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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.

Of, pertaining to, or denoting, those rays of light which produce chemical effects; actinic. [R.]

The state or property of being tithonic; actinism. [R.]

Of, relating to, or produced by, the chemical action of rays of light; photographic.

An instrument or apparatus for measuring or detecting tithonicity; an actinometer. [R.]

Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias.

The doctrine of antitheists. -- An`ti*the*is"tic, a.

A disbeliever in the existence of God.

The second of two clauses forming an antithesis.

An antithetic or contrasted statement. Bacon.

Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.

By way antithesis.

The uppermost member of the cornice of an entablature.

A musical instrument, of unknown character, supposed by some to have been used by the people of Gath, and thence obtained by David. It is mentioned in the title of Psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv. Dr. W. Smith.