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.