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

Tied House (A). A retail shop, stocked by a wholesale dealer, and managed by some other person not the owner of the stock. The wholesale dealer appoints the manager.

“There are tied houses in the drapery, grocery, dairy, boot and shoe, hardward, liquor, and book trades. Whiteley's, if rumour is to be trusted, is a tied house; and the majority of Italian restaurants in London begin by being tied to the Gattis.”- Liberty Review, 14th April, 1894, p. 310, col. 1.

Tied-up Married; tied up in the marriage-knot.

“When first the marriage-knot was tied
Between my wife and me.”
Walkingume's Arithmetic.

Tiffin (Indian). Luncheon; refreshment. (Tiff, a draught of liquor.)

Tiger (A) properly means “a gentleman's attendant, and page a lady's attendant; but the distinction is quite obsolete, and any servant in livery who rides out with his master or mistress is so called; also a boy in buttons attendant on a lady, like a page; a parasite.

“ `yes,' she cried gaily over the banisters, “my flacre and my tiger are waiting.”- A Fellow of Trinity, chap. xv.

Tiger-kill (A). An animal tied up by hunters in a jungle to be killed by a tiger. This is a lure to attract the tiger preparatory to a tiger-hunt.

Tigers The car of Bacchus was drawn by tigers, and tigers are generally drawn by artists crouching at the feet of Bacchus. Solomon (Prov. xx. 1) says “Strong drink is raging” (like a tiger). In British India a tiger is called “Brother Stripes.”

Tigernach Oldest of the Irish annalists. His annals were published in Dr. O'Connor's Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores Veteres, at the expense of the Duke of Buckingham (1814-1826).

Tight Intoxicated.

Tigris [the Arrow]. So called from the rapidity of its current. Hiddekel is “The Dekel,” or Diglath, a Semitic corruption of Tigra, Medo-Persic for arrow (Gen. ii. 14.)

“Flumini, a celeritate qua defluit Tigri nomen est; quia Persica lingua, tigrim sagittam appellant.”- Quintus Curtius.