Tough-head (n.) The ruddy duck.
Toughish (a.) Tough in a slight degree.
Toughly (adv.) In a tough manner.
Toughness (n.) The quality or state of being tough.
Tough-pitch (n.) The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.
Tough-pitch (n.) Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
Touite (n.) The wood warbler.
Toupee (n.) Alt. of Toupet
Toupet (n.) A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
Toupet (n.) A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig.
Toupettit (n.) The crested titmouse.
Tour (n.) A tower.
Tour (v. t.) A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England.
Tour (v. t.) A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies.
Tour (v. t.) anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.
Toured (imp. & p. p.) of Tour
Touring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tour
Tour (v. i.) To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.
Touraco (n.) Same as Turacou.
Tourbillion (n.) An ornamental firework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire.
Tourist (n.) One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.
Tourmaline (n.) A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels.
Tourn (n.) A spinning wheel.
Tourn (n.) The sheriff's turn, or court.
Tournament (n.) A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.
Tournament (n.) Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.
Tournery (n.) Work turned on a lathe; turnery.
Tourney (v. t.) A tournament.
Tourney (n.) To perform in tournaments; to tilt.
Tourniquet (n.) An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
Tournois (n.) A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.
Tournure (n.) Turn; contour; figure.
Tournure (n.) Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.
Toused (imp. & p. p.) of Touze
Tousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Touze
Touse (v. t. & i.) Alt. of Touze
Touze (v. t. & i.) To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.
Touse (n.) A pulling; a disturbance.
Tousel (v. t.) Same as Tousle.
Touser (n.) One who touses.
Tousle (v. t.) To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Tous-les-mois (n.) A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.
Tout (v. i.) To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
Tout (v. i.) To ply or seek for customers.
Tout (n.) One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
Tout (v. i.) To toot a horn.
Tout (n.) The anus.
Tout-ensemble (n.) All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts.
Touter (n.) One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.
Touze (v.t & i.) See Touse.
Tow (n.) The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
Towed (imp. & p. p.) of Tow
Towing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tow
Tow (v. t.) To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.
Tow (v. t.) A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.
Tow (v. t.) The act of towing, or the state of being towed; --chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow.
Tow (v. t.) That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.
Towage (v.) The act of towing.
Towage (v.) The price paid for towing.
Towall (n.) A towel.
Toward (prep.) Alt. of Towards
Towards (prep.) In the direction of; to.
Towards (prep.) With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning.
Towards (prep.) Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of.
Towards (prep.) Near; about; approaching to.
Toward (adv.) Alt. of Towards
Towards (adv.) Near; at hand; in state of preparation.
Toward (prep.) Approaching; coming near.
Toward (prep.) Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.
Toward (prep.) Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant.
Towardliness (n.) The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness.
Towardly (a.) Same as Toward, a., 2.
Towardness (n.) Quality or state of being toward.
Towards (prep. & adv.) See Toward.
Towboat (n.) A vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat.
Towboat (n.) A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.
Towel (n.) A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath.
Towel (v. t.) To beat with a stick.
Toweling (n.) Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
Tower (n.) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
Tower (n.) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.
Tower (n.) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.
Tower (n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
Tower (n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
Tower (n.) High flight; elevation.
towered (imp. & p. p.) of Tower
towering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tower
Tower (v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
Tower (v. t.) To soar into.
Towered (a.) Adorned or defended by towers.
Towering (a.) Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.
Towering (a.) Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing.
Towery (a.) Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.
Tow-head (n.) An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.
Tow-head (n.) The hooded merganser.
Towhee (n.) The chewink.
Towilly (n.) The sanderling; -- so called from its cry.
Towline (v. t.) A line used to tow vessels; a towrope.
Town (adv. & prep.) Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
Town (adv. & prep.) Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.