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   Tissue , n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See Text.]
    A woven fabric.
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   A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
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   A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire.
   Dryden.
   
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   In their glittering tissues bear emblazed
   Holy memorials.
   Milton.
   
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   (Biol.) 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.
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   ☞ The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing in structure and function, which go to make up an organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc.
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   Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
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   Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion.
   A. J. Balfour.
   
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   Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.
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   Tissue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tissued ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing.] To form tissue of; to interweave.
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   Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue.
   Bacon.
   
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