Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 49

Toluric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of three isomeric crystalline acids, C9H10ON.CO2H, which are toluyl derivatives of glycocoll.

Tolutation (n.) A pacing or ambling.

Toluyl (n.) Any one of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids.

Toluylene (n.) Same as Stilbene.

Toluylene (n.) Sometimes, but less properly, tolylene.

Tolyl (n.) The hydrocarbon radical, CH3.C6H4, regarded as characteristic of certain compounds of the aromatic series related to toluene; as, tolyl carbinol.

Tolylene (n.) A hydrocarbon radical, C6H4.(CH2)2, regarded as characteristic of certain toluene derivatives.

Tolypeutine (n.) The apar.

Tom (n.) The knave of trumps at gleek.

Tomahawk (n.) A kind of war hatchet used by the American Indians. It was originally made of stone, but afterwards of iron.

Tomahawked (imp. & p. p.) of Tomahawk

Tomahawking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tomahawk

Tomahawk (v. t.) To cut, strike, or kill, with a tomahawk.

Tomaley (n.) The liver of the lobster, which becomes green when boiled; -- called also tomalline.

Toman (n.) A money of account in Persia, whose value varies greatly at different times and places. Its average value may be reckoned at about two and a half dollars.

Tomatoes (pl. ) of Tomato

Tomato (n.) The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family (Lycopersicum esculentun); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is called also love apple, is usually of a rounded, flattened form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked.

Tomb (n.) A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.

Tomb (n.) A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead.

Tomb (n.) A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.

Tombed (imp. & p. p.) of Tomb

Tombing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tomb

Tomb (v. t.) To place in a tomb; to bury; to inter; to entomb.

Tombac (n.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German, / Dutch, brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac.

Tombester (n.) A female dancer.

Tombless (a.) Destitute of a tomb.

Tomboy (n.) A romping girl; a hoiden.

Tombstone (n.) A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased.

Tomcat (n.) A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.

Tomcod (n.) A small edible American fish (Microgadus tomcod) of the Codfish family, very abundant in autumn on the Atlantic coast of the Northen United States; -- called also frostfish. See Illust. under Frostfish.

Tomcod (n.) The kingfish. See Kingfish (a).

Tomcod (n.) The jack. See 2d Jack, 8. (c).

Tome (n.) As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous volume.

Tomelet (n.) All small tome, or volume.

Tomentose (a.) Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; a tomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.

Tometous (a.) Tomentose.

Tomenta (pl. ) of Tomentum

Tomentum (n.) The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.

Tomfool (n.) A great fool; a trifler.

Tomfoolery (n.) Folly; trifling.

Tomia (pl. ) of Tomium

Tomium (n.) The cutting edge of the bill of a bird.

Tomjohn (n.) A kind of open sedan used in Ceylon, carried by a single pole on men's shoulders.

Tommy (n.) Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.

Tommy (n.) A truck, or barter; the exchange of labor for goods, not money.

Tomnoddy (n.) A sea bird, the puffin.

Tomnoddy (n.) A fool; a dunce; a noddy.

Tomopteris (n.) A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa.

Tomorn (adv.) To-morrow.

Tomorrow (adv.) On the day after the present day; on the next day; on the morrow.

Tomorrow (n.) The day after the present; the morrow.

Tompion (n.) A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.

Tompion (n.) A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone.

Tompion (n.) The iron bottom to which grapeshot are fixed.

Tompon (n.) An inking pad used in lithographic printing.

Tomrig (n.) A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy.

Tomtit (n.) A titmouse, esp. the blue titmouse.

Tomtit (n.) The wren.

Tom-tom (n.) See Tam-tam.

Ton () pl. of Toe.

Ton (n.) The common tunny, or house mackerel.

Ton (n.) The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.

Ton (n.) A measure of weight or quantity.

Ton (n.) The weight of twenty hundredweight.

Ton (n.) Forty cubic feet of space, being the unit of measurement of the burden, or carrying capacity, of a vessel; as a vessel of 300 tons burden.

Ton (n.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc.

Tonality (n.) The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole.

To-name (n.) A name added, for the sake of distinction, to one's surname, or used instead of it.

Tonca bean () See Tonka bean.

Tone (n.) Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

Tone (n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.

Tone (n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.

Tone (n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.

Tone (n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.

Tone (n.) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.

Tone (n.) A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.

Tone (n.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.

Tone (n.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone.

Tone (n.) State of mind; temper; mood.

Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.

Tone (n.) General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.

Tone (n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.

Toned (imp. & p. p.) of Tone

Toning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tone

Tone (v. t.) To utter with an affected tone.

Tone (v. t.) To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.

Tone (v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.

Toned (a.) Having (such) a tone; -- chiefly used in composition; as, high-toned; sweet-toned.

Toneless (a.) Having no tone; unmusical.

Tong (n.) Alt. of Tonge

Tonge (n.) Tongue.

Tonga (n.) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

Tongkang (n.) A kind of boat or junk used in the seas of the Malay Archipelago.

Tongo (n.) The mangrove; -- so called in the Pacific Islands.

Tongs (n. pl.) An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a pair of tongs.

Tongue (n.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

Tongue (n.) The power of articulate utterance; speech.

Tongue (n.) Discourse; fluency of speech or expression.

Tongue (n.) Honorable discourse; eulogy.

Tongue (n.) A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue.

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