tilt
    n 1: a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each
         other with blunted lances [syn: joust, tilt]
    2: a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong
       disagreement; "they were involved in a violent argument"
       [syn: controversy, contention, contestation,
       disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguing]
    3: a slight but noticeable partiality; "the court's tilt toward
       conservative rulings"
    4: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from
       the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship
       developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy
       inclination to the right" [syn: tilt, list,
       inclination, lean, leaning]
    5: pitching dangerously to one side [syn: rock, careen,
       sway, tilt]
    v 1: to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned
         over the banister" [syn: lean, tilt, tip, slant,
         angle]
    2: heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"
       [syn: cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch]
    3: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out
       of control" [syn: careen, wobble, shift, tilt]
    4: charge with a tilt

Tilt \Tilt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Tilting.]
   To cover with a tilt, or awning.
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Tilt \Tilt\, v. t. [OE. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, AS.
   tealt unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to
   vacillate, D. tel amble, ambling pace, G. zelt, Icel. t["o]lt
   an ambling pace, t["o]lta to amble. Cf. Totter.]
   1. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging
      liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
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   2. To point or thrust, as a lance.
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            Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. --J.
                                                  Philips.
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   3. To point or thrust a weapon at. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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   4. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel
      in order to render it more ductile.
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Tilt \Tilt\ (t[i^]lt), n. [OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish),
   teld, AS. teld, geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel.
   tjald, Sw. t[aum]lt, tj[aum]ll, Dan. telt, and AS. beteldan
   to cover.]
   1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. --Denham.
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   2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
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   3. (Naut.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning
      extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
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   Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other
      cloth.

   Tilt roof (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of
      a wagon.
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Tilt \Tilt\, n.
   1. A thrust, as with a lance. --Addison.
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   2. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants
      attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
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   3. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
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   4. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
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   Full tilt, with full force. --Dampier.
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Tilt \Tilt\, v. i.
   1. To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the
      military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a
      combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to
      engage in any combat or movement resembling that of
      horsemen tilting with lances.
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            He tilts
            With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast.
                                                  --Shak.
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            Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast.
                                                  --Shak.
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            But in this tournament can no man tilt. --Tennyson.
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            The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the ?urges flew.
                                                  --Pope.
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   2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
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            The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward
            by the muscles of the back.           --Grew.
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