Index of English words, starting with "ti"

(1) - Tillandsia (n.) A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.

(1) - Tiller (n.) A small drawer; a till.
(2) - Tiller (n.) The handle of anything.
(3) - Tiller (n.) The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.
(4) - Tiller (n.) A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
(5) - Tiller (v. i.) To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
(6) - Tiller (n.) A young timber tree.
(7) - Tiller (n.) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
(8) - Tiller (n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
(9) - Tiller (v. t.) One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.

(1) - Tilt (n.) Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
(2) - Tilt (n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
(3) - Tilt (n.) A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
(4) - Tilt (n.) A thrust, as with a lance.
(5) - Tilt (v. i.) To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
(6) - Tilt (v. i.) To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.
(7) - Tilt (v. t.) To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
(8) - Tilt (v. t.) To point or thrust a weapon at.
(9) - Tilt (v. t.) To point or thrust, as a lance.
(10) - Tilt (v. t.) To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
(11) - Tilt (v. t.) To cover with a tilt, or awning.
(12) - Tilt (n.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
(13) - Tilt (n.) The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
(14) - Tilt (n.) A covering overhead; especially, a tent.