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To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.

To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.

A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus chamæleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.

A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles. Bancroft.

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

Any plant of the genus Geissois, having seeds overlapping like tiles on a roof.

A tile of stone.

Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Hom…

Inhabiting the water. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Having power to attract.

n elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland.

Destitute of beauty. Hammond.

Divisible into two parts.

An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees.

14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400.

Same as Cantle, v. t.

See Cantabile.

Same as Cantalever.

A kind of fine, hard, white or mottled soap, made with olive and soda; also, a soap made in imitation of the above-described soap.

Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.