Definition of tissue
- n. - A woven fabric.
- n. - A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.;
specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed
with figures.
- n. - 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.
- n. - Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected
series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.
- v. t. - To form tissue of; to interweave.