Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Some small bird.
  • noun A name formerly given in the custom-house to stock-fish.
  • noun In bookbinding, impressing, usually in gold-leaf, on the back of a book the words selected for the title.

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

  • noun The hedge sparrow; -- called also titlene. Its nest often chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs.
  • noun The meadow pipit.
  • noun Stockfish; -- formerly so called in customhouses.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of title.
  • noun The hedge sparrow, or titlene.
  • noun The meadow pipit.
  • noun obsolete stockfish

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Icelandic word for a tit sparrow. See tit ("a small bird").

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Examples

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  • Examples that were cited were the 'large capitals' of Garamond at the Museum Plantin-Moretus, titling capitals among the 'Fell types' at the University Press, Oxford, a titling from the French foundry of Claude Mozet that was acquired by Benjamin Franklin, and the series of two-line capitals of the romain du roi at the Imprimerie nationale in France.

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  • He talked about search engine optimization and the idea of titling your blog posts in a straightforward, easily-searchable way.

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  • Personally, I felt the titling was an exercise in semantics.

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  • Personally, I felt the titling was an exercise in semantics.

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  • Personally, I felt the titling was an exercise in semantics.

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  • Personally, I felt the titling was an exercise in semantics.

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  • Ha, that's funny because I do recall titling a previous entry "I hate college".

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  • June 24th, 2009 The recently released 'Paying Guest' directed by Paritosh Painter has been well received by the audiences Keeping the appreciation and the applause in mind, it was well expected that the producer, Subhash Ghai would announce a sequel of the same Subhash Ghai had actually initially informed the director Paritosh Painter of making a sequel and he was infact, also toying the idea of titling the film as 'Chaar Yaar'.

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