Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 57
Town (n.) Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.
God made the country, and man made the town. -- Cowper.
Town (n.) The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
Town (n.) A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country. [U. S.]
Town (n.) The court end of
Town (n.) The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.
Always hankering after the diversions of the town. -- Addison.
Stunned with his giddy larum half the town. -- Pope.
Note: The same form of expressions is used in regard to other populous towns.
Town (n.) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Note: Town is often used adjectively or in combination with other words; as, town clerk, or town-clerk; town-crier, or town crier; townhall, town-hall, or town hall; townhouse, town house, or town-house.
Syn: Village; hamlet. See Village.
Town clerk, An office who keeps the records of a town, and enters its official proceedings. See Clerk.
Town cress (Bot.), The garden cress, or peppergrass. -- Dr. Prior.
Town house. A house in town, in distinction from a house in the country.
Town house. See Townhouse.
Town meeting, A legal meeting of the inhabitants of a town entitled to vote, for the transaction of public bisiness. [U. S.]
Town talk, The common talk of a place; the subject or topic of common conversation.
Town (n.) An urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city; "they drive through town on their way to work".
Town (n.) The people living in a municipality smaller than a city; "the whole town cheered the team" [syn: town, townspeople, townsfolk].
Town (n.) An administrative division of a county; "the town is responsible for snow removal" [syn: township, town].
Town (n.) United States architect who was noted for his design and construction of truss bridges (1784-1844) [syn: Town, Ithiel Town].
Town (n.) This word is used differently in different parts of the United States.
In Pennsylvania and some other of the middle states, it signifies a village or a city. In some of the northeastern states it denotes a subdivision of a county, called in other places a township.
Town-crier (n.) A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.
Towned (a.) Having towns; containing many towns. [Obs.] -- Hakluyt.
Townhall (n.) A public hall or building, belonging to a town, where the public offices are established, the town council meets, the people assemble in town meeting, etc.
Townhouse (n.) A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.
Townish (a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town. [R.] -- Turbervile.
Townless (a.) Having no town. -- Howell.
Townlet (n.) A small town. -- North Brit. Rev.
Townsfolk (n.) The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.
Townsfolk (n.) The people living in a municipality smaller than a city; "the whole town cheered the team" [syn: town, townspeople, townsfolk].
Township (n.) [C] 小鎮；【英】【史】村；【美】區，鎮區 The district or territory of a town.
Note: In the United States, many of the States are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their own affairs, such as repairing roads and providing for the poor. The township is subordinate to the county.
Township (n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.
Township (n.) In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
Township (n.) An administrative division of a county; "the town is responsible for snow removal" [syn: township, town].
Townsmen (n. pl. ) of Townsman
Townsman (n.) An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another. -- Pope.
Townsman (n.) A selectman, in New England. See Selectman.
Townsman (n.) A person from the same town as yourself; "a fellow townsman".
Townsman (n.) A resident of a town or city [syn: townsman, towner].
Townspeople (n.) The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk. Townward
Townward (adv.) Alt. of Townwards
Townwards (adv.) Toward a town. -- Longfellow.
Towpath (n.) A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.
Towrope (n.) A rope used in towing vessels.
Towser (n.) A familiar name for a dog. [ Written also Towzer. ]
Towy (a.) Composed of, or like, tow.
Toxaemia (a.) (Med.) Blood poisoning. See under Blood.
Toxemia (n.) 子癇前症；前兆子癇；妊娠毒血症；毒血症 An abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine [syn: {toxemia of pregnancy}, {toxaemia of pregnancy}, {toxemia}, {toxaemia}].
Toxemia (n.) Blood poisoning caused by bacterial toxic substances in the blood [syn: {toxemia}, {toxaemia}].
Toxemia (British T oxaemia) (n.) Blood poisoning by toxins from a local bacterial infection.
‘Almost immediately, they stumble into a raw spectrox nest that quickly infects them with spectrox toxemia - an almost incurable, fatal disease.’
Toxemia (British T oxaemia) (n.) Another term for Preeclampsia.
‘It may also be called toxemia or pregnancy-induced hypertension.’
Another term for Preeclampsia.
Compare: Preeclampsia
Preeclampsia (n.) A condition in pregnancy characterized by high blood pressure, sometimes with fluid retention and proteinuria.
‘She was suffering from pre-eclampsia, a pregnancy-related illness which, in rare cases, can result in the death of the mother or the baby.’
Toxic (a.) Alt. of Toxical
Toxical (a.) Of or pertaining to poison; poisonous; as, toxic medicines.
Toxicant (n.) A poisonous agent or drug, as opium; an intoxicant.
Toxicological (a.) Of or pertaining to toxicology. -- Tox`i*co*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Toxicological (a.) Of or relating to toxicology [syn: toxicological, toxicologic].
Toxicologist (n.) One versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on poisons.
Toxicologist (n.) One who studies the nature and effects of poisons and their treatment.
Toxicology (n.) The science which treats of poisons, their effects, antidotes, and recognition; also, a discourse or treatise on the science.
Toxicology (n.) The branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons.
Toxicomania (n.) (Med.) Toxiphobia. -- A. S. Taylor.
Toxicomania (n.) (Med.) An insane desire for intoxicating or poisonous drugs, as alcohol or opium. -- B. W. Richardson.
Toxifera (n. pl.) Same as Toxoglossa.
Toxin (n.) Alt. of Toxine
Toxine (n.) 【生化】毒素，毒質 A poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine.
Toxin , Toxine (n.) A poisonous product formed by an organism, such as a pathogenic bacterium, a plant or an animal, usually having a high molecular weight, often a protein or a polysaccharide, but occasionally a low-molecular weight agent such as {tetrodotoxin}.
Toxin (n.) A poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species.
Toxiphobia (n.) An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.
Toxodon (n.) A gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.
Toxodonta (n. pl.) 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.
Toxoglossa (n. pl.) 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.
Toxophilite (n.) 弓箭術研究者 A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.
Toxophilite (n.) Someone keen on or an expert at archery.
Toxophilite (a.) 射箭者的 Pertaining to archery.
Toxotes (n.) A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish.
Toy (v. t.) A plaything for children; a bawble.
Toy (v. t.) A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.
Toy (v. t.) A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
Toy (v. t.) Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
Toy (v. t.) An old story; a silly tale.
Toy (v. t.) A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch.
toyed (imp. & p. p.) of Toy
toying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toy
Toy (v. i.) To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
Toy (v. t.) To treat foolishly.
Toyear (adv.) This year.
Toyer (n.) One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.
Toyful (a.) Full of trifling play.
Toyhouse (n.) A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.
Toyingly (adv.) In a toying manner.
Toyish (a.) Sportive; trifling; wanton.
Toyish (a.) Resembling a toy.
Toyman (n.) One who deals in toys.
Toyshop (n.) A shop where toys are sold.
Toysome (a.) Disposed to toy; trifling; wanton.
Toze (v. t.) To pull violently; to touse.
Tozy (a.) Soft, like wool that has been teased.
Trabeae (n. pl. ) of Trabea
Trabea (n.) A toga of purple, or ornamented with purple horizontal stripes. -- worn by kings, consuls, and augurs.
Trabeated (a.) Furnished with an entablature.
Trabeation (n.) Same as Entablature.
Trabeculae (n. pl. ) of Trabecula
Trabecula (n.) A small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in the framework of an organ part.
Trabecular (a.) Of or pertaining to a trabecula or trabeculae; composed of trabeculae.
Trabeculate (a.) Crossbarred, as the ducts in a banana stem.
Trabu (n.) Same as Trubu.
Trace (n.) One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
Trace (v. t.) A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.
Trace (v. t.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.
Trace (v. t.) A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
Trace (v. t.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
Trace (v. t.) The ground plan of a work or works.
traced (imp. & p. p.) of Trace
tracing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trace
Trace (v. t.) To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
Trace (v. t.) To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
Trace (v. t.) Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
Trace (v. t.) To copy; to imitate.
Trace (v. t.) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
Trace (v. i.) To walk; to go; to travel.
Traceable (a.) Capable of being traced.
Tracer (n.) One who, or that which, traces.
Traceries (n. pl. ) of Tracery
Tracery (n.) 【建】（哥德式建築上窗子的）花飾窗格，夾縫裝飾 Ornamental work with rambled lines. Especially:
Tracery (n.) The decorative head of a Gothic window.
Note: Window tracery is of two sorts, plate tracery and bar tracery. Plate tracery, common in Italy, consists of a series of ornamental patterns cut through a flat plate of stone. Bar tracery is a decorative pattern formed by the curves and intersections of the molded bars of the mullions. Window tracery is imitated in many decorative objects, as panels of wood or metal either pierced or in relief. See also Stump tracery under {Stump}, and Fan tracery under {Fan}.
Tracery (n.) A similar decoration in some styles of vaulting, the ribs of the vault giving off the minor bars of which the tracery is composed.
Tracery (n.) A tracing of lines; a system of lines produced by, or as if by, tracing, esp. when interweaving or branching out in ornamental or graceful figures. "Knit with curious tracery." -- Burns.
Tracery (n.) Decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs.
Tracheae (n. pl. ) of Trachea
Trachea (n.) The windpipe. See Illust. of Lung.
Trachea (n.) One of the respiratory tubes of insects and arachnids.
Trachea (n.) One of the large cells in woody tissue which have spiral, annular, or other markings, and are connected longitudinally so as to form continuous ducts.