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<A NAME="totaltheater">
<B>total theater,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a play or other stage production emphasizing theatrical techniques and effects. <BR> <I>Ex. He sees in them total theater in which music, words, book, movement, decor blend into a seamless whole (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="totalwar">
<B>total war,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> war in which all the resources of a nation, such as manpower, industry, and raw materials, are used in the national interest, and in which attack is made not only on the armed forces of the enemy, but also (subject to certain limitations) on all its civilian people and property. </DL>
<A NAME="totaquine">
<B>totaquine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mixture of alkaloids from certain kinds of cinchona, sometimes used against malaria as a substitute for quinine. </DL>
<A NAME="totara">
<B>totara, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a New Zealand timber tree, a variety of podocarpus, valued for its reddish wood. </DL>
<A NAME="tote">
<B>tote</B> (1), verb, <B>toted,</B> <B>toting,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><I>v.t. </I> to carry; haul. <DD><I>noun </I><B>1. </B>the act of carrying or hauling. <DD><B> 2. </B>the distance of this; haul. <BR> <I>Ex. a long tote.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=tote bag.</B> noun <B>toter.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tote">
<B>tote</B> (2), transitive verb, <B>toted,</B> <B>toting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) Usually, <B>tote up.</B> to add up; total. <BR> <I>Ex. Columnists and others toted up the pluses and minuses (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tote">
<B>tote</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a totalizator. </DL>
<A NAME="totebag">
<B>tote bag,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a large handbag somewhat like a shopping bag in shape and size. <BR> <I>Ex. Buyer Babs whips her order book out of what she calls a tote bag, but which to male eyes looks more like a Pony Express letter pouch (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="toteboard">
<B>tote board,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) the display board of a totalizator on which the odds and results of horse races are flashed. <BR> <I>Ex. Watching the tote board as it recorded the wagering ... was as fascinating as watching the race (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="totebox">
<B>tote box,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a box or container for carrying or storing materials. <BR> <I>Ex. Smaller orders are drawn from bins in tote boxes (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="totem">
<B>totem, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(among American Indians) a natural object, often an animal, taken as the emblem of a tribe, clan, or family. <BR> <I>Ex. The clan usually considers the totem holy and prays to it. Sometimes the group considers the totem as an ancestor of the clan (Fred Eggan).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the image of a totem. Totems are often carved and painted on poles. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) any venerated object. <BR> <I>Ex. Someone has suggested that every community has its totems and its taboos (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="totemic">
<B>totemic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of a totem; having to do with totems. <DD><B> 2. </B>having a totem or totems. adv. <B>totemically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="totemism">
<B>totemism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the use of totems to distinguish tribes, clans, or families. </DL>
<A NAME="totemist">
<B>totemist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who belongs to a clan having a totem. </DL>
<A NAME="totemistic">
<B>totemistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with totemism or totemists. </DL>
<A NAME="totempole">
<B>totem pole</B> or <B>post,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pole carved and painted with representations of totems, erected by the Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, especially in front of their houses. </DL>
<A NAME="totentanz">
<B>Totentanz, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (German.) dance of death; danse macabre. </DL>
<A NAME="toteroad">
<B>tote road,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rough, temporary road for carrying goods to or from a settlement or camp. <BR> <I>Ex. I followed the tote road into the woods (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tother">
<B>tother</B> or <B>t'other, </B>adjective, pronoun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Dialect.) the other. </DL>
<A NAME="totidemverbis">
<B>totidem verbis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) in so manywords; in these very words. </DL>
<A NAME="totipalmate">
<B>totipalmate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having all four toes completely webbed, as a pelican. </DL>
<A NAME="totipalmation">
<B>totipalmation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition of being totipalmate. </DL>
<A NAME="totipotence">
<B>totipotence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality of being totipotent. </DL>
<B>totipotent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) capable of developing into a complete organism. <BR> <I>Ex. a totipotent cell.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="totisviribus">
<B>totis viribus,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) with all one's powers. </DL>
<A NAME="totocaelo">
<B>toto caelo,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) <DD><B> 1. </B>as far apart as the poles; diametrically opposite. <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) by the whole heavens. </DL>
<A NAME="totter">
<B>totter, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to stand or walk with shaky, unsteady steps. <BR> <I>Ex. The old man tottered across the room.</I> (SYN) wobble, stagger, reel. <DD><B> 2. </B>to be unsteady; shake as if about to fall or collapse. <BR> <I>Ex. Babies totter as they walk. (Figurative.) The Roman Empire took about 200 years to totter and fall.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to shake; tremble. <DD><I>noun </I> a tottering. <BR> <I>Ex. I ... had his bend in my shoulders, and his totter in my gait (Samuel Johnson).</I> noun <B>totterer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tottering">
<B>tottering, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that totters. adv. <B>totteringly.</B> </DL>
<B>Touareg, </B>noun, pl. <B>-regs</B> or <B>-reg.</B> <B>=Tuareg.</B></DL>
<A NAME="toucan">
<B>toucan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bright-colored bird of tropical America, with an enormous beak. Toucans feed on fruit. They comprise a family of birds. </DL>
<A NAME="toucan">
<B>Toucan, </B>noun, genitive <B>Toucanis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a southern constellation. </DL>
<A NAME="toucanet">
<B>toucanet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small green toucan that breeds at high altitudes, found from Mexico to Peru. </DL>
<A NAME="toucanis">
<B>Toucanis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the genitive of <B>Toucan.</B> </DL>
