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Tissue [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. tish'u.

2. Cloth interwoven with gold or silver, or with figured colors.

3. A robe of tissue stiff with golden wire.

4. In anatomy, texture or organization of parts. The peculiar intimate structure of a part is called its tissue A part of a fibrous structure is called a fibrous tissue The organs of the body are made up of simpler elements, some generally diffused through the body, and others peculiar to particular organs. These simpler structures are called the tissues of the body; as the cellular tissue; the mucous tissue etc. The cellular tissue is the cellular membrane.

5. A connected series; as, the whole story is a tissue of forgeries or of falsehood.

Tissue [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To form tissue; to interweave; to variegate.

2. The chariot was covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue.

Tissue [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A woven fabric.

2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.

3. One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.

4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.

Tissue [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To form tissue of; to interweave.

Tissued [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Interwoven; formed with variegated work.

Tissued [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers.

Tissued [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Tissue