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v. t. To tilt over; to overturn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Subtlety. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stilted p. pr. & vb. n. Stilting. ] To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. stilte; akin to Dan. stylte, Sw. stylta, LG. & D. stelt, OHG. stelza, G. stelze, and perh. to E. stout. ] 1. A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A crutch; also, the handle of a plow. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The American species (Himantopus Mexicanus) is well known. The European and Asiatic stilt (Himantopus candidus) is usually white, except the wings and interscapulars, which are greenish black. The white-headed stilt (Himantopus leucocephalus) and the banded stilt (Cladorhynchus pectoralis) are found in Australia. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stilt plover (Zool.), the stilt. --
Stilt sandpiper (Zool.), an American sandpiper (Micropalama himantopus) having long legs. The bill is somewhat expanded at the tip. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Stilt, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Stilted arch (Arch.), an arch in which the springing line is some distance above the impost, the space between being occupied by a vertical member, molded or ornamented, as a continuation of the archivolt, intrados, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Stilt + -fy. ] To raise upon stilts, or as upon stilts; to stilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }, n. A peculiarly flavored unpressed cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made. It is very rich in fat.

Thus, in the outset he was gastronomic; discussed the dinner from the soup to the stilton. C. Lever. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Contr. fr. subtility. ] 1. The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety. [ 1913 Webster ]

Intelligible discourses are spoiled by too much subtility in nice divisions. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cunning; skill; craft. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To learn a lewd man this subtility. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety. [ 1913 Webster ]

O full of all subtility and all mischief. Acts xiii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In senses 2, 3, and 4 the word is more commonly written subtlety. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS. teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw. tält, tjäll, Dan. telt, and AS. beteldan to cover. ] 1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other cloth. --
Tilt roof (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilting. ] To cover with a tilt, or awning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, AS. tealt unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to vacillate, D. tel amble, ambling pace, G. zelt, Icel. tölt an ambling pace, tölta to amble. Cf. Totter. ] 1. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To point or thrust, as a lance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To point or thrust a weapon at. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances. [ 1913 Webster ]

He tilts
With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

But in this tournament can no man tilt. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the &unr_;urges flew. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. [ 1913 Webster ]

The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A thrust, as with a lance. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. [ 1913 Webster ]

Full tilt, with full force. Dampier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me alone to match your tilter. Glanville. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who operates a tilt hammer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. til&unr_;, fr. tilian to till. See Till to cultivate. ] 1. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth. [ 1913 Webster ]

The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is tilled; tillage ground. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And so by tilth and grange . . .
We gained the mother city. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who tilts; a tilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tilting helmet, a helmet of large size and unusual weight and strength, worn at tilts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Same as Tip-up. [ 1913 Webster ]