2. In medicine, increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions.NWAD TONIC.3

3. Relating to tones or sounds.NWAD TONIC.4

4. Extended. [Not in use.]NWAD TONIC.5

Tonic spasm, in medicine, a rigid contraction of the muscles without relaxation, as in tetanus, etc.NWAD TONIC.6

TONIC, n. A medicine that increases the tone of the muscular fiber, and gives vigor and action to the system.

A medicine which increases the tone or strength of the body.NWAD TONIC.8

1. In music, the key-note or principal sound which generates all the rest.NWAD TONIC.9

2. In music, a certain degree of tension, or the sound produced by a vocal string in a given degree of tension.NWAD TONIC.10

TO-NIGHT, n. [to and night.] The present night, or the night after the present day.

TONNAGE, n. [from ton, a corrupt orthography. See Tun.]

1. The weight of goods carried in a boat or ship.NWAD TONNAGE.2

2. The cubical content or burthen of a ship in tuns; or the amount of weight which she may carry.NWAD TONNAGE.3

3. A duty or impost on ships, estimated per tun; or a duty, toll or rate payable on goods per tun, transported on canals.NWAD TONNAGE.4

TONSIL, n. [L. tonsilloe. This word seems to be formed from tonsus, tondeo, to clip.] In anatomy, a glandular body at the passage from the mouth to the pharynx. The tonsils are called also from their shape, amygdaloe, and in popular language, almonds. The tonsils have several excretory ducts opening into the mouth.

TONSIL, a. That may be clipped.

TONSURE, n. [L. tonsura, from tonsus, shaved; tondeo, to clip or shave.]

1. The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the head; or the state of being shorn.NWAD TONSURE.2

2. In the Romish church, tonsure is the first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, who cuts off a part of his hair with prayers and benedictions. Hence tonsure is used to denote entrance or admission into holy orders.NWAD TONSURE.3

3. In the Romish church, the corona or crown which priests wear as a mark of their order and of their rank in the church.NWAD TONSURE.4

TONTINE, n. An annuity on survivorship; or a loan raised on life-annuities, with the benefit of survivorship. Thus an annuity is shared among a number, on the principle that the share of each, at his death, is enjoyed by the survivors, until at last the whole goes to the last survivor, or to the last two or three, according to the terms on which the money is advanced.

TONY, n. A simpleton. [Ludicrous.]

TOO, adv.

1. Over; more than enough; noting excess; as, a thing is too long, too short, or too wide; too high; too many; too much.NWAD TOO.2

His will too strong to bend, too proud to learn.NWAD TOO.3

2. Likewise; also; in addition.NWAD TOO.4

A courtier and a patriot too.NWAD TOO.5

Let those eyes that viewNWAD TOO.6

The daring crime, behold the vengeance too.NWAD TOO.7

3. Too, too, repeated, denotes excess emphatically; but this repetition is not in respectable use.NWAD TOO.8

TOOK, pret. of take.

Enoch was not, for God took him. Genesis 5:24.NWAD TOOK.2

TOOL, n. [In old Law Latin, we find attile, attilia, stores, tools, implements.]

1. An instrument of manual operation, particularly such as are used by farmers and mechanics; as the tools of a joiner, cabinet maker, smith or shoemaker.NWAD TOOL.2

2. A person used as an instrument by another person; a word of reproach. Men of intrigue always have their tools, by whose agency they accomplish their purposes.NWAD TOOL.3

TOOL, v.t. To shape with a tool.

TOOM, a. Empty. [Not in use.]

TOOT, v.i. [L. do, dedi.]

1. To stand out or be prominent. [Not in use.]NWAD TOOT.2

2. To make a particular noise with the tongue articulating with the root of the upper teeth, at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to sound a horn in a particular manner.NWAD TOOT.3

This writer should wear a tooting horn.NWAD TOOT.4

3. To peep; to look narrowly. [Not in use, and probably a mistaken interpretation.]NWAD TOOT.5

TOOT, v.t. To sound; as, to toot the horn.

TOOTER, n. One who plays upon a pipe or horn.

TOOTH, n. plu. teeth. [L. dens.]

1. A bony substance growing out of the jaws of animals, and serving as the instrument of mastication. The teeth are also very useful in assisting persons in the utterance of words, and when well formed and sound, they are ornamental. The teeth of animals differ in shape, being destined for different offices. The front teeth in men and quadrupeds are called incisors, or incisive or cutting teeth; next to these are the pointed teeth, called canine or dog teeth; and on the sides of the jaws are the molar teeth or grinders.NWAD TOOTH.2

2. Taste; palate.NWAD TOOTH.3

These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth.NWAD TOOTH.4

3. A tine; a prong; something pointed and resembling an animal tooth; as the tooth of a rake, a comb, a card, a harrow, a saw, or of a wheel. The teeth of a wheel are sometimes called cogs, and are destined to catch corresponding parts of other wheels.NWAD TOOTH.5

Tooth and nail, [by biting and scratching,] with one’s utmost power; by all possible means.NWAD TOOTH.6

To the teeth, in open opposition; directly to one’s face.NWAD TOOTH.7

That I shall live, and tell him to his teeth.NWAD TOOTH.8

To cast in the teeth, to retort reproachfully; to insult to the face.NWAD TOOTH.9

In spite of the teeth, in defiance of opposition; in opposition to every effort.NWAD TOOTH.10

To show the teeth, to threaten.NWAD TOOTH.11

When the law shows her teeth, but dares not bite.NWAD TOOTH.12

TOOTH, v.t. To furnish with teeth; as, to tooth a rake.

1. To indent; to cut into teeth; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.NWAD TOOTH.14

2. To lock into each other.NWAD TOOTH.15

TOOTHACHE, n. [tooth and ache.] Pain in the teeth.

TOOTHACHE-TREE, n. A shrub of the genus Zanthoxylum.

TOOTH-DRAWER, n. [tooth and draw.] One whose business is to extract teeth with instruments.

TOOTH-DRAWING, n. The act of extracting a tooth; the practice of extracting teeth.

TOOTHED, pp. or a. Having teeth or jags. In botany, dentate; having projecting points, remote from each other, about the edge.

TOOTH-EDGE, n. [tooth and edge.] The sensation excited by grating sounds, and by the touch of certain substances.

TOOTHFUL, a. Palatable. [Not in use.]

TOOTHLESS, a. Having no teeth.

TOOTHLETTED, a. In botany, denticulate; having very small teeth or notches; as a leaf.

TOOKPICK, TOOTHPICKER, n. [tooth and pick.] An instrument for cleaning the teeth of substances lodged between them.

TOOTHSOME, a. Palatable; grateful to the taste.

TOOTHSOMENESS, n. Pleasantness to the taste.

TOOTHWORT, n. A plant whose roots resemble human teeth, such as the Lathroea squamaria, various species of Dentaria, the Ophrys corallorrhiza, etc. This name is also given to the lead-wort, of the genus Plumbago, form its toothed corol.

TOOTHY, a. Toothed; having teeth.

TOOTING, ppr. Sounding in a particular manner.

TOP, n.

1. The highest part of any thing; the upper end, edge or extremity; as the top of a tree; the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain.NWAD TOP.2

2. Surface; upper side; as the top of the ground.NWAD TOP.3

3. The highest place; as the top of preferment.NWAD TOP.4

4. The highest person; the chief.NWAD TOP.5

5. The utmost degree.NWAD TOP.6

The top of my ambition is to contribute to that work.NWAD TOP.7

If you attain the top of your desires in fame--NWAD TOP.8

6. The highest rank. Each boy strives to be at the top of his class, or at the top of the school.NWAD TOP.9

7. The crown or upper surface of the head.NWAD TOP.10

8. The hair on the crown of the head; the forelock.NWAD TOP.11

9. The head of a plant.NWAD TOP.12

10. An inverted conoid which children play with by whirling it on its point, continuing the motion with a whip.NWAD TOP.13

11. In ship-building, a sort of platform, surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sides. It serves to extend the shrouds, by which means they more effectually support the mast; and in ships of war, the top furnishes a convenient stand for swivels and small arms to annoy the enemy.NWAD TOP.14

TOP-ARMOR, n. In ships, a railing on the top, supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.

TOP-BLOCK, n. In ships, a block hung to an eye-bolt in the cap, used in swaying and lowering the top-mast.

TOP-CHAIN, n. In ships, a chain to sling the lower yards in time of action, to prevent their falling when the ropes by which they are hung, are shot away.

TOP-CLOTH, n. In ships, a piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action.

TOP-DRAINING, n. The act or practice of draining the surface of land.

TOP-DRESSING, n. A dressing of manure laid on the surface of land.

TOPFULL, a. [top and full.] Full to the brim.

TOP-GALLANT, a. [See Top-sail.]

1. Highest; elevated; splendid; as a top-gallant spark.NWAD TOP-GALLANT.2

TOP-HEAVY, a. top’-hevy. [top and heavy.] Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower.

TOP-KNOT, n. [top and knot.] A knot worn by females on the top of the head.

TOPLESS, a. Having no top; as a topless highth.

TOPMAN, n. [top and man.] The man who stands above in sawing.

1. In ships, a man standing in the top.NWAD TOPMAN.2

TOP-MAST, n. In ships, the second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast. Above that is the top-gallant-mast.

TOP-MOST, a. [top and most.] Highest; uppermost; as the topmost cliff; the top-most branch of a tree.

TOP-PROUD, a. [top and proud.] Proud to the highest degree.

TOP-ROPE, n. A rope to sway up a top-mast, etc.

TOP-SAIL, n. A sail extended across the top-mast, above which is the top-gallant-sail.

TOP-SHAPED, a. In botany, turbinate.

TOP-SOILING, n. The act or art of taking off the top-soil of land, before a canal is begun.

TOP-STONE, n. A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top.

TOP-TACKLE, n. A large tackle hooked to the lower end of the top-mast top-rope and to the deck.

TOP, v.i. To rise aloft; to be eminent; as lofty ridges and topping mountains.

1. To predominate; as topping passions; topping uneasiness.NWAD TOP.2

2. To excel; to rise above others.NWAD TOP.3

But write thy best and top--NWAD TOP.4

TOP, v.t. To cover on the top; to tip; to cap.

--A mountNWAD TOP.6

Of alabaster, topp’d with golden spires.NWAD TOP.7

Mountains topp’d with snow.NWAD TOP.8

1. To rise above.NWAD TOP.9

A gourd--climbing by the boughs twined about them, till it topped and covered the tree.NWAD TOP.10

Topping all others in boasting.NWAD TOP.11

2. To outgo; to surpass.NWAD TOP.12

3. To crop; to take off the top or upper part.NWAD TOP.13

Top your rose trees a little with your knife near a leaf-bud.NWAD TOP.14

So, in America we say, to top corn, that is maiz, by cutting off the stalk just above the ear.NWAD TOP.15

4. To rise to the top of; as, he topped the hill.NWAD TOP.16

5. To perform eminently. [Not in use.]NWAD TOP.17

TOPAN, n. A name of the horned Indian raven, or rhinoceros bird.

TOPARCH, n. [Gr. place, and a chief.] The principal man in a place or country.

TOPARCHY, n. A little state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch. Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.

TOPAZ, n. [Gr.] A mineral, said to be so called from Topazos, a small isle in the Arabic gulf, where the Romans obtained a stone which they called by this name, but which is the chrysolite of the moderns. The topaz is of a yellowish color. It sometimes occurs in masses, but more generally crystallized in rectangular octahedrons. Topaz is valued as a gem or precious stone, and is used in jewelry. It consists of silex, fluoric acid and alumin, in the following proportions; alumin 57 parts, silex 34, and fluoric acid 7 or 8.

Of topaz there are three subspecies, common topaz, shorlite and physalite.NWAD TOPAZ.2

TOPAZOLITE, n. A variety of precious garnet, of a topaz yellow color, or an olive green.

TOPE, n. A fish of the shark kind, the squalus galeus of Linne.

TOPE, v.i. To drink hard; to drink strong or spiritus liquors to excess.

If you tope in form, and treat--NWAD TOPE.3

TOPER, n. One who drinks to excess; a drunkard; a sot.

TOPET, n. A small bird, the crested titmouse.

N.B. The crested titmouse of Latham, Parus bicolor, is the toupet titmouse of Pennant.NWAD TOPET.2

TOPH, TOPHIN, n. [from the Latin.] A kind of sandstone.

TOPHACEOUS, a. Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.

TOPHET, n. [Heb. tophet, a drum.] Hell; so called from a place east of Jerusalem where children were burnt to Moloch, and where drums were used to drown their cries.

TOPHI, n. Ducksten; a stone formed by earthy depositions; called also tufa or trass.

TOPIARY, a. [L. topiarius, ornamented.] Shaped by clipping or cutting.

TOPIC, n. [Gr. place; L. topicus, topica.]

1. Any subject of discourse or argument. The Scriptures furnish an unlimited number of topics for the preacher, and topics infinitely interesting.NWAD TOPIC.2

2. In rhetoric, a probable argument drawn from the several circumstances and places of a fact. Aristotle wrote a book of topics. Cicero defines topics to be the art of finding arguments.NWAD TOPIC.3

3. Principle of persuasion.NWAD TOPIC.4

Contumacious persons whom no topics can work upon.NWAD TOPIC.5

4. In medicine, an external remedy; a remedy to be applied outwardly to a particular part of the body, as a plaster, a poultice, a blister and the like.NWAD TOPIC.6

TOPIC, TOPICAL, a. [supra.] Pertaining to a place, limited; local; as a topical remedy.

1. Pertaining to a topic or subject of discourse, or to a general head.NWAD TOPIC.8

TOPICALLY, adv. Locally; with limitation to a part.

1. With application to a particular part; as a remedy topically applied.NWAD TOPICALLY.2

TOPOGRAPHER, n. [See Topography.] One who describes a particular place, town, city or tract of land.

TOPOGRAPHIC, TOPOGRAPHICAL, a. Pertaining to topography; descriptive of a place.

TOPOGRAPHICALLY, adv. In the manner of topography.

TOPOGRAPHY, n. [Gr. place, and description.] The description of a particular place, city, town, manor, parish or tract of land. It is of more limited application than choreography.

TOPPED, TOPT, pp. or a. Covered on the top; capped; surpassed; cropped; having the top cut off.

TOPPING, ppr. Covering the top; capping; surpassing; cropping; lopping.

1. a. Fine; gallant.NWAD TOPPING.2

[But Johnson’s definition is probably incorrect.]NWAD TOPPING.3

2. Proud; assuming superiority. [This is the sense in which the common people of N. England use the word, and I believe the true sense, but it is not elegant.]NWAD TOPPING.4

TOPPING, n. In seamen’s language, the act of pulling one extremity of a yard higher than the other.

TOPPING-LIFT, n. A large strong tackle employed to suspend or top the outer end of a gaff, or of the boom of a main-sail, in a brig or schooner.

TOPPINGLY, adv. Proudly; with airs of disdain. [Not an elegant word, nor much used.]

TOPPLE, v.i. [from top.] To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.

Though castles topple on their warders’ heads.NWAD TOPPLE.2

[This word is used chiefly of children when beginning to walk.]NWAD TOPPLE.3

TOPPLING, ppr. Falling forward.

TOPSY-TURVY, adv. In an inverted posture; with the top or head downwards; as, to turn a carriage topsy-turvy.

TOQUET, n. toka’. A kind of bonnet or head dress for women.

TOR, n. [L. turris.] A tower; a turret; also, a high pointed hill; used in names.

TORCH, n. [L. torqueo, tortus.] A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood or of candles.

They light the nuptial torch.NWAD TORCH.2

TORCH-BEARER, n. [torch and bear.]

One whose office is to carry a torch.NWAD TORCH-BEARER.2

TORCHER, n. One that gives light. [Not used.]

TORCH-LIGHT, n. [torch and light.] The light of a torch or of torches.

1. A light kindled to supply the want of the sun.NWAD TORCH-LIGHT.2

TORCH-THISTLE, n. A plant of the genus Cactus. The common name of a subdivision of the genus Cactus, called also cereus, from cera, wax, from the resemblance of the stems to a wax candle. Torch-thistle is from the prickly stems, used by the Indians for torches.

TORCH-WORT, n. A plant.

TORE, pret. of tear. He tore his robe.

TORE, n. The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. [Used in New England.]

TORE, n. [L. torus.] In architecture, a large round molding on the base of a column. It is distinguished from the astragali by its size. The bases of the Tuscan and Doric columns have only one tore, which is between the plinth and listel. In the Attic base there are two.

TOREUMATOGRAPHY, n. [Gr. sculpture, and description.] A description of ancient sculptures and basso-relievos.

TORMENT, n. [L. tormentum.; torqueo, torno; Eng. tour; that is, from twisting, straining.]

1. Extreme pain; anguish; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.NWAD TORMENT.2

The more I seeNWAD TORMENT.3

Pleasure about me, so much I feelNWAD TORMENT.4

Torment within me.NWAD TORMENT.5

Lest they also come into this place of torment. Luke 16:28; Revelation 9:5; Revelation 14:11.NWAD TORMENT.6

2. That which gives pain, vexation or misery.NWAD TORMENT.7

They brought to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments. Matthew 4:24.NWAD TORMENT.8

3. An engine for casting stones.NWAD TORMENT.9

TORMENT, v.t. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating pain and misery, either of body or mind.

Art thou come hither to torment us before the time? Matthew 8:29.NWAD TORMENT.11

He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone. Revelation 14:10.NWAD TORMENT.12

1. To pain; to distress.NWAD TORMENT.13

Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. Matthew 8:6.NWAD TORMENT.14

2. To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.NWAD TORMENT.15

3. To put into great agitation.NWAD TORMENT.16

They soaring on main wingNWAD TORMENT.17

Tormented all the air. [Unusual.]NWAD TORMENT.18

TORMENTED, pp. Painted to extremity; teased; harassed.

TORMENTIL, n. A genus of plants, the septfoil. The root is used in medicines as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes or tormina, whence its name.

TORMENTING, ppr. Paining to an extreme degree; inflicting severe distress and anguish; teasing; vexing.

TORMENTING, n. In agriculture, an imperfect sort of horse-hoeing.

TORMENTOR, n. He or that which torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures.

1. In agriculture, an instrument for reducing a stiff soil.NWAD TORMENTOR.2

TORN, pp. of tear.

Neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn by the beasts in the field. Exodus 22:31.NWAD TORN.2

TITLE — TONGUE

TORNADO — TOWING