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10,000 inhabitants; 14 miles east of Breda, and 15 south¬ 
west of Bois le Due. 
TILBURY, East, a village and parish of England, in the 
county of Essex. On the bank of the Thames, in this parish 
opposite Gravesend, is Tilbury fort, originally built as a kind 
of block-house by Henry VIII., but enlarged into a regular 
fortification by Charles II. in the year 1667, after the Dutch 
fleet had sailed up the river, and burned three English men 
of war at Chatham. At the place intended for the water 
bastion, which was never built, stands a high tower erected 
by queen Elizabeth, called the block-house, Various addi¬ 
tions have been made to this fort, which is now mounted with 
a great number of guns, and strongly garrisoned; 22§ miles 
south-by-west of Chelmsford, and 28 east-by-south of Lon¬ 
don. 
TILBURY, West, a parish adjoining to the above. It 
appears to have been an episcopal seat of Cedda, bishop of 
the East Saxons, who, some time in the 7th century, spread 
the Christian religion in this country, and built churches in 
several places. 
TILBURY, a parish of England, in Essex ; 4 miles north- 
north-west of Castle Hedingham. 
TILCAXETE, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendancy 
of Oaxaca, containing 260 Indian families. 
TILDIZ DAGH, a mountain of Asiatic Turkey; 10 miles 
south of Tokat. 
TILDSLEY, a township of England, in Lancashire; 8 
miles north-east-by-east of Newton in Makersfield. Popu¬ 
lation 3492. 
TILE, s. [eigle, Saxon ; tegel, Dutch ; tui/e, Fr.; tegola, 
Italian.] Thin plates of baked clay used to cover houses.— 
In at the window he climbs, or o’er the tiles. Milton. 
To TILE, v. a. To cover with tiles. 
Sonnets or elegies to Chloris 
Might raise a house above two stories ; 
A lyric ode wou’d slate; a catch 
Wou’d tile , an epigram wou’d thatch. Swift. 
To cover as tiles. 
The rafters of my body, bone, 
Being still with you, the muscle, sinew and vein, 
Which tile this house, will come again. Donne. 
TILEHURST, a parish of England, in Berkshire; 2| miles 
west of Reading. Population 1521. 
TILE-KILN-GREEN, a hamlet of England, in the parish 
of Great Hallingbury, Essex. 
TI'LER, s. [ tuilier , Fr.] One whose trade is to cover 
houses with tiles.—A Flemish tiler , falling from the top of 
a house upon a Spaniard, killed him; the next of blood 
prosecuted his death, and when he was offered pecuniary 
recompence, nothing would serve him but lex talionis; 
whereupon the judge said to him, he should go up to the 
top of the house, and then fall down upon the tiler. Bacon. 
TILEY, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Great Min- 
tern, Dorsetshire. 
TILGHMAN’S ISLAND, an island of the United States, 
in the Chesapeak, Maryland, at the mouth of the Choptauk, 
containing about 1720 acres. 
TILGUN, a vil lage of Asiatic Turkey; 36 miles east-north¬ 
east of Akshehr. 
TILIA [of Pliny, &c. Derivation uncertain], in Botany, 
a genus of the class polyandria, order monogynia, natural 
order of columniferae, tiliaceae (Juss.) —Generic Chirac- 
ter. Calyx: perianth five-parted, concave, coloured, almost 
the size of the corolla, deciduous. Corolla: petals five, oblong, 
obtuse, crenate at the tip. Stamina: filaments numerous 
(thirty and more), awl-shaped, length of the corolla. Anthers 
simple. Pistil: germ roundish. Style filiform, length of 
the stamens. Stigma a blunt pentagon. Pericarp: capsule 
coriaceous, globular, five-celled, five-valved, opening at 
the base. Seeds solitary, roundish.— Essential Character. 
Calyx five-parted. Corolla five-petalled. Capsule coria¬ 
ceous, globular, five-celled, five-valved, opening at the 
base, one-seeded. 
Til 
1. Tilia Europaea, or European lime tree.—Flowers des¬ 
titute of a nectary, leaves cordate, at the branches of the veins 
villose underneath. The lime or linden is a tall upright 
tree, with smooth spreading branches. There are six varieties, 
—Native of Europe. 
Lime-tree wood is turned into light bowls and dishes, and 
into boxes for the apothecaries. With the twigs they make 
baskets and cradles. Formerly the bark was used for 
writing tablets. Shoemakers make dressers of the plank to 
cut leather on. The truncheons make a far better coal for 
gunpowder than that of alder itself; and also scriblet6 for 
painters’ first draughts. The wood js soft, light and smooth, 
close grained, and not subject to the worm. The most ele¬ 
gant use to which it is applied, is for carving. Many of 
Gibbons’s beautiful works in lime-tree are dispersed about 
the kingdom, in our churches and palaces; as in the choir 
of St. Paul’s, the Duke of Devonshire’s at Chatsworth, Trinity 
College Library at Cambridge, &c. 
2. Tilia Americana, or broad-leaved American lime tree. 
—Flowers furnished with nectaries; leaves deeply cordate, 
sharply serrate, smooth. This was brought from New Eng¬ 
land by the name of black lime; the branches being covered 
with a dark brown bark.—Native of Virginia and Canada. 
3. Tilia pubescens, or pubescent Carolina lime tree.— 
Flowers furnished with nectaries; leaves truncate at the base, 
oblique, toothlet-serrate, pubescent underneath. This tree 
seems to be of much smaller growth than either of the former; 
the branches spread more horizontally.—Native of Carolina. 
4. Tilia alba, or white lime tree.—Leaves deeply cordate, 
subsinuate, toothed, tomentose underneath.—Native of North 
America. 
Propagation and Culture. —All these trees are easily 
propagated by layers, which in one year will take good root, 
and may then be taken off, and planted in a nursery, at four 
feet distance row from row, and two feet asunder in the 
rows. The best time to lay them down and to remove them, 
is at Michaelmas, or soon after, when their leaves begin to 
fall, that they may take root before the frost comes on, 
though they may be laid and transplanted any time from 
September to March, in open weather; but if the soil is dry, 
it is much the better way to remove them in autumn, because 
it will save a great expense in watering them, especially if 
the spring should prove dry. 
TI'LING, s. The roof covered with tiles.—They went 
upon the house-top, and let him down through the tiling 
with his couch before Jesus. St. Luke. 
TILKERODE, a village of Germany, in the principality 
of Anhalt Bernburg, with large iron-works. 
TILL, s. [ tul , Pers. bursa sartorum, seu pera, in qua 
digitalia, acum, fila, condunt. Lye.] A money-box in a 
shop; a tiller. 
They break up counters, doors, and tills. 
And" leave the empty chests in view. Swift. 
TILL, prep, [cil, Sax.] To the time of. 
Unhappy slave, and pupil to a bell. 
Unhappy till the last, the kind releasing knell. Cowley. 
To. North. Pay, and Grose. —She that buylded a 
college royall to the honour of the name of Crist Jhesu, and 
lefte till her executours another to be buylded to maynteyn 
his faylh and doctrine. Bp. Fisher. 
Till now. To the present time.—Pleasure not known 
till now. Milton. 
Till then. To that time.—The earth till then was de¬ 
sert. Milton. 
TILL, conjunction. To the time when. 
Woods and rocks had ears 
To rapture, till the savage clamour drown’d 
Both harp and voice. Milton. 
To the degree that.—.Goddess, spread thy reign till Isis 
elders reel. Pope. 
To TILL, v. a. [cilian, Saxon; teelen, Dutch.] To cul¬ 
tivate ; to husband: commonly used of the husbandry of 
the plow. 
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