titling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of title

noun

1. The act of giving something a title, or of impressing the title on the back of a book.

   “Then, gentlemen, not only is this a forgery, but it is a modern forgery. It is a forgery since 1806—since the date of the rebinding of the Record by Mr Thompson, when the new mode of titling was introduced.”

   “The leather for the spine strip was onlaid with the titling and other linking features separately from the covers.”

2. A legal right to a property; holding a title.

   “People took possession of the tenantless cottages to which their only titling is the holding of the key : a few of these still remain.”

   “Where shifting cultivation or bush fallowing are widely practised, it is unlikely that strong pressure for titling will emerge from within the area concerned. The primary momentum for titling will probably be exogenously generated,”

3. The hedge sparrow, dunnock, titlene, Prunella modularis.

   “The Titling therefore that sitteth, being thus deceived, hatcheth the egge and bringeth up the chicke of another bird.”

   “[…]its winter note resembles the word, Tit, Tit, often repeated, which has given it the name of Titling in many parts of the country.”

4. The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

   “In the North this is so commonly observed, that the cuckoo is popularly believed to be always attended by the titling or pippet (Anthus pratensis, Bechstein), which it is further imagined, has been its step-mother and nurse from the egg;”

5. (obsolete)Stockfish.

   ““[…]Stock-fish—Titling—Cropling—Lub-fish. You should have noted that they are all, nevertheless, to be entered as titlings. How many inches long is a titling?””