<B>tontine, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a system of annuity or insurance in which subscribers share a fund. The shares of survivors increase as members die, until the last gets all that is left. <DD><B> 2. </B>the total of money involved in such a system. <DD><B> 3. </B>the share or right of each member in such system. <DD><B> 4. </B>the members as a group. <DD><I>adj. </I> of, having to do with, or like a tontine. <BR> <I>Ex. a tontine policy.</I> </DL>
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<B>ton-up, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>traveling in motorcycles at high or reckless speeds; doing a ton. <BR> <I>Ex. ton-up boys.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>having to do with or used by ton-up boys. <BR> <I>Ex. a ton-up road, black-leather ton-up outfits.</I> </DL>
<B>Tony, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nys.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an award presented annually in the United States for outstanding achievements in the theater. <BR> <I>Ex. The Tonys have been distributed annually since 1947 as a memorial to Antoinette Perry, the [theatrical] wing's wartime chairman (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>too, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in addition; also; besides. <BR> <I>Ex. The dog is hungry, and very thirsty too. We, too, are going away.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>more than what is proper or enough. <BR> <I>Ex. My dress is too long for you. He ate too much. The summer passed too quickly.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>very; exceedingly. <BR> <I>Ex. I am only too glad to help.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal.) indeed. <BR> <I>Ex. "You can't do this." "I can too!"</I> </DL>
<A NAME="took">
<B>took, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense of <B>take.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. She took the car an hour ago.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tool">
<B>tool, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a knife, hammer, saw, shovel, or any instrument used in doing work. <BR> <I>Ex. a carpenter's tools. Most boys like to work with tools. (Figurative.) They ... make use of similitudes ... and other tools of oratory (Thomas Hobbes).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>anything used like a tool, constituting an instrument of work. <BR> <I>Ex. Books are a scholar's tools.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a person or group used by another like a tool. <BR> <I>Ex. He is the tool of the party boss.</I> <DD><B> 4a. </B>a part of a machine that cuts, bores, smooths, or otherwise fashions something. <DD><B> b. </B>the whole of such a machine. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Law.) any implement or apparatus needed to carry on one's business or profession. <BR> <I>Ex. tools of trade.</I> <DD><B> 6a. </B>a small stamp or roller used to impress designs on book covers. <DD><B> b. </B>the design so impressed. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to work or shape with a tool or tools; use a tool on. <BR> <I>Ex. He tooled beautiful designs in the leather with a knife.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to ornament with a tool. <BR> <I>Ex. to tool a book cover.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to provide or equip (a factory or other establishment) with tools. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal.) to drive (a vehicle) in a certain way. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to work with a tool or tools, as in bookbinding. <DD><B> 2. </B>to equip a factory or other establishment with tools. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) to drive in a vehicle. <BR><I>expr. <B>down tools,</B> </I>(British.) to lay down one's tools; stop working. <BR> <I>Ex. to down tools for the holiday.</I> noun <B>tooler.</B> </DL>
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<B>tool box,</B> or <B>toolbox, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a box in which tools and sometimes small parts and accessories are kept. </DL>
<A NAME="toolholder">
<B>toolholder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a detachable handle used with different tools. <DD><B> 2. </B>a device for holding the tool of a machine in position for work. </DL>
<A NAME="toolhouse">
<B>tool house,</B> <B>=toolshed.</B></DL>
<A NAME="tooling">
<B>tooling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>work done with a tool. <DD><B> 2. </B>ornamentation made with a tool. <BR> <I>Ex. leather tooling.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the assembly of machine tools in a factory. </DL>
<A NAME="toolmaker">
<B>toolmaker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a machinist who makes, repairs, and maintains machine tools. <DD><B> 2. </B>any maker of tools. <BR> <I>Ex. Prehistoric men were the first toolmakers.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="toolmaking">
<B>toolmaking, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the work of a toolmaker. <DD><I>adj. </I> that is a toolmaker; involved in making tools. </DL>
<A NAME="toolpusher">
<B>tool pusher,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) the person in charge of drilling operations at an oil well. </DL>
<A NAME="toolroom">
<B>toolroom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a department in a machine shop in which tools are made, kept, and handed out to the workers. </DL>
<A NAME="toolshed">
<B>toolshed, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a building in which tools are kept. </DL>
<A NAME="toolsubject">
<B>tool subject,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an educational subject taught for its usefulness in other fields, not for its own sake, such as arithmetic and spelling. </DL>
<B>toon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a tree of the mahogany family of the East Indies and Australia, that yields a red wood like mahogany, but softer and lighter. <DD><B> 2. </B>the wood itself, used for furniture and cabinetwork. </DL>
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<B>toot</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the sound of a horn, whistle, or wind instrument; short blast. <BR> <I>Ex. The factory gives three toots of the whistle at noon.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to give forth a short blast of sound. <BR> <I>Ex. He heard the train whistle toot three times.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to sound or blow a whistle, horn, or wind instrument. <DD><B> 3. </B>(of a grouse) to utter its call. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to sound (a horn, whistle, or wind instrument) in short blasts. noun <B>tooter.</B> </DL>
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<B>toot</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a spree, especially a drinking spree. <BR> <I>Ex. to go on a toot.</I> </DL>
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<B>toot</B> (3), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. and Canadian Slang.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>cocaine. <BR> <I>Ex. A couple ... was busted on a Miami street corner in possession of nine pounds of toot (High Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>act or practice of inhaling cocaine. <BR> <I>Ex. The possibility of a jail sentence is enough to make most ... professional people ... slink into some of the finer furnished bathrooms of the city for a quick toot (Maclean's).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to inhale (cocaine). </DL>
<A NAME="tooth">
<B>tooth, </B>noun, pl. <B>teeth,</B> verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>one of the hard, bonelike parts in the mouth, used for biting and chewing. Animals use their teeth as weapons of attack or defense. Teeth are attached in a row to each jaw. A tooth in man and most vertebrates is usually composed of dentin surrounding a hollow filled with pulp, through which run blood vessels and nerves, and coated at the root with cementum and at the crown and exposed parts with enamel. <DD><B> b. </B>any one of certain hard parts or processes in the mouth or digestive tract of invertebrates. <DD><B> 2. </B>something like a tooth. Each one of the projecting parts of a comb, saw, file, rake, harrow, or fork is a tooth. <DD><B> 3. </B>one of the series of projections, as on the rim of a gearwheel or pinion, that engage with others to transmit or convert motion; cog. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) a taste; liking. <BR> <I>Ex. to have no tooth for fruit.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) a hurtful, gnawing, or destructive power. <BR> <I>Ex. 'gainst the tooth of time (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Botany.) <DD><B> a. </B>one of the delicate, pointed processes surrounding the mouth of the spore case in mosses, that together form the peristome. <DD><B> b. </B>one of the projections at the margin of certain leaves or petals. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to furnish with teeth; put teeth on. <DD><B> 2. </B>to cut teeth on the edge of; indent. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>=interlock.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>tooth and nail</B> (or <B>claw</B>), </I>with all one's force; fiercely. <BR> <I>Ex. to fight or resist tooth and nail.</I> adj. <B>toothlike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="toothache">
<B>toothache, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a pain in a tooth or the teeth. </DL>
<A NAME="toothachetree">
<B>toothache tree =prickly ash.</B></DL>
<A NAME="toothbrush">
<B>toothbrush, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small, stiff brush for cleaning the teeth. </DL>
<A NAME="toothbrushing">
<B>toothbrushing, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the act or process of cleaning one's teeth with a toothbrush. <BR> <I>Ex. It was clear that toothbrushing alone was not the only factor in promoting oral hygiene (John Roper).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with toothbrushing. <BR> <I>Ex. toothbrushing technique.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="toothbrushmustache">
<B>toothbrush mustache,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, bristly mustache. </DL>
<A NAME="toothed">
<B>toothed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having teeth. <DD><B> 2. </B>notched. <BR> <I>Ex. the toothed surface of a gear.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="toothedwhale">
<B>toothed whale,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a whale or related sea mammal with true teeth in one or both jaws, such as the sperm whale, narwhal, dolphin, or porpoise. </DL>
<A NAME="toothless">
<B>toothless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without teeth. <BR> <I>Ex. a toothless old man.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="toothlesswhale">
<B>toothless whale,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a whale or related sea mammal that has horny plates of whalebone in place of teeth, as the right whale, gray whale, humpback and sulphur-bottom; whalebone whale. </DL>
<A NAME="toothornament">
<B>tooth ornament,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Architecture.) a projecting ornament of a pyramidal or flowerlike form, often repeated in a series in a hollow molding; dogtooth. </DL>
<A NAME="toothpaste">
<B>toothpaste, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a paste used in cleaning the teeth. </DL>
<A NAME="toothpick">
<B>toothpick, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small, pointed piece of wood, plastic, or sharpened quill for removing bits of food from between the teeth. </DL>
<A NAME="toothpowder">
<B>toothpowder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a powder used in cleaning the teeth. </DL>
