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Tiroʹnian Sign (The)

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The symbol (&) for “and” or the Latin et. Said to have been invented by Tullius Tiro, Cicero’s freed-man. (See Marks in Grammar.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Tiphys
Tipperary Rifle (A)
Tippling Act (The)
Tippling House
Tipstaff
Tiptoe of Expectation (On the)
Tirer une Dent
Tiresias
Tiring Irons
Tirled
Tironian Sign (The)
Tiryns
Tirynthian Swain
Tit
Tit for Tat
Titan
Titan’s War with Jove (The)
Titania
Tithonus
Titi (Prince)
Titian [Tiziano Vecellio]