The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section T, U, V, and W

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4. To agitate; to make restless.

Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.

Milton.

5. Hence, to try; to harass.

Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.

Herbert.

6. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] Ascham.

To toss off, to drink hastily. — To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.

Toss, v. i. 1. To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.

To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enreges our pain.

Tillotson.

2. To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. Shak.

To toss for, to throw dice or a coin to determine the possession of; to gamble for. — To toss up, to throw a coin into the air, and wager on which side it will fall, or determine a question by its fall. Bramsion.

Toss, n. 1. A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.

2. A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. Swift.

Tos"sel (?), n. See Tassel.

Toss"er (?), n. Ohe who tosser. J. Fletcher.

Toss"i*ly (?), adv. In a tossy manner. [R.]

Toss"ing, n. 1. The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.

2. (Mining) (a) A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; — called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall. Pryce. (b) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.

Toss"pot` (?), n. A toper; one habitually given to strong drink; a drunkard. Shak.

Toss"y (?), a. Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud; contemptuous; scornful; affectedly indifferent; as, a tossy commonplace. [R.] C. Kingsley.

Tost (?), imp. & p. p. of Toss.

||Tos"to (?), a. [It.] (Mus.) Quick; rapid. || ||Pui tosto (&?;) [It.] (Mus.), faster; more rapid. || To*swink" (?), v. i. [Pref. to- + swink.] To labor excessively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Tot (?), n. [Cf. Toddle, Tottle, Totter.] 1. Anything small; — frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.

2. A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell.

3. A foolish fellow. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To"ta (?), n. [From the native name in Egypt.] (Zoöl.) The grivet.

To"tal (?), a. [F., fr. LL. totalis, fr. L. tolus all,whole. Cf. Factotum, Surtout, Teetotum.] Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss. " Total darkness." "To undergo myself the total crime." Milton.

Total abstinence. See Abstinence, n., 1. — Total depravity. (Theol.) See Original sin, under Original.

Whole; entire; complete. See Whole.

To"tal, n. The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.

To*tal"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. totalite, LL. totalitas.] 1. The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.

2. The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge. Buckle.

The totality of a sentence or passage.

Coleridge.

To"tal*ize (?), v. t. To make total, or complete;to reduce to completeness. Coleridge.

To"tal*ly, adv. In a total manner; wholly; entirely.

To"tal*ness, n. The quality or state of being total; entireness; totality.

Tote (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toted; p. pr. & vb. n. Toting.] [Said to be of African origin.] To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; — a colloquial word of the Southern States, and used esp. by negroes.

Tote, n. [L. totum, fr. totus all, whole.] The entire body, or all; as, the whole tote. [Colloq.]

To*tear" (?), v. t. [Pref. to- + tear. ] To tear or rend in pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To"tem (?), n. [Massachusetts Indian wutohtimoin that to which a person or place belongs.] A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan.

And they painted on the grave posts Of the graves, yet unforgotten, Each his own ancestral totem Each the symbol of his household; Figures of the bear and reindeer, Of the turtle, crane, and beaver.

Longfellow.

The totem,the clan deity, the beast or bird who in some supernatural way attends to the clan and watches over it.

Bagehot.

To*tem"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a totem, or totemism.

To"tem*ism (?), n. 1. The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem.

2. Superstitious regard for a totem; the worship of any real or imaginary object; nature worship. Tylor.

To"tem*ist, n. One belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem. — To`tem*is"tic (#), a.

Tot"er (?), n. [See Tote to carry.] (Zoöl.) The stone roller. See Stone roller (a), under Stone.

T'oth"er (?). A colloquial contraction of the other, and formerly a contraction for that other. See the Note under That, 2.

The tothir that was crucifield with him.

Wyclif(John xix. 32)

To`ti*pal"mate (?), a. [L. totus all, whole + E. palmate.] (Zoöl.) Having all four toes united by a web; — said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves.

||To`ti*pal"mi (?), n. pl. [NL.,from L. totus all, whole + palmus ||palm.] (Zoöl.) A division of swimming birds including those that have ||totipalmate feet. || To`ti*pres"ence (?), n. [L. totus all, whole + E. presence.] Omnipresence. [Obs.] A. Tucker.

To`ti*pres"ent (?), a. [L. totus all, whole + E. present.] Omnipresent. [Obs.] A. Tucker.

Tot"ter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tottered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tottering.] [Probably for older tolter; cf. AS. tealtrian to totter, vacillate. Cf.Tilt to incline, Toddle, Tottle, Totty.] 1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as, an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3.

2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.

Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.

Dryden.

Tot"ter*er (?), n. One who totters.

Tot"ter*ing*ly, adv. In a tottering manner.

Tot"ter*y (?), a. Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.

Tot"tle (tt"t'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tottled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Tottling.] [See Toddle, Totter.] To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner; to toddle; to topple. [Colloq.]

Tot"tlish (-tlsh), a. Trembling or tottering, as if about to fall; unsteady. [Colloq. U. S.]

Tot"ty (?), a. [OE. toti. Cf. Totter.] Unsteady; dizzy; tottery. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Sir W. Scott.

For yet his noule was totty of the must.

Spenser.

Tot"y (?), a. Totty. [Obs.]

My head is toty of my swink to-night.

Chaucer.

To"ty (?), n. A sailor or fisherman; — so called in some parts of the Pacific.

Tou"can (t"kn; 277), n. [F., fr. Pg. tucano; from Brazilian name. ] 1. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidæ. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.

2. (Astronom.) A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.

Tou"can*et (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small toucan.

Touch (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Touched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Touching.] [F. toucher, OF. touchier, tuchier; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. zucchen, zukken, to twitch, pluck, draw, G. zukken, zukken, v. intens. fr. OHG. ziohan to draw, G. ziehen, akin to E. tug. See Tuck, v. t., Tug, and cf. Tocsin, Toccata.] 1. To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly.

Milton.

2. To perceive by the sense of feeling.

Nothing but body can be touched or touch.

Greech.

3. To come to; to reach; to attain to.

The god, vindictive, doomed them never more- Ah, men unblessed! — to touch their natal shore.

Pope.

4. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. [Obs.]

Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed.

Shak.

5. To relate to; to concern; to affect.

The quarrel toucheth none but us alone.

Shak.

6. To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of.

Storial thing that toucheth gentilesse.

Chaucer.

7. To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books. Pope.

8. To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.

What of sweet before Hath touched my sense, flat seems to this and harsh.

Milton.

The tender sire was touched with what he said.

Addison.

9. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.

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