Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 47
Toadlet (n.) A small toad.
Toadstone (n.) A local name for the
igneous rocks of
Toadstone (n.) Bufonite, formerly regarded as a precious stone, and worn as a jewel. See Bufonite.
Toadstool (n.) A name given to many umbrella-shaped fungi, mostly of the genus Agaricus. The species are almost numberless. They grow on decaying organic matter.
Toadies (n. pl. ) of Toady.
Toady (n.) A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
Before I had been standing at the window five minutes, they somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs. -- Dickens.
Toady (n.) A coarse, rustic woman. [R.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Toadied (imp. & p. p.) of Toady.
Toadying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toady.
Toady (v. t.) To fawn upon with mean sycophancy.
Toady (n.) A person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage [syn: sycophant, toady, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser].
Toady (v.) Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up].
Toadyism (n.) The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.
Toasted (imp. & p. p.) of Toast.
Toasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toast.
Toast (v. t.) To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
Toast (v. t.) To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
Toast (v. t.) To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
Toast (n.) Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
My sober evening let the tankard bless, With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught. -- T. Warton.
Toast (n.) A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast . . . who could not refrain from mentioning his dear Sophia. -- Fielding.
Toast (n.) Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc.
Toast rack, A small rack or stand for a table, having partitions for holding slices of dry toast.
Toast (n.) Slices of bread that have been toasted.
Toast (n.) A celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention; "he was the toast of the town".
Toast (n.) A person in desperate straits; someone doomed; "I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work"; "one mistake and you're toast" [syn: goner, toast].
Toast (n.) A drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event [syn: pledge, toast].
Toast (v.) Make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes" [syn: crispen, toast, crisp].
Toast (v.) Propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail].
Toast, (n.) Any completely inoperable system or component, esp. one that has just crashed and burned: ?Uh, oh ... I think the serial board is toast.? (This sense went mainstream around 1993.)
Toast (v. t.) To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manual rebooting. ?Rick just toasted the firewall machine again. ? Compare fried.
Toast, () Any completely inoperable system or component, especially one that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ... I think the serial board is toast".
Toast, () To cause a system to crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manual rebooting. "Rick just toasted the firewall machine again".
Compare fried.
(1995-05-01)
Toast, NC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in North Carolina
Population (2000): 1922
Housing Units (2000): 886
Land
area (2000): 1.779068 sq. miles (4.607766 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.779068 sq. miles (4.607766 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67700
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location:
36.499728 N, 80.633063 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Toast, NC
Toast
Toaster (n.) One who toasts.
Toaster (n.) A kitchen utensil for toasting bread, cheese, etc.
Compare: Appliance
Appliance (n.) The act of applying; application.
Appliance (n.) Subservience; compliance. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Appliance (n.) A thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.
Appliance (n.) Specifically: An apparatus or device, usually powered electrically, used in homes to perform domestic functions.
An
appliance is often categorized as a major appliance or a minor appliance by its cost.
Common major appliances are the refrigerator, washing machine, clothes
drier, oven,
and dishwasher. Some minor appliances are a toaster, vacuum cleaner or
microwave oven.
Toaster (n.) Someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to
the health
of success of someone or some venture [syn: toaster, wassailer].
Toaster (n.) A kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting
bread.
Toaster (n.) The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor
controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is elevator controller). ?{DWIM"> inappropriate technology (but see elevator controller). ?{DWIM for an assembler? That'd be as silly as running Unix on your toaster!?
Toaster (n.) A very, very dumb computer. ?You could run this program on any dumb toaster.? See bitty box, Get a real computer!, toy, beige toaster.
Toaster
(n.) A
Macintosh, esp. a Mac in the original unitary case. Some hold that this is
implied by sense 2.
Toaster (n.) A peripheral device. ?I bought my box without
toasters, but since then I've added two boards and a second disk
drive.?
Toaster (n.) A specialized computer used as an appliance. See web toaster, video toaster.
Toaster, () The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controller; often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see elevator controller). "{DWIM"> elevator controller). "{DWIM for an assembler? That'd be as silly as running Unix on your toaster!"
Toaster, () A very, very dumb computer. "You could run this program on any dumb toaster".
See bitty box, Get a real computer!, toy, beige toaster.
Toaster, () A Macintosh, especially the Classic Mac. Some hold that this is implied by sense 2.
Toaster, () A peripheral device. "I bought my box without toasters, but since then I've added two boards and a second disk drive".
This is not usually to be taken literally but, to show off the expansion capabilities of the Risc PC, Acorn Computers Ltd. built a seven-slice machine (which they called "the rocket-ship") and installed every imaginable peripheral. In a spare drive bay of the top slice they installed a toaster.
This machine was exhibited at various shows where it attracted attention by occasionally ejecting a pizza.
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Toasting () a. & n. from Toast, v.
Toastmaster (n.) A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
Toat (n.) The handle of a joiner's plane.
Tobacco (n.) 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.
Tobacco (n.) The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways.
Tobacconing (n.) Smoking tobacco.
Tobacconist (n.) A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.
Tobacconist (n.) A smoker of tobacco.
To-beat (v. t.) To beat thoroughly or severely.
Tobias fish () The lant, or sand eel.
Tobine (n.) A stout twilled silk used for dresses.
Tobit (n.) A book of the Apocrypha.
Toboggan (n.) 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.
Tobogganed (imp. & p. p.) of Toboggan.
Tobogganing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toboggan.
Toboggan (v. i.) To slide down hill over the snow or ice on a toboggan.
Tobogganer (n.) Alt. of Tobogganist.
Tobogganist (n.) One who practices tobogganing.
To-break (v. t.) To break completely; to break in pieces.
To-brest (v. t.) To burst or break in pieces.
Toccata (n.) An old form of piece for the organ or harpsichord, somewhat in the free and brilliant style of the prelude, fantasia, or capriccio.
Tocher (n.) Dowry brought by a bride to her husband.
Tockay (n.) A spotted lizard native of India.
Toco (n.) A toucan (Ramphastos toco) having a very large beak. See Illust. under Toucan.
Tocology (n.) The science of obstetrics, or midwifery; that department of medicine which treats of parturition.
Tocororo (n.) A cuban trogon (Priotelus temnurus) having a serrated bill and a tail concave at the end.
Tocsin (n.) An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.
Tocsin (n.) A warning. Tocsin derives from Medieval French touquesain, from Old Provençal tocasenh, from tocar, "to touch, to strike, to ring a bell" + senh, "church bell," ultimately from Latin signum, "sign, signal."
Tocsin (n.) An alarm bell or the ringing of it.
Tocsin (n.) A warning signal.
Tod (n.) A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump.
Tod (n.) An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.
Tod (n.) A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.
Tod (v. t. & i.) To weigh; to yield in tods.
To-day (prep.) On this day; on the present day.
To-day (n.) The present day.
Toddled (imp. & p. p.) of Toddle.
Toddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toddle.
Toddle (v. i.) （幼兒等）東倒西歪地走；【口】溜躂，散步 To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child.
Toddle (n.) （幼兒等的）蹣跚行走；【口】學步的小孩 A toddling walk. -- Trollope.
Toddle (v.) Walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle].
Toddler (n.) 學步的小孩；蹣跚行走者；幼童裝 One who toddles; especially, a young child. -- Mrs. Gaskell.
Toddler (n.) A young child [syn: toddler, yearling, tot, bambino].
Toddy (n.) 棕櫚汁；棕櫚酒；（用溫水調威士忌、甜酒並加糖的）香甜熱酒 A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.
Toddy (n.) A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened.
Note: Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and is being made hot and sweetened.
Toddy bird (Zool.) A weaver bird of the East Indies and India: -- so called from its fondness for the juice of the palm.
Toddy cat (Zool.) The common paradoxure; the palm cat.
Compare: Paradoxure
Paradoxure (n.) (In British)【動物；動物學】（亞洲南部產）長尾麝香貓；椰子貓 Any of a number of palm civet species.
Compare: Civet
Civet (n.) (Also civet cat)【動】麝貓；麝貓香料 A slender nocturnal carnivorous mammal with a barred and spotted coat and well-developed anal scent glands, native to Africa and Asia.
Family Viverridae (the civet family): several genera and species. The civet family also includes the genets, linsang, and fossa, and formerly included the mongooses.
Compare: Viverridae
Viverridae (n.) 靈貓科（學名Viverridae）是食肉目下的一個科，包括大靈貓、小靈貓、熊狸等
Viverridae is a family of small to medium-sized mammals, the viverrids, comprising 15 genera, which are subdivided into 38 species. [2] This family was named and first described by John Edward Gray in 1821. [3] Members of this family are commonly called civets or genets. Viverrids are found in South and Southeast Asia, across the Wallace Line, all over Africa, and into southern Europe. Their occurrence in Sulawesi and in some of the adjoining islands shows them to be ancient inhabitants of the Old World tropics. [4]
Civet (n.) [Mass noun] A strong musky perfume obtained from the secretions of the civet's scent glands.
Civet (n.) [US] The ring-tailed cat or cacomistle.
Compare: Cacomistle
Cacomistle (n.) 【動】蓬尾浣熊（產於美國西南部）The cacomistle, Bassariscus sumichrasti, is a nocturnal, arboreal and omnivorous member of the carnivoran family Procyonidae. Its preferred habitats are wet, tropical, evergreen woodlands and mountain forests, though seasonally it will venture into drier deciduous forests.
Nowhere in its range (from southern Mexico to western Panama) is B. sumichrasti common. This is especially true in Costa Rica, where it inhabits only a very small area. It is completely dependent on forest habitat, making it particularly susceptible to deforestation.
The term cacomistle is from the Nahuatl language (tlahcomiztli) and means "half cat" or "half mountain lion"; [2] it is sometimes also used to refer to the ringtail, Bassariscus astutus, a similar species that inhabits arid northern Mexico and the American Southwest.
Toddy (n.) A mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and spices and served hot [syn: hot toddy, toddy].
To-do (n.) Bustle; stir; commotion; ado.
Tody (n.) Any one of several species of small insectivorous West Indian birds of the genus Todus. They are allied to the kingfishers.
Toe (n.) One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.
Toe (n.) The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal.
Toe (n.) Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate.
Toe (n.) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.
Toe (n.) A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved.
Toe (n.) A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.
Toed (imp. & p. p.) of Toe.
Toeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toe.
Toe (v. t.) To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark.
Toe (v. i.) To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way).
Toed (a.) Having (such or so many) toes; -- chiefly used in composition; as, narrow-toed, four-toed.
Toed (a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.
To-fall (n.) A lean-to. See Lean-to.
Toffee (n.) Alt. of Toffy.
Toffy (n.) Taffy.
Tofore (prep.) Alt. of Toforn.
Toforn (prep.) Before.
Toft (n.) A knoll or hill.
Toft (n.) A grove of trees; also, a plain.
Toft (n.) A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.
Toftmen (n. pl. ) of Toftman.
Toftman (n.) The owner of a toft. See Toft, 3.
Tofus (n.) Tophus.
Tofus (n.) Tufa. See under Tufa, and Toph.
Togas (n. pl. ) of Toga.
Togae (n. pl. ) of Toga.
Toga (n.) The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga praetexta.
Togated (a.) Dressed in a toga or gown; wearing a gown; gowned.
Toged (a.) Togated.
Together (prep.) In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town.
Together (prep.) In or into union; into junction; as, to sew, knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together.
Together (prep.) In concert; with mutual cooperation; as, the allies made war upon France together.
Toggery (n.) Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery.
Toggle (n.) (Naut.) A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
Toggle (n.) (Mach.) Two rods or plates connected by a toggle joint.
Toggle (n.) A toggle switch.
Toggle (v. t.) (Computer programming) To change the value of (a program variable) by activating a toggle switch; as, to toggle the view from character to graphic mode; to toggle the keyboard input from insert to overtype mode.
Toggle iron, A harpoon with a pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned.
Toggle joint, An elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure, when any force is applied to bring them into this position.
Toggle (n.) Any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time.
Toggle (n.) A hinged switch that can assume either of two positions [syn: toggle switch, toggle, on-off switch, on/off switch].
Toggle (n.) A fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable).
Toggle (v.) Provide with a toggle or toggles.
Toggle (v.) Fasten with, or as if with, a toggle.
Toggle (v.) Release by a toggle switch; "toggle a bomb from an airplane".
Toggle (v. t.) To change a bit from whatever state it is in to the other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to.
Toggle (v. t.) This comes from ?toggle switches?, such as standard light switches, though the word toggle actually refers to the mechanism that keeps the switch in the position to which it is flipped rather than to the fact that the switch has two positions. There are four things you can do to a bit: set it (force it to be 1), clear (or zero) it, leave it alone, or toggle it. (Mathematically, one would say that there are four distinct boolean-valued functions of one boolean argument, but saying that is much less fun than talking about toggling bits.)
Toggle, () To change a bit from whatever state it is in to the other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from "toggle switches", such as standard light switches, though the word "toggle" actually refers to the mechanism that keeps the switch in the position to which it is flipped rather than to the fact that the switch has two positions. There are four things you can do to a bit: set it (force it to be 1), clear (or zero) it, leave it alone, or toggle it.
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Toght (a.) Taut. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Togider
Togider (adv.) Alt. of Togidres.