the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. In the position of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. [In this sense sometimes used as an adjective.] Abroach, atilt, and run Even to the lees of honor. Beau. & Fl. (Gr. Antiq.) Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights. [L. -ationem. See -tion.] A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of state, and that which results from the action. Many of these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization. A-tiptoe A-tip"toe On tiptoe; eagerly expecting. We all feel a-tiptoe with hope and confidence. F. Harrison. At*lan"ta [NL., fr. Gr. A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod. Atlantal At*lan"tal Relating to the atlas. Anterior; cephalic. Atlantean At`lan*te"an [L. Atlant Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean. Pertaining to, or resembling, Atlas; strong. With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies. Atlantes At*lan"tes [L., fr. Gr. Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones Atlantic At*lan"tic [L. Atlanticus, fr. Atlas. See Atlas and Atlantes.] Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph. Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis. Descended from Atlas. The seven Atlantic sisters. Atlantides At*lan"ti*des [L. See Atlantes.] The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas. [L. Atlas, -antis, Gr. One who sustains a great burden. The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name. A collection of maps in a volume supposed to be so called from a picture of Atlas supporting the world, prefixed to some collections. This name is said to have been first used by Mercator, the celebrated geographer, in the 16th century. A volume of plates illustrating any subject. A work in which subjects are exhibited in a tabular from or arrangement; as, an historical atlas. A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, a nitroglycerin blasting compound of pasty consistency and great explosive power. [Ar., smooth.] A rich kind of satin manufactured in India. Atmidometer At`mi*dom"e*ter An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow. [Contr. fr. atmosphere.] (Physics) The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0° Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris. Atmologic, Atmological At`mo*log"ic At`mo*log"ic*al Of or pertaining to atmology. Atmologist At*mol"o*gist One who is versed in atmology. Atmology At*mol"o*gy (Physics) That branch of science which treats of the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapor. Atmolysis At*mol"y*sis The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substa

 to take fire.
It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks.
Saintsbury.
[OE. tough, AS. t&omac;h, akin to D. taai, LG. taa, tage, tau, OHG. z&amac;hi, G.  z&aum;he, and also to AS. getenge near to, close to, oppressive, OS. bitengi.]
Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.
Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews.
A body made of brass, the crone demands, . . . 
Tough to the last, and with no toil to tire.
The basis of his character was caution combined with tough tenacity of purpose.
J. A. Symonds.
Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm.
Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow.
So tough a frame she could not bend.
Severe; violent; as, a tough storm.
to make it a matter of difficulty; to make it a hard matter. 
Tough-cake
Tough"-cake`
See Tough-pitch 
Tough"en
v. i.&t.
imp. & p. p.
p. pr. & vb. n.
To grow or make tough, or tougher.
Tough-head
Tough"-head`
The ruddy duck.
Toughish
Tough"ish
Tough in a slight degree.
Tough"ly
In a tough manner.
Toughness
Tough"ness
The quality or state of being tough.
Tough-pitch
Tough"-pitch`
(Metal.)
The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.
Copper so reduced; -- called also 
tough-cake
The wood warbler.
Toupee; 277, Toupet
Tou*pee"
(?; 277)
Tou*pet"
(?; 277)
[F. toupet, dim. of OF. top a tuft; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. top. See Top apex, and cf. Topet.]
A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig.
Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee.
G. Eliot.
Toupettit
Tou"pet*tit
[See Topet, toupee.]
The crested titmouse.
[F. tour. See Tower.]
A tower.
[F. tour. See Turn, 
A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England.
The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour.
A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies.
anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.
Syn. -- Journey; excursion. See Journey.
imp. & p. p.
p. pr. & vb. n.
To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.
Tou*ra"co
Same as Turacou.
Tourbillion
Tour*bil"lion
[F. torbillion a whirlwind, tourbillion, fr. L. turbo, -inis, a whirl, whirlwind.]
An ornamental firework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire.
Tour"ist
One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.
Tourmaline
Tour"ma*line
[F. tourmaline, cf. It. turmalina, tormalina, NL. turmalina, turmalinus; all fr. tournamal, a name given to this stone in Ceylon.]
A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels.
&hand; Crystals of tourmaline when heated exhibit electric polarity (see Pyroelectric, 
[See Turn]
A spinning wheel.
(O.Eng.Law)
The sheriff's turn, or court.
Tournament
Tour"na*ment
[OE. turnement, tornement, OF. torneiement, tornoiement, F. tournoiement a turning or wheeling round. See Tourney.]
A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.
With cruel tournament the squadrons join.
&hand; It different from the joust, which was a trial of skill between one man and another.
Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.
Tournery
Tourn"er*y
Work turned on a lathe; turnery.
Tour"ney
[OF. tornei, tornoi, F. tournoi, fr. OF. torneier, tornoier, tournoier, to tit, to tourney, F. tournoyer to turn round and round. See Turn, 
A tournament.
At tilt or tourney or like warlike game.
Spenser.
We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn,
And there is scantly time for half the work.
Tennyson.
Tour"ney
[Cf.OF. torneier. See Tourney, 
To perform in tournaments; to tilt.
Well could he tourney, and in lists debate.
Spenser.
Tourniquet
Tour"ni*quet
[F., fr. tourner to turn.]
An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
Tournois
Tour`nois"
[F., belonging to Tours in France.]
A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.
Tournure
Tour*nure"
[F., fr. tourner to turn.]
Turn; contour; figure.
Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.
Touse, Touze
v. t. & i.
imp. & p. p.
p. pr. & vb. n.
[OE. tosen &root;64. See tease, and cf. Tose, Toze. ]
To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.
As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed.
Spenser.
A pulling; a disturbance.
Same as Tousle.
One who touses.
[Freq. of touse. Cf.Tossle.]
To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Tous-les-mois
Tous`-les`-mois"
[F., all the months, 
A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.
[See 1st Toot.]
To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
To ply or seek for customers.
One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
[See 3d Toot. ]
To toot a horn.
The anus.
Tout-ensemble
Tout`-en`sem"ble
All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts.
One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.
The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the police.
Dickens.
v.t & i.
See Touse.
[OE. tow, AS. tow, akin to OD. touw, Icel.  
The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
imp. & p. p.
p. pr. & vb. n.
[OE. towen, to
To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.
[Cf. Icel.taug a rope, from the same root as E.tow, 
A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.
The act of towing, or the state of being towed;-chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow.
That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.
[From Tow, 
The act of towing.
The price paid for towing.
A towel.
Toward, Towards
To"wards
In the direction of; to.
He set his face toward the wilderness.
Num. xxiv. 1.
The waves make towards
 the pebbled shore.
With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning.
His eye shall be evil toward his brother.
Deut. xxviii. 54.
Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men.
Acts xxiv. 16.
Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of.
This was the first alarm England received towards any trouble.
Clarendom.
Near; about; approaching to.
I am toward nine years older since I left you.
To"wards
Near; at hand; in state of preparation.
Do you hear sught, sir, of a battle toward ?
We have a trifling foolish banquet Towards.
Approaching; coming near.
Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.
Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant.
Why, that is spoken like a toward prince.
Towardliness
To"ward*li*ness
The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness.
The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy.
Sir W. Raleigh.
Towardly
To"ward*ly
Same as Toward, 
He's towardly and will come on apace.
Towardness
To"ward*ness
Quality or state of being toward.
To"wards
prep. & adv.
See Toward.
Tow"boat`
A vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat.
A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.
[OE.towaille, towail, F. touaille, LL. toacula, of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG. dwahila, swahilla, G. zwehle, fr. OHG. dwahan to wash; akin to D. dwaal a towel, AS. þwe
n to wash, OS. thwahan, Icel. þv&amac;, Sw. tv
, Dan. toe, Goth. þwahan.  Cf. Doily.]
A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath.
the fruit of the cucurbitaceous plant Luffa 
gyptiaca; also, the plant itself. The fruit is very fibrous, and, when separated from its rind and seeds, is used as a sponge or towel. Called also 
Egyptian bath sponge
dishcloth
To beat with a stick.
Toweling
Tow"el*ing
Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
[OE. tour,tor,tur, F. tour, L. turris; akin to Gr. 
A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.
A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.
A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
Ps. lxi. 3.
A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
Lay trains of amorous intrigues
In towers, and curls, and periwigs.
Hudibras.
High flight; elevation.
a large tower or chamber used in the sulphuric acid process, to absorb (by means of concentrated acid) the spent nitrous fumes that they may be returned to the Glover's tower to be reemployed. See 
Sulphuric acid
Glover's tower
a large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalytic, effect the conversion of sulphurous to sulphuric acid. See 
Sulphuric acid
Gay Lussac's tower
See under Round, 
See under Shot. -- Tower bastion 
a bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works. -- Tower mustard 
the cruciferous plant Arabis perfoliata. -- Tower of London, a collection of buildings in the eastern part of London, formerly containing a state prison, and now used as an arsenal and repository of various objects of public interest.
imp. & p. p.
p. pr. & vb. n.
To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
On the other side an high rock towered still.
Spenser.
My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
To soar into.
Tow"ered
Adorned or defended by towers.
Towered cities please us then.
Towering
Tow"er*ing
Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.
Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing.
A man agitated by a towering passion.
Sir W. Scott.
Tow"er*y
Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.
Tow-head
Tow"-head`
An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.
The hooded merganser.
To*whee"
The chewink.
To*wil"ly
The sanderling; -- so called from its cry.
Tow"line`
[AS. tohline. See Tow, 
A line used to tow vessels; a towrope.
[OE. toun, tun, AS. tun inclosure, fence, village, town; akin to D. tuin a garden, G. zaun a hadge, fence, OHG. zun, Icel. tun an inclosure, homestead, house, Ir. & Gael. dun a fortress, W. din. Cf. Down, 
adv. & prep.
Formerly: 
Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
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.
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.
A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.
The court end of London;-commonly with the.
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.
&hand; The same form of expressions is used in regard to other populous towns.
A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
&hand; 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.
an office who keeps the records of a town, and enters its official proceedings. See Clerk. -- Town cress 
the garden cress, or peppergrass. Dr. Prior. -- Town house. 
A house in town, in distinction from a house in the country. 
See Townhouse. -- Town meeting, a legal meeting of the inhabitants of a town entitled to vote, for the transaction of public bisiness. 
the common talk of a place; the subject or topic of common conversation.
Town-crier
Town"-cri`er
A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.
Having towns; containing many towns.
Townhall
Town"hall`
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
Town"house`
A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.
Town"ish
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town.
Townless
Town"less
Having no town.
Town"let
A small town.
Townsfolk
Towns"folk`
The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.
Township