tomfool 
2. The J:im:ii<-:iM n.inhir.l, 
Tlmiitfli this is nlic of thr i.'niiiml-r 
iititr), it is also :it limnr in tiv- s 
iwis <siv Sum',, tin 
Im-hrs, wli*-n; it 
' 
Tomfool (Sanrottiera vttMta). 
perches with ease. It la Intermediate In some respects 
between the chaparral-cock and the common rain-crows 
of the United States, but Is much larger than the latter, 
and, like these, is supposed to foretell rain by Its cries. 
The coloration Is mostly a toned gray or drab, but with 
the breast rufous, and the ample fan-shaped tall filmed 
in black and white. 
tomfool (torn 'for ), i 1 . i. [< tomfool, .] To act 
foolishly and triflingly. [Colloq.] 
"And leave you to go fw/Wi'i</ out there again ? " asks 
Jim. Hliialii llruuyhton, Alas, xxix. 
tomfoolery (tom'fo'ler-i), n. (X tomfool + 
-</-//.] 1. Foolish trifling; ridiculous beha- 
vior; nonsense. 
" Fooler}' " was thought of old sufficiently expressive; 
nothing short of tomfoolery will do now. 
Lun'ini t Imag. Conv., Archdeacon Hare and W. Landor. 
2. Silly trifles; absurd ornaments or knick- 
knacks. 
The bride must have a trousseau of laces, satins, jewel- 
boxes, and tnuijui'l. rii. Thackeray, Book of Snoba, xxxvi. 
tomfoolish (tom'fo"lish), . [< tomfool + -i/|l.] 
Like a tomfool; apt to indulge in tomfoolery. 
[Rare.] 
A man he is by nature merry. 
Somewhat Tom-/oolith, and comical, very. 
Southey, Nondescripts, vlil. (Damct.) 
tomfoolishness (tom'fo'lish-nes), . Tomfool- 
ery. The Century, XXXV. 675. [Rare.] 
torn-hurry (tom'hur'i), . The common skua. 
Sec cut under skua. [Cornwall, Eug.] 
toinia. M. Plural of tomium. 
tomial (to'mi-al), a. [< tomium + -?.] In or- 
nilli., cutting, as a part of the bill; of or per- 
taining to the toinia, or to a tomium: as, the 
tomial edge of the bill ; tomial serration. 
Tomicus (tom'i-kus), . [NL. (Latreille, 1810), 
< Gr. TO/JIKOI;, of or for cutting, < re/tveiv, rafitlv, 
cut : see tome.'] A large and wide-spread genus 
of bark-beetles, of the family Scolytidse, having 
the antenna! club large and oval or rounded, 
the declivity of the elytra deeply concave with 
acute margin and usually strong teeth, and the 
tibite coarsely serrate. Alwut 60 species are known, 
of which 13 are commonly found under the bark of conifer- 
ous trees in the United States. 'I', caliiaraphits is the flne- 
wrlting bark-beetle, so called from the character of Its 
burrows under pine-bark. 
tomin (to'mm), n. [= P. tomin, < Sp. tomin, 
a weight of twelve grains, < Ar. tomn, an eighth 
part.] A jewelers' weight of twelve grains. 
tomiparous (to-mip'a-rus), <* [< Gr- P'/, a 
cutting, a section (< rtftvttv, raficlv, cut: see 
tome 1 ), + L. parere, produce, bring forth.] In 
bot., producing spores by division. 
tomium (to'mi-um), n. ; pi. tomia (-fi). [NL., < 
Gr. ro/juf, cutting, sharp, < Tt/ivetv,"T<t/tciv, cut: 
see tome 1 .] In oruith., the cutting edge of a 
bird's bill ; either of the opposing edges of the 
upper and under mandible, which meet in ap- 
position along the commissure. There are four 
tomia right and left upper, and right and left lower. 
The former are the superior or maxillary tomia ; the latter 
the inferior or mandibular tomia. See cut under l>itn . 
tomjohn (tom'jon), n. Same as totijtm. 
tomkin-post (torn' kin-post), w. In a grain-mill, 
the post supporting the pivot-end of the bridge- 
tree. E. B. Knight. 
tomling (tom'ling), n. [< torn 1 + -ling.'] A male 
kitten. Koutltey, Letters. (Davits.) [Rare.] 
tomlyt, iitlr. A Middle English form of toomly. 
tommy (tom'i), <.; pi. tout in irx (-iz). [Perhaps 
a particular application of Tommy, a familiar 
dim. of Tom : see tow 1 .] 1. Originally, a pen- 
ny roll; hence, bread; provisions: especially, 
goods given to a workman in lieu of wages. 
[In this and the next two uses slang, Eng.] 
6373 
Halllwell sets down the word tommy, nu'aning pro- 
visions, as belonging to various dialects. It Is now mi. 
irnt among the "navvy" class. . . . Hunce we have the 
IKUIK- "f an institution righteously abhorred hy j. 
iTiiniiniists, the fltort- Itchiu^in^ to on employer where his 
u ni k mm must take out part of their earnfngK in ki 
peclally in tammy or food, whence the name of ' 
shop MacntiUan'it May. (Imp. Diet.) 
2. A tommy-shop. 3. The system of paying 
workmen in goods in place of money; the truck 
system. 4. A simple fellow. Halliteell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 5. Atom-cat. [Colloq.] 6. A small 
round lever used totighten round-headed screw- 
bolts that are perforated for this purpose. 7. 
The puffin or sea-parrot, Ftottreutaaretlea, s< > 
cut under puffin. [Local, Eng.] soft tommy, 
(a) Soft and newly baked bread, as opposed to hardtack or 
sea-biscuit. [Slang. | 
It Is placed in antithesis to toft and new bread, what 
English sailors call tofl tommy. 
De Quincey, Roman Meals. (Daoiet.) 
Hence (&) A species of soft solder used fu the jewelers' 
trade. <:. E. Gee, Goldsmith 1 ! Handbook, p. 1.17. 
tommy (tom'i), v. t. ; pret. and pp. tommicd, ppr. 
tommying. [< tommy, .] To enforce the tommy 
or truck system on ; oppress or defraud by the 
tommy system. [Slang, Eng.] 
The fact Is, we are tommied to death. 
DitraM, Sybil, HI. 1. 
tommy-noddy (tom'i-nod'i), w. 1. The tad- 
pole-hake, Raniceps trifurcatus. [Prov. Eug.] 
2. Same as torn-noddy, 1. 
tommy-shop (tom'i-shop), . A shop or store 
conducted on the truck system; a truck-shop. 
[Slang, Eng.] 
The employers . . . supplied them (the miners) with 
food In order that they might spend no money save In the 
truck-shops or tommy-shopi. 
Uintun, Eng. Radical Leaders, p. 145. 
torn-noddy (torn'nod'i), n. [Also, corruptly, 
tom-norry; <toi! + noddy 1 .] 1. The puffin or 
sea-parrot. Also tommy-tuxldy, and tom-norry or 
tummy-iiorie. See cut under puffin. [Prov. Eng.] 
2. A blockhead; a dolt; a dunce; a fool. 
tom-norry (tora'nor'i), w. [Also tammy-norie : 
MfMMMMMjy.] Same as torn-noddy, 1. [Scotch.] 
torn-noun (tom'nSp), n. [< tom 1 + noup, var. 
of nope.] The black-headed tomtit, or greater 
titmouse, Pans major. See cut under Pants. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
Tomobranchia (t6-mo-brang'ki-a),.f. (NL., 
< Gr. rofjuf, cut (< Tf/iveiv, rautiv, cut),+ ftpayx'a- 
gills: see bratichise.] In J. E. Gray's classifi- 
cation (1821), one of three orders of ftaccophora, 
or ascidians, distinguished from Holobranchia 
and from IHpliyllobrancltia. 
to-momt, arlr. [ME. to moncen, to moreen, to 
margeH, etc.: see to-morrow, and cf. morn, mor- 
row.] To-morrow. Chaucer. 
to-morrow, tomorrow (t$-mor'6), orfr. and . 
[< ME. to monre, to marge, also to morweii, to 
morgen (see to-fjorn),< AS. to morgeii, to mergcn, 
to merigen, on the morrow, in the morning: to, 
to, on ; morgeii, mergen, mei'igen, dat. of mor- 
gen, morrow: see morrow, morn. Cf. to-day, to- 
night.] I. udr. On the morrow; on the day af- 
ter the present. 
That Mede ys thus ymaryed to-morwe thow shalt aspie. 
Pier* Plowman (0), Hi. 46. 
To-morrow come never, on a day which will never ar- 
rive; never. [Obsolete or provincial J 
lia. . . . He shall have It In a very little Time. 
Sy. When? Tomorrow come never? 
Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, p. 34. 
II. . The morrow ; the day after the present 
day. 
One to-day Is worth two to-tnorroieg. 
FrarMin, Works, I. xxii. 
Beware of desp'rate steps. The darkest day, 
Live till (0-morroir, will have pass'd away. 
Cotcper, Needless Alarm. 
[To-morrow, whether as adverb or noun, is often used with 
a noun following, also adverbial : as, to-morrow morning. 
I will, by to-morrow dinner-time. 
Send him to answer thee. 
Shot., IHen. IV., II. 4. 664.| 
tompion 1 (tom'pi-pn), w. 1. Same as tampion. 
2. The inking-pad of a lithographic printer. 
Also tompon. 
tompion^t, n. [Said to be so called from the 
maker, Thomas Tompion, who died in 1669.] 
A watch. Seager. 
Lac'd in her cosins (stays] new appear 'd the bride, 
A bubble-bow and tompion at her side. 
Pope, Treatise on the Bathos. 
Tom-piper (tom'pi'per), n. 1. A familiar term 
for a piper. 
So have I seene 
Tom-piper stand upon our village greene, 
Backt with the May pole, while a jocund crew 
In gentle motion circularly threw 
Themselves about him. 
W. Bruicnr, Britannia's Pastorals, II. 2. 
tonal 
2. [I.e.] The pipn- gurnard, Triyln f //, a fish. 
| l.oi-al. KIIL'. ] 
Tom-poker < t"ii>'|io'ki'-r). . | < 7V>wi + pub /'-'. ] 
A liiilM'nr to frighten i-liildivn. | l'n>v. Eng.J 
tompon (t<iln'|;Ii i. /'. Same as toni/iimi 1 . U'. 
torn-pudding (torn 'pud 'ing), n. [< </i + 
y, .K/,/,,,,/. | Tlie little grebe, or dabchick. [Prov. 
Kng. and Irish.] 
tomrigt ;(to[n'riK), w. [< loin 1 + nV/ :t .] A rude, 
wild girl; a tomboy. 
The author represents Belinda a fine, modest, well-lired 
lady, and yt-t In the very next cunto she appears an arrant 
ramp and tumriij. 
Dennit, On 1'ope's Rape of the Lock, p. 16. (fMllnnn.) 
tomtit (tom'tif), . [< torn' + tit'*.] Some 
little bird ; a tit or titling. Specifically (a) A tit- 
mouse of any kind. See Parinm. (6) The tree-creeper, 
Certhia /autiliaru. (Irish | (c) The wren, Trofftodyta 
parmtliu. (lxx:al. Eng.J (dt) The green tody of Jsmslcs, 
Tmliii ciridu. See cut under tody. Browne; llrimun. 
tom-tom (torn' torn), M. [Also tam-tam; Hind. 
illinium, n drum; tin imitative reduplication.] 
1. In India, the drum used by musicians, jug- 
glers, public criers, etc. 2. Same as gong?, 1. 
tom-tom (tom'tom), r. i. [< tom-tom, .] To 
beat on a tom-tom. Sola, Trip to Barbary, 1866. 
tom-trot (tom'trof), 11. A sweetmeat for chil- 
dren, made by melting sugar, butter, and trea- 
cle together. When it is cooling and rather 
stiff, it is drawn out into pieces. Halliicell. 
I want toffy ; I have been eating Tom Trot all day. 
Ditraeli, Coningsby, I. 9. 
tom-turkey (tom'ter'ki), n. [< tow 1 + turkey.] 
A turkey-cock. 
I never heard that a tim-turlrry would set on eggs. 
B. B. Statue, Oldtown, p. 64. 
ton 1 (tun), n. [_A form of <un, phonetically ar- 
chaic, retained in designations of measure prob. 
by reason of its use in statutes, where the F. 
and ML. forms are usually favored : see fun 1 .] 
If. A cask : hence, a measure of capacity used 
for wine. See /Mil 1 , 1. 2. A measure of capa- 
city : used () for timber, 40 feet of oak or ash 
timber, sometimes 48 or 50 feet of hewn ; (ft) 
for flour, 8 sacks or 10 barrels ; (c) for potatoes, 
10 to 36 bushels; (d) for wheat. 20 bushels; () 
for earth or gravel, 1 cubic yard, sometimes 23 
cubic feet ; (/) for grindstones, 15 cubic feet ; 
(</) for Portland stone, 16 cubic feet; (h) for 
salt, 42 bushels ; (i) for lime, 40 bushels ; (j) for 
coke, 28 bushels; (k) for the carrying capacity 
of a ship, 40 cubic feet (this is what is called the 
actual tonnage: see tonnage). 
Here arrived yesterday a Dutch ship of 00 torn, with 
250 ton* of salt, sent by Mr. Onge from Lisbon. 
Wiiithrop, Hist. New England, II. 430. 
3. A measure of weight, equal to 20 hundred- 
weight or 2,240 pounds avoirdupois (the long 
ton), or in the Lnited States to 2,000 pounds 
(the short ton). Register ton. See tonnage, 2. 
ton a (ton), n. [< F. ton, tone : see tone 1 . Hence 
tinniish.'] The prevailing mode; high fashion ; 
style ; air of fashion. See lion-ton. 
All that one likes is (on, and all that one hates Is bore. 
Mrt. Hannah Cou-tey, Who 's the Dupe? i. :'. 
Nature . . . made you, . . . and it then made some- 
thing very lovely ; and if you would suffer us of quality 
to give you the ton, you would be absolutely divine. 
Co/mail, Jealous Wife, II. 
As praying 's the ton of your fashion ; 
A prayer from the muse you well may excuse. 
Burnt, Ye Sons of Old Klllie. 
ton 3 *, iiitlrf. pron. See ton-. 
ton't, n. A Middle English plural of toe. 
-ton. [< ME. -town, < AS. -fii, being the word 
tun, town, used in composition : see town.] A 
form of -toirii, being the word toirn used in place- 
names, as Ashton, Hamptini, n'olrertnn, ilerton. 
tonal (to'nal), a. [< toiif 1 + -al.] I. In mu- 
sic, of or pertaining to tones. 
