Lady Tippins is always attended by a lover or two, and she keeps a little list of her lovers, and is always booking a new lover, or striking out an old lover, or putting a lover in her black list, or promoting a lover to her blue list, or adding up her lovers, or otherwise posting her book, which she calls her Cupĭdon.--C. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, ii. (1864).
Tipple, in Dudley’s Flitch of Bacon, first introduced John Edwin into notice (1750-1790).
Edwin’s “Tipple,” in the Flitch of Bacon, was an exquisite treat.--Boaden.
Tippoo Saib (Prince), son of Hyder Ali, nawaub of Mysore.--Sir W. Scott, The Surgeon’s Daughter (time, George II.).
Tips or “Examination Crams.” Recognized stock pieces of what is called “book work” in university examinations are: Fermat’s[Fermat’s] theorem, the “Ludus Trojanus” in Virgil’s Æneid (bk. vi.), Agnesi’s “Witch,” the “Cissoid” of Diocles and the famous fragment of Solon, generally said to be by Euripidês.
In law examinations the stock pieces are the Justinian of Sandars; the Digest of Evidence of Sir James Stephen; and the Ancient Law of Sir Henry Maine.
The following are recognized primers:--Hill’s Logic; Spencer’s First Principles; Maine’s Ancient Law; Lessing’s Laocoon; Ritter and Preller’s Fragmenta; Wheaton’s International Law.
Tip-tilted. Tennyson says that Lynette had “her slender nose tip-tilted like the petal of a flower.”--Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette (1858).
Tiptoe, footman to Random and Scruple. He had seen better days, but, being found out in certain dishonest transactions, had lost grade, and “Tiptoe, who once stood above the world,” came into a position in which “all the world stood on Tiptoe.” He was a shrewd, lazy, knowing rascal, better adapted to dubious adventure, but always sighing for a snug berth in some wealthy, sober, old-fashioned, homely, county family, with good wages, liberal diet, and little work to do.--G. Colman, Ways and Means (1788).
Tiran´te the White, the hero and title of a romance of chivalry.