1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xv. 166 Vpon the sea shoare the Caymant with his taile gaue great blowes vnto the Tygre.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia iv. v. 177 The lesser sort of Tigres spotted like a Leopard.

1708 tr. F. Leguat in R. Raven-Hart Cape of Good Hope 1652–1702 (1971) II. 431 The Company gives twenty Crowns to anyone that kills a Lion, and ten to him that kills a Tigre.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xii. 267 There were great numbers of tygers in the woods [Pacific coast, Mexico]..they are by no means so fierce as the Asiatic or African tyger.

1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (1786) II. 252 The animals which I and the colonists in this part of Africa call tygers,..represented in..M. de Buffon's work, under the denomination of panthers and leopards.

1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xvi. 215 When the tigers approached the edge of the forest, a dog which the travellers had began to howl.

1894 E. Eggleston in Cent. Mag. Apr. 849 The panther was long called a ‘tyger’ in the Carolinas.

1907 J. P. Fitzpatrick Jock of Bushveld (1909) 252 Tigers—as they are almost invariably called, but properly, leopards—were plentiful enough.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 332 The tyger of Bengal has been seen to measure twelve feet in length,..whereas the American tyger seldom exceeds three.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 244 An animal of America, which is usually called the Red Tiger, but Mr. Buffon calls it the Cougar.

1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Characters 20/1 His tygers of chase likewise pay him a visit... These are the spotted tygers.

1790 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Gen. Hist. Quadrupeds 183 It [sc. the Cougar] is sometimes called the Poltron Tiger.

1825 J. Weddell Voy. S. Pole 210 The American tiger, called by the Spaniards jaguar, is often seen on the coast.

1825 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1178 Panther, or spotted tiger of Buenos Ayres.

1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 95 A species of black tiger will also watch the turtle.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 440/2 The Black Tiger, Felis melas,..is considered as only a dark variety of the Leopard.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 441/1 The Mexican Tiger of Pennant is said to be a representation of F. macroura.

1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons II. iv. 257 The black tiger appears to be more abundant than the spotted form of jaguar in the neighbourhood of Ega.

1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 84 The Clouded Tiger (Felis macrocelis) seems to be of a less mischievous disposition than many of the other cats.

1896 List Anim. Zool. Soc. 56 Felis nebulosa, Clouded Tiger. Hab. Assam.

1829 H. Widowson Present State Van Diemen's Land xviii. 179 The hyena, or as it is sometimes called, the tiger, is about the size of a large terrier; it frequents the wilds of Tasmania.

1832 Hobart Town Almanack 85 During our stay a native tiger or hyena bounded from its lair beneath the rocks.

1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 217 The Tiger, or Striped Wolf of the colonists (Thylacinus cynocephalus), inhabits Tasmania.

1892 A. Sutherland Elem. Geogr. Brit. Colonies xiii. 273 The ‘Tasmanian Tiger’ is of the size of a shepherd's dog, a gaunt yellow creature, with black stripes round the upper part of its body.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. vi. 73 In ynde ben ther other bestes grete and fyrs whiche ben of blew colowr, and haue clere spottes on the body,..and ben named Tygris.

?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Dii^v Byrdes the whyche ben called Tygris, and they be so stronge that they wyll bere or cary in theyr neste a man sytting vpon an horse all armyd fro the hede to y^e fote.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 69 The auld kene tegir, with his teith on char, Quhilk in a wait hes lyne for ws so lang.

1581 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xliv. 175 Thou hes Blasphemit our prophet, Preist, and heid; O filthie tegre Babylonical!

1585 Thanksgiving in W. K. Clay Liturg. Services Q. Eliz. (1847) 585 To save her [Queen Elizabeth] from the jaws of the cruel Tigers that then sought to suck her blood.

1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 510 Antiochus Epiphanes that cruellest Tyger and Persecutor of the Church.

1806 ‘C. Caustic’ Democracy Unveiled (ed. 3) I. ii. 77 The blood-thirsty tygers of the French revolution.

1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita I. ix. 149 I who have lived in the Fens and among the tigers all my days.

1963 ‘C. Marchant’ Fen Tiger ii. 40 The term ‘fen tiger’... Andrew explained it was the name given to a type of fen man, now almost extinct but not quite, for here and there a descendant of the type of man who had lived deep in the trackless, treacherous fenland, and who fought against the land being drained with cunning, craftiness, and even murder, was still to be found.

1971 Country Life 28 Oct. 1128/3 A scattered crowd of rough ‘Fen Tigers’ in corduroy trousers.

1981 S. Marshall Everyman's Bk. Eng. Folk Tales 13 I was..not accorded the welcome I would have expected to be given to a fen-tiger returning home from choice.

1859 J. S. Rarey Art of taming Horses (new ed.) i. 23 The boasting Mr. ——..was beaten pale and trembling out of the circus by that equine tiger.

1884 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Old Melbourne Mem. xxi. 153 Many of the others [horses] were ‘regular tigers’, requiring any horseman who essayed to ride them habitually to be young, valiant, in hard training.

1885 A. Brassey In Trades 211 The right time of the moon for the ‘tigers of the sea’ [sharks] to be about.

1894 Outing Feb. 393/1 I saw one of these sea-tigers [small sharks] glide towards it, and then a sudden splashing struggle began.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 139 The incalculable quantity of nonsense which the admiring fools talked, had nearly roused the tiger.

1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold i. i. 7 I trust the kingly touch that cures the evil May serve to charm the tiger out of him.

1896 Bulletin (Sydney) 24 Oct. (Red Page) His father thought a lot of Henry; he used to call him a tiger for work.

1927 R. Lehmann Dusty Answer ii. 98 Martin..was still..a tiger for raw vegetables.

1927 R. Lehmann Dusty Answer iv. 259 You're a tiger for conversation, aren't you?

1935 W. Hatfield Black Waterlily 15 ‘Tiger for work, aren't you?’ he smiled. ‘A good fault, of course, if you don't carry it to extremes.’

1972 P. Newton Sheep Thief xx. 170 Don't tell me you're up to your capers again... You're a tiger for punishment.

1929 E. Bowen Joining Charles 166 They may be tigers at ping-pong.

1935 D. Pilley Climbing Days ii. 27 Wet ground, where most climbers—bar the latest ‘tigers’—find that they slip.

1941 R. R. Marett Jerseyman at Oxf. ix. 138 I was never really worth more than bare scratch, and clean outside the ‘tiger’ class [in golf].

1957 R. W. Clark & E. C. Pyatt Mountaineering in Brit. x. 178 ‘Tiger’ is the word used to describe the climber whose abilities are outstandingly in advance of his generation.

1974 Times 23 Feb. 13/3 There is a third [golf] course strictly for tigers; rabbits should try the excellent par three to seawards of the big course.

1979 Country Life 24 May 1674/2 Odon has less of a reputation as a tiger on difficult climbs than his father.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. I. 247 ‘Ah!’ said Arden, ‘seven hundred pounds a-year, and a tiger!’

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. viii. 69 I sent my cab boy (vulgo Tiger) to inquire [etc.].

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 223 Leaving his tiger and cab behind him.

1842 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1886) III. 218 The young gentlemen have made a page, or tiger, of a nephew of Lorenzo.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxv. 242 He is..the valet or tiger, more or less impudent and acute.

1880 W. H. Husk in Grove Dict. Music II. 111/2 Lee, Alexander [1802–1851]... When a boy he entered the service of Lord Barrymore as ‘tiger’, being the first of the class of servants known by that name.

1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 141 Tiger, the, the steward who acts as personal servant to the captain of a liner.

1936 E. T. Britten Million Ocean Miles iii. 30 Croughan is my ‘Tiger’, as the Captain's steward is called at sea.

1961 ‘R. Gordon’ Doctor on Toast x. 87 In the old days, you could have swapped the Captain's tiger for the butler in any stately home in the kingdom, and no one would have been the wiser.

1982 Times 11 May 6/6 Captain Jackson's ‘tiger’—the merchant navy equivalent of a batman..was married after the weekend.

1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 5 Mar. (1941) 29 Our young men..have one capital name for a fellow that outrés and outroars the fashion... They hold him a vulgarian, and call him a tiger.

1837 T. Hook Jack Brag I. i. 12 Every well-dressed woman..whom he happened to see with the tigers in whose set he mingled.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xx. 185 ‘A man may have a very good coat-of-arms, and be a tiger, my boys’, the Major said,.. ‘that man is a tiger, mark my word—a low man’.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 29 Aug. 8/1 The convict wears a dull yellow cap... The thick rough jacket and trousers are of the same yellowish hue... A favourite form of insubordination is to tear to pieces these yellow suits, the punishment for which is that the ‘tiger’ appears in the quarry next day arrayed in board-like black canvas.

1851 Adv. Simon Suggs iv. (heading) Simon starts forth to fight the Tiger.

1852 Knickerb. Mag. XL. 317 Such is ‘the tiger’, as the faro-table is called at the Springs: why, I never could learn.

1863 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 29 Jan. Bucking the tiger, which we wouldn't advise any one to do.

1888 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 14 Feb. in J. S. Farmer Americanisms (1889) More than one unsuspecting wife will have her eyes opened to the fact that the wicked tiger, and not legitimate business has been detaining her husband out so late at night.

1904 E. Robins Magn. North ii. 124 You've got to a place where you can..go buckin' the tiger between whiles.

1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor 96 Chinaman and cowpuncher,..tourist and tailor, bucked the tiger side by side.

1912 C. E. Mulford & J. W. Clay Buck Peters, Ranchman xiii. 179 Where in thunder was he? Maybe bucking the tiger at Little Nell's.

1889 R. Guerndale Poker Bk. 23 Tiger. This hand is, fortunately, very seldom played. It consists of the lowest possible combination of five cards; these are two, three, four, five, and seven.

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Tiger, in poker, a hand which is seven high and deuce low, without a pair, sequence, or flush.

1892 Evening Echo 30 June 1/7 The proprietor of a ‘blind tiger’ (an illicit drinking place) in Lancaster, a..town of Kentucky, has been fined in 577 cases.

1902 A. R. Colquhoun Mastery of Pacific xvi. 388 These colonies are..for her [sc. France] the tiger which she has mounted (to use the Chinese phrase), and which she can neither manage nor get rid of.

1940 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 27 Nov. 1/7 I believe that Hitler is riding a tiger in trying to keep all Europe under control by sheer force.

1969 Guardian 7 July 9/5 All African politics to-day is concerned with the art of riding this terrible tiger [sc. tribalism].

1972 ‘E. Lathen’ Murder without Icing (1973) iii. 30 Convulsions..could be expected... The Sloan Guaranty Trust..might well have a tiger by the tail.

1979 P. Driscoll Pangolin xii. 101 You're taking on an organization with..reserves you know nothing about. How do you know you won't be catching a tiger by the tail?

1981 W. H. Hallahan Trade iii. 79 It was done. They were all riding the tiger now.

1965 Guardian 31 May 4/7 Esso's tiger has pounced on to the national consciousness within two months. The phrase ‘Put a tiger in your tank’ has become part of everyday conversation.

1967 Listener 22 June 835/2 Westin and Friedman are young men with ideas of their own... They are the tigers in the Ford [Foundation] tank.

1973 P. Geddes Ottawa Allegation iii. 32 Lorimount..began pouring tea... The movements were brisk and purposeful. No safety belts worn here, they said, there's a tiger in the tank.

1981 N.Z. Tablet 10 June 10/4 Young girls must be made to realise that boys of the same age have a ‘tiger in their tank’ as far as sexual desire goes.

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. iii. i. 81 The Persecution of the Tyger-babbs [Fr. tigres], keeps the Pears too far off from the Assistance of Wall-trees.

1951 R. Dutta Right Way to keep Pet Fish xviii. 155/2 Tiger barbs.

1962 Listener 22 Nov. 852/2 I brought home a tiger barb, round and flat with bold orange and black stripes.

1976 Norwich Mercury 19 Nov. 4/8 (advt.) This week's Fish Centre offers: Neons..Silvertips..Tiger-barbs.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxx. 152 That beautiful tiger-beetle, the Cicindela campestris L., not uncommon on warm sunny banks.

1835 J. Duncan Nat. Hist. Beetles (Naturalist's Libr.: Entomol. II) 115 The majority are variegated with spots and streaks of yellow. Their rapacity and agile movements have procured for them the name of Tiger-beetles.

1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. I. 409 One beautiful group of insects, the tiger-beetles.

1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. ii. 136 The small Tiger-bird... The throat, and part of the head, are a bright red; the breast and belly have black spots on a yellow ground.

1879 J. G. Wood Explan. Index in C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. (1882) 474 The Tiger-Bird utters its cry in the early morning and late in the evening.

1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. i. 63 Tiger Bittern..the plumage deep rufous, marked with black, like the skin of a tiger..inhabits Cayenne, Surinam, and other parts of South America.

1824 Philos. Mag. & Jrnl. 30 Sept. 110 Some of these extraordinary plants [sc. Mesembryanthema Ringentia]..have ever been fancifully likened by gardeners to the chops of animals; and thence called Cat-chop, Mouse-chop, Tiger-chop, &c.

1894 R. Lydekker Royal Nat. Hist. I. 456 On account of their striking and handsome coloration, the name of tiger-civets has been suggested for these animals [the Linsangs].

1839 J. Pye Smith Script. & Geol. 408 A well-known species is on almost every mantel-piece, the tiger-cowry.

1682 T. Creech tr. Lucretius De natura rerum iii. 90 The Tyger-Dog would fly pursuing Deer.

1883 R. Groom Great Dane 8 The name Tiger Dog, as used in Germany, was applied to those specimens with patches and spots of black upon a white ground.

1891 Cent. Dict. Tiger-eye.

1896 A. H. Chester Dict. Names Minerals Tiger-eye, a popular name for a siliceous pseudomorph after crocidolite, in allusion to its yellow-brown colour and chatoyant lustre.

1896 A. H. Chester Dict. Names Minerals Tiger's eye, same as tiger-eye.

1900 Feathered World 28 Sept. 399 The common Avadavat is the Tiger~finch... Brown and reddish copper, spotted with white.

1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 303 Burnett..caught a fine tiger~fish.

1894 Sat. Rev. 24 Nov. 563/1 In fly-fishing..the chief quarry, the ‘tiger-fish’, ran to 8½ lbs., and afforded nearly as good sport as salmon.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 671/2 A beautiful flower called the tyger-flower, with three red pointed petals, the middle part mixed with white and yellow.

1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) 175 The Mexican tiger~flower, genus Tigridia, is a splendid plant of this order [Iridaceæ].

1888 Nicholson's Dict. Gardening Tigridia, Mexican Tiger Flower; Tiger Iris. This genus includes about seven species of..bulbous plants, from Mexico, Central America, Peru, and Chili... T. pavonia..Flower of Tigris; Peacock Tiger Flower.

1836 B. H. Smart Walker Remodelled Tiger-foot (a plant).

1857 C. T. Winter Six Months Brit. Burmah xviii. 151 Of the frog-tribe Mason mentions the tiger-frog and two species of tree-frog.

1999 K. Long Frogs 26 Pickerel FrogRana palustris,..Common names include marsh frog, tiger frog, cold swamp frog, swamp frog, spring frog, and Le Conte's leopard frog.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Palm, Tiger-grass, Chamærops Ritchieana.

1891 Cent. Dict. Tiger-grass, a dwarf fan-palm, Nannorhops Ritchieana, of western India, extending into Persia.

1880 C. T. Lewis & C. Short Lat. Dict. Tigris.., the name of the spotted tiger-hound of Actæon.

1896 J. F. B. Lillard Poker Stories iii. 87 The unsophisticated young tiger hunter had something on his mind.

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 40 Those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger~lilies.

1952 J. Downs Amer. Furnit. p. xxxii [In] Queen Anne maple furniture..the curly figure is produced by fibers which develop spirally, without any known reason, giving a tiger-stripe pattern much prized by collectors.]

1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tiger maple.

1967 Canad. Antiques Collector Apr. 4/1 (advt.) Canadian Tiger maple desk,..circa 1830.

1978 Times 13 Mar. 20/4 Another American Chippendale piece was a tiger maple desk and bookcase.

1961 Guardian 21 Nov. 16/5 Yugoslavia is now exporting..‘Tiger Milk’,..an excellent dessert wine.

1977 T. Heald Just Desserts vii. 172 Not just claret..but.. Tigermilk (or Ranina Radgona Spatlese).

1835 F. Marryat Olla Podrida v, in Metrop. Mag. No one can have an idea how hard the tiger-musquito can bite.

1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxi. 226 The caterpillar of the great tiger-moth (Bombyx Caja, F.).

1864–5 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands (1868) xiv. 286 The well known Tiger Moth whose scarlet, white, and brown robes are so familiar.

1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 72 The tiger nut, the tuber of the Cyperus esculentus, is well known in West Africa.

1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 18 Bull's eyes.., acid drops, fondants..are still in demand, though the popularity of monkey-nuts and tiger-nuts has somewhat waned.

1957 J. Kirkup Only Child ix. 122 We knew..the illicit joy of spending our Sunday school collection money on ‘tiger~nuts’ and coconut ice.

1972 Country Life 30 Nov. 1481/3 The sort of boy who would..find such delight in munching tiger nuts.

1863 G. O. Trevelyan Lett. from Competition Wallah vi, in Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 16/1 An account of our tiger-party in Nepaul.

1893 J. D. Ogilby Edible Fishes & Crustaceans New S. Wales 203 This is the ‘Tiger Prawn’ of the Sydney fishermen.

1952 W. J. Dakin et al. Austral. Seashores xv. 176 The tiger-prawn is a large northern species that..has dark vertical bands on its body.

1978 O. White Silent Reach vi. 72 It could be arranged..for a marine biologist..to complete his thesis on the breeding habits of..the tiger prawn.

1926 J. K. Strecker in J. F. Dobie Rainbow in Morning (1965) 63 In the plains region of Western Texas, the large tiger salamander is a common animal.

1966 R. C. Stebbins Field Guide Western Reptiles & Amphibians 33 Tiger salamander... A large stocky salamander with small eyes.

1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Chron. 241/1 The squalus or true tyger shark,..well known to our seamen in the West Indies.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. at Shark Tiger Shark (N.S.W.), Galeocerdo rayneri... New Zealand... Tiger Shark, Scymnus spinosus (Maori name, Mako).

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Tiger-shell, the English name of the red voluta, with large white spots.

1869 G. Krefft Snakes Austral. 55 The large-scaled snake..is confounded, in Victoria in particular, with the Tiger or Brown-banded Snake (Hoplocephalus curtus).

1874 M. K. Beveridge Lost Life 50 [He] eyed me as a tiger snake The bull-frog or the fieldmouse eyes.

1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 37/2 The tiger-snake reaches the length of eight, or occasionally even ten feet.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 25 Sept. 12/1 The venom of the tiger-snake is fourteen times more deadly than that of the black snake.

1910 F. W. Fitzsimons Snakes S. Afr. iii. 54 Tiger Snake... Average length 2 feet to 2 feet 6 inches.

1941 K. Tennant Battlers xviii. 193 The driver of the car..very efficiently despatched a large tiger snake.

1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxvi. 330 The tiger snake..is a yellowish snake spotted with brown.

1966 Southerly 26 109 A fisherman had been bitten by a tigersnake there and had died.

1974 Standard Encycl. Southern Afr. X. 504/1 Tiger-snake..is conspicuously marked throughout its length with alternate black and yellow to reddish brown cross-bands.

1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 94 Fluor with barytes, commonly called tiger-stone, being opaque, and full of dirty brown spots.

1965 F. Manolson C is for Cat 187 A striped cat (even if it's the result of the mating of a Tiger striped with a Tabby striped) is either one or the other.

1977 Time 31 Oct. 49/1 His tabby—a tiger-stripe he calls Dr. Carleton P. Forbes—has amassed $3,000 worth of ‘cat toys’ by filching checks from Steve's mailbox.

1981 P. Mallory Killing Matter ii. 23 The cat..was a big grey tiger-stripe.

1970 A. Marin Rise with Wind xx. 241 The soldier was dressed in a tiger suit.

1977 M. Herr Dispatches (1978) 5 [He] took his pills by the fistful, downs from the left pocket of his tiger suit and ups from the right.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiii. xv. 395 The wood curleth in and out along the graine; and therefore such bee named Tigrinæ, (i. Tigre-tables.)

1874 C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) I. 325 A grand old cruche of Tiger Ware, with Royal Arms of England, and date 1604.

1928 Daily Express 5 June 4 There are few [objects] which exercise a stronger fascination over collectors than old stone wine jugs known as tiger-ware. High prices—up to £1,500—have been paid for these ‘stone pottes garnished with sylver’.

1983 Country Life 1 Dec. (Suppl.) 85/1 A rare Elizabeth I Norwich Tigerware jug.

1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 108 The Lion, Tiger, and Leopard are bitter enemies to the Tiger-Wolf.

1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 369/1 The Spotted Hyæna, or Tiger~Wolf of the [South African] colonists.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tiger-wood, a valuable wood for cabinet making,..obtained in Guiana.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 706/1 Machærium Schomburgkii, a British Guiana species, produces the beautifully mottled wood called Itaka, Itiki, or Tiger-wood, used for furniture in that country.

1891 Cent. Dict. Tiger's claw, Tiger's-eye.

1893 E. A. Barber Pottery & Porcelain U.S. xiii. 290 The highest achievements in glazing are the so-called tiger's-eye and gold-stone, which glisten in the light with a beautiful auriferous sheen.

1799 Lee's Introd. Bot. (rev. ed.) App. 299 Tiger's-foot.

1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ Tab. iv Strombus..Brown Tygers Horn.

1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. ii. 33 A fountain of tiger's milk had started in the stern of the waggon.

1959 W. James Word-bk. Wine 155 Ranina, the ‘Tiger's Milk’ wine of Radgona, in Yugoslavia, a sweet and strong dessert wine made from late-gathered grapes.

1965 O. A. Mendelsohn Dict. Drink 277 Ranina, Yugoslavian (Radgona) dessert wine. Syn. ‘Tiger's Milk’.

1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Tiger, or Tiger's Mouth.

1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ Tab. v Strombus..Thick Tygers-tooth.