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tissue |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tissue \Tis"sue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tissued}; p. pr & vb n. {Tissuing}.] To form tissue of to interweave. Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. --Bacon. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tissue \Tis"sue\, n. [F. tissu, fr tissu, p. p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr L. texere. See {Text}.] 1. A woven fabric. 2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures. A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. --Dryden. In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials. --Milton. 3. (Biol.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as epithelial tissue; connective tissue. 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tissue n 1: a part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function 2: a soft thin (usually translucent) paper [syn: {tissue paper}] v : of textiles; create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton [syn: {weave}]
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