tissue

A fine, very thin fabric, such as gauze.

Tissue paper.

A soft, absorbent piece of paper used as toilet paper, a handkerchief, or a towel.

An interwoven or interrelated number of things; a web; a network.

An aggregation of morphologically similar cells and associated intercellular matter acting together to perform one or more specific functions in an organism. There are four basic types of tissue in many animals: muscle, nerve, epidermal, and connective.

To weave with threads of silver or gold, as in the manufacture of tissue.

To clothe in or adorn with tissue.

Figuratively, to weave; construct; elaborate.

A woven or textile fabric; specifically, in former times, a fine stuff, richly colored or ornamented, and often shot with gold or silver threads, a variety of cloth of gold; now, any light gauzy texture, such as is used for veils, or, more indefinitely, any woven fabric of fine quality: a generic word, the specific sense of which in any use is determinable only by its connection or qualification.

A ribbon, or a woven ligament of some kind.