=Tigg= (_Montague_), a clever impostor, who lives by his wits. He starts a bubble insurance office--“the Anglo-Bengalee Company”--and makes considerable gain thereby. Having discovered the attempt of Jonas Chuzzlewit to murder his father, he compels him to put his money in the “new company,” but Jonas finds means to murder him.--C. Dickens, _Martin Chuzzlewit_ (1844). =Tiglath-Pile´ser=, son of Pul, second of the sixth dynasty of the new Assyrian empire. The word is _Tiglath Pul Assur_: “the great tiger of Assyria.” =Tigra´nes= (3 _syl._), one of the heroes slain by the impetuous Dudon soon after the arrival of the Christian army before Jerusalem.--Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_, iii. (1575). _Tigranes_ (3 _syl._), king of Arme´nia.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _A King or No King_ (1619). =Tigress Nurse= (_A_). Tasso says that Clorinda was suckled by a tigress.--_Jerusalem Delivered_, xii. Roman story says Romulus and Remus were suckled by a she-wolf. Orson, the brother of Valentine, was suckled by a she-bear, and was brought up by an eagle.--_Valentine and Orson._ =Tilburi´na=, the daughter of the governor of Tilbury Fort; in love with Whiskerandos. Her love-ravings are the crest unto the crest of burlesque tragedy (see act ii. 1).--Sheridan, _The Critic_ (1779). “An oyster may be crossed in love,” says the gentle Tilburina.--Sir W. Scott. =Tilbury Fort= (_The governor of_), father of Tilburīna; a plain, matter-of-fact man, with a gushing, romantic and love-struck daughter. In Mr. Puff’s tragedy, _The Spanish Armada_.--Sheridan, _The Critic_ (1779). =Tim Syllabub=, a droll creature, equally good at a rebus, a riddle, a bawdy song or a tabernacle hymn. You may easily recognize him by his shabby finery, his frizzled hair, his dirty shirt and his half-genteel, but more than half-shabby dress.--Goldsmith, _A Citizen of the World_, xxix. (1759).