Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
tiger .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), obsolete A tiger.
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- noun obsolete A
tiger .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The vegetarian tyger is not convincing as an example of sugar tamed savagery because the story strikes readers as poignant and tragic: it is the domesticated tiger, not Mr. Benjamin Parker's ravaged arm and bloody bed sheets, and certainly not Moseley's mock-heroism, that has readers 'sympathy.
Grave Dirt, Dried Toads, and the Blood of a Black Cat: How Aldridge Worked His Charms 2002
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- Better a hand between a "tyger" and his "bright" succor or his "sweet delight", or some would have it worse still to be between that and his "endless night".
Mr.Dostoevsky 2010
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I think the photograph of a tattoo of a tiger on the cover of my poetry chapbook Tiger's Milk would have impressed him more, especially if I told him it was a "tyger" a la Blake.
Crossing Mason-Dixon 2006
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I think the photograph of a tattoo of a tiger on the cover of my poetry chapbook Tiger's Milk would have impressed him more, especially if I told him it was a "tyger" a la Blake.
June 2006 2006
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Peltry, such as tyger and leopard skins, &c. are not of much importance.
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TrikYodz (UID#1103) on October 29th, 2009 at 10: 40 am yeah i agree tyger, im callin bs on this whole thing. and nate, what did they change?
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By NowhereBob, January 5, 2010 @ 8: 12 am tyger, when there are no lassies around …
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Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? admin Uncategorized anne shaw, the tyger, william blake
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Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? admin Uncategorized anne shaw, the tyger, william blake
2009 » January 2009
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The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbit watch the roots; the lion, the tyger, the horse, the elephant watch the fruits.
2007 » October 2007
shadowkeir commented on the word tyger
In the poem entitled "the Tyger" by William Blake this is how he spells tiger.
November 18, 2008