Town (adv. & prep.) Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.
Town (adv. & prep.) The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
Town (adv. & prep.) A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.
Town (adv. & prep.) The court end of London;-- commonly with the.
Town (adv. & prep.) The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.
Town (adv. & prep.) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
Town-crier (n.) A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.
Towned (a.) Having towns; containing many towns.
Townhall (n.) 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 (n.) A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.
Townish (a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town.
Townless (a.) Having no town.
Townlet (n.) A small town.
Townsfolk (n.) The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.
Township (n.) The district or territory of a town.
Township (n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.
Township (n.) In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
Townsmen (pl. ) of Townsman
Townsman (n.) An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another.
Townsman (n.) A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.
Townpeople (n.) The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.
Townward (adv.) Alt. of Townwards
Townwards (adv.) Toward a town.
Towpath (n.) A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.
Towrope (n.) A rope used in towing vessels.
Towser (n.) A familiar name for a dog.
Towy (a.) Composed of, or like, tow.
Tox/mia (a.) Blood poisoning. See under Blood.
Toxic (a.) Alt. of Toxical
Toxical (a.) Of or pertaining to poison; poisonous; as, toxic medicines.
Toxicant (n.) A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant.
Toxicological (a.) Of or pertaining to toxicology.
Toxicologist (n.) One versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on poisons.
Toxicology (n.) The science which treats of poisons, their effects, antidotes, and recognition; also, a discourse or treatise on the science.
Toxicomania (n.) Toxiphobia.
Toxicomania (n.) An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium.
Toxifera (n.pl.) Same as Toxoglossa.
Toxin (n.) Alt. of Toxine
Toxine (n.) A poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine.
Toxiphobia (n.) An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.
Toxodon (n.) A gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.
Toxodonta (n.pl.) 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 (n.pl.) 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.
Toxophilite (n.) A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.
Toxotes (n.) A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish.
Toy (v. t.) A plaything for children; a bawble.
Toy (v. t.) A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.
Toy (v. t.) A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
Toy (v. t.) Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
Toy (v. t.) An old story; a silly tale.
Toy (v. t.) A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch.
toyed (imp. & p. p.) of Toy
toying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toy
Toy (v. i.) To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
Toy (v. t.) To treat foolishly.
Toyear (adv.) This year.
Toyer (n.) One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.
Toyful (a.) Full of trifling play.
Toyhouse (n.) A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.
Toyingly (adv.) In a toying manner.
Toyish (a.) Sportive; trifling; wanton.
Toyish (a.) Resembling a toy.
Toyman (n.) One who deals in toys.
Toyshop (n.) A shop where toys are sold.
Toysome (a.) Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton.
Toze (v. t.) To pull violently; to touse.
Tozy (a.) Soft, like wool that has been teased.
Trabeae (pl. ) of Trabea
Trabea (n.) A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes. -- worn by kings, consuls, and augurs.
Trabeated (a.) Furnished with an entablature.
Trabeation (n.) Same as Entablature.
Trabeculae (pl. ) of Trabecula
Trabecula (n.) A small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in the framework of an organ part.
Trabecular (a.) Of or pertaining to a trabecula or trabeculae; composed of trabeculae.
Trabeculate (a.) Crossbarred, as the ducts in a banana stem.
Trabu (n.) Same as Trubu.
Trace (n.) One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
Trace (v. t.) A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.
Trace (v. t.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.
Trace (v. t.) A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
Trace (v. t.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
Trace (v. t.) The ground plan of a work or works.
traced (imp. & p. p.) of Trace
tracing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trace
Trace (v. t.) To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
Trace (v. t.) To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
Trace (v. t.) Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
Trace (v. t.) To copy; to imitate.
Trace (v. t.) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
Trace (v. i.) To walk; to go; to travel.
Traceable (a.) Capable of being traced.
Tracer (n.) One who, or that which, traces.
Traceries (pl. ) of Tracer/y
Tracer/y (n.) Ornamental work with rambled lines.
Tracer/y (n.) The decorative head of a Gothic window.
Tracer/y (n.) A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed.
Tracheae (pl. ) of Trachea
Trachea (n.) The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
Trachea (n.) One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids.
Trachea (n.) One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts.