TIGER
\tˈa͡ɪɡə], \tˈaɪɡə], \t_ˈaɪ_ɡ_ə]\
Definitions of TIGER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.
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Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
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A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
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A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger.
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A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
By Oddity Software
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A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.
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Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
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A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
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A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger.
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A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A large carnivorous mammal marked with vertical black wavy stripes. See next column.
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Tigerish, tigrish.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A fierce rapacious animal of Asia of the feline family, nearly as large as a lion; a servant in livery who rides with his master or mistress.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin, Greek] A fierce and rapacious animal of the genus Felis, about the size of a lion, but longer in the body, and , without a mane, of a fawn colour above, white below, and irregularly marked with black stripes, and found chiefly in India and the Indian islands;-a young servant in livery who rides behind his master or mistress.
