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Tissued

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Tis´sued
a.1.Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers.
And crested chiefs and tissued dames
Assembled at the clarion's call.
- T. Warton.


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We thought the tissued, infiltrated head of the Sperm Whale, was the lightest and most corky part about him; and yet thou makest it sink in an element of a far greater specific gravity than itself.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
In rough magnificence array'd, When ancient Chivalry display'd The pomp of her heroic games, And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled, at the clarion's call, In some proud castle's high arch'd hall.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
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