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Tyger

Tyger \Ty"ger\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A tiger. [Obs.]

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tyger

n. (context obsolete English) A tiger.

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Tyger

Tyger may refer to:

  • Tyger (heraldry), an imaginary animal used as a charge in heraldry
  • Lord Tyger, an American novel by Philip José Farmer
  • " The Tyger", a poem by the English poet William Blake
  • Tyger (album), 1987 album by Tangerine Dream
  • Tyger Drew-Honey (born 1996), English child actor from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
  • TYGER Security, a rogue private military firm from the video game Batman: Arkham City
  • Tyger (ship), the ship used by Adriaen Block during his 1613 exploration the North American East Coast
  • Tygers of Pan Tang, a heavy metal band
  • Tyger River, a river in South Carolina
Tyger (album)

Tyger is the thirtieth album by Tangerine Dream. It is based on the poetry of William Blake. Lyrics are based on the poems " The Tyger", "Smile", "America", "The Fly", and "London".

"Tyger" spent one week on the UK Albums Chart at No.88. This is Tangerine Dream's last UK chart appearance to date.

Tyger (heraldry)

Tyger or sometimes heraldic tiger is a beast used as a charge in heraldry. To distinguish it from the naturally existing tiger, which also occurs in heraldry, the latter is sometimes blazoned as a "Bengal tiger".

The tyger does not look much like a natural tiger. Its body is like the body of a wolf. It has the tail of a lion and a thick mane. It has large, powerful jaws and a pointed snout. The "natural" colour was in Medieval times said to be speckled, later red. It is supposed to have its home in Hyrcania in Persia and its swiftness is supposed to have given its name to "tygris", the Persian word for "arrow", and to the swift River Tigris. If pursued by a tyger, it was supposed to be possible to get away from it by leaving a mirror, which would make the tyger perplexed.

Usage examples of "tyger".

She was safely hidden behind a shrub across the lane before the Tyger and his lady were on the front steps.

His hand fell to grip her other arm, and he held her as if he would devour her like the Tyger he was.

Her Tyger turned on her with teeth and claws bared to devour faith and love and everything she had become.

He stared at her a moment longer, and then the tyger drew his attention.

She gazed out at the tyger, who had retreated to the shade of the sacking the grooms had laid across the top of his pen.

Nobody but the tyger saw her as she came and tried the big brass keys, one after another, in the padlock that secured the door of his pen.

If all their intelligence was the tyger, how long would they last, how would they be able to fare into this coming forest of the night?

One of those purloined treasury notes had been cashed in Durango just before Calvert Tyger had died in yet another rooming house fire, and that seemed sort of suspicious as soon as you read the same line over.

The gal said Tyger had cussed her boss about those hundred-dollar notes before gunning him, as if it had been the poor paymaster's fault.

Longarm was even more certain someone ad been fibbing about that charred body registered as Tyger when he opened a message from his home office to discover his fellow deputies, Smiley and Dutch, had found two other rooming house registers that claimed, in different handwriting, Calvert Tyger had spent some recent nights in other parts of Denver at the same time, before somehow moving on alive and well as far as any fool records showed, So some damned body, for some damned reason, seemed to be going around checking in and out for the night under the assumed name of a wanted man.

I know they all say Calvert Tyger, Brick Flanders, and them other Galvanized Yankees started out in these parts years ago.

Beyond that the wheatlands and vineyards dotted the flat land that stretched away to the Paarde Berg, the Horse Mountains, where once the wild mountain zebra had roamed, and the Tyger Berg.

Unfortunately for Flanders, Tyger was way more certain it had to be him pulling jobs on the sly and making an outlaw laying low more famous than he'd ever mean to be.

Calvert Tyger and his pals had foresworn the Confederacy a good spell before Lee's surrender, and would have been free to head home the same as any other Union vets had they not deserted both armies in time of war.

The onionskins failed to say whether Calvert Tyger and his reb pals had lit out before or after Abe Lincoln told the army to take it easy and pardoned all but a tenth of the bunch the army had been fixing to hang.