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.
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.
&fist; 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.
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