Tirer des armes. To fence.
Tirer arriere. To giue or fall backe, to retire.
Tirer à l'aviron. To row hard, to tug at an Oare.
Tirer au baston. To striue, contend, struggle, wrastle; also, to fight, or deale blowes; whence, Tandis qu'ils tiroient au baston. Whilest that they bickered, or layed about them.
Tirer les chausses. To tipe vp the heeles, to dye.
Tirer au chevrotin. Looke Chevrotin.
Tirer au collier avec. To striue, contend, wrastle hard with.
Tirer à consequence. To make an example, or precedent of.
Tirer la couverte de son costé. To pull the Couerlet vnto his side; viz. all dealings, or gaines vnto him, and his.
Tirer de dessous l'aile. To purloyne, steale cunningly, filch priuily from.
Tirer l'eau. To leake, or let in water.
Tirer l'eau à son moulin. Looke vnder Eau.
Tirer l'espaule. To shrinke in the necke, or lift vp the shoulders, as one that hath no liking of, or fancie to, a matter.
Tirer son espingle du ieu. To flinch, or slinke away in an extremitie, to slip his necke out of the collar.
Tirer à faute. To misse, in shooting.
Tirer à la fin. To be at the last cast, lye a dying, approach vnto his end.
Tirer des flancs. A horse to strike often at his owne bellie.
Tirer du foing aux chiens. To spue, vomit, cast his gorge.
Tirer la laine. To snatch a cloake off a mans backe, and runne away withall.
Tirer la langue sur. Scornefully to put out the tongue at.
Tirer hors ligne. To summe vp, &c; as vnder Ligne; also, to expresse, mention, set downe.
Tirer à la main. A horse to preße vpon the hand, or striue to get forward, and goe faster then he should.
Tirer l'oreille. Seeke Oreille.
Tirer païs. (Jn hunting) to runne his countrey; or, to flye directly forward; (in trauelling) to goe on, rid ground, gaine way.
Tirer la quintaine. To runne at the Quintaine.
Tirer au regnard. To spue, cast, vomit.
Tirer le rideau. To display, manifest, make apparent; also, to conclude, or shut vp.
Tirer au rivet. To sow like a Shoomaker; also, to plucke as much from one as from another.
Tirer la robbe. Looke Robbe.
Tirer le serpent du buisson. To performe a difficult, or dangerous exploit.
Tirer son vent. To fetch his breath.
Tirer les vers du nez à. To pumpe, or draw secrets out of, to vndermine.
Tant que le vaisseau peut tirer. As long as it will runne, or hath any thing in it.
Le ventre luy tire. His bellie strouts, retches, or is readie to cracke, by fullneße.
Chascun tire à son profit: Pro. Euerie one lookes after his owne profit, or inclines vnto that which is likelie to bring him in gaine.
Mieux vaut tirer que rompre: Prov. Better to bow then to cracke, to bend then to breake.
On ne peut tirer du sac que ce qu, y est: Pro. Looke vnder Sac.
Pour bien tirer il faut prendre visée: Prov. To doe
things well we must consult aduise. Qui bien tire deux en a: Pro. Who pulls amaine does rend in twaine; he that plucks hard gets two. Ce qu'assemble pille pille, desassemble tire tire: Pro. What hath beene got by miserie and pillage, comes to be subiect to vnthriftie spoylage. On touche tousiours sur le cheval qui tire: Pro. The free drag-horse is alwayes ouerraught.
Tiret: m. A little draught, pull, plucke, twitch, tug, &c, as in Tire; also, a little stroke, or tittle in writing.
Tiretaine: f. Linsie-wolsie; or a kind thereof, worne ordinarily by the French peasants.
Tireur: m. A drawer, puller, plucker, haler, lugger, tugger, tower; a shooter, darter, caster, hurler, flinger; a retcher, stretcher, extender, lengthener, wire-*drawer. Tireur à l'aviron. A Rower. Tireur de laine. A Teyser of wooll; also, as Tire-*laine. Tirin. as Tarin. Tirofageur: m. A cheese-eater. ¶Rab. Tiroir: m. A ring, or any other thing, on the outside of a doore, seruing to pull it to, or shut it after one that goes out.
Tirouër: m. Tiring for Hawkes; also, a Drawer vnder a Table, or Cupboord; also, as Tyrouër. Tiroüoir. The same; or, as Tiroir. Tirse: f. The dart, or iauelin of Bacchus.
Tisanne: f. Ptisanne, Barlie water.
Tison: m. A fire-brand. À Noel au Perron; à Pasques au tison: Pro. Warmth at Christmas, cooth at Easter; the fire which Christ-tide spareth Easter spendeth.
Tisonner. Often to stirre firebrands, or lay them close together.
Tisserand: m. A Weauer.
Tisserande: f. A woman Weauer.
Tisseure: f. A weauing; or, as Tissure. Tissier, & Tissiere: f. as Tisserand, & Tisserande. Tissotier: m. A Weauer.
Tissu: m. A bawdricke, ribbon, fillet, or head-band of wouen stuffe.
Tissu: m. uë: f. Wouen; plaited, interlaced, wound one within another.
Tissure: f. A weauing; or plaiting; an interlacing; also, the woofe, or weft; the thread which crosseth stuffe, or goeth ouerthwart it in the weauing; also, any wouen stuffe; but especially cloth of gold, siluer, silke, &c.
Tistre. To weaue; also, to plait, infould, enwrap, interlace one within another.
Titan. Le Titan. (Poetically) the Sunne.
Titanique: com. Belonging, or, like to the Sunne. Force Titanique. Huge, mightie, Giant-like force. ¶Rab. Titeller. To ting, or tingle, as a (little) Bell.
Tithymale: m. The hearbe Spurge, Tithymale, Wolues-*milke.
Tithymale Amygdaloïdes. as Tithymale Characias; or the second kind thereof.
Tithymale Caryites. Myrtle Spurge, female Spurge.
Tithymale Characias. Wood Spurge, or male Spurge.
Tithymale Cyparissias. Cypresse Spurge, Pine-Spurge; or (as Mathiolus thinkes) small Esula.
Tithymale Dendroïdes. Tree Spurge; growes among stones, and rockes, to a tree-like height.
Tithymale femelle. Myrtle Spurge, female Spurge, Phisicke Spurge.
