Definition of: tissue

(tish′) noun
1. Any light or gauzy textile fabric, usually of silk; originally, cloth interwoven with gold or silver thread.
2. Biol. One of the elementary aggregates of cells and their products, developed by plants and animals for the performance of a particular function: connective tissue.
3. A connected or interwoven series; chain; fabrication: a tissue of lies.
4. Tissue paper.
—v.t. ·sued, ·su·ing Rare
1. To make into tissue.
2. To adorn with tissue; weave. [<OF tissu a rich stuff, orig. pp. of tistre weave <L texere]