Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Titling

Titling , noun

[Icelandic titlingr a tit sparrow. See Tit a small bird.]

1.
(a) (Zoology) 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.
2.
Stockfish; -- formerly so called in customhouses.