12. In billiards: Noting balls that are fast, or frozen to each other.Noting pockets that are small for the diameter of the balls.13. See the extract.Close or closely compacted in texture or structure.Hence Trim; tidy; neat.Expert; handy; skilful; adroit; capable.Close; firm; as, a tight grasp; a tight knot.Close-fitting; especially, fitting too closely because too small, narrow, or the like: as, a tight shoe; a tight coat.Close-fisted; narrow; niggardly; parsimonious: as, a man tight in his dealings.Tense; taut; strained or stretched so as to leave no slack: as, a tight rope.Produced by or requiring great straining or exertion; severe: as, to get through by a tight pull; specifically, in medicine, noting a cough accompanied with a painful sense of constriction, and without expectoration; racking; hacking.Scarce; not easily obtained or obtainable, because held firmly or tied up in some way: applied to money; hence, straitened for want of money: as, a tight money-market. [Commercial slang.]Under the influence of strong drink; intoxicated; tipsy; “full.”Noting the condition of the cutting edge of a saw as condensed by hammering. Also small.To make tight; tighten.See tite.An old preterit of tie.