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

See Tough-pitch (b).

The ruddy duck.

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

To grow or make tough, or tougher.

Tough in a slight degree.

In a tough manner.

The quality or state of being tough.

The wood warbler.

The crested titmouse.

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

Same as Turacou.

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

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

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.

A spinning wheel.

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.

Work turned on a lathe; turnery.

To perform in tournaments; to tilt.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A pulling; a disturbance.

Same as Tousle.

One who touses.

To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.

Tousled; tangled; rough; shaggy.

The anus.

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.

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

See Touse.

To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.

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

An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.

The act of towing.

A towel.

Approaching; coming near.

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

Same as Toward, a., 2.

Quality or state of being toward.

See Toward.

Near; at hand; in state of preparation.

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

To beat with a stick.

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.

To soar into.

Adorned or defended by towers.

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

Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.

The chewink.

The sanderling; -- so called from its cry.

A line used to tow vessels; a towrope.

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.

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.

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

Having towns; containing many towns.

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.

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

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

A small town.

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

The district or territory of a town.

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

Toward a town.

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

A rope used in towing vessels.

A familiar name for a dog.

Composed of, or like, tow.

Blood poisoning. See under Blood.

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

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

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

Poisoning.

The quality or state of being toxic or poisonous; poisonousness.

Producing toxic products; as, toxicogenic germs or bacteria.

Of or pertaining to toxicology.

One versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on poisons.

The science which treats of poisons, their effects, antidotes, and recognition; also, a discourse or treatise on the science.

Toxiphobia.

Same as Toxoglossa.

A poisonous product formed by an organism, such as a pathogenic bacterium, a plant or an animal, usually having a high molecular weight, often a protein or a polysaccharide, but occasionally a low-molecular weight agent such as tetrodotoxin.

An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.

A gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.

An extinct order of Mammalia found in the South American Tertiary formation. The incisor teeth were long and curved and provided with a persistent pulp. They are supposed to be related both to the rodents and ungulates. Called also Toxodontia.

A division of marine gastropod mollusks in which the radula are converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (Conus), Pleurotoma, and Terebra, are examples. See Illust. of Cone, n., 4, Pleurotoma, and Terebra.

An altered form of a toxin, possessing little or no toxic power.

A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.

A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish.

To treat foolishly.

This year.

One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.

Full of trifling play.

A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.

In a toying manner.

Sportive; trifling; wanton.

One who deals in toys.

A shop where toys are sold.

Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton.

To pull violently; to touse.

Soft, like wool that has been teased.

A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes. -- worn by kings, consuls, and augurs.

Furnished with an entablature.

Same as Entablature.

A small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in the framework of an organ part.

Of or pertaining to a trabecula or trabeculae; composed of trabeculae.

Crossbarred, as the ducts in a banana stem.

Same as Trubu.

To walk; to go; to travel.

Capable of being traced.

One who, or that which, traces.

Ornamental work with rambled lines. The decorative head of a Gothic window.

Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.

A division of Arachnida including those that breathe only by means of tracheae. It includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen.

Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheae. One of the Trachearia.

An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheae, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiae.

Any arthropod having tracheae; one of the Tracheata.

A wood cell with spiral or other markings and closed throughout, as in pine wood.

Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.

Any one of a tribe of beetles (Trachelides) which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.