6. Right; or that which constitutes a just cause of exclusive possession; that which is the foundation of ownership; as a good title to an estate; or an imperfect title. The lowest degree of title is naked possession, and lastly the right of property, all which united complete the title.NWAD TITLE.9

But possession is not essential to a complete title. A title to personal property may be acquired by occupancy. A claim is not a title.NWAD TITLE.10

7. The instrument which is evidence of a right.NWAD TITLE.11

8. In the canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice. This is true and valid, or colorable. A valid title gives a right to the benefice. A colorable title appears to be valid, but is not.NWAD TITLE.12

9. In ancient church records, a church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.NWAD TITLE.13

TITLE, v.t. To name; to call; to entitle.

TITLED, pp. Called; named.

1. a. Having a title.NWAD TITLED.2

TITLELESS, a. Not having a title or name. [Not in use.]

TITLE-PAGE, n. [title and page.] The page of a book which contains its title.

TITLING, ppr. Calling; denominating; entitling.

TITMOUSE, n. [tit, small, and mouse.] A small bird of the genus Parus.

TITTER, v.i. To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint.

TITTER, n. A restrained laugh.

1. A weed.NWAD TITTER.3

TITTLE, n. [from tit, small.] A small particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.

TITTLE-TATTLE, n. [tattle, doubled.]

1. Idle trifling talk; empty prattle.NWAD TITTLE-TATTLE.2

2. An idle trifling talker. [Less proper.]NWAD TITTLE-TATTLE.3

TITTLE-TATTLE, v.i. To talk idly; to prate.

TITUBATION, n. [L. titubo, to stumble.] The act of stumbling.

TITULAR, a. [L. titulus.]

1. Existing in title or name only; nominal; having or conferring the title only; as a titular king or prince.NWAD TITULAR.2

2. Having the title to an office or dignity without discharging the duties of it.NWAD TITULAR.3

Both Valerius and Austin were titular bishops.NWAD TITULAR.4

TITULAR, TITULARY, n. A person invested with a title, in virtue of which he holds an office or benefice, whether he performs the duties of it or not.

TITULARITY, n. The state of being titular.

TITULARLY, adv. Nominally; by title only.

TITULARY, a. Consisting in a title.

1. Pertaining to a title.NWAD TITULARY.2

TIVER, n. A kind of ocher which is used in marking sheep in some parts of England. [Local.]

TIVER, v.t. To mark sheep with tiver, in different ways and for different purposes. [Local.]

TIVERING, ppr. Marking with tiver. [Local.]

TIVERING, n. The act or practice of marking with tiver. [Local.]

TIVY, adv. [See Tantivy.] With great speed; a huntsman’s word or sound.

TO, prep.

1. Noting motion towards a place; opposed to from, or placed after another word expressing motion towards. He is going to church.NWAD TO.2

2. Noting motion towards a state or condition. He is going to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.NWAD TO.3

3. Noting accord or adaptation; as an occupation suited to his taste; she has a husband to her mind.NWAD TO.4

4. Noting address or compellation, or the direction of a discourse. These remarks were addressed to a large audience.NWAD TO.5

To you, my noble lord of Westmoreland;NWAD TO.6

I pledge your grace.NWAD TO.7

5. Noting attention or application.NWAD TO.8

Go, buckle to the law.NWAD TO.9

Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them. 1 Timothy 4:15.NWAD TO.10

6. Noting addition.NWAD TO.11

Add to your faith, virtue. 2 Peter 1:5.NWAD TO.12

Wisdom he has, and to his wisdom, courage.NWAD TO.13

7. Noting opposition. They engaged hand to hand.NWAD TO.14

8. Noting amount, rising to. They met us, to the number of three hundred.NWAD TO.15

9. Noting proportion; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty seven. It is ten to one that you will offend by your officiousness.NWAD TO.16

10. Noting possession or appropriation. We have a good seat; let us keep it to ourselves.NWAD TO.17

11. Noting perception; as a substance sweet to the taste; an event painful to the mind.NWAD TO.18

12. Noting the subject of an affirmation.NWAD TO.19

I have a king’s oath to the contrary.NWAD TO.20

13. In comparison of.NWAD TO.21

All that they did was piety to this.NWAD TO.22

14. As far as.NWAD TO.23

Few of the Esquimaux can count to ten.NWAD TO.24

15. Noting intention.NWAD TO.25

--Marks and points out each man of us to slaughter.NWAD TO.26

[In this sense, for is now used.]NWAD TO.27

16. After an adjective, noting the object; as deaf to the cries of distress; alive to the sufferings of the poor. He was attentive to the company or to the discourse.NWAD TO.28

17. Noting obligation; as duty to God and to our parents.NWAD TO.29

18. Noting enmity; as a dislike to spiritus liquors.NWAD TO.30

19. Towards; as, she stretched her arms to heaven.NWAD TO.31

20. Noting effect or end. The prince was flattered to his ruin. He engaged in a war to this cost. Violent factions exist to the prejudice of the state.NWAD TO.32

Numbers were crowded to death.NWAD TO.33

21. To, as a sign of the infinitive, precedes the radical verb. Sometimes it is used instead of the ancient form, for to, noting purpose. David in his life time intended to build a temple. The legislature assembles annually to make and amend laws. The court will sit in February to try some important causes.NWAD TO.34

22. It precedes the radical verb after adjectives, noting the object; as ready to go; prompt to obey; quick to hear, but slow to censure.NWAD TO.35

23. It precedes the radical verb, noting the object.NWAD TO.36

The delay of our hopes teaches us to mortify our desires.NWAD TO.37

24. It precedes the radical verb, noting consequence.NWAD TO.38

I have done my utmost to lead my life so pleasantly as to forget my misfortunes.NWAD TO.39

25. It notes extent, degree or end. He languishes to death, even to death. The water rises to the highth of twenty feet. The line extends from one end to the other.NWAD TO.40

26. After the substantive verb, and with the radical verb, it denotes futurity. The construction, we are to meet at ten o’clock, every man at death is to receive the reward of his deeds, is a particular form of expressing future time.NWAD TO.41

27. After have, it denotes duty or necessity.NWAD TO.42

I have a debt to pay on Saturday.NWAD TO.43

28. To-day, to-night, to-morrow, are peculiar phrases derived from our ancestors. To in the two first, has the sense or force of this; this day, this night. In the last, it is equivalent to in or on; in or on the morrow. The words may be considered as compounds, to-day, to-night, to-morrow, and usually as adverbs. But sometimes they are used as nouns; as, to-day is ours.NWAD TO.44

To and from, backward and forward. In this phrase, to is adverbial.NWAD TO.45

To the face, in presence of; not in the absence of.NWAD TO.46

I withstood him face to face. Galatians 2:11.NWAD TO.47

To-morrow, to-morrow, and to-morrow,NWAD TO.48

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.NWAD TO.49

[Note.--In the foregoing explanation of to, it is to be considered that the definition given is not always the sense of to by itself, but the sense rather of the word preceding it, or connected with it, or of to in connection with other words. In general, to is used in the sense of moving towards a place, or towards an object, or it expresses direction towards a place, end, object or purpose.]NWAD TO.50

To is often used adverbially to modify the sense of verbs; as, to come to; to heave to. The sense of such phrases is explained under the verbs respectively.NWAD TO.51

In popular phrases like the following, “I will not come; you shall to, or too, a genuine Saxon phrase, to denotes moreover, besides, L. insuper.NWAD TO.52

TOAD, n. A paddoc, an animal of the genus Rana, the Rana Bufo of Linne; a small clumsy animal, the body warty, thick and disgusting to the sight, but perfectly harmless, and indeed it is said to be useful in gardens by feeding on noxious worms.

TOADEATER, n. A vulgar name given to a fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant.

TOADFISH, n. [toad and fish.] A fish of the genus Lophius, the fishing frog.

TOAD-FLAX, n. [toad and flax.] A plant of the genus Antirrhinum; snap-dragon; calves’snout.

TOADISH, a. Like a toad. [Not used.]

TOAD-STONE, n. [toad and stone.] In mineralogy, a sort of trap rock, of a brownish gray color. The toad-stone of Derbyshire is generally a dark brown basaltic amygdaloid, composed of basalt and green earth, and containing oblong cavities filled with calcarious spar.

TOAD-STOOL, n. [toad and stoll.] A sort of fungous plant that grows in moist and rich grounds like a mushroom.

TOAST, v.t. [L. tostus.]

1. To dry and scorch by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread or cheese. [It is chiefly limited in its application to these two articles.]NWAD TOAST.2

2. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet. [Not much used.]NWAD TOAST.3

3. To name when a health is drank; to drink to the health in honor of; as, to toast a lady. Addison writes “to toast the health;” a form of expression I believe not now used.NWAD TOAST.4

TOAST, n. Bread dried and scorched by the fire; or such bread dipped in melted butter, or in some liquor. Dry toast is bread scorched, or it is scorched bread with butter spread upon it. Soft toast is made by immersing toasted bread in melted butter, and called dipped toast.

1. A female whose health is drank in honor or respect.NWAD TOAST.6

The wise man’s passion, and the vain man’s toast.NWAD TOAST.7

2. He or that which is named in honor in drinking.NWAD TOAST.8

TOASTED, pp. Scorched by heat; named in drinking the health.

TOASTER, n. One who toasts.

1. An instrument for toasting bread or cheese.NWAD TOASTER.2

TOASTING, ppr. Scorching by fire; drinking to the honor of.

TOBACCO, n. [so named from Tabaco, a province of Yucatan, in Spanish America, where it was first found by the Spaniards.]

A plant, a native of America, of the genus Nicotiana, much used for smoking and chewing and in snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic. Tobacco has a strong disagreeable smell, and an acrid taste. When first used it sometimes occasions vomiting; but the practice of using it in any form, soon conquers distaste, and forms a relish for it that is strong and almost unconquerable.NWAD TOBACCO.2

TOBACCONIST, n. A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.

TOBACCO-PIPE, n. [tobacco and pipe.] A pipe used for smoking tobacco, often made of clay and baked, sometimes of other material.

TOBACCO-PIPE CLAY, n. A species of clay; called also cimolite.

TOBACCO-PIPE FISH, n. A name of the Syngnathus Acus of Linne; called also needle-fish.

TOCKAY, n. A species of spotted lizard in India.

TOCSIN, n. An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.

TOD, n.

1. A bush; a thick shrub.NWAD TOD.2

2. A quantity of wool of twenty eight pounds, or two stone.NWAD TOD.3

3. A fox.NWAD TOD.4

TOD, v.t. To weigh; to produce a tod. [Not in use.]

TODAY, n. [to and day.] The present day.

TODDY, n. A juice drawn from various kinds of the palm in the E. Indies; or a liquor prepared from it.

1. A mixture of spirit and water sweetened. Toddy differs from grog in having a greater proportion of spirit, and in being sweetened.NWAD TODDY.2

TODY, n. A genus of insectivorous birds, of the order of Picae; natives of warm climates.

TOE, n. [L. digitus. Toe is contracted from tog, the primary word on which L. digitus is formed, coinciding with dug, and signifying a shoot.]

1. One of the small members which form the extremity of the foot, corresponding to a finger on the hand. The toes in their form and structure resemble the fingers, but are shorter.NWAD TOE.2

2. The fore part of the hoof of a horse, and of other hoofed animals.NWAD TOE.3

3. The member of a beast’s foot corresponding to the toe in man.NWAD TOE.4

TIFORE, prep. or adv. Before; formerly.

TOFT, n. [probably from the root of tuft.]

1. A grove of trees.NWAD TOFT.2

2. In law books, a place where a messuage has stood, but is decayed.NWAD TOFT.3

TOGATED, TOGED, a. [L. toga, a gown; togatus, gowned.] Gowned; dressed in a gown; wearing a gown; as toged consuls.

TOGETHER, adv.

1. In company. We walked together to the wood.NWAD TOGETHER.2

2. In or into union.NWAD TOGETHER.3

The king joined humanity and policy together.NWAD TOGETHER.4

3. In the same place; as, to live together in one house.NWAD TOGETHER.5

4. In the same time; as, to live together in the same age.NWAD TOGETHER.6

5. In concert; as, the allies made war upon France together.NWAD TOGETHER.7

6. Into junction or a state of union; as, to sew, knit, pin or fasten two things together; to mix things together.NWAD TOGETHER.8

Together with, in union with; in company or mixture with.NWAD TOGETHER.9

Take the bad together with the good.NWAD TOGETHER.10

TOGGEL, n. A small wooden pin tapering towards both ends.

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

Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing. Luke 5:5.NWAD TOIL.2

TOIL, v.t. To toil out, to labor; to work out.

Toil’d out my uncouth passage--NWAD TOIL.4

1. To weary; to overlabor; as toil’d with works of war.NWAD TOIL.5

[Not in use nor proper.]NWAD TOIL.6

TOIL, n. Labor with pain and fatigue; labor that oppresses the body or mind. Toil may be the labor of the field or the workshop, or of the camp. What toils men endure for the acquisition of wealth, power and honor! Genesis 5:29.

TOIL, n. [L. tela, a web; from spreading, extending or laying.]

A net or snare; any thread, web or string spread for taking prey.NWAD TOIL.9

A fly falls into the toils of a spider.NWAD TOIL.10

TOILER, n. One who toils, or labors with pain.

TOILET, n.

1. A covering or cloth of linen, silk or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or dressing room. Hence,NWAD TOILET.2

2. A dressing table.NWAD TOILET.3

TOILING, ppr. Laboring with pain.

TOILSOME, a. Laborious; wearisome; attended with fatigue and pain; as toilsome work; a toilsome task.

What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks?NWAD TOILSOME.2

1. Producing toil; as a toilsome day or journey.NWAD TOILSOME.3

TOILSOMENESS, n. Laboriousness; wearisomeness.

TOISE, n. tois. A fathom or long measure in France, containing six feet; but the French foot is longer than the English, 76 being equal to 81 English feet.

TOKAY, n. A kind of wine produced at Tokay in Hungary, made of white grapes. It is distinguished from other wines by its aromatic taste. It is not good till it is about three years old, and it continues to improve as long as it is kept.

TOKEN, n. to’kn. [L. signum, dialetically varied, or from the same radix.]

1. A sign; something intended to represent or indicate another thing or an event. Thus the rainbow is a token of God’s covenant established with Noah. The blood of the paschal lamb, sprinkled on the doors of the Hebrews, was a token to the destroying angel of God’s will that he should pass by those houses. Genesis 9:12-13; Exodus 12:13.NWAD TOKEN.2

Show me a token for good. Psalm 86:17.NWAD TOKEN.3

2. A mark. In pestilential diseases, tokens are livid spots upon the body, which indicate the approach of death.NWAD TOKEN.4

3. A memorial of friendship; something by which the friendship of another person is to be kept in mind.NWAD TOKEN.5

4. In coinage, tokens were coins struck in the reign of Elizabeth in the cities of Bristol, Oxford and Worcester, and also by private persons, which were put into circulation, and upon being returned, the issuer gave the value of them in current money.NWAD TOKEN.6

5. In printing, ten quires of paper; an extra quire is usually added to every other token, when counted out for the press.NWAD TOKEN.7

TOKEN, v.t. To make known. [Not in use.]

TOKENED, a. Being marked with spots.

TOL, v.t. [L. tollo.] To take away; a law term.

TOLA, n. In India, a weight for gold and silver, but different in different places.

TOLD, pret. and pp. of tell.

Who told thee that thou wast naked? Genesis 3:11.NWAD TOLD.2

Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. Judges 16:10.NWAD TOLD.3

--Sheep and oxen that could not be told. 1 Kings 8:5.NWAD TOLD.4

TOL-BOOTH. [See Toll-booth.]

TOLE, v.t. To draw or cause to follow by presenting something pleasing or desirable to view; to allure by some bait. Thus our farmers tole sheep and make them follow, by holding to them a measure of corn or some portion of fodder. In New England, it is applied only to the alluring of beasts. Locke has applied it to men.

TOLED, pp. Drawn; allured; induced to follow.

TOLERABLE, a. [L. tolerabilis. See Tolerate.]

1. That may be borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally. The cold in Canada is severe, but tolerable. The insults and indignities of our enemies are not tolerable.NWAD TOLERABLE.2

It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city. Matthew 10:15.NWAD TOLERABLE.3

2. Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust, resentment or opposition; as a tolerable translation; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable administration.NWAD TOLERABLE.4

TOLERABLENESS, n. The state of being tolerable.

TOLERABLY, adv. Supportably; in a manner to be endured.

1. Moderately well; passably; not perfectly; as a constitution tolerably firm. The advocate speaks tolerably well.NWAD TOLERABLY.2

TOLERANCE, n. [L. tolerantia, from tolero, to bear.] The power or capacity of enduring; or the act of enduring.

Diogenes one frosty morning came to the market place shaking, to show his tolerance.NWAD TOLERANCE.2

[Little used. But intolerance is in common use.]NWAD TOLERANCE.3

TOLERANT, a. Enduring; indulgent; favoring toleration.

TOLERATE, v.t. [L. tolero, from tollo, to lift.] To suffer to be or to be done without prohibition or hinderance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; as, to tolerate opinions or practices. The protestant religion is tolerated in France, and the Roman Catholic in Great Britain.

Crying should not be tolerated in children.NWAD TOLERATE.2

The law of love tolerates no vice, and patronizes every virtue.NWAD TOLERATE.3

TOLERATED, pp. Suffered; allowed; not prohibited or restrained.

TOLERATING, ppr. Enduring; suffering to be or to be done; allowing; not restraining.

TOLERATION, n. [L. toleratio.] The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved; appropriately, 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 implies a right in the sovereign to control men in their opinions and worship, or it implies the actual exercise of power in such control. Where no power exists or none is assumed to establish a creed and a mode of worship, there can be no toleration, in the strict sense of the word, for one religious denomination has as good a right as another to the free enjoyment of its creed and worship.

TOLL, n. [Gr. toll, custom, and end, exit, from cutting off; Eng. dole; diolam, to sell, to exchange, to pay toll. This is from the root of deal. See Deal.]

1. 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.NWAD TOLL.2

2. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.NWAD TOLL.3

3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.NWAD TOLL.4

TOLL, v.i. To pay toll or tallage.

1. To take toll, as by a miller.NWAD TOLL.6

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.

Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell.NWAD TOLL.8

TOLL, v.t. [supra.] To cause a bell to sound with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated, as for summoning public bodies or religious congregations to their meetings, or for announcing the death of a person, or to give solemnity to a funeral. Tolling is a different thing from ringing.

TOLL, v.t. [L. tollo.] To take away; to vacate; to annul; a law term.

1. To draw. [See Tole.]NWAD TOLL.11

TOLL, n. A particular sounding of a bell.

TOLL-BAR, n. [toll and bar.] A bar or beam used for stopping boats on a canal at the toll-house.

TOLL-BOOTH, n. [toll and booth.] A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.

1. A prison.NWAD TOLL-BOOTH.2

TOLL-BOOTH, v.t. To imprison in a toll-booth.

TOLL-BRIDGE, n. A bridge where toll is paid for passing it.

TOLL-GATE, n. A gate where toll is taken.

TOLL-GATHERER, n. The man who takes toll.

TOLL-HOUSE, n. A house or shed placed by a road near a toll-gate, or at the end of a toll-bridge, or by a canal, where the man who takes the toll remains.

TOLLING, ppr. Causing to sound in a slow grave manner.

1. Taking away; removing.NWAD TOLLING.2

2. Sounding, as a bell.NWAD TOLLING.3

TOLU BALSAM, n. Balsam of Tolu, a balsam produced from a tree growing in Tolu, in S. America.

TOLUTATION, n. [L. toluto.] A pacing or ambling. [Not used.]

TOMAHAWK, n. An Indian hatchet.

TOMAHAWK, v.t. To cut or kill with a hatchet called a tomahawk.

TOMATO, n. A plant, and its fruit, a species of Solanum. It is called sometimes the love-apple.

TOMB, n. toom. [L. tumulus, a heap or hillock; tumeo, to swell.]

1. A grave; a pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.NWAD TOMB.2

As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.NWAD TOMB.3

2. A house or vault formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof for the reception of the dead.NWAD TOMB.4

3. A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead.NWAD TOMB.5

TOMB, v.t. To bury; to inter. [See Entomb.]

TOMBAC, n. A white allow of copper; a metallic composition made by mixing and fusing together a large quantity of zink with a smaller quantity of copper, with arsenic.

TOMBLESS, a. Destitute of a tomb or sepulchral monument.

TOMBOY, n. [Tom, Thomas, and boy.] A rude boisterous boy; also in sarcasm, a romping girl. [Vulgar.]

TOMBSTONE, n. [tomb and stone.] A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased; a monument.

TOME, n. [Gr. a piece or section, to cut off.] A book; as many writings as are bound in a volume, forming the part of a larger work. It may be applied to a single volume.

TOMENTOUS, a. [L. tomentum, down.] In botany, downy; nappy; cottony; or flocky; covered with hairs so close as scarcely to be discernible, or with a whitish down, like wool; as a tomentous stem or leaf.

TO-MORROW, n. [to and morrow.] The day after the present.

One to-day is worth two to-morrows.NWAD TO-MORROW.2

TOMPION, n. The stopper of a cannon. [See Tampion.]

TOMTIT, n. A little bird, the titmouse.

TON, the termination of names of places, is town.

TON, n. The prevailing fashion.

TON, n. The weight of twenty hundred gross. [See Tun.] This is false orthography. The word is from the Saxon tunna, a cask, and the sense of weight is taken from that of a cask or butt.

TONE, n. [L. tonus; Gr. sound; L. tono; Gr. to sound, to strain or stretch. The L. sonus is probably the same word in a different dialect.]

1. Sound, or modification of sound; any impulse or vibration of the air which is perceptible by the ear; as a low tone, high tone, or loud tone; a grave tone; an acute tone; a sweet tone; a harsh tone.NWAD TONE.2

2. Accent; or rather, a particular inflection of the voice, adapted to express emotion or passion; a rhetorical sense of the word.NWAD TONE.3

Eager his tone, and ardent were his eyes.NWAD TONE.4

3. A whining sound; a whine; a kind of mournful strain of voice; as, children often read with a tone.NWAD TONE.5

4. An affected sound in speaking.NWAD TONE.6

5. In music, an interval of sound; as, the difference between the diapente and diatessaron, is a tone. Of tones there are two kinds, major and minor. The tone major is in the ratio of 8 to 9, which results from the difference between the fourth and fifth. The tone minor is as 9 to 10, resulting from the difference between the minor third and the fourth.NWAD TONE.7

6. The tone of an instrument, is its peculiar sound with regard to softness, evenness and the like.NWAD TONE.8

7. In medicine, that state of organization in a body, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor. Tone, in its primary signification, is tension, and tension is the primary signification of strength. Hence its application to the natural healthy state of animal organs. Tone therefore in medicine, is the strength and activity of the organs, from which proceed healthy functions. So we say, the body is in a sound state, the health is sound or firm.NWAD TONE.9

TONE, v.t. To utter with an affected tone.

1. To tune. [See Tune.]NWAD TONE.11

TONED, a. Having a tone; used in composition; as high-toned; sweet-toned.

TONELESS, a. Having no tone; unmusical.

TONE-SYLLABLE, a. An accented syllable.

TONG, n. [See Tongs.] The catch of a buckle. [Not used.] [See Tongue.]

TONGS, n. plu. An instrument of metal, consisting of two parts or long shafts joined at one end; used for handling things, particularly fire or heated metals. We say, a pair of tongs, a smith’s tongs.

TONGUE, TUNG, n. [Ant. L. tingua; digitus and dug. Our common orthography is incorrect; the true spelling is tung.]

1. In man, the instrument of taste, and the chief instrument of speech; and in other animals, the instrument of taste. It is also an instrument of deglutition. In some animals, the tongue is used for drawing the food into the mouth, as in animals of the bovine genus, etc. Other animals lap their drink, as dogs.NWAD TONGUE.2

The tongue is covered with membranes, and the outer one is full of papillae of a pyramidical figure, under which lies a thin, soft, reticular coat perforated with innumerable holes, and always lined with a thick and white or yellowish mucus.NWAD TONGUE.3

2. Speech; discourse; sometimes, fluency of speech.NWAD TONGUE.4

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.NWAD TONGUE.5

3. The power of articulate utterance; speech.NWAD TONGUE.6

Parrots imitating human tongue.NWAD TONGUE.7

4. Speech, as well or ill used; mode of speaking.NWAD TONGUE.8

Keep a good tongue in thy head.NWAD TONGUE.9

The tongue of the wise is health. Proverbs 12:18.NWAD TONGUE.10

5. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation. The English tongue, within two hundred years, will probably be spoken by two or three hundred millions of people in North America.NWAD TONGUE.11

6. Speech; words or declarations only; opposed to thoughts or actions.NWAD TONGUE.12

Let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:18.NWAD TONGUE.13

7. A nation, as distinguished by their language.NWAD TONGUE.14

I will gather all nations and tongues. Isaiah 66:18.NWAD TONGUE.15

8. A point; a projection; as the tongue of a buckle or of a balance.NWAD TONGUE.16

9. A point or long narrow strip of land, projecting from the main into a sea or a lake.NWAD TONGUE.17

10. The taper part of any thing; in the rigging of a ship, a short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc. to the size of the mast-head.NWAD TONGUE.18

To hold the tongue, to be silent.NWAD TONGUE.19

TONGUE, TUNG, v.t. To chide; to scold.

How might she tongue me.NWAD TONGUE.21

TONGUE, TUNG, v.i. To talk; to prate.

TIME-SERVING — TITLARK

TONGUED — TORN