tight

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Fixed or fastened firmly in place.
• adjective Stretched or drawn out fully.
• adjective Of such close construction as to be impermeable.
• adjective Leaving little empty space through compression; compact.
• adjective Affording little spare time; full.
• adjective Closely reasoned or concise.
• adjective Fitting close or too close to the skin; snug.
• adjective Slang Personally close; intimate.
• adjective Experiencing a feeling of constriction.
• adjective Reluctant to spend or give; stingy.
• adjective Obtainable with difficulty or only at a high price.
• adjective Affected by scarcity.
• adjective Difficult to deal with or get out of.
• adjective Barely profitable.
• adjective Closely contested; close.
• adjective Chiefly British Neat and trim in appearance or arrangement.
• adjective Marked by full control over elements or subordinates; firm.
• adjective Slang Intoxicated; drunk.
• adjective Baseball Inside.
• adverb Firmly; securely.
• adverb Soundly.
• adverb Snugly or with constriction.

from The Century Dictionary.

• 12. In billiards: Noting balls that are fast, or frozen to each other.
• Noting pockets that are small for the diameter of the balls.
• 13. See the extract.
• To make tight; tighten.
• See tite.
• An old preterit of tie.
• Close or closely compacted in texture or structure.
• Hence Trim; tidy; neat.
• Expert; handy; skilful; adroit; capable.
• Close; firm; as, a tight grasp; a tight knot.
• Close-fitting; especially, fitting too closely because too small, narrow, or the like: as, a tight shoe; a tight coat.
• Close-fisted; narrow; niggardly; parsimonious: as, a man tight in his dealings.
• Tense; taut; strained or stretched so as to leave no slack: as, a tight rope.
• Produced by or requiring great straining or exertion; severe: as, to get through by a tight pull; specifically, in medicine, noting a cough accompanied with a painful sense of constriction, and without expectoration; racking; hacking.
• Scarce; not easily obtained or obtainable, because held firmly or tied up in some way: applied to money; hence, straitened for want of money: as, a tight money-market. [Commercial slang.]
• Under the influence of strong drink; intoxicated; tipsy; “full.”
• Noting the condition of the cutting edge of a saw as condensed by hammering. Also small.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• p. p. of tie.
• transitive verb obsolete To tighten.
• adjective Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open
• adjective Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; ; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound
• adjective Fitting close, or too close, to the body.
• adjective Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
• adjective colloq. Close; parsimonious; saving.
• adjective Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; -- applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out.
• adjective obsolete Handy; adroit; brisk.