Tissue — Defs

01 n. A woven fabric.

1.
A woven fabric.
2.
A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
“A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire.” — Dryden.

“In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials.” — Milton.
3.
One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.(Biol.)
4.
Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
“Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion.” — A. J. Balfour.

Phrases & compounds

Tissue paper — very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.

02 v. t. To form tissue of; to interweave.

imp. & p. p. Tissued; p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing

1.
To form tissue of; to interweave.
“Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue.” — Bacon.