An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - Part 893
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TYTE, _adj._ Direct, straight, S. B.

_Ross._

Sw. _taett_, close, thick.

TYTE, TYT, _adv._ Soon.

_Barbour._

Isl. _t.i.tt_, ready.

~t.i.tly~, _adv._ Speedily.

_Sir Tristrem._

~Tyttar~, _adv._ Rather, sooner.

_Barbour._

Isl. _tidari_, compar. of _tid-r_, frequentior.

t.i.tHING, t.i.tHAND, _s._ Tidings.

_Houlate._

Belg. _tijding_, Isl. _tidende_, id.

t.i.tGANDIS. L. _t.i.thandis_, as in MS. tidings.

_Houlate._

_To_ t.i.tLE, _v. n._ To prate idly, S.

_Melvil._

Su. G. _twetalen_, double-tongued.

~t.i.tlar~, ~t.i.ttillar~, _s._ A tatler.

_Henrysone._

t.i.tLENE, t.i.tLING, _s._ The hedge-sparrow.

Isl. _tytling-r_, id.

_Compl. S._

t.i.tTY, _s._ Dimin. of _sister_, S.

_Ritson._

t.i.tTY, _adj._

1. Coming in gusts, S. B., from _t.i.t_, a stroke.

V. ~Tyte~.

2. Testy, ill-humoured, Renfr.

~t.i.ttish~, _adj._ Captious, testy, S. B.

t.i.tTS, _s. pl._ A disease in the dugs of cows.

Teut. _t.i.tte_, udder.

_Montgomerie._

t.i.tUP, _s._ A trigger.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

From _t.i.t_, a tap, and the prep. _up_.

TO, _adv._ Too, A. S. id.

_Barbour._

TO, _adv._ Preceding a _v. part._ or _adj._ quite, entirely, very.

_Wyntown._

_To_ is prefixed to many A. S. words, and has various powers; _to-faegen_, perlaetus, _to-braecan_, disrumpere, _to-cwys-an_, quatere, dissipare.

TO, shut. _The door is tue_, S.