Tiphany, the mother of the three kings of Cologne. The word is manifestly a corruption of St. Epiphany, as Tibs is of St. Ubes, Taudry of St. Audry, Tooley [Street] of St. Olaf, Telder of St. Ethelred, and so on.
Scores of the saints have similarly manufactured names.
Ti´phys, pilot of the Argonauts; hence any pilot.
Many a Tiphys ocean’s depths explore,
To open wondrous ways, untried before.
Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, viii. (Hoole).
⁂ Another name for a pilot or guiding power is Palinūrus; so called from the steersman of Ænēas.
E’en Palinurus nodded at the helm.
Pope, The Dunciad, iv. 614 (1742).
Tippins (Lady), an old lady “with an immense, obtuse, drab, oblong face, like a face in a tablespoon; and a dyed ’long walk’ up the top of her head, as a convenient public approach to the bunch of false hair behind.” She delights “to patronize Mrs. Veneering,” and Mrs. Veneering is delighted to be patronized by her ladyship.