Toast"ing, a. & n. from Toast, v.
Toasting fork, a long-handled fork for toasting bread, cheese, or the
like, by the fire.
Toast"mas`ter (?), n. A person who presides at a public dinner or
banquet, and announces the toasts.
Toat (?), n. The handle of a joiner's plane. Knight.
To*bac"co (?), n. [Sp. tabaco, fr. the Indian tabaco the tube or pipe
in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this plant. Some derive the
word from Tabaco, a province of Yucatan, where it was said to be first
found by the Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the
Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.] 1. (Bot.) An
American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used
for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic,
emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an
acrid taste.
The name is extended to other species of the genus, and to some
unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco (Nicotiana rustica, and also
Lobelia inflata), mountain tobacco (Arnica montana), and Shiraz tobacco
(Nicotiana Persica).
2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by
being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.
Tobacco box (Zoöl.), the common American skate. — Tobacco camphor.
(Chem.) See Nicotianine. — Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.] — Tobacco
pipe. (a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or other
material. (b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian. — Tobacco-pipe
clay (Min.), a species of clay used in making tobacco pipes; — called
also cimolite. — Tobacco-pipe fish. (Zoöl.) See Pipemouth. — Tobacco
stopper, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco in a pipe as it is
smoked. — Tobacco worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a large hawk moth (Sphinx,
or Phlegethontius, Carolina). It is dark green, with seven oblique
white stripes bordered above with dark brown on each side of the body.
It feeds upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often
very injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of Hawk moth.
To*bac"co*ning (?), n. Smoking tobacco. [Obs.] "Tobacconing is but a
smoky play." [Obs.] Sylvester.
To*bac"co*nist (?), n. 1. A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of
tobacco.