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.

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.

Having the tonsure; shaven; shorn; clipped; hence, bald.

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.

Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus.

A simpleton.

imp. of Take.

To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.

the part that supports a tool-post or a tool.

The part of a tool-rest in which a cutting tool is clamped.

Work performed with a tool.

To empty.

The reddish brown wood of an East Indian tree (Cedrela Toona) closely resembling the Spanish cedar; also. the tree itself.

Same as Toon.

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.

One who toots; one who plays upon a pipe or horn.

To furnish with teeth.

Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.

Any notodontian.

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. Its color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea.

A brush for cleaning the teeth.

One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist.

Having teeth; furnished with teeth.

Toothsome.

The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

Having no teeth.

A little tooth, or like projection.

Having a toothlet or toothlets; as, a toothleted leaf.

A pointed instrument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.

A toothpick.

Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth-shaped shell. See Dentalium.

Grateful to the taste; palatable.

A plant whose roots are fancied to resemble teeth, as certain plants of the genus Lathraea, and various species of Dentaria. See Coralwort.

Toothed; with teeth.

To toot gently, repeatedly, or continuously, on a wind instrument, as a flute; also, to make a similar noise by any means.

The ringdove.

To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle.

the most prominent place in an advertisement or program for a theatrical performance, movie, fundraising affair, etc.; the place where the star's name usually is located.

containing information whose disclosure could result in grave danger to the national security; -- the highest of the three commonly known levels of national security classification, the others being confidential and secret.