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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.

Toxicity

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

Toxicogenic

Producing toxic products; as, toxicogenic germs or bacteria.

Toxicologist

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

Toxicology

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

Toxine Toxin

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.

Toxiphobia

An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.

Toxodon

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

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.

Toxoglossa

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.

Toxoid

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

Toxotes

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

Toy

To treat foolishly.

Toyer

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

Toyhouse

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

Toyish

Sportive; trifling; wanton.

Toysome

Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton.

Toze

To pull violently; to touse.

Tozy

Soft, like wool that has been teased.

Trabea

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

Trabecula

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

Trabecular

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

Trace

To walk; to go; to travel.

Tracer

One who, or that which, traces.

Tracer/y

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

Tracheal

Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.

Trachearia

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

Tracheary

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

Tracheata

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

Tracheate

Any arthropod having tracheae; one of the Tracheata.

Tracheid

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

Tracheitis

Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.

Trachelidan

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

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