Tissue

(tish'shū), n. [Fr. tissu, from tissu, p. p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, from Lat. texere.]

1Sense 1. Cloth interwoven with gold or silver, or with figured colors. “A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire.” Dryden.

In their glittering tissues bear imblazed Holy memorials. Milton.

2Sense 2. (Anat.) The texture or grouping of anatomical elements of which any part of the body is composed.

☞ The anatomical elements are the smallest natural divisions of the organism: these, by their union, constitute the tissues.

3Sense 3. A connected series; as, the whole story is a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.

Tissue-paper, very thin, gauze-like paper, such as is used to protect engravings in books.