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erous species of small singing birds belonging to the families Paridæ and Leiotrichidæ; a titmouse.

Titanic. The Titan physical difficulties of his enterprise. I. Taylor.

A massive crane with an overhanging counterbalanced arm carrying a traveler and lifting crab, the whole supported by a carriage mounted on track rails. It is used esp. for setting heavy masonry blocks for piers, breakwaters, etc.

A salt of titanic acid.

Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient mythology; hence, enormous in size or strength; as, Titanic structures.

Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite.

See Sphene.

Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic mineral.

An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., 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.

A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain double compounds of titanium with some other elements; as, titano- cyanide, titano-fluoride, titano-silicate, etc.

A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.

Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that element has a lower valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.

Same as Tidbit.

Tight; nimble. [Obs.] Of a good stirring strain too, she goes tith. Beau. & Fl.

Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.

their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges. The tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil. Neh. xiii. 5.

One who collects tithes. Milton.

The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe. To take tithing of their blood and sweat. Motley.

The chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.

Tightly; nimbly. [Obs.] "I have seen him trip it tithly." Beau. & Fl.