Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.
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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.
Tomentose.
The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.
A great fool; a trifler.
Trifling or silly behavior done mostly for amusement; foolishness; fooling around.
Same as tomfoolery.
The cutting edge of the bill of a bird.
A kind of open sedan used in Ceylon, carried by a single pole on men's shoulders.
Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.
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.
A sea bird, the puffin.
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.
To-morrow.
The day after the present; the morrow.
A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.
An inking pad used in lithographic printing.
A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy.
A Florida and West Indian grunt (Bathystoma rimator or Haemulon rimator); also, any of various allied species.
A titmouse, especially the blue titmouse. The wren.
A measure of weight or quantity.
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.
To utter with an affected tone.
Having (such) a tone; -- chiefly used in composition; as, high-toned; sweet-toned.
Having no tone; unmusical.
In China, an association, secret society, or organization of any kind; in the United States, usually, a secret association of Chinese such as that of the highbinders; in the U. S. the tongs have been frequently associated with criminal activity and gang warfare.
A kind of light two-wheeled vehicle, usually for four persons, drawn by ponies or bullocks.
Tongue.
A kind of boat or junk used in the seas of the Malay Archipelago.
The mangrove; -- so called in the Pacific Islands.
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.
To talk; to prate.
A great talker.
Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
Any species of Lingula.
To deprive of speech or the power of speech, or of distinct articulation.
Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short fraenum.
The wryneck.
Having a tongue.
A flounder (Symphurus plagiusa) native of the southern coast of the United States.
Having no tongue.
A little tongue.
One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip.
Any species of Linguatulina.
Modification of tone for a rapid staccato effect by the performer's tongue, in playing a wind instrument, as a flute. In single tonguing only one kind of stroke is used, the tongue articulating a rapid /t;/ in double tonguing, two strokes, as for /t/ and /k,/ are alternated; in triple tonguing, /t, k, t,/ etc.
Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker.
A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
Tonic.
The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.
The present or the coming night; the night after the present day.
An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton.
A metric ton.
In France, a light-wheeled vehicle with square or rounded body and rear entrance.
The female of the bullfinch; -- called also tonyhoop.
In the ton; fashionable; modish.
An instrument for determining the rate of vibrations in tones.
The act of measuring with a tonometer; measurement of tension, esp. the tension of the eyeball.
A modification of the kaleidophon, for showing composition of acoustic vibrations. It consists of two thin slips of steel welded together, their length being adjustable by a screw socket.
Abounding in tone or sound.
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.
Of or pertaining to the tonsils; tonsilitic.
Capable of being clipped.
Tonsilar.
Inflammation of the tonsils; quinsy.
The operation of removing the tonsils; -- formerly also called tonsilotomy.
Inflammation of the tonsils; --- same as tonsilitis.
An instrument for removing the tonsils.
The operation of removing the tonsils, or a portion thereof; -- called more commonly tonsillectomy.
A barber.
Of or pertaining to a barber, or shaving.
The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn.
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