TOILING
TOIL'ING, participle present tense Laboring with pain.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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TOIL'ING, participle present tense Laboring with pain.
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...
TOIL'SOMENESS, noun Laboriousness; wearisomeness.
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.
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...
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...
TO'KENED, adjective Being marked with spots.
TOL, verb transitive [Latin tollo.] To take away; a law term.
TOL-BOOTH. [See Toll-booth.]
TO'LA, noun In India, a weight for gold and silver, but different in different places.
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 cou...
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,...
TO'LED, participle passive Drawn; allured; induced to follow.
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 ...
TOL'ERABLENESS, noun The state of being tolerable.
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.
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...
TOL'ERANT, adjective Enduring; indulgent; favoring toleration.
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...
TOL'ERATED, participle passive Suffered; allowed; not prohibited or restrained.
TOL'ERATING, participle present tense Enduring; suffering to be or to be done; allowing; not restraining.
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 w...
TOLL, noun [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 som...
TOLL-B'AR, noun [toll and bar.] A bar or beam used for stopping boats on a canal at the toll-house.
TOLL-BOOTH, noun [toll and booth.] A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.1. A prison.TOLL-BOOTH, verb transitive To imprison in a toll-booth
TOLL-BRIDGE, noun A bridge where toll is paid for passing it.
TOLL-GATE, noun A gate where toll is taken.