Note: The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing in structure and function, which go to make up an organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc.
4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood. Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. A. J. Balfour. Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.
TISSUE
Tis"sue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tissued; p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing.]
Defn: To form tissue of; to interweave.
Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. Bacon.
TISSUED
Tis"sued, a.
Defn: Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as,
tissued flowers. Cowper.
And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call.
T. Warton.
TIT
Tit, n.
1. A small horse. Tusser.
2. A woman; — used in contempt. Burton.
3. A morsel; a bit. Halliwell.