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A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. [Written also tire.]

To strike slightly; to tap. A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift.

tic timaline birds of the genus Trichastoma. -- Tit for tat. Etym: [Probably for tip for tap. See Tip a slight blow.] An equivalent; retaliation. -- Tit thrush (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic and Esat Indian birds belonging to Suthora and allied genera. In some respects they are intermediate between t…

A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end. [Local, U. S.]

A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.

A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.

erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead. Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. Shak. Tomb bat (Zoöl.), any one of species of Old World bats of the genus Taphozous which inhabit tombs, especially the Egyptian species (T. perforatus).

stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper.

and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters. J. Knowles.

The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A change, as in the use of words; a metaphor.

Metaphorical; figurative; not literal. Stackhouse.

A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Metaphorical; tralatitious; also, foreign; exotic. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Taking from one to another; metaphorical. [R.] "A transumptive kind of speech." Drayton. Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and withal definitive. Lowell.

A tapering mandrel.

ddhist scriptures, -- the Vinayapitaka [Skr. Vinayapitsaka] , or Basket of Discipline; Suttapitaka [Pali] , or Basket of Discourses; and Abhidhammapitaka [Pali] , or Basket of Metaphysics.

ally changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical. Jer. Taylor. The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it. South. Tropic month. See Lunar month, under Month. -- Tropic…

In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.

the large speaking trumpet used on board Italian vessels, which is of the same length and tapering shape." Grove. -- Trumpet shell (Zoöl.), any species of large marine univalve shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See Triton, 2. -- Trumpet tree. (Bot.) See Trumpetwood.