Meg Dods agreed with the celebrated Dick Tinto to repaint her father’s sign, which had become rather undecipherable. Dick accordingly gilded the bishop’s crook, and augmented the horrors of the devil’s aspect, until it became a terror to all the younger fry of the school-house.--_St. Ronan’s Well_, i. =Tintoretto=, the historical painter, whose real name was Jacopo Robusti. He was called _Il Furioso_ from the extreme rapidity with which he painted (1512-1594). =Tintoretto of England= (_The_), W. Dobson was called “The Tintoret of England” by Charles I. (1610-1646). =Tintoretto of Switzerland= (_The_), John Huber (eighteenth century). =Tiphany=, the mother of the three kings of Cologne. The word is manifestly a corruption of St. Epiphany, as Tibs is of St. Ubes, Taudry of St. Audry, Tooley [Street] of St. Olaf, Telder of St. Ethelred, and so on. Scores of the saints have similarly manufactured names. =Ti´phys=, pilot of the Argonauts; hence any pilot. Many a Tiphys ocean’s depths explore, To open wondrous ways, untried before. Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_, viii. (Hoole). ⁂ Another name for a pilot or guiding power is Palinūrus; so called from the steersman of Ænēas. E’en Palinurus nodded at the helm. Pope, _The Dunciad_, iv. 614 (1742). =Tippins= (_Lady_), an old lady “with an immense, obtuse, drab, oblong face, like a face in a tablespoon; and a dyed ’long walk’ up the top of her head, as a convenient public approach to the bunch of false hair behind.” She delights “to patronize Mrs. Veneering,” and Mrs. Veneering is delighted to be patronized by her ladyship. Lady Tippins is always attended by a lover or two, and she keeps a little list of her lovers, and is always booking a new lover, or striking out an old lover, or putting a lover in her black list, or promoting a lover to her blue list, or adding up her lovers, or otherwise posting her book, which she calls her Cupĭdon.--C. Dickens, _Our Mutual Friend_, ii. (1864). =Tipple=, in Dudley’s _Flitch of Bacon_, first introduced John Edwin into notice (1750-1790). Edwin’s “Tipple,” in the _Flitch of Bacon_, was an exquisite treat.--Boaden. =Tippoo Saib= (_Prince_), son of Hyder Ali, nawaub of Mysore.--Sir W. Scott, _The Surgeon’s Daughter_ (time, George II.). =Tips= or “Examination Crams.” Recognized stock pieces of what is called “book work” in university examinations are: Fermat’s theorem, the “Ludus Trojanus” in Virgil’s _Æneid_ (bk. vi.), Agnesi’s “Witch,” the “Cissoid” of Diocles and the famous fragment of Solon, generally said to be by Euripidês. In law examinations the stock pieces are the _Justinian_ of Sandars; the _Digest of Evidence_ of Sir James Stephen; and the _Ancient Law_ of Sir Henry Maine.