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.

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.

One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer.

See Dolmen.

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.

A tollbooth; also, a merchants' meeting place, or exchange.

Of or pertaining to Tolstoy (1828-1910). 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.

A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court.

One of a race which formerly occupied Mexico.

A fragrant balsam said to have been first brought from Santiago de Tolu, in New Granada. See Balsam of Tolu, under Balsam.

A salt of any one of the toluic acids.

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.

Tolyl.

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.

A complex double tolyl and toluidine derivative of glycocoll, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

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.

Same as Toluene.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of three isomeric crystalline acids, C9H10ON.CO2H, which are toluyl derivatives of glycocoll.

A pacing or ambling.

Any one of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids.

Same as Stilbene. Sometimes, but less properly, tolylene.

The hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C6H4, regarded as characteristic of certain compounds of the aromatic series related to toluene; as, tolyl carbinol.

A hydrocarbon radical, C6H4.(CH2)2, regarded as characteristic of certain toluene derivatives.

The apar.

A familiar contraction of Thomas, a proper name of a man.

See Tam-tam.

To cut, strike, or kill, with a tomahawk.

The liver of the lobster, which becomes green when boiled; -- called also tomalline.

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.

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.

To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.

An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German brass 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.

A female dancer.

Destitute of a tomb.

A romping girl; a hoiden.

A stone or small stone monument erected over a grave, bearing the name of the dead person interred there, to preserve the memory of the deceased.

A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.

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. The kingfish. See Kingfish (a). The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c).

As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous volume.

All small tome, or volume.

Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.