tomato-gall 
called on account of its resemblance to the fruit 
of the tomato. 
tomato-plant (to-ma'to-plant), . The herb 
tomato, particularly the young seedling in- 
tended for transplanting. 
tomato-sauce (to-ma'to-sas), w. A preparation 
of tomatoes to be used as a dressing for meat. 
tomato-sphinx (to-ma'to-sfingks), . The to- 
mato hawk-moth, 'a sphingid. the adult of the 
tomato- worm. 
tomato-worm (to-ma'to-wenn), n. The larva 
of the sphingid' moth Protoparce celenx, the 
{Protoparct i-g/etts). 
common five-spotted sphinx, which feeds on 
the foliage of the tomato-plant in the United 
States. 
tomaun, . See toman. 
tom-axt (tom'aks), n. [An accom. form of tom- 
ahawk (formerly tomahack, etc.).] A tomahawk. 
An Indian dressed as he goes to war may bring company 
together ; but if he carries the scalping knife and tmn-ax 
there are many true Britons that will never be persuaded 
to see him but through a grate. Johnson, Idler, Ko. 40. 
tomb (torn), n. [< ME. tombe, toumbe, tumbe, < 
OF. tumbe, tombe, F. tombe = Pr. tomba = Sp. 
Pg. tumba = It. tomba, < LL. tumba (rare), < Gr. 
ritufjof, a sepulchral mound, barrow, grave, 
tomb, also a tombstone ; prob. akin to L. tumu- 
lus, a mound: see tumulus.'] 1. An excavation 
in earth or rock, intended to receive the dead 
body of a human being ; a grave ; also, a cham- 
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High tomb, an altar-tomb. Ledger tomb, a tomb cov- 
ered with a ledger. See ledger! , i (b). 
tomb (torn), c. t. [< tomb, n.] To bury ; inter ; 
intomb - The stone 
That tombs the two is justly one. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
tombac, tombak(tom'bak), . [Also tomback, 
/mill/etc, formerly tambat/cke,tombaga; = F. tom- 
bfic = Sp. tumbaga = Pg. tambaca, tambaqite = 
It. tombacco, < Malay tdmbaga, tambaga, Java- 
nese tembaga, copper, < Skt. tamrika, tamra, cop- 
per.] One of the many names of brass ; Prince's 
metal ; Mannheim gold. Similar and tombac are 
names indiscriminately applied to varieties of brass 
used for mock jewelry. Various analyses of alloys sold 
under the name of tombac show from 82 to 99 per cent. 
. of copper and corresponding amounts of zinc. Some 
French varieties of tombac contain a small percentage of 
lead besides the copper and zinc. 
The King made him [the General] a feast ; the dishes 
were of gold, or Tambaycke (which is mixed of gold and 
brasse). Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 649. 
tomb-bat (tom'bat), n. A bat of the genus 
Tuphozous; a taphian: so called because the 
tomfool 
To be partner'd 
With tmnbajii hired with that self exhibition 
Which your own coffers yield ! 
Shak., Cymbeline, i. 6. 122. 
This is thy work, woman, . . . 
The seeing of your simpering sweetness, you filly, 
You tit, you tomboy ! 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Malta, ii. 1. 
tombstone (tom'ston), w. [< tomb + stone.] 
1 . A stone placed over a grave, to preserve the 
memory of the deceased ; a sepulchral monu- 
ment. , 
Make not error 
A tombstone of your virtues, 
whose fair life 
Deserves a constellation. 
Beau, and Fl., Thierry and 
[Theodoret, iv. 1. 
Sometimes endeavoring to 
decipher the inscriptions on 
the tombstones which formed 
the pavement beneath my 
feet. 
Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 211. 
Seated on an upright tomb- 
stone, close to him, was a 
strange unearthly figure. 
Dickens, Pickwick, xxix. 
2. In her., a bearing 
representing a sar- 
cophagus or altar- 
tomb, usually having a 
large Latin cross on 
the slab or top. 
tom-cat (tom'kat), n. 
[< torn 1 + cat 1 .] A male 
cat, especially a full- 
grown male cat. 
Sunk from a Lion to a tame 
Tom Cat. 
Peter Pindar's Prophecy 
I(ed. 17S9). 
tonicod (tom'kod), n. 
Tombstone, I3th century. 
Church of St. Martin, I ..inn. 
France. (From Viollet-ie-Duc's 
" Diet, de 1'Architecture.") 
Roman Rock -tomb. The Khuzneh, Petra. Arabia. 
ber or vault formed wholly or partly in the earth, 
with walls and a roof, or wholly above ground, 
for the reception of the dead, whether plain, 
or decorated by means of architecture, sculp- 
ture, etc. ; a mausoleum; a sarcophagus. See 
also cuts under catacomb, Lycian, and nltar- 
tomb. 
Twenty thousand men 
That ... go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot . . . 
Which is not tomb enough and continent 
To hide the slain. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 4. 64. 
Methinks I see thee . . . 
As one dead in the bottom of a taint. 
Shak., R. and J., iii. 5. 66. 
2. A monument erected to preserve the mem- 
ory of the dead ; any sepulchral structure ; a 
cenotaph. 
In the cuntre of Acaya, ther he kyng was, 
Ys he birit in a burgh, & a bright toumbe. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 13964. 
I paused to contemplate a tomb on which lay the effigy of 
a knight in complete armor. Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 214. 
3. Same as altar-cavity. 
Every altar used for the celebration of mass must, ac- 
cording to lloman Catholic rule, contain some authorized 
relics. These are inserted into a cavity prepared for their 
reception, called " the tomb," by the bishop of the diocese, 
and sealed up with the episcopal seal. 
Encyc. Brit., XX. 367. 
4. Figuratively, the end of earthly life; death. 
Young Churchill fell as Life began to bloom ; 
And Bradford's trembling Age expects the Tomb. 
Prior, Ode to George Villiers. 
' ' 1 .''>' 
Tomb-bat ( Tafhozeus tlltdiventris). 
original species was found in the chambers of 
Egyptian pyramids. 
tombesteret, ". See tmnbester. 
tomb-house (tom'hous), . A tomb; a mauso- 
leum. 
Some years later the unfinished chapel was given by 
Henry VIII. to Cardinal Wolsey, and for long after it was 
known as Wolsey's tomb-house. Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 601. 
tombic (tom'ik), a. [< tomb + -ic.] Pertain- 
ing to tombs; particularly, noting the view 
that the Great Pyramid of Egypt was designed 
exclusively for sepulture. [Recent.] 
The merely tombic theory (to use a word coined, I ima- 
gine, by Professor Piazzi Smyth, and more convenient per- 
haps than defensible). 
R. A. Proctor, Great Pyramid, p. 172. 
tombless (tom'les), a. [< tomb + -less.] With- 
out a tomb. 
Lay these bones in an unworthy urn, 
Tombless, with no remembrance over them. 
Shak., Hen. V., i. 2. 229. 
tomblyt, adv. An old spelling of toomly. 
tomboc (tom'bok), u. [Javanese.] A weapon 
with a long handle or staff, used by the people 
of Java and the neighboring islands. It is 
sometimes a spear, and sometimes it has a 
blade like that of a halberd. 
tombola (tom'bo-la), n. [= F. tombola, < It. 
tombola, a kind of lottery, appar. < tombolare, 
fall, tumble: see tumble.] A lottery game 
popular in France and in the southern United 
States. Fancy articles are offered for prizes; a card 
containing several numbers is given to each person, and 
all the numbers on the card must be drawn in order to 
secure a prize. 
A pair of statuettes, a golden tobacco-box, a costly 
jewel-casket, or a pair of richly gemmed horse-pistols 
. . . went into the shop-window of the ever-obliging 
apothecary, to be disposed of by tombola. 
0. W. Cable, Graudissimes, p. 144. 
tomboy (tom'boi), n. [< torn 1 + boy 1 .] If. A 
rude, boisterous boy. 
Is all your delite and ioy 
In whiskyng and ramping abroade like a Tom boy' 
Udall, Roister Doister, ii. 4. 
2. A wild, romping girl ; a hoyden. 
Tumbe. To Dance . . . hereof we yet call a wench that 
skippeth or leapeth like a boy, a Tomboy. 
Veretegan, Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (ed. 1628), 
[p. 234. 
The color in her face was warmer as she exclaimed, . . . 
"Just think of me at that age what a tomboy I was ! " 
The Century, XLI. 662. 
3f. A worthless woman ; a strumpet. 
[Appar. < torn* + cod?, 
but said to be corrupted from Amer. Ind. ta- 
caud, 'plenty-fish.'] 1. The frost-fish, Micro- 
gadus tomcodus (see cut under Microgadus) ; 
also, loosely, one of several small fishes like or 
mistaken for this one. Also tommy-cod. 2. 
The jack-fish or rock-fish, a scorpeenoid fish, 
Sebastodcspaucispinis. [Monterey, California.] 
3. The kingfish, Menticirrus tiebulosus. See 
cut under kingfsh. 
Tom-doublet (tom'duV'l), n. A double-dealer. 
He is for a single ministry, that he may play the Tom- 
double under it. 
Character of a Sneaker (1706) (Harl. Misc., II. 356). 
[(Davies.) 
tome 1 (torn), 11. [< F. tome = Sp. Pg. It. tomo, 
< L. tomus, a part of a book, a volume, tome, 
< Gr. rofiof, a cut, piece, a part of a book, a vol- 
ume, tome, section, < re/ivew, raftc'tv, cut. From 
this Gr. verb are also ult. E. atom, atomy, tmema, 
tmesis, entoma, entomology, etc., andmanywords 
ending in -tome or -tomy, as epitome, anatomy, 
lithotomy, etc. In fleam 1 it appears reduced to 
a single letter.] A volume forming a part of a 
larger work ; any volume, especially a ponder- 
ous one. 
The relation of their Christian Rites belongs to another 
Tome. Pvrchas, Pilgrimage, p. 78. 
A volume old and brown, 
A huge tome, bound 
In brass and wild-boar's hide. 
Longfellow, Golden Legend, ii. 
tome a t, a.. See toom. 
tomelet (tom'let), . [Dim. of tome.] A small 
tome or volume. 
toment (to'ment), n. [< NL. tomentum, < L. 
tomentum, a stuffing of wool, hair, feathers, etc., 
for cushions, etc.] Same as tomentum. 
tomentose, tomentous (to-men'tos, -tus), a. 
[= F. tomenteux = Sp. Pg. It. tomentoso, < L. 
tomentum, a stuffing of wool, hair, feathers : see 
foment.] 1. In hot., covered with hairs so close 
as scarcely to be distinguished; densely pubes- 
cent with matted wool or tomentum; coated 
with down-like hairs. 2. In entom., clothed 
with short inconspicuous hairs interwoven or 
matted together. 3. In anat., fleecy; floccu- 
lent. See tvmentuni, 2. 
tomentum (to-men'tum), n. [NL. : see toment.] 
1. In bot., a species of pubescence, consisting 
of longish, soft, entangled hairs, pressed close 
to the surface. 2. In anat., the flocculent in- 
ner surface of the pia mater: more fully called 
toinen turn cerebri. 
tomfool (tom'fol'), w. [< torn 1 + fool 1 .] 1. 
A silly fool; a trifler: also used attributively. 
He had resolved to treat these tomfools with proper con- 
tempt, by paying no more heed to them. 
W. Black, In Far Lochaber, xiv, 
