Definition of Tissuey

1. Adjective. Tissuelike. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tissuey

1. resembling tissue [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tissuey

tissue procollagenase
tissue registration
tissue respiration
tissue survival
tissue tension
tissue therapy
tissue thromboplastin inhibition time
tissue transplantation
tissue typing
tissue valve
tissue weighting factor
tissued
tissueless
tissuelike
tissues
tissuey (current term)
tissuing
tissular
tissy
tiswas
tiswases
tit
tit-tat-toe
tit for tat
tit for tats
tit juice

Literary usage of Tissuey

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"TYK pee-kee (piki) or Moqui bread is a thin tissuey substance of a greenish-blue color; the sheets measure about two feet by a foot and a half, ..."

2. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"'Try and love me still,' said the duchess, letting her take one unburnt corner, and crumble the black tissuey fragments to smut in her hands. ..."

3. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1906)
"When Congress refused to pass the legislation that the president desired, he did not hesitate to usurp the legislative function, under "the tissuey pretence ..."

4. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"Try and love me still," said the duchess, letting her take one unburnt corner, and crumble the black tissuey fragments to smut in her hands. ..."

5. The Romance of Commerce by Harry Gordon Selfridge (1918)
"... without security at the back of it, rested only on the tissuey foundation of public confidence— that this confidence must disappear sooner or later—that ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Banks and Banking by John Torrey Morse (1888)
"(6) How very tissuey the opinion is we shall see still more clearly on noticing the manner in which it treats Bank of Washington v. Triplett, saying of it, ..."

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