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The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.

TISSUED
Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
SUBSTANCE
See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
TISSUE
One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. Note: The term tissue is also often applied
SUBSTANCELESS
Having no substance; unsubstantial. Coleridge.
LEAVES
pl. of Leaf.
COWPER'S GLANDS
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
The substance of the medullary sheath.
INTERTISSUED
Interwoven. Shak.
PARKLEAVES
A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
ENTERTISSUED
See INTERTISSUED
LIEBERKUHN'S GLANDS; LIEBERKUEHN'S GLANDS
The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkühn.
PEYER'S GLANDS
Pathches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.