Tiglath-Pile´ser, son of Pul, second of the sixth dynasty of the new Assyrian empire. The word is Tiglath Pul Assur: “the great tiger of Assyria.”
Tigra´nes (3 syl.), one of the heroes slain by the impetuous Dudon soon after the arrival of the Christian army before Jerusalem.--Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, iii. (1575).
Tigranes (3 syl.), king of Arme´nia.--Beaumont and Fletcher, A King or No King (1619).
Tigress Nurse (A). Tasso says that Clorinda was suckled by a tigress.--Jerusalem Delivered, xii.
Roman story says Romulus and Remus were suckled by a she-wolf.
Orson, the brother of Valentine, was suckled by a she-bear, and was brought up by an eagle.--Valentine and Orson.
Tilburi´na, the daughter of the governor of Tilbury Fort; in love with Whiskerandos. Her love-ravings are the crest unto the crest of burlesque tragedy (see act ii. 1).--Sheridan, The Critic (1779).
“An oyster may be crossed in love,” says the gentle Tilburina.--Sir W. Scott.
Tilbury Fort (The governor of), father of Tilburīna; a plain, matter-of-fact man, with a gushing, romantic and love-struck daughter. In Mr. Puff’s tragedy, The Spanish Armada.--Sheridan, The Critic (1779).
Tim Syllabub, a droll creature, equally good at a rebus, a riddle, a bawdy song or a tabernacle hymn. You may easily recognize him by his shabby finery, his frizzled hair, his dirty shirt and his half-genteel, but more than half-shabby dress.--Goldsmith, A Citizen of the World, xxix. (1759).