tonsil 
superficial lobes of Ihe cerebellum ; tin 1 ccre- 
lipllur amygdala. Also li>iixi/l<i in both senses. 
lingual tonsil, a email collection of lymphoid tissue 
ut the bast <!' the tongue. Pharyngeal tonsil, faucial 
tonsil, LuBchka'e tonsil, a mass of foulcolu lymphoiii 
lhtndii>etwenUieorlAo(olth8rlcntuid left BuUcfalu 
tubes, at tin- .summit "f tin- pharynx, 
tonsile (ton'sil), . [< L. tuiixilix, < lonilcre, pp. 
toiixiM, shear, i-lip: see ttinxurr."} Capable of 
being or fit to b clipped J also, trimmed: as.ii 
linixili- hedije. llnlliti-rll. \ I'rov. Eng.] 
There is not u more tvntrile and governable plant in Na- 
ture : fur the cypress nniv lie nil to the very rooU, and 
yet spring afresh. /;V<7//, Hylva, I. xxiii. 
tonsilla (tun-sirU), .; pi. liiiixilla 1 (-0). Same 
as Itmxil. 
tonsillar (ton'si-ljjr), it. [= Sp. toiixiltir = It. 
liiiixillnrr, < Nlj. iinixilliiris, < L. tonsilla, tonsil: 
see ton*!/.] Of or pertaining to the tonsils: as, 
Iniixilliir arteries or follicles; timxi/lur disease. 
- Tonsillar artery, a brunch of the facial artery, dis- 
tributed to the tonsils anil the sides of the tongue near 
its root. Tonsillar nerves, slender branches of the 
glossoplmryngcal, distributed to the tonsils, soft palate, 
and pillars of the fauces. Tonsillar plexus. See 
Jilt'Xtln. 
tonsillary (ton'si-la-ri), a. [< NL. tousillin-ix: 
see t<ixillitr.~\ Same as tonxillar. Qiinin, Med. 
Diet., p. 1647. 
tonsillitic 1 (ton-si-lit'ik). ft. [< L. toiimlla + 
-it-ic.'} Of or pertaining to the tousila: as. 
tonsillitif nerves. 
tonsillitic 1 * (ton-si-lit'ik), a. [< tonsillitis + -<.] 
Of or pertaining to tonsillitis ; affected with in- 
flammation of the tonsils. 
tonsillitis (ton-si-li'tis), . [NL. tonsillitis, < 
L. toHsillte, tonsils, + -His.'} Inflammation of 
the tonsils. It is a very common form of sore 
throat, of varying severity Follicular tonsilli- 
tis, tonsillitis in which there is inflammation and in- 
creased secretion of the lining of the crypto or follicles of 
the tonsils. 
tonsillotome (ton-siro-tom), w. [< L. tonsil- 
la, tonsil, + Gr. -ro/rof, < reuvctv, ra/iciv, cut.] 
A surgical instrument for excising more or less 
of the tonsil. 
tonsillotomy (ton-si-lot'o-mi), . [< L. tonsil- 
lu, tonsil, -I- Gr. -rouia, <[ riuvew, ra/ictv, cut.] 
In surg., excision of the tonsils. 
tensor (ton'sor), . [< L. tonsor, toxor, a clip- 
per, a barber, < tondere, pp. tonsus, shear, shave.] 
A barber; one who shaves. Combe, Dr. Syn- 
tax's Tours, ii. 2. [Rare.] 
tonsorial (ton-so'ri-al), a. [< L. tonsuring, of 
or pertaining to shearing or shaving, < tonsor, 
a shaver: see tonsor."] Pertaining to a barber 
or his functions. [Generally humorous.] 
Margaret, taking her seat in the tonsorial chair, deliv- 
ered herself into the hands of the professor [the barl>er|. 
S. .1 11,1,1. Margaret, ii. 1. 
tonsure (ton'sur), n. [< ME. tonsure, < OF. 
(and F.) tonsure = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. toitsura, a 
shearing, clipping, the shaven crown of a priest, 
< L. tonsura, a shearing, clipping, in ML. the 
shaven crown of a priest, < tondere, pp. tonsus, 
shear, clip.] 1 . The act of clipping the hair, or 
of shaving the head, or the state of being shorn. 
2. Specifically (a) In the Roman Catholic 
and Greek churches, the ceremony of shaving 
or cutting off the hair of the head, either wholly 
or partially, performed upon a candidate as a 
preparatory step to his entering the priesthood 
or embracing a monastic life ; hence, entrance or 
admittance into the clerical state or a monastic 
order. In flie early church the clergy wore the hair short, 
but not shaven. The tonsure seems to be as old as the 
tilth or sixth century. In the Greek Church the hair is 
wholly shared off. In the Roman Catholic Church a part 
only is shaved, so as to form a circle on the crown of the 
head, and the first tonsure can be given only by a bishop, 
a mitered abbot, or a cardinal priest. 
Of 'the ecclesiastical toiuntre there were known to the 
Anglo-Saxons, in the early period of their Church, two dis- 
tinctive shapes the Roman and the Irish; the Roman 
form was perfectly round ; the Irish was made by cutting 
away the hair from the upper part of the fore head in the 
figure of a half- moon, with the convex side before. 
Rode, Church of our Fathers, 1. 180. 
(6) The bare place on the head of a priest or 
monk, formed by shaving or cutting the hair. 
Among some of the monastic orders and friars the ton- 
sure leaves only a circle of hair round the head ; the ton- 
sure of secular clerks, on the other hand, is small. 
Horn. Cttlh. Did.., p. 798. 
tonsure (ton'sur). r. t. ; pret. and pp. tomsureil. 
ppr. loHxitrinii. [< tonxitre, n.] To shave or clip 
the hair of the head of ; specifically, to give 
the tonsure to. 
Priests must not wear showy garments such as the bish- 
op forbids, and they must have their moustaches and 
beard shaved, and be tonfntreit once a month. 
The Academy, Feb. 8, 1890, p. 100. 
0379 
tonsured (ton'sunl >, /<.. 1. Having received 
llu I. insure; slmven; hence, clerical. 
No <><>!. -sin.sticiil privilege had occasioned such dispute 
or proved so mischievous, as the immunity of all tonmreit 
persons from civil punishment for crimes. llallam 
2. Having a bald spot on the head like a ton- 
sure. [Rare.] 
Rowing o'er the brook 
A tunitttrfil head in middle age forlorn. 
Ttunymu, The Brook. 
tonsure-plate (ton'sur-plat), . A round thin 
plate slightly convex so as to fit the top of t he 
dead, used to mark the line of the tonsure ac- 
cording to the Roman rite. 
tontine (ton-ten'), . and a. [< F. tontinr = G. 
tontine, < It. tontina, tontine, a life-insurance 
office; so called from Lorenzo Tonti, a Neapoli- 
tan banker, who originated the scheme (about 
1653).] I. . An annuity shared by subscribers 
to a loan, with the benefit of survivorship, the 
share of each survivor being increased as the 
subscribers die, until at last the whole goes to 
the last survivor, the whole transaction ceasing 
with his death. By means of tontines many govern- 
ment loans were formerly raised in England. The name is 
also applied to the number of those receiving the annuity, 
to their individual share or right, and to the system itself. 
The tontine principle baa also been applied to life-insur- 
ance. See tfintiiie itolicy, under II. 
I hear he pays as many annuities as the Irish tontine. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, I. 1 . 
H. . Of, pertaining to, constituting, or in- 
volving the principle of the tontine: as, to/i- 
tinr profits : tontine funds; ton ti tie insurance. 
Tontine policy, a policy of Insurance in which the poli- 
cy-holder agrees, in common with the other policy-holders 
under the same plan, that no dividend, return-premium, 
or surrender-value shall be received for a term of years 
called the tontine period, the entire surplus from all 
sources being allowed to accumulate to the end of that 
period, and then divided among all who have maintained 
their insurances in force. This modification of ordinary 
life-insurance has been adopted, as optional with the in- 
sured, for the purpose of countervailing the tendency to 
burden long-lived and persistent policy-holders with a 
large amount of premiums in comparison of those whose 
lives fall in shortly after obtaining insurance. The effect 
is to reduce the sum payable on deaths after but few years' 
payment of premiums, and increase the sum payable on 
deaths occurring after a given number of years. 
tontiner (ton-te'ner), n. [< tontine + -er 1 .] 
One who shares in a tontine. R. L. Steernson 
and L. Osbonrne, The Wrong Box, i. [Rare.] 
tonus (to'nus), M. [NL.,< Gr. rdwoc, tone: see 
tone 1 .] 1. Tonicity. 
The maintenance of muscular tonus. 
O. J. Romanes, Jelly-fish, etc., p. -'<>-. 
2. Tonic spasm. [Rare.] 
tony 1 (to'm), n.; pi. tonies (-niz). [Prob. a par- 
ticular use of Tony, which is regarded and used 
as an abbr. of Antony. There may be an allu- 
sion to St. Antony's (Anthony's) pig: see Ian- 
tony, tantony pig.] A simpleton. 
In short, a pattern and companion fit 
For all the keeping tonifs of the pit. 
Dryden, All for Love, Prol., 1. 15. 
tony 2 (to'ni), n. [< tone* + -i/ 1 .] Of a high 
tone ; affecting social elegance ; genteel ; swell. 
[Slang, U. S.] 
Such as himself and his wife, he would say, . . . didn't 
expect any of her society, but Mrs. Rranner ought to be 
tini.ii enough for her. The Atlantic, LX VII. 240. 
tony-hoop (to'ni-hfip), . Same as tomiihood. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
too 1 (td), adv. [Early mod. E. also to; < ME. to, 
< AS. to, too, = G. zu, etc., too, more than 
enough; < AS. to, prep.: see to 1 .] 1. Over; 
more than enough: noting excess, and quali- 
fying an adjective or an adverb. 
Farewell, Allnda : 
I am too full to speak more, and too wretched. 
Fletcher, Loyal Subject, iv. 1. 
He names this word Colledge too often, and his dis- 
course bears too much on the Vnluersity. 
lip. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Downe-rlght Scholler. 
[Too in this sense is sometimes erroneously used to qual- 
ify a verb. 
Ill look within no more : 
I have too trusted to my own wild wants, 
Too trusted to myself, to intuition. 
Browning, Pauline. 1 
2. Exceedingly; extremely: an intensive use. 
They continually pretend to have some sovereign power 
over that empire, and yet are too happy to be at peace with 
it. Broliyham. 
3. Ill addition; also; furthermore; moreover. 
Pretty and witty, wild, and yet, too, gentle. 
Shak., C. of E., III. 1. 110. 
What, will these young gentlemen too help us to catch 
this fresh salmon, ha? 
Dekker and Webster, Northward Ho, iv. 3. 
Never was there a more complete victory, achieved too 
within the space of little more than an hour. 
Prexott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 12. 
tool 
4. Likewise ; in like manner; in tlic same a_\ . 
As Cod clothes hliu-i-lf nilli lik'lit M with a garni. -ni. 
-oiioil rlotlifH iiml apjiarulw his works with light too. 
IK, line, -< nii"]i- \i. 
Lewls the Fourteenth in his old age IMTIUIII- religious: 
he determined that Ills subject* hhonl" tin. 
Macaulay, L< inh Hunt. 
Too blame, sec u<i/,.., i. t., n<.tc-. Too many. See 
inanf/'. Too much for one. s. . ;</!. Too thin. 
SeetAtiii. TOO too. (a) Quite too : altogether too : noting 
yrfat t-\o <- .>i inti-nsity, ami formcrl) **" much atfccU^l as 
to be regarded as one word, and so often written with a 
hyphen. 
ll, that this too too solid flesh would melt, 
Thaw, and resolve iUelf into a dew ! 
Shale., Hamlet, I. 2. !-"' 
O too-too happy ' had that Fall of thine 
Not cancel! J no the Character dlulne. 
Sylwtter, tr. of Du Bartas s Weeks, I. (I. 
Their loues they on the tentcr-hookes did racke, 
Host, boyl'd, bak'd, too too much white, claret, sacke. 
Jnhn Tai/lvr, Pennllessc Pilgrimage, quoted iu N. and (<., 
[7th ner., X. 498. 
The rigour and extremity of law 
Is sometimes tuo-tua bitter. 
Ford, Perkln Warbeck, II. t. 
Hence (6t) As an adjective or an adverb, very good ; very 
well : used absolutely. Kay, English Words (ed. 18U 
p. 76. (c) As an adjective, superlative ; extreme ; utter ; 
hence, enraptured ; gushing : applied to the so-called es- 
thetic school, their principles, etc.. In allusion to their 
exaggerated affectation. Sec esthcticum, 2. [Colloq.] 
Let the exclusive too-too esthetes tolerate the remark 
that music and painting do not exist for them, or even for 
the real masters In their respective arU, but for their pow- 
er of addressing, influencing, and delighting the masses 
of mankind. A r . and Q. , 7th ser. , XI. 80. 
tOO 2 t, prep. An obsolete spelling of to 1 . 
to0 3 t, n. An old spelling of toe. 
too 4 , n. and a. A dialectal spelling of too. 
too 6 (to), v. i. See <ei. 
tooart (to'ttrt), M. [Native Australian.] A 
valuable eucalypt of southwestern Australia, 
Eucalyptus gomphocqthala. It grows 120 feet high, 
with a clear trunk of 60 feet. The wood is one of the 
strongest known, very heavy, very durable under ex- 
posure, unwedgeable, and unusually free from defects. 
It is used in ship-building for beams, keelsons, stem- 
posts, and other works below the line of flotation, where 
great strength Is required and weight is not objection- 
able. It would be available for piles, and many other 
purposes. Also tuart and It-u-ari. 
took (tuk). Preterit and obsolete or vulgar 
past participle of take. 
tool 1 (tol), n. [< ME. tool, Me, tol, < AS. tol, 
in glosses also spelled tool, totil = Icel. tol, 
neut. pi., tools; perhaps a contr. of a Teut. 
base "taiiila, < AS. tuwian = OHG. saujan, zou- 
jan, MHG. xomcen, G. saiien = Goth, taujan, 
prepare: see tew 1 .] 1. A mechanical imple- 
ment; any implement used by a craftsman or 
laborer at his work ; an instrument employed 
for performing or facilitating mechanical op- 
erations by means of percussion, penetration, 
separation, abrasion, friction, etc., of the sub- 
stances operated upon, for all of which opera- 
tions various motions are required to be given 
either to the tool or to the work. Such machines 
as the lathe, planer, slotting-machlne, and others em- 
ployed in the manufacture of machinery, are usually 
called machine-tools. 
Of alkinnes craftes I contreued toles, 
Of carpentrle, of kerueres, and compassed masouns, 
And lemed hem leuel and lyne though I loke dymme. 
IHers Ptointian (B), x. 177. 
Take thi spades, rake, knyf, and shovelle, 
And evry tofe In beres grees defoule. 
1'alladitu, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 31 
Of Angling and the Art thereof I sing, 
What kind of tools it doth behove to have. 
J. l>riiiii<x (Arber's Eng. Oarner. I. 147). 
The hoe and the spade were not the tools he [Emerson) 
was meant to work with. 0. W. Holmes. Emerson, xi 
(a) One of the small pallets or stamps used by the book- 
binder's finisher to work out the designs on the cover of 
a book: applied to stamps used by hand. (t>) A small 
round brush used by house-painters for painting moldings 
at the margins of panels, window. sashes, and narrow fillets. 
2. By extension, something used in any occu- 
pation or pursuit as tools are used by the me- 
chanic: as, literary tools( books, etc.); soldiers' 
tools (weapons, etc.); specifically, a sword or 
other weapon. 
Then the gome in the grene graytbed hym swythe 
Oedere vp hys grymme tale, Uawayn to stnyte. 
Sir Gaieayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.X 1. 2281. 
We alle desyren. if it mlghte be. 
To ban houshondes hardy, wys, and free. 
And secree, and no nigard. ne no fool, 
Ne him that Is agast of every tool. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale. L 9(1. 
Draw thy tool ; here conies two of the house of the Mon- 
tagues. Shale., R. and J., i. 1. ST. 
3. One who or that which is made a means to 
some end ; especially, a person so used ; a mere 
instrument to execute the purpose of another; 
a cat's-paw. 
