See Teeter.

Titmouse.

The three-spined stickleback.

Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle.

An idle, trifling talker; a gossip.

To talk idly; to prate.

The act or habit of parting idly or gossiping.

A little teat; a nipple.

To stumble.

To rock or roll, as a curved body on a plane.

The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling.

Existing in title or name only; nominal; having the title to an office or dignity without discharging its appropriate duties; as, a titular prince.

A titulary.

The quality or state of being titular.

In a titular manner; nominally; by title only.

of Titulary

A person invested with a title, in virtue of which he holds an office or benefice, whether he performs the duties of it or not.

Consisting in a title; titular.

Of or pertaining to a title.

Having a title.

A kind of ocher which is used in some parts of England in marking sheep.

To mark with tiver.

With great speed; -- a huntsman's word or sound.

See Ulexite.

The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words; as, in what place soever, for whatsoever place.

An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under All, adv.

The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival, motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it, access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward; -- opposed to from.

Hence, it indicates motion, course, or tendency toward a time, a state or condition, an aim, or anything capable of being regarded as a limit to a tendency, movement, or action; as, he is going to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.

In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation; as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind; duty to God and to our parents; a dislike to spirituous liquor.

As sign of the infinitive, to had originally the use of last defined, governing the infinitive as a verbal noun, and connecting it as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus, ready to go, i.e., ready unto going; good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations where it has no prepositional meaning, as where the infinitive is direct object or subject; thus, I love to learn, i.e., I love learning; to die for one's country is noble, i.e., the dying for one's country. Where the infinitive denotes the design or purpose, good usage formerly allowed the prefixing of for to the to; as, what went ye out for see? (Matt. xi. 8).