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Wetto. It seems in its union with the local colours of ob¬ 
jects, to have produced the half teints without further labour; 
or at least to have laid such a foundation, as to have made 
that of the subsequent tinting very trifling ; and doubtless 
this mode of proceeding rendered him able to produce such 
an infinity of works as appear to have issued from his pencil. 
His errors flowed naturally, from the ease with which he 
produced the beauties of his style; and as the mind was 
filled with gratification by the delightful harmony and rich¬ 
ness of colour his works presented, so it sought the less for 
the qualities of expression, and appropriate dress and action 
in the figures; and would not condemn too rudely the fre¬ 
quent admission of heterogeneous matter. 
To the accusations of exhibiting defects like these, the 
works of Titian are far less justly subject than those of his 
imitators and successors in the Venetian school of painting; 
none of whom possessed the taste and judgment of this 
great master, though many were eminently skilful in their 
respective departments. 
TITIANO (Girolamo Dante), called II. According to 
Ridolfi, he was brought up in the school of Titian, and was 
employed by that master to assist him in several of his works. 
By frequently painting in conjunction with him, and some¬ 
times copying his works, some of his pictures, retouched by 
Titian, have passed for originals by that master. He some¬ 
times painted'from his own designs, and his picture in the 
church of St. Giovanni, at Venice, representing S. S. Cosmo 
and Damiano, is worthy of the school in which he was edu¬ 
cated. Bryan's Diet. 
TITICACA, a lake of South America, formerly in Peru, 
now in the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres. It is situated in 
the plains that lie between the two Cordilleras, in the north¬ 
western part of the province of Los Charcas. It is the most 
considerable of all the lakes of South America. The lake 
contains several islands, and amongst these that of Titicaca, 
the supposed residence of Manco Capac, the founder of the 
Peruvian nation. 
TITICACA, a large island in the middle of the above lake. 
It is three leagues long, one wide, and five in circumference, 
and about one mile from the shore. 
To TITILLATE, v. n. [titillo Lat.] To tickle. 
Just where the breath of life his nostrils drew, 
A charge of snuff the wily virgin threw; 
The gnomes direct to every atom just. 
The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope. 
TITILLATION, s. [titillation, French; titillatio, Lat. 
from titillate .] The act of tickling.---Tickling causeth 
laughter; the cause may be the emission of the spirits, and 
so of the breath, by a flight from titillation. Bacon .— 
The state of being tickled.—In sweets, the acid particles 
seem so attenuated in the oil as only to produce a small 
and grateful titillation , Arbuthnot. —Any slight or petty 
pleasure.—The delights which result from these nobler enter¬ 
tainments our cool thoughts need not be ashamed of, and 
which are dogged by no such sad sequels as are the products 
of those titillations, that reach no higher than the senses. 
Glanvi/le. 
TITLARK, s. A bird. See Tit, and Titmouse —The 
smaller birds do the like in their seasons; as the leverock, 
titlark , and linnet. Walton. 
TITLE, s. [citul, Saxon ; titelle, old Fr.; titulus, Lat.] 
A general head comprising particulars.—Three draw the ex¬ 
periments of the former four into titles and tables for the 
better drawing of observations; these we call compilers. 
Bacon. —An appellation of honour. 
To leave his wife, to leave his babes, 
His mansion, and his titles, in a place 
From whence himself does fly. Shakspeare. 
A name; an appellation. 
My name’s Macbeth. 
—The devil himself could not pronounce a title 
More hateful to mine ear. Shakspeare . 
The first page of a book, telling its name, and generally 
its subject; an inscription. 
This man’s brow, like to a title leaf, 
Foretels the nature of a tragic volume. Shakspeare. 
A claim of right. 
’Tis our duty 
Such monuments as we can build, to raise; 
Lest all the world prevent what we should do, 
And claim a title in him by their praise. Dry den. 
To TITLE, v. a. To entitle; to name; to call. 
To these, that sober race of men, whose lives 
Religious titled them the sons of God, 
Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame, 
Ignobly! Milton. 
TI'TLELESS, adj. Wanting a name or appellation. 
Not now in use. 
He was a kind of nothing, titleless, 
Till he had forg’d himself a name o’ th’ fire 
Of burning Rome. Shakspeare. 
TITLEPAGE, s. The page containing the title of a 
book.—We should have been pleased to have seen our own 
names at the bottom of the title-page. Dryden. 
TITLEY, a parish of England, in Herefordshire; 3 miles 
north-east-by-east of Kington. 
TITLINGTON, a hamlet of England, in Northumberland; 
65 miles west-by-north of Alnwick. 
TITMANING, or Ditmaning, a small town of Bavaria, 
on the river Salza; 23 miles north-north-west of Salzburg, 
and 50 east of Munich. Population 2200. 
TITMEG, a lake of North America. Lat. 62. 15. N. 
long. 99. W. 
TITMOUSE, or Tit, s. [tijt, Dutch, a chick, or small 
bird; titlingier, Icelandic, a little bird : tit signifies little 
in the Teutonic dialects.] A small bird. 
The nightingale is sovereign of song, 
Before him sits the titmouse silent by, 
And I unfit to thrust in skilful throng. 
Should Colin makejudge of my foolerie. Spenser. 
TITSCHEIN, New, a town of the Austrian states, in 
Moravia; 31 miles east of Olmutz. It contains 4300 inha¬ 
bitants, and has extensive woollen manufactures. 
TITSEY, a parish of England, in Surrey ; 5 miles north¬ 
east-by-east of Godstone. 
TITTENHANGER, a hamlet of England, in Hertford¬ 
shire ; 24 miles south-east-by-east of St. Alban’s. Popula¬ 
tion 316. 
TITTENLEY, a small village of England, in Cheshire, 
near Congleton. 
TITTENSOR, a hamlet of England, in Staffordshire; 4 
miles north-west-by-north of Stone. 
To TITTER, v. n. [formed, I suppose, from the sound. 
Dr. Johnson .—Rather perhaps from teitr, Icel. very merry. 
Todd.~\ To laugh with restraint; to laugh without much 
noise. 
In flow’d at once a gay embroider’d race, 
And titt' ring push’d the pedants off the place. Pope. 
The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, 
While secret laughter titter'd r'ound the place. Goldsmith. 
TITTER, s. A restrained laugh.—The belle’s shrill titter, 
and the squire’s broad stare. Neville .—It is doubtful what it 
signifies in Tusser, unless it be small weeds. 
From wheat go and rake out the titters or tine, 
If eare be not forth, it will rise again fine. Tusser. 
TITTERIE, the central province of the kingdom of 
Algiers, being that in which the capital is contained. It is 
about 60 miles long by 40 broad, extending from the coast 
of the Mediterranean to the plain of the Bled el Jereede, which 
separates it from the Sahara. 
TITTESWORTH, a township of England, in the parish 
of Leeke, Staffordshire. 
TITTING, or Dietting, a small town of Germany, in 
Bavaria; 8 miles north of Eichstadt, and 36 west of Ra- 
tisbon. 
TITTLE, 
