titration 
the quantity of any given constituent present 
in a compound by observing the quantity of 
a liquid of known strength (called a standard 
solution) necessary to convert the constituent 
into another form, the close of the reaction 
bring marked by some definite phenomenon, 
usually a change of color or the formation of a 
precipitate. Also called volumetric analysis. 
tl-tree (te'tiv), 1. A palm-lily: same as til. 
2. Same as tea-tree. 
tit-tat-tot (tit'tat-to"), n. [< tit, tat, to, three 
meaningless syllables used in counting.] A 
game: same as crisscross, 3. 
tittet, adv. See tite 1 . 
titter 1 (tit'er), v. i. [< ME. titeren, < Icel. titra 
= OHG. sitteron, MHG. zitern, G. zittern, trem- 
ble, quiver. Cf. teeter, totter 1 .] If. To move 
back and forth ; sway ; waver. 
In titerynge and pursuyte and delayes, 
The folk uevyne at wagging of a stree. 
Chaucer, Troilus, H. 1744. 
2. To teeter; seesaw. 3. To tremble. Hal- 
liwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
titter 2 (tit'er), 11. i. [< ME. 'titeren (in deriv. 
titerere, a tattler), prob. imitative ; in part per- 
haps due to titter 1 .] To laugh in a restrained 
or nervous manner, as from suppressed mirth, 
pleasure, or embarrassment ; giggle ; snicker. 
Thus Sal, with tears in either eye ; 
While victor Ned sat tittering by. 
Shenstone, To a Friend. 
Amy and Louisa Eshton tittered under their breath. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xviii. 
titter 2 (tit'er), n. [< titter^, v.~\ A restrained 
or nervous laugh ; a giggle ; a snicker. 
There 's a titter of winds in that beechen tree. 
Bryant, Gladness of Nature. 
A strangled titter, out of which there brake 
On all sides, clamouring etiquette to death, 
Unmeasured mirth. Tennyson, Princess, v. 
titter 3 (tit'er), n. [Origin obscure.] A weed, 
probably the hairy vetch. See tine 3 . 
From wheat go and rake out the titters or tine. 
Tusser, May's Husbandry, St. 19. 
titteration (tit-e-ra'shon), n. [< titter 2 + 
-ation.] A fit of tittering or giggling. [Bare.] 
My brother's arrival has tuned every string of my heart 
to joy. The holding up of a straw will throw me into a 
titteration. Richardson, Sir Charles Orandison, III. Ixxi. 
titterel (tit'er-el), n. [< titf + dim. -er-el as in 
cockerel, pickerel.] The whimbrel, Numenius 
phseopus. [Prov. Eug.] 
titterer (tit'er-er), n. [< ME. titerere, a tattler : 
see titter 1 *.] 1. One who titters; one who is 
habitually tittering. 
But he was too short-sighted to notice those who tittered 
at him too absent from the world of small facts and 
petty impulses in which titterers live. 
George Eliot, Felix Holt, iv. 
2f. A tattler. 
Taletellers and tyterers. Piers Plouman (B), xx. 297. 
titter-totter (tit'er-tof'er), v. i. [Formerly also 
tetter-totter; < titter^ + totter^.] To seesaw; 
teeter. Imp. Diet. 
titter-totter (tit'er-tof'er), n. [< titter-totter, 
i!.] The game of seesaw. Halliwell. TProv. 
Eng.] 
titter-totter (tit'er-tof'er), adv. [An elliptical 
use of titter-totter, v.~\ In a swaying manner; 
unsteadily : as, don't stand titter-totter. Bailey, 
tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, p. 35. 
titteryt, n. See tityre. 
tittery-tut, n. See tityre-tu. 
tittimouset, w. A titmouse. 
The ringdove, redbreast> and the tittimouse. 
John Taylor, Works (1630). 
tittivate, . See titivate. 
tittle 1 (tit'l), v. i.; pret. and pp. tittled, ppr. 
tittling. [< ME. "titeleu (in deriv. titelere, titu- 
lere, a tattler) ; cf. titter^, tattle.] To prate idly; 
whisper. [Scotch.] 
Here site a raw [row] of UtttM jauds. 
Burns, Holy Fair. 
tittle 2 (tit'l), n. [< ME. title, titel, titil, a title, 
stroke over a word, etc. ; the same as title : see 
title.'} 1. A stroke over a word or letter to 
show abbreviation ; a dot over a letter, as in i. 
Compare iota andj'ot 1 . See tilde, a Spanish form 
of the same word. 
Ill quote him to a titUe. 
Beau, and Fl., Woman-Hater, iii. 2. 
2. A very small thing ; a minute object or quan- 
tity ; a particle ; a whit. [Bare.] 
How small the biggest Parts of Earth's proud Tittle show ! 
Cowley, Pindaric Odes, x. 1. 
One Jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law. 
till all be fulfilled. Mat. v. is! 
Right, right; ... my taste to a tittle. 
Sheridan, St. Patrick's Day, i. 1. 
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tittlebat (tit'1-bat), n. [Corrupt, for stickle- 
back.] Same as stickleback. 
There sat the man who had . . . agitated the scientific 
world with the Theory of Tittlebat*. IKckem, Pickwick, i. 
tittlert (tit'ler), n. [ME. titelcr, tuteler, totiler; 
< tittle* + -!.] A tattler; a prater. 
Tituleris . . . 
That bablid ffor the best. 
Richard the Redeless, iv. 57. 
Be no tolUer. 
MS. KM. Reg. 17 15. xvii. f. 141. (Hallimll.) 
tittle-tattle (tit'l-tat'l), . i. [< tittle* + tat- 
tle; or a varied reduplication of tattle.] To 
talk idly ; prate ; gabble. 
You must be tittle-tattling before all our guests. 
Shale., W. T., iv. 4. 248. 
tittle-tattle (tit'l-tat'l), . and a. [Early mod. 
E. also title-tatle; < tittle-tattle, v.] I. n. 1. 
Idle, trifling talk; insignificant gossip. 
The daily tittle-tattle of a court, 
By common fame retail'd as office news 
In coffee-houses, taverns, cellars, stews. 
Chattertftn, Resignation. 
A readable Life of Pitt, which would give all the facts 
and none of the tittle-tattle, . . . is quite possible. 
The Academy, Oct. 18, 1890, p. 336. 
2. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. [Bare.] 
Dame Polupragma, gossip Title-tatle, 
Suffers her tongue, let loose at randome, pratle 
Of all occurrentes. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 103. 
Impertinent Tittletattles, who have no other variety in 
their discourse but that of talking slower or faster. 
Addison, Tatler, No. 157. 
II. a. Gossiping; gabbling. [Bare.] 
And then at christenings and gossips feasts 
A woman is not seene, the men doe all 
The tittle-tattle duties. Brome, Antipodes, 1. 6. 
The tittle-tattle town. 
W. Combe, Dr. Syntax's Tours, li. 31. 
tittle-tattler (tit'l-tat"ler), n. One who circu- 
lates idle gossip ; a trifling tattler. [Bare.] 
It was somewhat doubtful whether the tittle-tatter had 
improved on the usual version of the story. 
The Academy, Jan. 2, 1889, p. 76. 
tittle-tattling (tit'l-tat'ling), n. [Verbal u. of 
tittle-tattle, v.J The practice of dealing in idle 
gossip ; a tattling about trifles. 
You are full in your tittle-tattlings of Cupid ; here is 
Cupid, and there is Cupid. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 
tittup, titup (tit'up), t 1 . i. [< tit, appar. a vague 
variant of tip 2 , + up.] To act or go in a gay, 
lively, or impatient manner; spring; prance; 
skip. 
It would be endless to notice . . . the " Dear me's " and 
" Oh la's " of the titupping misses. 
Scott, St. Ronan's Well, xiii. 
A magnificent horse dancing, and tittupping, and toss- 
ing, and performing the most graceful caracoles and gam- 
badoes. Thackeray, Philip, viii. 
tittup, titup (tit'up), n. [< tittup, v.] A lively 
or gay movement or gait ; a prancing or spring- 
ing about ; a canter. 
Citizens in Crowds, upon Pads, Hackneys, and Hunters ; 
all upon the Tittup, as if he who Rid not a Gallop was to 
forfeit his Horse. 
Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
[I. 84. 
Had held the bridle, walked his managed mule, 
Without a tittup, the procession through. 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 212. 
tittuppy, tituppy (tit'up-i), a. [< tittup + -y 1 .] 
1. Gay; lively; prancing; high-stepping. 2. 
Shaky; unsteady; ticklish. 
Did you ever see such a little tittuppy thing in your life ? 
There is not a sound piece of iron about it. 
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, ix. 
titty 1 (tit'i), .; pi. titties (-iz). [Dim. of tifl.] 
A teat ; the breast ; especially, the mother's 
breast : an infantile term. 
titty 2 (tit'i), n. Sister: an infantile manner 
of pronouncing the word. Burns, Tarn Glen. 
[Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
titty 3 (tit'i), w. [E.Ind.] An East Indian bag- 
pipe. Stainer and Barrett. 
tittyriet, n. Same as tityre, 1, for tityre-tu. 
titty-todger (tit'i-toj'er), . [Cf. tiddyv,ti<lip.] 
tit-warbler 
But what became of this titubating, this towering 
mountain of snow? 
Waterhouse, Apol. for Learning, p. 29. (Latham.) 
titubation (tit-u-ba'shon), n. [=F.titttbatiim 
= Pg. titnbeaeao = It." tititbazione, < L. titubii- 
tio(n-), a staggering, < titubare, stagger : see 
titubate.] 1. The act of stumbling or stag- 
gering ; a tottering. 2. In med., restlessness ; 
an inclination to constant change of position ; 
fidgets. 3. The act of rocking or rolling, as 
a curved body on a plane. 
titular (tit'u-lar), . and it. [= F. titulaire = 
Sp. Pg. titular = It. titolare, < ML. "titularis, 
pertaining to a title, < L. titulus, title: see title.] 
1. a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or having a title, in 
any sense ; existing in or by reason of title ; 
so designated or entitled: as, titular rank, dig- 
nity, or rights; titular possession ; a titular pro- 
fessor or incumbent of office (that is, one bear- 
ing the title, in distinction from an adjunct or 
a deputy). 
The titular Dr. Lamb is committed to the Gate-house, 
about causing a Westminster scholar to give himself to 
the devil. Court and Times of Charles I., I. 305. 
2. Existing in or having the title only; being 
such only in name; so-called; nominal; not 
actual: as, a titular sovereignty or bishopric; 
the line of titular kings of Jerusalem. 
I appeal to any Reader if this is not the Conditions in 
which these Titular Odes appear. 
Conyreve, On the Pindaric Ode. 
This titular sovereign of half a dozen empires, in which 
he did not actually possess a rood of land. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 2. 
3. Beceiving the name (of), or used by name, 
as part of a title ; giving or taking title. See 
quotation, and titular church, below. 
The present cardinals titular of the basilican churches 
of San Marco, and of the Sti. Apostoli. 
N. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 207. 
Titular abbot. See abbot. Titular bishop, in the 
Rom. Cath. Ch., a bishop bearing the name of a former 
Christian see in which the Christian church has ceased to 
exist, chiefly in Mohammedan countries. This term was 
substituted by decree of the Propaganda, 1882, for that of 
"bishop in partibusinfldelium," formerly in use. A titular 
bishop is usually assigned to episcopal duties in a coun- 
try or locality where no Roman Catholic diocese exists or 
can be established, under the local designation of vicar 
apostolic. Titular church, one of the parish churches 
of Rome, the names of which are used in the titles ot car- 
dinal priests. Compare title, n., 15 (a). 
II. n. 1. A person who holds a title of office, 
or a right of possession independently of the 
functions or obligations properly implied by it ; 
in eccles. law, one who may lawfully enjoy a 
benefice without performing its duties. 2. 
One whose name is used as a title ; specifically, 
the patron saint of a church Titular of a church, 
in the Rom. Cath. Ch., that sacred person or thing from 
which a church receives its title : the term is wider than 
patron, and may comprehend the persons of the Trinity, 
the mysteries, or the saints, while a patron can be only a 
saint or an angel. Cath. Diet. Titulars of the tithes, 
in Scotch eccles. law, the titulars or lay patrons to whom 
the teinds or tenth part of the produce of lands, formerly 
claimed by the clergy, had been granted by the crown, 
titularity (tit-u-lar'i-ti), n. [< titular + -it-y.] 
The state of being titular; use as a title of 
office. 
Julius, Augustus, and Tiberius with great humility or 
popularity refused the name of Imperator, but their suc- 
cessors have challenged that title, and retained the same 
even in its titularity. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vii. 16. 
titularly (tit'u-lar-li), adv. In a titular man- 
ner ; by or with regard to title ; nominally. 
titulary (tit'u-la-ri), a. and n. [= F. titulaire 
= It. ti1olario,( ML. "titularius, pertaining to 
a title (cf. titularies, n., a writer of titles), < L. 
titulus, a title: see title, and cf. titular.] I. a. 
1 . Consisting in a title ; bearing a title ; titular. 
Richard Smith, titulary Bishop of Chalcedon, taking his 
honour from Greece, his profit from England (where he 
bishoped it over all the Romish Catholics), was now very 
busy. Fuller, Ch. Hist., XI. ii. 7. 
2. Of or pertaining to a title ; dependent upon 
or proceeding from a right or title. 
William . . . the Conquerour, howsoever he used and 
exercised the power of a Conquerour to reward his Nor- 
mans, yet . . . mixed it with a Titulary pretence ground- 
ed upon the will and designation of Edward the Confessor. 
Bacon, Hist. Henry VII., p. 5. 
II. ', pi. titularies (-riz). The holder of a 
title ; a titular incumbent or holder. 
The persons deputed for the celebration of these masses 
were neither titularies nor perpetual curates, but persons 
entirely conductitious. Ayli/e, Parergon. 
The wren, Troglodytes parvulus. [Prov. Eng.] 
titubant (tit'u-bant), a. [= F. titubant = Sp. 
titubeante = Pg. 'titubante, titubeante, < L. titu- 
ban(t-)s,ppr. of titubare, stagger: see titubate.] 
Staggering; tottering; stumbling. [Bare.] 
Sir Oran's mode of progression being very vacillating, 
T. L. Peacock, Melincourt, v. tituledt (tit'uld), a. [< L. titulus, title (see ti- 
titubate (tit'u-bat), v. i.; pret. and pp. titubated, tie), + -ed 2 .] Having or bearing a title; en- 
ppr. titubating. [< L. titubatus. pp. of titubare titled. 
(> It. titubare = Sp. tilubear = Pg. tttubar, titu- 
bear = F. tituber), stagger, totter.] To stum- 
ble ; trip; stagger; reel; rock or roll. [Bare.] 
titup, tituppy. See tittup, tittuppy. 
tit-warbler (tit'war"bler), n. A bird of the 
subfamily 1'arime. Nieaitiisoii . 
