A little teat; a nipple.
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To stumble.
The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling.
A titulary.
The quality or state of being titular.
In a titular manner; nominally; by title only.
Consisting in a title; titular.
Having a title.
To mark with tiver.
A game resembling bagatelle, played on a special oblong board or table (Tivoli board or Tivoli 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.
With great speed; -- a huntsman's word or sound.
See Ulexite.
Thin Layer Chromatography. An initialism.
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 (1913) work in the salmon industry.
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.
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 from.
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 beat thoroughly or severely.
To break completely; to break in pieces.
To burst or break in pieces.
The present day.
Bustle; stir; commotion; ado.
A lean-to. See Lean-to.
A name added, for the sake of distinction, to one's surname, or used instead of it.
To rend in pieces.
Any one of numerous species of batrachians belonging to the genus Bufo and allied genera, especially those of the family Bufonidae. 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.
A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady.
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. The angler. A swellfish.
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.
The golden plover.
Like a toad.
A small toad.
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.
A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.
To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.
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.
One who toasts.
a. n. from Toast, v.
A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
The handle of a joiner's plane.
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.
Smoking tobacco.
A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end.
A stout twilled silk used for dresses.
A book of the Apocrypha.
To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
One who practices tobogganing.
A small jug, pitcher, or mug, generally used for ale, shaped somewhat like a stout man, with a cocked hat forming the brim.
An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio.
A short or simple toccata.
Dowry brought by a bride to her husband.
A spotted lizard native of India.
A toucan (Ramphastos toco) having a very large beak. See Illust. under Toucan.
The science of obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition.
A cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end.
An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.
To weigh; to yield in tods.
A toddling walk.
One who toddles; especially, a young child.
A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.
Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.
To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way).
Having (such or so many) toes; -- chiefly used in composition; as, narrow-toed, four-toed.
A fop; a beau; a swell.
Taffy.
Before.
A knoll or hill.
The owner of a toft. See Toft, 3.
Tophus.
To put toggery, or togs, on; to dress; -- usually with out, implying care, elaborateness, or the like.
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 praetexta.
Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned.
Togated.
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.
Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery.
To change the value of (a program variable) by activating a toggle switch; as, to toggle the view from character to graphic mode; to toggle the keyboard input from insert to overtype mode.
an electrical switch operated by pushing a lever through a small angle of deflection. The lever has a spring which returns it to its original position after the pressure applied by the operator is released.
Taut.
Together.
Clothes; garments; toggery.
The namaycush.
To hew in pieces.
Chaos; confusion.
Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.
One who toils, or labors painfully.
A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.
See Toilet, 3.
Producing or involving much toil; laborious; toilsome; as, toilful care.
A cloth, the weft of which is of woolen yarn, and the warp of cotton and silk, -- used for waistcoats.
Free from toil.
Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.
An old measure of length in France, containing six French feet, or about 6.3946 French feet.
A sheep's fleece.
A grape of an oval shape and whitish color.
To betoken.
Marked by tokens, or spots; as, the tokened pestilence.
Without a token.
A tocsin.
To take away. See Toll.
A weight of British India. The standard tola is equal to 180 grains.
A hydrocarbon, C14H10, related both to the acetylene and the aromatic series, and produced artificially as a white crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl acetylene.
See Tollbooth.
imp. p. p. of Tell.
To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait.
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.
The quality or state of being tolerable.
Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.
The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.
Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent.
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.
The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.
To collect, as a toll.
Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods.
Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll.
To imprison in a tollbooth.
One who tolls a bell.
Of or pertaining to Toledo in Spain; made in Toledo.
A gate where toll is taken.
A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.
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