tiled, ppl. a.
(taɪld)
[f. tile v. + -ed1.]
1. Covered, roofed, lined, or laid with tiles.
| c 1450 Godstow Reg. 495 Bitwene the tyled house of Isabell..and the ovyn of the same Isabell. 1546 J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 58 A tyeld house. 1609 Ev. Woman in Hum. iv. ii, He that has not a tilde house must bee glad of a thatch house. 1849 Dickens Dav. Copp. xxi, She was in the tiled kitchen. 1881 ‘Rita’ Lady Coquette iii, A bright wood fire burns in the old tiled fireplace. |
b. Nat. Hist. Covered with or composed of overlapping leaves, scales, or the like (also said of the leaves, etc.); imbricated. ? Obs.
| 1750–1 Mrs. Delany Life & Corr. (1862) III. 27 A present..of a tiled cockle, that weighs above a hundred weight. 1776 Withering Brit. Plants (1796) I. 139 Scirpus... Spike tiled on every side, the florets separated by Scales. Ibid. 364 The tiled leaves at the extremity of the plant. 1805 P. Wakefield Domestic Recr. (1806) I. 12 The third order have four tiled or feathered wings. |
c. slang. Hatted.
| 1792 Misc. Ess. in Ann. Reg. 153/2 Nor were living heads only new tiled in this taste. The statues of their favorite poets were crowned with a red cap. |
2. Locally applied to fish dried in the sun (? upon tiles).
| 1808 Scott Autobiog. in Lockhart, Dined at Prestonpans on tiled haddocks very sumptuously. 1830 ― Diary 27 June, [At Cockenzie] we had a tiled whiting, a dish unknown elsewhere. |
3. Freemasonry. See tile v. 2.