titling Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb give a title to
entitle; title.
verb designate by an identifying term
style; title.
- They styled their nation `The Confederate States'

Icel. titlingr a tit sparrow. See Tit a small bird.

(Zoöl.) (a) The hedge sparrow; -- called also titlene. Its nest often chosen by the cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs.
The titling, . . . being thus deceived, hatcheth the egg, and bringeth up the chick of another bird. Holland.
(b) The meadow pipit.
Stockfish; -- formerly so called in customhouses.