Towns"peo`ple (?), n. The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in
distinction from country people; townsfolk.
{ Town"ward, Town"wards (?), } (?), adv. Toward a town. Longfellow.
Tow"path` (?), n. A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; —
called also towing path.
Tow"rope` (?), n. A rope used in towing vessels.
Tow"ser (tou"zr), n. [See Touse to pull about. ] A familiar name for a
dog. [ Written also Towzer. ]
Tow"y (t"), a. Composed of, or like, tow.
||Tox*æ"mi*a (tks""m*), a. [NL., fr. Gr. toxiko`n poison + a"i^ma
||blood.] (Med.) Blood poisoning. See under Blood.
||
{ Tox"ic, Tox"ic*al } (?), a. [L. toxicum poison, originally, a poison
in which arrows were dipped, Gr. toxiko`n (sc. &?;) poison for smearing
arrows with, fr. toxiko`s of or for the bow, from to`xon bow, arrow.
Cf. Intoxicate.] Of or pertaining to poison; poisonous; as, toxic
medicines.
Tox"i*cant (?), n. A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant.
Tox`i*co*log"ic*al (?), a. [Cf.F. toxicologique. ] Of or pertaining to
toxicology. — Tox`i*co*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Tox`i*col"o*gist (?), n. One versed in toxicology; the writer of a
treatise on poisons.
Tox`i*col"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. toxiko`n poison + -logy; cf. F.
toxicologie. See Toxic. ] The science which treats of poisons, their
effects, antidotes, and recognition; also, a discourse or treatise on
the science.
Tox`i*co*ma"ni*a (?), n. [See. Toxic, and Mania.] 1. (Med.) Toxiphobia.
A. S. Taylor.
2. (Med.) An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as
alcohol or opium. B. W. Richardson.
||Tox*if"e*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. to`xon a bow + L. ferre to
||bear.] (Zoöl.) Same as Toxoglossa.
||
{ Tox"in, Tox"ine } (?), n. [Gr. toxiko`n. See Toxic. ] A poisonous
product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous
ptomaine. [1913 Webster]
||Tox`i*pho"bi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. toxiko`n poison + fo`bos fear.]
||(Med.) An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.
||
Tox"o*don (?), n. [Gr. to`xon a bow + &?;, &?;, a tooth.] (Paleon.) A
gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth
bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.
||Tox`o*don"ta (?), n.pl. [NL.] (Paleon.) An extinct order of Mammalia
||found in the South American Tertiary formation. The incisor teeth
||were long and curved and provided with a persistent pulp. They are
||supposed to be related both to the rodents and ungulates. Called also
||Toxodontia.
||
||Tox`o*glos"sa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. to`xon a bow + &?; tongue.]
||(Zoöl.) A division of marine gastropod mollusks in which the radula
||are converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (Conus), Pleurotoma,
||and Terebra, are examples. See Illust. of Cone, n., 4, Pleurotoma,
||and Terebra.
||
Tox*oph"i*lite (?), n. [Gr. to`xon a bow + filei^n to love.] A lover of
archery; one devoted to archery.
||Tox"o*tes (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; an archer.] (Zoöl.) A genus of
||fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish.
||
Toy (toi), n. [D. tuid tools, implements, stuff, trash, speeltuig
playthings, toys; akin to G. zeug stuff, materials, MNG. ziuc, Icel.
tygi gear; all ultimately from the root of E. tug, v. t.; cf. G. zeugen
to beget, MHG. ziugen to beget, make ready, procure. See Tug, v. t.]