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A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance. No distance breaks the tie of blood. Young.

A rod used as a tie. See Tie.

A flat bar used as a tie.

A beam acting as a tie, as at the bottom of a pair of principal rafters, to prevent them from thrusting out the wall. See Illust. of Timbers, under Roof. Gwilt.

In Cuba, Mexico, etc., a booth, stall, or shop where merchandise is sold.

One who, or that which, ties.

A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.

See Tierce, 4.

The male of various falcons, esp. of the peregrine; also, the male of the goshawk. Encyc. Brit.

A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.

The third estate, or commonalty, in France, answering to the commons in Great Britain; -- so called in distinction from, and as inferior to, the nobles and clergy.

The meadow pipit. [Prov. Eng].

A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up; also, a wig tied upon the head. Wright. V. Knox.

Same as Antemetic.

Same as Antephialtic.

Same as Antepileptic.

Assenting.

A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation.

Beautiful; embellished. [Poetic] Shak.