title 
master of arts (M. A. or A. M.), ct, . ; <i.) Ji.- ../ ,/,'/<</ n.l- 
rfr^ prefixed tiHuiiiics In clthci speech or wriUafclcLanl, 
Udy.Sir. Mini, i <Mr.i, \l istrcss(Mrs.), Mi**. Monsieur, M 
or Mmis. ), Madam,- 1 Mine.), lloelor ( Ur. ), l-mfi-.s-, ,i i 1'iot ', 
Judge, (leneral, etc. Title* of office nre saMMrtod Into 
royal or imperial titla (Including; those dlsUnctlTel) |, i 
tllinlllg tf> IlU'lnhcrS Of so\,T< I'-'fl families), . 
fcdeititutieai, tiiilil'ir,/, iinit, elc. Till, 1 * f hnntir are such 
titles belonging to any of the above classes HI den,,te 
superior rank or station, or special distinction of any kind. 
9. Titular or aristocratic rank; titled noliility 
i- dignity. [Hare.] 
I'. mi never fails of paying his olieiaance to every man 
In- sees uliu lias ////>' or ..Mir, to lu;lkr Ililil conspicuous; 
. . . Till,- In all he knows of honour, and civility of friend- 
ship. Steelt, Tatler, No. 204. 
10. A grade or decree of linrm-ss; especially. 
llic iminbi-r of nil-ills liy whii-li tin- fineness of 
6SB7 
stiuim-ntorclalmthc v:ili,lily,,i just ice f hi< 1, - 
titration 
known or adjudicated : an insti mm lit nhich apparently 
todonttl face Is valid, and impairs a person's tit), i" In,, I, 
Init nhii-h (an he shown to be Invalid by proof of extrinsic 
!.i, '!-, dthoiivli ita invalidity has not yet been judicially 
declared, as a fraudulent mortgage or uaeument ,-n tli 
tin- bark of a book tin- w.inN -i-l. et.-.l I'm- tin- 
till.-. 
titmal (tit'nml), ". Sunn- :is tuiml. 
tltmOUSef I it 'Yin HIS i,.: pi. usually lit in i<> | -nii- 
T _ |iro|ii-i-lv tttiiKiiix* (-iiiiiii-M'/j. JKarly mud. K- 
land. or a judgment atfectlng Its ownership, founded on mri-lv HttimnH/u < M K lit 
a false umduvlt of noli, , I,, the defendants.- Coloroftl- ' 
;.-, hi, i, i, '.-i, tytetHote, titmtue, ami later tittt- 
,111111x1-; < tit- + MK. ".,<. \S name 
for several kinds of birds : see ni/-/o. .] A 
lit ; a tomtit; any biiii of the family 1'nmln-. ami 
Caret. . . Is only an imaginary weight ; the whole mass 
is divided into twenty-four equal parts, and as many as 
there arc of these that are of pure gold constitute the 
title of the alloy. F. Van, Bibelots and Curios, p. 58. 
Jewellers solder with gold of a lower title than the ar- 
ticle to be soldered. Workxhtip Receipt*, 1st ser., p. 364. 
11. A claim; aright; a designated ground of 
claim ; a conferred or acquired warrant ; an at- 
tributed privilege or franchise. 
Therfor a title he gan him for to l>orwe 
Of other stckncsse, lest men of him wende 
That the hote nre of love him brende. 
< 7,,n/r. ,-, Trollus, i. 488. 
Make claim and //'/,- to the crown of France. 
Shat., Hen. V., i. 2. 68. 
12. An inherent or established right; a fixed 
franchise ; a just or recognized claim. 
Even such an one [an 111 prince] hath a title to our pray- 
ers and thanksgivings. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. vlli. 
I have the same title to write on prudence that I have 
to write on poetry or holiness. 
Emerton, Essays, 1st ser., p. 201. 
13. In fate: (a) Ownership: as, the title was 
not in the husband, but in his wife ; her title 
was subject to encumbrance. (6) The channel 
through which an owner has acquired his right ; 
the collection of facts from which, by the opera- 
tion of law, his right arises: as, an abstract of 
title sets forth the chain of instruments, etc., by 
which the owner became owner, (c ) Absolute 
ownership; the unencumbered fee. In a contract 
to convey title or to warrant the title, the word Is usually 
understood In this sense, In which It includes the right of 
property, the right of possession, and actual possession, 
(rf) The instrument which is evidence of a 
right; a title-deed. Title Is more appropriately used 
of real property ; ownership of personal, but also to some 
extent of real property. Among the older commentators 
on Roman law it was usual to call till,- (titvltu) the con- 
tract or other legal act which was the remote cause of 
a person's acquiring property (for example, a contract of 
salei, while the immediate cause (for example, delivery) 
was called modut. In order to have ownership there had 
to be a perfect tltulus and modus. Thla doctrine is alien 
to the Roman jurists, and is now universally repudiated. 
14. Hence, a source or evidence of any right 
or privilege ; that which establishes a claim or 
an attribution : as, Gray's ' Elegy " is his chief 
title to fame ; his discharge is his title of exemp- 
tion. 15. Ecclex.: (a) Originally, a district 
in the city of Koine with taxable revenue; 
hence, a district in that city attached to a 
parish church; a Roman parish church, as dis- 
tinguished from a basilica or an oratory. The 
clergy belonging to these churches received the 
epithet "cardinal," whence the title cardinal. 
In the Roman Church parish churches or Titlen seem to 
have been first instituted in the time of Pope Marcellua 
c:m >. Ciith. Diet., p. US. 
(6) A fixed sphere of work and source of in- 
come, required as a condition of ordination. 
Since the Council of Chalcedon, A. n. 451, it has always 
been the rule to refuse to admit to ordination any one not 
appointed to officiate In a particular church. Since the 
eleventh century a title in the present sense has been ex- 
pressly re, [iiired. The term has gradually changed its con- 
notation from the idea of locality to that of assured sup- 
port and of a warrant for orders. The Roman Catholic 
Church requires as title for orders nomination to a bene- 
fice sufficient for maintenance, sufficient private income, 
a guarantee of support from some person or persons, or 
monastic poverty as entitling to maintenance by the or- 
der. In the Church of England a cure of souls, chaplaincy, 
fellowship, or the like is required, or residence as master 
of arts with sufficient private means. In the American 
Kpiseupal Church engagement with some church, parish, 
or congregation, with soinediocesan or recognized general 
missionary society, as instructor In some Incorporated In- 
stitution, or as chaplain in the national army or navy is 
requisite for admission to priest's orders. 
The candidates . . . must each have a iitl,- for orders 
that U, a sphere of labour under some clergyman, with 
er stipend for his support before he can be or- 
Jr., How 
dained. A. Fonbltiii'in,', Jr., How we are Governed, p. 86. 
16t. Same as tittli-. ll'i/elit'. Mat. v. Abstract 
Of title. See abstract. - Bastard title. See lxi*tar,l. 
Bonitarian title. See bmitarian. Cloud on a title, 
in lair. soniethhiK tluit renders n holder's title to land or 
other property doubtful, us the existence of an adverse in- 
tle. See color. Courtesy title , and del - 
Declaration of Title Ac t Equita- 
ble title. See equitable tttatf. nn.U T - -*tnii-. Extension 
of title. Sec ejrtfiuinii. Good holding title. s.-e ,,/<// 
ItetaWe titlr.- Half title. See half litlr. Lucrative ti- 
tle, In SpauM Mexican laic, title create,! l,\ , I,, nation, di- 
vine, or descent. Halt. - Marketable, onerous, pas- 
sive title. See the adjectives. Pierced for title, spe 
clally prepared for the title, u leather for a liook-cover Is 
which luis had an addition between the hands of one or 
more squares of colored leather, on which the title Is put. 
This Is done only on calf, vellum, or sheep. Progress 
of title, see proprM*. Running title, see I-MII.,;. 
Side title, a title placed on the upper cover of a boiiml 
book, as when the back Is too narrow to admit a line of 
letters, or when the book so treated is usually to be ex- 
posed on a table. Title by forfeiture, by prescrip- 
tion, by succession, teej'vr/eiturc, el,. Title of en- 
try. See entry, 10 <o). -Title r61e. See rile, Unity Of 
title, the title of two or more joint tenants, or tenants in 
common, or persons alleged so to be, derived or deduced 
Immediately from one and the same source by one and 
the same act or fact. = 8yn. 7. Detiynation, etc. Seename. 
title (ti'tl), r. t. ; pret. and pp. titlftl, ppr. titlinij. 
t= OF. titulrr = Sp. Pg. lititlitr = It. titolttre, < 
L. titulare, give a title or name to, < K. titit/nx, 
a title: see title, n. Cf.i-iilitlr. i-iititiile, intitule.] 
1. To call by a title, or by the title of; entitle ; 
name. 
I understand, by rumours, you've a daughter, 
Which my bold love shall henceforth titlr cousin. 
Muldleton, Chaste Maid. IT. 1. 
2. To give a right to be entitled ; bestow or con- 
fer the title or designation of. 
To these that sober race of men, whose lives 
Religious titl,;t them the sons of Ood, 
shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame. 
Milt'.n, P. L., It 622. 
titled (ti'tld), a. [< title + -rfa.] Haying or 
bearing a title, especially one which is con- 
stantly used, either with the name or instead 
of it; specifically, bearing a title of nobility; 
noble. 
title-deed (ti'tl-ded), M. 1. A deed by virtue 
of which, or one of several deeds or of a chain 
of conveyances by virtue of which, a person 
claims title. The term is commonly used In the plural 
of the several earlier muniments of title usually delivered 
over by a grantor on parting with his property to the 
grantee. 
2. That which confers a right or title of 
any kind ; especially, a distinguishing deed or 
achievement; aground of consideration, emi- 
nence, or fame. 
title-leaf (ti'tl-lef), n. The leaf of a book on 
whicli the title is printed ; a title-page. 
There was another book at the end of these, in whose 
title-lenf the flrst of the contents was. 
Court and TimetqfCharlti I., I. 115. 
titleless (ti'tl-les), a. [< ME. titlrle*; < title + 
-/<.] 1. Having no title or name. 
He was a kind of nothing, litleleia. 
Till he had forged himself a name. 
Shot., Cot., v. 1. IS. 
2. Devoid of rightful claim or title; unentitled; 
lawless. 
Right so bitwise a ftiMmtirainit 
And an outlawe, or a theef errannt, 
The same I seye. I her is no difference. 
Chaucer, Manciple's Tale, 1. llfl. 
title-letter (ti'tl-let'er), H. The types, collec- 
tively, selected for titles. Also title-t///>e. 
title-page (ti'tl-paj), . The preliminary page 
of a book, or of a written or printed work of 
any kind, which contains its full title and par- 
ticulars as to its authorship, publication, etc. 
The Younger Brother, or the fortunate Cheat, had been 
much a more proper Name. Now when a Poet can't rig 
out a Title l'a;i?, 'tis hut a bad sign of his holding out to 
the Epilogue. Jeremy Collier. Short View (ed. 1698\ p. 210. 
titler (tit'ler), H. [Origin obscure.] A lart;t> 
truncated cone of refined sugar. Himmniulx. 
title-sheet (ti'tl-shet), . In printing, the first 
sheet of a book, which usually contains th> ti- 
tle, liastard title, and other preliminary matter. 
title-type (ti'tl-tip), n. Same as title-letter. 
titlin, n- Same as titlinij. Flnrio. 
titling 1 (tit'liug), H. [Formerly or dial, also tit- 
li ; < Ic-el. titliiti/r; us lift + -ling 1 .'] 1. Some 
small bird. Specifically -() A titlark or pipit, () A 
tit or titmouse, (c) In Scotland, the hedge-sparrow. 
2. A name formerly fjivpn in the custom-house 
In >tock-fish. SiiitiiioHilx. Cuckoo's titling. Same 
as cuckoo's raiufi/ (which see, under in<///l). ll'rov. Kng.) 
- Field-, meadow-, or moor- titling, .-I nthm pnteiait. 
(See also *?a-tttliti-!.) 
titling- (ti'tling), M. [Verbal n. of title, r.] In 
;, usually in gold-leaf, on 
i --in-daily of the subfamily I'uriinr. (Sri- tin- 
ti-ehnieaf iiiiiiK-.-. am! nits under elm l.mli> ami 
I'nrux. ) Those of the genus Pnrui which occur In Great 
Britain, and hence have popular English names, are thi 
greater titmouse, P. maj<tr ; the coal-tit, /*. ofcr(of which 
the British variety is sometimes called /'. britnnniew) ; 
the marsh-tit, P. palustri*; the blue tit, /'. cjrrulettt ; ano 
the crested tit, P. (Liiyhi>phaiie*) criftatu*. 1 he long-tailed 
titmouse Is Acrnlula cautlata or rotea. The bearded 
titmouse is 1'itnnru* (or Cfl/rttmfpArfu*) biarmicut (some- 
times put in another family, Panuritt/e\ In the I nih ,' 
States are a number of titmice, commonly called chiet- 
adee, with smooth heads and black caps and throats, 
as Paru* atricapillvt, etc. There are also several crested 
ones, forming the genus or slil>geiiU8 L<whtrphanef, as the 
peto, or tufted titmouse, /.. tricolor, Ihe black-crested, L. 
atrocrittatwi, and others. Titmice which build long pen- 
sile nests are called In England bottlcJit*, and by many 
Provincial names, Including pake-pudding. I'hose of the 
ulted States which have this hnhit are the hush-tits of 
the genus /Vaftri/*rru. (See cut under 6uA-/if.) others, 
of Europe and Africa, form the genus .i-'.yithalut, as .fV. 
l*-n'liiliu>rx, the penduline titmouse. The gold tit, or yel- 
low-headed titmouse, of the southwestern Vnited States, 
Ariiiani*itaricr}*, also builds a very bulky and elaborate 
nest of twigs stuffed with feathers. Some of the British 
Tufted Titmouse i / afkafltatttt 
tits are called oirye, and others hictieall. - Axure tit- 
mouse. See azure tit, under tit-. Bahama titmouse 1 , 
the gultgiiit of Bahama. Certhiola bahameturi*. Greater 
titmouse, Pnriit major, of Enro|>e. See cut under Panu. 
New Zealand titmouse), any species of Certhioarvt , 
originally. C. nortr-zralandiit. Latham, 17S1. Plain tit- 
mouse, Ltqthophaaet iiuirnatiu, common In the south 
western parts of the I nited States, having the en -' 
color with the back. Siberian titmouse, Panu einctiu. 
Toupet titmouse*. See tmipet, 2. Latham. 
titrate (tit'nit), r. ..; pret. and pp. titmttil. 
ppr. titrnliiiii. [< P. titre, title, standard of 
fineness (sec title. ., 10), + -i>- 2 .] To submit 
to the process of titration. 
The whole [mixture] is to be cooled and titrated as usual 
with iodine, using starch as an indicator. 
Amtr. Jour. Set , Sd ser. XL 71. 
titration (ti-tni'shon), H. [< titratf + -/</.] 
In iiinilytifiil rln in.. ;, |ir,. - i-rtaiuing 
