Tiled

ppl. a. [f. TILE v. + -ED¹.]

  1.  Covered, roofed, lined, or laid with tiles.

c. 1450.  Godstow Reg., 495. Bitwene the tyled house of Isabell … and the ovyn of the same Isabell.

1546.  J. Heywood, Prov. (1867), 53. A tyeld house.

1609.  Ev. Woman in Hum., IV. ii. He that has not a tilde house must bee glad of a thatch house.

1849.  Dickens, Dav. Copp., xxi. She was in the tiled kitchen.

1881.  ‘Rita,’ Lady Coquette, iii. A bright wood fire burns in the old tiled fireplace.

  b.  Nat. Hist. Covered with or composed of overlapping leaves, scales, or the like (also said of the leaves, etc.); imbricated. ? Obs.

1750–1.  Mrs. Delany, Life & Corr. (1862), III. 27. A present … of a tiled cockle, that weighs above a hundred weight.

1776.  Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), I. 139. Scirpus…. Spike tiled on every side, the florets separated by Scales. Ibid., 364. The tiled leaves at the extremity of the plant.

1805.  Priscilla Wakefield, Domestic Recr. (1806), I. 12. The third order have four tiled or feathered wings.

  c.  slang. Hatted.

1792.  Misc. Ess., in Ann. Reg., 153/2. Nor were living heads only new tiled in this taste. The statues of their favorite poets were crowned with a red cap.

  2.  Locally applied to fish dried in the sun (? upon tiles).

1808.  Scott, Autobiog., in Lockhart. Dined at Prestonpans on tiled haddocks very sumptuously. Ibid. (1830), Diary, 27 June. [At Cockenzie] we had a tiled whiting, a dish unknown elsewhere.

  3.  Freemasonry. See TILE v. 2.