[syn: weave, tissue]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tissue \Tis"sue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tissued; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tissuing.]
To form tissue of; to interweave.
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Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. --Bacon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tissue \Tis"sue\, n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser,
tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See Text.]
1. A woven fabric.
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2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.;
specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver
threads, or embossed with figures.
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A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. --Dryden.
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In their glittering tissues bear emblazed
Holy memorials. --Milton.
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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.
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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.
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4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected
series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
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Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism
wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious
emotion. --A. J.
Balfour.
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Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for
protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate
articles, etc.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tissue
n 1: 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,
tissue paper]
v 1: create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric,
such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles" [syn: weave,
tissue]