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A fine, smooth stuff of silk, having usually the wavy luster called watering. The term has also been applied to different kinds of silk goods, from the 16th century to modern times. Lined with taffeta and with sendal. Chaucer.

A tittering laugh; a titter. "'Te-hee,' quoth she." Chaucer.

of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp. Within his tent, large as is a barn. Chaucer.

A self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods. Nichol.

Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.

Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.

ide gauge, a gauge for showing the height of the tide; especially, a contrivance for registering the state of the tide continuously at every instant of time. Brande & C. -- Tide lock, a lock situated between an inclosed basin, or a canal, and the tide water of a harbor or river, when they are on different levels, so t…

To make a ratting or clattering sound by twirling or shaking; as, to tirl at the pin, or latch, of a door.

or embossed with figures. A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. Dryden. In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials. Milton.

the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle. A group of tittering pages ran before. Longfellow.

To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.

An apparatus for studying and registering the action of various fluids and drugs on the excised heart of lower animals.

To furnish with teeth. The twin cards toothed with glittering wire. Wordsworth.

A machine for registering and indicating the number and nature of bets made on horse races, as in Australia and South Africa. Called also totalizer.

y; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3.

Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; un steady. [Colloq. U.S.]

ut to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke. When lightning shoots in glittering trails along. Rowe.

To change, as an algebraic expression or geometrical figure, into another from without altering its value.

; to adorn; -- said especially of horses. Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. Chaucer. To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. Tennyson.

A stammering or stuttering. [Obs.] Dalgarno.