Word Meanings - TITH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Tight; nimble. Of a good stirring strain too, she goes tith. Beau. & Fl.
Related words: (words related to TITH)
- STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - TIGHTENER
That which tightens; specifically , a tightening pulley. - STRAINING
from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post. - TIGHT
p. p. of Tie. Spenser. - STIRRING
Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life. A more stirring and intellectual age than any which had gone before it. Southey. Syn. -- Animating; arousing; - STIRRAGE
The act of stirring; stir; commotion. T. Granger. - STRAINED
1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained. - TIGHTNESS
The quality or condition of being tight. - STRAINT
Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser. - TIGHTEN
To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner. Just where I please, with tightened rein I'll urge thee round the dusty plain. Fawkes. Tightening pulley , a pulley which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten it. - TIGHTER
A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer. - STRAIN
1. Race; stock; generation; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring. - NIMBLE
Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails. Pope. Note: Nimble is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, nimble-footed, nimble-pinioned, - TIGHTLY
In a tight manner; closely; nearly. - STRAINABLY
Violently. Holinshed. - STIRRER
One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer. Shak. Stirrer up, an instigator or inciter. Atterbury. - STRAINER
1. One who strains. 2. That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an - STIRRUP
Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron. (more info) + rap a rope; akin to G. stegreif a stirrup. *164. See Sty, v. i., 1. A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, - NIMBLENESS
The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness. - TIGHTS
Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs. - WINDTIGHT
So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall. - WATER-TIGHT
So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - DISTRAINER
See DISTRAINOR - HALF-STRAINED
Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden. - HIGHTY-TIGHTY
Hoity-toity. - CONSTRAINTIVE
Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew. - RESTRAINEDLY
With restraint. Hammond. - SUPERSTRAIN
To overstrain. Bacon. - GASTIGHT
So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas. - RAIN-TIGHT
So tight as to exclude rain as, a rain-tight roof. - UNSTRAINED
1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill. - CONSTRAINED
Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone. - UNRESTRAINT
Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license. - RESTRAIN
restringere, restrictum; pref. re- re- + stringere to draw, bind, or 1. To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down;