TOLL-GATHERER
TOLL-GATHERER, noun The man who takes toll.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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TOLL-HOUSE
TOLL-HOUSE, noun 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
TOLLING, participle present tense Causing to sound in a slow grave manner.1. Taking away; removing.2. Sounding, as a bell.TOLU BALSAM, noun Balsam of Tolu, a balsam produced fro...
TOLUTATION
TOLUTA'TION, noun [Latin toluto.] A pacing or ambling. [Not used.]
TOMAHAWK
TOM'AHAWK, noun An Indian hatchet.TOM'AHAWK, verb transitive To cut or kill with a hatchet called a tomahawk
TOMATO
TOMA'TO, noun A plant, and its fruit, a species of Solanum. It is called sometimes the love-apple.
TOMB
TOMB, noun toom. [Latin tumulus, a heap or hillock; tumeo, to swell.]1. A grave; a pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.As one dead in the bottom of a tomb2....
TOMBAC
TOM'BAC, noun 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
TOMBLESS, adjective Destitute of a tomb or sepulchral monument.
TOMBOY
TOM'BOY, noun [Tom, Thomas, and boy.] A rude boisterous boy; also in sarcasm, a romping girl. [Vulgar.]
TOMBSTONE
TOMBSTONE, noun [tomb and stone.] A stone erected over a grave, to preserve the memory of the deceased; a monument.
TOME
TOME, noun [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
TOMENT'OUS, adjective [Latin tomentum, down.] In botany, downy; nappy; cottony; or flocky; covered with hairs so close as scarcely to be discernible, or with a whitish down, lik...
TOMPION
TOM'PION, noun The stopper of a cannon or other piece of ordnance, consisting of a cylinder of wood.
TOMTIT
TOM'TIT, noun A little bird, the titmouse.
TON
TON, the termination of names of places, is town.TON, noun The prevailing fashion.TON, noun The weight of twenty hundred gross. [See Tun.] This is false orthography. The word is...
TONE
TONE, noun [Latin tonus; Gr. sound; Latin tono; Gr. to sound, to strain or stretch. The Latin sonus is probably the same word in a different dialect.]1. Sound, or modification o...
TONE-SYLLABLE
TO'NE-SYLLABLE, adjective An accented syllable.
TONED
TO'NED, adjective Having a tone; used in composition; as high-toned; sweet-toned.
TONELESS
TO'NELESS, adjective Having no tone; unmusical.
TONG
TONG, noun [See Tongs.] The catch of a buckle. [Not used.] [See Tongue.]
TONGS
TONGS, nounplural 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 ...
TONGUE
TONGUETONGUE-GR'AFTINGTUNG'-GR'AFTING, noun A mode of grafting by inserting the end of a cion in a particular manner.
TONGUE-PAD
TONGUE-PADTUNG'-PAD, noun A great talker. [Not in use.]
TONGUE-SHAPED
TONGUE-SHAPEDTUNG'-SHAPED, adjective In botany, a tongue-shaped leaf, is linear and fleshy, blunt at the end, convex underneath, and having usually a cartilaginous border.TONGUE...
TONGUE-TIED
TONGUE-TIEDTUNG'-TIED, adjective Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech.1. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause.Love and tong...
TONGUED
TONGUEDTONGUELESSTON'IC, adjective [Latin tonus. See Tone.]1. Literally, increasing tension; hence, increasing strength, as tonic power.2. In medicine, increasing strength, or t...