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Totality

The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.

Totalizator

A machine for registering and indicating the number and nature of bets made on horse races. Called also totalizer.

Totally

In a total manner; wholly; entirely.

Totalness

The quality or state of being total; entireness; totality.

Totara

A coniferous tree (Podocarpus totara), next to the kauri the most valuable timber tree of New Zealand. Its hard reddish wood is used for furniture and building, esp. in wharves, bridges, etc. Also mahogany pine.

Tote

The entire body, or all; as, the whole tote.

Totear

To tear or rend in pieces.

Totem

A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan; also, the object or animal itself, considered as an symbol of the family.

Totemic

Of or pertaining to a totem, or totemism.

Totemism

The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem.

Totemist

One belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem.

Toter

The stone roller. See Stone roller (a), under Stone.

Totipalmate

Having all four toes united by a web; -- said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves.

Totipalmi

A division of swimming birds including those that have totipalmate feet.

Totter

To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as, an old man totters with age.

Tottery

Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking.

Tottle

To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner; to toddle; to topple.

Tottlish

Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; unsteady.

Totty

Unsteady; dizzy; tottery.

Toty

A sailor or fisherman; -- so called in some parts of the Pacific.

Toucan

Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. 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.

Touch

The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact.

touch on

To mention briefly, or in passing.

touch up

To make minor improvements in, especially in the appearance.

touch up paint

A paint applied to small areas of a painted surface, to cover small blemishes, especially on an automobile.

Touch-box

A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.

Touch-me-not

See Impatiens. Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.

Touch-needle

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

Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.

Touchback

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.

Touchdown

The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal; also the score (6 points) resulting from such a play.

Touchhole

The vent of a cannon or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.

Touchiness

The quality or state of being touchy; peevishness; irritability; irascibility.

Touching

The sense or act of feeling; touch.

Touchstone

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.

Touchy

Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.

Tough

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

A person who is tough{7}; a ruffian; a thug; as, a cluster of neighborhood toughs hanging out on the corner.

Tough-pitch

The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.

Toughen

To grow or make tough, or tougher.

Toughness

The quality or state of being tough.

Tour

To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.

Tourbillion

An ornamental firework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire.

Tourist

One who makes a tour, or performs a journey, especially for pleasure.

Tourmaline

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.

Tournament

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.

Tournery

Work turned on a lathe; turnery.

Tourney

To perform in tournaments; to tilt.

Tourniquet

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

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.

Tous-les-mois

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 Canna edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.

Tousche Tushe Tusche

A lithographic drawing or painting material of the same nature as lithographic ink. It is also used as a resistant in the biting-in process.

Touse

A pulling; a disturbance.

Tousle

To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.

Tousy

Tousled; tangled; rough; shaggy.

Tout-ensemble

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

One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.

Tow

A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.

Tow-head

An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.

Toward

Approaching; coming near.

Towardliness

The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness.

Towboat

A vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat.

Towel

To beat with a stick.

Toweling

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.

Towered

Adorned or defended by towers.

Towering

Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.

Towery

Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.

Towilly

The sanderling; -- so called from its cry.

Towline

A line used to tow vessels; a towrope.

Town

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.

town and gown

Of or pertaining to interactions between a college or university and the residents of the town in which the institution is located; as, a town and gown dispute.

Town-crier

A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.

Towned

Having towns; containing many towns.

Townhall

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

A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.

Townish

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town.

Townsfolk

The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.

Township

The district or territory of a town.

Townspeople

The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.

Towpath

A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.

Towrope

A rope used in towing vessels.

Towser

A familiar name for a dog.

Towy

Composed of, or like, tow.

Toxaemia

Blood poisoning. See under Blood.

Toxalbumin

Any of a class of toxic substances of protein nature; a toxin.

Toxical Toxic

Of or pertaining to poison; poisonous; as, toxic medicines.

Toxicant

A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant.

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