Time-Serving – Toleration

Time-Serving

TI'ME-SERVING, adjective Obsequiously complying with the humors of men in power.

TI'ME-SERVING, noun An obsequious compliance with the humors of men in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.

Time-Worn

TI'ME-WORN, adjective Impaired by time.

Timed

TI'MED, participle passive Adapted to the season or occasion.

Timeful

TI'MEFUL, adjective Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early. [Not much used.]

Timeist

TI'MEIST, noun In music, a performer who keeps good time.

Timeless

TI'MELESS, adjective Unseasonable; done at an improper time.

Nor fits it to prolong the heav'nly feast

Timeless-- [Not used.]

1. Untimely; immature; done or suffered before the proper time; as a timeless grave. [Not used.]

Timelessly

TI'MELESSLY, adverb Unseasonably.

Timeliness

TI'MELINESS, noun [from timely.] Seasonableness; a being in good time.

Timely

TI'MELY, adjective Seasonable; being in good time; sufficiently early. The defendant had timely notice of this motion. timely care will often prevent great evils.

1. Keeping time or measure. [Not used.]

TI'MELY, adverb Early; soon; in good season.

Timely advis'd, the coming evil shun.

Timid

TIM'ID, adjective [Latin timidus, from timeo, to fear.] Fearful; wanting courage to meet danger; timorous; not bold.

Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare.

Timidity

TIMID'ITY, noun [Latin timiditas.] Fearfulness; want of courage or boldness to face danger; timorousness; habitual cowardice. timidity in one person may be a good trait of character, while in another it is a deep reproach.

Timidly

TIM'IDLY, adverb In a timid manner; weakly; without courage.

Timidness

TIM'IDNESS, noun Timidity.

Timocracy

TIMOC'RACY, noun [Gr. honor, worth, and to hold.] Government by men of property, who are possessed of a certain income.

Timoneer

TIMONEE'R, noun [Latin temo.] A helmsman.

Timorous

TIM'OROUS, adjective [Latin timor. See Timid.]

1. Fearful of danger; timid; destitute of courage; as a timorous doubts; timorous beliefs.

Timorously

TIM'OROUSLY, adverb Fearfully; timidly; without boldness; with much fear.

Let dastard souls be timorously wise.

Timorousness

TIM'OROUSNESS, noun Fearfulness; timidity; want of courage.

Timous

TIMOUS, adjective [from time.] Early; timely. [Not in use.]

Timously

TIMOUSLY, adverb In good season. [Not in use.]

Tin

TIN, noun [Latin stannum; stagnum.]

1. A white metal, with a slight tinge of yellow. It is soft, non-elastic, very malleable, and when a bar of it is bent near the ear, distinguished by a crackling sound called the cry of tin It is used for culinary vessels, being for this purpose usually combined with lead, forming pewter; and alloyed with small proportions of antimony, copper and bismuth, is formed into various wares resembling silver, under the names of block-tin, brittania, etc. Equal parts of tin and lead compose soder. tin united with copper in different proportions, forms bronze, bell-metal, and speculum-metal.

2. Thin plates of iron covered with tin

TIN, verb transitive To cover with tin or overlay with tinfoil.

Tinct

TINCT, verb intransitive [Latin tingo, tinctus.] To stain or color; to imbue.

TINCT, noun Stain; color. [Obsolete. We now use tinge and tincture.]

Tincture

TINC'TURE, noun [Latin tinctura.]

1. The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a menstruum; or an extract of a part of the substance of a body, communicated to the menstruum. Hence,

2. In medicine, a spiritus solution of such of the proximate principles of vegetables and animals as are soluble in pure alcohol or proof-spirit; wine or spirits containing medicinal substances in solution.

3. A tinge or shade of color; as a tincture of red.

4. Slight taste superadded to any substance; as a tincture or orange-peel.

5. Slight quality added to any thing; as a tincture of French manners.

All manners take a tincture from our own.

TINC'TURE, verb transitive To tinge; to communicate a slight foreign color to; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.

A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors.

1. To imbue the mind; to communicate a portion of any thing foreign; as a mind tinctured with skepticism.

Tinctured

TINC'TURED, participle passive Tinged; slightly impregnated with something foreign.

Tincturing

TINC'TURING, participle present tense Tinging; imbuing; impregnating with a foreign substance.

Tind

TIND, verb transitive [Eng. tine; tinder.] To kindle. obsolete

Tinder

TIND'ER, noun Something very inflammable used for kindling fire from a spark; as scorched linen.

Tinder-Box

TIND'ER-BOX, noun [tinder and box.] A box in which tinder is kept.

Tinderlike

TIND'ERLIKE, adjective [tinder and like.] Like tinder; very inflammable.

Tine

TINE, verb transitive To kindle, to set on fire. [See Tind.]

TINE, verb transitive [Latin teneo.] To shut or inclose; to fill. [Not in use or local.]

TINE, noun [Latin dens.]

1. The tooth or spike of a fork; a prong; also, the tooth of a harrow or drag.

2. Trouble; distress. [Not in use.]

TINE, verb intransitive To rage; to smart; to fight.

Tineman

TI'NEMAN, noun Anciently an officer of the forest in England, who had the nocturnal care of vert and venison.

Tinet

TI'NET, noun [tine, to shut, supra.] In old writers, brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.

Tinfoil

TINFOIL, noun [tin and Latin folium, a leaf.] Tin reduced to a thin leaf.

Ting

TING, noun A sharp sound. [Not in use. Children use ding, dong. See Tingle.]

TING, verb intransitive To sound or ring. [Not in use.]

Tinge

TINGE, verb transitive [Latin tingo; Eng. to dye.] To imbue or impregnate with something foreign; to communicate the qualities of one substance, in some degree, to another, either by mixture, or by adding them to the surface; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron; to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste. The jaundice tinges the eyes with yellow.

The virtues of sir Roger, as well as his imperfections, are tinged with extravagance.

TINGE, noun Color; dye; taste; or rather a slight degree of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; as a red color that has a tinge of blue; a dish of food that has a tinge of orange peel in its taste.

Tinged

TING'ED, participle passive Imbued or impregnated with a small portion of something foreign.

Tingent

TING'ENT, adjective Having the power to tinge.

As for the white part, it appeared much less enriched with the tingent property. [Little used.]

Tinging

TING'ING, participle present tense Imbuing or impregnating with something foreign.

TIN'-GLASS, noun Bismuth, which see.

Tingle

TIN'GLE, verb intransitive [Latin tinnio.]

1. To feel a kind of thrilling sound.

At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle 1 Samuel 3:11.

2. To feel a sharp thrilling pain.

The pale boy senator yet tingling stands.

3. To have a thrilling sensation, or a sharp slight penetrating sensation.

They suck pollution through their tingling veins.

Tingling

TING'LING, participle present tense Having a thrilling sensation.

TING'LING, noun A thrilling sensation.

Tink

TINK, verb intransitive To make a sharp shrill noise; to tinkle. [The latter is generally used.]

Tinkal

TINK'AL, noun Borax in its crude state or unrefined. It consists of small crystals of a yellowish color, and is unctuous to the feel.

Tinker

TINK'ER, noun A mender of brass kettles, pans and the like.

Tinkerly

TINK'ERLY, adverb In the manner of a tinker.

Tinkle

TINK'LE, verb intransitive

1. To make small quick sharp sounds, as by striking on metal; to clink.

--And have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13:1. Isaiah 3:16.

The sprightly horse

Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.

The moment the money tinkles in the chest, the soul mounts out of purgatory.

2. To hear a small sharp sound.

And his ears tinkled, and his color fled.

TINK'LE, verb transitive To cause to clink or make sharp quick sounds.

Tinkling

TINK'LING, participle present tense Making a small quick sharp noise.

TINK'LING, noun A small quick sharp sound.

Making a tinkling with their feet. Isaiah 3:16.

Tinman

TIN'MAN, noun [tin and man.] A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tin ware.

TIN'-MINE, noun [tin and mine.] A mine where tin is obtained.

Tinned

TIN'NED, participle passive Covered with tin.

Tinner

TIN'NER, noun [from tin.] One who works in the tin mines.

Tinning

TIN'NING, participle present tense [from tin.] Covering with tin or tinfoil.

TIN'NING, noun The act, art or practice of covering or lining any thing with melted tin or with tinfoil, as kitchen utensils, locks, bits, etc.

Tinny

TIN'NY, adjective Abounding with tin.

Tinpenny

TIN'PENNY, noun [tin and penny.] A customary duty in England, formerly paid to tithingmen.

Tinsel

TIN'SEL, noun Something very shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.

Who can discern the tinsel from the gold?

If the man will too curiously examine the superficial tinsel good, he undeceives himself to his cost.

1. A kind of shining cloth.

2. A kind of lace.

TIN'SEL, adjective Gaudy; showy to excess; specious; superficial.

TIN'SEL, verb transitive To adorn with something glittering and showy without much value; to make gaudy.

She, tinsel'd o'er in robes of varying hues--

Tinseled

TIN'SELED, participle passive Decorated with gaudy ornaments.

Tinseling

TIN'SELING, participle present tense Adorning with tinsel or superficial luster.

Tint

TINT, noun [Latin tinctus, tingo. See Tinge.] A dye; a color, or rather a slight coloring or tincture distinct from the ground or principal color; as red with a blue tint or tint of blue. In painting, tints are the colors considered as more or less bright, deep or thin, by the due use and intermixture of which a picture receives its shades, softness and variety.

Or blend in beauteous tint the color'd mass.

Their vigor sickens, and their tints decline.

TINT, verb transitive To tinge; to give a slight coloring to.

TIN'-WORM, noun [tin and worm.] An insect.

Tiny

TIN'Y, adjective [from the root of thin, which see.] Very small; little; puny. [A word used by children, and in burlesque.]

When that I was a little tiny boy.

Tip

TIP, noun

1. The end; the point or extremity of any thing small; as the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear; the tip of the tongue; the tip of the ear.

2. One part of the play at nine-pins.

3. In botany, an anther.

TIP, verb transitive To form a point with something; to cover the tip top or end; a, to tip any thing with gold or silver.

With truncheon tipp'd with iron head.

TIPp'd with jet,

Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.

1. [for tap.] To strike slightly, or with the end of any thing small; to tap.

A third rogue tips me by the elbow.

2. To lower one end, or throw upon the end; as, to tip a cart for discharging a load. [N. England.]

To tip the wink, to direct a wink, or to wink to another for notice.

TIP, verb intransitive In the phrase, to tip off, that is, to fall headlong; hence, to die.

Tipped

TIP'PED

TIP'PET, noun A narrow garment or covering for the neck, worn by females. It is now made of fur, though formerly of some kind of cloth.

Tippet

TIP'PET, n. A narrow garment or covering for the neck, worn by females. It is now made of fur, though formerly of some kind of cloth.

Tipping

TIP'PING, participle present tense Covering the end or tip.

Tipple

TIP'PLE, verb intransitive To drink spiritus or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper use of spiritus liquors. When a man begins to tipple let his creditors secure their debts.

TIP'PLE, verb transitive To drink, as strong liquors, in luxury or excess.

--Himself for saving charges.

A peel'd, slic'd onion eats, and tipples verjuice.

TIP'PLE, noun Drink; liquor taken in tippling.

Tippled

TIP'PLED, participle passive Drank in excess.

1. adjective Intoxicated; inebriated.

Tippler

TIP'PLER, noun One who habitually indulges in the excessive use of spiritus liquors; a drunkard; a sot. It however signifies often a person who habitually drinks strong liquors, without absolute drunkenness.

Tippling

TIP'PLING, participle present tense Indulging in the habitual use of strong or spiritus liquors.

TIP'PLING, noun The habitual practice of drinking strong or spiritus liquors; a drinking to excess.

Tippling-House

TIP'PLING-HOUSE, noun [tipple and house.] A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, and where men are accustomed to spend their time and money in excessive drinking.

TIP'-STAFF, noun [tip and staff.] An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a constable.

1. A staff tipped with metal.

Tipsy

TIP'SY, adjective [from tipple.] Fuddled; overpowered with strong drink; intoxicated.

Tipt

TIPT, participle passive Having the end covered.

Tiptoe

TIP'TOE, noun [tip and tow.] The end of the toe.

Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by.

To be or to stand a tiptoe to be awake or alive to any thing; to be roused; as, to be a tiptoe with expectation.

Tirade

TIRA'DE, noun

1. Formerly in French music, the filling of an interval by the intermediate diatonic notes.

2. In modern usage, a strain or flight; a series of violent declamation.

Here he delivers a violent tirade against all persons who profess to know any thing about angels.

Tire

TIRE, noun [Heb. tur, a row or series.]

1. A tier; a row or rank. This is the same word as tier, differently written. [See Tier and Tour.]

2. A head dress; something that encompasses the head. [See Tiara.] Ezekiel 24:17. Isaiah 3:18.

On her head she wore a tire of gold.

3. Furniture; apparatus; as the tire of war.

4. Attire. [See Attire.]

5. A band or hoop of iron, used to bind the fellies of wheels, to secure them from wearing and breaking; as cart-tire; wagon-tire. This tire however is generally formed of different pieces, and is not one entire hoop.

TIRE, verb transitive To adorn; to attire; to dress; as the head. obsolete [See Attire.] 2 Kings 9:30.

TIRE, verb transitive [Latin tero.]

1. To weary; to fatigue; to exhaust the strength by toil or labor; as, to tire a horse or an ox. A long day's work in summer will tire the laborer.

Tir'd with toil, all hopes of safety past.

2. To weary; to fatigue; to exhaust the power of attending, or to exhaust patience with dullness or tediousness. A dull advocate may tire the court and jury, and injure his cause.

To tire out, to weary or fatigue to excess; to harass.

TIRE, verb intransitive To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted. A feeble body soon tires with hard labor.

Tired

TI'RED, participle passive Wearied; fatigued.

Tiredness

TI'REDNESS, noun The state of being wearied; weariness.

Tiresome

TI'RESOME, adjective Wearisome; fatiguing; exhausting the strength; as a tiresome day's work; a tiresome journey.

1. Tedious; exhausting the patience; as a tiresome discourse. The debates in congress are said to be sometimes very tiresome

Tiresomeness

TI'RESOMENESS, noun The act or quality of tiring or exhausting strength or patience; wearisomeness; tediousness; as the tiresomeness of work or of a dull speaker.

Tirewoman

TI'REWOMAN, noun [tire and woman.] A woman whose occupation is to make head dresses.

Tiring

TI'RING, participle present tense Wearying; fatiguing; exhausting strength or patience.

Tiring-House

TI'RING-HOUSE

TI'RING-ROOM, noun The room or place where players dress for the stage.

Tiring-Room

TI'RING-ROOM, n. The room or place where players dress for the stage.

Tirwit

TIR'WIT, noun A bird. [Latin vanellus.]

N.B. The lapwing is called teewit in Scotland, (Ed Encyc.) and the lapwing is the vanellus.

Tis

'TIS, a contraction of it is.

Tisic

TIS'IC

TIS'ICAL, adjective s as z. [for phthisic, phthisical.] Consumptive.

TIS'IC, noun s as z. [supra.] Consumption; morbid waste.

Tisri

TIS'RI, noun The first Hebrew month of the civil year, and the seventh of the ecclesiastical; answering to a part of our September and a part of October.

Tissue

TISSUE, noun tish'u.

1. Cloth interwoven with gold or silver, or with figured colors.

A robe of tissue stiff with golden wire.

2. In anatomy, texture or organization of parts. The peculiar intimate structure of a part is called its tissue A part of a fibrous structure is called a fibrous tissue The organs of the body are made up of simpler elements, some generally diffused through the body, and others peculiar to particular organs. These simpler structures are called the tissues of the body; as the cellular tissue; the mucous tissue etc. The cellular tissue is the cellular membrane.

3. A connected series; as, the whole story is a tissue of forgeries or of falsehood.

TIS'SUE, verb transitive To form tissue; to interweave; to variegate.

The chariot was covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue.

Tissued

TIS'SUED, participle passive Interwoven; formed with variegated work.

Tissuing

TIS'SUING, participle present tense Interweaving; forming with variegated work.

TIT, noun A small horse, in contempt; a woman, in contempt; a small bird; a titmouse or tomtit.

Tit

TIT, noun The projecting part of the female breast; the dug of a beast; the pap of a woman; the nipple. It consists of an elastic erectile substance, embracing the lactiferous ducts, which terminate on its surface, and thus serves to convey milk to the young of animals.

Titan

TI'TAN

TITA'NIAN

TITANIF'EROUS, adjective [titan or titanium, and Latin fero.]

Producing titanium; as titaniferous pyrites.

Titanite

TI'TANITE, noun An ore or oxyd of titanium, commonly of a reddish brown color, when it is opake; it occurs also in prismatic crystals terminated by pyramids of a blood red color, and is then translucent or transparent.

Titanitic

TITANIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to titanium.

Titanium

TITA'NIUM, noun In mineralogy, a metal of modern discovery, and of a dark copper color, first found in Cornwall in England. It occurs in different states of oxydation or intermixture, in various parts of the world. It exists in three different states of oxydation; the first is blue or purple, the second red, and the third white. The ores of this metal are called menachanite, from Menachan in Cornwall, where it was originally found; iserine; from the river Iser, in Silesia; nigrine, from its black color; sphene, rutile, and octahedrite.

Titbit

TIT'BIT, noun A tender piece. [See Tidbit.]

Tithable

TI'THABLE, adjective Subject to the payment of tithes.

Tithe

TITHE, noun The tenth part of any thing; but appropriately, the tenth part of the increase annually arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support. Tithes are personal, predial, or mixed; personal, when accruing from labor, art, trade and navigation; predial, when issuing from the earth, as hay, wood and fruit; and mixed, when accruing from beasts, which are fed from the ground.

TITHE, verb transitive To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth.

When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase. Deuteronomy 26:12.

Ye tithe mint and rue. Luke 11:42.

TITHE, verb intransitive To pay tithes.

Tithe-Free

TI'THE-FREE, adjective Exempt from the payment of tithes.

Tithe-Paying

TI'THE-PAYING, adjective Paying tithes; subjected to pay tithes.

Tithed

TI'THED, participle passive Taxed a tenth.

Tither

TI'THER, noun One who collects tithes.

Tithing

TI'THING, participle present tense Levying a tax on, to the amount of a tenth.

TI'THING, noun A decennary; a number or company of ten householders, who dwelling near each other, were sureties or free- pledges to the king for the good behavior of each other. The institution of tithings in England is ascribed to Alfred.

Tithingman

TI'THINGMAN, noun [tithing and man.]

1. The chief man of a tithing; a headborrough; one elected to preside over the tithing.

2. A peace officer; an under constable.

3. In New England, a parish officer annually elected to preserve good order in the church during divine service, and to make complaint of any disorderly conduct.

Tithymal

TITH'YMAL, noun [Gr. the breast.] A plant, milk thistle, of the genus Euphorbia.

Titillate

TIT'ILLATE, verb intransitive [Latin titillo.] To tickle.

The pungent grains of titillating dust.

Titillating

TIT'ILLATING, participle present tense Tickling.

Titillation

TITILLA'TION, noun [Latin titillatio.]

1. The act of tickling; or the state of being tickled.

2. Any slight pleasure.

The products of those titillations that reach no higher than the senses.

Titlark

TIT'L'ARK, noun [tit and lark.] A small bird, a species of Alauda or lark.

Title

TI'TLE, noun [Latin titulus. This may belong to the family of Gr. to set or put.]

1. An inscription put over any thing as a name by which it is known.

2. The inscription in the beginning of a book, containing the subject of the work, and sometimes the author's name.

3. In the civil and canon laws, a chapter or division of a book.

4. An appellation of dignity, distinction or pre-eminence given to persons; as duke, marquis and the like.

5. A name; an appellation.

Ill worthy I such title should belong

To me transgressor.

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

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

7. The instrument which is evidence of a right.

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.

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

TI'TLE, verb transitive To name; to call; to entitle.

Title-Page

TI'TLE-PAGE, noun [title and page.] The page of a book which contains its title.

Titled

TI'TLED, participle passive Called; named.

1. adjective Having a title.

Titleless

TI'TLELESS, adjective Not having a title or name. [Not in use.]

Titling

TI'TLING, participle present tense Calling; denominating; entitling.

Titmouse

TIT'MOUSE, noun [tit, small, and mouse.] A small bird of the genus Parus.

Titter

TIT'TER, verb intransitive To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint.

TIT'TER, noun A restrained laugh.

1. A weed.

Tittle

TIT'TLE, noun [from tit, small.] A small particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.

Tittle-Tattle

TIT'TLE-TATTLE, noun [tattle, doubled.]

1. Idle trifling talk; empty prattle.

2. An idle trifling talker. [Less proper.]

TIT'TLE-TATTLE, verb intransitive To talk idly; to prate.

Titubation

TITUBA'TION, noun [Latin titubo, to stumble.] The act of stumbling.

Titular

TIT'ULAR, adjective [Latin titulus.]

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

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

Both Valerius and Austin were titular bishops.

TIT'ULAR

Titularity

TITULAR'ITY, noun The state of being titular.

Titularly

TIT'ULARLY, adverb Nominally; by title only.

TIT'ULARY, adjective Consisting in a title.

1. Pertaining to a title.

Titulary

TIT'ULARY, noun 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.

Tiver

TIV'ER, noun A kind of ocher which is used in marking sheep in some parts of England. [Local.]

TIV'ER, verb transitive To mark sheep with tiver in different ways and for different purposes. [Local.]

Tivering

TIV'ERING, participle present tense Marking with tiver. [Local.]

TIV'ERING, noun The act or practice of marking with tiver. [Local.]

Tivy

TIV'Y, adverb [See Tantivy.] With great speed; a huntsman's word or sound.

To

TO, preposition

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

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

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

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

TO you, my noble lord of Westmoreland;

I pledge your grace.

5. Noting attention or application.

Go, buckle to the law.

Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them. 1 Timothy 4:1.

6. Noting addition.

Add to your faith, virtue. 2 Peter 1:1.

Wisdom he has, and to his wisdom, courage.

7. Noting opposition. They engaged hand to hand.

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

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.

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

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

12. Noting the subject of an affirmation.

I have a king's oath to the contrary.

13. In comparison of.

All that they did was piety to this.

14. As far as.

Few of the Esquimaux can count to ten.

15. Noting intention.

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

[In this sense, for is now used.]

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.

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

18. Noting enmity; as a dislike to spiritus liquors.

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

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.

Numbers were crowded to death.

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.

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.

23. It precedes the radical verb, noting the object.

The delay of our hopes teaches us to mortify our desires.

24. It precedes the radical verb, noting consequence.

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

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.

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.

27. After have, it denotes duty or necessity.

I have a debt to pay on Saturday.

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.

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

TO the face, in presence of; not in the absence of.

I withstood him face to face. Galatians 2:1.

To-morrow, to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.

[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.]

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.

In popular phrases like the following, 'I will not come; you shall to or too, a genuine Saxon phrase, to denotes moreover, besides, Latin insuper.

To-Morrow

TO-MOR'ROW, noun [to and morrow.] The day after the present.

One to-day is worth two to-morrows.

TOM'PION, noun The stopper of a cannon. [See Tampion.]

To-Night

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

Toad

TOAD, noun 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.

Toad-Flax

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

Toad-Stone

TOAD-STONE, noun [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

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

Toadeater

TOAD'EATER, noun A vulgar name given to a fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant.

Toadfish

TOAD'FISH, noun [toad and fish.] A fish of the genus Lophius, the fishing frog.

Toadish

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

Toast

TOAST, verb transitive [Latin 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.]

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

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.

TOAST, noun 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.

The wise man's passion, and the vain man's toast

2. He or that which is named in honor in drinking.

Toasted

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

Toaster

TOASTER, noun One who toasts.

1. An instrument for toasting bread or cheese.

Toasting

TO'ASTING, participle present tense Scorching by fire; drinking to the honor of.

Tobacco

TOBAC'CO, noun [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.

Tobacco-Pipe

TOBAC'CO-PIPE, noun [tobacco and pipe.] A pipe used for smoking tobacco, often made of clay and baked, sometimes of other material.

TOBAC'CO-PIPE CLAY, noun A species of clay; called also cimolite.

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

Tobacconist

TOBAC'CONIST, noun A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.

Tockay

TOCK'AY, noun A species of spotted lizard in India.

Tocsin

TOC'SIN, noun An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.

Tod

TOD, noun

1. A bush; a thick shrub.

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

3. A fox.

TOD, verb transitive To weigh; to produce a tod [Not in use.]

Today

TO'DAY, noun [to and day.] The present day.

Toddy

TOD'DY, noun 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.

Tody

TO'DY, noun A genus of insectivorous birds, of the order of Picae; natives of warm climates.

Toe

TOE, noun [Latin digitus . toe is contracted from tog, the primary word on which Latin 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.

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

3. The member of a beast's foot corresponding to the toe in man.

Toft

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

1. A grove of trees.

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

Togated

TO'GATED

TO'GED, adjective [Latin toga, a gown; togatus, gowned.] Gowned; dressed in a gown; wearing a gown; as toged consuls.

Toged

TO'GED, a. [L. toga, a gown; togatus, gowned.] Gowned; dressed in a gown; wearing a gown; as toged consuls.

Together

TOGETH'ER, adverb

1. In company. We walked together to the wood.

2. In or into union.

The king joined humanity and policy together

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

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

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

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

Together with, in union with; in company or mixture with.

Take the bad together with the good.

Toggel

TOG'GEL, noun A small wooden pin tapering towards both ends.

Toil

TOIL, verb intransitive 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.

TOIL, verb transitive To toil out, to labor; to work out.

TOIL'd out my uncouth passage--

1. To weary; to overlabor; as toil'd with works of war.

[Not in use nor proper.]

TOIL, noun 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, noun [Latin tela, a web; from spreading, extending or laying.]

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

A fly falls into the toils of a spider.

Toiler

TOIL'ER, noun One who toils, or labors with pain.

Toilet

TOIL'ET, noun

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

2. A dressing table.

Toiling

TOIL'ING, participle present tense Laboring with pain.

Toilsome

TOIL'SOME, adjective Laborious; wearisome; attended with fatigue and pain; as toilsome work; a toilsome task.

What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks?

1. Producing toil; as a toilsome day or journey.

Toilsomeness

TOIL'SOMENESS, noun Laboriousness; wearisomeness.

Toise

TOISE, noun 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

TOKA'Y, noun 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

TOKEN, noun to'kn. [Latin 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. Exodus 12:13.

Show me a token for good. Psalms 86:17.

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

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

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.

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

TO'KEN, verb transitive To make known. [Not in use.]

Tokened

TO'KENED, adjective Being marked with spots.

Tol

TOL, verb transitive [Latin tollo.] To take away; a law term.

Tol-Booth

TOL-BOOTH. [See Toll-booth.]

Tola

TO'LA, noun In India, a weight for gold and silver, but different in different places.

Told

TOLD, preterit tense and participle passive of tell.

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

Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. Judges 16:2.

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

Tole

TOLE, verb transitive 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

TO'LED, participle passive Drawn; allured; induced to follow.

Tolerable

TOL'ERABLE, adjective [Latin 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

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

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.

Tolerableness

TOL'ERABLENESS, noun The state of being tolerable.

Tolerably

TOL'ERABLY, adverb Supportably; in a manner to be endured.

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

Tolerance

TOL'ERANCE, noun [Latin 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

[Little used. But intolerance is in common use.]

Tolerant

TOL'ERANT, adjective Enduring; indulgent; favoring toleration.

Tolerate

TOL'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin 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.

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

Tolerated

TOL'ERATED, participle passive Suffered; allowed; not prohibited or restrained.

Tolerating

TOL'ERATING, participle present tense Enduring; suffering to be or to be done; allowing; not restraining.

Toleration

TOLERA'TION, noun [Latin 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.