Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth. Sir W. Scott.
Tip"toe`, v. i. To step or walk on tiptoe.
Tip"top` (?), n. [Tip end + top.] The highest or utmost degree; the
best of anything. [Colloq.]
Tip"top`, a. Very excellent; most excellent; perfect. [Colloq.] "Four
tiptop voices." Gray. "Sung in a tiptop manner." Goldsmith.
||Tip"u*la (?), n.; pl. L. Tipulæ (#), E. Tipulas (#). [L., the water
||spider, or water spinner.] (Zoöl.) Any one of many species of
||long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera.
||They have long and slender bodies. See Crane fly, under Crane.
||
Tip"u*la*ry (?), a. [Cf. F. tipulaire.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the
tipulas.
Tip"-up` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The spotted sandpiper; — called also
teeter-tail. See under Sandpiper.
Ti*rade" (?), n. [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a
lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of
Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to redn. See Tear to rend, and cf.
Tire to tear.] A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a
rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and
bitter language.
Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know
anything about angels.
Quarterly Review.
||Ti`rail`leur" (?), n. [F., from tirailler to skirmish, wrest, from
||tirer to draw.] (Mil.) Formerly, a member of an independent body of
||marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the
||army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit.
||The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
||
Tire (?), n. A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. [Obs.]
In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder.
Milton.
Tire, n. [Aphetic form of attire; OE. tir, a tir. See Attire.] 1.
Attire; apparel. [Archaic] "Having rich tire about you." Shak.