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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Tile

Tile (tile)
v. t.(?)
Tile
[See 2d Tiler.]
  1. To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.

Tile

Tile (tile)
n.
Tile
  1. A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.
  2. A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.
    (b)
  3. A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.
  4. A draintile.
  5. A stiff hat.
    [Colloq.] Dickens.

    Tile drain, a drain made of tiles. -- Tile earth, a species of strong, clayey earth; stiff and stubborn land. [Prov. Eng.] -- Tile kiln, a kiln in which tiles are burnt; a tilery. -- Tile ore (Min.), an earthy variety of cuprite. -- Tile red, light red like the color of tiles or bricks. -- Tile tea, a kind of hard, flat brick tea. See Brick tea, under Brick.

Tile

Tile (tile)
v. t.
Tile
  1. To cover with tiles] as, to tile a house.
  2. Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.

    The muscle, sinew, and vein,
    Which tile this house, will come again.     Donne.













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