Tillodontia
(||Til`lo*don"ti*a) n. pl. (Paleon.) An extinct group of Mammalia found fossil in the Eocene
formation. The species are related to the carnivores, ungulates, and rodents. Called also Tillodonta.
Tillot
(Til"lot) n. A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods. McElrath.
Tillow
(Til"low) v. i. See 3d Tiller.
Tilly-vally
(Til"ly-val`ly) interj., adv., or a. A word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as
expressive of contempt, or when anything said was rejected as trifling or impertinent. [Written also tille-
vally, tilly-fally, tille-fally, and otherwise.] Shak.
Tilmus
(||Til"mus) n. [NL., fr. Gr. tilmo`s, fr. ti`llein to pluck, pull.] (Med.) Floccillation.
Tilt
(Tilt) n. [OE. telt teld, AS. teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw. tält, tjäll, Dan.
telt, and AS. beteldan to cover.]
1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. Denham.
2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
3. (Naut.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other cloth. — Tilt roof (Arch.), a round-headed
roof, like the canopy of a wagon.
Tilt
(Tilt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilting.] To cover with a tilt, or awning.
Tilt
(Tilt), v. t. [OE. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, AS. tealt unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter,
to vacillate, D. tel amble, ambling pace, G. zelt, Icel. tölt an ambling pace, tölta to amble. Cf. Totter.]
1. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
2. To point or thrust, as a lance.
Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance.
J. Philips. 3. To point or thrust a weapon at. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
4. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
Tilt
(Tilt), v. i.
1. To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a
lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement
resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.
He tilts
With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast.
Shak.
Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast.
Shak.
But in this tournament can no man tilt.
Tennyson.
The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the urges flew.
Pope. 2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.
Grew.
