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An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.

gencies of style. Truss rod, a rod which forms the tension member of a trussed beam, or a tie rod in a truss.

The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, or the like, by putting in struts, ties, etc., till it has something of the character of a truss.

Something serving to tie or secure. [Obs.] Latimer.

A knot; a tie. [R.] See Tie.

One who ties, or unites. [R.]

p. pr. of Tie.

To loose, as that which is lashed or tied down.

Not tied up in tresses; unarranged; -- said of the hair. Chaucer.

To untwist; to separate, as that which is twined or twisted; to disentangle; to untie. It requires a long and powerful counter sympathy in a nation to untwine the ties of custom which bind a people to the established and the old. Sir W. Hamilton.

ning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).

To tie up. Spenser.

he Protestant gentleman of the vicinage." Macaulay. Civil war had broken up all the usual ties of vicinage and good neighborhood. Sir W. Scott.

A bond of union; a tie.

e, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of a beast; also, a leather tie; a short wagon rope. [Prov. Eng.]

trate. To think every thing disputable is a proof of a weak mind and captious temper. Beattie. Origen was never weak enough to imagine that there were two Gods. Waterland.

A mode of facing sea walls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties. Knight.

used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak.

a & n. from Whip, v. Whipping post, a post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.