq. or slang.] 
The girls are all so titivated off with false beauty that a 
fellow loses his heart before he knows it. 
Dole's Sermont, I. 151. (Dartlett.) 
uearly confined to preserving order during divine service 
in the seventeenth century, chosen in Maryland manors. 
The oldest people in New England remember the tithing- 
man as a kind of Sunday Constable, whose special duty 
it was, in the old parish meeting-house, to quiet the rest- 
lessness of youth and to disturb the slumbers of age. 
Johns //M,,',/,,., 111,1, studies, I. 1. 
In some statutes, law-books, and the like, a di- 
vision or subdivision of the subject, usually a 
larger division than article or section. 7. A 
characterizing term of address ; a descriptive 
name or epithet. 
Katharine the curst ! 
A title for a maid of all titles the worst. 
Shak., T. of the S., i. 2. ISO. 
8. Specifically, a distinguishing appellation be- 
longing to a person by right of rank or endow- 
ment, or assigned to him as a mark of respect 
or courtesy. Titles in this sense may be classified as 
(1) titles of office, whether hereditary or limited to chosen 
incumbents, as emperor or empress, king or queen, presi- 
dent, judge, mayor, bishop or archbishop, rector, deacon, 
general, admiral, captain, etc. ; (2) hereditary title* of no- 
liililn, as duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron (the five 
British titles of nobility, of which any except the first may 
be held as a title of courtezy by the son and heir, or even 
the grandson, of the holder of a higher title), count, etc. : 
(3) title* of dixtinctiun or merit, as baronet (hereditary) 
and knight in Great Britain, and those conferred by mem- 
bership of honorary orders, or the like ; (4) titles of attribu- 
tion, pertaining to specific offices or ranks, or bestowed 
upon certain historical persons, as your, his, or hej-Majes- 
ty, Highness, Grace, Honor, etc., and various epithets pre- 
fixed or appended to names, as the Honorable or Right 
Honorable (Hon. or Et. Hon.), Reverend or Right Reverend 
(Rev. or Rt. Rev.), the Great, the Fair (Philip the Fair), the 
Catholic ( Ferdinand the Catholic), etc. ; (5) titles of degree 
(commonly called degrees), as doctor of divinity (D. D.), ot 
laws (LL. D.), of philosophy (Ph.D.), or of mediciue(M. D.). 
