Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tissue \Tis"sue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tissued}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Tissuing}.]
   To form tissue of; to interweave.

         Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. --Bacon.

Tissue \Tis"sue\, n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser,
   tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See {Text}.]
   1. A woven fabric.

   2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.;
      specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver
      threads, or embossed with figures.

            A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. --Dryden.

            In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy
            memorials.                            --Milton.

   3. (Biol.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having
      a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which
      ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as,
      epithelial tissue; connective tissue.

   Note: The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense
         to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing
         in structure and function, which go to make up an
         organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc.

   4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected
      series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.

            Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism
            wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious
            emotion.                              --A. J.
                                                  Balfour.

   {Tissue paper}, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for
      protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate
      articles, etc.

Source : WordNet®

tissue
     n 1: a part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells
          having a similar structure and function
     2: a soft thin (usually translucent) paper [syn: {tissue paper}]

tissue
     v : create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric,
         such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles" [syn: {weave}]