titling

English

Etymology 1

Verb

titling

1. present participle of title

Noun

titling (plural titlings)

1. The act of giving something a title, or of impressing the title on the back of a book.

Etymology 2

From the Icelandic word for a tit sparrow, from Old Norse tittr (“titmouse”). Also see tit (“a small bird”).

Noun

titling (plural titlings)

1. The hedge sparrow, dunnock, titlene, Prunella modularis
   • (Can we date this quote by Holland and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The titling, […] being thus deceived, hatcheth the egg, and bringeth up the chick of another bird.

2. The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis)
3. (obsolete, in customhouses) stockfish

Translations

Prunella modularis — see dunnock

Anthus pratensis — see meadow pipit

stockfish — see stockfish

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “titling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Tlingit, litting, tilting