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▪ I. tied, ppl. a.|taɪd|
Also 7 tide, tyed.
[f. tie v. + -ed1.]
1. a. Bound or fastened with a cord or the like; joined, connected (as letters in printing, quot. 1891): see tie v. B. 1–3. Also tongue-tied.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. iii. 41 Panth. What's the vnkindest tide? Lau. Why, he that's tide here, Crab my dog. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 38 b/2 The tyed Vayne might chaunce to vntye. 1614Gorges Lucan vi. 253 He stonisht was.., His tyed tong no sound could blunder. 1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 220, I dressed it with tied Dossils. 1864Bowen Logic xi. 365 The nervous fluid will not travel along a tied nerve. 1891W. Morris in Mackail Life (1899) II. 252 We have no contractions, few tied letters. 1904Budge 3rd & 4th Egypt. Rooms Brit. Mus. 110 Oxen with tied feet.
b. tied note: see quots. and tie n. 6 b, v. 3 c.
1716(title) The Dancing-Master... Sixteenth Edition... The whole Work Revised and done on the New-Ty'd-Note. 1801Busby Dict. of Music, Tied-Notes, notes, the tails of which are joined together by cross lines, as in united quavers, semiquavers, &c., or over the heads of which a curve is drawn to denote that they are to be slurred.
2. fig. United, joined; restrained, confined, etc.: see tie v. B. 4, 5.
1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 140 That's why married men advise others to marry. Were all the world tied up, the pleasantly tied ones would be equivalent to those at present free. 1907Daily Chron. 22 Mar. 7/1 The sight of the Progressives banded together emphasized the fact of their being the tied party of the Chamber of Mines.
b. spec. Of an inn or public house: Of which the tenant is bound to take his liquor from a particular brewing firm (which usually owns the house), hence transf. of a labourer's cottage: of which the tenant is astricted to work on the farm.
1887Pall Mall G. 23 July 16/1 Local breweries have almost entirely depended upon tied houses for the sale of their products. 1890Guardian 17 Sept. 1434/2 The question of renewing licences to ‘tied houses’ has been considered at some of the licensing sessions. 1899Daily News 7 Dec. 4/1 The labourers hate the ‘tied cottage’ system. 1901Ibid. 16 Feb. 5/3 Certain brewers are in the habit of turning unsuccessful houses into tied-house clubs.
c. Of an international loan, etc.: given subject to conditions as to its use (see tie v. 5 f).
1958C. N. Henning Internat. Finance iv. xxi. 441/1 The so-called ‘tied loan’ principle. 1961Ann. Reg. 1960 470 The issue of tied grants and credits was the subject of some dispute at international meetings. 1965McGraw-Hill Dict. Mod. Econ. 515 The advantages of tied loans are that they stimulate employment and income in the creditor nation and do not affect the balance of payments of that country adversely. 1976New Internationalist Jan. 5 For the Third World, ‘tied’ aid generally means having to pay between 20% and 50% more for goods than the competitive world market level.
d. Of a retail garage: of which the tenant is bound to receive fuel from a particular supplier.
1957Economist 7 Dec. 885/1 About a third of these ‘tied garages’ have been signed up for periods of five years or less; the other two-thirds, which sell over half the petrol sold through dealers, are tied to their suppliers for longer periods of up to 20 years. 1965[see solus a. 3 b].
3. a. tied up, in lit. and fig. senses: see tie v. B. 13.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. iii. 32 It rested in your Grace To vnloose this tyde-vp Iustice. 1693W. Bowles in Dryden's Juvenal v. 13 And with a Matt, and Crutch, and ty'd up Leg, More honestly and honourably Beg. 1711–12Swift Jrnl. to Stella 6 Jan., It was not proper to go to Court without a long wig, and his was a tied-up one. 1822Savage Hints Decorative Print. 46 Four or five octavo pages of tied up letter. 1876[see 2].
b. tied-back: held back by tying.
1895Beerbohm in Yellow Book IV. 280 The women wore jerseys and tied-back skirts. 1979A. Buck Dress in Eighteenth-Century England 32/1 (caption) The tied-back hair in a bag.
▪ II. tied, a.|taɪd|
[f. tie n. + -ed2.]
Wearing a tie.
1911G. K. Chesterton Innocence of Father Brown iv. 105 The red-tied youth. 1976Scott & Koski Walk-In (1977) ii. 17 One clean-shaven, suited and tied, scrubbed Asian. |