tyburn blossom
A young thief or pickpocket, who in time will ripen into fruit borne by the deadly never-green.
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Tyburn Ticket
A certificate which, under a statute of William III, was granted to prosecutors who had secured a capital con- viction against a criminal, exempting them from all parish and ward offices within the parish in which the felony had been committed. This, with the privilege it conferred, might be sold once, and once only, and the Stamford Mercury for March 27th, 1818, announced the sale of one for £280. The Act was repealed by 58 Geo. Ill, c. 70.
tyburn tippet
A halter; see Latimer's sermon before. Edward VI. A. D. 1549.
tyburnia
The Portman and Grosvenor Square district. It is facetiously divided by the Londoners into "Tyburnia Felix," "Tyburnia Deserta," and "Tyburnia Snobbica." The old gallows at Tyburn stood near the N.E. corner of Hyde Park, at the angle formed by the Edgware Road and the top of Oxford Street. In 1778 this was two miles out of London.
tye
Or TIE, a neckerchief. Proper hosiers’ term now, but slang thirty years ago, and as early as 1718.
tyke
A dog, also a clown; a Yorkshire tyke.
tyke
A Yorkshireman. Term used by themselves, as well as by Southerners, in reference to them.
Tyler's Insurrection
An armed rebellion of peasants in southern England in 1381, led by Wat Tyler (an Essex man), in consequence of discontent aroused by the Statute of Labourers, and the heavy taxation, especially a poll-tax of three groats to defray the expenses of a war with France. Wat Tyler was slain by Sir William Walworth, the Lord Mayor, at Smith- field, the revolt was crushed, and many of the rebels executed.
Tyndale's Bible
This consists of the New Testament (printed at Cologne, 1525), the Pentateuch (Marburg, Hesse, 1530 or 1531), Jonah, Old Testament lessons appointed to be read in place of the Epistles, and a MS. translation of the Old Testament to the end of Chronicles which was afterwards used in Matthew's Bible fa.v,). His revisions of the New Testament were issued in 1534 and 1535.
Typographical Signs
' An acute accent. In Greek it indicates a rise in the voice; m French vowel quality; in Spanish stress; in Bohemian and Hungarian a long vowel.
tyre kicker
A person who asks many questions before making a purchase
Tyrian Purple
This dye of ancient fame was, properly sneaking, a crimson, produced from an animal juice found in the shell-fish Murex.
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