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.

Having no 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.

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.

One of the Trachelipoda.

An extensive artificial group of gastropods comprising all those which have a spiral shell and the foot attached to the base of the neck.

Having the foot united with the neck; of or pertaining to the Trachelipoda.

Having the gills situated upon the neck; -- said of certain mollusks.

The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.

A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheae.

One of the gill-like breathing organs of certain aquatic insect larvae. They contain tracheal tubes somewhat similar to those of other insects.

Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; -- said of the syrinx of certain birds.

Goiter. A tumor containing air and communicating with the trachea.

A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.

Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of a mirror.

The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.

Of, pertaining to, or like, Trachinus, a genus of fishes which includes the weevers. See Weever.

Tracheitis.

a contagious granular conjunctivitis caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. It is a chronic inflammation of the conjunctiva

Rough-fruited.

A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage. Some of the species are parasitic on other medusae.

Rough-seeded.

An order of tailed aquatic amphibians, including Siren and Pseudobranchus. They have anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The external gills are persistent through life.

An igneous rock, usually light gray in color and breaking with a rough surface. It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.

Resembling trachyte; -- used to define the structure of certain rocks.

The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.

To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.

A towing path.

The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.

One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.

Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place.

Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a trackless desert.

One employed on work on the track; specif., a trackwalker.

One who has charge of the track; -- called also roadmaster.