Toaster Toast"er noun 1. One who toasts.

2. A kitchen utensil for toasting bread, cheese, etc.

Toasting Toast"ing adjective & noun from Toast , v.

Toasting fork , a long-handled fork for toasting bread, cheese, or the like, by the fire.

Toastmaster Toast"mas`ter noun A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.

Toat Toat noun The handle of a joiner's plane. Knight.

Tobacco To·bac"co noun [ Spanish tabaco , from the Indian tabaco the tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco , a province of Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago , one of the Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.] 1. (Botany) 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.

» The name is extended to other species of the genus, and to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco ( Nicotiana rustica , and also Lobelia inflata ), mountain tobacco ( Arnica montana ), and Shiraz tobacco ( Nicotiana Persica ).

2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.

Tobacco box (Zoology) , the common American skate. -- Tobacco camphor . (Chemistry) See Nicotianine . -- Tobacco man , a tobacconist. [ R.] -- Tobacco pipe . (a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or other material. (b) (Botany) Same as Indian pipe , under Indian . -- Tobacco-pipe clay (Min.) , a species of clay used in making tobacco pipes; -- called also cimolite . -- Tobacco-pipe fish . (Zoology) See Pipemouth . -- Tobacco stopper , a small plug for pressing down the tobacco in a pipe as it is smoked. -- Tobacco worm (Zoology) , the larva of a large hawk moth ( Sphinx, or Phlegethontius, Carolina ). It is dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of Hawk moth .

Tobacconing To·bac"co·ning noun Smoking tobacco. [ Obsolete] " Tobacconing is but a smoky play." [ Obsolete] Sylvester.

Tobacconist To·bac"co·nist noun 1. A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.

2. A smoker of tobacco. [ Obsolete] Sylvester.

Tobias fish To·bi"as fish` [ See the Note under Asmodeus , in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.] (Zoology) The lant, or sand eel.

Tobie To"bie noun [ Confer Toby .] A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end. [ Local, U. S.]

Tobine To"bine noun [ Confer German tobin , Dutch tabijn . See Tabby .] A stout twilled silk used for dresses.

Tobit To"bit noun A book of the Apocrypha.

Toboggan To·bog"gan noun [ Corruption of American Indian odabagan a sled.] 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. [ Written also tobogan , and tarbogan .]

Toboggan To·bog"gan intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Tobogganed ; present participle & verbal noun Tobogganing .] To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan. Barilett.

Tobogganer, Tobogganist To·bog"gan·er, To·bog"gan·ist noun One who practices tobogganing.

Toby To"by noun ; plural - bies . [ Perh. from the proper name.] A small jug, pitcher, or mug, generally used for ale, shaped somewhat like a stout man, with a cocked hat forming the brim.

Toccata Toc·ca"ta noun [ Italian , from toccare to touch. See Touch .] (Mus.) An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude , fantasia , or capriccio .

Toccatella Toc`ca·tel"la Toc`ca*ti"na noun [ Italian ] (Music) A short or simple toccata.

Tocher Toch"er noun [ Gael. tochradh .] Dowry brought by a bride to her husband. [ Scot.] Burns.

Tockay Tock"ay noun (Zoology) A spotted lizard native of India.

Toco To"co noun (Zoology) A toucan ( Ramphastos toco ) having a very large beak. See Illust. under Toucan .

Tocology To·col"o·gy noun [ Greek ... a birth + - logy .] The science of obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition. [ Written also tokology .]

Tocororo To·co·ro"ro noun [ Probably from the native name through the Spanish: confer Spanish tocororo .] (Zoology) A cuban trogon ( Priotelus temnurus ) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end.

Tocsin Toc"sin noun [ French, from Old French toquier to touch, French toquer (originally, a dialectic form of French toucher ) + seint (for sein ) a bell, Late Latin signum , from Latin signum a sign, signal. See Touch , and Sign .] An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.

The loud tocsin tolled their last alarm.

Campbell.

Tod Tod (tŏd) noun [ Akin to Dutch todde a rag, German zotte shag, rag, a tuft of hair, Icelandic toddi a piece of a thing, a tod of wool.] 1. A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. [ R.] "An ivy todde ." Spenser.

The ivy tod is heavy with snow.

Coleridge.

2. An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.

3. A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.

The wolf, the tod , the brock.

B. Jonson.

Tod stove , a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc. [ U. S.] Knight.

Tod Tod transitive verb & i. To weigh; to yield in tods. [ Obsolete]

Toddle Tod"dle intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Toddled ; present participle & verbal noun Toddling .] [ Akin to tottle , totter .] To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.

Toddle Tod"dle noun A toddling walk. Trollope.

Toddler Tod"dler noun One who toddles; especially, a young child. Mrs. Gaskell.

Toddy Tod"dy noun [ Formed from Hind. tā...ī the juice of the palmyra tree, popularly, toddy , from tā... the palmyra tree, Sanskrit tāla .] 1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.

2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened.

» Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and is being made hot and sweetened.

Toddy bird (Zoology) , a weaver bird of the East Indies and India: -- so called from its fondness for the juice of the palm. -- Toddy cat (Zoology) , the common paradoxure; the palm cat.

Tody To"dy noun ; plural Todies . [ Confer New Latin todus , French todier , German todvogel .] (Zoology) Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus . They are allied to the kingfishers.

Toe Toe noun [ Middle English too , taa , Anglo-Saxon tā ; akin to Dutch teen , German zehe , Old High German zēha , Icelandic tā , Swedish tå , Danish taa ; of uncertain origin. √60.] 1. (Anat.) One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal. "Each one, tripping on his toe ." Shak.

2. (Zoology) The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal.

3. Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate.

4. (Machinery) (a) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step. (b) 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. (c) A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.

Toe biter (Zoology) , a tadpole; a polliwig. -- Toe drop (Medicine) , a morbid condition of the foot in which the toe is depressed and the heel elevated, as in talipes equinus . See Talipes .

Toe Toe transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Toed ; present participle & verbal noun Toeing .] To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark.

Toe Toe intransitive verb To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way).

To toe in , to stand or carry the feet in such a way that the toes of either foot incline toward the other. -- To toe out , to have the toes of each foot, in standing or walking, incline from the other foot.

Toe drop Toe drop (Medicine) A morbid condition of the foot in which the toe is depressed and the heel elevated.

Toe hold Toe hold (Wrestling) A hold in which the agressor bends back his opponent's foot.

Toed Toed adjective 1. Having (such or so many) toes; -- chiefly used in composition; as, narrow- toed , four- toed .

2. (Carp.) 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.

Toff Toff noun [ Etym. uncertain.] A fop; a beau; a swell. [ Slang, Eng.] Kipling.

Toffee, Toffy Tof"fee, Tof"fy noun Taffy. [ Eng.]

Tofore, Toforn To·fore", To·forn" preposition & adverb [ Anglo-Saxon tōforan . See To , preposition , Fore .] Before. [ Obsolete]

Toforn him goeth the loud minstrelsy.

Chaucer.

Would thou wert as thou tofore hast been!

Shak.

Toft Toft noun [ Middle English toft a knoll; akin to LG. toft a field hedged in, not far from a house, Icelandic topt a green knoll, grassy place, place marked out for a house, Danish toft .] 1. A knoll or hill. [ Obsolete] "A tower on a toft ." Piers Plowman.

2. A grove of trees; also, a plain. [ Prov. Eng.]

3. (O. Eng. Law) A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.

Toftman Toft"man noun ; plural Toftmen The owner of a toft. See Toft , 3.

Tofus To"fus noun [ Latin , tufa.] 1. Tophus.

2. (Min.) Tufa. See under Tufa , and Toph .

Tog Tog transitive verb & i. To put toggery, or togs, on; to dress; -- usually with out , implying care, elaborateness, or the like. [ Colloq. or Slang] Harper's Weekly.

Toga To"ga noun ; plural English Togas , Latin Togæ . [ Latin , akin to tegere to cover. See Thatch .] (Rom. Antiq.) 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 prætexta.