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Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales. -- Tat"tling*ly, adv.

Shedding tears; tender. [Poetic] "Tear-falling pity." Shak.

The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels. [Written also teaselling, teazling.]

Operating with great effect; effective; as, a telling speech. -- Tell"ing*ly, adv.

One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling. [R.] W. Harrison (1586).

Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance. -- Thrill"ing*ly, adv. -- Thrill"ing*ness, n.

A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.

Same as Thurl, n., 2 (a).

A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles. They . . . let him down through the tiling. Luke v. 19.

A small tree. [Eng.]

A timeserver. [Obs.]

A tinkle, or succession of tinkles. Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Gray.

A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises.

Tired; fatigued. [Obs.]

tlene. Its nest often chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs. The titling, . . . being thus deceived, hatcheth the egg, and bringeth up the chick of another bird. Holland.

The act or habit of parting idly or gossiping.

Work perfomed with a tool. The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.

The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.

, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc. [Written also towelling.]

a. & vb. n. from Trail. Trailing arbutus. (Bot.) See under Arbutus. -- Trailing spring, a spring fixed in the axle box of the trailing wheels of a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. Weale. -- Trailing wheel, a hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not a driving wheel…