Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 51
Toom (a.) Empty. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Wyclif.
Toom (v. t.) To empty. [Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot.]
Toon (n. pl. ) Obs. of Toe. -- Chaucer.
Toon (n.) (Bot.) The reddish brown wood of an East Indian tree ({Cedrela Toona) closely resembling the Spanish cedar; also. the tree itself.
Toon (n.) A film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence [syn: cartoon, animated cartoon, toon].
Toonwood (n.) (Bot.) Same as Toon.
Toot (v. i.) To stand out, or be prominent. [Obs.] -- Howell.
Toot (v. i.) To peep; to look narrowly. [Obs.] -- Latimer.
For birds in bushes tooting. -- Spenser.
Toot (v. t.) To see; to spy. [Obs.] -- P. Plowman.
Tooted (imp. & p. p.) of Toot.
Tooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toot.
Toot (v. i.) To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown. "A tooting horn." -- Howell.
Tooting horns and rattling teams of mail coaches. -- Thackeray.
Toot (v. t.) To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.
Toot (n.) A blast of a horn.
Toot (n.) Revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn: carouse, carousal, bender, toot, booze-up].
Toot (v.) Make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared" [syn: honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot].
Tooter (n.) One who toots; one who plays upon a pipe or horn. -- B. Jonson.
Teeth (n. pl. ) of Tooth.
Tooth (n.) (Anat.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.
Note: The hard parts of teeth are principally made up of dentine, or ivory, and a very hard substance called enamel. These are variously combined in different animals. Each tooth consist of three parts, a crown, or body, projecting above the gum, one or more fangs imbedded in the jaw, and the neck, or intermediate part. In some animals one or more of the teeth are modified into tusks which project from the mouth, as in both sexes of the elephant and of the walrus, and in the male narwhal.
In adult man there are thirty-two teeth, composed largely of dentine, but the crowns are covered with enamel, and the fangs with a layer of bone called cementum. Of the eight teeth on each half of each jaw, the two in front are incisors, then come one canine, cuspid, or dog tooth, two bicuspids, or false molars, and three molars, or grinding teeth. The milk, or temporary, teeth are only twenty in number, there being two incisors, one canine, and two molars on each half of each jaw. The last molars, or wisdom teeth, usually appear long after the others, and occasionally do not appear above the jaw at all.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child! -- Shak.
Tooth (n.) Fig.: Taste; palate.
These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth. -- Dryden.
Tooth (n.) Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.
Tooth (n.) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.
Tooth (n.) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.
Tooth (n.) (Nat. Hist.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant; specifically.
Tooth (n.) (Bot.) One of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.
Tooth (n.) (Zool.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.
In spite of the teeth, In defiance of opposition; in opposition to every effort.
In the teeth, Directly; in direct opposition; in front. "Nor strive with all the tempest in my teeth." -- Pope.
To cast in the teeth, To report reproachfully; to taunt or insult one with.
Tooth and nail, As if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by all possible means. -- L'Estrange. "I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright." -- Charles Reade.
Tooth coralline (Zool.), Any sertularian hydroid.
Tooth edge, The sensation excited in the teeth by grating sounds, and by the touch of certain substances, as keen acids.
Tooth key, An instrument used to extract teeth by a motion resembling that of turning a key.
Tooth net, A large fishing net anchored. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Tooth ornament. (Arch.) Same as Dogtooth, n., 2.
Tooth powder, A powder for cleaning the teeth; a dentifrice.
Tooth rash. (Med.) See Red-gum, 1.
To show the teeth, To threaten. "When the Law shows her teeth, but dares not bite." -- Young.
To the teeth, In open opposition; directly to one's face. "That I shall live, and tell him to his teeth ." -- Shak.
Toothed (imp. & p. p.) of Tooth.
Toothing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tooth.
Tooth (v. t.) To furnish with teeth.
The twin cards toothed with glittering wire. -- Wordsworth.
Tooth (v. t.) To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.
Tooth (v. t.) To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4. -- Moxon.
Tooth (n.) Hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense.
Tooth (n.) Something resembling the tooth of an animal.
Tooth (n.) Toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell.
Tooth (n.) A means of enforcement; "the treaty had no teeth in it".
Tooth (n.) One of a number of uniform projections on a gear.
Tooth, () One of the particulars regarding which retaliatory punishment was to be inflicted (Ex. 21:24; Lev. 24:20; Deut. 19:21). "Gnashing of teeth" = rage, despair (Matt. 8:12; Acts 7:54); "cleanness of teeth" = famine (Amos 4:6); "children's teeth set on edge" = children suffering for the sins of their fathers (Ezek. 18:2).
Toothache (n.) (Med.) Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.
Toothache grass (Bot.) A kind of grass ({Ctenium Americanum) having a very pungent taste.
Toothache tree (Bot.) (a) The prickly ash. Aralia ({Aralia spinosa"> (b) A shrub of the genus Aralia ({Aralia spinosa).
Toothache (n.) An ache localized in or around a tooth [syn: toothache, odontalgia].
Toothback (n.) (Zool.) Any notodontian.
Toothbill (n.) (Zool.) A peculiar
fruit-eating ground pigeon ({Didunculus strigiostris) native of the
Toothbrush (n.) 牙刷 [C] A brush for cleaning the teeth.
Toothbrush (n.) Small brush; has long handle; used to clean teeth.
Toothbrush (n.) Slang for a mustache [syn: soup-strainer, toothbrush].
Toothdrawer (n.) One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. -- Shak.
Toothed (a.) Having teeth; furnished with teeth. "Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl." -- Herrick.
Toothed (a.) (Bot. & Zool.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate.
Toothed whale (Zool.), Any whale of the order Denticete. See Denticete.
Toothed wheel, A wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by their action on the engaging teeth of another wheel.
Toothed (a.) Having teeth especially of a certain number or type; often used in combination; "saw-toothed" [ant: toothless].
Toothed (a.) Notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex [syn: serrate, serrated, saw-toothed, toothed, notched].
Toothed (a.) Having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed [syn: erose, jagged, jaggy, notched, toothed].
Toothful (a.) Toothsome. [Obs.]
Toothing (n.) The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.
Toothing (n.) (Masonry) Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up.
Toothing plane, A plane of which the iron is formed into a series of small teeth, for the purpose of roughening surfaces, as of veneers.
Toothless (a.) Having no teeth. -- Cowper.
Toothless (a.) Lacking teeth; "most birds are toothless"; "a toothless old crone" [ant: toothed].
Toothless (a.) Lacking necessary force for effectiveness; "a toothless piece of legislation."
Toothlet (n.) A little tooth, or like projection.
Toothleted (a.) Having a toothlet or toothlets; as, a toothleted leaf.
Toothpick (n.) A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.
Toothpicker (n.) A toothpick.
Toothshell (n.) Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth-shaped shell. See Dentalium.
Toothsome (a.) Grateful to the taste; palatable.
Toothwort (n.) A plant whose roots are fancied to resemble teeth, as certain plants of the genus Lathraea, and various species of Dentaria. See Coralwort.
Toothy (a.) Toothed; with teeth.
Toozoo (n.) The ringdove.
Top (n.) A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.
Top (n.) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
Top (n.) The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground.
Top (n.) The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
Top (n.) The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school.
Top (n.) The chief person; the most prominent one.
Top (n.) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
Top (n.) The head, or upper part, of a plant.
Top (n.) A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft.
Top (n.) A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
Top (n.) Eve; verge; point.
Top (n.) The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
Top (n.) Top-boots.
Topped (imp. & p. p.) of Top.
Topping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Top.
Top (v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.
Top (v. i.) To predominate; as, topping passions.
Top (v. i.) To excel; to rise above others.
Top (v. t.) To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
Top (v. t.) To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass.
Top (v. t.) To rise to the top of; to go over the top of.
Top (v. t.) To take off the or upper part of; to crop.
Top (v. t.) To perform eminently, or better than before.
Top (v. t.) To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.
Toparch (n.) The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy.
Toparchies (n. pl. ) of Toparchy.
Toparchy (n.) A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.
Top-armor (n.) A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.
Topau (n.) The rhinocerous bird (a).
Topaz (n.) A mineral occurring in rhombic prisms, generally yellowish and pellucid, also colorless, and of greenesh, bluish, or brownish shades. It sometimes occurs massive and opaque. It is a fluosilicate of alumina, and is used as a gem.
Topaz (n.) Either one of two species of large, brilliantly colored humming birds of the Topaza, of South America and the West Indies.
Topazolite (n.) A topaz-yellow variety of garnet.
Top-block (n.) A large ironbound block strapped with a hook, and, when used, hung to an eyebolt in the cap, -- used in swaying and lowering the topmast.
Top-boots (n. pl.) High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light-colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.
Top-chain (n.) A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
Top-cloth (n.) A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.
Topcoat (n.) An outer coat; an overcoat.
Top-drain (v. t.) To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm.
Top-draining (n.) The act or practice of drining the surface of land.
Top-dressed (imp. & p. p.) of Top-dress.
Top-dressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Top-dress.
Top-dress (v. t.) To apply a surface dressing of manureto, as land.
Top-dressing (n.) The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.
Tope (n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.
Tope (n.) A grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope.
Tope (n.) (Zool.) A small shark or dogfish ({Galeorhinus galeus syn. Galeus galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.
Tope (n.) (Zool.) The wren. [Prov. Eng.]
Toped (imp. & p. p.) of Tope.
Toping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tope.
Tope (v. i.) To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess.
Toper (n.) One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.
Toper (n.) A person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) [syn: drinker, imbiber, toper, juicer] [ant: abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker].
Topet (n.) (Zool.) The European crested titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]
Topfree (a.) (not comparable) Free to refrain from wearing a top in public, especially (of women) to go topless.
Topfreedom (n.) 上空解放 The freedom to refrain from wearing a top in public, especially for women to appear topless.
Topful (a.) 滿的 Full to the top, ore brim; brimfull.