tiger

1. Certain other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.

2. Certain other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.

3. Certain other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.Examples: "Similar is the test among the Moxos of Peru. One of their totems is the tiger; and a candidate for the rank of medicine-man must prove his kinship to the tiger by being bitten by that animal and surviving the bite."obsolete

4. (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.Examples: "The heraldic tiger is a mythical beast, quite unlike a real tiger which is described in heraldry as a Bengal tiger. The ordinary tiger has no stripes, has a horn protruding from its nose, has tusks like a boar and a tufted mane, and has a lion's tail instead of a tiger's."

5. (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.Examples: "Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about."South-Africa

6. (obsolete) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.Examples: "We arranged that I should come here alone in the London coach; and that he, leaving his tiger and cab behind him, should come on , and arrive here as soon as possible this afternoon"; "The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger, thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom."obsolete