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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