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/tˈaɪɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Tie v. t. (past & past part. tied, obs. tight; pres. part. tying)

1.

To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind. "Tie the kine to the cart." "My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck."

2.

To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot. "We do not tie this knot with an intention to puzzle the argument."

3.

To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold. "In bond of virtuous love together tied."

4.

To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. "Not tied to rules of policy, you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind."

5.

(Mus.) To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.

6.

To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.

To ride and tie. See under Ride.

To tie down.

(a)

To fasten so as to prevent from rising.

(b)

To restrain; to confine; to hinder from action.

To tie up, to confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion or action.

Tie v. i. (past & past part. tied, obs. tight; pres. part. tying) To make a tie; to make an equal score.

noun

Tying n. (Mining) The act or process of washing ores in a buddle.

adjective

Tying adj. P. pr. of Tie.

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Etymology of 'Tying'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... who came back, were the Sutherlands; and if my quest had entailed far greater hardship than it did, that quiet interval with leisure to spend much time at the Selkirk settlement would have repaid all suffering. After sundown, I was free from fort duties. Tying on snow-shoes after the manner of the natives, I would speed over the whitened drifts of billowy snow. The surface, melted by the sun-glare of mid-day and encrusted with brittle, glistening ice, never gave under my weight; ...

— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut

... apartment decorated like a little ball-room, which is what is called the cabinet of antiquities. A noble bronze head, tying on the German stove, in the corner of the room, a handsome Roman lamp and some antique coins, were all that could be shown of the ancient Moesia; but there is a fair collection of Byzantine and Servian coins, the latter struck in the ...

— Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family • Andrew Archibald Paton

... spirit of the deceased to the cairn. The person who carries the bones is not allowed to turn round, or to the right, or to the left, but must proceed straight to the cairn. On reaching it, a nongknia, or sacrificer, washes the bones three times and then places them in an earthen pot, tying up the mouth with a white cloth. Then, having taken three pieces of the hard yolk of an egg, three loaves of bread, the leg of the fowl, "u'iar krad lynti," and the lower jaw-bones of the animals which have been sacrificed, ...

— The Khasis • P. R. T. Gurdon

... smiling countenance, and constraine my aversion and feare to an assurance, which proved not ill to my thinking; ffor the young men tooke delight in combing my head, greasing and powdering out a kinde of redd powder, then tying my haire with a redd string of leather like to a coard, which caused my haire to grow ...

— Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson • Peter Esprit Radisson

... can lose a quart of blood without danger of death and may live after more than two quarts have been lost, but it is wise to try to stop any flow of blood as quickly as possible. Tying a clean cloth folded several times over the cut will in most cases stop the flow. This will help a clot to form and will also close the ends of the cut vessels if the bandage is twisted tight with ...

— Health Lessons - Book 1 • Alvin Davison

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