\Tis"sue\, n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser,
tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See {Text}.]
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.
Note: The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense
      to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing
      in structure and function, which go to make up an
      organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc.
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.

\Tis"sue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tissued}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tissuing}.]
To form tissue of; to interweave.
      Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. --Bacon.