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, a drain made of tiles. -- Tile earth, a species of strong, clayey earth; stiff and stubborn land. [Prov. Eng.] -- Tile kiln, a kiln in which tiles are burnt; a tilery. -- Tile ore (Min.), an earthy variety of cuprite. -- Tile red, light red like the color of tiles or bricks. -- Tile tea, a kind of hard, flat bric…

Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally. As may affect tionearth with cold and heat Scarce tolerable. Milton.

Honorable discourse; eulogy. [Obs.] She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor. Beau. & Fl.

One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.

Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow. So tough a frame she could not bend. Dryden.

To change into another form; to transform. Happy is your grace, That can translatethe stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style. Shak.

us Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States.

Born three together; being one of three born at the same birth; also, threefold. E. Phillip

One of tree children born at the same birth. Wright.

Three children or offspring born at one birth.

mmedan; esp., one living in Turkey. It is no good reason for a man's religion that he was born and brought up in it; for then a Turk would have as much reason to be a Turk as a Christian to be a Christian. Chillingworth.

Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.

g situated over the mouth of the womb so as to require detachment before the child can be born. -- Un`a*void"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`a*void"a*bly, adv.

Not begotten; unborn. [Obs.] "Thou age unbred." Shak.

To line; to guard; to face; as, cloth of gold underborne with blue tinsel. [Obs.] Shak.

Having no father; fatherless; hence, born contrary to nature. Shak.

To cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbegotten or unborn. [R.] I 'll disown you, I 'll disinherit you, I 'll unget you. Sheridan.

A woman who has borne one child.

Not allayed; not pacified; not laid finally to rest. [R.] "Stubborn, unlaid ghost." Milton.

Born of the same mother, but by a different father. Walter Pope, uterine brother to Dr. Joh. WilkiWood.