Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 48

Togidres (adv.) Together.

Togue (n.) The namaycush.

Tohew (v. t.) To hew in pieces.

Toil (n.) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.

Toiled (imp. & p. p.) of Toil

Toiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toil

Toil (v. i.) To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, especially of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor; to work.

Toil (v. t.) To weary; to overlabor.

Toil (v. t.) To labor; to work; -- often with out.

Toil (v.) Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind, esp. the body.

Toiler (n.) One who toils, or labors painfully.

Toilet (n.) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.

Toilet (n.) A dressing table.

Toilet (n.) Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect.

Toilette (n.) See Toilet, 3.

Toilful (a.) Producing or involving much toil; laborious; toilsome; as, toilful care.

Toilinette (n.) A cloth, the weft of which is of woolen yarn, and the warp of cotton and silk, -- used for waistcoats.

Toilless (a.) Free from toil.

Toilsome (a.) Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.

Toise (a.) An old measure of length in France, containing six French feet, or about 6.3946 French feet.

Tokay (n.) A grape of an oval shape and whitish color.

Tokay (n.) A rich Hungarian wine made from Tokay grapes.

Token (n.) Something intended or supposed to represent or indicate another thing or an event; a sign; a symbol; as, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant established with Noah.

Token (n.) A memorial of friendship; something by which the friendship of another person is to be kept in mind; a memento; a souvenir.

Token (n.) Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith, etc.

Token (n.) A piece of metal intended for currency, and issued by a private party, usually bearing the name of the issuer, and redeemable in lawful money. Also, a coin issued by government, esp. when its use as lawful money is limited and its intrinsic value is much below its nominal value.

Token (n.) A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death.

Token (n.) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.

Token (n.) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.

Token (n.) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn.

Tokened (imp. & p. p.) of Token

Tokening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Token

Token (n.) To betoken.

Tokened (a.) Marked by tokens, or spots; as, the tokened pestilence.

Tokenless (a.) Without a token.

Tokin (n.) A tocsin.

Tol (v. t.) To take away. See Toll.

Tola (n.) A weight of British India. The standard tola is equal to 180 grains.

Tolane (n.) A hydrocarbon, C14H10, related both to the acetylene and the aromatic series, and produced artificially as a white crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl acetylene.

Tolbooth (n.) See Tollbooth.

Told () imp. & p. p. of Tell.

Toled (imp. & p. p.) of Tole

Toling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tole

Tole (v. t.) To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait.

Toledo (n.) A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.

Tolerabolity (n.) The quality or state of being tolerable.

Tolerable (a.) Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.

Tolerable (a.) Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust, resentment, or opposition; passable; as, a tolerable administration; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable translation.

Tolerance (n.) The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.

Tolerance (n.) The endurance of the presence or actions of objectionable persons, or of the expression of offensive opinions; toleration.

Tolerance (n.) The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal.

Tolerant (a.) Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent.

Tolerated (imp. & p. p.) of Tolerate

Tolerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tolerate

Tolerate (v. t.) To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with; as, to tolerate doubtful practices.

Toleration (n.) The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.

Toleration (n.) Specifically, the allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state when contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief.

Toleration (n.) Hence, freedom from bigotry and severity in judgment of the opinions or belief of others, especially in respect to religious matters.

Toll (v. t.) To take away; to vacate; to annul.

Toll (v. t.) To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.

Toll (v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.

Toll (v. t.) To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.

Toll (v. t.) To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

Tolled (imp. & p. p.) of Toll

Tolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toll

Toll (v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.

Toll (n.) The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

Toll (n.) A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.

Toll (n.) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

Toll (n.) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

Toll (v. i.) To pay toll or tallage.

Toll (v. i.) To take toll; to raise a tax.

Toll (v. t.) To collect, as a toll.

Tollable (a.) Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods.

Tollage (n.) Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll.

Tollbooth (n.) A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.

Tollbooth (n.) In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail.

Tollbooth (v. t.) To imprison in a tollbooth.

Toller (n.) A toll gatherer.

Toller (n.) One who tolls a bell.

Tolletane (a.) Of or pertaining to Toledo in Spain; made in Toledo.

Tollgate (n.) A gate where toll is taken.

Tollhouses (pl. ) of Tollhouse

Tollhouse (n.) A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.

Tollmen (pl. ) of Tollman

Tollman (n.) One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer.

Tolmen (n.) See Dolmen.

Tolsester (n.) A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale.

Tolsey (n.) A tollbooth; also, a merchants' meeting place, or exchange.

Tolt (n.) A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court.

Toltec (n.) One of a race which formerly occupied Mexico.

Tolu (n.) A fragrant balsam said to have been first brought from Santiago de Tolu, in New Granada. See Balsam of Tolu, under Balsam.

Toluate (n.) A salt of any one of the toluic acids.

Toluene (n.) A hydrocarbon, C6H5.CH3, of the aromatic series, homologous with benzene, and obtained as a light mobile colorless liquid, by distilling tolu balsam, coal tar, etc.; -- called also methyl benzene, phenyl methane, etc.

Toluenyl (n.) Tolyl.

Toluic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, one of three metameric acids, CH3.C6H4.CO2H, which are related to toluene and analogous to benzoic acids. They are white crystalline substances, and are called respectively orthotoluic acid, metatoluic acid, and paratoluic acid.

Toluid (n.) A complex double tolyl and toluidine derivative of glycocoll, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Toluidine (n.) Any one of three metameric amido derivatives of toluene analogous to aniline, and called respectively orthtoluidine, metatoluidine, and paratoluidine; especially, the commonest one, or paratoluidine, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Toluol (n.) Alt. of Toluole

Toluole (n.) Same as Toluene.

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