| Tie |
v. t. |
A knot; a fastening. |
| Tie |
v. t. |
A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance. |
| Tie |
v. t. |
A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig. |
| Tie |
v. t. |
An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race. |
| Tie |
v. t. |
A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place. |
| Tie |
v. t. |
A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature. |
| Tie |
v. t. |
Low shoes fastened with lacings. |
| Tie |
v. t. |
To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind. |
| Tie |
v. t. |
To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot. |
| Tie |
v. t. |
To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold. |
| Tie |
v. t. |
To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. |
| Tie |
v. t. |
To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them. |
| Tie |
v. t. |
To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with. |
| Tie |
v. i. |
To make a tie; to make an equal score. |
| Tie-rod |
n. |
A rod used as a tie. See Tie. |
| Tiebar |
n. |
A flat bar used as a tie. |
| Tiebeam |
n. |
A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof. |
| Tied |
imp. & p. p. |
of Tie |
| Tienda |
n. |
In Cuba, Mexico, etc., a booth, stall, or shop where merchandise is sold. |
| Tier |
n. |
One who, or that which, ties. |
| Tier |
n. |
A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. |
| Tier |
v. t. |
A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, a tier of seats in a theater. |
| Tierce |
n. |
A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons. |
| Tierce |
n. |
A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment. |
| Tierce |
n. |
The third tone of the scale. See Mediant. |
| Tierce |
n. |
A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major. |
| Tierce |
n. |
A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward. |
| Tierce |
n. |
The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour. |
| Tierce |
a. |
Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures;
said of an escutcheon. |
| Tierce-major |
n. |
See Tierce, 4. |
| Tiercel |
n. |
Alt. of Tiercelet |
| Tiercelet |
n. |
The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk. |
| Tiercet |
n. |
A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together. |
| Tiers etat |
|
The third estate, or commonalty, in France, answering to the commons in Great Britain;
so called in distinction from, and as inferior to, the nobles and clergy. |
| ties |
pl. |
of Constitutionality |
| ties |
pl. |
of Rurality |
| Ties |
pl. |
of Tie |
| Tietick |
n. |
The meadow pipit. |
| Tiewig |
n. |
A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up; also, a wig tied upon the head. |
