tissue

en-noun

tissue (countable and uncountable, plural tissues)

From Middle English tissu, from Old French tissu (“woven”), past participle of tistre (“to weave”), from Latin texō (“to weave”).

Madame Legarde, the "glass of fashion and the nurse of form," (alias the most fashionable of milliners,) has comfortably assured me, "that my figure has great merit, and only requires cultivation:" this is to be done by tissues, brocades, and laces, which are now scattered round me in charming confusion.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 65–66:

The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.

1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 214:

A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.

What they lack is outermost brain tissue that, at least in humans, prompts awareness and interpretation.

2014, Robert K. Bolger, Scott Korb, Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy:

extracellular matrix
extracellular matrix#English

(biology) A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to do a specific job.

a tissue of forgeries, or of lies

unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion

1888, A. J. Balfour, The Religion of Humanity:

Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.

Pricing the first show is a matter of the bookmaker's individual judgment, relying upon advice from all quarters, particularly the tissue; but very soon in the betting exchanges it becomes clear that the sole criterion for the fixing of a horse's price is demand.

2016, Gerald Hammond, The Language of Horse Racing:

(horse racing, slang) The scratch sheet or racing form.


tissue

en-verb

tissue (third-person singular simple present tissues, present participle tissuing, simple past and past participle tissued)

tissues (present singular third-person)
tissuing (participle present)
tissued (participle past)
tissued (past)

The Chariot was couered with Cloth of Gold tiſſued vpon blew.

1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, page 28:


cistern

From Middle English cisterne, from Old French cisterne (Modern French citerne) from Latin cisterna, from cista (“box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”). Doublet of cisterna.

1913, A.C. Cotter, Catholic Encyclopedia, "Wells in Scripture",
Their extreme necessity is attested by the countless number of old, unused cisterns with which the Holy Land is literally honeycombed.

On a broad ledge near the top, we found a stone cabin. Higher up was a cistern and a few more terraces.

1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 211:

Cisterns (bôr, bō'r), mentioned frequently in the Bible, are artificial reservoirs, usually cut into bedrock, for collecting and conserving rain runoff from roofs and courtyards.

2001, Philip J. King, Lawrence E. Stager, chapter 3, in Life in Biblical Israel, →ISBN, page 126:

A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.


fascicle

From Latin fasciculus, a diminutive of fascis (“bundle”); see also fasces. Doublet of fasciculus.

(botany) A discrete bundle of vascular tissue.


-enchyma

From Ancient Greek ἔγχυμα (énkhuma, “infusion”).