Tissue

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A woven fabric.

II. Tissue ·vt To form tissue of; to Interweave.

III. Tissue ·noun Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.

IV. Tissue ·noun A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, ·etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.

V. Tissue ·noun 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.