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r) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.

Thirty. [Obs. or Scot.] Burns.

on as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy. Burns.

A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services. Fairholt.

The act of fuming with incense, or the act of burning incense.

to knit; to knot. "We do not tie this knot with an intention to puzzle the argument." Bp. Burnet.

ayey 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 brick tea. See Brick tea, under Brick.

A place where tiles are made or burned; a tile kiln.

r point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.

; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak. Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory. Byron.

., and isolated as an infusible iron- gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1.

Dowry brought by a bride to her husband. [Scot.] Burns.

bushy tail. The wolf, the tod, the brock. B. Jonson. Tod stove, a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc. [U.S.] Knight.

A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.

Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. "Torrid heat." Milton. Torrid zone (Geog.), that space or board belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great.

Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.

footsteps, tracks, or tokens. Cowper. You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. T. Burnet. I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents. Milton.

A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree. [Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree. Acts x. 39.

imp. of Tread. On burnished hooves his war-horse trode. Tennyson.

To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with. [Scot.] Burns.