Tie

1. v. t. Low shoes fastened with lacings.
2. v. t. A knot; a fastening.
3. v. t. A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.
4. v. t. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
5. v. t. An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.
6. v. t. A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.
7. v. t. A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.