Chapter Thunder and Lightning to Tigris of T by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Tiburce (3 syl.) or Tiburce (2 syl.). Brother of Valirian, converted by the teaching of St. Cecilia, his sister-in-law, and baptised by Pope Urban. Being brought before Almachius the prefect, and commanded to worship the image of Jupiter, both the brothers refused, and were decapitated. (Chaucer: Secounde Nonnes Tale.)

“Al this thing sche unto Tiburce told (3 syl.),
And after this Tiburce, in good entente (2 syl.),
With Valirian to Pope Urban wente.”
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, 12,276.

Tiburtius's Day (St.). April 14th. The cuckoo sings from St. Tiburtius's Day (April 14th) to St. John's Day (June 24th).
   This most certainly is not correct, as I have heard the cuckoo even in August: but without doubt July is the month of its migration generally.
   The proverb says:

“July, prepares to fly: August, go he must.”

    It is said that he migrates to Egypt.

Tick To go on tick - on ticket. In the seventeenth century, ticket was the ordinary term for the written acknowledgment of a debt, and one living on credit was said to be living on tick. Betting was then, and still is to a great extent, a matter of tick- i.e. entry of particulars in a betting-book. We have an Act of Parliament prohibiting the use of betting tickets: “Be it enacted, that if any person shall play at any of the said games ... (otherwise than with and for ready money), or shall bet on the sides of such as shall play ... a sum of money exceeding 100 at any one time ... upon ticket or credit ... he shall,” etc. (16 Car. II. cap. 16.)

“If a servant usually buy for the master upon tick, and the servant buy some things without the master's order ... the master is liable.”- Chief Justice Holt (Blackstone, chap. xv. p. 468).

Ticket That's the ticket or That's the ticket for soup. That's the right thing. The ticket to be shown in order to obtain something. Some think that the word “ticket” in this phrase is a corruption of etiquette.
   What's the ticket? What is the arrangement?

“ `Well,' said Bob Cross, `what's the ticket, youngster? Are you to go aboard with us?”- Captain Murryat.

Ticket of Leave (A). A warrant given to convicts to have their liberty on condition of good behaviour.

Tickle the Public (To). When an actor introduces some gag to make the audience laugh, “ilchatouille le public.” One of the most noted chatouilleurs was Odry, a French actor.

Tide-rode in seaman phrase, means that the vessel at anchor is swung about by the force of the tide. Metaphorically, a person is tide-rode when circumstances over which he has no control are against him, especially a sudden glut in the market. Tide-rode, ridden at anchor with the head to the tide; wind-rode, with the head to the wind.

Tide-waiters Those who vote against their opinions. S. G. O. (the Rev. Lord Osborne), of the Times, calls the clergy in Convocation whose votes do not agree with their convictions “ecclesiastical tide-waiters.”

Tidy means in tide, in season, in time. We retain the word in even-tide, spring-tide, and so on. Tusser has the phrase, “If the weather be fair and tidy,” meaning seasonable. Things done punctually and in their proper season are sure to be done orderly, and what is orderly done is neat and well arranged. Hence we get the notion of methodical, neat, well-arranged, associated with tidy. (Danish, tidig, seasonable, favourable.)
   How are you getting on? Oh! pretty tidily - favourably (See above.)
   A tidy fortune. A nice little bit of money. Tidy means neat, and neat means comfortable.

Tied Tied to your mother's apronstrings. Not yet out of nursery government; not free to act on your own responsibility. The allusion is to tying naughty young children to the mother's or nurse's apron.