Dickens.
Ti"dy*tips` (?), n. (Bot.) A California composite plant (Layia
platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.
Tie (?), n.; pl. Ties (#). [AS. tge, t&?;ge, tge. √64. See Tie, v. t.]
1. A knot; a fastening.
2. A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of
friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.
No distance breaks the tie of blood.
Young.