Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TIME-IST, n.

In music, a performer who keeps good time. Busby.

TIME-KEEP-ER, n. [time and keeper.]

A clock, watch, or other chronometer.

TIME-KILL-ING, a.

Adapted to kill time.

TIME-LESS, a.

1. Unseasonable; done at an improper time. Nor fits it to prolong the heav'nly feast / Timeless. [Not used.] Pope.
2. Untimely; immature; done or suffered before the proper time; as, a timeless grave. [Not used.] Shak.

TIME-LESS-LY, adv.

Unseasonably. Milton.

TIME-LI-NESS, n. [from timely.]

Seasonableness; a being in good time.

TIME-LY, a.

1. Seasonable; being in good time; sufficiently early. The defendant had timely notice of this motion. Timely care will often prevent great evils.
2. Keeping time or measure. [Not used.] Spenser.

TIME-LY, adv.

Early; soon; in good season. Timely advis'd, the coming evil shun. Prior.

TIME-OUS-LY, a.

Seasonably; in good time. Watts.

TIME-PIECE, n. [time and piece.]

A clock, watch, or other instrument to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.

TIME-PLEAS-ER, n. [s as z. time and please.]

One who complies with the prevailing opinions, whatever they may be. Shak.

TIME-SANC-TION-ED, a.

Sanctioned by long use. Channing.

TIME-SCORN'ER, n.

One who scorns time.

TIME-SERV-ER, n. [time and serve.]

One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously complies with the ruling power. Hall.

TIME-SERV-ING, a.

Obsequiously complying with the humors of men in power.

TIME-SERV-ING, n.

An obsequious compliance with the humors of men in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.

TIME-WAST-ING, a.

Wasting time.

TIME-WORN, a.

Impaired by time. Irving.

TIM'ID, a. [Fr. timide; L. timidus, from timeo, to fear; Gaelic, tim, time, fear; Sp. temblar, to shake with fear; temer, to fear. The sense is probably to shake, or to fail, fall, recede, or shrink.]

Fearful; wanting courage to meet danger; timorous; not bold. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson.

TIM-ID'I-TY, n. [Fr. timidité; L. timiditas.]

Fearfulness; want of courage or boldness to face danger; timorousness; habitual cowardice. Timidity in one person may be a good trait of character, while in another it is a deep reproach.

TIM'ID-LY, adv.

In a timid manner; weakly; without courage.

TIM'ID-NESS, n.

Timidity.

TIM'ING, ppr.

Adapting to the season or occasion.

TI'MIST, n. [See TIMEIST.]

TI-MOC'RA-CY, n. [Gr. τιμη, honor, worth, and κρατεω, to hold.]

Government by men of property, who are possessed of a certain income. Gillies' Aristotle.