several species of small East Indian and Asiatic timaline birds of the genus Trichastoma. — Tit for tat.
[Probably for tip for tap. See Tip a slight blow.] An equivalent; retaliation. — Tit thrush (Zoöl.), any
one of numerous species of Asiatic and East Indian birds belonging to Suthora and allied genera. In
some respects they are intermediate between the thrushes and titmice.
Titan
(Ti"tan) a. Titanic.
The Titan physical difficulties of his enterprise.
I. Taylor. Titanate
(Ti"tan*ate) n. (Chem.) A salt of titanic acid.
Titanic
(Ti*tan"ic) a. Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient mythology; hence, enormous in
size or strength; as, Titanic structures.
Titanic
(Ti*tan"ic) a. [Cf. F. titanique.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to titanium; derived from, or containing,
titanium; specifically, designating those compounds of titanium in which it has a higher valence as contrasted
with the titanous compounds.
Titanic acid (Chem.),
a white amorphous powder, Ti.(OH)4, obtained by decomposing certain titanates; —
called also normal titanic acid. By extension, any one of a series of derived acids, called also metatitanic
acid, polytitanic acid, etc. — Titanic iron ore. (Min.) See Menaccanite.
Titaniferous
(Ti`tan*if"er*ous) a. [Titanium + -ferous: cf. F. titanifère.] Containing or affording titanium; as,
titaniferous magnetite.
Titanite
(Ti"tan*ite) n. [Cf. F. titanite; - - so called from containing titanic acid.] (Min.) See Sphene.
Titanitic
(Ti`tan*it"ic) a. Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic mineral.
Titanium
(Ti*ta"ni*um) n. [NL., fr. L. Titani or Titanes, Gr. the sons of the earth.] (Chem.) An elementary
substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible
iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic
weight 48.1.
Titano-
(Ti"tan*o-) (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain double compounds
of titanium with some other elements; as, titano-cyanide, titano-fluoride, titano-silicate, etc.
Titanotherium
(||Ti`tan*o*the"ri*um) n. [NL., fr. Gr. a Titan + dim. of a beast.] (Paleon.) A large American
Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.
Titanous
(Ti"tan*ous) a. Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that element has a lower
valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.
Titbit
(Tit"bit`) n. Same as Tidbit.
Tith
(Tith) a. [See Tight, a.] Tight; nimble. [Obs.]
Of a good stirring strain too, she goes tith.
Beau. & Fl. Tithable
(Tith"a*ble) a. Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.
Tithe
(Tithe) n. [OE. tithe, tethe, properly an adj., tenth, AS. teóa the tenth; akin to tién, tn, ten, ten,
G. zehnte, adj., tenth, n., a tithe, Icel. tiund the tenth; tithe, Goth. taíhunda tenth. See Ten, and cf.
Tenth, Teind.]