Toadlet (n.) A small toad.
Toadstone (n.) A local name for the igneous rocks of Derbyshire, England; -- said by some to be derived from the German todter stein, meaning dead stone, that is, stone which contains no ores.
Toadstone (n.) Bufonite, formerly regarded as a precious stone, and worn as a jewel. See Bufonite.
Toadstool (n.) A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.
Toadies (pl. ) of Toady
Toady (n.) A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
Toady (n.) A coarse, rustic woman.
Toadied (imp. & p. p.) of Toady
Toadying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toady
Toady (v. t.) To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
Toadyism (n.) The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.
Toasted (imp. & p. p.) of Toast
Toasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toast
Toast (v. t.) To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
Toast (v. t.) To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
Toast (v. t.) To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
Toast (v.) Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
Toast (v.) A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
Toast (v.) Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc.
Toaster (n.) One who toasts.
Toaster (n.) A kitchen utensil for toasting bread, cheese, etc.
Toasting () a. & n. from Toast, v.
Toastmaster (n.) A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
Toat (n.) The handle of a joiner's plane.
Tobacco (n.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste.
Tobacco (n.) The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.
Tobacconing (n.) Smoking tobacco.
Tobacconist (n.) A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
Tobacconist (n.) A smoker of tobacco.
To-beat (v. t.) To beat thoroughly or severely.
Tobias fish () The lant, or sand eel.
Tobine (n.) A stout twilled silk used for dresses.
Tobit (n.) A book of the Apocrypha.
Toboggan (n.) A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow.
Tobogganed (imp. & p. p.) of Toboggan
Tobogganing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toboggan
Toboggan (v. i.) To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
Tobogganer (n.) Alt. of Tobogganist
Tobogganist (n.) One who practices tobogganing.
To-break (v. t.) To break completely; to break in pieces.
To-brest (v. t.) To burst or break in pieces.
Toccata (n.) An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio.
Tocher (n.) Dowry brought by a bride to her husband.
Tockay (n.) A spotted lizard native of India.
Toco (n.) A toucan (Ramphastos toco) having a very large beak. See Illust. under Toucan.
Tocology (n.) The science of obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition.
Tocororo (n.) A cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end.
Tocsin (n.) An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.
Tod (n.) A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump.
Tod (n.) An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.
Tod (n.) A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.
Tod (v. t. & i.) To weigh; to yield in tods.
To-day (prep.) On this day; on the present day.
To-day (n.) The present day.
Toddled (imp. & p. p.) of Toddle
Toddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toddle
Toddle (v. i.) To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.
Toddle (n.) A toddling walk.
Toddler (n.) One who toddles; especially, a young child.
Toddy (n.) A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.
Toddy (n.) A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened.
To-do (n.) Bustle; stir; commotion; ado.
Tody (n.) Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.
Toe (n.) One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.
Toe (n.) The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal.
Toe (n.) Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate.
Toe (n.) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.
Toe (n.) A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved.
Toe (n.) A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.
Toed (imp. & p. p.) of Toe
Toeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toe
Toe (v. t.) To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark.
Toe (v. i.) To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way).
Toed (a.) Having (such or so many) toes; -- chiefly used in composition; as, narrow-toed, four-toed.
Toed (a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.
To-fall (n.) A lean-to. See Lean-to.
Toffee (n.) Alt. of Toffy
Toffy (n.) Taffy.
Tofore (prep.) Alt. of Toforn
Toforn (prep.) Before.
Toft (n.) A knoll or hill.
Toft (n.) A grove of trees; also, a plain.
Toft (n.) A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.
Toftmen (pl. ) of Toftman
Toftman (n.) The owner of a toft. See Toft, 3.
Tofus (n.) Tophus.
Tofus (n.) Tufa. See under Tufa, and Toph.
Togas (pl. ) of Toga
Togae (pl. ) of Toga
Toga (n.) The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga praetexta.
Togated (a.) Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned.
Toged (a.) Togated.
Together (prep.) In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town.
Together (prep.) In or into union; into junction; as, to sew, knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together.
Together (prep.) In concert; with mutual cooperation; as, the allies made war upon France together.
Toggery (n.) Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery.
Toggle (n.) A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
Toggle (n.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
Toght (a.) Taut.
Togider (adv.) Alt. of Togidres