Tissue /(?)/

Tis·sue

Tissue

n.
  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.
    A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire.
    In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials.
  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. (Biol.)
  4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
    Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion.
    — A. J. Balfour.

Phrases & Compounds
Tissue paper
very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.

Tissue

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Tissued; p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing

  1. To form tissue of; to interweave.
    Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue.