toilette 
toilette, n. See toilet. 
toilful (toil'ful), n. [< toift + -fill.] Full of 
toil; involving toil; laborious. 
The fruitful lawns confess his toilful care. 
MicMe, Liberty, st. 17. 
toilfully (toil'ful-i), ttdr. In a toilful or labori- 
ous manner. 
His thoughts were plainly turning homeward, as ap- 
peared by divers toilfiillv composed and carefully scaled 
fetters. The Atlantic, LXV. 97. 
toilinette, toilinet (toi-li-nef), . [Dim. of F. 
toile, cloth: see toil?.] A cloth the weft of which 
is of woolen yarn and the warp of cotton and 
silk: used for vests. 
toilless (toil'les), . [< toil 1 + -less.] Free 
from toil. 
toiloust (toi'lus), a. [< ME. toil us, toyllous; 
< toil 1 + -oils.] Laborious; officious; busy. 
Troilus so toUus with his triet strenght, 
Marit of the Mirmydons meruell to wete. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 10071. 
toilsome (toil'sum), a. [< toi/1 + -some.] At- 
tended with toil; demanding or compelling 
toil; laborious; fatiguing. 
Yea, a hard and a toilsome thing it is for a bishop to 
know the things that belong unto a bishop. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, viii. 24. 
These duties are beyond measure minute and toilsome. 
Burke, Rev. in France. 
= Syn. Onerous, tedious. 
toilsomely (toil'sum-li), adv. In a toilsome or 
laborious manner. 
Their life must be tailsmnely spent In hewing of wood 
and drawing of water. Bp. Hall, The Gibeonites. 
toilsomeness (toil'sum-nes). n. The character 
of being toilsome; laboriousuess. 
The toilsomeness of the work and the slowness of the 
success ought not to deter us in the least. 
Abp. Seeker, Sermons, II. xxii. 
toil-worn (toil'worn), . Exhausted or worn 
out with toil. 
He [Lesslng] stands before us like a toil-worn but un- 
wearied and heroic champion, earning not the conquest 
but the battle. Carlyle, German Literature. 
toise (toiz), n. [< F. toise (ML. teisia, thaisia), a 
fathom, a measure of about six feet (with vari- 
ations in different places), = It. tesa, a stretch- 
ing, < L. tensa, fern, of tensus, pp. of tendere. 
stretched: see tend 1 , tense 2 . For the form, cf. 
poise.] An old measure of length in France, 
containing 6 French feet, or 1.949 meters, 
equivalent to 6.395 English feet. 
You might have heard the contention within our bod- 
ies, brother Shandy, twenty toises. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, v. 38. 
toisech, toshach(toi'sech, tosh'aeh), n. [Gael. 
toiseach, precedence, advantage, the begin- 
ning.] In the early history of Scotland, an of- 
ficer or dignitary immediately under the maor- 
mor. The name appears in the "Book of Deir," along 
with that of the maormor, in grants of lands to the church 
as having some interest in the lands granted. The office 
was hereditary and attached to a cadet of the family of the 
maormor. 
toison (toi'zon; F. pron. two-zon'), n. [< F. 
toison = Pr. tois, toisos 
(cf. Sp. tiison, toison =' 
Pg. tosSo, tusSo, toz&o, 
tuz&o = It. tosone, < F.), 
a fleece, < LL. tonsio(n-), 
a shearing, < L. tondere, 
pp. tonsus, shear, clip: 
see tonsure.] The fleece 
of a sheep Toiflon d'or, 
the golden fleece: used specif- 
ically in connection with the 
famous honorary order of that 
name, and denoting either the 
order itself or the jewel. See 
golden fleece, under fleece. 
toit (toit), n. [Var. of 
tut.] 1. A cushion or 
hassock. 2. A settle, 
uses.] 
tok, . See took?. 
toka (to'ka), n. [Fijian.] A kind of war-club 
in use in the Fiji and other islands, formed of 
a heavy bar of wood bent forward, and end- 
ing in a sharp beak surrounded by a sort of 
collar or ring of blunt points or nail-heads. 
Tokay (to-ka'), . [So called from Tokay in 
Upper Hungary.] 1. A rich and heavy wine, 
somewhat sweet in taste and very aromatic, 
produced in northern Hungary near the town 
of Tokay. It bears great age,'aud is esteemed 
as a sweet dessert- or liqueur-wine. 2. A Cali- 
fornia wine made up and named in imitation of 
the above. 3. A variety of grape FlamingTo- 
kay, a choice variety of the California Tokay grape. 
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token (to'kn), H. [< ME. token, tokene, tokyn, 
tnke, earlier taken, < AS. tac.tn, turn = OS. tekan 
= OFries. teken, tekn, teiken = I), teekcn = MLG. 
teken = OHG. zeiMian, MHG. G. zeichen, sign, 
mark, note, token, proof, miracle, = Icel. teitcn, 
also tdkii (< AS.?) = Sw. tecken = Dan. tci/n = 
Goth, taikns, a mark, sign, token ; akin to AS. 
teecan, teach; cf. Gr. <!j/;a, example, proof, < 
SuKvivai, show: see teach 1 .] 1. Something in- 
tended or supposed to represent or indicate an- 
other thing or an event ; a sign; a symbol; an 
evidence. 
And he [image of Justinian] was wont to holden a round 
Appelle of Gold in his Hond : but it is fallen out thereof. 
And Men seyn there that it is a tokene that the Empe- 
rour hathe y lost a gret partie of his Londes and of his 
Lordschipes. Manderille, Travels, p. 8. 
They weare blacks eight dayes in token of mourning. 
Purchas, 1'ilgrimage, p. 304. 
He never went away without leaving some little gift in 
the shape of game, fruit, flowers, or other tokens of kind- 
ness. Lady Holland, Sydney Smith, vii. 
2. A characteristic mark or indication. 
I found him at the market, full of woe, 
Crying a lost daughter, and telling all 
Her tokens to the people. 
Beau, and Fl., Coxcomb, v. 3. 
Those who . . . were struck with death at the begin- 
ning, and had the tokens come out upon them, often went 
about indifferent easy, till a little before they died. 
Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year, p. 120. 
3. A memorial of friendship ; something by 
which the friendship or affection of another 
person is to be kept in mind; a keepsake; a 
souvenir; a love-gift. 
It was a handkerchief, an antique token 
My father gave my mother. 
Shalt., Othello, v. 2. 216. 
4. Something that serves as a pledge of au- 
thenticity, good faith, or the like ; witness. 
And therby ys the place, shewyd by a token of a ston, 
wher Judas betrayed our Savyor to the Jewys with a kysse. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travel!, p. 29. 
Give me a glove, 
A ring to show for token ! 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 40. 
5. A signal. 
And he that betrayed him had given them a token, say- 
ing, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he. 
Mark xiv. 44. 
He made a tokyn to his knyghtes, wherby they know- 
ynge his mynde fell vpon hym and slew hym. 
Fabyan, Chron., cxxiii. 
6. A piece of metal having the general appear- 
ance of a coin and practically serving the same 
purpose. It differs from a coin in being worth much less 
Toison d'Or. Jewel of the 
Order of the Golden Fleece. 
[Prov. Eng. in both 
Obverse. Reverse. 
Token of R. Cottam of Reading. Berkshire. England, 1669. British 
Museum. (Size of the original.) 
than its nominal value, and in its being issued, as a rule, 
by private persons, without governmental sanction, as a 
guaranty that the issuer will on demand redeem the 
token for its full nomi- 
nal value in the legal 
currency of the country. 
Tokens have generally 
been issued by trades- 
men to provide a conve- 
nient small change when 
there was an absence or 
scarcity of the govern- 
ment coinage of the 
smaller denominations 
of money. Leaden to- 
kens, now very scarce, 
were issued by trades- 
men under Elizabeth and 
James I. In 1613 took 
place the (quasi-govern- 
mental) issue of Harring- 
ton tokens. (See Har- 
rington.) During the 
Commonwealth and un- 
der Charles II. (1648-72) 
the tradesmen and tav- 
ern-keepers of nearly all 
English towns issued 
brass and copper tokens, 
generally inscribed with 
the name, address, and 
trade of the issuer, and 
with the nominal value of 
the piece, usually i d. J.d. . 
or Jd. These specimens 
are known to collectors 
as the " seventeenth-cen- Reverse 
tury tokens." The "eigh- Kem Token , , _ British Musem , 
teenth- and "nine- .size of the original.) 
toko-pat 
teenth-century tokens '' were issued by English trades- 
men and by other persons between 17s7 and 1813. They 
are larger and of much better workmanship than the ear- 
lier tokens, and are generally struck in copper and bronze 
(2d. , Id., i\d., etc.), though some specimens were issued in 
silver (Is.", 6d., etc.). In 1811 silver tokens for 5 shillings. 
3 shillings, and 18 pence were issued by the Bank of Eng- 
land, and were known as the "Bank tokens."' See also 
cut under tavern-token, 
There 's thy penny, 
Four tokens for thee. 
B. Jonson, Staple of News, v. 2. 
7. In Presbyterian churches in Scotland, a 
voucher, usually of lead or tin, and often 
stamped with the name of the parish or church, 
given to duly qualified members previous to the 
celebration of the Lord's Supper, and returned 
by the communicant when he takes his place at 
the table. Cards have now very generally taken 
the place of these tokens. 8. A measure or 
quantity of press-work: in Great Britain and 
New York, 250 impressions on one form; in 
Boston, Massachusetts, 500 impressions on one 
form. The token is not divisible: 200 impressions or 20 
impressions are rated as one token ; 260 impressions or 
any excess of that number less than 7frf) are rated as two 
tokens. 
It has been mentioned that 2f>0 sheets or a token pet- 
hour, printed on one side only, represent the work of two 
men at the hand-press. Km'/ie. Brit., XXIII. 707. 
9. In icearing. See the quotation. 
Several small bobbins with a little of the various col- 
ours of the weft that may be used that is, when several 
kinds are employed. They are called tokens, and are 
raised by the Jacquard hooks attached, so as to remind 
the weaver which shuttle to use. 
A. Barlow, Weaving, p. 177. 
10. Same as tally' 1 . [English coal-fields.] 
11. A thin bed of coal indicating the existence 
of a thicker seam at no great distance. [South 
Wales coal-field.] By token, by this token, by 
the same token, phrases introducing a corroborative 
circumstance, almost equivalent to "this in testimony": 
bearing the same marks ; hence, associated with and 
calling to remembrance. 
Roe. Your father died about let me see 
Mock. About half a year ago. 
Roe. Exactly ; ''// the same token, you got drunk at a 
hunting-match that very day seven-night he was buried. 
Farquhar, Love and a Bottle, iii. !. 
Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to our 
breakfast, while my boot-heel was a-mending by the 
mme token, the boy left the hole as big as it was before. 
I'tpys, Diary, Feb. 28, 16tin. 
More toy token. See more i. Nuremberg tokens, an 
incorrect name for Nuremberg counters. Plague-token, 
a small painless excrescence on the skin which was re- 
garded as the first distinctive symptom of the plague : 
plague spot. 
token (to'ku), . t. [< ME. tokencn, tokncn, < AS. 
tacnian (= OHG. zeichenen, zeilinan, MHG. zei- 
chenen, zeichen, G. zeichnen = Icel. teiktui, taknn 
= Goth. titiknjan), token; from the noun. Cf. 
betoken.] If. To set a mark upon ; designate. 
God tokneth and assygneth the tymes ablinge hem to 
heere proper oflces. Chaucer, Boethius, i. meter 6. 
[Token and assign translate the Latin signal.] 
Eno. How appears the fight '! 
Scar. On our side like the token d pestilence, 
Where death is sure. Shak., A. and C., iii. 10. 9. 
2. To betoken ; be a symbol of. Slink., All's 
Well, iv. 2. 63. 
And by syde Rames ys a fayre Churche of oure Lady, 
whare oure Lord schewede hym to oure Lady, in thys 
lykenesse, that he tokeneth the Trynyte. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 12B. 
3. To betroth. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
tokeningt (tok'ning), . [< ME. tokening, < AS. 
tacnung, verbal n.of tacniati, token: see ttil.-ni, 
v.] 1. A token ; a sign; a proof. 
And Troylus, my clothes everychon 
Shal blake ben, in tokennynge, herte swete. 
That I am out of this worlde ygon. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 779. 
2. That which a thing betokens ; meaning ; in- 
terpretation. 
" Now, "quod Merlin, " haue ye herde your a vision and 
the tokenynye, and now I moste departe." 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 417. 
tokenless (to'kn-les), a. [< token + -/<..] 
Without a token. 
token-sheet (to'kn-shet), . A turned-down 
sheet between the tenth and eleventh quires 
of every ream of paper as formerly prepared, 
serving to indicate the center of the ream. 
tokenwortht, . As much as may be bought 
for a token or farthing ; a very small quantity. 
Wimi. Why, he makes no love to her, does he ? 
Lit. Not a tokenworth that ever I saw. 
B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair. i. 1. 
tokology, n. See toeoloi/y. 
toko-pat (to-ko-pat'), x. A palm, Lirixtoun 
Jfiikiimii, of Assam, whose leaves are used for 
making the umbrella-hats of the natives, for 
thatching, etc. 
