Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   Note: Paper is often used adjectively or in combination,
         having commonly an obvious signification; as, paper
         cutter or paper-cutter; paper knife, paper-knife, or
         paperknife; paper maker, paper-maker, or papermaker;
         paper mill or paper-mill; paper weight, paper-weight,
         or paperweight, etc.

   {Business paper}, checks, notes, drafts, etc., given in
      payment of actual indebtedness; -- opposed to
      accommodation paper.

   {Fly paper}, paper covered with a sticky preparation, -- used
      for catching flies.

   {Laid paper}. See under {Laid}.

   {Paper birch} (Bot.), the canoe birch tree ({Betula
      papyracea}).

   {Paper blockade}, an ineffective blockade, as by a weak naval
      force.

   {Paper boat} (Naut.), a boat made of water-proof paper.

   {Paper car wheel} (Railroad), a car wheel having a steel
      tire, and a center formed of compressed paper held between
      two plate-iron disks. --Forney.

   {Paper credit}, credit founded upon evidences of debt, such
      as promissory notes, duebills, etc.

   {Paper hanger}, one who covers walls with paper hangings.

   {Paper hangings}, paper printed with colored figures, or
      otherwise made ornamental, prepared to be pasted against
      the walls of apartments, etc.; wall paper.

   {Paper house}, an audience composed of people who have come
      in on free passes. [Cant]

   {Paper money}, notes or bills, usually issued by government
      or by a banking corporation, promising payment of money,
      and circulated as the representative of coin.

   {Paper mulberry}. (Bot.) See under Mulberry.

   {Paper muslin}, glazed muslin, used for linings, etc.

   {Paper nautilus}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Argonauta}.

   {Paper reed} (Bot.), the papyrus.

   {Paper sailor}. (Zo["o]l.) See Argonauta.

   {Paper stainer}, one who colors or stamps wall paper. --De
      Colange.

   {Paper wasp} (Zo["o]l.), any wasp which makes a nest of
      paperlike material, as the yellow jacket.

   {Paper weight}, any object used as a weight to prevent loose
      papers from being displaced by wind, or otherwise.

   {Parchment paper}. See {Papyrine}.

   {Tissue paper}, thin, gauzelike paper, such as is used to
      protect engravings in books.

   {Wall paper}. Same as {Paper hangings}, above.

   {Waste paper}, paper thrown aside as worthless or useless,
      except for uses of little account.

   {Wove paper}, a writing paper with a uniform surface, not
      ribbed or watermarked.

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 paper
     n : a soft thin (usually translucent) paper [syn: {tissue}]