ppl. a. Also 7 tide, tyed. [f. TIE v. + -ED1.]
1. Bound or fastened with a cord or the like; joined, connected (as letters in printing, quot. 1891): see TIE v. B. 1–3. Also TONGUE-TIED.
1591. Shaks., Two Gent., II. iii. 41. Panth. What’s the vnkindest tide? Lau. Why, he that’s tide bere, Crab my dog.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 38 b/2. The tyed Vayne might chaunce to vntye.
1614. Gorges, Lucan, VI. 253. He stonisht was…, His tyed tong no sound could blunder.
1758. J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), 220. I dressed it with tied Dossils.
1864. Bowen, Logic, xi. 365. The nervous fluid will not travel along a tied nerve.
1891. W. Morris, in Mackail, Life (1899), II. 252. We have no contractions, few tied letters.
1904. Budge, 3rd & 4th Egypt. Rooms Brit. Mus., 110. Oxen with tied feet.
b. Tied note: see quots. and TIE sb. 6 b, v. 3 c.
1716. (title) The Dancing-Master…. Sixteenth Edition…. The whole Work Revised and done on the New-Ty’d-Note.
1801. Busby, Dict. of Music, Tied-Notes, notes, the tails of which are joined together by cross lines, as in united quavers, semiquavers, &c., or over the heads of which a curve is drawn to denote that they are to be slurred.
2. fig. United, joined; restrained, confined, etc.: see TIE v. B. 4, 5.
1876. T. Hardy, Ethelberta (1890), 140. That’s why married men advise others to marry. Were all the world tied up, the pleasantly tied ones would be equivalent to those at present free.
1907. Daily Chron., 22 March, 7/1. The sight of the Progressives banded together emphasized the fact of their being the tied party of the Chamber of Mines.
b. spec. Of an inn or public house: Of which the tenant is bound to take his liquor from a particular brewing firm (which usually owns the house), hence transf. of a laborer’s cottage: of which the tenant is astricted to work on the farm.
1887. Pall Mall G., 23 July, 16/1. Local breweries have almost entirely depended upon tied houses for the sale of their products.
1890. Guardian, 17 Sept., 1434/2. The question of renewing licences to ‘tied houses’ has been considered at some of the licensing sessions.
1899. Daily News, 7 Dec., 4/1. The labourers hate the ‘tied cottage’ system. Ibid. (1901), 16 Feb., 5/3. Certain brewers are in the habit of turning unsuccessful houses into tied-house clubs.
3. Tied up, in lit. and fig. senses: see TIE v. B. 11.
1603. Shaks., Meas. for M., I. iii. 32. It rested in your Grace To vnloose this tyde-vp Iustice.
1693. W. Bowles, in Dryden’s Juvenal, v. 13. And with a Matt, and Crutch, and ty’d up Leg, More honestly and honourably Beg.
1711–2. Swift, Jrnl. to Stella, 6 Jan. It was not proper to go to Court without a long wig, and his was a tied-up one.
1822. Savage, Hints Decorative Print., 46. Four or five octavo pages of tied up letter.
1876. [see 2].
