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292 Tic-taC-MoUard. A game of ^^ Ducks and Drakes." M.A.C. Tiching. "Setting up turves to dry, to prepare for fuel." Grose. Tidden. Tender, painful (mentally). Hard to put up with. "It came somewhat tidden to him." Gulval, T.C. TiddieS. Teats. Tetlian in Celtic Cornish for teat or udder. Tiddy, or Titty. A teat, human milk. Tidi and tetlian are Celtic Cornish for breast, pap, or teat. Tiddy bit. A little piece. Tiddliwink. A beerhouse. See Kiddliwink. Tiddly. To do the lighter kind of household work. "What can you do"? said a mistress to the maid. " I can louster and fouster, but I caan't tiddly, " said she. W.T.A.P. Tidy. Grood, smart, intelligent. " A tidy house, " a tidy dinner," "a tidy sort of a chap." Tie^ or Tye. A feather bed. Also used of beds otherwise stuffed, as with " douse." Also called bed- tie. Tie. A large wooden trough used for washing ore. Tifles, Tiffles, or Tifflens. Small thready frag- ments. "Your dress is covered with tifles." Tifle OUtj or Tifl&e out. To unravel thready mate- rial or tissue.