American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2

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Author: Noah Webster

Tissue

TISSUE, n. tish’u.

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

A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire.

2. 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, c. The cellular tissue is the cellular membrane.

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

TIS’SUE, v.t. To form tissue; to interweave; to variegate.

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

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Chicago: Noah Webster Jr., "Tissue," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed March 30, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L99S3UM4UVAU4XR.

MLA: Webster, Noah, Jr. "Tissue." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 30 Mar. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L99S3UM4UVAU4XR.

Harvard: Webster, N, 'Tissue' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 30 March 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L99S3UM4UVAU4XR.