tory 
Tile Tory was originally nn Irish robber, anil the term 
was llpplieil hy< lilies to the dishel levers ill tilt.- I'opish plot, 
WaH llftel walil-. extcmlecj to the Irish I'atholir mMMl of 
the Uilke of York at tin- linn- nf the Exclusion Kill, an. I 
soon became the designation of the whole body of his sup- 
porters. Ltcky, Kng. In IHth Cent . i 
4. [</>.] In .liiiii'inni liifil., a member of the 
British party during tin 1 I (evolutionary period ; 
a loyalist. The Tories were very numerous, especially 
in the Middle and Southern colonies, and many of them 
took HMIIH for the khiK. They were frequently severely 
persecuted, and alter the war many of (hem emigrated to 
Canada and elsewhere. 
Washington will not trust us with the keeping of a sus- 
pected Tory, If we let the rascal trifle in this manner with 
the corps. J. F. Cooper, The Spy, xxlx. 
5. [''"/'] In general, a conservative ; one who 
favors i -sin 1>I ishcil authority and institutions, 
especially in a monarchy or an aristocracy; a 
person of aristocratic principles, as opposed to 
a democrat or a radical. 
Ilirrns Ram and Khoom Dass are In attendance, and 
fear greatly that the party of the Viziers, to whom they 
are opposed, will hurl them from power, and that the To- 
ries of Hussahir will triumph. 
W. H. Russell, Diary in India, II. 191. 
High Tory, au upholder or advocate of an extreme type 
of Toryism. 
II. . Pertaining to or characteristic of to- 
nes, in any sense; specifically [cap.'], belong- 
ing or relating to the Tories : as, a Tory gov- 
ernment ; Tory principles or measures. See I. 
"Surrender! you servants of King George," shouted the 
leader, . . . "or I will let a little of your tory blood from 
your veins." J. F. Cooper, The Spy, xxii. 
The party led by Sir Robert Peel no longer called lUelf 
"Tory, ' but "Conservative." Contemporary Reo., LI. 4. 
Tory Democracy, the principles or views of the Tory 
Democrats; also, the Tory Democrats collectively. Tory 
Democrats, in recent British politics, those members of 
the Conservative party who are supposed to Incline more 
or less to democratic ideas and methods. 
torylsm (to'ri-izm), n. [< tory + -ism."] The 
principles, methods, and practices of tories, in 
any sense ; specifically [cap.'], those of the Brit- 
ish Tories. 
Nothing would illustrate the subject better . . . than 
an inquiry into the rise and progress of our late parties, 
or a short history of toryism and whiggism from their 
cradle to their grave, with an Introductory aecountof their 
genealogy and descent. Bolingbroke, Parties, II. 
The times have been dreadful, and old families like to 
keep their old tenants. But I dare say that is Toryism. 
Oeorge Eliot, Felix Holt, viii. 
Toryminse (tor-i-mi'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Tprymus 
+ -ma?.] A notable subfamily of parasitic hy- 
menopterous insects, of the family Clialcididfe, 
conspicuous from their brilliant metallic colors 
and their long ovipositor: originally named as 
a family Torymidx by Watson in 1833. They 
are the commonest parasites of the cynipid and cecidomy- 
idan gall-makers, although some have l>een reared from 
the cells of burrowing bees and a few from lepidopterous 
larvee. About 200 species are known. 
Torymus (tor'i-mus), n. [NL. (Dalman, 1820).] 
A genus of hymenopterous parasites of gall- 
making insects, typical of the subfamily Tory- 
miiwe. 
tory-roryt (to'ri-ro'ri), a. [Appar. a varied 
redupl. of tory.] Wild; boisterous; harum- 
scarum. 
Lift up your voices, and sing like nightingales, you tory 
rory jades. Courage, I say ; as long as the merry pence 
hold out, you shall none of you die in Shoreditch. 
Dryden, Kind Keeper, iv. 1. 
tosca (tos'ka), ii. [< Sp. Pg. tosco (fern, tosca), 
rough, coarse.] A name given in parts of South 
America, especially near the mouth of the La 
Plata river, and in the region of the pampas 
generally, to a soft concretionary limestone, 
having about the consistence of slightly baked 
clay, and of a dark-brown color. It underlies the 
so-called Pampean formation. The name tosca is said 
also to be applied in part.-- of southern Italy, and espe- 
cially in Sicily, to varieties of pumiceous tuffs. In the 
gold-mining regions of the United States of Colombia the 
word tintca is also in frequent use as designating a ver> 
peculiar rock lying near the surface, and said by some to 
be of volcanic origin, but not yet scientifically described. 
It diiiei s very much from the tosca of the Pampean re- 
gion. 
toscattert, r. /. [ME. toscateren; < to- 2 + scat- 
ter.'] To scatter in pieces. 
l.o, ech thyng that is oned in it selve 
Is more strong than whan it is toscattred. 
Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 261. 
tose (to/.), r. t. [Also tore, formerly also toaze; 
< ME. toscii (< AS. "tasan), a common form of 
tesen, whence mod. E. tease : see tease, and cf. 
touse.] 1. To pull about or asunder; touse. 
What shepe that is full of wulle 
Upon his oacke the! tose and pulle 
Whyle ther is any thynge to pille. 
Gowtr, Conf. Amant., Prol. 
6307 
Thlnkest thou, for that I Insinuate or toazr from thee 
thy business, I am therefore no courtier? 1 am courtier 
cap-a pe; and one that will either rush on or pluck back 
thy business there. Shale., W. T., iv. 4. 700. 
Specifically 2. To tease (wool). J'riu/>t. 
1'inr., ],. 497. 
[Obsolete or prov. Eug. in both uses.] 
toser (to'zer), . [Also tozer ; < tone + -'.] 
One who loses; specifically, a teaser of wool. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXV. 812. [Prov. Eng.] 
tosh 1 (tosh), a. [Said to be <OF. touse, touze, 
clipped, shorn, pared round, < L. tondere, pp. 
tonsus, clip, shear: see tonsure.] Neat; trim. 
[Scotch.] 
The hedges will do ; I clipped them wl' my aln hand 
last back-end ; and, nae doubt, they make the avenue 
look a hantle tosher. Wilton, Margaret Lindsay, p. 271. 
tosh 2 (tosh), n. A variant of tush 1 . Hallim II. 
toshach, >i. See toisech. 
toshaket, r. t. t [ME. Unshaken ; < AS. tosceacaii, 
shake to pieces, < to-, apart, + sceacan, shake: 
see in-- and shake.] To shake violently ; shake 
to pieces. 
Glad was he to londe for to hye. 
So was he with the tempest al toshake. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 982. 
tosheart, r. t. [ME. tosheren; < AS. tosceran, 
cut apart, < to-, apart, + sceran, shear: see to-* 
and shear 1 .] To cut in two. 
The God of love . . . al toshare 
Myn herte with his arwis kene. 
Rom. of the Role, I. 1858. 
toshendt, '. t. [ME. toshenden; < to-2 + sliend.] 
To ruin utterly; destroy. 
I had been deed and al toshent 
But for the precious oynement. 
Rom. of the Rote, 1 1909. 
toshivert, r. i. [ME. toshn-eren, toschireren ; 
< to- 2 + shiver 1 .] To break in pieces. 
The kni.it spere In speldes al toschiuered. 
William of Palme (E. E. T. S.), 1. 8603. 
toshnail (tosh'nal), n. A nail driven in aslant, 
like a tosh. HalliiceU. 
toshredt. . t. [ME. toshreden, tnschredea; < 
to- 2 + shred.] To cut in shreds. 
The helmes they tohewen and toshrede. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1751. 
tosiness (to'zi-nes), n. The state or property 
of being tosy. Also toziness. 
Tozynest, Softness, like tozed Wooll. HaUey, 1727. 
toslitert, ". *. [ME. toslyteren; < to-2 + slitereti, 
freq. of sliten, slit : see slit 1 .] To make arti- 
ficial slashes or openings in, as a dress. 
Wrought was his robe in straunge gisc. 
And al toslytered for queyntise, 
In many a place, lowe and hie. 
Rom. of the Rote, 1. 840. 
toslivet, r. t. [ME. tosliven; < to-2 + slire 1 .] 
To cleave or split in pieces. 
And laiden on with swerdes clere, 
Helm and scheld that stronge were 
Thai gonne hem al totchlioe. 
Qy of WarirOte, p. 471. (Halliitrll. ) 
toslivert, v. '. [ME. toslyreren ; < to- 2 + xlicer.] 
To split into slivers or small pieces. 
The novse of foulls for to ben delyvered 
So loude rong, " Have don and lat us wende," 
That wel wende I the wode had al toslyoered [var. Co- 
thiwred]. Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls. 1. 493. 
toss (tos), v. ; pret. and pp. tossed or tost. ppr. 
tossing. [Early mod. E. tosse ; < late ME. toss- 
en; origin unknown: (a) prob. < Norse tossa, 
strew, scatter ; (b) otherwise < D. tassen, < F. 
tasser, heap up, as the waves of a troubled sea 
(< tos, a heap (see toss 1 ); for the variation of 
form, cf. tassel 1 , tossel 1 ). The W. fosio, jerk, 
toss (< tos, a quick jerk, a toss), is not sup- 
ported by cognate Celtic forms, and is prob. 
from E.] I. trans. 1. To lift, heave, or throw 
up with a sudden, impatient, or spirited move- 
ment ; jerk : as, to toss one's head. 
Sum savage Bull . . . tosses his head on high, 
Wounds with his hooves the Earth, with horns the sky. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Battle of Ivry. 
He tossed his arm aloft Addison, Cato, IT. 4. 
2. To jerk or fling to and fro; heave or piteh 
up and down or from one place to another; 
tumble or throw about. 
Howbeit the wroughte sees tostyd and rolled v ryght 
greuously. Sir R. Quyl/orde, Pylgrytnage, p. 73. 
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and 
fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine. 
Eph. IT. 14. 
Islanders, whose bliss 
Is to be taxied about from wave to wave. 
William Harris, Earthly Paradise, I. 300. 
3. In niiitiiift, to separate (ore) from the gaugne 
by stirring (tossing) the slimes with water 
in a keeve, and then allowing the heavier, 
toss 
valuable parts to settle, tins operation 
li.-i-t.-Mccl by packing, or striking the siiii-s ( ,| 
the kccvc with an iron liar held vertically with 
one enil resting on the ground, an operation 
which may lie i-ontimieil from a quarter of an 
hour to an hour. The packing facilitates the separation 
of the ore by the vibrating motion iniitarted to the parti- 
clea. This procew is generally done hy haml, hut some- 
times by a mechanical arrangement. It was formerly 
somewhat extensively employed in the tin-mining district! 
of i oniwall, England, and has not entirely puie out of 
use. 
4. To cast; pitch; flin;; hurl: s|ir.-iii,-.,lly, to 
throw with the palm of the hand upward ; throw 
lightly or carelessly. 
I taste a balle. ... I had aa leve Umse a ball here alone 
as to play at the tenys over the corde with the. 
Paltyracf, p. 760. 
i holer adust congeals our blood with fear, 
Then black bulls toits us, and black devils tew. 
Dryden, Cock and Fox, I. 117. 
Like the old giants that were foes to Heaven 
They heave ye stool on stool and fling main pot-lids, 
Like massy rocks, dart ladles, ttmsiny irons 
And tongs like thunderbolts. 
Fletcher, Woman's Prize, 11. 5. 
One person titttes the halfpenny up, and the other calls 
at pleasure head or tall. 
Struct, Sports and Pastimes, p. 439. 
6. Figuratively, to disquiet; agitate; set in 
commotion, as by shifting opinions, feelings, 
circumstances, or influences; disturb; disorder. 
Waa never Lady loved dearer day 
Then she did love the knight of the Redcrosse, 
For whose deare sake so many troubles her did tosse. 
Spatter, V. Q., I. vil. 27. 
Madly tost'd between desire and dread. 
SAo*., Lucrece, 1. 171. 
Calm region once. 
And full of peace, now tost and turbulent. 
Miltmi, V. I_, Ix. 112. 
6. To pass from one to another, as in conver- 
sation or discussion ; bandy. 
Is it such an Entertainment to see Religion worryed by 
Atheism, and Tilings the most Solemn and Significant 
tumbled and tost by Buffoons? 
Jeremy Collier, Short View (ed. 1698), p. 138. 
Then she, who . . . heard her name so t*t about, 
Flush d slightly at the slight disparagement. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
7t. To turn over and over; busy one's self with ; 
turn the leaves of, as a book or lesson. 
I will to Athens, there to tostte my bookes. 
l.iiln, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 99. 
Tit. Lucius, what book Is that she tosseth so ? 
yiiiiii : i I. a,-, nrandsire, 'tis Ovid's Metamorphoses. . . . 
Tit. Soft! see how busily she tin n- the leaves! 
Shall., Tit. And., Iv. 1. 41. 
8. To toss up with. See to to** up, under II. 
[Colloq.] 
To tots the pieman Is a favourite pastime with coster- 
mongers' boys and all that class. ... If the pieman win 
the toss, he receives Id. without giving a pie ; if he lose, 
he hands over a pie for nothing. 
Mill/Inn-, London Labour and London Poor, I. 206. 
9. Same as to toss off (a) (which see, below). 
I mean to tots a can, and remember my sweetheart, 
afore I turn in. Conyreve, Love for Love, Hi. 15. 
10. To dress hastily or smartly; trick: with 
out. [Rare.] 
I remember, a few days ago, to have walked Iwhind a 
damsel, Coned out in all the gaiety of fifteen : her dress 
was loose, unstudied, and seemed the result of conscious 
beauty. Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 2. 
To toss in a blanket, to toss (a person) upward from a 
blanket held slackly at the corners and edges, and jerked 
vigorously up and down, the person tossed being some- 
times thrown as high as the ceiling. This was formerly 
a favorite form of the expression of popular dislike. It 
is also practised in schools, among sailors, etc. Compare 
Aaz*2, c. t., 2, hazing. 
A rascally slave ! I will toss the rogue in a blanket. 
Shot., t Hen. IV., ii. 4. 240. 
I shall certainly give my solitary voice In favour of re- 
ligious liberty, and shall probably be totted in a blanket 
for my pains. 
Sydney Smith, To Lady Holland, Jan. 17, 181S. 
To toss off. (a) To take off ; drink off. as a dram. 
For in a brave vein they tost off the bouls. 
Robin Hood and Maid Marian (Child's Ballads, V. 375). 
The corporal produced the bottle and the glass, poured 
it out, made his military salute, and totted it o/. 
Marryat, Snarleyyow, xxxli. 
(6) To dispose of ; pass off ; while away : said of time. 
Have yon read Cynthia? It is a delightful thing to COM 
oft. dull hour with. 5. Jvdd, Margaret. II. 1. 
To toss the oars (nC.). See onri . To toss up, to pre- 
pare hastily, especially by cooking. 
On Saturday stew M beef, with something nice, 
Provided quick, and toss'd up in a trice. 
IT. KIH:I, The Vestry. 
Amid these rich and potent devices of the culinary art 
. . . poor Hepzihah was seeking for some nimble little 
titbit, which, with what skill she had, and such materials 
as were at hand, she might toss up for breakfast. 
UavOmrnt, Seven Gables, vli. 
