Toom (a.) Empty.
Toom (v. t.) To empty.
Toon () pl. of Toe.
Toon (n.) The reddish brown wood of an East Indian tree (Cedrela Toona) closely resembling the Spanish cedar; also. the tree itself.
Toonwood (n.) Same as Toon.
Toot (v. i.) To stand out, or be prominent.
Toot (v. i.) To peep; to look narrowly.
Toot (v. t.) To see; to spy.
Tooted (imp. & p. p.) of Toot
Tooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toot
Toot (v. i.) To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown.
Toot (v. t.) To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.
Tooter (n.) One who toots; one who plays upon a pipe or horn.
Teeth (pl. ) of Tooth
Tooth (n.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.
Tooth (n.) Fig.: Taste; palate.
Tooth (n.) Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.
Tooth (n.) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.
Tooth (n.) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.
Tooth (n.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant
Tooth (n.) one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.
Tooth (n.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.
Toothed (imp. & p. p.) of Tooth
Toothing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tooth
Tooth (v. t.) To furnish with teeth.
Tooth (v. t.) To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.
Tooth (v. t.) To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.
Toothache (n.) Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.
Toothback (n.) Any notodontian.
Toothbill (n.) A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon (Didunculus strigiostris) native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the end. Its color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea.
Toothbrush (n.) A brush for cleaning the teeth.
Toothdrawer (n.) One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist.
Toothed (a.) Having teeth; furnished with teeth.
Toothed (a.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate.
Toothful (a.) Toothsome.
Toothing (n.) The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.
Toothing (n.) Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up.
Toothless (a.) Having no teeth.
Toothlet (n.) A little tooth, or like projection.
Toothleted (a.) Having a toothlet or toothlets; as, a toothleted leaf.
Toothpick (n.) A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.
Toothpicker (n.) A toothpick.
Toothshell (n.) Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth-shaped shell. See Dentalium.
Toothsome (a.) Grateful to the taste; palatable.
Toothwort (n.) A plant whose roots are fancied to resemble teeth, as certain plants of the genus Lathraea, and various species of Dentaria. See Coralwort.
Toothy (a.) Toothed; with teeth.
Toozoo (n.) The ringdove.
Top (n.) A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.
Top (n.) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
Top (n.) The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground.
Top (n.) The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
Top (n.) The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school.
Top (n.) The chief person; the most prominent one.
Top (n.) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
Top (n.) The head, or upper part, of a plant.
Top (n.) A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft.
Top (n.) A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
Top (n.) Eve; verge; point.
Top (n.) The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
Top (n.) Top-boots.
Topped (imp. & p. p.) of Top
Topping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Top
Top (v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.
Top (v. i.) To predominate; as, topping passions.
Top (v. i.) To excel; to rise above others.
Top (v. t.) To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
Top (v. t.) To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass.
Top (v. t.) To rise to the top of; to go over the top of.
Top (v. t.) To take off the or upper part of; to crop.
Top (v. t.) To perform eminently, or better than before.
Top (v. t.) To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.
Toparch (n.) The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy.
Toparchies (pl. ) of Toparchy
Toparchy (n.) A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.
Top-armor (n.) A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.
Topau (n.) The rhinocerous bird (a).
Topaz (n.) A mineral occurring in rhombic prisms, generally yellowish and pellucid, also colorless, and of greenesh, bluish, or brownish shades. It sometimes occurs massive and opaque. It is a fluosilicate of alumina, and is used as a gem.
Topaz (n.) Either one of two species of large, brilliantly colored humming birds of the Topaza, of South America and the West Indies.
Topazolite (n.) A topaz-yellow variety of garnet.
Top-block (n.) A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast.
Top-boots (n. pl.) High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light-colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.
Top-chain (n.) A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
Top-cloth (n.) A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.
Topcoat (n.) An outer coat; an overcoat.
Top-drain (v. t.) To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm.
Top-draining (n.) The act or practice of drining the surface of land.
Top-dressed (imp. & p. p.) of Top-dress
Top-dressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Top-dress
Top-dress (v. t.) To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land.
Top-dressing (n.) The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.
Tope (n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.
Tope (n.) A grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope.
Tope (n.) A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, / Galeus, galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.
Tope (n.) The wren.
Toped (imp. & p. p.) of Tope
Toping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tope
Tope (v. i.) To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess.
Toper (n.) One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.
Topet (n.) The European crested titmouse.
Topful (a.) Full to the top, ore brim; brimfull.