Toxifera noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek to`xon a bow + Latin ferre to bear.] (Zoology) Same as Toxoglossa .

Toxin, Toxine noun [ Greek toxiko`n . See Toxic . ] A poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine.
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Toxiphobia noun [ New Latin , from Greek toxiko`n poison + fo`bos fear.] (Medicine) An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.

Toxodon noun [ Greek to`xon a bow + ..., ..., a tooth.] (Paleon.) A gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.

Toxodonta noun pl. [ New Latin ] (Paleon.) 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 noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek to`xon a bow + ... tongue.] (Zoology) 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 , noun , 4, Pleurotoma , and Terebra .

Toxoid noun [ Tox in + - oid .] (Physiol. Chem.) An altered form of a toxin, possessing little or no toxic power.

Toxophilite noun [ Greek to`xon a bow + filei^n to love.] A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.

Toxotes noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... an archer.] (Zoology) A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish .

Toy (toi) noun [ Dutch tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash, speel tuig playthings, toys; akin to German zeug stuff, materials, MNG. ziuc , Icelandic tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of English tug , transitive verb ; confer German zeugen to beget, Middle High German ziugen to beget, make ready, procure. See Tug , transitive verb ]

1. A plaything for children; a bawble. Cowper.

2. A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.

They exchange for knives, glasses, and such toys , great abundance of gold and pearl.

Abr. Abbot.

3. A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.

To fly about playing their wanton toys .

Spenser.

What if a toy take'em in the heels now, and they all run away.

Beau. &Fl.

Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.

Drayton.

4. Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime. Milton.

To dally thus with death is no fit toy .

Spenser.

5. An old story; a silly tale. Shak.

6. [ Probably the same word.] A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch . [ Scot.] "Having, moreover, put on her clean toy , rokelay, and scarlet plaid." Sir W. Scott.

Toy intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle toyed ; present participle & verbal noun toying .] To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.

To toy , to wanton, dally, smile and jest.

Shak.

Toy transitive verb To treat foolishly. [ Obsolete] E. Dering (1576).

Toyear adverb [ To , preposition + year . ] This year. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Toyer noun One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.