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To oblige; to constrain ; to restrain ; to confine. 
It is the cowish terrour of his spirit, 
That dares not undertake; he’ll not feel wrongs 
Which tie him to an answer. Shakspeare. 
It may be observed of tie, that it has often the particles 
up and down joined to it, which are, for the most part, lit¬ 
tle more than emphatical, and which, when united with this 
word, have at least consequentially the same meaning. 
TIE, s. Knot; fastening. See Tye. —Bond ; obligation.— 
The rebels that had shaken off the great yoke of obedience, 
had likewise cast away the lesser tie of respect. Bacon. — 
A knot of hair. 
The well-swoln ties an equal homage claim, 
And either shoulder has its share of fame. Young. 
TIEDEMAN (Dieterich), a philosophical writer, was bom 
April 1748, at Bremorvorde, in the duchy of Bremen, and 
educated in the school of his native place in the Greek and 
Latin languages, in which he made very considerable pro¬ 
ficiency. Devoting himself to the church, he removed to 
the school of Verden, and from thence to the Athenaeum 
at Bremen, where he formed an intimate friendship with 
Meiners, afterwards professor at Gottingen. In 1767, he 
settled at Gottingen, and here he renounced the study of 
theology, because he disapproved of the system there taught, 
and applied to mathematics, classical literature, and phi¬ 
losophy. His works were numerous, and relate chiefly to 
the history of philosophy, and its different systems. They 
afford ample evidence of his assiduity and labour. Gen. 
Biog. 
TIEFFENBRUNN, a petty town of the south-west of 
Germany, in Baden; 7 miles south-east of Pfortzheim. 
Population 800. 
TIEFKARTMANNS-DORF, a small town of Prussia, in 
Silesia; 50 miles west-by-south of Breslau. Population 
1400. 
TIEGENHOF, a small town of West Prussia ; 20 miles 
east-south-east of Dantzic, and 11 west-north-west of Elbing. 
Population 1800. 
TIELLEN HARBOUR, a bay in Ireland, on the north 
side of Donegal bay; 7 miles east-south-east of Tiellen 
Head. 
TIELLEN HEAD, a cape of Ireland, on the north side 
of the entrance into Donegal bay, and the south-west ex¬ 
tremity of the county of Donegal; 25 miles west of Done¬ 
gal. Lat. 54. 40. N. long. 8. 25. W. 
TIEN, or Lien, a city of China, of the second rank, in 
Quangtong. Lat. 24. 50. N. long. 111. 49. E. 
TIEN, a city of China, of the second rank, in Kiangsee. 
Lat. 23. 46. N. long. 106. 19. E. 
TIENNE, a small town of Austrian Italy ; 9 miles north¬ 
west of Vicenza. 
TIEN-TSIN-ONEI, a city of China, of the second rank, 
in Pe-che-lee; 63 miles south-east of Peking. 
TIEPLO (Giovanni Batista), was one of the last of the 
eminent Venetian painters. He was born at Venice in 1697, 
and was a scholar of G. Lazzarini; but he afterwards studied 
the works of P. Veronese. He possessed a quick invention, 
and great freedom of hand, and was admirably qualified 
for the execution of large fresco works upon ceilings, &c.; 
where great facility of handling, and richness of colouring, 
will often apologize for the want of higher qualities, parti¬ 
cularly in allegoric or grotesque subjects. Tieplo was em¬ 
ployed in many of the palaces in Italy, but most honoured 
by the employment he received from the king of Spain, who 
engaged him to adorn his palace at Madrid. He died at 
Madrid in 1770, at the age of 73. He etched many of his 
own designs with great neatness and taste. 
TIER, s. [Here, tieire, old Fr.; tuyer, Dutch.] A row; 
a rank.—Fornovius, in bis choler, discharged a tier of great 
ordnance amongst the thickest of them. Knolles. 
TIERCE, s. [tiers, tiercier, Fr.] A vessel holding the 
third part of a pipe.—Go now deny his tierce. B. Jonson. 
TIERCE, in Music, a 3d, The highest stop in an organ, 
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called the tierce, is a major 3d above the 15th, every sound 
being a 17th above the diapason. 
TIERCE de Picardie, the French Music, and indeed 
all choral music of old masters in a minor key, is ter¬ 
minated with a sharp 3d, which the French now call tierce 
de Picardie, on account of the great number of cathedrals 
in that province, where it continues still in use. 
TIERCE, in Fencing, the third position of defence, gt 
that in which the point of the sword is raised and the nails 
turned down. 
TIERCED, or Tierce, in Heraldry, denotes the shield to 
be divided by any of the partition lines into three equal 
parts, of different colours or metals, 
TI'ERCET, s. [from tiers, Fr.] A triplet; three lines. 
TIERMAS, a small town of Spain, in the province of 
Arragon, at the foot of the Pyrenees; remarkable for its 
warm springs. 
TIERRA BOMBA, a small island near the coast of South 
America, at the entrance of the harbour of Carthagena, 
where, in 1741, the English erected a battery. 
TIERRA LLANA, Punta de, a cape on the east coast 
of Patagonia. Lat. 41. S. 
TIE-TCHEOU, a town in the eastern part of Chinese 
Tartary, in the country of Kokonor. Lat. 33. 56..N. 
long. 102. 54. E. 
TIETE, a river of Paraguay, which falls into the Parana, 
on the west side, about 12 miles above the mouth of the 
Securiu. 
TIEZ, or Tuezno, a small town of West Prussia; 12 
miles west-south-west of Deutsche Kron, and 24 south of 
Tempelburg. Population 900. 
TIFF, s. [A low word, I suppose without etymology.] 
Liquor; drink. 
I, whom griping penury surrounds. 
And hunger, sure attendant upon want. 
With scanty offals, and small acid tiff". 
Wretched repast! my meagre corps sustain. Philips. 
A fit of peevishness or sullenness; a pet. 
To TIFF, v. n. To be in a pet; to quarrel. A low word. 
To TIFF, v. a. To dress ; to deck.—Is the Miss under a 
force when she culls among her trinkets with curious toil to. 
tiff herself out in the most engaging manner ? Search. 
TI'FFANY, s. [tiffer, old Fr., to dress up.] Skinner. 
Very thin silk.—The smoke of sulphur will not black a 
paper, and is commonly used by women to whiten tiffanies. 
Brown. 
TIFFESH, or Tifas, a town of Algiers, in the province 
of Constantina, the ancient Theveste. 
TIFFIELD, a parish of England, in Northamptonshire; 
2| miles north-by-east of Towcester. 
TIFFLIN, a township of the United States, in Adam’s 
county, Ohio. Population 1529. 
TIFTALA, a small barren island, belonging to Orkney, 
in the Pentland frith, near which are several dangerous 
whirlpools. 
TIG, s. [from tekan, Goth., to touch.'] A play, in which 
children try to touch each other last. 
TIGA, a small island in the Eastern seas, near the north¬ 
west coast of the island of Borneo. Lat. 6. 25. N. long. 
112. 14. E. 
TIG.AON, an island in the Indian sea, near the north¬ 
west coast of the island of Borneo. Lat. 6. 10. N. long. 
128. 48. E. 
TIGE, s. The shaft of a column from the astragal to 
the capital. Bailey. 
TIGELLIUS, a musician, bom in Sardinia, in great fa¬ 
vour at Rome in the time of Julius Caesar. Horace has 
handed him down to posterity as a merciless spendthrift, and 
an egregious coxcomb. 
“ Ambubajarum collegia Pharmacopolae 
Mendici, Mimae, Balatrones, hoc genus omne 
Maestum, ac solicitum est cantoris morte Tigelli: 
Quippe benignus erat.”— Sat. 
Tigellius 
