Tissue

n.	1.	A woven fabric.
	2.	A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures. A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. - Dryden. In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials. - Milton.
	3.	(Biol.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.
	4.	Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood. Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. - A. J. Balfour. Tissue paper very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.
v. t.	1.	To form tissue of; to interweave. [imp. & p. p. Tissued ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing.] Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. - Bacon.

Noun	1.	tissue - a part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function
	2.	tissue - a soft thin (usually translucent) paper Synonyms: tissue paper
Verb	1.	tissue - create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles" Synonyms: weave

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