Sos Sos (part 9)

Note: The refusal of the clergy and nobility to give the tiers état a representation in the States-general proportioned to their actual numbers had an important influence in bringing on the French Revolution of 1789. Since that time the term has been purely historical.

TIETICK
Tie"tick, n.

Defn: The meadow pipit. [Prov. Eng].

TIEWIG
Tie"wig`, n.

Defn: A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up; also, a wig tied upon the head. Wright. V. Knox.

TIFF Tiff, n. Etym: [Originally, a sniff, sniffing; cf. Icel. a smell, to sniff, Norw. tev a drawing in of the breath, teva to sniff, smell, dial. Sw. tüv smell, scent, taste.]

1. Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. "Sipping his tiff of brandy punch." Sir W. Scott.

2. A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift. Thackeray.

TIFF
Tiff, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tiffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tiffing.]

Defn: To be in a pet.
She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph. Landor.

TIFF Tiff, v. t. Etym: [OE. tiffen, OF. tiffer, tifer, to bedizen; cf. D. tippen to clip the points or ends of the hair, E. tip, n.]

Defn: To deck out; to dress. [Obs.] A. Tucker.

TIFFANY Tif"fa*ny, n. Etym: [OE. tiffenay; cf. OF. tiffe ornament, tiffer to adjust, adorn. See Tiff to dress.]

Defn: A species of gause, or very silk. The smoke of sulphur . . . is commonly used by women to whiten tiffanies. Sir T. Browne.

TIFFIN
Tif"fin, n. Etym: [Properly, tiffing a quaffing, a drinking. See
Tiff, n.]

Defn: A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; — originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.

TIFFISH
Tiff"ish, a.

Defn: Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.

TIFT
Tift, n. Etym: [Cf. Norw. teft a scent. See Tiff, n.]

Defn: A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff. After all your fatigue you seem as ready for a tift with me as if you had newly come from church. Blackwood's Mag.

TIG
Tig, n.

1. A game among children. See Tag.

2. A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

TIGELLA
Ti*gel"la, n. Etym: [NL., from F. tige stem or stock.] (Bot.)

Defn: That part of an embryo which represents the young stem; the caulicle or radicle.

TIGELLE
Ti*gelle", n. Etym: [F.] (Bot.)

Defn: Same as Tigella.

TIGER Ti"ger, n. Etym: [OE. tigre, F. tigre, L. tigris, Gr. ti`gris; probably of Persian origin; cf. Zend tighra pointed, tighri an arrow, Per. tir; perhaps akin to E. stick, v.t.; — probably so named from its quickness.]

1. A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.

2. Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person. As for heinous tiger, Tamora. Shak.

3. A servant in livery, who rids with his master or mistress. Dickens.

4. A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger. [Colloq. U.S.]

5. A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar. American tiger. (Zoöl.) (a) The puma. (b) The jaguar. — Clouded tiger (Zoöl.), a handsome striped and spotted carnivore (Felis macrocelis or F. marmorata) native of the East Indies and Southern Asia. Its body is about three and a half feet long, and its tail about three feet long. Its ground color is brownish gray, and the dark markings are irregular stripes, spots, and rings, but there are always two dark bands on the face, one extending back from the eye, and one from the angle of the mouth. Called also tortoise-shell tiger. — Mexican tiger (Zoöl.), the jaguar. — Tiger beetle (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of active carnivorous beetles of the family Cicindelidæ. They usually inhabit dry or sandy places, and fly rapidly. — Tiger bittern. (Zoöl.) See Sun bittern, under Sun. — Tiger cat (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wild cats of moderate size with dark transverse bars or stripes somewhat resembling those of the tiger. — Tiger flower (Bot.), an iridaceous plant of the genus Tigridia (as T. conchiflora, T. grandiflora, etc.) having showy flowers, spotted or streaked somewhat like the skin of a tiger. — Tiger grass (Bot.), a low East Indian fan palm (Chamærops Ritchieana). It is used in many ways by the natives. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). — Tiger lily. (Bot.) See under Lily. — Tiger moth (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of moths of the family Arctiadæ which are striped or barred with black and white or with other conspicuous colors. The larvæ are called woolly bears. — Tiger shark (Zoöl.), a voracious shark (Galeocerdo maculatus or tigrinus) more or less barred or spotted with yellow. It is found in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Called also zebra shark. — Tiger shell (Zoöl.), a large and conspicuously spotted cowrie (Cypræa tigris); — so called from its fancied resemblance to a tiger in color and markings. Called also tiger cowrie. — Tiger wolf (Zoöl.), the spotted hyena (Hyæna crocuta). — Tiger wood, the variegated heartwood of a tree (Machærium Schomburgkii) found in Guiana.

TIGER-EYE
Ti"ger-eye`, n. (Min.)

Defn: A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite.

TIGER-FOOT
Ti"ger-foot`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Same as Tiger's-foot.

TIGER-FOOTED
Ti"ger-foot`ed, a.

Defn: Hastening to devour; furious.

TIGERINE
Ti"ger*ine, a.

Defn: Tigerish; tigrine. [R.]

TIGERISH
Ti"ger*ish, a.

Defn: Like a tiger; tigrish.

TIGER'S-FOOT
Ti"ger's-foot`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A name given to some species of morning-glory (Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.

TIGH
Tigh, n. Etym: [Perhaps akin to tight.]

Defn: A close, or inclosure; a croft. [Obs.] Cowell.

TIGHT
Tight, obs.

Defn: p. p. of Tie. Spenser.

TIGHT Tight, a. [Compar. Tighter; superl. Tightest.] Etym: [OE. tight, thiht; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. , Dan. tæt, Sw. tät: akin to D. & G. dicht thick, tight, and perhaps to E. thee to thrive, or to thick. Cf. Taut.]

1. Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot.

2. Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; — often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water- tight; air-tight.

3. Fitting close, or too close, to the body; as, a tight coat or other garment.

4. Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy. Clad very plain, but clean and tight. Evelyn. I'll spin and card, and keep our children tight. Gay.

5. Close; parsimonious; saving; as, a man tight in his dealings. [Colloq.]

6. Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; — applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out.

7. Handy; adroit; brisk. [Obs.] Shak.

8. Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy. [Slang]

9. (Com.)

Defn: Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; — said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.

TIGHT
Tight, v. t.

Defn: To tighten. [Obs.]

TIGHTEN
Tight"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tightened; p. pr. & vb. n. Tightening.]

Defn: To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
Just where I please, with tightened rein I'll urge thee round the
dusty plain. Fawkes.
Tightening pulley (Mach.), a pulley which rests, or is forced,
against a driving belt to tighten it.

TIGHTENER
Tight"en*er, n.

Defn: That which tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening pulley.

TIGHTER
Tight"er, n.

Defn: A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer. [Obs.]

TIGHTLY
Tight"ly, adv.

Defn: In a tight manner; closely; nearly.

TIGHTNESS
Tight"ness, n.

Defn: The quality or condition of being tight.

TIGHTS
Tights, n. pl.

Defn: Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.

TIGLIC
Tig"lic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7CO2H (called also methyl crotonic acid), homologous with crotonic acid, and obtained from croton oil (from Croton Tiglium) as a white crystalline substance.

TIGRESS
Ti"gress, n. Etym: [From Tiger: cf. F. tigresse.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The female of the tiger. Holland.

TIGRINE
Ti"grine, a. Etym: [L. tigrinus, fr. tigris a tiger.]

1. Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America.

TIGRISH
Ti"grish, a.

Defn: Resembling a tiger; tigerish.

TIKE
Tike, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A tick. See 2d Tick. [Obs.]

TIKE
Tike, n. Etym: [Icel. tik a bitch; akin to Sw. tik.]

1. A dog; a cur. "Bobtail tike or trundle-tail." Shak.

2. A countryman or clown; a boorish person.

TIKOR
Tik"or, n. [Hind. tikhur.]

Defn: A starch or arrow-root made from the tubes of an East Indian zinziberaceous plant (Curcuma angustifolia); also, the plant itself.

TIKUR; TIKOOR
Ti*kur", Ti*koor", n. [Hind. tikr.]

Defn: An East Indian tree (Garcinia pedunculata) having a large yellow fleshy fruit with a pleasant acid flavor.

TIKUS
Ti"kus, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The bulau.

TIL
Til, prep. & conj.

Defn: See Till. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TILBURY Til"bu*ry, n.; pl. Tilburies. Etym: [Probably from Tilburyfort, in the Country of Essex, in England.]

Defn: A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover.
[Written also tilburgh.]

TILDE Til"de, n. Etym: [Sp., fr. L. titulus a superscription, title, token, sign. See Title, n.]

Defn: The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, ñ, l], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.

TILE
Tile, v. t. Etym: [See 2d Tiler.]

Defn: To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a
Masonic lodge.

TILE Tile, n. Etym: [OE. tile, tigel, AS. tigel, tigol, fr. L. tegula, from tegere to cover. See Thatch, and cf. Tegular.]

1. A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.

2. (Arch.) (a) A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring. (b) A plate of metal used for roofing.

3. (Metal.)

Defn: A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.

4. A draintile.

5. A stiff hat. [Colloq.] Dickens. Tile drain, a drain made of tiles.
— Tile earth, a species of strong, clayey earth; stiff and stubborn
land. [Prov. Eng.] — Tile kiln, a kiln in which tiles are burnt; a
tilery.
— Tile ore (Min.), an earthy variety of cuprite.
— Tile red, light red like the color of tiles or bricks.
— Tile tea, a kind of hard, flat brick tea. See Brick tea, under
Brick.

TILE
Tile, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tiling.]

1. To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.

2. Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles. The muscle, sinew, and vein, Which tile this house, will come again. Donne.

TILE-DRAIN
Tile"-drain`, v. t.

Defn: To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.

TILEFISH
Tile"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus chamæleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.

Note: It was discovered off the Eastern coast of the United States in 1880, and was abundant in 1881, but is believed to have become extinct in 1882.

TILER
Til"er, n.

Defn: A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.
Bancroft.

TILER
Til"er, n. Etym: [Of uncertain origin, but probably from E. tile, n.]

Defn: A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons. [Written also tyler.]

TILERY Til"er*y, n.; pl. Tileries. Etym: [From Tile; cf. F. tuilerie, fr. tuile a tile, L. tegula.]

Defn: A place where tiles are made or burned; a tile kiln.

TILESEED
Tile"seed`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Any plant of the genus Geissois, having seeds overlapping like tiles on a roof.

TILESTONE
Tile"stone`, n.

1. (Geol.)

Defn: A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.

2. A tile of stone.

TILIA
Til"i*a, n. [L., linden. Cf. Teil.] (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of trees, the lindens, the type of the family Tiliaceæ, distinguished by the winglike bract coalescent with the peduncle, and by the indehiscent fruit having one or two seeds. There are about twenty species, natives of temperate regions. Many species are planted as ornamental shade trees, and the tough fibrous inner bark is a valuable article of commerce. Also, a plant of this genus.

TILIACEOUS
Til`i*a"ceous, a. Etym: [OE. tilia the linden tree.] (Bot.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Tiliaceæ) of which the linden (Tilia) is the type. The order includes many plants which furnish a valuable fiber, as the jute.

TILING
Til"ing, n.

1. A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles. They . . . let him down through the tiling. Luke v. 19.

2. Tiles, collectively.

TILL
Till, n. Etym: [Abbrev. from lentil.]

Defn: A vetch; a tare. [Prov. Eng.]

TILL
Till, n. Etym: [Properly, a drawer, from OE. tillen to draw. See
Tiller the lever of a rudder.]

Defn: A drawer. Specifically: (a) A tray or drawer in a chest. (b) A money drawer in a shop or store. Till alarm, a device for sounding an alarm when a money drawer is opened or tampered with.

TILL
Till, n.

1. (Geol.)

Defn: A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; — sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.

2. A kind of coarse, obdurate land. Loudon.

TILL Till, prep. Etym: [OE. til, Icel. til; akin to Dan. til, Sw. till, OFries. til, also to AS. til good, excellent, G. ziel end, limit, object, OHG. zil, Goth. tils, gatils, fit, convenient, and E. till to cultivate. See Till, v. t.]

Defn: To; unto; up to; as far as; until; — now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week. He . . . came till an house. Chaucer. Women, up till this Cramped under worse than South-sea-isle taboo. Tennyson. Similar sentiments will recur to every one familiar with his writings — all through them till the very end. Prof. Wilson. Till now, to the present time. — Till then, to that time.

TILL
Till, conj.

Defn: As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to
the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or
clause following; until.
And said unto them, Occupy till I come. Luke xix. 13.
Mediate so long till you make some act of prayer to God. Jer. Taylor.
There was no outbreak till the regiment arrived. Macaulay.

Note: This use may be explained by supposing an ellipsis of when, or the time when, the proper conjunction or conjunctive adverb begin when.

TILL Till, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilling.] Etym: [OE. tilen, tilien, AS. tilian, teolian, to aim, strive for, till; akin to OS. tilian to get, D. telen to propagate, G. zielen to aim, ziel an end, object, and perhaps also to E. tide, time, from the idea of something fixed or definite. Cf. Teal, Till, prep..]

1. To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm. No field nolde [would not] tilye. P. Plowman. the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. Gen. iii. 23.

2. To prepare; to get. [Obs.] W. Browne.

TILL
Till, v. i.

Defn: To cultivate land. Piers Plowman.

TILLABLE
Till"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.

TILLAGE
Till"age, n.

1. The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.

2. A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.

Syn.
— Cultivation; culture; husbandry; farming; agriculture.

TILLANDSIA Til*land"si*a, n. Etym: [NL. So named after Prof. Tillands, of Abo, in Finland.] (Bot.)

Defn: A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.

TILLER
Till"er, n. Etym: [From Till, v. t.]

Defn: One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.

TILLER
Till"er, n. Etym: [AS. telgor a small branch. Cf. Till to cultivate.]

1. (Bot.) (a) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker. (b) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.

2. A young timber tree. [Prov. Eng.] Evelyn.

TILLER
Till"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tillered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tillering.]

Defn: To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering. [Sometimes written tillow.]

TILLER Till"er, n. Etym: [From OE. tillen, tullen, to draw, pull; probably fr. AS. tyllan in fortyllan to lead astray; or cf. D. tillen to lift up. Cf. Till a drawer.]

1. (Naut.)

Defn: A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.

2. The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself. [Obs.] You can shoot in a tiller. Beau. & Fl.

3. The handle of anything. [Prov. Eng.]

4. A small drawer; a till. Dryden. Tiller rope (Naut.), a rope for turning a tiller. In a large vessel it forms the connection between the fore end of the tiller and the steering wheel.

TILLEY; TILLEY SEED
Til"ley, n., or Til"ley seed`. (Bot.)

Defn: The seeds of a small tree (Croton Pavana) common in the Malay
Archipelago. These seeds furnish croton oil, like those of Croton
Tiglium. [Written also tilly.]

TILLMAN
Till"man, n.; pl. Tillmen (.

Defn: A man who tills the earth; a husbandman. [Obs.] Tusser.

TILLODONT
Til"lo*dont, n.

Defn: One of the Tillodontia.

TILLODONTIA
Til`lo*don"ti*a, n. pl. (Paleon.)

Defn: An extinct group of Mammalia found fossil in the Eocene formation. The species are related to the carnivores, ungulates, and rodents. Called also Tillodonta.

TILLOT
Til"lot, n.

Defn: A bag made of thin glazed muslin, used as a wrapper for dress goods. McElrath.

TILLOW
Til"low, v. i.

Defn: See 3d Tiller.

TILLY-VALLY
Til"ly-val`ly, interj., adv., or a.

Defn: A word of unknown origin and signification, formerly used as expressive of contempt, or when anything said was reject as trifling or impertinent. [Written also tille-vally, tilly-fally, tille-fally, and otherwise.] Shak.

TILMUS
Til"mus, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Med.)

Defn: Floccillation.

TIL SEED Til seed (til; tel). (a) The seed of sesame. (b) The seed of an African asteraceous plant (Guizotia abyssinica), yielding a bland fixed oil used in medicine.

TILT
Tilt, n. Etym: [OE. telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS. teld,
geteld; akin to OD. telde, G. zelt, Icel. tjald, Sw. tält, tjäll,
Dan. telt, and ASThe beteldan to cover.]

1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. Denham.

2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

3. (Naut.)

Defn: A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. Tilt boat (Naut.), a boat covered with canvas or other cloth. — Tilt roof (Arch.), a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon.

TILT
Tilt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tilted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tilting.]

Defn: To cover with a tilt, or awning.

TILT Tilt, v. t. Etym: [OE. tilten, tulten, to totter, fall, AS. tealt unstable, precarious; akin to tealtrian to totter, to vacillate, D. tel amble, ambling pace, G. zelt, Icel. tölt an ambling pace, tölta to amble. Cf. Totter.]

1. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.

2. To point or thrust, as a lance. Sons against fathers tilt the fatal lance. J. Philips.

3. To point or thrust a weapon at. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

4. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.

TILT
Tilt, v. i.

1. To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances. He tilts With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast. Shak. Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast. Shak. But in this tournament can no man tilt. Tennyson. The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the Pope.

2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. Grew.

TILT
Tilt, n.

1. A thrust, as with a lance. Addison.

2. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.

3. See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.

4. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. Full tilt, with full force. Dampier.

TILTER
Tilt"er, n.

1. One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights. Let me alone to match your tilter. Glanville.

2. One who operates a tilt hammer.

TILTH
Tilth, n. Etym: [AS. til, fr. tilian to till. See Till to cultivate.]

1. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth. The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth. De Quincey.

2. That which is tilled; tillage ground. [R.] And so by tilth and grange . . . We gained the mother city. Tennyson.

TILT HAMMER
Tilt" ham`mer.

Defn: A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.

TILTING
Tilt"ing, n.

1. The act of one who tilts; a tilt.

2. The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer. Tilting helmet, a helmet of large size and unusual weight and strength, worn at tilts.

TILT-MILL
Tilt"-mill`, n.

Defn: A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on.

TIL TREE
Til" tree`. (Bot.)

Defn: See Teil.

TILT-UP
Tilt"-up`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Tip-up.

TILT-YARD
Tilt"-yard`, n.

Defn: A yard or place for tilting. "The tilt-yard of Templestowe."
Sir W. Scott.

TIMAL
Ti"mal, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

TIMALINE
Tim"a*line, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the genus Timalus or family Timalidæ, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls.

TIMBAL
Tim"bal, n.

Defn: A kettledrum. See Tymbal.

TIMBALE Tim`bale", n. [F., prop., a kettledrum; — so named from the form of the mold used. Cf. Timbal.] (Cookery)

Defn: A seasoned preparation, as of chicken, lobster, cheese, or fish, cooked in a drum-shaped mold; also, a pastry case, usually small, filled with a cooked mixture.

TIMBER
Tim"ber, n. Etym: [Probably the same word as timber sort of wood; cf.
Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL.
timbrium. Cf. Timmer.] (Com.)

Defn: A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; — called also timmer. [Written also timbre.]

TIMBER
Tim"ber, n. Etym: [F. timbre. See Timbre.] (Her.)

Defn: The crest on a coat of arms. [Written also timbre.]

TIMBER
Tim"ber, v. t.

Defn: To surmount as a timber does. [Obs.]

TIMBER Tim"ber, n. Etym: [AS. timbor, timber, wood, building; akin to OFries. timber, D. timmer a room, G. zimmer, OHG. zimbar timber, a dwelling, room, Icel. timbr timber, Sw. timmer, Dan. tömmer, Goth. timrjan to build, timrja a builder, L. domus a house, Gr. dama a house. *62. Cf. Dome, Domestic.]

1. That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; — usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3. And ta'en my fiddle to the gate, . . . And fiddled in the timber! Tennyson.

2. The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

3. Fig.: Material for any structure. Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make politics of. Bacon.

4. A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding. So they prepared timber . . . to build the house. 1 Kings v. 18. Many of the timbers were decayed. W. Coxe.

5. Woods or forest; wooden land. [Western U.S.]

6. (Shipbuilding)

Defn: A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united. Timber and room. (Shipbuilding) Same as Room and space. See under Room. — Timber beetle (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of beetles the larvæ of which bore in timber; as, the silky timber beetle (Lymexylon sericeum). — Timber doodle (Zoöl.), the American woodcock. [Local, U.S.] — Timber grouse (Zoöl.), any species of grouse that inhabits woods, as the ruffed grouse and spruce partridge; — distinguished from prairie grouse. — Timber hitch (Naut.), a kind of hitch used for temporarily marking fast a rope to a spar. See Illust. under Hitch. — Timber mare, a kind of instrument upon which soldiers were formerly compelled to ride for punishment. Johnson. — Timber scribe, a metal tool or pointed instrument for marking timber. Simmonds. — Timber sow. (Zoöl.) Same as Timber worm, below. Bacon. — Timber tree, a tree suitable for timber. — Timber worm (Zoöl.), any larval insect which burrows in timber. — Timber yard, a yard or place where timber is deposited.

TIMBER
Tim"ber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Timbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Timbering.]

Defn: To furnish with timber; — chiefly used in the past participle.
His bark is stoutly timbered. Shak.

TIMBER
Tim"ber, v. i.

1. To light on a tree. [Obs.]

2. (Falconry)

Defn: To make a nest.

TIMBERED
Tim"bered, a.

1. Furnished with timber; — often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house. L'Estrange.

2. Built; formed; contrived. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

3. Massive, like timber. [Obs.] His timbered bones all broken, rudely rumbled. Spenser.

4. Covered with growth timber; wooden; as, well-timbered land.

TIMBERHEAD
Tim"ber*head`, n. (Naut.)

Defn: The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; — called also kevel head.

TIMBERING
Tim"ber*ing, n.

Defn: The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively; timberwork; timber.

TIMBERLING
Tim"ber*ling, n. Etym: [Timber + -ling.]

Defn: A small tree. [Eng.]

TIMBERMAN
Tim"ber*man, n.; pl. Timbermen (. (Mining)

Defn: A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.

TIMBERWORK
Tim"ber*work`, n.

Defn: Work made of timbers.

TIMBRE
Tim"bre, n.

Defn: See 1st Timber.

TIMBRE Tim"bre, n. Etym: [F., a bell to be struck with a hammer, sound, tone, stamp, crest, in OF., a timbrel. Cf. Timbrel.]

1. (Her.)

Defn: The crest on a coat of arms.

2. (Mus.)

Defn: The quality or tone distinguishing voices or instruments; tone color; clang tint; as, the timbre of the voice; the timbre of a violin. See Tone, and Partial tones, under Partial.

TIMBREL Tim"brel, n. Etym: [Dim. of OE. timbre, OF. timbre; probably fr. L. typmanum, Gr. tabl a drum; cf. Per. tambal a drum. See Tympanum, and cf. 2d Timbre, Tymbal.] (Mus.)

Defn: A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest
antiquity.
Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out
after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20.

TIMBRELED; TIMBRELLED
Tim"breled, Tim"brelled, a.

Defn: Sung to the sound of the timbrel. "In vain with timbreled anthems dark." Milton.

TIMBURINE
Tim`bu*rine", n.

Defn: A tambourine. [Obs.]

TIME Time, n.; pl. Times. Etym: [OE. time, AS. tima, akin to tid time, and to Icel. timi, Dan. time an hour, Sw. timme. *58. See Tide, n.]

1. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day. Chaucer. I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time. Reid.

2. A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. Heb. i. 1.

3. The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; — often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.

4. The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal. Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind. Buckminster.

5. A proper time; a season; an opportunity. There is . . . a time to every purpose. Eccl. iii. 1. The time of figs was not yet. Mark xi. 13.

6. Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. She was within one month of her time. Clarendon.

7. Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen. Summers three times eight save one. Milton.

8. The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration. Till time and sin together cease. Keble.

9. (Gram.)

Defn: Tense.

10. (Mus.)

Defn: The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time. Some few lines set unto a solemn time. Beau. & Fl.

Note: Time is often used in the formation of compounds, mostly self- explaining; as, time-battered, time-beguiling, time-consecrated, time-consuming, time-enduring, time-killing, time-sanctioned, time- scorner, time-wasting, time-worn, etc. Absolute time, time irrespective of local standards or epochs; as, all spectators see a lunar eclipse at the same instant of absolute time. — Apparent time, the time of day reckoned by the sun, or so that 12 o'clock at the place is the instant of the transit of the sun's center over the meridian. — Astronomical time, mean solar time reckoned by counting the hours continuously up to twenty-four from one noon to the next. — At times, at distinct intervals of duration; now and then; as, at times he reads, at other times he rides. — Civil time, time as reckoned for the purposes of common life in distinct periods, as years, months, days, hours, etc., the latter, among most modern nations, being divided into two series of twelve each, and reckoned, the first series from midnight to noon, the second, from noon to midnight. — Common time (Mil.), the ordinary time of marching, in which ninety steps, each twenty-eight inches in length, are taken in one minute. — Equation of time. See under Equation, n. — In time. (a) In good season; sufficiently early; as, he arrived in time to see the exhibition. (b) After a considerable space of duration; eventually; finally; as, you will in time recover your health and strength. — Mean time. See under 4th Mean. — Quick time (Mil.), time of marching, in which one hundred and twenty steps, each thirty inches in length, are taken in one minute. — Sidereal time. See under Sidereal. — Standard time, the civil time that has been established by law or by general usage over a region or country. In England the standard time is Greenwich mean solar time. In the United States and Canada four kinds of standard time have been adopted by the railroads and accepted by the people, viz., Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time, corresponding severally to the mean local times of the 75th, 90th, 105th, and 120th meridians west from Greenwich, and being therefore five, six, seven, and eight hours slower than Greenwich time. — Time ball, a ball arranged to drop from the summit of a pole, to indicate true midday time, as at Greenwich Observatory, England. Nichol. — Time bargain (Com.), a contract made for the sale or purchase of merchandise, or of stock in the public funds, at a certain time in the future. — Time bill. Same as Time-table. [Eng.] — Time book, a book in which is kept a record of the time persons have worked. — Time detector, a timepiece provided with a device for registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman visits certain stations in his beat. — Time enough, in season; early enough. "Stanly at Bosworth field, . . . came time enough to save his life." Bacon. — Time fuse, a fuse, as for an explosive projectile, which can be so arranged as to ignite the charge at a certain definite interval after being itself ignited. — Time immemorial, or Time out of mind. (Eng. Law) See under Immemorial. — Time lock, a lock having clockwork attached, which, when wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when locked, until a certain interval of time has elapsed. — Time of day, salutation appropriate to the times of the day, as "good morning," "good evening," and the like; greeting. — To kill time. See under Kill, v. t. — To make time. (a) To gain time. (b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something; as, the trotting horse made fast time. — To move, run, or go, against time, to move, run, or go a given distance without a competitor, in the quickest possible time; or, to accomplish the greatest distance which can be passed over in a given time; as, the horse is to run against time. — True time. (a) Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformly. (b) (Astron.) Apparent time as reckoned from the transit of the sun's center over the meridian.

TIME
Time, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Timed; p. pr. & vb. n. Timing.]

1. To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly. There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. Bacon.

2. To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement. Who overlooked the oars, and timed the stroke. Addison. He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. Shak.

3. To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.

4. To measure, as in music or harmony.

TIME
Time, v. i.

1. To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. With oar strokes timing to their song. Whittier.

2. To pass time; to delay. [Obs.]

TIMEFUL
Time"ful, a.

Defn: Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

TIME-HONORED
Time"-hon`ored, a.

Defn: Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.

TIMEKEEPER
Time"keep`er, n.

1. A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece.

2. A person who keeps, marks, regulates, or determines the time. Specifically: — (a) A person who keeps a record of the time spent by workmen at their work. (b) One who gives the time for the departure of conveyances. (c) One who marks the time in musical performances. (d) One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.

TIMELESS
Time"less, a.

1. Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely. [R.] Nor fits it to prolong the heavenly feast Timeless, indecent. Pope.

2. Done or occurring before the proper time; premature; immature; as, a timeless grave. [Obs.] Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death Shak.

3. Having no end; interminable; unending. "Timeless night and chaos." Young.

TIMELESSLY
Time"less*ly, adv.

Defn: In a timeless manner; unseasonably. [R.] Milton.

TIMELINESS
Time"li*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being timely; seasonableness; opportuneness.

TIMELING
Time"ling, n.

Defn: A timeserver. [Obs.]

TIMELY
Time"ly, a. [Compar. Timelier; superl. Timeliest.]

1. Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable. "The timely dew of sleep." Milton.

2. Keeping time or measure. Spenser.

TIMELY
Time"ly, adv.

Defn: Early; soon; in good season.
Timely advised, the coming evil shun. Prior.
Thanks to you, That called me timelier than my purpose hither, For I
have gained by it. Shak.

TIMENOGUY
Ti*men"o*guy, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.

TIMEOUS
Time"ous, a.

Defn: Timely; seasonable. [R. or Scot.] — Time"ous*ly, adv. [R. or
Scot.]

TIMEPIECE
Time"piece`, n.

Defn: A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.

TIMEPLEASER
Time"pleas`er, n.

Defn: One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may
be; a timeserver.
Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.

TIME POLICY
Time policy. (Insurance)

Defn: A policy limited to become void at a specified time; — often contrasted with voyage policy.

TIMER
Tim"er, n.

Defn: A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.

TIMESAVING
Time"sav`ing, a.

Defn: Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.

TIMESERVER
Time"serv`er, n.

Defn: One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; — now used only in a bad sense.

TIMESERVING
Time"serv`ing, a.

Defn: Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.

TIMESERVING
Time"serv`ing, n.

Defn: An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.

Syn. — Temporizing. — Timeserving, Temporizing. Both these words are applied to the conduct of one who adapts himself servilely to times and seasons. A timeserver is rather active, and a temporizer, passive. One whose policy is timeserving comes forward to act upon principles or opinions which may promote his advancement; one who is temporizing yields to the current of public sentiment or prejudice, and shrinks from a course of action which might injure him with others. The former is dishonest; the latter is weak; and both are contemptible. Trimming and timeserving, which are but two words for the same thing, . . . produce confusion. South. [I] pronounce thee . . . a hovering temporizer, that Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, Inclining to them both. Shak.

TIME SIGNATURE
Time signature. (Music)

Defn: A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as time unit for the beat, and the numerator, the number of these to the measure.

TIME-TABLE
Time"-ta`ble, n.

1. A tabular statement of the time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.

2. (Railroad)

Defn: A plane surface divided in one direction with lines representing hours and minutes, and in the other with lines representing miles, and having diagonals (usually movable strings) representing the speed and position of various trains.

3. (Mus.)

Defn: A table showing the notation, length, or duration of the several notes.

TIMID Tim"id, a. Etym: [L. timidus, fr. timere to fear; cf. Skr. tam to become breathless, to become stupefief: cf. F. timide.]

Defn: Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson.

Syn.
— Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint-
hearted; shrinking; retiring.
— Tim"id*ly, adv.
— Tim"id*ness, n.

TIMIDITY
Ti*mid"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. timiditas: cf. F. timidité.]

Defn: The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.

TIMIDOUS
Tim"id*ous, a.

Defn: Timid. [Obs.] Hudibras.

TIMIST
Tim"ist, n. Etym: [Written also timeist.]

1. (Mus.)

Defn: A performer who keeps good time.

2. A timeserver. [Obs.] Overbury.

TIMMER
Tim"mer, n.

Defn: Same as 1st Timber. [Scot.]

TIMOCRACY Ti*moc"ra*cy, n. Etym: [Gr. timocratie.] (Gr. Antiq.) (a) A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive. (b) A state in which honors are distributed according to a rating of property.

TIMOCRATIC
Ti`mo*crat"ic, a.

Defn: Belonging to, or constituted by, timocracy. Sir G. C. Lewis.

TIMONEER Tim`o*neer", n. Etym: [F. timonier, fr. timon a helm, fr. L. temo, - onis, a pole.]

Defn: A helmsman. [R.]

TIMOROUS Tim"or*ous, a. Etym: [LL. timorosus, from L. timor fear; akin to timere to fear. See Timid.]

1. Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage. Shak.

2. Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts. "The timorous
apostasy of chuchmen." Milman.
— Tim"or*ous*ly, adv.
— Tim"or*ous*ness, n.

TIMORSOME
Tim"or*some, a.

Defn: Easily frightened; timorous. [Written also timersome.] [Scot.]
Sir W. Scott.

TIMOTHY; TIMOTHY GRASS Tim"o*thy, n., or Tim"o*thy grass`. Etym: [From Timothy Hanson, who carried the seed from New England to Maryland about 1720.] (Bot.)

Defn: A kind of grass (Phleum pratense) with long cylindrical spikes; — called also herd's grass, in England, cat's-tail grass, and meadow cat's-tail grass. It is much prized for fodder. See Illustration in Appendix.

TIMOUS
Tim"ous, a. Etym: [Cf. Timeous.]

Defn: Timely; seasonable. [Obs.] Bacon.
— Tim"ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]

TIMPANO
Tim"pa*no, n.; pl. Timpani. Etym: [It.] (Mus.)

Defn: See Tympano.

TIM-WHISKEY
Tim"-whis`key, n.

Defn: A kind of carriage. See Whiskey. Southery.

TIN
Tin, n. Etym: [As. tin; akin to D. tin, G. zinn, OHG. zin, Icel. &
Dan. tin, Sw. tenn; of unknown origin.]

1. (Chem.)

Defn: An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.

2. Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.

3. Money. [Cant] Beaconsfield. Block tin (Metal.), commercial tin, cast into blocks, and partially refined, but containing small quantities of various impurities, as copper, lead, iron, arsenic, etc.; solid tin as distinguished from tin plate; — called also bar tin. — Butter of tin. (Old Chem.) See Fuming liquor of Libavius, under Fuming. — Grain tin. (Metal.) See under Grain. — Salt of tin (Dyeing), stannous chloride, especially so called when used as a mordant. — Stream tin. See under Stream. — Tin cry (Chem.), the peculiar creaking noise made when a bar of tin is bent. It is produced by the grating of the crystal granules on each other. — Tin foil, tin reduced to a thin leaf. — Tin frame (Mining), a kind of buddle used in washing tin ore. — Tin liquor, Tin mordant (Dyeing), stannous chloride, used as a mordant in dyeing and calico printing. — Tin penny, a customary duty in England, formerly paid to tithingmen for liberty to dig in tin mines. [Obs.] Bailey. — Tin plate, thin sheet iron coated with tin. — Tin pyrites. See Stannite.

TIN
Tin, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Tinning.]

Defn: To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.

TINAMIDES
Ti*nam"i*des, n. pl. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of struthious birds, including the tinamous.

TINAMOU
Tin"a*mou, n. Etym: [From the native name: cf. F. tinamous.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of South American birds belonging to
Tinamus and allied genera.

Note: In general appearance and habits they resemble grouse and partridges, but in anatomical characters they are allied to the ostriches and other struthious birds. Their wings are of moderate length, and they are able to fly a considerable distance.

TINCAL Tin"cal, n. Etym: [Ar., Per. & Hind. tinkar; cf. Malay tingkal; all fr. Skr. . Cf. Altincar.] (Chem.)

Defn: Crude native borax, formerly imported from Thibet. It was once the chief source of boric compounds. Cf. Borax.

TINCHEL Tin"chel, n. [Written also tinchill.] Etym: [Gael. timchioll a circuit, compass.]

Defn: A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space
and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a
narrow compass. [Scot.]
We'll quell the savage mountaineer, As their tinchel cows the game!
Sir W. Scott.

TINCT
Tinct, a. Etym: [L. tinctus, p.p. of tingere to tinge. See Tinge.]

Defn: Tined; tinged. [Archaic] Spenser.

TINCT
Tinct, n. Etym: [See Tint.]

Defn: Color; tinge; tincture; tint. [Archaic] "Blue of heaven's own
tinct." Shak.
All the devices blazoned on the shield, In their own tinct. Tennyson.

TINCT
Tinct, v. t. Etym: [See Tinge.]

Defn: To color or stain; to imblue; to tint. [Archaic] Bacon.

TINCTORIAL Tinc*to"ri*al, a. Etym: [L. tinctorius, from tinctor a dyer, tingere, tinctum, to dye: cf. F. tinctorial. See Tinge.]

Defn: Of or relating to color or colors; imparting a color; as, tinctorial matter. Ure.

TINCTURE
Tinc"ture, n. Etym: [L. tinctura a dyeing, from tingere, tinctum, to
tinge, dye: cf. OE. tainture, teinture, F. teinture, L. tinctura. See
Tinge.]

1. A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

2. (Her.)

Defn: One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.

Note: There are two metals: gold, called or, and represented in engraving by a white surface covered with small dots; and silver, called argent, and represented by a plain white surface. The colors and their representations are as follows: red, called gules, or a shading of vertical lines; blue, called azure, or horizontal lines; black, called sable, or horizontal and vertical lines crossing; green, called vert, or diagonal lines from dexter chief corner; purple, called purpure, or diagonal lines from sinister chief corner. The furs are ermine, ermines, erminois, pean, vair, counter vair, potent, and counter potent. See Illustration in Appendix.

3. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.

4. (Med.)

Defn: A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.

Note: According to the United States Pharmacopoeia, the term tincture (also called alcoholic tincture, and spirituous tincture) is reserved for the alcoholic solutions of nonvolatile substances, alcoholic solutions of volatile substances being called spirits. Ethereal tincture, a solution of medicinal substance in ether.

5. A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.

6. A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of French manners. All manners take a tincture from our own. Pope. Every man had a slight tincture of soldiership, and scarcely any man more than a slight tincture. Macaulay.

TINCTURE
Tinc"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinctured; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tincturing.]

1. To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter. A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors. I. Watts.

2. To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign
to; to tinge.
The stain of habitual sin may thoroughly tincture all our soul.
Barrow.

TIND Tind, v. t. Etym: [OE. tenden, AS. tendan; akin to G. zünden, OHG. zunten, Icel. tendra, Sw. tända, Dan. tænde, Goth. tandjan to kindle, tundnan to be kindled, to burn. Cf. Tinder.]

Defn: To kindle. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

TINDAL
Tin"dal, n. Etym: [From the native name: cf. Malayalam ta.]

1. A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain. [India] Malcom.

2. An attendant on an army. [India] Simmonds.

TINDER
Tin"der, n. Etym: [OE. tinder, tunder, AS. tynder, tyndre; akin to
tendan to kindle, D. tonder tinder, G. zunder, OHG. zuntara, zuntra,
Icel. tundr, Sw. tunder, Dan. tönder. See Tind.]

Defn: Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen. German tinder. Same as Amadou. — Tinder box, a box in which tinder is kept.

TINE
Tine, n. Etym: [See Teen affliction.]

Defn: Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.] "Cruel winter's tine." Spenser.

TINE
Tine, v. t. Etym: [See Tind.]

Defn: To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.] See Tind. "To tine the cloven
wood." Dryden.
Coals of contention and hot vegneance tind. Spenser.

TINE
Tine, v. i. Etym: [Cf. Tine distress, or Tine to kindle.]

Defn: To kindle; to rage; to smart. [Obs.] Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine. Spenser.

TINE
Tine, v. t. Etym: [AS. t, from t an inclosure. See Town.]

Defn: To shut in, or inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

TINE
Tine, n. Etym: [OE. tind, AS. tind; akin to MHG. zint, Icel. tindr,
Sw. tinne, and probably to G. zinne a pinnacle, OHG. zinna, and E.
tooth. See Tooth.]

Defn: A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.

TINEA
Tin"e*a, n. Etym: [L., a worm, a moth.]

1. (Med.)

Defn: A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.

TINEAN
Tin"e*an, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any species of Tinea, or of the family Tineidæ, which includes numerous small moths, many of which are injurious to woolen and fur goods and to cultivated plants. Also used adjectively.

TINED
Tined, a.

Defn: Furnished with tines; as, a three-tined fork.

TINEID
Tin"e*id, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Tinean.

TINEMAN Tine"man, n.; pl. Tinemen. Etym: [Probably akin to tine to shut or inclose.] (O. Eng. Forest Law)

Defn: An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night. [Obs.]

TINET
Ti"net, n. Etym: [From Tine to shut in, inclose.]

Defn: Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges. [Obs.
Eng.]

TING
Ting, n. Etym: [An imitative word. Cf. Tink.]

Defn: A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.

TING
Ting, v. i.

Defn: To sound or ring, as a bell; to tinkle. [R.] Holland.

TING
Ting, n.

Defn: The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.

TINGE
Tinge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinged; p. pr. & vb. n. Tingeing.] Etym:
[L. tingere, tinctum, to dye, stain, wet; akin to Gr. tunken to dip,
OHG. tunchon, dunchon, thunkon. Cf. Distain, Dunker, Stain, Taint a
stain, to stain, Tincture, Tint.]

Defn: To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron. His [Sir Roger's] virtues, as well as imperfections, are tinged by a certain extravagance. Addison.

Syn.
— To color; dye; stain.

TINGE
Tinge, n.

Defn: A degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste. His notions, too, respecting the government of the state, took a tinge from his notions respecting the government of the church. Macaulay.

TINGENT
Tin"gent, a. Etym: [L. tingens, p.pr. of tingere to tinge. See
Tinge.]

Defn: Having the power to tinge. [R.] As for the white part, it appears much less enriched with the tingent property. Boyle.

TINGER
Tin"ger, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, tinges.

TINGID
Tin"gid, a. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the genus Tingis.

TINGIS
Tin"gis, n. Etym: [NL.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of small hemipterous insects which injure trees by sucking the sap from the leaves. See Illustration in Appendix.

TINGLE
Tin"gle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tingling.]
Etym: [Freq. of ting. Cf. Tinkle.]

1. To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill
sound.
At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. 1
Sam. iii. 11.

2. To feel a sharp, thrilling pain. The pale boy senator yet tingling stands. Pope.

3. To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation. They suck pollution through their tingling vein. Tickell.

TINK Tink, v. i. Etym: [OE. tinken; of imitative origin. Cf. Ting a tinkling, Tinker.]

Defn: To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle. Wyclif (1 Cor. xiii. 1).

TINK
Tink, n.

Defn: A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle.

TINKER Tink"er, n. Etym: [From Tink, because the tinker's way of proclaiming his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a tinkling noise. Johnson.]

1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. "Tailors and tinkers." Piers Plowman.

2. One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.

3. (Ordnance)

Defn: A small mortar on the end of a staff.

4. (Zoöl.) (a) A young mackerel about two years old. (b) The chub mackerel. (c) The silversides. (d) A skate. [Prov. Eng.]

5. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The razor-billed auk.

TINKER
Tink"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinkered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tinkering.]

Defn: To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.

TINKER
Tink"er, v. i.

Defn: To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.

TINKERING
Tink"er*ing, n.

Defn: The act or work of a tinker.

TINKERLY
Tink"er*ly, a.

Defn: After the manner of a tinker. [R.]

TINKERSHIRE; TINKLE
Tink"er*shire, Tin"kle, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]

TINKLE
Tin"kle, v. i. Etym: [Freq. of tink. See Tink, Tingle.]

1. To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink. As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Cor. xiii. 1. The sprightly horse Moves to the music of his tinkling bells. Dodsley.

2. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound. And his ears tinkled, and the color fled. Dryden.

TINKLE
Tin"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tinkling.]

Defn: To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.

TINKLE
Tin"kle, n.

Defn: A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.
Cowper.

TINKLER
Tin"kler, n.

Defn: A tinker. [Prov. Eng.]

TINKLING
Tin"kling, n.

1. A tinkle, or succession of tinkles. Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Gray.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A grackle (Quiscalus crassirostris) native of Jamaica. It often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects.

TINMAN
Tin"man, n.; pl. Tinmen (.

Defn: A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tinware.

TINMOUTH
Tin"mouth`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The crappie. [U.S.]

TINNED
Tinned, a.

1. Covered, or plated, with tin; as, a tinned roof; tinned iron.

2. Packed in tin cases; canned; as, tinned meats. Cassell (Dict. of Cookery).

TINNEN
Tin"nen, a.

Defn: Made or consisting of tin. [Obs.]

TINNER
Tin"ner, n.

1. One who works in a tin mine.

2. One who makes, or works in, tinware; a tinman.

TINNIENT
Tin"ni*ent, a. Etym: [L. tinniens, p.pr. of tinnire to ring, tinkle.]

Defn: Emitting a clear sound. [Obs.]

TINNING
Tin"ning, n.

1. The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like.

2. The covering or lining of tin thus put on.

TINNITUS
Tin*ni"tus, n. Etym: [L., fr. tinnire to jingle.] (Med.)

Defn: A ringing, whistling, or other imaginary noise perceived in the ears; — called also tinnitus aurium.

TINNOCK
Tin"nock, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

TINNY
Tin"ny, a.

Defn: Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin. "The tinny strand." Drayton.

TINSEL Tin"sel, n. Etym: [F. étincelle a spark, OF. estincelle, L. scintilla. Cf. Scintillate, Stencil.]

1. A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like. Who can discern the tinsel from the gold Dryden.

2. Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable. O happy peasant! O unhappy bard! His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward. Cowper.

TINSEL
Tin"sel, a.

Defn: Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial. "Tinsel trappings." Milton.

TINSEL
Tin"sel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinseled or Tinselled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tinseling or Tinselling.]

Defn: To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy. She, tinseled o'er in robes of varying hues. Pope.

TINSELLY
Tin"sel*ly, a.

Defn: Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.

TINSELLY
Tin"sel*ly, adv.

Defn: In a showy and cheap manner.

TINSMITH
Tin"smith`, n.

Defn: One who works in tin; a tinner.

TINSTONE
Tin"stone`, n. (Min.)

Defn: Cassiterite.

TINT Tint, n. Etym: [For older tinct, fr. L. tinctus, p.p. of tingere to dye: cf. F. teinte, teint, It. tinta, tinto. See Tinge, and cf. Taint to stain, a stain, Tent a kind of wine, Tinto.]

Defn: A slight coloring. Specifically: —
(a) A pale or faint tinge of any color.
Or blend in beauteous tints the colored mass. Pope.
Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline. Harte.

(b) A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints. (c) (Engraving) A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines. Tint tool (Eng.), a species of graver used for cutting the parallel lines which produce tints in engraving.

TINT
Tint, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tinting.]

Defn: To give a slight coloring to; to tinge.

TINTAMAR
Tin`ta*mar", n. Etym: [F. tintamarre.]

Defn: A hideous or confused noise; an uproar. [Obs.] Howell.

TINTERNELL
Tin"ter*nell, n.

Defn: A certain old dance. [Obs.] Halliwell.

TINTIE
Tin"tie, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The wren. [Prov. Eng.]

TINTINNABULAR; TINTINNABULARY Tin`tin*nab"u*lar, Tin`tin*nab"u*la*ry, a. Etym: [L. tintinnabuluma little bell, fr. tintinnare to ring, to jingle, tinnire to jingle.]

Defn: Having or making the sound of a bell; tinkling.

TINTINNABULATION
Tin`tin*nab`u*la"tion, n.

Defn: A tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells. Poe.

TINTINNABULOUS
Tin`tin*nab"u*lous, a.

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the tinkling of a bell; having a tinkling sound; tintinnabular. De Quincey.

TINTINNABULUM
Tin`tin*nab"u*lum, n.; pl. Tintinnabula (#). [L., a bell. See
Tintinnabular.]

Defn: A bell; also, a set or combination of bells or metal plates used as a musical instrument or as a toy.

TINTO Tin"to, n. Etym: [Pg., tinged, fr. L. tinctus, p.p. of tingere to tinge. See Tint, n.]

Defn: A red Madeira wine, wanting the high aroma of the white sorts, and, when old, resembling tawny port.

TINTOMETER
Tint*om"e*ter, n. [Tint + -meter.] (Physics)

Defn: An apparatus for the determination of colors by comparison with arbitrary standards; a colorimeter.

TINTYPE
Tin"type`, n.

Defn: Same as Ferrotype.

TINWARE
Tin"ware`, n.

Defn: Articles made of tinned iron.

TINY Ti"ny, a. [Compar. Tinier; superl. Tiniest.] Etym: [Probably fr. tine, teen, trouble, distress, vexation.]

Defn: Very small; little; puny.
When that I was and a little tiny boy. Shak.

TIP Tip, n. Etym: [Akin to D. & Dan. tip, LG. & Sw. tipp, G. zipfel, and probably to E. tap a plug, a pipe.]

1. The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear. To the very tip of the nose. Shak.

2. An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.

3. (Hat Manuf.)

Defn: A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.

4. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.

5. Rubbish thrown from a quarry.

TIP
Tip, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tipping.]

Defn: To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top, or end of; as, to
tip anything with gold or silver.
With truncheon tipped with iron head. Hudibras.
Tipped with jet, Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.
Thomson.

TIP Tip, v. t. Etym: [Cf. LG. tippen to tap, Sw. tippa, and E. tap to strike gently.]

1. To strike slightly; to tap. A third rogue tips me by the elbow. Swift.

2. To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

3. To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip
a cask; to tip a cart. To tip off, to pour out, as liquor.
— To tip over, to overturn.
— To tip the wink, to direct a wink; to give a hint or suggestion
by, or as by, a wink. [Slang] Pope.
— To tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.

TIP
Tip, v. i.

Defn: To fall on, or incline to, one side. Bunyan. To tip off, to fall off by tipping.

TIP Tip, n. Etym: [See Tip to strike slightly, and cf. Tap a slight blow.]

1. A light touch or blow; a tap.

2. A gift; a douceur; a fee. [Colloq.]

3. A hint, or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race, or the like. [Sporting Cant]

TIPCART
Tip"cart`, n.

Defn: A cart so constructed that the body can be easily tipped, in order to dump the load.

TIPCAT
Tip"cat`, n.

Defn: A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends, called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to fly into the air. In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand. Macaulay.

TIPPER
Tip"per, n.

Defn: A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; — so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper. [Eng.]

TIPPET Tip"pet, n. Etym: [OE. tipet, tepet, AS. tæppet, probably fr. L. tapete tapestry, hangings. Cf. Tape, Tapestry, Tapet.]

1. A cape, or scarflike garment for covering the neck, or the neck and shoulders, — usually made of fur, cloth, or other warm material. Chaucer. Bacon.

2. A length of twisted hair or gut in a fish line. [Scot.]

3. A handful of straw bound together at one end, and used for thatching. [Scot.] Jamieson. Tippet grebe (Zoöl.), the great crested grebe, or one of several similar species. — Tippet grouse (Zoöl.), the ruffed grouse. — To turn tippet, to change. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

TIPPING
Tip"ping, n. (Mus.)

Defn: A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double- tonguing.

TIPPLE
Tip"ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tippled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tippling.]
Etym: [From tip a small end, or a word akin to it; cf. Norw. tipla to
tipple, to drip, Prov. E. tip, tiff, tift, a draught of liquor, dial.
G. zipfeln to eat and drink in small parts. See Tip a point, and cf.
Tipsy.]

Defn: To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness. Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets. Macaulay.

TIPPLE
Tip"ple, v. t.

1. To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess. Himself, for saving charges, A peeled, sliced onions eats, and tipples verjuice. Dryden.

2. To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.

TIPPLE
Tip"ple, n.

Defn: Liquor taken in tippling; drink.
Pulque, the national tipple of Mexico. S. B. Griffin.

TIPPLED
Tip"pled, a.

Defn: Intoxicated; inebriated; tipsy; drunk. [R.] Dryden.

TIPPLER
Tip"pler, n.

1. One who keeps a tippling-house. [Obs.] Latimer.

2. One who habitually indulges in the excessive use of spirituous liquors, whether he becomes intoxicated or not.

TIPPLING-HOUSE
Tip"pling-house`, n.

Defn: A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises.

TIPSIFY
Tip"si*fy, v. t. Etym: [Tipsy + -fy.]

Defn: To make tipsy. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

TIPSILY
Tip"si*ly, adv.

Defn: In a tipsy manner; like one tipsy.

TIPSINESS
Tip"si*ness, n.

Defn: The state of being tipsy.

TIPSTAFF
Tip"staff`, n.; pl. Tipstaff (.

1. A staff tipped with metal. Bacon.

2. An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a constable. Macaulay.

TIPSTER
Tip"ster, n. [Tip a hint + -ster.]

Defn: One who makes a practice of giving or selling tips, or private hints or information, esp. for use in gambling upon the probable outcome of events, as horse races.

TIPSTOCK
Tip"stock`, n.

Defn: The detachable or movable fore part of a gunstock, lying beneath the barrel or barrels, and forming a hold for the left hand.

TIPSY
Tip"sy, a. [Compar. Tipsier; superl. Tipsiest.] Etym: [Akin to
tipple; cf. Prov. G. tips drunkenness, betipst drunk, tipsy. See
Tipple.]

1. Being under the influence of strong drink; rendered weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk; fuddled; intoxicated.

2. Staggering, as if from intoxication; reeling. Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. Milton.

TIPTOE
Tip"toe`, n.; pl. Tiptoes (.

Defn: The end, or tip, of the toe. He must . . . stand on his typtoon [tiptoes]. Chaucer. Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by. Spenser. To be, or To stand, a tiptoe or on tiptoe, to be awake or alive to anything; to be roused; to be eager or alert; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.

TIPTOE
Tip"toe`, a.

1. Being on tiptoe, or as on tiptoe; hence, raised as high as possible; lifted up; exalted; also, alert. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak. Above the tiptoe pinnacle of glory. Byron.

2. Noiseless; stealthy. "With tiptoe step." Cowper. Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth. Sir W. Scott.

TIPTOE
Tip"toe`, v. i.

Defn: To step or walk on tiptoe.

TIPTOP
Tip"top`, n. Etym: [Tip end + top.]

Defn: The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything. [Colloq.]

TIPTOP
Tip"top`, a.

Defn: Very excellent; most excellent; perfect. [Colloq.] "Four tiptop voices." Gray. "Sung in a tiptop manner." Goldsmith.

TIPULA Tip"u*la, n.; pl. L. Tipulæ, E. Tipulas. Etym: [L., the water spider, or water spinner.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera. They have long and slender bodies. See Crane fly, under Crane.

TIPULARY
Tip"u*la*ry, a. Etym: [Cf. F. tipulaire.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the tipulas.

TIP-UP
Tip"-up`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The spotted sandpiper; — called also teeter-tail. See under
Sandpiper.

TIRADE Ti*rade", n. Etym: [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to redn. See Tear to rend, and cf. Tire to tear.]

Defn: A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. Quarterly Review.

TIRAILLEUR Ti`rail`leur", n. Etym: [F., from tirailler to skirmish, wrest, from tirer to draw.] (Mil.)

Defn: Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.

TIRE
Tire, n.

Defn: A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. [Obs.]
In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.

TIRE
Tire, n. Etym: [Aphetic form of attire; OE. tir, a tir. See Attire.]

1. Attire; apparel. [Archaic] "Having rich tire about you." Shak.

2. A covering for the head; a headdress. On her head she wore a tire of gold. Spenser.

3. A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.

4. Furniture; apparatus; equipment. [Obs.] "The tire of war." Philips.

5. Etym: [Probably the same word, and so called as being an attire or covering for the wheel.]

Defn: A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.

Note: The iron tire of a wagon wheel or cart wheel binds the fellies together. The tire of a locomotive or railroad-car wheel is a heavy hoop of iron or steel shrunk tightly upon an iron central part. The wheel of a bicycle has a tire of India rubber.

TIRE
Tire, v. t.

Defn: To adorn; to attire; to dress. [Obs.]
[Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30.

TIRE Tire, v. i. Etym: [F. tirer to draw or pull; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to rend. See Tirade.]

1. To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. [Obs.] Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone. Shak. Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits. B. Jonson.

2. To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything. [Obs.] Thus made she her remove, And left wrath tiring on her son. Chapman. Upon that were my thoughts tiring. Shak.

TIRE Tire, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tired; p. pr. & vb. n. Tiring.] Etym: [OE. teorien to become weary, to fail, AS. teorian to be tired, be weary, to tire, exhaust; perhaps akin to E. tear to rend, the intermediate sense being, perhaps, to wear out; or cf. E. tarry.]

Defn: To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.

TIRE
Tire, v. t.

Defn: To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade. Shak. Tired with toil, all hopes of safety past. Dryden. To tire out, to weary or fatigue to exhaustion; to harass.

Syn.
— To jade; weary; exhaust; harass. See Jade.

TIRED
Tired, a.

Defn: Weary; fatigued; exhausted.

TIREDNESS
Tired"ness, n.

Defn: The state of being tired, or weary.

TIRELESS
Tire"less, a.

Defn: Untiring.

TIRELING
Tire"ling, a.

Defn: Tired; fatigued. [Obs.]

TIRESOME
Tire"some, a.

Defn: Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing;
tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.
— Tire"some*ly, adv.
— Tire"some*ness, n.

TIRE-WOMAN
Tire"-wom`an, n.; pl. Tire-women. Etym: [See Tire attire, Attire.]

1. A lady's maid. Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke.

2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds.

TIRING-HOUSE
Tir"ing-house`, n. Etym: [For attiring house.]

Defn: A tiring-room. [Obs.] Shak.

TIRING-ROOM
Tir"ing-room`, n. Etym: [For attiring room.]

Defn: The room or place where players dress for the stage.

TIRL
Tirl, v. i. [Cf. Twirl, Thirl.] [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

1. To quiver; to vibrate; to veer about.

2. To make a ratting or clattering sound by twirling or shaking; as, to tirl at the pin, or latch, of a door.

TIRMA
Tir"ma, n.

Defn: The oyster catcher. [Prov. Eng.]

TIRO
Ti"ro, n. Etym: [L.]

Defn: Same as Tyro.

T IRON
T" i`ron.

Defn: See under T.

TIRONIAN Ti*ro"ni*an, a. Etym: [L. Tironianus, fr. Tiro, the learned freedman and amanuensis of Cicero.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.

TIRRALIRRA
Tir"ra*lir`ra, n.

Defn: A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark
or a horn.
The lark, that tirra lyra chants. Shak.
"Tirralira, " by the river, Sang Sir Lancelot. Tennyson.

TIRRIT
Tir"rit, n.

Defn: A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in
Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.

TIRWIT
Tir"wit, n. Etym: [Cf. Pewit.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]

'T IS
'T is.

Defn: A common contraction of it is.

TISANE
Ti*sane", n. Etym: [F.] (Med.)

Defn: See Ptisan.

TISAR
Ti"sar, n. Etym: [F. tisard.] (Glass Manuf.)

Defn: The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven. Knight.

TISIC; TISICAL
Tis"ic, Tis"ic*al, a. Etym: [For phthisic, phthisical.]

Defn: Consumptive, phthisical.

TISIC
Tis"ic, n.

Defn: Consumption; phthisis. See Phthisis.

TISICKY
Tis"ick*y, a.

Defn: Consumptive, phthisical.

TISRI
Tis"ri, n. Etym: [Heb. tishri, fr. Chald. shera' to open, to begin.]

Defn: The seventh month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of September with a part of October.

TISSUE Tis"sue, n. Etym: [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p.p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See Text.]

1. A woven fabric.

2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures. A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. Dryden. In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials. Milton.

3. (Biol.)

Defn: One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.

Note: The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing in structure and function, which go to make up an organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc.

4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood. Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. A. J. Balfour. Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.

TISSUE
Tis"sue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tissued; p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing.]

Defn: To form tissue of; to interweave.
Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. Bacon.

TISSUED
Tis"sued, a.

Defn: Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as,
tissued flowers. Cowper.
And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call.
T. Warton.

TIT
Tit, n.

1. A small horse. Tusser.

2. A woman; — used in contempt. Burton.

3. A morsel; a bit. Halliwell.

4. Etym: [OE.; cf. Icel. titter a tit or small bird. The word probably meant originally, something small, and is perhaps the same as teat. Cf. Titmouse, Tittle.] (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families Paridæ and Leiotrichidæ; a titmouse. (b) The European meadow pipit; a titlark. Ground tit. (Zoöl.) See Wren tit, under Wren. — Hill tit (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic singing birds belonging to Siva, Milna, and allied genera. — Tit babbler (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small East Indian and Asiatic timaline birds of the genus Trichastoma. — Tit for tat. Etym: [Probably for tip for tap. See Tip a slight blow.] An equivalent; retaliation. — Tit thrush (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic and Esat Indian birds belonging to Suthora and allied genera. In some respects they are intermediate between the thrushes and titmice.

TITAN
Ti"tan, a.

Defn: Titanic.
The Titan physical difficulties of his enterprise. I. Taylor.

TITANATE
Ti"tan*ate, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of titanic acid.

TITAN CRANE
Ti"tan crane. (Mach.)

Defn: A massive crane with an overhanging counterbalanced arm carrying a traveler and lifting crab, the whole supported by a carriage mounted on track rails. It is used esp. for setting heavy masonry blocks for piers, breakwaters, etc.

TITANIC
Ti*tan"ic, a.

Defn: Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient mythology; hence, enormous in size or strength; as, Titanic structures.

TITANIC
Ti*tan"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. titanique.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to titanium; derived from, or containing, titanium; specifically, designating those compounds of titanium in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with the titanous compounds. Titanic acid (Chem.), a white amorphous powder, Ti.(OH)4, obtained by decomposing certain titanates; — called also normal titanic acid. By extension, any one of a series of derived acids, called also metatitanic acid, polytitanic acid, etc. — Titanic iron ore. (Min.) See Menaccanite.

TITANIFEROUS
Ti`tan*if"er*ous, a. Etym: [Titanium + -ferous: cf. F. titanifère.]

Defn: Containing or affording titanium; as, titaniferous magnetite.

TITANITE Ti"tan*ite, n. Etym: [Cf. F. titanite; — so called from containing titanic acid.] (Min.)

Defn: See Sphene.

TITANITIC
Ti`tan*it"ic, a.

Defn: Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic mineral.

TITANIUM
Ti*ta"ni*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. Titani or Titanes, Gr. (Chem.)

Defn: An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron- gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1.

TITANO-
Ti"tan*o-. (Chem.)

Defn: A combining form (also used adjectively) designating certain double compounds of titanium with some other elements; as, titano- cyanide, titano-fluoride, titano-silicate, etc.

TITANOTHERIUM
Ti`tan*o*the"ri*um, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Paleon.)

Defn: A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.

TITANOUS
Ti"tan*ous, a.

Defn: Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that element has a lower valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.

TITBIT
Tit"bit`, n.

Defn: Same as Tidbit.

TITH
Tith, a. Etym: [See Tight, a.]

Defn: Tight; nimble. [Obs.]
Of a good stirring strain too, she goes tith. Beau. & Fl.

TITHABLE
Tith"a*ble, a.

Defn: Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable lands.

TITHE Tithe, n. Etym: [OE. tithe, tethe, properly an adj., tenth, AS. teó the tenth; akin to tién, t, ten, ten, G. zehnte, adj., tenth, n., a tithe, Icel. tiund the tenth; tithe, Goth. taíhunda tenth. See Ten, and cf. Tenth, Teind.]

1. A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges. The tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil. Neh. xiii. 5.

Note: Tithes are called personal when accuring from labor, art, trade, and navigation; predial, when issuing from the earth, as hay, wood, and fruit; and mixed, when accuring from beaste fed from the ground. Blackstone.

2. Hence, a small part or proportion. Bacon. Great tithes, tithes of corn, hay, and wood. — Mixed tithes, tithes of wool, milk, pigs, etc. — Small tithes, personal and mixed tithes. — Tithe commissioner, one of a board of officers appointed by the government for arranging propositions for commuting, or compounding for, tithes. [Eng.] Simmonds.

TITHE
Tithe, a.

Defn: Tenth. [Obs.]
Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand. Shak.

TITHE
Tithe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tithed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tithing.] Etym:
[As. teó.]

Defn: To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to
pay tithes on.
Ye tithe mint and rue. Luke xi. 42.

TITHE
Tithe, v. i.

Defn: Tp pay tithes. [R.] Tusser.

TITHER
Tith"er, n.

1. One who collects tithes. Milton.

2. One who pays tithes. [R.] Chaucer.

TITHING
Tith"ing, n. Etym: [AS. teó.]

1. The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe. To take tithing of their blood and sweat. Motley.

2. (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary. Blackstone.

TITHINGMAN
Tith"ing*man, n.; pl. Tithingmen (.

1. (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: The chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.

2. (Law)

Defn: A peace officer; an under constable.

3. A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath. [Local, U.S.]

TITHLY
Tith"ly, a. Etym: [From Tith.]

Defn: Tightly; nimbly. [Obs.] "I have seen him trip it tithly." Beau. & Fl.

TITHONIC Ti*thon"ic, a. Etym: [L. Tithonius belonging to Tithonus, the consort of Aurora, Gr.

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or denoting, those rays of light which produce chemical effects; actinic. [R.]

TITHONICITY
Tith`o*nic"i*ty, n. (Chem. & Physics)

Defn: The state or property of being tithonic; actinism. [R.]

TITHONOGRAPHIC
Ti*thon`o*graph"ic, a. Etym: [Tithonic + -graph + -ic.]

Defn: Of, relating to, or produced by, the chemical action of rays of light; photographic.

TITHONOMETER
Tith`o*nom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Tithonic + -meter.]

Defn: An instrument or apparatus for measuring or detecting tithonicity; an actinometer. [R.]

TITHYMAL Tith"y*mal, n. Etym: [L. tithymalus a plant with a milklike sap, Gr. tithymale.] (Bot.)

Defn: Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias.

TITI
Ti"ti, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Teetee.

TITILLATE
Tit"il*late, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Titillated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Titillating.] Etym: [L. titillatus, p.p. of titillare.]

Defn: To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather.
The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope.

TITILLATION
Tit`il*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. titillatio: cf. F. titillation.]

1. The act of tickling, or the state of being tickled; a tickling sensation. A. Tucker.

2. Any pleasurable sensation. Those titillations that reach no higher than the senses. Glanvill.

TITILLATIVE
Tit"il*la*tive, a.

Defn: Tending or serving to titillate, or tickle; tickling.

TITIVATE; TITTIVATE Tit"i*vate, Tit"ti*vate, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Titivated; p. pr. & vb. n. Titivating.] [Formed from an uncertain source, in imitation of words in -ate fr. L.]

Defn: To dress or smarten up; to spruce. —Tit`i*va"tion,
Tit`ti*va"tion (#), n. [Both Humorous]

"Come here, an' let me titivate you." He sat down beside her, and submitted to be dusted. Quiller-Couch.

TITLARK
Tit"lark`, n. Etym: [Tit a small bird + lark.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous small spring birds belonging to Anthus, Corydalla, and allied genera, which resemble the true larks in color and in having a very long hind claw; especially, the European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

TITLE Ti"tle, n. Etym: [OF. title, F. titre, L. titulus an inscription, label, title, sign, token. Cf. Tilde, Titrate, Titular.]

1. An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.

2. The inscription in the beginning of a book, usually containing the subject of the work, the author's and publisher's names, the date, etc.

3. (Bookbindng)

Defn: The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.

4. A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book.

5. An appellation of dignity, distinction, or preëminence (hereditary or acquired), given to persons, as duke marquis, honorable, esquire, etc. With his former title greet Macbeth. Shak.

6. A name; an appellation; a designation.

7. (Law) (a) That which constitutes a just cause of exclusive possession; that which is the foundation of ownership of property, real or personal; a right; as, a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title. (b) The instrument which is evidence of a right. (c) (Canon Law) That by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.

8. (Anc. Church Records)

Defn: A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside. Title deeds (Law), the muniments or evidences of ownership; as, the title deeds to an estate.

Syn.
— Epithet; name; appellation; denomination. See epithet, and Name.

TITLE
Ti"tle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Titled; p. pr. & vb. n. Titling.] Etym:
[Cf. L. titulare, F. titrer. See Title, n.]

Defn: To call by a title; to name; to entitle. Hadrian, having quieted the island, took it for honor to be titled on his coin, "The Restorer of Britain." Milton.

TITLED
Ti"tled, a.

Defn: Having or bearing a title.

TITLELESS
Ti"tle*less, a.

Defn: Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.

TITLE-PAGE
Ti"tle-page`, n.

Defn: The page of a book which contains it title.
The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young.

TITLER
Tit"ler, n.

Defn: A large truncated cone of refined sugar.

TITLING Tit"ling, n. Etym: [Icel. titlingr a tit sparrow. See Tit a small bird.]

1. (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.

2. Stockfish; — formerly so called in customhouses.

TITMAL
Tit"mal, n.

Defn: The blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

TITMOUSE Tit"mouse`, n.; pl. Titmice. Etym: [OE. titemose, titmase; tit small, or a small bird + AS. mase a kind of small bird; akin to D. mees a titmouse, G. meise, OHG. meisa, Icel. meisingr. The English form has been influenced by the unrelated word mouse. Cf. Tit a small bird.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to Parus and allied genera; — called also tit, and tomtit.

Note: The blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus), the marsh titmouse (P. palustris), the crested titmouse (P. cristatus), the great titmouse (P. major), and the long tailed titmouse (Ægithalos caudatus), are the best-known European species. See Chickadee.

TITRATE
Ti"trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Titrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Titrating.]
Etym: [F. titrer, from titre standard, title. See Title, n.] (Chem.)

Defn: To analyse, or determine the strength of, by means of standard solutions. Cf. Standardized solution, under Solution.

TITRATED
Ti"tra*ted, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Standardized; determined or analyzed by titration; as, titrated solutions.

TITRATION
Ti*tra"tion, n. (Chem.)

Defn: The act or process of titrating; a substance obtained by titrating.

TITTER
Tit"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tittered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tittering.]
Etym: [Probably of imitative origin.]

Defn: To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle. A group of tittering pages ran before. Longfellow.

TITTER
Tit"ter, n.

Defn: A restrained laugh. "There was a titter of . . . delight on his countenance." Coleridge.

TITTER
Tit"ter, v. i.

Defn: To seesaw. See Teeter.

TITTEREL
Tit"ter*el, n.

Defn: The whimbrel. [Prov. Eng.]

TITTER-TOTTER
Tit"ter-tot`ter, v. i.

Defn: See Teeter.

TITTIMOUSE
Tit"ti*mouse`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

TITTLE
Tit"tle, n. Etym: [OE. titel, titil, apparently a dim. of tit, in the
sense of small; cf. G. tüttel a tittle, dim. of OHG. tutta teat.
Perhaps, however, the same word as title, n.]

Defn: A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.
It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law
to fail. Luke xvi. 17.
Every tittle of this prophecy is most exactly verified. South.

TITTLEBAT
Tit"tle*bat, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The three-spined stickleback. [Prov. Eng.]

TITTLE-TATTLE
Tit"tle-tat`tle, n. Etym: [A reduplication of tattle.]

1. Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. Arbuthnot.

2. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. [R.] Tatler.

TITTLE-TATTLE
Tit"tle-tat`tle, v. i.

Defn: To talk idly; to prate. Shak.

TITTLE-TATTLING
Tit"tle-tat`tling, n.

Defn: The act or habit of parting idly or gossiping.

TITTUP
Tit"tup, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tittuped or Tittupped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tittuping or Tittupping.] [Written also titup.] [Cf. Teeter.]

Defn: To behave or move in a lively or restless manner, as an impatient horse; to caper; to prance; to frisk. Kipling.

TITTUP
Tit"tup, n.

Defn: The act of tittuping; lively, gay, or restless behavior or gait; a prance or caper. [Written also titup.]

TITTUPPY
Tit"tup*py, a.

Defn: Given to tittuping; gay; lively; prancing; also, shaky; unsteady.

TITTY
Tit"ty, n.

Defn: A little teat; a nipple. [Familiar]

TITUBATE Tit"u*bate, v. i. Etym: [L. titubatus, p.p. of titubare to stagger, totter.]

1. To stumble. [Obs.]

2. To rock or roll, as a curved body on a plane.

TITUBATION
Tit`u*ba"tion, n. Etym: [L. titubatio: cf. F. titubation.]

Defn: The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling. Quain.

TITULAR
Tit"u*lar, a. Etym: [F. titulaire, fr. L. titulus. See Title.]

Defn: Existing in title or name only; nominal; having the title to an
office or dignity without discharging its appropriate duties; as, a
titular prince.
If these magnificent titles yet remain Not merely titular. Milton.
Titular bishop. See under Bishop.

TITULAR
Tit"u*lar, n.

Defn: A titulary. [R.]

TITULARITY
Tit`u*lar"i*ty, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being titular. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

TITULARLY
Tit"u*lar*ly, adv.

Defn: In a titular manner; nominally; by title only.

TITULARY
Tit"u*la*ry, n.; pl. Titularies. Etym: [Cf. F. titulaire.]

Defn: A person invested with a title, in virtue of which he holds an office or benefice, whether he performs the duties of it or not.

TITULARY
Tit"u*la*ry, a.

1. Consisting in a title; titular.

2. Of or pertaining to a title.

TITULED
Tit"uled, a.

Defn: Having a title. [Obs.] Fuller.

TIVER
Tiv"er, n. Etym: [AS. teáfor, teáfur.]

Defn: A kind of ocher which is used in some parts of England in marking sheep. [Prov. Eng.]

TIVER
Tiv"er, v. t.

Defn: To mark with tiver. [Prov. Eng.]

TIVOLI Tiv"o*li, n. [Prob. fr. Tivoli in Italy, a pleasure resort not far from Rome.]

Defn: A game resembling bagatelle, played on a special oblong board or table (Tivoli board or table), which has a curved upper end, a set of numbered compartments at the lower end, side alleys, and the surface studded with pins and sometimes furnished with numbered depressions or cups.

TIVY
Tiv"y, adv. Etym: [See Tantivy.]

Defn: With great speed; — a huntsman's word or sound. Dryden.

TIZA Ti"za, n. Etym: [CF. Sp. tiza whitening, a kind of chalk or pipe clay.] (Chem.)

Defn: See Ulexite.

TLINKIT
Tlin"kit, n. pl.

Defn: The Indians of a seafaring group of tribes of southern Alaska comprising the Koluschan stock. Previous to deterioration from contact with the whites they were the foremost traders of the northwest. They built substantial houses of cedar adorned with totem poles, and were expert stone carvers and copper workers. Slavery, the potlatch, and the use of immense labrets were characteristic. Many now work in the salmon industry.

TMESIS
Tme"sis, n. Etym: [L., from Gr. (Gram.)

Defn: The separation of the parts of a compound word by the intervention of one or more words; as, in what place soever, for whatsoever place.

TO- To- (, see To, prep.) Etym: [AS. to- asunder; akin to G. zer-, and perhaps to L. dis-, or Gr.

Defn: An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under All, adv.

TO To (emphatic or alone, obscure or unemphatic), prep. Etym: [AS. to; akin to OS. & OFries. to, D. toe, G. zu, OHG. zuo, zua, zo, Russ. do, Ir. & Gael. do, OL. -do, -du, as in endo, indu, in, Gr. Too, Tatoo a beat of drums.]

1. The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival, motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it, access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward; — opposed to Ant: from. "To Canterbury they wend." Chaucer. Stay with us, go not to Wittenberg. Shak. So to the sylvan lodge They came, that like Pomona's arbor smiled. Milton. I'll to him again, . . . He'll tell me all his purpose. She stretched her arms to heaven. Dryden.

2. Hence, it indicates motion, course, or tendency toward a time, a state or condition, an aim, or anything capable of being regarded as a limit to a tendency, movement, or action; as, he is going to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.

Note: Formerly, by omission of the verb denoting motion, to sometimes followed a form of be, with the sense of at, or in. "When the sun was [gone or declined] to rest." Chaucer.

3. In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action. Its sphere verges upon that of for, but it contains less the idea of design or appropriation; as, these remarks were addressed to a large audience; let us keep this seat to ourselves; a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind; duty to God and to our parents; a dislike to spirituous liquor. Marks and points out each man of us to slaughter. B. Jonson. Whilst they, distilled Almost to jelly with the act of fear, Stand dumb and speak not to him. Shak. Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 2 Pet. i. 5,6,7. I have a king's oath to the contrary. Shak. Numbers were crowded to death. Clarendon. Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. Dryden. Go, buckle to the law. Dryden.

4. As sign of the infinitive, to had originally the use of last defined, governing the infinitive as a verbal noun, and connecting it as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus, ready to go, i.e., ready unto going; good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations where it has no prepositional meaning, as where the infinitive is direct object or subject; thus, I love to learn, i.e., I love learning; to die for one's country is noble, i.e., the dying for one's country. Where the infinitive denotes the design or purpose, good usage formerly allowed the prefixing of for to the to; as, what went ye out for see (Matt. xi. 8). Then longen folk to go on pilgrimages, And palmers for to seeken strange stranders. Chaucer.

Note: Such usage is now obsolete or illiterate. In colloquial usage, to often stands for, and supplies, an infinitive already mentioned; thus, he commands me to go with him, but I do not wish to.

5. In many phrases, and in connection with many other words, to has a pregnant meaning, or is used elliptically. Thus, it denotes or implies: (a) Extent; limit; degree of comprehension; inclusion as far as; as, they met us to the number of three hundred. We ready are to try our fortunes To the last man. Shak. Few of the Esquimaux can count to ten. Quant. Rev.

(b) Effect; end; consequence; as, the prince was flattered to his ruin; he engaged in a war to his cost; violent factions exist to the prejudice of the state. (c) Apposition; connection; antithesis; opposition; as, they engaged hand to hand. Now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. 1 Cor. xiii. 12.

(d) Accord; adaptation; as, an occupation to his taste; she has a husband to her mind. He to God's image, she to his was made. Dryden.

(e) Comparison; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty-seven; it is ten to one that you will offend him. All that they did was piety to this. B. Jonson.

(f) Addition; union; accumulation. Wisdom he has, and to his wisdom, courage. Denham.

(g) Accompaniment; as, she sang to his guitar; they danced to the music of a piano. Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders. Milton.

(h) Character; condition of being; purpose subserved or office filled. [In this sense archaic] "I have a king here to my flatterer." Shak. Made his masters and others . . . to consider him to a little wonder. Walton.

Note: To in to-day, to-night, and to-morrow has the sense or force of for or on; for, or on, (this) day, for, or on, (this) night, for, or on, (the) morrow. To-day, to-night, to-morrow may be considered as compounds, and usually as adverbs; but they are sometimes used as nouns; as, to-day is ours. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow; Creeps in this petty pace from day to day. Shak. To and again, to and fro. [R.] — To and fro, forward and back. In this phrase, to is adverbial. There was great showing both to and fro. Chaucer. — To-and-fro, a pacing backward and forward; as, to commence a to- and-fro. Tennyson. — To the face, in front of; in behind; hence, in the presence of. — To wit, to know; namely. See Wit, v. i.

Note: To, without an object expressed, is used adverbially; as, put to the door, i. e., put the door to its frame, close it; and in the nautical expressions, to heave to, to come to, meaning to a certain position. To, like on, is sometimes used as a command, forward, set to. "To, Achilles! to, Ajax! to!" Shak.

TOAD
Toad, n. Etym: [OE. tode, tade, AS. tadie, tadige; of unknown origin.
Cf. Tadpole.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidæ. Toads are generally terrestrial in their habits except during the breeding season, when they seek the water. Most of the species burrow beneath the earth in the daytime and come forth to feed on insects at night. Most toads have a rough, warty skin in which are glands that secrete an acrid fluid.

Note: The common toad (Bufo vulgaris) and the natterjack are familiar European species. The common American toad (B. lentiginosus) is similar to the European toad, but is less warty and is more active, moving chiefly by leaping. Obstetrical toad. (Zoöl.) See under Obstetrical. — Surinam toad. (Zoöl.) See Pita. — Toad lizard (Zoöl.), a horned toad. — Toad pipe (Bot.), a hollow-stemmed plant (Equisetum limosum) growing in muddy places. Dr. Prior. — Toad rush (Bot.), a low-growing kind of rush (Juncus bufonius). — Toad snatcher (Zoöl.), the reed bunting. [Prov. Eng.] — Toad spittle. (Zoöl.) See Cuckoo spit, under Cuckoo. — Tree toad. (Zoöl.) See under Tree.

TOADEATER Toad"eat`er, n. Etym: [Said to be so called in allusion to an old alleged practice among mountebanks' boys of eating toads (popularly supposed to be poisonous), in order that their masters might have an opportunity of pretending to effect a cure. The French equivalent expression is un avaleur de couleuvres. Cf. Toady.]

Defn: A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer;
a toady. V. Knox.
You had nearly imposed upon me, but you have lost your labor. You're
too zealous a toadeater, and betray yourself. Dickens.

TOADFISH Toad"fish`, n. (Zoöl.) (a) Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus, having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species (Batrachus tau) is very common in shallow water. Called also oyster fish, and sapo. (b) The angler. (c) A swellfish.

TOADFLAX
Toad"flax`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; — called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted.

TOADHEAD
Toad"head`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The golden plover. [Local, U.S.]

TOADISH
Toad"ish, a.

Defn: Like a toad. [Obs.] A. Stafford.

TOADLET
Toad"let, n.

Defn: A small toad. [R.] Coleridge.

TOADSTONE
Toad"stone`, n.

1. (Min.)

Defn: A local name for the igneous rocks of Derbyshire, England; — said by some to be derived from the German todter stein, meaning dead stone, that is, stone which contains no ores.

2. Bufonite, formerly regarded as a precious stone, and worn as a jewel. See Bufonite.

TOADSTOOL
Toad"stool`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.

TOADY
Toad"y, n.; pl. Toadies. Etym: [Shortened from toadeater.]

1. A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant. Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs. Dickens.

2. A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

TOADY
Toad"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toadied; p. pr. & vb. n. Toadying.]

Defn: To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.

TOADYISM
Toad"y*ism, n.

Defn: The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.

TOAST
Toast, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Toasting.] Etym:
[OF. toster to roast, toast, fr. L. torrere, tostum, to parch, roast.
See Torrid.]

1. To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

2. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.

3. To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.

TOAST
Toast, n. Etym: [OF. toste, or tostée, toasted bread. See Toast, v.]

1. Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc. toaster. My sober evening let the tankard bless, With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught. T. Warton.

2. A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; — so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy. It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast . . . who could not refrain from mentioning his dear Sophia. Fielding.

3. Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc. Toast rack, a small rack or stand for a table, having partitions for holding slices of dry toast.

TOASTER
Toast"er, n.

1. One who toasts.

2. A kitchen utensil for toasting bread, cheese, etc. Toaster oven. an electrical toaster.

TOASTING
Toast"ing,

Defn: a. & n. from Toast, v. Toasting fork, a long-handled fork for toasting bread, cheese, or the like, by the fire.

TOASTMASTER
Toast"mas`ter, n.

Defn: A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.

TOAT
Toat, n.

Defn: The handle of a joiner's plane. Knight.

TOBACCO To*bac"co, n. Etym: [Sp. tabaco, fr. the Indian tabaco the tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.

Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco (Nicotiana rustica, and also Lobelia inflata), mountain tobacco (Arnica montana), and Shiraz tobacco (Nicotiana Persica).

2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways. Tobacco box (Zoöl.), the common American skate. — Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine. — Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.] — Tobacco pipe. (a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or other material. (b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian. — Tobacco-pipe clay (Min.), a species of clay used in making tobacco pipes; — called also cimolite. — Tobacco-pipe fish. (Zoöl.) See Pipemouth. — Tobacco stopper, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco in a pipe as it is smoked. — Tobacco worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a large hawk moth (Sphinx, or Phlegethontius, Carolina). It is dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of Hawk moth.

TOBACCONING
To*bac"co*ning, n.

Defn: Smoking tobacco. [Obs.] "Tobacconing is but a smoky play."
[Obs.] Sylvester.

TOBACCONIST
To*bac"co*nist, n.

1. A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.

2. A smoker of tobacco. [Obs.] Sylvester.

TO-BEAT
To-beat", v. t. Etym: [Pref. to- + beat.]

Defn: To beat thoroughly or severely. [Obs.] Layamon.

TOBIAS FISH To*bi"as fish`. Etym: [See the Note under Asmodeus, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The lant, or sand eel.

TOBIE
To"bie, n. [Cf. Toby.]

Defn: A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end. [Local, U. S.]

TOBINE
To"bine, n. Etym: [Cf. G. tobin, D. tabijn. See Tabby.]

Defn: A stout twilled silk used for dresses.

TOBIT
To"bit, n.

Defn: A book of the Apocrypha.

TOBOGGAN
To*bog"gan, n. Etym: [Corruption of American Indian odabagan a sled.]

Defn: A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow. [Written also tobogan, and tarbogan.]

TOBOGGAN
To*bog"gan, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tobogganed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tobogganing.]

Defn: To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
Barilett.

TOBOGGANER; TOBOGGANIST
To*bog"gan*er, To*bog"gan*ist, n.

Defn: One who practices tobogganing.

TO-BREAK
To-break", v. t. Etym: [Pref. to- + break.]

Defn: To break completely; to break in pieces. [Obs.]
With nose and mouth to-broke. Chaucer.

TO-BREST
To-brest", v. t. Etym: [Pref. to- + brest.]

Defn: To burst or break in pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOBY
To"by, n.; pl. -bies (#). [Perh. from the proper name.]

Defn: A small jug, pitcher, or mug, generally used for ale, shaped somewhat like a stout man, with a cocked hat forming the brim.

TOCCATA
Toc*ca"ta, n. Etym: [It., fr. toccare to touch. See Touch.] (Mus.)

Defn: An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio.

TOCCATELLA; TOCCATINA
Toc`ca*tel"la, Toc`ca*ti"na, n. [It.] (Music)

Defn: A short or simple toccata.

TOCHER
Toch"er, n. Etym: [Gael. tochradh.]

Defn: Dowry brought by a bride to her husband. [Scot.] Burns.

TOCKAY
Tock"ay, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A spotted lizard native of India.

TOCO
To"co, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A toucan (Ramphastos toco) having a very large beak. See
Illust. under Toucan.

TOCOLOGY
To*col"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.]

Defn: The science of obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition. [Written also tokology.]

TOCORORO
To*co*ro"ro, n. Etym: [Probably from the native name through the
Spanish: cf. Sp. tocororo.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end.

TOCSIN Toc"sin, n. Etym: [F., fr. OF. toquier to touch, F. toquer (originally, a dialectic form of F. toucher) + seint (for sein) a bell, LL. signum, fr. L. signum a sign, signal. See Touch, and Sign.]

Defn: An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of
alarm.
The loud tocsin tolled their last alarm. Campbell.

TOD Tod (tôd), n. Etym: [Akin to D. todde a rag, G. zotte shag, rag, a tuft of hair, Icel. toddi a piece of a thing, a tod of wool.]

1. A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. [R.] "An ivy todde." Spenser. The ivy tod is heavy with snow. Coleridge.

2. An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.

3. A fox; — probably so named from its bushy tail. The wolf, the tod, the brock. B. Jonson. Tod stove, a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc. [U.S.] Knight.

TOD
Tod, v. t. & i.

Defn: To weigh; to yield in tods. [Obs.]

TO-DAY
To-day", adv. Etym: [AS. to dæg. See To, prep., and Day.]

Defn: On this day; on the present day.
Worcester's horse came but to-day. Shak.

TO-DAY
To-day", n.

Defn: The present day. today.
On to-day Is worth for me a thousand yesterdays. Longfellow.

TODDLE
Tod"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Toddling.]
Etym: [Akin to tottle, totter.]

Defn: To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.

TODDLE
Tod"dle, n.

Defn: A toddling walk. Trollope.

TODDLER
Tod"dler, n.

Defn: One who toddles; especially, a young child. Mrs. Gaskell.

TODDY Tod"dy, n. Etym: [Formed from Hind. ta the juice of the palmyra tree, popularly, toddy, fr. ta the palmyra tree, Skr. tala.]

1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.

2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened.

Note: Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and is being made hot and sweetened. Toddy bird (Zoöl.), a weaver bird of the East Indies and India: — so called from its fondness for the juice of the palm. — Toddy cat (Zoöl.), the common paradoxure; the palm cat.

TO-DO
To-do", n. Etym: [To + do. Cf. Ado.]

Defn: Bustle; stir; commotion; ado. [Colloq.]

TODY
To"dy, n.; pl. Todies. Etym: [Cf. NL. todus, F. todier, G. todvogel.]
(Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.

TOE Toe, n. Etym: [OE. too, taa, AS. ta; akin to D. teen, G. zehe, OHG. zeha, Icel. ta, Sw. tå, Dan. taa; of uncertain origin. *60.]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal. "Each one, tripping on his toe." Shak.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal.

3. Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate.

4. (Mach.) (a) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step. (b) A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved. (c) A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece. Toe biter (Zoöl.), a tadpole; a polliwig. — Toe drop (Med.), a morbid condition of the foot in which the toe is depressed and the heel elevated, as in talipes equinus. See Talipes.

TOE
Toe, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toed; p. pr. & vb. n. Toeing.]

Defn: To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark.

TOE
Toe, v. i.

Defn: To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way). To toe in, to stand or carry the feet in such a way that the toes of either foot incline toward the other. — To toe out, to have the toes of each foot, in standing or walking, incline from the other foot. toe in, to align the front wheels so that they point slightly toward each other.

TOED
Toed, a.

1. Having (such or so many) toes; — chiefly used in composition; as, narrow-toed, four-toed.

2. (Carp.)

Defn: Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.

TOE DROP
Toe drop. (Med.)

Defn: A morbid condition of the foot in which the toe is depressed and the heel elevated.

TOE HOLD
Toe hold. (Wrestling)

Defn: A hold in which the agressor bends back his opponent's foot.

TO-FALL
To-fall", n. (Arch.)

Defn: A lean-to. See Lean-to.

TOFF
Toff, n. [Etym. uncertain.]

Defn: A fop; a beau; a swell. [Slang, Eng.] Kipling.

TOFFEE; TOFFY
Tof"fee, Tof"fy, n.

Defn: Taffy. [Eng.]

TOFORE; TOFORN
To*fore", To*forn", prep. & adv. Etym: [AS. toforan. See To, prep.,
Fore.]

Defn: Before. [Obs.]
Toforn him goeth the loud minstrelsy. Chaucer.
Would thou wert as thou tofore hast been! Shak.

TOFT Toft, n. Etym: [OE. toft a knoll; akin to LG. toft a field hedged in, not far from a house, Icel. topt a green knoll, grassy place, place marked out for a house, Dan. toft.]

1. A knoll or hill. [Obs.] "A tower on a toft." Piers Plowman.

2. A grove of trees; also, a plain. [Prov. Eng.]

3. (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.

TOFTMAN
Toft"man, n.; pl. Toftmen (.

Defn: The owner of a toft. See Toft, 3.

TOFUS
To"fus, n. Etym: [L., tufa.]

1. Tophus.

2. (Min.)

Defn: Tufa. See under Tufa, and Toph.

TOG
Tog, v. t. & i.

Defn: To put toggery, or togs, on; to dress; — usually with out, implying care, elaborateness, or the like. [Colloq. or Slang] Harper's Weekly.

TOGA
To"ga, n.; pl. E. Togas, L. Togæ. Etym: [L., akin to tegere to cover.
See Thatch.] (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga prætexta. Toga prætexta. Etym: [L.], a toga with a broad purple border, worn by children of both sexes, by magistrates, and by persons engaged in sacred rites. — Toga virilis Etym: [L.], the manly gown; the common toga. This was assumed by Roman boys about the time of completing their fourteenth year.

TOGATED
To"ga*ted, a. Etym: [L. togatus, from toga a toga.]

Defn: Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned. [R.] Sir M.
Sandys.

TOGED
To"ged, a.

Defn: Togated. [Obs. or R.] Shak.

TOGETHER
To*geth"er, adv. Etym: [OE. togedere, togidere, AS. togædere,
togædre, togadere; to to + gador together. *29. See To, prep., and
Gather.]

1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can never stand idle long together. Landor.

2. In or into union; into junction; as, to sew, knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together. The king joined humanity and policy together. Bacon.

3. In concert; with mutual coöperation; as, the allies made war upon
France together. Together with, in union with; in company or mixture
with; along with.
Take the bad together with the good. Dryden.

TOGGERY
Tog"ger*y, n. Etym: [Cf. Togated.]

Defn: Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery. [Colloq.] togs

TOGGLE
Tog"gle, n. Etym: [Cf. Tug.] [Written also toggel.]

1. (Naut.)

Defn: A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.

2. (Mach.)

Defn: Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint. Toggle iron, a harpoon with a pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned. — Toggle joint, an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure, when any force is applied to bring them into this position.

TOGHT
Toght, a.

Defn: Taut. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOGIDER; TOGIDRES
To*gid"er, To*gid"res, adv.

Defn: Together. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOGS
Togs, n. pl. [See Toggery.]

Defn: Clothes; garments; toggery. [Colloq. or Slang]

TOGUE
Togue, n. Etym: [From the American Indian name.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The namaycush.

TOHEW
To*hew", v. t. Etym: [Pref. to- + hew.]

Defn: To hew in pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOHUBOHU To"hu*bo"hu (to"hoo-bo"hoo), n. [F. tohu-bohu, fr. Heb. tohu wa bohu without form and void (Gen. i. 2).]

Defn: Chaos; confusion.

Was ever such a tohubohu of people as there assembles
Thuckeray.

TOIL
Toil, n. Etym: [F. toiles, pl., toils, nets, fr. toile cloth, canvas,
spider web, fr. L. tela any woven stuff, a web, fr. texere to weave.
See Text, and cf. Toilet.]

Defn: A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking
prey; — usually in the plural.
As a Numidian lion, when first caught, Endures the toil that holds
him. Denham.
Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found. Dryden.

TOIL Toil, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Toiling.] Etym: [OE. toilen to pull about, to toil; of uncertain origin; cf. OD. teulen, tuylen, to labor, till, or OF. tooillier, toailler, to wash, rub (cf. Towel); or perhaps ultimately from the same root as E. tug.]

Defn: To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.

TOIL
Toil, v. t.

1. To weary; to overlabor. [Obs.] "Toiled with works of war." Shak.

2. To labor; to work; — often with out. [R.] Places well toiled and husbanded. Holland. [I] toiled out my uncouth passage. Milton.

TOIL
Toil, n. Etym: [OE. toil turmoil, struggle; cf. OD. tuyl labor, work.
See Toil, v.]

Defn: Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or
mind, esp. the body.
My task of servile toil. Milton.
After such bloody toil, we bid good night. Shak.

Note: Toil is used in the formation of compounds which are generally of obvious signification; as, toil-strung, toil-wasted, toil-worn, and the like.

Syn. — Labor; drudgery; work; exertion; occupation; employment; task; travail. — Toil, Labor, Drudgery. Labor implies strenuous exertion, but not necessary such as overtasks the faculties; toil denotes a severity of labor which is painful and exhausting; drudgery implies mean and degrading work, or, at least, work which wearies or disgusts from its minuteness or dull uniformity. You do not know the heavy grievances, The toils, the labors, weary drudgeries, Which they impose. Southern. How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play. Goldsmith.

TOILER
Toil"er, n.

Defn: One who toils, or labors painfully.

TOILET
Toi"let, n. Etym: [F. toilette, dim. of toile cloth. See Toil a net.]

1. A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.

2. A dressing table. Pope.

3. Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect. [Written also toilette.] Toilet glass, a looking-glass for a toilet table or for a dressing room. — Toilet service, Toilet set, earthenware, glass, and other utensils for a dressing room. — Toilet table, a dressing table; a toilet. See def. 2 above. — To snake one's toilet, to dress one's self; especially, to dress one's self carefully.

TOILETTE
Toi*lette", n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: See Toilet, 3.

TOILFUL
Toil"ful, a.

Defn: Producing or involving much toil; laborious; toilsome; as, toilful care. Mickle.

TOILINETTE
Toi`li*nette", n. Etym: [F. toilinet. See Toil a net.]

Defn: A cloth, the weft of which is of woolen yarn, and the warp of cotton and silk, — used for w

TOILLESS
Toil"less, a.

Defn: Free from toil.

TOILSOME
Toil"some, a.

Defn: Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome;
as, toilsome work.
What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks Milton.
— Toil"some*ly, adv.
— Toil"some*ness, n.

TOISE Toise, n. Etym: [F., fr. LL. tesa, fr. L. tensus, fem. tensa, p.p. of tendere to stretch, extend. See Tense, a.]

Defn: An old measure of length in France, containing six French feet, or about 6.3946 French feet.

TOISON
Toi`son" (twa`zôn"), n. [F.]

Defn: A sheep's fleece.

TOISON D'OR
Toi`son" d'or" (dor"). [F.]

Defn: Lit., the golden fleece; specif., the order of the Golden
Fleece, or its jewel.

TOKAY
To*kay", n. Etym: [Named fr. Tokay in Hungary.]

1. (Bot.)

Defn: A grape of an oval shape and whitish color.

2. A rich Hungarian wine made from Tokay grapes.

TOKEN
To"ken, n. Etym: [OE. token, taken, AS. tacen; akin to OFries. teken,
OS. tekan, D. teeken, G. zeichen, OHG. Zeihhan, Icel. takan, teiken,
Sw. tecken, Dan. tegn, Goth. taikns sign, token, gateihan to tell,
show, AS. teón to accuse, G. zeihen, OHG. zihan, G. zeigen to show,
OHG. zeigon, Icel. tja, L. dicere to say, Gr. di. Cf. Diction,
Teach.]

1. Something intended or supposed to represent or indicate another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant established with Noah.

2. A memorial of friendship; something by which the friendship of another person is to be kept in mind; a memento; a souvenir. This is some token from a never friend. Shak.

3. Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith, etc. Say, by this token, I desire his company. Shak.

4. A piece of metal intended for currency, and issued by a private party, usually bearing the name of the issuer, and redeemable in lawful money. Also, a coin issued by government, esp. when its use as lawful money is limited and its intrinsic value is much below its nominal value.

Note: It is now made unlawful for private persons to issue tokens.

5. (Med.)

Defn: A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death. [Obs.] Like the fearful tokens of the plague, Are mere forerunners of their ends. Beau. & Fl.

6. (Print.)

Defn: Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.

7. (Ch. of Scot.)

Defn: A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.

8. (Mining)

Defn: A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn. Token money, money which is lawfully current for more than its real value. See Token, n., 4. — Token sheet (Print.), the last sheet of each token. W. Savage.

TOKEN
To"ken, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tokened; p. pr. & vb. n. Tokening.] Etym:
[AS. tacnian, fr. tacen token. See Token, n.]

Defn: To betoken. [Obs.] Shak.

TOKENED
To"kened, a.

Defn: Marked by tokens, or spots; as, the tokened pestilence. [Obs.]
Shak.

TOKENLESS
To"ken*less, a.

Defn: Without a token.

TOKIN
Tok"in, n.

Defn: A tocsin. [Obs.] Halliwell.

TOL
Tol, v. t. (Law)

Defn: To take away. See Toll.

TOLA
To"la, n. Etym: [Hind., from Skr. tula a balance.]

Defn: A weight of British India. The standard tola is equal to 180 grains.

TOLANE
To*lane", n. Etym: [From Toluene.] (Chem.)

Defn: A hydrocarbon, C14H10, related both to the acetylene and the aromatic series, and produced artificially as a white crystalline substance; — called also diphenyl acetylene.

TOLBOOTH
Tol"booth`, n.

Defn: See Tollbooth.

TOLD
Told,

Defn: imp. & p. p. of Tell.

TOLE Tole, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toled; p. pr. & vb. n. Toling.] Etym: [OE. tollen to draw, to entice; of uncertain origin. Cf. Toll to ring a bell.]

Defn: To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait. [Written also toll.] Whatever you observe him to be more frighted at then he should, tole him on to by insensible degrees, till at last he masters the difficulty.

TOLEDO
To*le"do, n.

Defn: A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.

TOLERABILITY
Tol`er*a*bil"i*ty, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being tolerable. [R.] Fuller.
Wordsworth.

TOLERABLE
Tol"er*a*ble, a. Etym: [L. tolerabilis: cf. F. tolérable. See
Tolerate.]

1. Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally. As may affect tionearth with cold and heat Scarce tolerable. Milton.

2. Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust, resentment, or opposition; passable; as, a tolerable administration; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable translation. Dryden. — Tol"er*a*ble*ness, n. — Tol"er*a*bly, adv.

TOLERANCE
Tol"er*ance, n. Etym: [L. tolerantia: cf. F. tolérance.]

1. The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance. Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market place,shaking, to show his tolerance. Bacon.

2. The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration.

3. (Med.)

Defn: The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal. Tolerance of the mint. (Coinage) Same as Remedy of the mint. See under Remedy.

TOLERANT
Tol"er*ant, a. Etym: [L. tolerans, p.pr. of tolerare to tolerate: cf.
F. tolérant. See Tolerate.]

Defn: Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; ingulgent.

TOLERATE Tol"er*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tolerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Tolerating.] Etym: [L. toleratus, p.p. of tolerare, fr. the same root as tollere to lift up, tuli, used as perfect of ferre to bear, latus (for tlatus), used as p.p. of ferre to bear, and E. thole. See Thole, and cf. Atlas, Collation, Delay, Elate, Extol, Legislate, Oblate, Prelate, Relate, Superlative, Talent, Toll to take away, Translate.]

Defn: To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices. Crying should not be tolerated in children. Locke. We tolerate them because property and liberty, to a degree, require that toleration. Burke.

Syn.
— See Permit.

TOLERATION
Tol`er*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. toleratio: cf. OF. toleration.]

1. The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.

2. Specifically, the allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state when contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief.

3. Hence, freedom from bigotry and severity in judgment of the opinions or belief of others, especially in respect to religious matters.

TOLL
Toll, v. t. Etym: [L. tollere. See Tolerate.] (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: To take away; to vacate; to annul.

TOLL
Toll, v. t. Etym: [See Tole.]

1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.

2. Etym: [Probably the same word as toll to draw, and at first meaning, to ring in order to draw people to church.]

Defn: To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell. "The sexton tolled the bell." Hood.

3. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. Shak. Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour. Beattie.

4. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing. When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells. Dryden.

TOLL
Toll, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tolling.]

Defn: To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at
intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce
the death of a person.
The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. Shak.
Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. Pope.

TOLL
Toll, n.

Defn: The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

TOLL
Toll, n. Etym: [OE. tol, AS. toll; akin to OS. & D. tol, G. zoll,
OHG. zol, Icel. tollr, Sw. tull, Dan. told, and also to E. tale; —
originally, that which is counted out in payment. See Tale number.]

1. A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.

2. (Sax. & O. Eng. Law)

Defn: A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for
grinding. Toll and team (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a
market, and jurisdiction of villeins. Burrill.
— Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the
tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers.
— Toll bridge, a bridge where toll is paid for passing over it.
— Toll corn, corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill.
— Toll dish, a dish for measuring toll in mills.
— Toll gatherer, a man who takes, or gathers, toll.
— Toll hop, a toll dish. [Obs.] Crabb.
— Toll thorough (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts driven
through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost. Brande
& C.
— Toll traverse (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for beasts
driven across his ground; toll paid by a person for passing over the
private ground, bridge, ferry, or the like, of another.
— Toll turn (Eng. Law), a toll paid at the return of beasts from
market, though they were not sold. Burrill.

Syn.
— Tax; custom; duty; impost.

TOLL
Toll, v. i.

1. To pay toll or tallage. [R.] Shak.

2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [R.] Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll thrice. Chaucer. No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. Shak.

TOLL
Toll, v. t.

Defn: To collect, as a toll. Shak.

TOLLABLE
Toll"a*ble, a.

Defn: Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods. Wright.

TOLLAGE
Toll"age, n.

Defn: Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll.
Drayton.

TOLLBOOTH Toll"booth`, n. Etym: [Toll a tax + booth.] Etym: [Written also tolbooth.]

1. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [Obs.] He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. Wyclif (Mark ii. 14).

2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail. Sir W. Scott.

TOLLBOOTH
Toll"booth`, v. t.

Defn: To imprison in a tollbooth. [R.]
That they might tollbooth Oxford men. Bp. Corbet.

TOLLER
Toll"er, n. Etym: [AS. tollere.]

Defn: A toll gatherer. "Tollers in markets." Piers Plowman.

TOLLER
Toll"er, n.

Defn: One who tolls a bell.

TOLLETANE
Tol"le*tane, a. Etym: [L. Toletanus.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to Toledo in Spain; made in Toledo. [Obs.]
"Tables Tolletanes." Chaucer.

TOLLGATE
Toll"gate`, n.

Defn: A gate where toll is taken.

TOLLHOUSE
Toll"house`, n.; pl. Tollhouses (.

Defn: A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.

TOLLMAN
Toll"man, n.; pl. Tollmen (.

Defn: One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer. Cowper.

TOLMEN
Tol"men, n.

Defn: See Dolmen.

TOLSESTER
Tol"ses*ter, n. Etym: [LL. tolsestrum. Cf. Toll a tax.] (O. Eng. Law)

Defn: A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale. Cowell.

TOLSEY
Tol"sey, n.

Defn: A tollbooth; also, a merchants' meeting place, or exchange.
[Obs.] Halliwell.

TOLSTOYAN; TOLSTOIAN
Tol*stoy"an, Tol*stoi"an, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Tolstoy (1828-1910). — n.

Defn: A follower of Tolstoy, who advocates and practices manual labor, simplicity of living, nonresistance, etc., holds that possession of wealth and ownership of property are sinful, and in religion rejects all teachings not coming from Christ himself.

TOLT
Tolt, n. Etym: [LL. tolta, fr. L. tollere to take away.] (O. Eng.
Law)

Defn: A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court. Cowell.

TOLTEC
Tol"tec, n. (Ethnol.)

Defn: One of a race which formerly occupied Mexico.
— Tol"te*can, a.

TOLU
To*lu", n.

Defn: A fragrant balsam said to have been first brought from Santiago de Tolu, in New Granada. See Balsam of Tolu, under Balsam. Tolu tree (Bot.), a large tree (Myroxylon toluiferum), the wood of which is red in the center, and has an aromatic rose odor. It affords the balsam called tolu.

TOLUATE
Tol"u*ate, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A salt of any one of the toluic acids.

TOLUENE
Tol"u*ene, n. Etym: [Tolu + benzene.] (Chem.)

Defn: A hydrocarbon, C6H5.CH3, of the aromatic series, homologous with benzene, and obtained as a light mobile colorless liquid, by distilling tolu balsam, coal tar, etc.; — called also methyl benzene, phenyl methane, etc.

TOLUENYL
Tol`u*e"nyl, n. Etym: [Toluene + -yl.] (Chem.)

Defn: Tolyl. [Obs.]

TOLUIC
To*lu"ic, a. (Chem.)

Defn: Pertaining to, or designating, one of three metameric acids, CH3.C6H4.CO2H, which are related to toluene and analogous to benzoic acids. They are white crystalline substances, and are called respectively orthotoluic acid, metatoluic acid, and paratoluic acid.

TOLUID
Tol"u*id, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A complex double tolyl and toluidine derivative of glycocoll, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

TOLUIDINE
To*lu"i*dine, n. (Chem.)

Defn: Any one of three metameric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline, and called respectively orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Note: It is used in the aniline dye industry, and constitutes the essential nucleus or radical of those dyes.

TOLUOL; TOLUOLE
Tol"u*ol, Tol"u*ole n. Etym: [Tolu + benzol.] (Chem.)

Defn: Same as Toluene.

TOLURIC
To*lu"ric, a. Etym: [Toluic + uric.] (Chem.)

Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of three isomeric crystalline acids, C9H10ON.CO2H, which are toluyl derivatives of glycocoll.

TOLUTATION Tol`u*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. tolutim on a trot, properly, lifting up the feet, akin to tollere to lift up.]

Defn: A pacing or ambling. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

TOLUYL
Tol"u*yl, n. Etym: [Toluic + -yl.] (Chem.)

Defn: Any one of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids.

TOLUYLENE Tol"u*yl*ene, n. (Chem.) (a) Same as Stilbene. (b) Sometimes, but less properly, tolylene.

TOLYL
Tol"yl, n. Etym: [Toluic + -yl.] (Chem.)

Defn: The hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C6H4, regarded as characteristic of certain compounds of the aromatic series related to toluene; as, tolyl carbinol.

TOLYLENE
Tol"yl*ene, n. (Chem.)

Defn: A hydrocarbon radical, C6H4.(CH2)2, regarded as characteristic of certain toluene derivatives.

TOLYPEUTINE
Tol`y*peu"tine, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The apar.

TOM
Tom, n.

Defn: The knave of trumps at gleek. [Obs.]

TOMAHAWK Tom"a*hawk, n. Etym: [Of American Indian origin; cf. Algonkin tomehagen, Mohegan tumnahegan, Delaware tamoihecan.]

Defn: A kind of war hatchet used by the American Indians. It was originally made of stone, but afterwards of iron.

TOMAHAWK
Tom"a*hawk, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tomahawked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tomahawking.]

Defn: To cut, strike, or kill, with a tomahawk.

TOMALEY
Tom"a`ley, n.

Defn: The liver of the lobster, which becomes green when boiled; — called also tomalline.

TOMAN To*man", n. Etym: [Per. toman; from a Mongol word signifying, ten thousand.]

Defn: A money of account in Persia, whose value varies greatly at different times and places. Its average value may be reckoned at about two and a half dollars.

TOM AND JERRY
Tom and Jerry.

Defn: A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, etc., and beaten up with eggs.

TOMATO
To*ma"to, n.; pl. Tomatoes. Etym: [Sp. or Pg. tomate, of American
Indian origin; cf. Mexican tomail.] (Bot.)

Defn: The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family (Lycopersicum esculentun); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is called also love apple, is usually of a rounded, flattened form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked. Tomato gall (Zoöl.), a large gall consisting of a mass of irregular swellings on the stems and leaves of grapevines. They are yellowish green, somewhat tinged with red, and produced by the larva of a small two-winged fly (Lasioptera vitis). — Tomato sphinx (Zoöl.), the adult or imago of the tomato worm. It closely resembles the tobacco hawk moth. Called also tomato hawk moth. See Illust. of Hawk moth. — Tomato worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a large hawk moth (Sphinx, or Macrosila, quinquemaculata) which feeds upon the leaves of the tomato and potato plants, often doing considerable damage. Called also potato worm.

TOMB Tomb, n. Etym: [OE. tombe, toumbe, F. tombe, LL. tumba, fr. Gr. tumulus a mound. Cf. Tumulus.]

1. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher. As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Shak.

2. A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead. "In tomb of marble stones." Chaucer.

3. A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead. Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. Shak. Tomb bat (Zoöl.), any one of species of Old World bats of the genus Taphozous which inhabit tombs, especially the Egyptian species (T. perforatus).

TOMB
Tomb,, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tombed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tombing.]

Defn: To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.
I tombed my brother that I might be blessed. Chapman.

TOMBAC Tom"bac, n. Etym: [Pg. tambaca,tambaque, fr. Malay tambaga copper; cf. Skr. tamraka; cf. F. tombac.] (Metal.)

Defn: An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; — called also German, or Dutch, brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac. [Written also tombak, and tambac.]

TOM ' BEDLAM
Tom o' Bed"lam.

Defn: Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospitel, Eng.; hence, a wandering mendicant, either mad or feigning to be so; a madman; a bedlamite.

TOMBESTER
Tom"bes*ter, n. Etym: [See Tumble, and -ster.]

Defn: A female dancer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOMBLESS
Tomb"less, a.

Defn: Destitute of a tomb.

TOMBOY
Tom"boy`, n. Etym: [Tom (for Thomas, L. Thomas, fr. Gr. boy.]

Defn: A romping girl; a hoiden. [Colloq.] J. Fletcher.

TOMBSTONE
Tomb"stone`, n.

Defn: A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.

TOMCAT
Tom"cat`, n. Etym: [Tom (see Tomboy) + cat.]

Defn: A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.

TOMCOD Tom"cod`, n. Etym: [Tom (see Tomboy) + cod: cf. F. tacaud whiting pout, American Indian tacaud, literally, plenty fish.] (Zoöl.) (a) A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States; — called also frostfish. See Illust. under Frostfish. (b) The kingfish. See Kingfish (a). (c) The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c).

TOME Tome, n. Etym: [F. tome (cf. It., Sp., & Pg. tomo), L. tomus, fr. Gr. tondere to shear, E. tonsure. Cf. Anatomy, Atom, Entomology, Epitome. ]

Defn: As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; — usually applied to a ponderous volume. Tomes of fable and of dream. Cowper. A more childish expedient than that to which he now resorted is not to be found in all the tomes of the casuists. Macaulay.

TOMELET
Tome"let, n.

Defn: All small tome, or volume. [R.]

TOMENTOSE To"men*tose`, a. Etym: [L. tomentum a stuffing of wool, hair, or feathers: cf. F. tomenteux.] (Bot. & Zoöl.)

Defn: Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.

TOMENTOUS
To*men"tous, a.

Defn: Tomentose.

TOMENTUM
To*men"tum, n.; pl. Tomenta. Etym: [L. See Tomentose. ] (Bot.)

Defn: The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.

TOMFOOL
Tom"fool`, n. Etym: [Tom (see Tomboy) + fool.]

Defn: A great fool; a trifler.

TOMFOOLERY
Tom`fool"er*y, n.

Defn: Folly; trifling.

TOMIUM
To"mi*um, n.; pl. Tomia Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The cutting edge of the bill of a bird.

TOMJOHN
Tom"john`, n. Etym: [Probably of East Indian origin.]

Defn: A kind of open sedan used in Ceylon, carried by a single pole on men's shoulders.

TOMMY
Tom"my, n.

1. Bread, — generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance. [Slang,Eng.]

2. A truck, or barter; the exchange of labor for goods, not money. [Slang, Eng.]

Note: Tommy is used adjectively or in compounds; as, tommy master, tommy-store,tommy-shop,etc.

TOMMY ATKINS
Tom"my At"kins.

Defn: Any white regular soldier of the British army; also, such soldiers collectively; — said to be fictitious name inserted in the models given to soldiers to guide them in filling out account blanks, etc.

TOMNODDY
Tom"nod`dy, n. Etym: [Tom (see Tomboy) + noddy.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A sea bird, the puffin. [Prov.Eng.]

2. A fool; a dunce; a noddy.

TOMOPTERIS
To*mop"te*ris, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa.

TOMORN
To*morn", adv. Etym: [Prep. to + morn.]

Defn: To-morrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOMORROW
To*mor"row, adv. Etym: [Prep. to + morrow.]

Defn: On the day after the present day; on the next day; on the
morrow.
Summon him to-morrow to the Tower. Shak.

TOMORROW
To*mor"row, n.

Defn: The day after the present; the morrow."To-morrow is our wedding
day." Cowper.
One today is worth two to-morrows. Franklin.

TOMPION
Tom"pi*on, n. Etym: [See Tampios]

1. A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.

2. (Mus.)

Defn: A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone.
Knight.

3. The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.

TOMPON
Tom"pon, n. Etym: [F. tampon. See Tampion.]

Defn: An inking pad used in lithographic printing.

TOMRIG
Tom"rig`, n. Etym: [Tom (see Tomboy) + rig.)]

Defn: A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy. Dennis.

TOMTATE
Tom"tate, n.

Defn: A Florida and West Indian grunt (Bathystoma, or Hæmulon, rimator); also, any of various allied species.

TOMTIT Tom"tit`, n. Etym: [Tom (see Tomboy) + tit the bird.] (Zoöl.) (a) A titmouse, esp. the blue titmouse. [Prov.eng.] (b) The wren. [Prov.eng.]

TOM-TOM
Tom"-tom`, n.

Defn: See Tam-tam.

TON
Ton, obs.

Defn: pl. of Toe. Chaucer.

TON
Ton, n. Etym: [Cf. Tunny.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The common tunny, or house mackerel.

TON
Ton, n. Etym: [F. See Tone.]

Defn: The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
Byron.
If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are
selfish. Thackeray.
Bon ton. See in the Vocabulary.

TON Ton, n. Etym: [OE. tonne, tunne, a tun, AS. tunne a tun, tub, a large vessel; akin to G. & F. tonne a ton, tun, LL. tunna a tun; all perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. tunna a tun. Cf. Tun,Tunnel.] (Com.)

Defn: A measure of weight or quantity. Specifically: — (a) The weight of twenty hundredweight.

Note: In England, the ton is 2,240 pounds. In the United States the ton is commonly estimated at 2,000 pounds, this being sometimes called the short ton, while that of 2,240 pounds is called the long ton. (b) (Naut. & Com.) Forty cubic feet of space, being the unit of measurement of the burden, or carrying capacity, of a vessel; as a vessel of 300 tons burden. See the Note under Tonnage. (c) (Naut. & Com.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc.

Note: Ton and tun have the same etymology, and were formerly used interchangeably; but now ton generally designates the weight, and tun the cask. See Tun.

TONALITY
To*nal"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tonalité.] (Mus.)

Defn: The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole. The predominance of the tonic as the link which connects all the tones of a piece, we may, with Fétis, term the principle of tonality. Helmholtz.

TO-NAME
To"-name`, n. Etym: [prep. to + name.]

Defn: A name added, for the sake of distinction, to one's surname, or used instead of it. [Scot.] Jamieson.

TONCA BEAN
Ton"ca bean`. (Bot.)

Defn: See Tonka bean.

TONE
Tone, n. Etym: [F. ton, L. tonus a sound, tone, fr. Gr. Thin, and cf.
Monotonous, Thunder, Ton fasion,Tune.]

1. Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone. [Harmony divine] smooths her charming tones. Milton. Tones that with seraph hymns might blend. Keble.

2. (Rhet.)

Defn: Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion. Eager his tone, and ardent were his eyes. Dryden.

3. A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.

4. (Mus.) (a) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones. (b) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone. (c) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone. (d) A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.

Note: The use of the word tone, both for a sound and for the interval between two sounds or tones, is confusing, but is common — almost universal.

Note: Nearly every musical sound is composite, consisting of several simultaneous tones having different rates of vibration according to fixed laws, which depend upon the nature of the vibrating body and the mode of excitation. The components (of a composite sound) are called partial tones; that one having the lowest rate of vibration is the fundamental tone, and the other partial tones are called harmonics, or overtones. The vibration ratios of the partial tones composing any sound are expressed by all, or by a part, of the numbers in the series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.; and the quality of any sound (the tone color) is due in part to the presence or absence of overtones as represented in this series, and in part to the greater or less intensity of those present as compared with the fundamental tone and with one another. Resultant tones, combination tones, summation tones, difference tones, Tartini's tones (terms only in part synonymous) are produced by the simultaneous sounding of two or more primary (simple or composite) tones.

5. (Med.)

Defn: That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

Note: In this sense, the word is metaphorically applied to character or faculties, intellectual and moral; as, his mind has lost its tone.

6. (Physiol.)

Defn: Tonicity; as, arterial tone.

7. State of mind; temper; mood. The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, . . . drag the mind down . . . from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business. Bolingbroke. Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing. W. C. Bryant.

8. Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.

9. General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.

10. The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; — commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone. Tone color. (Mus.) see the Note under def. 4, above. — Tone syllable, an accented syllable. M. Stuart.

TONE
Tone, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toned; p. pr. & vb. n. Toning.]

1. To utter with an affected tone.

2. To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.

3. (Photog.)

Defn: To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment. To tone down. (a) To cause to give lower tone or sound; to give a lower tone to. (b) (Paint.) To modify, as color, by making it less brilliant or less crude; to modify, as a composition of color, by making it more harmonius. Its thousand hues toned down harmoniusly. C. Kingsley. (c) Fig.: To moderate or relax; to diminish or weaken the striking characteristics of; to soften. The best method for the purpose in hand was to employ some one of a character and position suited to get possession of their confidence, and then use it to tone down their religious strictures. Palfrey. — To tone up, to cause to give a higher tone or sound; to give a higher tone to; to make more intense; to heighten; to strengthen.

TONED
Toned, a.

Defn: Having (such) a tone; — chiefly used in composition; as, high- toned; sweet-toned. Toned paper, paper having a slight tint, in distinction from paper which is quite white.

TONELESS
Tone"less, a.

Defn: Having no tone; unmusical.

TONG; TONGE
Tong, Tonge, n.

Defn: Tongue. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TONGA
Ton"ga, n. (Med.)

Defn: A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

TONGKANG
Tong"kang, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A kind of boat or junk used in the seas of the Malay
Archipelago.

TONGO
Ton"go, n.

Defn: The mangrove; — so called in the Pacific Islands.

TONGS Tongs, n. pl. Etym: [OE. tonge, tange, AS. tange; akin to D. tang, G. zanga, OHG. zanga, Don. tang, Sw. tng, Icel. tng, Gr. dadaTang a strong taste, anything projecting.]

Defn: An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; — often called a pair of tongs.

TONGUE
Tongue, n. Etym: [OE. tunge, tonge, AS. tunge; akin to OFries. tunge,
D. tong, OS. tunga, G. zunge, OHG. zunga, Icel. & Sw. tunga, Dan
tunge, Goth. tugdingua, L. lingua. Language, Lingo. ]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

Note: The tongue is usually muscular, mobile, and free at one extremity, and in man other mammals is the principal organ of taste, aids in the prehension of food, in swallowing, and in modifying the voice as in speech. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. Chaucer.

2. The power of articulate utterance; speech. Parrots imitating human tongue. Dryden.

3. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. L. Estrange.

4. Honorable discourse; eulogy. [Obs.] She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor. Beau. & Fl.

5. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue. Chaucer. Whose tongue thou shalt not understand. Deut. xxviii. 49. To speak all tongues. Milton.

6. Speech; words or declarations only; — opposed to thoughts or actions. My little children, let us love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 1 John iii. 18.

7. A people having a distinct language. A will gather all nations and tongues. Isa. lxvi. 18.

8. (Zoöl.) (a) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk. (b) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly. (c) The lingua of an insect.

9. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any small sole.

10. That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form. Specifically: — (a) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.

(b) A projection on the side, as of a board, which fits into a groove. (c) A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake. (d) The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked. (e) The clapper of a bell. (f) (Naut.) A sort piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces. (g) (Mus.) Same as Reed, n., 5. To hold the tongue, to be silent. — Tongue bone (Anat.), the hyoid bone. — Tongue grafting. See under Grafting.

Syn.
— Language; speech; expression. See Language.

TONGUE
Tongue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tongued; p. pr. & vb. n. Tonguing.]

1. To speak; to utter. "Such stuff as madmen tongue." Shak.

2. To chide; to scold. How might she tongue me. Shak .

3. (Mus.)

Defn: To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

4. To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together.

TONGUE
Tongue, v. i.

1. To talk; to prate. Dryden.

2. (Mus.)

Defn: To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments.

TONGUEBIRD
Tongue"bird`, n.

Defn: The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]

TONGUED
Tongued, a.

Defn: Having a tongue.
Tongued like the night crow. Donne.

TONGUEFISH
Tongue"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A flounder (Symphurus plagiusa) native of the southern coast of the United States.

TONGUELESS
Tongue"less, a.

1. Having no tongue.

2. Hence, speechless; mute. "What tongueless blocks were they! would they not speak" Shak.

3. Unnamed; not spoken of. [Obs.] One good deed dying tongueless. Shak.

TONGUELET
Tongue"let, n.

Defn: A little tongue.

TONGUE-PAD
Tongue"-pad`, n.

Defn: A great talker. [Obs.]

TONGUE-SHAPED
Tongue"-shaped`, a.

Defn: Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.

TONGUE-SHELL
Tongue"-shell`, n.

Defn: Any species of Lingula.

TONGUESTER
Tongue"ster, n.

Defn: One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip.
[Poetic.]
Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may
fall. Tennyson.

TONGUE-TIE
Tongue"-tie`, n. (Med.)

Defn: Impeded motion of the tongue because of the shortness of the frænum, or of the adhesion of its margins to the gums. Dunglison.

TONGUE-TIE
Tongue"-tie`, v. t.

Defn: To deprive of speech or the power of speech, or of distinct articulation.

TONGUE-TIED
Tongue"-tied`, a.

1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum.

2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.

TONGUEWORM
Tongue"worm`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any species of Linguatulina.

TONGUY
Tongu"y, a.

Defn: Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker. [Written also tonguey.] [Colloq.]

TONIC
Ton"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. tonigue, Gr. Tone.]

1. Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."

2. Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.

3. (Med.)

Defn: Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring heatly functions. Tononic spasm. (Med.) See the Note under Spasm.

TONIC
Ton"ic, n. Etym: [Cf. F. tonigue, NL. tonicum.]

1. (Phon.)

Defn: A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

2. (Mus.)

Defn: The key tone, or first tone of any scale.

3. (Med.)

Defn: A medicine that increases the srength, and gives vigor of action to the system. Tonic sol-fa (Mus.), the name of the most popular among letter systems of notation (at least in England), based on key relationship, and hence called "tonic." Instead of the five lines, clefs, signature, etc., of the usual notation, it employs letters and the syllables do, re, mi, etc., variously modified, with other simple signs of duration, of upper or lower octave, etc. See Sol-fa.

TONICAL
Ton"ic*al, a.

Defn: Tonic. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

TONICITY
To*nic"i*ty, n. (Physiol.)

Defn: The state of healty tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.

TONIGHT
To*night", adv. Etym: [Prep. to+night]

1. On this present or coming night.

2. On the last night past. [Obs.] Shak.

TONIGHT
To*night", n.

Defn: The present or the coming night; the night after the present day.

TONITE
Ton"ite, n. Etym: [Cf.L. tonare to thunder.]

Defn: An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton.

TONKA BEAN
Ton"ka bean`. Etym: [Cf. F. onca, tonka.] (Bot.)

Defn: The seed of a leguminous tree (Dipteryx odorata), native of Guiana. It has a peculiarly agreeable smell, and is employed in the scenting of snuff. Called also tiononquin bean. [Written also tonca bean, tonga bean.]

TON MILE
Ton mile. (Railroads)

Defn: A unit of measurement of the freight transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the products obtained by multiplying the aggregate weight of each shipment in tons during the given period by the number of miles for which it is carried.

TON MILEAGE
Ton mileage. (Railroads)

Defn: Ton miles collectively; esp., the total ton miles performed by a railroad in a given period.

TONNAGE
Ton"nage (; 48), n. Etym: [From Ton a measure.]

1. The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship.

2. The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See Ton, n. (b). A fleet . . . with an aggregate tonnage of 60,000 seemed sufficient to conquer the world. Motley.

3. A duty or impost on vessels, estimated per ton, or, a duty, toll, or rate payable on goods per ton transported on canals .

4. The whole amount of shipping estimated by tons; as, the tonnage of the United States. See Ton.

Note: There are in common use the following terms relating to tonnage: (a) Displacement. (b) Register tonnage, gross and net. (c) Freight tonnage. (d) Builders' measurement. (e) Yacht measurement. The first is mainly used for war vessels, where the total weight is likely to be nearly constant. The second is the most important, being that used for commercial purposes. The third and fourth are different rules for ascertaining the actual burden-carrying power of a vessel, and the fifth is for the proper classification of pleasure craft. Gross tonnage expresses the total cubical interior of a vessel; net tonnage, the cubical space actually available for freight-carrying purposes. Rules for ascertaining these measurements are established by law.

TONNE
Tonne, n.

Defn: A tun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TONNEAU
Ton`neau", n.; pl. Tonneaux (#). [F.]

1. In France, a light-wheeled vehicle with square or rounded body and rear entrance.

2. (Automobiles) Orig., the after part of the body with entrance at the rear (as in vehicle in def. 1); now, one with sides closing in the seat or seats and entered by a door usually at the side, also, the entire body of an automobile having such an after part.

3. = Tonne.

TONNIHOOD
Ton"ni*hood, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The female of the bullfinch; — called also tonyhoop. [Prov.
Eng.]

TONNISH
Ton"nish, a.

Defn: In the ton; fashionable; modish.
— Ton"nish*ness, n.

TONOMETER
To*nom"e*ter, n. Etym: [Gr. -meter.]

1. (Physics.)

Defn: An instrument for determining the rate of vibrations in tones.

2. (Physiol.) (a) An apparatus for studying and registering the action of various fluids and drugs on the excised heart of lower animals. (b) An instrument for measuring tension, esp. that of the eyeball.

TONOMETRY
To*nom"e*try, n.

Defn: The act of measuring with a tonometer; specifically (Med.), measurement of tension, esp. the tension of the eyeball.

TONOPHANT
Ton"o*phant, n. Etym: [Gr. (Physics.)

Defn: A modification of the kaleidophon, for showing composition of acoustic vibrations. It consists of two thin slips of steel welded together, their length being adjystable by a screw socket.

TONOUS
Ton"ous, a.

Defn: Abounding in tone or sound.

TONQUIN BEAN
Ton"quin bean`

Defn: See Tonka bean.

TONSIL
Ton"sil, n. Etym: [L. tonsilltonsille. ] (Anat.)

Defn: One of the two glandular organs situated in the throat at the sides of the fauces. The tonsils are sometimes called the almonds, from their shape.

TONSILAR
Ton"sil*ar, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to the tonsils; tonsilitic. [Written also tonsillar.]

TONSILE
Ton"sile, a. Etym: [L. tonsilis, fr. tondere, tonsum, to shear, clip.
See Tonsure. ]

Defn: Capable of being clipped.

TONSILITIC
Ton`sil*it"ic, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Tonsilar. [Written also tonsillitic.]

TONSILITIS
Ton`sil*i"tis, n. Etym: [NL. See Tonsil, and -itis.] (Med.)

Defn: Inflammation of the tonsil; quinsy. [Written also, and more usually, tonsillitis.]

TONSILOTOME
Ton*sil"o*tome, n. Etym: [Tonsil + Gr. (Surg.)

Defn: An instrument for removing the tonsils.

TONSILOTOMY
Ton`sil*ot"o*my, n. (Surg.)

Defn: The operation of removing the tonsil, or a portion thereof.

TONSOR
Ton"sor, n. Etym: [L.]

Defn: A barber. Sir W. Scott.

TONSORIAL Ton*so"ri*al, a. Etym: [L. tonsorius, fr. tonsor a shearer, barber, fr. tondere, tonsum, to shear. See Tonsure.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to a barber, or shaving.

TONSURE Ton"sure, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. tonsura a shearing, clipping, from tondere, tonsum, to shear, shave; cf. Gr. tome.]

1. The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn.

2. (R. C. Ch.) (a) The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders. (b) The shaven corona, or crown, which priests wear as a mark of their order and of their rank.

TONSURED
Ton"sured, a.

Defn: Having the tonsure; shaven; shorn; clipped; hence, bald.
A tonsured head in middle age forlorn. Tennyson.

TONTINE Ton*tine", n. Etym: [F., from It. tontina; — so called from its inventor, Tonti, an Italian, of the 17th century.]

Defn: An annuity, with the benefit of survivorship, or a loan raised on life annuities with the benefit of survivorship. Thus, an annuity is shared among a number, on the principle that the share of each, at his death, is enjoyed by the survivors, until at last the whole goes to the last survivor, or to the last two or three, according to the terms on which the money is advanced. Used also adjectively; as, tontine insurance. Too many of the financiers by professions are apt to see nothing in revenue but banks, and circulations, and annuities on lives, and tontines, and perpetual rents, and all the small wares of the shop. Burke.

TONTINE INSURANCE
Ton*tine" in*su"rance. (Life Insurance)

Defn: Insurance in which the benefits of the insurance are distributed upon the tontine principle. Under the old, or full tontine, plan, all benefits were forfeited on lapsed policies, on the policies of those who died within the tontine period only the face of the policy was paid without any share of the surplus, and the survivor at the end of the tontine period received the entire surplus. This plan of tontine insurance has been replaced in the United States by the semitontine plan, in which the surplus is divided among the holders of policies in force at the termination of the tontine period, but the reverse for the paid-up value is paid on lapsed policies, and on the policies of those that have died the face is paid. Other modified forms are called free tontine, deferred dividend, etc., according to the nature of the tontine arrangement.

TONUS
To"nus, n. Etym: [L. a sound, tone. See Tone.] (Physiol.)

Defn: Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus.

TONY
To"ny, n.; pl. Tonies. Etym: [Abbrev. from Anthony.]

Defn: A simpleton. L'Estrange.
A pattern and companion fit For all the keeping tonies of the pit.
Dryden.

TOO
Too, adv. Etym: [The same word as to, prep. See To.]

1. Over; more than enough; — noting excess; as, a thing is too long, too short, or too wide; too high; too many; too much. His will, too strong to bend, too proud to learn. Cowley.

2. Likewise; also; in addition.
An honest courtier, yet a patriot too. Pope.
Let those eyes that view The daring crime, behold the vengeance too.
Pope.
Too too, a duplication used to signify great excess.
O that this too too solid flesh would melt. Shak.
Such is not Charles his too too active age. Dryden.

Syn.
— Also; likewise. See Also.

TOOK
Took,

Defn: imp. of Take.

TOOL Tool, n. Etym: [OE. tol,tool. AS. tl; akin to Icel. tl, Goth. taijan to do, to make, taui deed, work, and perhaps to E. taw to dress leather. sq. root64.]

1. An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.

2. A machine for cutting or shaping materials; — also called machine tool.

3. Hence, any instrument of use or service. That angry fool . . . Whipping her house, did with his amarting tool Oft whip her dainty self. Spenser.

4. A weapon. [Obs.] Him that is aghast of every tool. Chaucer.

5. A person used as an instrument by another person; — a word of reproach; as, men of intrigue have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes. I was not made for a minion or a tool. Burks.

TOOL
Tool, v. t. [imp. & p. p. tooled; p. pr. & vb. n. tooling.]

1. To shape, form, or finish with a tool. "Elaborately tooled." Ld. Lytton.

2. To drive, as a coach. [Slang,Eng.]

TOOLING
Tool"ing, n.

Defn: Work perfomed with a tool. The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.

TOOL-POST; TOOL-STOCK
Tool"-post`, Tool"-stock`, n. (Mach.)

Defn: The part of a toolrest in which a cutting tool is clamped.

TOOL-REST
Tool"-rest`, n. (Mach.)

Defn: the part that supports a tool-post or a tool.

TOOL STEEL
Tool steel.

Defn: Hard steel, usually crucible steel, capable of being tempered so as to be suitable for tools.

TOOM Toom, a. Etym: [OE. tom, fr. Icel. tomr; akin to Dan. & Sw. tom, As. tome, adv. Cf. Teem to pour.]

Defn: Empty. [Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Wyclif.

TOOM
Toom, v. t.

Defn: To empty. [Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot.]

TOON
Toon, obs.

Defn: pl. of Toe. Chaucer.

TOON
Toon, n. Etym: [Hind. tun, tun, Skr. tunna.] (Bot.)

Defn: The reddish brown wood of an East Indian tree (Cedrela Toona) closely resembling the Spanish cedar; also. the tree itself.

TOONWOOD
Toon"wood`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: Same as Toon.

TOOT Toot, v. i. Etym: [OE. toten, AS. totian to project; hence, to peep out.] [Written also tout.]

1. To stand out, or be prominent. [Obs.] Howell.

2. To peep; to look narrowly. [Obs.] Latimer. For birds in bushes tooting. Spenser.

TOOT
Toot, v. t.

Defn: To see; to spy. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

TOOT
Toot, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tooting.] Etym:
[Cf. D. toeten to blow a horn, G. tuten, Sw.tuta, Dan. tude; probably
of imitative origin.]

Defn: To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown. "A tooting horn." Howell. Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches. Thackeray.

TOOT
Toot, v. t.

Defn: To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.

TOOTER
Toot"er, n.

Defn: One who toots; one who plays upon a pipe or horn. B. Jonson.

TOOTH
Tooth, n.; pl. Teeth. Etym: [OE. toth,tooth, AS. ttth, OS. & D. tand,
OHG. zang, zan, G. zahn, Icel. tnn, Sw. & Dan. tand, Goth. tumpus,
Lith. dantis, W. dant, L. dens, dentis, Gr. danta; probably
originally the p. pr. of the verb to eat. *239. Cf. Eat, Dandelion,
Dent the tooth of a wheel, Dental, Dentist, Indent, Tine of a fork,
Tusk. ]

1. (Anat.)

Defn: One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.

Note: The hard parts of teeth are principally made up of dentine, or ivory, and a very hard substance called enamel. These are variously combined in different animals. Each tooth consist of three parts, a crown, or body, projecting above the gum, one or more fangs imbedded in the jaw, and the neck, or intermediate part. In some animals one or more of the teeth are modified into tusks which project from the mouth, as in both sexes of the elephant and of the walrus, and in the male narwhal. In adult man there are thirty-two teeth, composed largely of dentine, but the crowns are covered with enamel, and the fangs with a layer of bone called cementum. Of the eight teeth on each half of each jaw, the two in front are incisors, then come one canine, cuspid, or dog tooth, two bicuspids, or false molars, and three molars, or grinding teeth. The milk, or temporary, teeth are only twenty in number, there being two incisors, one canine, and two molars on each half of each jaw. The last molars, or wisdom teeth, usually appear long after the others, and occasionally do not appear above the jaw at all. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child ! Shak.

2. Fig.: Taste; palate. These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth. Dryden.

3. Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.

4. (a) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through. (b) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.

5. (Nat. Hist.)

Defn: An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant; specifically (Bot.),

Defn: one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss.
See Peristome.

6. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish. In spite of the teeth, in defiance of opposition; in opposition to every effort. — In the teeth, directly; in direct opposition; in front. "Nor strive with all the tempest in my teeth." Pope. — To cast in the teeth, to report reproachfully; to taunt or insult one with. — Tooth and nail, as if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by all possible means. L'Estrange. "I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright." Charles Reade. — Tooth coralline (Zoöl.), any sertularian hydroid. — Tooth edge, the sensation excited in the teeth by grating sounds, and by the touch of certain substances, as keen acids. — Tooth key, an instrument used to extract teeth by a motion resembling that of turning a key. — Tooth net, a large fishing net anchored. [Scot.] Jamieson. — Tooth ornament. (Arch.) Same as Dogtooth, n., 2.Tooth paste, a paste for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice. — Tooth powder, a powder for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice. — Tooth rash. (Med.) See Red-gum, 1. — To show the teeth, to threaten. "When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite." Young. — To the teeth, in open opposition; directly to one's face. "That I shall live, and tell him to his teeth ." Shak.

TOOTH
Tooth, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toothed; p. pr. & vb. n. Toothing.]

1. To furnish with teeth. The twin cards toothed with glittering wire. Wordsworth.

2. To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.

3. To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4. Moxon.

TOOTHACHE
Tooth"ache`, n. (Med.)

Defn: Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia. Toothache grass
(Bot.), a kind of grass (Ctenium Americanum) having a very pungent
taste.
— Toothache tree. (Bot.) (a) The prickly ash. (b) A shrub of the
genus Aralia (A. spinosa).

TOOTHBACK
Tooth"back`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any notodontian.

TOOTHBILL
Tooth"bill`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the end. or ts color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea.

TOOTHBRUSH
Tooth"brush`, n.

Defn: A brush for cleaning the teeth.

TOOTHDRAWER
Tooth"draw`er, n.

Defn: One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.

TOOTHED
Toothed, a.

1. Having teeth; furnished with teeth. "Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl." Herrick.

2. (Bot. & Zoöl.)

Defn: Having marginal projecting points; dentate. Toothed whale (Zoöl.), any whale of the order Denticete. See Denticete. — Toothed wheel, a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by their action on the engaging teeth of another wheel.

TOOTHFUL
Tooth"ful, a.

Defn: Toothsome. [Obs.]

TOOTHING
Tooth"ing, n.

1. The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

2. (Masonry)

Defn: Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up. Toothing plane, a plane of which the iron is formed into a series of small teeth, for the purpose of roughening surfaces, as of veneers.

TOOTHLESS
Tooth"less, a.

Defn: Having no teeth. Cowper.

TOOTHLET
Tooth"let, n.

Defn: A little tooth, or like projection.

TOOTHLETED
Tooth"let*ed, a.

Defn: Having a toothlet or toothlets; as, a toothleted leaf. [Written also toothletted.]

TOOTHPICK
Tooth"pick`, n.

Defn: A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.

TOOTHPICKER
Tooth"pick`er, n.

Defn: A toothpick. [Obs.] Shak.

TOOTHSHELL
Tooth"shell", n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.

TOOTHSOME
Tooth"some, a.

Defn: Grateful to the taste; palable.
— Tooth"some*ly, adv.
— Tooth"some*ness, n.
Though less toothsome to me, they were more wholesome for me. Fuller.

TOOTHWORT
Tooth"wort`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: A plant whose roots are fancied to resemble teeth, as certain plants of the genus Lathræa, and various species of Dentaria. See Coralwort.

TOOTHY
Tooth"y, a.

Defn: Toothed; with teeth. [R] Croxall.

TOOTLE
Too"tle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tootled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tootling.]
[Freq. of toot.]

Defn: To toot gently, repeatedly, or continuously, on a wind instrument, as a flute; also, to make a similar noise by any means. "The tootling robin." John Clare.

TOOZOO
Too*zoo", n.

Defn: The ringdove. [Prov. Eng.]

TOP Top, n. Etym: [CF. OD. dop, top, OHG., MNG., & dial. G. topf; perhaps akin to G. topf a pot.]

1. A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.

2. (Rope Making)

Defn: A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.

TOP Top, n. Etym: [AS. top; akin to OFries. top a tuft, D. top top, OHG. zopf end, tip, tuft of hair, G. zopf tuft of hair, pigtail, top of a tree, Icel. toppr a tuft of hair, crest, top, Dan. top, Sw. topp pinnacle, top; of uncertain origin. Cf. Tuft.]

1. The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground. The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold. Milton.

2. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit. The top of my ambition is to contribute to that work. Pope.

3. The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school. And wears upon hisbaby brow the round And top of sovereignty. Shak.

4. The chief person; the most prominent one. Other . . . aspired to be the top of zealots. Milton.

5. The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head. "From top to toe" Spenser. All the stored vengeance of Heaven fall On her ungrateful top ! Shak.

6. The head, or upper part, of a plant. The buds . . . are called heads, or tops, as cabbageheads. I. Watts.

7. (Naut.)

Defn: A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft. Totten.

8. (Wool Manuf.)

Defn: A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.

9. Eve; verge; point. [R.] "He was upon the top of his marriage with Magdaleine." Knolles.

10. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface. Knight.

11. pl.

Defn: Top-boots. [Slang] Dickens.

Note: Top is often used adjectively or as the first part of compound words, usually self-explaining; as, top stone, or topstone; top- boots, or top boots; top soil, or top-soil. Top and but (Shipbuilding), a phrase used to denote a method of working long tapering planks by bringing the but of one plank to the top of the other to make up a constant breadth in two layers. — Top minnow (Zoöl.), a small viviparous fresh-water fish (Gambusia patruelis) abundant in the Southern United States. Also applied to other similar species.

TOP
Top, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Topped; p. pr. & vb. n. Topping.]

1. To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains. Derham.

2. To predominate; as, topping passions. "Influenced by topping uneasiness." Locke.

3. To excel; to rise above others. But write thy, and top. Dryden.

TOP
Top, v. t.

1. To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; — chiefly used in the past
participle.
Like moving mountains topped with snow. Waller.
A mount Of alabaster, topped with golden spires. Milton.

2. To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass. Topping all others in boasting. Shak. Edmund the base shall top the legitimate. Shak.

3. To rise to the top of; to go over the top of. But wind about till thou hast topped the hill. Denham.

4. To take off the or upper part of; to crop. Top your rose trees a little with your knife. Evelyn.

5. To perform eminently, or better than before. From endeavoring universally to top their parts, they will go universally beyond them. Jeffrey.

6. (Naut.)

Defn: To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other. To top off, to complete by putting on, or finishing, the top or uppermost part of; as, to top off a stack of hay; hence, to complete; to finish; to adorn.

TOPARCH
To"parch, n. Etym: [L. toparcha, Gr.

Defn: The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor
of a toparchy.
The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller.

TOPARCHY
To"parch*y, n.; pl. Toparchies. Etym: [L. toparchia, Gr. Toparch.]

Defn: A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies. Fuller.

TOP-ARMOR
Top"-ar`mor, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.

TOPAU
To"pau, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The rhinocerous bird (a).

TOPAZ To"paz, n. Etym: [OE. topas, F. topaze, L. topazos, or topazion, a kind of precious stone, Gr. to`pazos, topa`zion; possibly akin to Skr. tap to glow (cf. Tepid). According to some, the name is from Topazos, a small island in the Red Sea, where the Romans obtained a stone which they called by this name, but which is the chrysolite of the moderns.]

1. (Min.)

Defn: A mineral occurring in rhombic prisms, generally yellowish and pellucid, also colorless, and of greenesh, bluish, or brownish shades. It sometimes occurs massive and opaque. It is a fluosilicate of alumina, and is used as a gem.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Either one of two species of large, brilliantly colored humming birds of the Topaza, of South America and the West Indies.

Note: The two tail feathers next to the central ones are much longer that the rest, curved, and crossed. The Throat is metallic yellowish- green, with a tint like topaz in the center, the belly is bright crimson, the back bright red. Called also topaz hummer. False topaz. (Min.) See the Note under Quartz.

TOPAZOLITE
To*paz"o*lite, n. Etym: [Topaz + -lite; cf. F. topazolithe.] (Min.)

Defn: A topaz-yellow variety of garnet.

TOP-BLOCK
Top"-block`, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, — used in swaying and lowering the topmast. Totten.

TOP-BOOTS
Top"-boots, n. pl.

Defn: High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light- colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.

TOP-CHAIN
Top"-chain`, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.

TOP-CLOTH
Top"-cloth, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.

TOPCOAT
Top"coat`, n.

Defn: An outer coat; an overcoat.

TOP-DRAIN
Top"-drain`, v. t.

Defn: To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm.

TOP-DRAINING
Top"-drain`ing, n.

Defn: The act or practice of drining the surface of land.

TOP-DRESS Top"-dress`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Top-dressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Top- dressing.]

Defn: To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land.

TOP-DRESSING
Top"-dress`ing, n.

Defn: The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.

TOPE
Tope, n. Etym: [Probably from Skr. stpa a tope, astupa, through
Prakrin tppo.]

Defn: A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument. often erected over a Buddhish relic.

TOPE
Tope, n. Etym: [Tamil tppu.]

Defn: A grove or clumb of trees; as, a toddy tope. [India] Whitworth.

TOPE
Tope, n.

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, or Galeus, galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; — called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The wren. [Prov. Eng.]

TOPE Tope, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toped; p. pr. & vb. n. Toping.] Etym: [F. tôper to cover a stake in playing at dice, to accept an offer, tôpe agreed !; — perhaps imitative of the sound of striking hands on concluding a bargain. From being used in English as a drinking term, probably at first in accepting a toast.]

Defn: To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous
liquors to excess.
If you tope in form, and treat. Dryden.

TOPEK
To"pek, n. [Eskimo tupek.]

Defn: An ESkimo house made of material other than snow, esp. one having walls of turf, driftwood, rock, or skin, and a roof of skins of the walrus or seal. In Alaska it is often partially underground and covered with timber and turf. Topeks are also used by Indians of the lower Yukon region.

TOPER
To"per, n.

Defn: One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.

TOPET
Top"et, n. Etym: [F. toupet tuft. See Touper.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The European crested titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

TOP FERMENTATION
Top fermentation.

Defn: An alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells are carried to the top of the fermening liquid. It proceeds with some violence and requires a temperature of 14-30º C. (58-86º F.). It is used in the production of ale, porter, etc., and of wines high in alcohol, and in distilling.

TOPFUL
Top"ful, a.

Defn: Full to the top, ore brim; brimfull. "Topful of direst
cruelty." Shak.
[He] was so topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the
company. I. Watts.

TOPGALLANT
Top`gal"lant, a.

1. (Naut.)

Defn: Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship.

2. Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. "The consciences of topgallant sparks." L'Estrange. Topgallant breeze, a breeze in which the topgallant sails may properly be carried.

TOPGALLANT
Top`gal"lant, n.

1. (Naut.)

Defn: A topgallant mast or sail.

2. Fig.: Anything elevated or splendid. Bacon.

TOPH
Toph, n. Etym: [L. tophus, tofus, tufa, or tuft. Cf. Tufa, Tofus,
Tophus.] (Min.)

Defn: kind of sandstone.

TOPHACEOUS
To*pha"ceous, a. Etym: [L. tophaceus, tofaceus.]

Defn: Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.

TOP-HAMPER
Top"-ham`per, n. (Naut.)

Defn: The upper rigging, spars, etc., of a ship. [Written also top hamper.] All the ships of the fleet . . . were so encumbered with tophamper, so overweighted in proportion to their draught of water, that they could bear but little canvas, even with smooth seas and light and favorable winds. Motley.

TOP-HEAVY
Top"-heav`y, a.

Defn: Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir
H. Wotton.

TOPHET To"phet, n. Etym: [Heb. tophet, literally, a place to be spit upon, an abominable place, fr. tph to spit out.]

Defn: A place lying east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the valley of
Hinnom. [Written also Topheth.]
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of
Hinnom. 2 Kings xxiii. 10.

Note: It seems to have been at first part of the royal garden, but it was afterwards defiled and polluted by the sacrifices of Baal and the fires of Moloch, and resounded with the cries of burning infants. At a later period, its altars and high places were thrown down, and all the filth of the city poured into it, until it became the abhorrence of Jerusalem, and, in symbol, the place where are wailing and gnashing of teeth. The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of hell. Milton.

TOPHIN
Toph"in, n. (Min.)

Defn: Same as Toph.

TOPHUS To"phus, n.; pl. Tophi. Etym: [NL.: cf. F. tophus a mineral concretion in the joint. See Toph.] [Written also tofus.]

1. (Med.)

Defn: One of the mineral concretions about the joints, and in other situations, occurring chiefly in gouty persons. They consist usually of urate of sodium; when occurring in the internal organs they are also composed of phosphate of calcium.

2. (Min.)

Defn: Calcareous tufa.

TOPI
To"pi, n.

Defn: An antelope (Damaliscus corrigum jimela) having a glossy purplish brown coat. It is related to the blesbok and is native of British East Africa. Also, any of various related varieties of other districts south of the Sahara.

TOPIARIAN
Top`i*a"ri*an, a. Etym: [See Toplary.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening. [R.] "The topiarian artist." Sir W. Scott. All the pedantries of the topiarian art. C. Kingsley.

TOPIARY Top"i*a*ry, a. Etym: [L. topiarius belonging to ornamental gardening, fr. topia (sc. opera) ornamental gardening, fr. Gr.

Defn: Of or pertaining to ornamental gardening; produced by cutting, trimming, etc.; topiarian. Topiary work, arbors, shrubbery, hedges, or the like, cut and trimmed into fanciful forms, as of animals, building, etc.

TOPIC Top"ic, n. Etym: [F. topiques, pl., L. topica the title of a work of Aristotle, Gr. topika`, fr. topiko`s of or for place, concerning to`poi, or commonplaces, fr. to`pos a place.] (a) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, — denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory. (b) pl.

Defn: A treatise on forms of argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle. These topics, or loci, were no other than general ideas applicable to a great many different subjects, which the orator was directed to consult. Blair. In this question by [reason] I do not mean a distinct topic, but a transcendent that runs through all topics. Jer. Taylor.

2. An argument or reason. [Obs.] Contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon. Bp. Wilkins.

3. The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse, or argument, or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head.

4. (Med.)

Defn: An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc. [Obsoles.] Wiseman.

TOPIC
Top"ic, a.

Defn: Topical. Drayton. Holland.

TOPICAL
Top"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf. F. topique, LL. topicus, Gr. Topic, n.]

1. Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.

2. (Rhet. & logic)

Defn: Pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; according to topics.

3. Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument. Evidences of fact can be no more than topical and probable. Sir M. Hale.

TOPICALLY
Top"ic*al*ly, adv.

Defn: In a topical manner; with application to, or limitation of, a particular place or topic.

TOPKNOT
Top"knot`, n.

1. A crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird; also, an orgamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women. A great, stout servant girl, with cheeks as red as her topknot. Sir W. Scott.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small Europen flounder (Rhoumbus punctatus). The name is also applied to allied species.

TOPLESS
Top"less, a.

Defn: Having no top, or no visble fop; hence, fig.: very lofty; supreme; unequaled. " The topless Apennines." "Topless fortunes." Beau. & Fl.

TOP-LIGHT
Top"-light`, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A lantern or light on the top of a vessel.

TOPMAN
Top"man, n.; pl. Topmem (.

1. See Topsman, 2.

2. (Naut.)

Defn: A man stationed in the top.

TOPMAST
Top"mast, n. (Naut.)

Defn: The second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast, and below the topgallant mast.

TOPMOST
Top"most`, a.

Defn: Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch
of a tree.
The nightngale may claim the topmost bough. Cowper.

TOPOGRAPHER
To*pog"ra*pher, n. Etym: [Cf. F. topographe, Cr.

Defn: One who is skilled in the science of topography; one who describes a particular place, town, city, or tract of land. Dante is the one authorized topographer of the mediæval hell. Milman.

TOPOGRAPHIC; TOPOGRAPHICAL
Top`o*graph"ic, a. Top`o*graph"ic*al,Etym: [Cf. F. topographique.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to topography; descriptive of a place.
— Top`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Topographical map. See under
Cadastral.
— Topographical surveying. See under Surveying.

TOPOGRAPHIST
To*pog"ra*phist, n.

Defn: A topographer.

TOPOGRAPHY
To*pog"ra*phy, n. Etym: [F. topographie, Gr.

Defn: The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.

Note: Topography, as the description of particular places, is distinguished from chorography, the description of a region or a district, and for geography, the description of the earth or of countries. Brande & C.

TOPOLOGY
To*pol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.]

Defn: The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place. [R.]

TOPONOMY
To*pon"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr.

Defn: The designation of position and direction. B. G. Wilder.

TOPONYM
Top"o*nym, n.

Defn: A name of a place; more broadly, a name, as in the binomial name of a plant, based on, or derived from, a place name, or based on the location of the thing named.

TOPONYMY
To*pon"y*my, n.

Defn: A system of toponyms; the use of toponyms. — To*pon"y*mal (#),
Top`o*nym"ic (#), Top`o*nym"ic*al (#), a.

TOPOPHONE
Top"o*phone, n. [Gr. place + Gr. sound.]

Defn: A double ear trumpet for estimating the direction from which sounds proceed, esp. for the use of navigators.

TOP OUT
Top out. (Building)

Defn: To top off; to finish by putting on a cap of top (uppermost) course (called a top`ping-out" course).

TOPPER
Top"per, n.

1. One that tops, in any sense of the verb; specif.:
(a) A cover of a top layer or part. [Colloq.]
(b) One that excels, surpasses, or is extraordinary of its kind.
[Slang]
(c) Any device for cutting off tops; as, a turnip topper.
(d) One who tops steel ingots.
(e) A three-square float (file) used by comb makers.

2. A top hat. [Slang or Colloq.]

3. Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; — so called from its being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl. Also, a cigar stump. [Slang]

TOPPIECE
Top"piece`, n.

Defn: A small wig for the top of the head; a toupee.

TOPPING
Top"ping, a.

1. Rising above; surpassing.

2. Hence, assuming superiority; proud. The great and flourishing condition of some of the topping sinners of the world. South.

3. Fine; gallant. [Slang] Johnson.

TOPPING
Top"ping, n.

1. The act of one who tops; the act of cutting off the top.

2. (Naut.)

Defn: The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.

3. pl.

Defn: That which comes from hemp in the process of hatcheling. Topping lift (Naut.), a large, strong tackle employed to raise or top the end of a gaff, or of a boom.

TOPPINGLY
Top"ping*ly, adv.

Defn: In a topping or proud manner.

TOPPINGLY
Top"ping*ly, a.

Defn: Same as Topping, a., 3. [Obs.] "Topping quests." Tusser.

TOPPLE
Top"ple, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toppled; p. pr. & vb. n. Toppling.]
Etym: [From Top summit.]

Defn: To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.
Though castles topple on their warders' heads. Shak.

TOPPLE
Top"ple, v. t.

Defn: To throw down; to overturn.
He topple crags from the precipice. Longfellow.

TOP-PROUD
Top"-proud`, a.

Defn: Proud to the highest degree. [R.] "This top-proud fellow."
Shak.

TOP RAKE
Top rake. (Mech.)

Defn: The angle that the front edge of the point of a tool is set back from the normal to the surface being cut.

TOP-ROPE
Top"-rope`, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.

TOPSAIL
Top"sail`, n. (Naut.)

Defn: In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship. Topsail schooner. (Naut.) See Schooner, and Illustration in Appendix.

TOPS-AND-BOTTOMS
Tops"-and-bot`toms, n. pl.

Defn: Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, — used as food for infants. 'T is said that her top-and-bottoms were gilt. Hood.

TOP-SHAPED
Top"-shaped`, a.

Defn: Having the shape of a top; (Bot.) cone-shaped, with the apex downward; turbinate.

TOP-SHELL
Top"-shell`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of marine top_shaped shells of the genus Thochus, or family Trochidæ.

TOPSMAN
Tops"man, n.; pl. Topsmen (.

1. The chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle. P. Cyc.

2. The uppermost sawyer in a saw pit; a topman. Simmonds.

TOPSOIL
Top"soil`, n.

Defn: The upper layer of soil; surface soil.

TOPSOILING
Top"soil`ing, n. (Engin.)

Defn: The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.

TOPSTONE
Top"stone`, n.

Defn: A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top.

TOPSY-TURVY Top"sy-*tur"vy, adv. Etym: [Earlier topside-turvey, topsy-tervy; probably for top so turvy; that is, the top as turvy, as it were turvy; where turvy probably means, overturned, fr. AS. torfian to throw.]

Defn: In an inverted posture; with the top or head downward; upside down; as, to turn a carriage topsy-turvy.

TOP-TACKLE
Top"-tac`kle, n. (Naut.)

Defn: A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.

TOP-TIMBERS
Top"-tim`bers, n. (Naut.)

Defn: The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks. R. H. Dana, Jr.

TOP-TOOL
Top"-tool`, n. (Blacksmithing.)

Defn: A tool applied to the top of the work, in distinction from a tool inserted in the anvil and on which the work is placed.

TOQUE
Toque, n. Etym: [F. toque; of Celtic origin; cf. W.toc.]

1. A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; — called also toquet. His velvet toque stuck as airily as ever upon the side of his head. Motley.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A variety of the bonnet monkey.

TOQUET
To*quet", n.

Defn: See Toque, 1.

TOR
Tor, n. Etym: [AS. torr; cf. Gael. torr. Cf. Tower.]

1. A tower; a turret. [R.] Ray.

2. High-pointed hill; a rocky pinnacle. [Prov. Eng.] A rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree. C. Kingsley.

TORACE; TORASE
To*race", To*rase", v. t. Etym: [Pref. to- + OE. r to rage.]

Defn: To scratch to pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TORAH; TORA To"rah, To"ra, n.; pl. Toroth (#). [Heb. torah.] (Jewish Lit.) (a) A law; a precept.

A considerable body of priestly Toroth.
S. R. Driver.

(b) Divine instruction; revelation.

Tora, . . . before the time of Malachi, is generally used of the revelations of God's will made through the prophets. T. K. Cheyne.

(c) The Pentateuch or "Law of Moses."

The Hebrew Bible is divided into three parts: (1) The Torah, "Law,"
or Pentateuch. (2) The Prophets . . . (3) The Kethubim, or the
"Writings," generally termed Hagiographa.
C. H. H. Wright.

TORAN; TORANA
To"ran, To"ra*na, n. [Skr. toransa an arch, a gate.] (Indian Arch.)

Defn: A gateway, commonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.

TORBERNITE Tor"bern*ite, n. Etym: [So named after Torber Bergmann, a Swedish chemist.] (Min.)

Defn: A mineral occurring in emerald-green tabular crystals having a micaceous structure. It is a hydrous phosphate of uranium and copper. Called also copper uranite, and chalcolite.

TORC
Torc, n.

Defn: Same as Torque, 1.

TORCH Torch, n. Etym: [OE. torche, F. torche a torch, rag, wisp, pad; probably from a derivative of L. torquere, tortum, to twist, because twisted like a rope; cf. F. torcher to rub, wipe, It. topcia a torch, torciare to wrap, twist, OF. torse a torse. Cf. Torture.]

Defn: A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of
resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large,
flaring flame.
They light the nuptial torch. Milton.
Torch thistle. (Bot.) See under Thistle.

TORCHBEARER
Torch"bear`er, n.

Defn: One whose office it is to carry a torch.

TORCHER
Torch"er, n.

Defn: One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch. [Obs.]
Shak.

TORCHLIGHT
Torch"light`, n.

Defn: The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession.

TORCHON LACE
Tor"chon lace` Etym: [F. torchon a kind of coarse napkin.]

Defn: a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.

TORCHON PAPER
Tor"chon pa"per. [F. papier torchon.]

Defn: Paper with a rough surface; esp., handmade paper of great hardness for the use of painters in water colors.

TORCH RACE
Torch race.

Defn: A race by men carrying torches, as in ancient Greece.

TORCHWOOD
Torch"wood`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A.
Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.

TORCHWORT
Torch"wort`, n. (Bot.)

Defn: The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper.

TORE
Tore,

Defn: imp. of Tear.

TORE Tore, n. Etym: [Probably from the root of tear; cf. W. tór a break, cut, tóri to break, cut.]

Defn: The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. [Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.

TORE
Tore, n. Etym: [See Torus.]

1. (Arch.)

Defn: Same as Torus.

2. (Geom.) (a) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane. (b) The solid inclosed by such a surface; — sometimes called an anchor ring.

TOREADOR To"re*a*dor`, n. Etym: [Sp.,fr. torear to fight bulls, fr.L. taurus a bull.]

Defn: A bullfighter.

TO-REND
To-rend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. To-rent.] Etym: [Pref. to- + rend.]

Defn: To rend in pieces. [Obs.]
The wolf hath many a sheep and lamb to-rent. Chaucer.

TORET
Tor"et, n. Etym: [Probably dim. fr. tore, torus.]

Defn: A Turret. [Obs.]

TORET
Tor"et, n.

Defn: A ring for fastening a hawk's leash to the jesses; also, a ring affixed to the collar of a dog, etc. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOREUMATOGRAPHY
To"reu`ma*tog"ra*phy, n. Etym: [Gr. -graphy.]

Defn: A description of sculpture such as bas-relief in metal.

TOREUMATOLOGY
To*reu`ma*tol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy.]

Defn: The art or the description of scupture such as bas-relief in metal; toreumatography.

TOREUTIC
To*reu"tic, a. Etym: [Gr. (Sculp.)

Defn: In relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal.

TORGOCH
Tor"goch, n.

Defn: The saibling. [Prov. Eng.]

TORILTO
To*ril"to, n. Etym: [Cf. Sp. torillo a little bull.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A species of Turnix (Turnix sylvatica) native of Spain and
Northen Africa.

TORINESE
To`rin*ese", a. Etym: [It.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to Turin.
— n. sing. & pl.

Defn: A native or inhabitant of Turin; collectively, the people of
Turin.

TORMENT Tor"ment, n. Etym: [OF. torment, F. tourment, fr. L. tormentum an engine for hurling missiles, an instrument of torture, a rack, torture, fr. torquere to turn, to twist, hurl. See Turture.]

1. (Mil. Antiq.)

Defn: An engine for casting stones. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

2. Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind. Chaucer. The more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. Milton.

3. That which gives pain, vexation, or misery. They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. Matt. iv. 24.

TORMENT Tor*ment", v. t. [imp. & p. p. tormented; p. pr. & vb. n. tormenting.] Etym: [OF. tormenter, F. tourmenter.]

1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " Art thou come hither to torment us before our time " Matt. viii. 29.

2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. Matt. viii. 6.

3. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.]

4. To put into great agitation. [R.] "[They], soaring on main wing, tormented all the air." Milton.

TORMENTER
Tor*ment"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.

2. An executioner. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TORMENTFUL
Tor*ment"ful, a.

Defn: Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. [R.] Tillotson.

TORMENTIL Tor"men*til, n. Etym: [F. tormentille; cf. Pr., It., & NL. tormentilla, Sp. tormentila; all fr. L. tormentum pain. So called because it is said to allay pain. See Torment.] (Bot.)

Defn: A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.

TORMENTING
Tor*ment"ing, a.

Defn: Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream.
— Tor*ment"ing*ly, adv.

TORMENTISE
Tor"ment*ise, n. Etym: [See Torment.]

Defn: Torture; torment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TORMENTOR
Tor*ment"or, n.

1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings. Milton.

2. (Agric.)

Defn: An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert.

TORMENTRESS
Tor*ment"ress, n.

Defn: A woman who torments. Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor. Holland.

TORMENTRY
Tor"ment*ry, n.

Defn: Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TORMINA
Tor"mi*na, n. pl. Etym: [L., a griping in the belly.] (Med.)

Defn: acute, colicky pains; gripes.

TORMINOUS
Tor"mi*nous, a. (Med.)

Defn: Affected with tormina; griping.

TORN
Torn,

Defn: p. p. of Tear.

TORNADO Tor*na"do, n.; pl. Tornadoes. Etym: [From Sp. or Pg. tornar to turn, return, L. tornare to turn, hence, a whirling wind. The Sp. & Pg. tornada is a return. See Turn.]

Defn: A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone.

TORNARIA
Tor*na"ri*a, n.; pl. Tornariæ . Etym: [NL., fr. L. tornare to turn.]
(Zoöl.)

Defn: The peculiar free swimming larva of Balanoglossus. See Illust. in Append.

TOROSE
To*rose", a. Etym: [L. torosus full of muscle, brawny, fleshy. See
Torus.]

Defn: Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.

TOROSITY
To*ros"i*ty, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being torose.

TOROUS
Torous, a.

Defn: Torose.

TORPEDINOUS
Tor*ped"i*nous, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a torpedo; resembling a torpedo; exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid. Fishy were his eyes; torpedinous was his manner. De Quincey.

TORPEDO Tor*pe"do, n.; pl. Torpedoes. Etym: [L. torpedo, -inis, from torpere to be stiff, numb, or torpid. See Torpid.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.

Note: The common European torpedo (T. vulgaris) and the American species (T. occidentalis) are the best known.

2. An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up. Specifically: — (a) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore. (b) A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.

3. (Mil.)

Defn: A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it.

4. (Railroad)

Defn: A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, — used as an alarm signal.

5. An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.

6. A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object. Fish torpedo, a spindle- shaped, or fish-shaped, self-propelling submarine torpedo. — Spar torpedo, a canister or other vessel containing an explosive charge, and attached to the end of a long spar which projects from a ship or boat and is thrust against an enemy's ship, exploding the torpedo. — Torpedo boat, a vessel adapted for carrying, launching, operating, or otherwise making use of, torpedoes against an enemy's ship. — Torpedo nettings, nettings made of chains or bars, which can be suspended around a vessel and allowed to sink beneath the surface of the water, as a protection against torpedoes.

TORPEDO
Tor*pe"do, v. t.

Defn: to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo. London
Spectator.

TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
Tor*pe"do-boat` de*stroy"er.

Defn: A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.

TORPEDO BODY
Tor*pe"do body.

Defn: An automobile body which is built so that the side surfaces are flush. [Cant]

TORPEDO BOOM
Tor*pe"do boom.

Defn: A spar formerly carried by men-of-war, having a torpedo on its end.

TORPEDO CATCHER
Tor*pe"do catch"er.

Defn: A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.

TORPEDOIST
Tor*pe"do*ist, n. (Nav.)

Defn: One skilled in the theory or use of torpedoes; also, one who favors the use of torpedoes.

TORPEDO SHELL
Torpedo shell. (Ordnance)

Defn: A shell longer than a deck-piercing shell, with thinner walls and a larger cavity for the bursting charge, which consists of about 130 pounds of high explosive. It has no soft cap, and is intended to effect its damage by the powerful explosion which follows on slight resistance. It is used chiefly in 12-inch mortars.

TORPEDO STATION
Torpedo station.

Defn: A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually
having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments.
The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
R.I.

TORPEDO STERN
Torpedo stern.

Defn: A broad stern without overhang, flattened on the bottom, used in some torpedo and fast power boats. It prevents settling in the water at high speed.

TORPEDO TUBE
Torpedo tube. (Nav.)

Defn: A tube fixed below or near the water line through which a torpedo is fired, usually by a small charge of gunpowder. On torpedo vessels the tubes are on deck and usually in broadside, on larger vessels usually submerged in broadside and fitted with a movable shield which is pushed out from the vessel's side to protect the torpedo until clear, but formerly sometimes in the bow. In submarine torpedo boats they are in the bow.

TORPENT
Tor"pent, a. Etym: [L. torpens, p. pr. of torpere to be numb.]

Defn: Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid. [Obs.] Evelyn.

TORPESCENCE
Tor*pes"cence, n.

Defn: The quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity.

TORPESCENT Tor*pes"cent, a. Etym: [L. torpescens, p. pr. of torpescere to grow stiff, numb, or torpid, incho. fr. torpere. See Torpid.]

Defn: Becoming torpid or numb. Shenstone.

TORPID Tor"pid, a. Etym: [L. torpidus, fr. torpere to be stiff, numb, or torpid; of uncertain origin.]

1. Having lost motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb. Without heat all things would be torpid. Ray.

2. Dull; stupid; sluggish; inactive. Sir M. Hale.

TORPIDITY
Tor*pid"i*ty, n.

Defn: Same as Torpidness.

TORPIDLY
Tor"pid*ly, adv.

Defn: In a torpid manner.

TORPIDNESS
Tor"pid*ness, n.

Defn: The qualityy or state of being torpid.

TORPIFY
Tor"pi*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Torpified; p. pr. & vb. n. Torpifying.
(.] Etym: [L. torpere to be torpid + -fy.]

Defn: To make torpid; to numb, or benumb.

TORPITUDE
Tor"pi*tude, n.

Defn: Torpidness. [Obs.] "In a kind of torpitude, or sleeping state."
Derham.

TORPOR
Tor"por, n. Etym: [L., from torpere, to be torpid.]

1. Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.

2. Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the mental faculties.

TORPORIFIC
Tor`por*if"ic, a. Etym: [L. torpor torpor + facere to make.]

Defn: Tending to produce torpor.

TORQUATE
Tor"quate, a. Etym: [L. torquatus wearing a collar.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck.

TORQUATED tor"qua*ted, a. Etym: [L. Torqyatus.]

Defn: Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.

TORQUE Torque, n. Etym: [L. torques a twisted neck chain, fr. torquere to twist.]

1. A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.

2. Etym: [L. torquere to twist.] (Mech.)

Defn: That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces. J.
Thomson.

3. (Phys. Science)

Defn: A turning or twisting; tendency to turn, or cause to turn, about an axis.

TORQUED
Torqued, a. Etym: [L. torquere to twist, to turn, to wind.]

1. Wreathed; twisted. [R.]

2. (Her.)

Defn: Twisted; bent; — said of a dolphin haurient, which forms a figure like the letter S.

TORQUES
Tor"ques, n. Etym: [L., a necklace. See Torque, 1.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar.

TORREFACTION
Tor`re*fac"tion, n. Etym: [L.torrefacere,torrefactum, to torrefy: cf.
F. torréfaction. See Torrefy.]

Defn: The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied. Bp. Hall.

TORREFY
Tor"re*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Torrefied; p. pr. & vb. n.
Torrefying.] Etym: [L. torrere to parch + -fy: cf. F. torréfier, L.
torrefacere.] [Written also torrify.]

1. To dry by a fire. Sir T. Browne.

2. (Metal.)

Defn: To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.

3. (Pharm.)

Defn: To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired.

TORRENS SYSTEM
Tor"rens sys`tem.

Defn: A system of registration of titles to land (as distinct from registration of deeds) introduced into South Australia by the Real Property (or Torrens) Act (act 15 of 1857-58), drafted by Sir Robert Torrens (1814-84). Its essential feature is the guaranty by the government of properly registered titles. The system has been generally adopted in Australia and British Columbia, and in its original or a modified form in some other countries, including some States of the United States. Hence Torrens title, etc.

TORRENT
Tor"rent, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. torrens, -entis, fr. torrens burning,
roaring, boiling, p. pr. of torrere to dry by heat, to burn. See
Torrid.]

1. A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice. The roaring torrent is deep and wide. Longfellow.

2. Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence. At length, Erasmus, that great injured name, . . . Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age. Pope.

TORRENT
Tor"rent, a. Etym: [See Torrent, n.]

Defn: Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream. "Waves of torrent fire."
Milton.

TORRENTIAL; TORRENTINE
Tor*ren"tial, Tor*ren"tine, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a torrent; having the character of a torrent; caused by a torrent . [R.]

TORRICELLIAN
Tor`ri*cel"li*an, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer. Torricellian tube, a glass tube thirty or more inches in length, open at the lower end and hermetically sealed at the upper, such as is used in the barometer. — Torricellian vacuum (Physics), a vacuum produced by filling with a fluid, as mercury, a tube hermetically closed at one end, and, after immersing the other end in a vessel of the same fluid, allowing the inclosed fluid to descend till it is counterbalanced by the pressure of the atmosphere, as in the barometer. Hutton.

TORRID Tor"rid, a. Etym: [L. torridus, fr. torrere to parch, to burn, akin to E. Thist: cf. F. torride. See Thirst.]

1. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. "Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil." Milton.

2. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. "Torrid heat." Milton. Torrid zone (Geog.), that space or board belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great.

TORRIDITY
Tor*rid"i*ty, n.

Defn: Torridness. [R.]

TORRIDNESS
Tor"rid*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being torrid or parched.

TORRIL
Tor"ril, n.

Defn: A worthless woman; also, a worthless horse. [Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

TORROCK
Tor"rock, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A gull. [Prov. Eng.]

TORSADE
Tor*sade", n. [F.]

Defn: A twisted cord; also, a molded or worked ornament of similar form.

The crown decked with torsades of pearls.
Harper's Mag.

TORSAL
Tor"sal, n. (Carp.)

Defn: A torsel. Knight.

TORSE Torse, n. Etym: [OF., fr. OF. & F. tors, torse, twisted, wreathed, p. p. of tordre to twist, L. torquere. See Torture.]

1. (Her.)

Defn: A wreath.

2. Etym: [F. tors, torse, twisted.] (Geom.)

Defn: A developable surface. See under Developable.

TORSEL
Tor"sel, n. (Carp.)

Defn: A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on.
Gwilt

TORSIBILLTY
Tor`si*bil"l*ty, n.

Defn: The tendency, as of a rope, to untwist after being twisted.

TORSION Tor"sion, n. Etym: [F., fr. LL. torsio, fr. L. torquere, tortum, to twist. See Torture.]

1. The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.

2. (Mech.)

Defn: That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility. Angle of torsion (of a curve) (Geom.), the indefinitely small angle between two consecutive osculating planes of a curve of double curvature. — Moment of torsion (Mech.) the moment of a pair of equal and opposite couples which tend to twist a body. — Torsion balance (Physics.), an instrument for estimating very minute forces, as electric or magnetic attractions and repulsions, by the torsion of a very slender wire or fiber having at its lower extremity a horizontal bar or needle, upon which the forces act. — Torsion scale, a scale for weighing in which the fulcra of the levers or beams are strained wires or strips acting by torsion.

TORSIONAL
Tor"sion*al, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis; as, torsional force.

TORSION ELECTROMETER
Tor"sion e*lec*trom"e*ter. (Elec.)

Defn: A torsion balance used for measuring electric attraction or repulsion.

TORSION GALVANOMETER
Torsion galvanometer. (Elec.)

Defn: A galvanometer in which current is measured by torsion.

TORSION HEAD
Torsion head.

Defn: That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended.

TORSION INDICATOR
Torsion indicator.

Defn: An autographic torsion meter.

TORSION METER
Torsion meter. (Mech.)

Defn: An instrument for determining the torque on a shaft, and hence the horse power of an engine, esp. of a marine engine of high power, by measuring the amount of twist of a given length of the shaft. Called also torsimeter, torsiometer, torsometer.

TORSK Torsk, n. Etym: [Dan.; akin to Icel. þorskr a codfish, G. dorsch.] (Zoöl.) (a) The cusk. See Cusk. (b) The codfish. Called also tusk.

TORSO
Tor"so, n.; pl. E. Torsos, It. Torsi. Etym: [It. torso, probably fr.
L. thyrsus a stalk, stem, thyrsus, Gr. torso, turso, a stalk, stem,
G. dorsche a cabbage stalk. Cf. Thyrsus, Truss.]

Defn: The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.

TORT Tort, n. Etym: [F., from LL. tortum, fr. L. tortus twisted, crooked, p. p. of torqure to twist, bend. See Torture.]

1. Mischief; injury; calamity. [Obs.] That had them long opprest with tort. Spenser.

2. (Law)

Defn: Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury. Executor de son tort. See under Executor. — Tort feasor (Law), a wrongdoer; a trespasser. Wharton.

TORT
Tort, a.

Defn: Stretched tight; taut. [R.]
Yet holds he them with tortestrein. Emerson.

TORTA
Tor"ta, n. Etym: [Cf. Sp. torta a cake.] (Metal.)

Defn: a flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.

TORTEAU Tor"teau, n.; pl. Torteaus Etym: [Of. torteau, tortel, from L.tortus twisted. See Tort.] (Her.)

Defn: A roundel of a red color.

TORTICOLLIS Tor`ti*col"lis, n. Etym: [F. toricolis; L. torquere, tortum, to twist + collum the neck.] (Med.)

Defn: See Wryneck.

TORTILE
Tor"tile, a. Etym: [L. tortilis, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf.
F. tortile.]

Defn: Twisted; wreathed; coiled.

TORTILITY
Tor*til"i*ty, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being tortile, twisted, or wreathed.

TORTILLA
Tor*til"la, n. Etym: [Sp.]

Defn: An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.

TORTION
Tor"tion, n. Etym: [LL. tortio. See Torsion.]

Defn: Torment; pain. [Obs.] Bacon.

TORTIOUS
Tor"tious, a. Etym: [From Tort.]

1. Injurious; wrongful. [Obs.] "Tortious power." Spenser.

2. (Law)

Defn: Imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law gives damages; involing tort.

TORTIOUSLY
Tor"tious*ly, adv. (Law)

Defn: In a tortous manner.

TORTIVE
Tor"tive, a. Etym: [L. tortus, p.p. of torquere to twist, wind.]

Defn: Twisted; wreathed. Shak.

TORTOISE Tor"toise, n. Etym: [OE. tortuce, fr. OF. tortis crooked, fr. L. tortus isted, crooked, contorted, p.p. of torquere, tortum, to wind; cf. F. tortue tortoise, LL. tortuca, tartuca, Pr. tortesa crookedness, tortis crooked. so called in allusion to its crooked feet. See Torture.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order
Testudinata.

Note: The term is applied especially to the land and fresh-water species, while the marine species are generally called turtles, but the terms tortoise and turtle are used synonymously by many writers. see Testudinata, Terrapin, and Turtle.

2. (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: Same as Testudo, 2. Box tortoise, Land tortoise, etc. See under Box, Land, etc. — Painted tortoise. (Zoöl.) See Painted turtle, under Painted. — Soft-shell tortoise. (Zoöl.) See Trionyx. — Spotted tortoise. (Zoöl.) A small American fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus, or Nanemys, quttatus) having a blackish carapace on which are scattered round yellow spots. — Tortoise beetle (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of small tortoise-shaped beetles. Many of them have a brilliant metallic luster. the larvæ feed upon the leaves of various plants, and protect themselves beneath a mass of dried excrement held over the back by means of the caudal spines. The golden tortoise beetle (Cassida aurichalcea) is found on the morning-glory vine and allied plants. — Tortoise plant. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot, under Elephant. — Tortoise shell, the substance of the shell or horny plates of several species of sea turtles, especially of the hawkbill turtle. It is used in inlaying and in the manufacture of various ornamental articles. — Tortoise-shell butterfly (Zoöl.), any one of several species of handsomely colored butterflies of the genus Aglais, as A. Milberti, and A. urticæ, both of which, in the larva state, feed upon nettles. — Tortoise-shell turtle (Zoöl.), the hawkbill turtle. See Hawkbill.

Defn: having a color like that aof a toroise's shell, black with white and orange spots; — used mostly to describe cats of that color. n.

Defn: a tortoise-shell cat.

TORTRICID
Tor"tri*cid, a. Etym: [See Tortrix.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to Tortix, or the family Tortricidæ.

TORTRIX
Tor"trix, n. Etym: [NL., fr. L. torquere, tortum, to twist.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of small moths of the family Tortricidæ, the larvæ of which usually roll up the leaves of plants on which they live; — also called leaf roller.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of tropical short-tailed snakes, which are not venomous. One species (Tortrix scytalæ) is handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive by the natives of Brazil for a necklace.

TORTULOUS
Tor"tu*lous, a. (Nat. Hist.)

Defn: Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.

TORTUOSE
Tor"tu*ose`, a. Etym: [See Tortuous.]

Defn: Wreathed; twisted; winding. Loudon

TORTUOSLTY
Tor`tu*os"l*ty, n. Etym: [L.tortuositas: cf. F.tortuosite.]

Defn: the quality or state of being tortuous.

TORTUOUS
Tor"tu*ous, a. Etym: [OE. tortuos, L.tortuosus, fr.tortus a twisting,
winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F. tortueux. See
Torture.]

1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla. The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick. Macaulay.

2. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful. That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites. Macaulay.

3. Injurious: tortious. [Obs.]

4. (Astrol.)

Defn: Oblique; — applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from
Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.]
Skeat.
Infortunate ascendent tortuous. Chaucer.
—Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv.
— Tor"tu*ous*ness, n.

TORTURABLE
Tor"tur*a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being tortured.

TORTURE Tor"ture, n. Etym: [F.,fr.L. tortura, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist, rack, torture; probably akin to Gr. tre`pein to turn, G. drechsein to turn on a lathe, and perhaps to E. queer. Cf. Contort, Distort, Extort, Retort, Tart, n., Torch, Torment, Tortion, Tort, Trope.]

1. Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. Shak. Ghastly spasm or racking torture. Milton.

2. Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.

3. The act or process of torturing. Torture, whitch had always been deciared illegal, and which had recently been declared illegal even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May, 1640. Macaulay.

TORTURE
Tor"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tortured (; p. pr. & vb. n. Torturing.]
Etym: [Cf. F. Torturer. ]

1. To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.

2. To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. Shak.

3. To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. Jar. Taylor.

4. To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.] The bow tortureth the string. Bacon.

TORTURER
Tor"tur*er, n.

Defn: One who tortures; a tormentor.

TORTURINGLY
Tor"tur*ing*ly, adv.

Defn: So as to torture. Beau. & Fl.

TORTUROUS
Tor"tur*ous, a.

Defn: Involving, or pertaining to, torture. [R.] "The torturous crucifixion." I. Disraeli.

TORULA Tor"u*la, n.; pl. Torulæ ( Etym: [NL., dim. of L. torus a semicircular molding.] (Biol.) (a) A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.

TORULAFORM
Tor"u*la*form`, a. (Biol.)

Defn: Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci.

TORULOSE
Tor"u*lose, a. Etym: [L. torulus, dim. of torus: cf. F. toruleux. See
Torus] (Bot.)

Defn: Same as Torose.

TORULOUS
Tor"u*lous, a.

Defn: Same as Torose.

TORUS To"rus, n.; pl. Tori. Etym: [L., a round, swelling, or bulging place, an elevation. Cf. 3d Tore.]

1. (Arch.)

Defn: A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding. Brande&C.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolæ.

3. (Bot.)

Defn: The receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand.

4. (Geom.)

Defn: See 3d Tore, 2.

TORVED
Torved, a.

Defn: Stern; grim. See Torvous. [Obs.] But yesterday his breath Awed Rome, and his least torved frown was death. J. Webster (1654).

TORVITY
Tor"vi*ty, a. Etym: [L. torvitas. See Torvous.]

Defn: Sourness or severity of countenance; sterness. [Obs.]

TORVOUS
Tor"vous, a. Etym: [L. torvus. ]

Defn: Sour of aspect; of a severe countenance; stern; grim. [Obs.] That torvous, sour look produced by anger. Derham.

TORY To"ry, n.; pl. Tories. Etym: [ Properly used of the Irish bogtrotters who robbed and plundered during the English civil wars, professing to be in sympathy with the royal cause; hence transferred to those who sought to maintain the extreme prerogatives of the crown; probably from Ir. toiridhe, tor, a pursuer; akin to Ir. & Gael. toir a pursuit.]

1. (Eng.Politics)

Defn: A member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.

Note: The word Tory first occurs in English history in 1679, during the struggle in Parliament occasioned by the introduction of the bill for the exclusion of the duke of York from the line of succession, and was applied by the advocates of the bill to its opponents as a title of obloquy or contempt. The Tories subsequently took a broader ground, and their leading principle became the maintenance of things as they were. The name, however, has for several years ceased to designate an existing party, but is rather applied to certain traditional maxims of public policy. The political successors of the Tories are now commonly known as Conservatives. New Am. Cyc.

2. (Amer. Hist.)

Defn: One who, in the time of the Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.

TORY
To"ry, a.

Defn: Of ro pertaining to the Tories.

TORYISM
To"ry*ism, n.

Defn: The principles of the Tories.

TOSCATTER
To*scat"ter, v. t. Etym: [Pref.to- + scatter.]

Defn: To scatter in pieces; to divide. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOSE
Tose, v. t. Etym: [ See Touse ]

Defn: To tease, or comb, as wool. [Obs.or Prov. Eng.]

TOSH
Tosh, a. Etym: [Cf. OF. tonce shorn, clipped, and E. tonsure.]

Defn: Neat; trim. [Scot.] Jomieson.

TOSHRED
To*shred", v. t. Etym: [Pref. to- + shred. ]

Defn: To cut into shreads or pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOSS
Toss

Defn: , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tossed (; (less properly Tost ); p. pr. & vb. n. Tossing.] Etym: [ W. tosiaw, tosio, to jerk, toss, snatch, tosa quick jerk, a toss, a snatch. ]

1. To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

2. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss
the head.
He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay.
Addison.

3. To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm. We being exceedingly tossed with a tempeat. Act xxvii. 18.

4. To agitate; to make restless. Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. Milton.

5. Hence, to try; to harass. Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men. Herbert.

6. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] Ascham. To toss off, to drink hastily. — To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.

TOSS
Toss, v. i.

1. To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling. To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enreges our pain. Tillotson.

2. To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. Shak. To toss for, to throw dice or a coin to determine the possession of; to gamble for. — To toss up, to throw a coin into the air, and wager on which side it will fall, or determine a question by its fall. Bramsion.

TOSS
Toss, n.

1. A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.

2. A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. Swift.

TOSSEL
Tos"sel, n.

Defn: See Tassel.

TOSSER
Toss"er, n.

Defn: Ohe who tosser. J. Fletcher.

TOSSILY
Toss"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In a tossy manner. [R.]

TOSSING
Toss"ing, n.

1. The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.

2. (Mining) (a) A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; — called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall. Pryce. (b) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.

TOSSPOT
Toss"pot`, n.

Defn: A toper; one habitually given to strong drink; a drunkard.
Shak.

TOSSY
Toss"y, a.

Defn: Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud; contemptuous; scornful; affectedly indifferent; as, a tossy commonplace. [R.] C. Kingsley.

TOST
Tost,

Defn: imp. & p. p. of Toss.

TOSTO
Tos"to, a. Etym: [It.] (Mus.)

Defn: Quick; rapid. Pui tosto ( Etym: [It.] (Mus.), faster; more rapid.

TOSWINK
To*swink", v. i. Etym: [Pref. to- + swink.]

Defn: To labor excessively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOT
Tot, n. Etym: [Cf. Toddle, Tottle, Totter.]

1. Anything small; — frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.

2. A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell.

3. A foolish fellow. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

TOTA
To"ta, n. Etym: [From the native name in Egypt.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The grivet.

TOTAL
To"tal, a. Etym: [F., fr. LL. totalis, fr. L. tolus all,whole. Cf.
Factotum, Surtout, Teetotum.]

Defn: Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a
total departure from the evidence; a total loss. " Total darkness."
"To undergo myself the total crime." Milton. Total abstinence. See
Abstinence, n., 1.
— Total depravity. (Theol.) See Original sin, under Original.

Syn: Whole; entire; complete. See Whole.

TOTAL
To"tal, n.

Defn: The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

TOTALIS
To"tal*is, n. [See Total, a.]

Defn: The total.

I look on nothing but totalis.
B. Jonson.

TOTALISATOR
To"tal*i*sa`tor, n.

Defn: Same as Totalizator.

TOTALITY
To*tal"i*ty, n. Etym: [Cf. F. totalite, LL. totalitas.]

1. The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.

2. The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge. Buckle. The totality of a sentence or passage. Coleridge.

TOTALIZATION
To`tal*i*za"tion, n.

Defn: Act of totalizing, or state of being totalized.

TOTALIZATOR
To"tal*i*za`tor, n. [From Totalize: cf. F. totalisateur.]

Defn: A machine for registering and indicating the number and nature of bets made on horse races, as in Australia and South Africa. Called also totalizer.

TOTALIZE
To"tal*ize, v. t.

Defn: To make total, or complete;to reduce to completeness.
Coleridge.

TOTALIZER
To"tal*i`zer, n.

Defn: Same as Totalizator.

TOTALLY
To"tal*ly, adv.

Defn: In a total manner; wholly; entirely.

TOTALNESS
To"tal*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being total; entireness; totality.

TOTARA
To"ta*ra, n. [Maori.]

Defn: A coniferous tree (Podocarpus totara), next to the kauri the most valuable timber tree of New Zeland. Its hard reddish wood is used for furniture and building, esp. in wharves, bridges, etc. Also mahogany pine.

TOTE Tote, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toted; p. pr. & vb. n. Toting.] Etym: [Said to be of African origin.]

Defn: To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; — a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes.

TOTE
Tote, n. Etym: [L. totum, fr.totus all, whole.]

Defn: The entire body, or all; as, the whole tote. [Colloq.]

TOTEAR
To*tear", v. t. Etym: [Pref. to- + tear. ]

Defn: To tear or rend in pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOTEM To"tem, n. Etym: [Massachusetts Indian wutohtimoin that to which a person or place belongs.]

Defn: A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the
Nord American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a
clan.
And they painted on the grave posts Of the graves, yet unforgotten,
Each his own ancestral totem Each the symbol of his household;
Figures of the bear and reindeer, Of the turtle, crane, and beaver.
Longfellow.
The totem,the clan deity, the beast or bird who in some supernatural
way attends tothe clan and watches over it. Bagehot.

TOTEMIC
To*tem"ic, a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to a totem, or totemism.

TOTEMISM
To"tem*ism, n.

1. The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem.

2. Superstitious regard for a totem; the worship of any real or imaginary object; nature worship. Tylor.

TOTEMIST
To"tem*ist, n.

Defn: One belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem.
— To`tem*is"tic, a.

TOTEM POLE; TOTEM POST
To"tem pole or post.

Defn: A pole or pillar, carved and painted with a series of totemic symbols, set up before the house of certain Indian tribes of the northwest coast of North America, esp. Indians of the Koluschan stock.

TOTER
Tot"er, n. Etym: [See Tote to carry.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The stone roller. See Stone roller (a), under Stone.

T'OTHER
T'oth"er.

Defn: A colloquial contraction of the other, and formerly a contraction for that other. See the Note under That, 2. The tothir that was crucifield with him. Wyclif(John xix. 32)

TOTIPALMATE
To`ti*pal"mate, a. Etym: [L. totus all, whole + E.palmate.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Having all four toes united by a web;-said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves.

TOTIPALMI To`ti*pal"mi, n.pl. Etym: [NL.,from L. totus all, whole + palmus palm.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of swimming birds including those that have totipalmate feet.

TOTIPRESENCE
To`ti*pres"ence, n. Etym: [L. totus all, whole + E.presence.]

Defn: Omnipresence. [Obs.] A. Tucker.

TOTIPRESENT
To`ti*pres"ent, a. Etym: [L. totus all, whole + E. present.]

Defn: Omnipresence. [Obs.] A. Tucker.

TOTTER
Tot"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tottered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tottering.]
Etym: [Probably for older tolter; cf. AS. tealtrian to totter,
vacillate. Cf.Tilt to incline, Toddle, Tottle, Totty.]

1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3.

2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Dryden.

TOTTERER
Tot"ter*er, n.

Defn: One who totters.

TOTTERINGLY
Tot"ter*ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a tottering manner.

TOTTERY
Tot"ter*y, a.

Defn: Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.

TOTTLE
Tot"tle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tottled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tottling.]
Etym: [See Toddle, Totter.]

Defn: To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner; to toddle; to topple.
[Colloq.]

TOTTLISH
Tot"tlish, a.

Defn: Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; un steady.
[Colloq. U.S.]

TOTTY
Tot"ty, a. Etym: [OE. toti. Cf. Totter.]

Defn: Unsteady; dizzy; tottery. [Obs.or Prov. Eng.] Sir W. Scott.
For yet his noule [head] was totty of the must. Spenser.

TOTY
Tot"y, a.

Defn: Totty. [Obs.]
My head is totty of my swink to-night. Chaucer.

TOTY
To"ty, n.

Defn: A sailor or fisherman;-so called in some parts of the Pacific.

TOUCAN
Tou"can, n. Etym: [F., fr. Pg. tucano; from Brazilian name. ]

1. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidæ. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.

2. (Astronom.)

Defn: A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.

TOUCANET
Tou"can*et, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A small toucan.

TOUCH Touch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Touched; p. pr. & vb. n. Touching.] Etym: [F. toucher, OF. touchier, tuchier; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. zucchen, zukken, to twitch, pluck, draw, G. zukken, zukken, v. intens. fr. OHG. ziohan to draw, G. ziehen, akin to E. tug. See Tuck, v. t., Tug, and cf. Tocsin, Toccata.]

1. To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on. Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. Milton.

2. To perceive by the sense of feeling. Nothing but body can be touched or touch. Greech.

3. To come to; to reach; to attain to. The god, vindictive, doomed them never more-Ah, men unblessed! — to touch their natal shore. Pope.

4. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. [Obs.] Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed. Shak.

5. To relate to; to concern; to affect. The quarrel toucheth none but us alone. Shak.

6. To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of. Storial thing that toucheth gentilesse. Chaucer.

7. To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books. Pope.

8. To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to
soften.
What of sweet before Hath touched my sense, flat seems to this and
harsh. Milton.
The tender sire was touched with what he said. Addison.

9. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush. The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right. Pope.

10. To infect; to affect slightly. Bacon.

11. To make an impression on; to have effect upon. Its face . . . so hard that a file will not touch it. Moxon.

12. To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music. [They] touched their golden harps. Milton.

13. To perform, as a tune; to play. A person is the royal retinue touched a light and lively air on the flageolet. Sir W. Scott.

14. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. " No decree of mine, . . . [to] touch with lightest moment of impulse his free will," Milton.

15. To harm, afflict, or distress. Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee. Gen. xxvi. 28, 29.

16. To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; — rarely used except in the past participle. She feared his head was a little touched. Ld. Lytton.

17. (Geom.)

Defn: To be tangent to. See Tangent, a.

18. To lay a hand upon for curing disease. To touch a sail (Naut.), to bring it so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. — To touch the wind (Naut.), to keep the ship as near the wind as possible. — To touch up, to repair; to improve by touches or emendation.

TOUCH
Touch, v. i.

1. To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points. Johnson.

2. To fasten; to take effect; to make impression. [R.] Strong waters pierce metals, and will touch upon gold, that will not touch upon silver. Bacon.

3. To treat anything in discourse, especially in a slight or casual manner; — often with on or upon. If the antiquaries have touched upon it, they immediately quitted it. Addison.

4. (Naut)

Defn: To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes. To touch and go (Naut.), to touch bottom lightly and without damage, as a vessel in motion. — To touch at, to come or go to, without tarrying; as, the ship touched at Lisbon. — To touch on or upon, to come or go to for a short time. [R.] I made a little voyage round the lake, and touched on the several towns that lie on its coasts. Addison.

TOUCH
Touch, n. Etym: [Cf. F. touche. See Touch, v. ]

1. The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact. Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting. Shak.

2. (Physiol.)

Defn: The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine. Pope.

Note: Pure tactile feelings are necessarily rare, since temperature sensations and muscular sensations are more or less combined with them. The organs of touch are found chiefly in the epidermis of the skin and certain underlying nervous structures.

3. Act or power of exciting emotion. Not alone The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches, Do strongly speak to us. Shak.

4. An emotion or affection. A true, natural, and a sensible touch of mercy. Hooker.

5. Personal reference or application. [Obs.] Speech of touch toward others should be sparingly used. Bacon.

6. A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof. I never bare any touch of conscience with greater regret. Eikon Basilike.

7. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture. Never give the least touch with your pencil till you have well examined your design. Dryden.

8. Feature; lineament; trait. Of many faces, eyes, and hearts, To have the touches dearest prized. Shak.

9. The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural,
musical notes.
Soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Shak.

10. A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash. Eyes La touch of Sir Peter Lely in them. Hazlitt. Madam, I have a touch of your condition. Shak.

11. A hint; a suggestion; slight notice. A small touch will put him in mind of them. Bacon.

12. A slight and brief essay. [Colloq.] Print my preface in such form as, in the booksellers' phrase, will make a sixpenny touch. Swift.

13. A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone. [Obs.] " Now do I play the touch." Shak. A neat new monument of touch and alabaster. Fuller.

14. Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test;
proof; tried quality.
Equity, the true touch of all laws. Carew.
Friends of noble touch . Shak.

15. (Mus.)

Defn: The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch, also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch.

16. (Shipbilding)

Defn: The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters. J. Knowles.

17. (Football)

Defn: That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side. Encyc. of Rural Sports.

18. A boys' game; tag. In touch (Football), outside of bounds. T. Hughes. — To be in touch, to be in contact, or in sympathy. — To keep touch. (a) To be true or punctual to a promise or engagement [Obs.]; hence, to fulfill duly a function. My mind and senses keep touch and time. Sir W. Scott. (b) To keep in contact; to maintain connection or sympathy;-with with or of. — Touch and go, a phrase descriptive of a narrow escape. — True as touch (i.e., touchstone), quite true. [Obs.]

TOUCHABLE
Touch"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being touched; tangible.
— Touch"a*ble*ness, n.

TOUCHBACK
Touch"back`, n. (G)

Defn: The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; — distinguished from safety touchdown.

TOUCH-BOX
Touch"-box`, n.

Defn: A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.

TOUCHDOWN
Touch"down`, n. (Football)

Defn: The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal . Safety touchdown. See under Safety.

TOUCHHOLE
Touch"hole`, n.

Defn: The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.

TOUCHILY
Touch"i*ly, adv.

Defn: In a touchy manner.

TOUCHINESS
Touch"i*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.

TOUCHING
Touch"ing, a.

Defn: Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale.
— Touch"ing*ly, adv.

TOUCHING
Touch"ing, prep.

Defn: Concerning; with respect to.
Now, as touching things offered unto idols. 1 Cor. viii. 1.

TOUCHING
Touch"ing, n.

Defn: The sense or act of feeling; touch.

TOUCH-ME-NOT Touch"-me-not`, n. (Bot.) (a) See Impatiens. (b) Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.

TOUCH-NEEDLE
Touch"-nee`dle, n. (Metal.)

Defn: A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.

TOUCH-PAPER
Touch"-pa`per, n.

Defn: Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.

TOUCHSTONE
Touch"stone`, n.

1. (Min.)

Defn: Lydian stone; basanite; — so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.

2. Fig.:

Defn: Any test or criterion by which the qualities of a thing are
tried. Hooker.
The foregoing doctrine affords us also a touchstone for the trial of
spirits. South.
Irish touchstone (Min.), basalt, the stone which composes the Giant's
Causeway.

TOUCHWOOD Touch"wood`, n. Etym: [Probably for tachwood; OE. tache tinder (of uncertain origin) + wood.]

1. Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk.

2. Dried fungi used as tinder; especially, the Polyporus igniarius.

TOUCHY
Touch"y, a. Etym: [For techy, tetchy.]

Defn: Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
[Colloq.]
It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal
attacks. Saintsbury.

TOUGH Tough, a. [Compar. Tougher; superl. Toughest.] Etym: [OE. tough, AS. toh, akin to D. taai, LG. taa, tage, tau, OHG. zahi, G. zähe, and also to AS. getenge near to, close to, oppressive, OS. bitengi.]

1. Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough. "Tough roots and stubs. " Milton.

2. Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews. Cowper. A body made of brass, the crone demands, . . . Tough to the last, and with no toil to tire. Dryden. The basis of his character was caution combined with tough tenacity of purpose. J. A. Symonds.

3. Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm.

4. Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow. So tough a frame she could not bend. Dryden.

5. Severe; violent; as, a tough storm. [Colloq.] " A tough debate. " Fuller. To make it tough, to make it a matter of difficulty; to make it a hard matter. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOUGH-CAKE
Tough"-cake`, n.

Defn: See Tough-pitch (b).

TOUGHEN
Tough"en, v. i.&t. [imp. & p. p. Toughened; p. pr. & vb. n.
Toughening.]

Defn: To grow or make tough, or tougher.

TOUGH-HEAD
Tough"-head`, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The ruddy duck. [ Local U.S. ]

TOUGHISH
Tough"ish, a.

Defn: Tough in a slight degree.

TOUGHLY
Tough"ly, adv.

Defn: In a tough manner.

TOUGHNESS
Tough"ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being tough.

TOUGH-PITCH Tough"-pitch`, n. (Metal.) (a) The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. (b) Copper so reduced; — called also tough-cake.

TOUITE
Tou"ite, n.

Defn: The wood warbler. [Prov. Eng.]

TOUPEE; TOUPET
Tou*pee", Tou*pet", n. Etym: [F. toupet, dim. of OF. top a tuft; of
Teutonic origin, and akin to E. top. See Top apex, and cf. Topet.]

1. A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.

2. A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig. Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee. G. Eliot.

TOUPETTIT
Tou"pet*tit, n. Etym: [See Topet, toupee.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: The crested titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

TOUR
Tour, n. Etym: [F. tour. See Tower.]

Defn: A tower. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOUR
Tour, n. Etym: [F. tour. See Turn, v. t.]

1. A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England. The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour. Milton.

2. A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies. [Obs.] Blackmore.

3. (Mil.)

Defn: anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.

Syn.
— Journey; excursion. See Journey.

TOUR
Tour, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Toured; p. pr. & vb. n. Touring.]

Defn: To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country. T. Hughes.

TOURACO
Tou*ra"co, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Turacou.

TOURBILLION
Tour*bil"lion, n. Etym: [F. torbillion a whirlwind, tourbillion, fr.
L. turbo, -inis, a whirl, whirlwind.]

Defn: An ornamental firework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire. G. Francis.

TOURING CAR
Tour"ing car.

Defn: An automobile designed for touring; specif., a roomy car, not a limousine, for five or more passengers.

TOURIST
Tour"ist, n.

Defn: One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.

TOURMALINE
Tour"ma*line, n. Etym: [F. tourmaline, cf. It. turmalina, tormalina,
NL. turmalina, turmalinus; all fr. tournamal, a name given to this
stone in Ceylon.] (Min.)

Defn: A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels. [Written also turmaline .]

Note: Crystals of tourmaline when heated exhibit electric polarity (see Pyroelectric, n.). Tourmaline is also used in the form of a polariscope called tourmaline tongs.

TOURN
Tourn, n. Etym: [See Turn]

1. A spinning wheel. [Prov. Eng.]

2. (O.Eng.Law)

Defn: The sheriff's turn, or court.

TOURNAMENT
Tour"na*ment, n. Etym: [OE. turnement, tornement, OF. torneiement,
tornoiement, F. tournoiement a turning or wheeling round. See
Tourney.]

1. A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle. "In battle and in tourneyment." Chaucer. With cruel tournament the squadrons join. Milton.

Note: It different from the joust, which was a trial of skill between one man and another.

2. Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.

TOURNERY
Tourn"er*y, n.

Defn: Work turned on a lathe; turnery.[Obs.] See Turnery. Evelyn.

TOURNEY Tour"ney, n. Etym: [OF. tornei, tornoi, F. tournoi, fr. OF. torneier, tornoier, tournoier, to tit, to tourney, F. tournoyer to turn round and round. See Turn, v. t.]

Defn: A tournament. Bacon.
At tilt or tourney or like warlike game. Spenser.
We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for
half the work. Tennyson.

TOURNEY
Tour"ney, v. i. Etym: [Cf.OF. torneier. See Tourney, n. ]

Defn: To perform in tournaments; to tilt.
Well could he tourney, and in lists debate. Spenser.

TOURNIQUET
Tour"ni*quet, n. Etym: [F., fr. tourner to turn.] (Surg.)

Defn: An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.

TOURNOIS
Tour`nois", n. Etym: [F., belonging to Tours in France.]

Defn: A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.

TOURNURE
Tour*nure", n. Etym: [F., fr. tourner to turn.]

1. Turn; contour; figure.

2. Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.

TOUSE; TOUZE
Touse, Touze, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Toused; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tousing.] Etym: [OE. tosen sq. root64. See tease, and cf. Tose, Toze.
]

Defn: To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] Shak.
As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. Spenser.

TOUSE
Touse, n.

Defn: A pulling; a disturbance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

TOUSEL
Tous"el, v. t.

Defn: Same as Tousle. [Colloq.]

TOUSER
Tous"er, n.

Defn: One who touses. [Prov. Eng.]

TOUSLE
Tou"sle, v. t. Etym: [Freq. of touse. Cf.Tossle.]

Defn: To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse. [Colloq.]

TOUS-LES-MOIS
Tous`-les`-mois", n. Etym: [F., all the months, i.e., every month.]

Defn: A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.

TOUSY
Tou"sy, a. [See Touse, n. & v.]

Defn: Tousled; tangled; rough; shaggy. [Colloq.]

TOUT
Tout, v. t. Etym: [See 1st Toot.]

1. To act as a tout. See 2d Tout. [Cant. Eng.]

2. To ply or seek for customers. [Prov. Eng.]

TOUT
Tout, n.

Defn: One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting. [Cant. Eng.]

TOUT
Tout, v. t. Etym: [See 3d Toot. ]

Defn: To toot a horn.

TOUT
Tout, n

Defn: The anus. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOUT-ENSEMBLE
Tout`-en`sem"ble, n. Etym: [F.]

Defn: All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts.

TOUTER
Tout"er, n.

Defn: One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. [Colloq.] The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the police. Dickens.

TOUZE
Touze, v.t & i.

Defn: See Touse. [Prov. Eng.]

TOW
Tow, n. Etym: [OE. tow, AS. tow, akin to OD. touw, Icel. taw, v.t.]

Defn: The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.

TOW Tow, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Towed; p. pr. & vb. n. Towing.] Etym: [OE. towen, totoga to pull about, OHG. zogon, Icel. toga, AS. tohline a towline, and AS.teón to draw, p.p. getogen. See Tug]

Defn: To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.

TOW Tow, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel.taug a rope, from the same root as E.tow, v. t.]

1. A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.

2. The act of towing, or the state of being towed;-chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow.

3. That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.

TOWAGE
Tow"age, n. Etym: [From Tow, v..cf. F. touage.]

1. The act of towing.

2. The price paid for towing.

TOWALL
Tow"all, n.

Defn: A towel. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOWARD; TOWARDS
To"ward, To"wards, prep.Etym: [AS. To, and -ward, wards.]

1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak.

2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil toward his brother. Deut. xxviii. 54. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men. Acts xxiv. 16.

3. Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of. This was the first alarm England received towards any trouble. Clarendom.

4. Near; about; approaching to. I am toward nine years older since I left you. Swift.

TOWARD; TOWARDS
To"ward, To"wards adv.

Defn: Near; at hand; in state of preparation.
Do you hear sught, sir, of a battle toward Shak.
We have a trifling foolish banquet Towards. Shak.

TOWARD
To"ward, a. Etym: [AS. Toward, prep.]

1. Approaching; coming near. "His toward peril." Spenser.

2. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.

3. Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant. Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. Shak.

TOWARDLINESS
To"ward*li*ness, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being towardly; docility;
tractableness.
The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to
envy. Sir W. Raleigh.

TOWARDLY
To"ward*ly, a.

Defn: Same as Toward, a., 2.
He's towardly and will come on apace. Dryden.

TOWARDNESS
To"ward*ness, n.

Defn: Quality or state of being toward.

TOWARDS
To"wards (, prep. & adv.

Defn: See Toward.

TOWBOAT
Tow"boat`, n.

1. A vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat.

2. A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.

TOWEL Tow"el, n. Etym: [OE.towaille, towail, F. touaille, LL. toacula, of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. dwahila, swahilla, G. zwehle, fr. OHG. dwahan to wash; akin to D. dwaal a towel, AS. þweán to wash, OS. thwahan, Icel. þva, Sw. två, Dan. toe, Goth. þwahan. Cf. Doily.]

Defn: A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath. Towel gourd (Bot.), the fruit of the cucurbitaceous plant Luffa Ægyptiaca; also, the plant itself. The fruit is very fibrous, and, when separated from its rind and seeds, is used as a sponge or towel. Called also Egyptian bath sponge, and dishcloth.

TOWEL
Tow"el, v. t.

Defn: To beat with a stick. [Prov. Eng.]

TOWELING
Tow"el*ing, n.

Defn: Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc. [Written also towelling.]

TOWER
Tow"er, n. Etym: [OE. tour,tor,tur, F. tour, L. turris; akin to Gr.
twr a tower, Ir. tor a castle, Gael. torr a tower, castle. Cf. Tor,
Turret.]

1. (Arch.) (a) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion. (b) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher. (c) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.

2. A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense. Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. Ps. lxi. 3.

3. A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress. Lay trains of amorous intrigues In towers, and curls, and periwigs. Hudibras.

4. High flight; elevation. [Obs.] Johnson. Gay Lussac's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the sulphuric acid process, to absorb (by means of concentrated acid) the spent nitrous fumes that they may be returned to the Glover's tower to be reemployed. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Glover's tower, below. — Glover's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalytic, effect the conversion of sulphurous to sulphuric acid. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Gay Lussac's tower, above. — Round tower. See under Round, a. — Shot tower. See under Shot. — Tower bastion (Fort.), a bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works. — Tower mustard (Bot.), the cruciferous plant Arabis perfoliata. — Tower of London, a collection of buildings in the eastern part of London, formerly containing a state prison, and now used as an arsenal and repository of various objects of public interest.

TOWER
Tow"er, v. i. [imp. & p. p. towered; p. pr. & vb. n. towering.]

Defn: To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high;
hence, to soar.
On the other side an high rock towered still. Spenser.
My lord protector's hawks do tower so well. Shak.

TOWER
Tow"er, v. t.

Defn: To soar into. [Obs.] Milton.

TOWERED
Tow"ered, a.

Defn: Adorned or defended by towers.
Towered cities please us then. Milton.

TOWERING
Tow"er*ing, a.

1. Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height. Pope.

2. Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing. A man agitated by a towering passion. Sir W. Scott.

TOWERY
Tow"er*y, a.

Defn: Having towers; adorned or defended by towers. [R.] "Towery cities." Pope.

TOW-HEAD
Tow"-head`, n.

1. An urchin who has soft, whitish hair. [Colloq.]

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The hooded merganser. [ Local, U.S. ]

TOWHEE
To*whee", n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The chewink.

TOWILLY
To*wil"ly, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: The sanderling; — so called from its cry. [Prov. Eng.]

TOWLINE
Tow"line`, n. Etym: [AS. tohline. See Tow, v. t., and Line. ] (Naut.)

Defn: A line used to tow vessels; a towrope.

TOWN
Town, n. Etym: [OE. toun, tun, AS. tun inclosure, fence, village,
town; akin to D. tuin a garden, G. zaun a hadge, fence, OHG. zun,
Icel. tun an inclosure, homestead, house, Ir. & Gael. dun a fortress,
W. din. Cf. Down, adv. & prep., Dune, tine to inclose.]

1. Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

2. Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop. [Eng.] Johnson.

3. Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities. God made the country, and man made the town. Cowper.

4. The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.

5. A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country. [U.S.]

6. The court end of London;-commonly with the.

7. The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country. Always hankering after the diversions of the town. Addison. Stunned with his giddy larum half the town. Pope.

Note: The same form of expressions is used in regard to other populous towns.

8. A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard. [Prov. Eng.& Scot.]

Note: Town is often used adjectively or in combination with other words; as, town clerk, or town-clerk; town-crier, or town crier; townhall, town-hall, or town hall; townhouse, town house, or town- house.

Syn. — Village; hamlet. See Village. Town clerk, an office who keeps the records of a town, and enters its official proceedings. See Clerk. — Town cress (Bot.), the garden cress, or peppergrass. Dr. Prior. — Town house. (a) A house in town, in distinction from a house in the country. (b) See Townhouse. — Town meeting, a legal meeting of the inhabitants of a town entitled to vote, for the transaction of public bisiness. [U.S.] — Town talk, the common talk of a place; the subject or topic of common conversation.

TOWN-CRIER
Town"-cri`er, n.

Defn: A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.

TOWNED
Towned, a.

Defn: Having towns; containing many towns. [Obs.] Hakluyt.

TOWNHALL
Town"hall`, n.

Defn: A public hall or building, belonging to a town, where the public offices are established, the town council meets, the people assemble in town meeting, etc.

TOWNHOUSE
Town"house`, n.

Defn: A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.

TOWNISH
Town"ish, a

Defn: Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town.
[R.] Turbervile.

TOWNLESS
Town"less, a.

Defn: Having no town. Howell.

TOWNLET
Town"let, n.

Defn: A small town. North Brit. Rev.

TOWNSFOLK
Towns"folk`, n.

Defn: The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.

TOWNSHIP
Town"ship, n.

1. The district or territory of a town.

Note: In the United States, many of the States are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their own affairs, such as repairing roads and providing for the poor. The township is subordinate to the county.

2. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.

3. In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.

TOWNSMAN
Towns"man, n.; pl. Townsmen (-men).

1. An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another. Pope.

2. A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.

TOWNSPEOPLE
Towns"peo`ple, n.

Defn: The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.

TOWNWARD; TOWNWARDS
Town"ward, Town"wards,, adv.

Defn: Toward a town. Longfellow.

TOWPATH
Tow"path`, n.

Defn: A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; — called also towing path.

TOWROPE
Tow"rope`, n.

Defn: A rope used in towing vessels.

TOWSER
Tow"ser, n. Etym: [See Touse to pull about. ]

Defn: A familiar name for a dog. [ Written also Towzer. ]

TOWY
Tow"y, a.

Defn: Composed of, or like, tow.

TOXAEMIA; TOXEMIA
Tox*ae"mi*a or Tox*e"mi*a, a. Etym: [NL.,fr.Gr. (Med.)

Defn: Blood poisoning. See under Blood.

TOXALBUMIN
Tox`al*bu"min, n. [See Toxic; Albumin.] (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: Any of a class of toxic substances of protein nature; a toxin.

TOXIC; TOXICAL Tox"ic, Tox"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. toxicum poison, originally, a poison in which arrows were dipped, Gr. Intoxicate.]

Defn: Of or pertaining to poison; poisonous; as, toxic medicines.

TOXICANT
Tox"i*cant, n.

Defn: A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant.

TOXICATION Tox`i*ca"tion, n. [L. toxicum a poison: cf. toxicatus smeared with poison.]

Defn: Poisoning.

TOXICITY
Tox*ic"i*ty, n.

Defn: The quality or state of being toxic or poisonous; poisonousness.

TOXICOGENIC
Tox`i*co*gen"ic, a. [See Toxic, and -genic.] (Physiol. & Med.)

Defn: Producing toxic products; as, toxicogenic germs or bacteria.

TOXICOLOGICAL
Tox`i*co*log"ic*al, a. Etym: [Cf.F. toxicologique. ]

Defn: Of or pertaining to toxicology.
— Tox`i*co*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

TOXICOLOGIST
Tox`i*col"o*gist, n.

Defn: One versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on poisons.

TOXICOLOGY
Tox`i*col"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr.toxicologie. See Toxic. ]

Defn: The science which treats of poisons, their effects, antidotes, and recignition; also, a discourse or treatise on the science.

TOXICOMANIA
Tox`i*co*ma"ni*a, n. Etym: [See. Toxic, and Mania.]

1. (Med.)

Defn: Toxiphobia. A. S. Taylor.

2. (Med.)

Defn: An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium. B. W. Richardson.

TOXIFERA
Tox*if"e*ra, n.pl. Etym: [NL.,fr.Gr.ferre to bear.] (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Toxoglossa.

TOXIN; TOXINE
Tox"in, Tox"ine, n. Etym: [Gr.Toxic. ]

Defn: A poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine.

TOXIPHOBIA
Tox`i*pho"bi*a, n. Etym: [NL.,fr.Gr. (Med.)

Defn: An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.

TOXODON
Tox"o*don, n. Etym: [Gr. (Paleon.)

Defn: A gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.

TOXODONTA
Tox`o*don"ta, n.pl. Etym: [NL.] (Paleon.)

Defn: An extinct order of Mammalia found in the South American Tertiary formation. The incisor teeth were long and curved and provided with a persistent pulp. They are supposed to be related both to the rodents and ungulates. Called also Toxodontia.

TOXOGLOSSA
Tox`o*glos"sa, n.pl. Etym: [NL.,fr.Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A division of marine gastropod mollusks in which the radula are
converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (Conus), Pleurotoma, and
Terebra, are examples. See Illust. of Cone, n., 4, Pleurotoma, and
Terebra.

TOXOID
Tox"oid, n. [Toxin + -oid.] (Physiol. Chem.)

Defn: An altered form of a toxin, possessing little or no toxic power.

TOXOPHILITE
Tox*oph"i*lite, n. Etym: [Gr. to`xon a bow + filei^n to love.]

Defn: A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.

TOXOTES
Tox"o*tes, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)

Defn: A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish.

TOY Toy, n. Etym: [D. tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash, speeltuig playthings, toys; akin to G. zeug stuff, materials, MNG. zuic, Icel. tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of E. tug, v.t.; cf.G. zeugen to beget, MHG.ziugen to beget, make ready, procure. See Tug, v. t.]

1. A plaything for children; a bawble. Cowper.

2. A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle. They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys, great abundance of gold and pearl. Abr. Abbot.

3. A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
To fly about playing their wanton toys. Spenser.
What if a toy take'em in the heels now, and they all run away. Beau.
&Fl.
Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell. Drayton.

4. Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime. Milton. To dally thus with death is no fit toy. Spenser.

5. An old story; a silly tale. Shak.

6. Etym: [Probably the same word.]

Defn: A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; — called also toy mutch. [Scot.] "Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid." Sir W. Scott.

TOY
Toy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. toyed; p. pr. & vb. n. toying.]

Defn: To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
To toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest. Shak.

TOY
Toy, v. t.

Defn: To treat foolishly. [Obs.] E. Dering (1576).

TOYEAR
To*year, adv. Etym: [To, prep. + year. ]

Defn: This year. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOYER
Toy"er, n.

Defn: One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.

TOYFUL
Toy"ful, a.

Defn: Full of trifling play. [Obs.] Donne.

TOYHOUSE
Toy"house`, n.

Defn: A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.

TOYINGLY
Toy"ing*ly, adv.

Defn: In a toying manner.

TOYISH
Toy"ish, a

1. Sportive; trifling; wanton.

2. Resembling a toy. —Toy"ish*ly, dv.-Toy"ish*ness, n.

TOYMAN
Toy"man, n.

Defn: One who deals toys.

TOYSHOP
Toy"shop`, n.

Defn: A shop where toys are sold.

TOYSOME
Toy"some, a.

Defn: Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton. [R.] Ford.

TOZE
Toze, v. t.

Defn: To pull violently; to touse. [Obs.]

TOZY
To"zy, a. Etym: [See Toze ]

Defn: Soft, like wool that has been teased.
— To"zi*ness, n.

TRABEA
Tra"be*a, n.; pl. Trabeæ. Etym: [L.] (Rom. Antiq.)

Defn: A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes.
— worn by kings, consuls, and augurs. Dr. W. Smith.

TRABEATED
Tra"be*a`ted, a. (Arch.)

Defn: Furnished with an entablature.

TRABEATION
Tra`be*a"tion, n. Etym: [L.trabs, trabis, a beam, a timber.] (Arch.)

Defn: Same as Entablature.

TRABECULA
Tra*bec"u*la, n.; pl. Trabeculæ (-le). Etym: [L., a little beam.]
(Anat.)

Defn: A small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in the framework of an organ part.

TRABECULAR
Tra*bec"u*lar, a. (Anat.)

Defn: Of or pertaining to a trabecula or trabeculæ; composed of trabeculæ.

TRABECULATE
Tra*bec"u*late, a. (Bot.)

Defn: Crossbarred, as the ducts in a banana stem.

TRABU
Tra"bu, n. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Same as Trubu.

TRACE
Trace, n. Etym: [F.trais. pl. of trait. See Trait.]

Defn: One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.

TRACE
Trace, n. Etym: [F. trace. See Trace, v. t. ]

1. A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace. Milton.

2. (Chem.&Min.)

Defn: A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis;-hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.

3. A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige. The shady empire shall retain no trace Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase. Pope.

4. (Descriptive Geom.&Persp.)

Defn: The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.

5. (Fort.)

Defn: The ground plan of a work or works. Syn.-Vestige; mark; token.
See Vestige.

TRACE
Trace, v. t. [imp. & p. p. traced; p. pr. & vb. n. tracing.] Etym:
[OF. tracier, F. tracer, from (assumed) LL. tractiare, fr.L. tractus,
p. p. of trahere to draw. Cf. Abstract, Attract, Contract, Portratt,
Tract, Trail, Train, Treat. ]

1. To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing. Some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly lading into the twilight of the woods. Hawthorne.

2. To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens. Cowper. You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. T. Burnet. I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents. Milton.

3. Hence, to follow the trace or track of. How all the way the prince on footpace traced. Spenser.

4. To copy; to imitate. That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word, and line by line. Denham.

5. To walk over; to pass through; to traverse. We do tracethis alley up and down. Shak.

TRACE
Trace, v. i.

Defn: To walk; to go; to travel. [Obs.]
Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace. Spenser.

TRACEABLE
Trace"a*ble, a.

Defn: Capable of being traced.
— Trace"a*ble*ness, n.
— Trace"a/bly, adv.

TRACER
Tra"cer, n.

Defn: One who, or that which, traces.

TRACERY
Tra"cery, n.; pl. Traceries ( (Arch.)

Defn: Ornamental work with rambled lines. Especially: — (a) The decorative head of a Gothic window.