To-beat" (?), v. t. [Pref. to- + beat.] To beat thoroughly or severely.
[Obs.] Layamon.
To*bi"as fish` (?). [See the Note under Asmodeus, in the Dictionary of
Noted Names in Fiction.] (Zoöl.) The lant, or sand eel.
To"bine (?), n. [Cf. G. tobin, D. tabijn. See Tabby.] A stout twilled
silk used for dresses.
To"bit (?), n. A book of the Apocrypha.
To*bog"gan (?), n. [Corruption of American Indian odabagan a sled.] A
kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends,
used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a
sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep
snow. [Written also tobogan, and tarbogan.]
To*bog"gan (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tobogganed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tobogganing.] To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
Barilett.
{ To*bog"gan*er (?), To*bog"gan*ist (?), } n. One who practices
tobogganing.
To-break" (?), v. t. [Pref. to- + break.] To break completely; to break
in pieces. [Obs.]
With nose and mouth to-broke.
Chaucer.
To-brest" (?), v. t. [Pref. to- + brest.] To burst or break in pieces.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
||Toc*ca"ta (?), n. [It., fr. toccare to touch. See Touch.] (Mus.) An
||old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free
||and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio.
||
Toch"er (?), n. [Gael. tochradh.] Dowry brought by a bride to her
husband. [Scot.] Burns.
Tock"ay (?), n. (Zoöl.) A spotted lizard native of India.
To"co (?), n. (Zoöl.) A toucan (Ramphastos toco) having a very large
beak. See Illust. under Toucan.
To*col"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; a birth + - logy.] The science of
obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of
parturition. [Written also tokology.]
||To*co*ro"ro (?), n. [Probably from the native name through the
||Spanish: cf. Sp. tocororo.] (Zoöl.) A cuban trogon (Priotelus
||temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end.
||
Toc"sin (?), n. [F., fr. OF. toquier to touch, F. toquer (originally, a
dialectic form of F. toucher) + seint (for sein) a bell, LL. signum,
fr. L. signum a sign, signal. See Touch, and Sign.] An alarm bell, or
the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.
The loud tocsin tolled their last alarm.
Campbell.
Tod (td), n. [Akin to D. todde a rag, G. zotte shag, rag, a tuft of
hair, Icel. toddi a piece of a thing, a tod of wool.] 1. A bush; a
thick shrub; a bushy clump. [R.] "An ivy todde." Spenser.
The ivy tod is heavy with snow.
Coleridge.
2. An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight
pounds.