tocher 
a wife brings to her husband by marriage. 
[Scotch.] 
Then hey for a hiss wi' a tocher the nice yellow guineas 
forme! Hnmx, Awa' wi' your Witchcraft. 
tocher (toch'er), i'. t. [< tocher, n.] To give a 
tocher or dowry to. [Scotch.] 
Braid money to tocher them a', man. 
Burns, Ronalds of Bennals. 
tocherless (toeli'iT-les), a. [< tocticr + -less.] 
Without a tocher, or marriage portion. Scott, 
Waverley, Ixvii. [Scotch.] 
tockH (tok), it. [< F. toque, a cap: see toque.'} 
A cap. Compare toque. 
On their lieads they weare a small lock of three braces, 
made in guize of a rafter. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 244. 
tock 2 (tok), ti. [Also tok; < African tok: so 
called from its cry.] A kind of hornbill; spe- 
cifically, the African red-billed hornbill, Tocctts 
eri/tlirorhynchux. The name extends to related 
species. See Toeeus. 
tockay (tok'a), u. A kind of spotted East Indian 
lizard. It is supposed to be the spotted gecko, 
Hemidactylus macula tits. Imp. Diet. 
tocleavet, ' [ME. tocleren (pp. toclove), < AS. 
tOflcofan (= OHG. :echluiban), cleave asunder, 
< to-, apart, + cledfan, cleave : see c/eore 2 .] I. 
traiiK. To divide; open; cleave asunder. 
For the heihe holigoste heuene shal to-cleue. 
Piers Plowman (B), xii. 141. 
II. intrant*. To cleave apart; break. 
For sorwe of which myn herte shal to-cleoe. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 613. 
toco 1 (to'ko), n. [Native name.] The com- 
mon toucan, Bhamphastos toco. 
tocO a (to'ko), n. [Also toko; a humorous use 
of Gr. TOKOC, interest.] Punishment. [Slang.] 
The school leaders come up furious, and administer 
toco to the wretched fags nearest at hand. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 5. 
tocology (to-kpl'o-ji), . [Also tokology; < Gr. 
nfoofj birth ({ TIKTUV, Tciceiv, bring forth), 4- -'/.oyla, 
< /^}-t(v, speak: see -ology.] That department 
of medicine which treats of parturition; ob- 
stetrics. 
tocomet, r. i. [ME.,< to 1 + come.] To come 
to; approach. 
These to-comen to Conscience and to Cristyne peuple. 
Piers Plowman (C), xxii. 343. 
to-come (tij-kum'), n. [< to come: see come.] 
The future. Shelley, Hellas. [Bare.] 
tocororo (to-ko-ro'ro), n. [Also tocoloro; Sp. 
tocororo, < Cuban tocororo (sometimes given as 
toroloco or tocoloro), the Cuban trogon, so called 
from its note.] The Cuban trogon, Prionotelus 
teiiiitttrits. 
tocsin (tok'sin), n. [Early mod. E. tocksaine; < 
OF. toquesiii, toquesing, touquesaint, toxsaint, toe- 
sainct, toxant (F. tocsin = Pr. tocaseiih), the ring- 
ing of an alarm-bell, an alarm-bell, < toqiter, 
strike (see touch), + sin, sing = Pr. senh = Pg. 
.s'l'iio = Olt. segno, a bell, < L. signum, a signal, 
ML. also bell : see sign.'] 1. A signal given by 
means of a bell or bells; especially, a signal of 
alarm or of need ; hence, any warning note or 
signal. 
The priests went up into the steeple, and rang the bells 
backward, which they cull tocksaine, whereupon the peo- 
ple . . . flocked together. 
Fulke, Answer to P. Frarine (an. 1580), p. 52. (Todd.) 
That all-softening, overpowering knell. 
The tocsin of the 'soul the dinner-bell. 
Byron, Don Juan, v. 49. 
The death of the nominal leader . . . was the tocsin of 
their anarchy. Disraeli. 
2. A bell used to sound an alarm ; an alarm-bell. 
Again the whiskered Spaniard all the land with terror 
smote; 
And again the wild alarum sounded from the tocsin's 
throat. Longfellow, Belfry of Bruges. 
3. Milit., an alarm-drum formerly used as a 
signal for charging. 
topUSSO (to-kus'6), n. [Abyssinian.] An Abys- 
sinian corn-plant or millet, Eleusine Tocusso. 
tod 1 (tod), n. [Early mod. E. todd, todde, tode: 
< ME. todd, < Icel. toddi, a tod of wool, bit, 
piece, = D. todde, tatters, rags (cf. D. toot, 
hair-net, Dan. tot, a bunch of hair or flax), = 
OHG. zotta, zota, zata, f., sotto, m., MHG. zote, 
zotte, m., f., G. zotte, a tuft of hair or wool. Cf. 
tot*.] I. A bush, especially of ivy ; a thick mass 
of growing foliage. 
At length, within an Yvie todde 
(There shrouded was the little God), 
I heard a busie bustling. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., March. 
2f. An old weight, used chiefly for wool and 
varying in amount locally. It "was commonly 
equal to U8 pounds. 
(>364 
And the seid wolle to lie waved in the yelde halle of 
the seid cite by the byer and the syller, and custom for 
euery todd j. d. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 3S4. 
tod 1 ! (tod), i'. i. [< tod 1 , .] To yield a tod 
in weight ; weigh or produce a tod. 
Every 'leven wether tods; every tod yields pound and 
odd shilling ; fifteen hundred shorn, what comes the wool 
to? Shale., \V. T., iv. 3. 33. 
tod- (tod), . [Early mod. E. todde; supposed 
to be so called from its bushy tail, < toil 1 , a 
bush.] A fox. [Old Eng. and Scotch.] 
Drivest hence the wolf, the tud, the brock, 
Or other vermin from the flock. 
B. Jonmn, Pan's Anniversary. 
Frae dogs, an' tods, an' butchers' knives! 
Burns, Death of Mailie. 
tod 3 (tod), . [Abbr. of toddi/.} A drink; toddy. 
[Colloq., U. S.] 
Selleridge's was full of fire-company boys, taking their 
tods after a run. T. Winthrop, Cecil Dreeme, xiv. 
todasht, i'. t. [< ME. todasshen, toduisslten ; < 
to- 2 + dash.] To strike violently; dash to 
pieces. 
His shelde to-dasshed was with swerdes and maces. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 640. 
"Well it semed by their armes that thei hadde not 
soiourned, ffor theire sheildes were hewen and to daisskt. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), ii. 246. 
to-day, today (to-da'), adv. [< ME. to-daye, to 
daye, < AS. to deege, to dseij (also to dsege tliin- 
sum), on (this) day: prop, a phrase: to, prep., 
to, for, on; dseyc, dat. sing, of deeg, day: see to 1 
and day. Cf. to-night, to-morrow, to-month, to- 
year.'\ 1. On this (present) day: as, he leaves 
to-day. Compare to-morrow. 
To-morrow let my Sun his beams display. 
Or in clouds hide them ; I have lived to-day. 
Coidey, A Vote. 
2. At the present time ; in these days. 
Man to-day is fancy's fool 
As man hath ever been. 
Tennyson, Ancient Sage. 
To-day morning, this morning. (Prov. Eng.] To-day 
noon, this noon. [V. 8.) 
to-day, today (to-da'), . [< to-day, adv.'] 1. 
This present day: as, to-day is Monday. 2. 
This present time; the present age: as, the 
events of to-day. 
Toddalia (to-da'li-a), 11. [NL. (Jussieu, 1789), 
from the Malabar name of T. aculeata kaka- 
toddali."] A genus of polypetalous plants, of 
the order Butaceee, type of the tribe Toddaliese. 
It is characterized by flowers with a two- to five-toothed 
calyx, as many petals and stamens, and a punctate fleshy 
or coriaceous fruit with two to seven cells, each usually 
with a single seed. There are about 8 species, scattered 
through tropical regions and warm parts of Africa, the 
Mascarene Islands, and tropical Asia. They are shrubs, 
often climbers, and frequently spiny, with alternate leaves 
of three sessile lanceolate leaflets, and axillary or terminal 
cymes or panicles of small flowers followed by globular 
or lobed fruits resembling peas. T. lanceolata is known 
in South Africa as white ironwood. For T. aculeata, see 
lajxz-roat, 
Toddaliese (tod-a-li'e-e), n.pl. [NL. (Bentham 
and Hooker, 1862), < Toddalia + -ex.] A tribe 
of polypetalous plants, of the order Rutacese, 
It is characterized by regular flowers, in general polyga- 
mously diudcious, with free petals, stamens, and disk, a 
terminal style entire at the base, and an embryo usually 
with flat cotyledons and without albumen. It includes 
12 genera, mainly tropical , among which are Toddalia (the 
type), Skimmia, and Ptelea. 
toddle (tod'l), i'. i. ; pret. and pp. toddled, ppr. 
toddling. [A var. of tottle, perhaps influenced 
by some association with waddle : see tottle.] 
To walk feebly; walk with short, tottering 
steps, as a child or an old man: said espe- 
cially of children just beginning to walk. 
I should like to come and have a cottage in your park, 
toddle about, live mostly on milk, and be taken care of by 
Sirs. Boswell. Johnson, in Boswell, ajtat. 74. 
The young lady had one of the children asleep on her 
shoulder ; and another was toddling at her side, holding 
by his sister's dress. Thackeray, Philip, xvi. 
= Syn. See waddle. 
toddle (tod'l), n. [< toddle, v.] 1. The act of 
toddling ; an uncertain gait with short or feeble 
steps. 
What did the little thing do but ... set off in the 
bravest toddle for the very bow of the boat, in fear of losing 
sight of me ! R. D. Slaekmore, Maid of Sker, v. 
2. A walk taken in a toddling fashion, as by a 
child or an invalid; loosely, a careless stroll. 
[Colloq.] 
Her daily little toddle through the town. 
Trollope, Orley Farm, xv. 
3. A toddler. [Rare.] 
When I was a little toddle, Mr. and Mrs. Crewe used to 
let me play about in their garden. 
George Eliot, Janet's Repentance, iii. 
toddler (tod'ler), . [< toddle + -er 1 .'] One 
who toddles; especially, an infant or young 
child. Mrs. Gaskell, Mary Barton, i. 
todlowrey 
toddy (tod'i). ii. [Formerly also faddy, also 
tnri'c: < Hind, lari (with cerebral r, hence also 
spelled tddi), < tar, Pers. tar, a palm-tree, from 
which this liquor is derived.] 1. The drawn 
sap of several species of palm, especially when 
fermented. In India this is obtained chiefly from the 
jaggery, the wild date, the palmyra, and the cocoanut (see 
toddy-palm); in Borneo, from the areng; in West Africa, 
from llaphia mnifera; in Brazil, from theburiti. It is se- 
cured by cutting off the spadix at the time of efflorescence, 
by wounding the spathe, and by tapping the pith. It is a 
pleasant laxative drink when fresh, but soon ferments, 
and becomes intoxicating. Arrack is obtained from it by 
distillation. Vinegar is also made from the sap. and jag- 
gery-sugar is obtained by boiling it. 
They [the people of Industan] have . . . also Tndily, an 
excellent Drink that issues out of a tree. 
S. Clarice, Geograph. Descrip. (1(171), p. 45. 
If we had a mind to Coco-nuts, or Toddy, our Malayans 
of Achin would climb the Trees, and fetch as many Nuts 
as we would have, and a good pot of Toddy every Morn- 
ing. Dumpier, Voyages, I. 488. 
2. A drink made of spirits and hot water sweet- 
ened, and properly having no other ingredients: 
this use is originally Scotch. Also colloquially 
tod. 
A jug of toddy intended for my own tipple. 
Noctes Ambrosianie, April, 1832. 
toddy-bird (tod'i-bi-rd), 11. A bird which feeds 
on the juices of the palms ill India. The name is 
not well determined, and probably applies to several differ- 
ent species. If given to a weaver-bird, it would probably 
be to a baya-bird, either Plocfits baya or P. benyalensis. As 
identified with Artainus fuscus, a toddy-bird is a sort of 
swallow-shrike, of a different family (Artamidsf). 
toddy-blossom (tod'i-blos"um), . Same as 
grog-blossom. 
toddy-drawer (tod'i-dra"er), ii. A person who 
draws and sells toddy from the palm. Eita/i: 
Brit., XIV. 130. [Anglo-Indian.] 
toddy-ladle (tod'i-la''dl), n. 1. A ladle like a 
punch-ladle, but smaller, often of silver or sil- 
ver-gilt and richly decorated. 2. A name ap- 
plied to the American aloe, Agave Americana, 
the juice of which makes pulque, a drink anal- 
ogous to toddy. 
toddyman (tod'i-man), H. ; pi. toddi/meii (-men). 
One who collects or manufactures toddy. See 
toddy, 1. Pop. Sci. News, XXIII. 136. 
toddy-palm (tod'i-pam), ii. A palm which yields 
toddy; specifically, the jaggery-palm, Caryota 
urens, and the wild date-palm. I'licenije sylvestrin, 
also the palmyra and cocoanut-palms. 
toddy-stick (tod'i-stik), n. A stick used formix- 
ing toddy or other drinks, and commonly tipped 
with a button, often roughened, for breaking 
loaf-sugar ; a muddler. 
Near by was a small counter covered with tumblers and 
toddy-sticks. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 6. 
Todidae (to'di-de), . pi. [NL., < Todus + 
-idee.] A small family of West Indian birds, 
represented by the genus Todus; the todies. 
They are picarian, and their nearest relatives are the 
kingfishers, bee-eaters, and motmots. The sternum is 
four-notched openly ; cieca are present ; the oil-gland is 
tufted ; the carotids are two. The myological formula is 
the same as in Meropidte and Momotidse. The feet are 
syndactyl; the bill is long, straight, and flat, with its 
tomial edge finely sen-ate ; the tail is very short. The 
plumage is brilliant green, carmine-red, and white. These 
elegant little birds are represented by about U species of 
the single genus Todus. They most nearly resemble some 
of the small kingfishers in general aspect and mode of life. 
They nest in holes in banks. The family has been much 
misunderstood, and misplaced in the ornithological sys- 
tem. See tody (with cut). 
todine (to'din), a. Of or pertaining to the to- 
dies or Todidee : as, todine affinities. 
Todirostrum (to-di-ros'trum), ii. [NL. (Les- 
son, 1831), < Todns + L. rostrum, beak.] A ge- 
nus of diminutive Tyramiidee (not Todidae), hav- 
ing the beak somewhat like that of a tody, 
ranging from southern Mexico to southern Bra- 
zil and Bolivia. There are at least 15 species, some of 
ornate coloration. T. maculatum is only^i inches long. 
todlowrey (tod-lou'ri), . [Also todlnirr'u-; < 
tod? + hirer 1 + -y-.] 1. A fox; hence, a 
