3 
T I M 
Friends all but even now; and then, but now— 
Swords out and tilting one at other’s breasts. 
In opposition bloody. Shakspeare. 
To rush as in combat; to strike as in combat.—Some say 
the spirits tilt so violently, that they make holes where they 
strike. Collier.— To play unsteadily. 
The floating vessel swam 
Uplifted ; and secure with beaked prow 
Rode tilting o’er the waves. Milton . 
To fall on one side.—As the trunk of the body is kept 
from tilting forward by the muscles of the back, so from 
falling backward by those of the belly. Grew. 
TLLTEPEC, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendancy of 
Oaxaca, containing 109 families of Indians. It is also the 
name of two other inconsiderable settlements in Guatimala. 
TI'LTER, s. One who tilts; one who fights.—A puisny 
filter, that spurs his horse on one side, breaks his staff like 
a noble goose. Shakspeare. 
TILTEY, a parish of England, in Essex; 3 miles south- 
by-west of Thaxted. 
TILTH, s. [fcilb, Saxon.] Husbandry; culture; tillage; 
tilled ground; cultivated land. Dr. Johnson has mistakenly 
considered the word in Milton as an adjective; which Mr. 
Mason also has remarked. 
Bourn; bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; 
No use of metal, com, or wine, or oil. Shakspeare. 
TILTIL, a settlement of Chili, in the province of San¬ 
tiago. 
TILTING of Steel, the process by which blistered steel, 
or steel in the raw state, is rendered ductile and fit for the 
purposes of various manufactures. Tilting consists in ham¬ 
mering or forging the steel by a large hammer called a tilt- 
hammer. 
Steel is formed by two processes: one in which it is made 
at once from pig or crude iron in the finery, nearly in the 
same manner as making bar-iron: this is called natural steel. 
In the second process, malleable iron, in bars, is imbedded 
in charcoal or other corbonaceous matter, and exposed to a 
considerable heat, till the carbon is thought to have pene¬ 
trated sufficiently into the iron to have changed it into steel. 
This is called converting the iron by cementation with char¬ 
coal ; and the furnace in which the operation is performed is 
called a converting furnace. 
TILTON, a parish of England, in Leicestershire; 10j 
miles east-by-north of Leicester. 
TILTS, a township of England, in the West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 4 miles north-by-west of Doncaster. 
TIM, a small town of the central part of^Russia, in the 
government of Kursk, on the river Tim, with 2000 inha¬ 
bitants ; 39 miles east of Kursk. 
TIMA, Taima, or Al Ablak, a town of Nedsjed, in 
Arabia; 180 miles north-north-east of Medina. 
TIMAAN, or Timoan, a small island, high and woody, 
situated off Ihe east coast of the Malay peninsula. Lat. 2. 
52. N. long. 104. 5. E. 
TIM2EUS, the Locrian, was a philosopher of the Italic 
.school, and flourished in the time of Plato, who derived 
from him principally the doctrine of Pythagoras, and whose 
book, entitled “ Timaeus,” was founded on his book “ On 
the Nature of Things.” Proclus preserved a small treatise 
of Timaeus “ On the Soul of the World,” and it is prefixed 
to some editions of Plato’s Timaeus. In this treatise, chiefly 
Pythagorean, he differs from Pythagoras in the following par¬ 
ticulars: viz., that, instead of one whole, or monad, he sup¬ 
poses two independent causes of nature, God and Mind, the 
source of intelligent nature, and Necessity or Matter, the 
original of bodies; and that he explains the cause of the for¬ 
mation of the world, from the external action of God upon 
matter, after the pattern or ideas existing in his own mind. 
Upon a comparison of this piece with Plato’s Timasus, it 
will be found that the Athenian philosopher has obscured 
the simple doctrine of the Locrian with fancies drawn from 
his own imagination, or from the Egyptian schools. 
B E R. 
T1MAHOE, a small village of Ireland, in Queen’s county 
where an abbey was founded, and where also stands a round 
tower. In the rebellion of 1641, a sanguinary battle was 
fought near this village, between the insurgents and the 
English forces; 42§ miles north-west of Dublin. 
TIMANA, a town of New Granada, in the province of 
Popayan. Lat. 2. 14. N. long. 75. 12. W. 
TIMANTFIES, a famous Grecian painter, was, as it is 
said, a native of Cythnos, one of the islands called Cyclades, 
or of Sicyon, and flourished about the year B. C. 400: Pliny. 
TIMAR, a tract or portion of land, which the grand 
signior grants to a person on condition of serving him in 
war, on horseback. 
TIMARIOTS, those who enjoy lands on the footing of 
timars. 
TIMAVO, a river in the north-east of Italy, which rises 
on the confines of Istria and Friuli, near St. Giovanni, and 
after a short course, falls into the bay of Trieste, near Diuno. 
TI'MBER, s. [cimben, Sax., from tnnbpian, to build; 
Umbrian, Goth., the same.] Wood fit for building. 
I learn’d of lighter timber cotes to frame. 
Such as might save my sheep and me from shame. Spenser. 
The main trunk of a tree. 
We take 
From every tree, lop, bark, and part o’the timber. 
And though w'e leave it with a root thus hackt, 
The air will drink the sap. Shakspeare. 
The main beams of a fabric. Materials, ironically .— 
Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature, and 
yet they are the fittest timber to make politics of, like to 
knee timber, that is good for ships to be tossed, but not for 
houses that shall stand firm. Bacon. 
TIMBER is properly that sort of wood produce which is 
useful and proper for the purposes of building, the construc¬ 
tion jof tools, implements, carriages, &c.; or such large trees 
of different sorts as have reached their full or suitable states 
of growth, and are in condition fit for being cut down for use. 
We shall here mention those kinds of timber that arc most 
serviceable, and give a brief view of the uses to which they 
are applied, referring to their several denominations for a 
further detail. 
Oak will endure all seasons and weathers; there is no 
wood like it: hence its use in pales, shingles, posts, rails, 
boards, &c. For water-works, it is second to none; and 
where it lies exposed both to air and water, there is none 
equal to it. 
Elm felled between November and February, is all spine 
or heart, and no sap; and is of singular use in places where 
it either is always wet, or always dry: its toughness likewise 
makes it of use to wheelwrights, millwrights, &c. 
Beech is used in turnery, joinery, upholstery, and the like, 
as being of a clean, white, fine grain, not apt to bend nor 
slit: it has been sometimes used for building-timber, and if 
it lie constantly wet, is judged to outlast oak. 
Ash is good for building, or other occasions where it may 
lie dry: it serves the carpenter, cooper, turner, ploughwright, 
wheelwright, gardener; it is also used at sea for oars, hand¬ 
spikes, &c. 
Fir, commonly known by the name of deal, is much used 
in building, especially within doors, for stairs, floors, wain¬ 
scot, and most works of ornament. 
Walnut-tree is of universal use, excepting for the outsides 
of buildings: none is better for the joiner’s use, it being of a 
curious brown colour, and not subject to worms. 
Chesnut-tree, next to oak, is the timber most sought for 
by joiners and carpenters. It is very lasting. 
Service-tree, used in joinery, as being of a delicate grain, 
and fit for curiosities. 
Poplar, abele and aspen, differing very little from one 
another, are much used instead of fir: they look as well, and 
are tougher and harder. 
Alder is much used for sewers or pipes to convey water: 
when kept always wet, it grows hard like a stone; but where 
sometimes wet, and sometimes dry, it rots presently. 
The 
