totipalmation 
palmation. See cuts under Plinctlion and Mi- 
palmate. 
totipresencet (to-tl-pre/.'ens), n. [< ML. "to- 
tipnesciitia, omnipresence, < *totiprsescn(t-)s, 
omnipresent: see totiprescnt.] The fact of be- 
ing present throughout a portion of space with- 
out being extended. 
A totipresence throughout all immensity amounts to the 
same as omnipresence. 
A. Tucker, Light of Nature, III. xii. 2. 
totipresentt (to-ti-prez'ent), rt. [< ML. "toti- 
priesen(t-)s, omnipresent, < L. totus, all, + 
prsesen(t-)s, present: see present*.] Present 
throughout a portion of space without exten- 
sion. 
totitive (tot'i-tiv), n. [< L. tot, so many, + 
-itivc.] In math., a whole number as small as a 
given number, and having no integer common 
factor with it except 1. 
toto caelo (to'to se'16). [L.: toto, abl. neut. of 
totus, whole ; aelo, abl. of ceelum, coelum, the sky, 
heavens: see celestial.] By the whole heavens; 
as far apart as the poles ; hence, diametrically 
opposite. 
tot-o'er-seas (tot'or-sez), n. A bird, the her- 
ring-spink. 
totorvet, t. [ME. totornen; < to-% + tone 1 .] 
To throw about; dash to pieces. 
Ac me the sculde niraen and al to-teon mid horse other 
the al to-toruion mid stane. 
Old Eng. Homilies (ed. Morris), I. 9. 
tot-quott (tot'kwot), n. 1 . A general dispensa- 
tion. 
What profits they have drawn unto themselves also by 
the sale of great bishoprics, prelacies, promotions, bene- 
fices, tot-quota, pardons, pilgrimages, confessions, and pur- 
gatory. /;/'. Bole, Images, Both Churches, xviii. 
2. pi. An abuse of annates or first-fruits by 
which, upon the promotion of an ecclesiastic, 
he was called upon to pay to the papal treasury 
the first-fruits not merely of his new prefer- 
ment, but of all other livings which he hap- 
pened to hold with it. In this manner annates were 
paid over and over again for the same living, and some- 
times twice and thrice in one year. Roger Hutchinson's 
Works (Parker Soc., 1842), Index, 
totreadt, '. t. [ME. totreden; < fe>- 2 + tread.] 
To tread in pieces. 
Develes that shullen al to-trede hem withouten respit 
and withouten ende. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
totter 1 (tot'er), v. [< ME. toteren, totren, older 
"tolteren (> E. dial, toiler, struggle, flounder, 
Sc. tolter, a., unstable), < AS. tealtriaii, totter, 
vacillate (= D. touteren, tremble; cf. tauter, a 
swing), < tealt, unstable; cf. tilt 1 . For the re- 
lation of totter to tolter, cf. tatter 1 (totter?) as 
related to* falter.] I. intrans. 1. To stand or 
walk unsteadily; walk with short vacillating 
or unsteady steps; be unsteady; stagger. 
"I'was his, with elder brother's pride, 
Matilda's tottering steps to guide. 
Scott, Kokeby, iv. 11. 
2. To shake, and threaten collapse; become 
disorganized or structurally weak and seem 
ready to fall; become unstable and ready to 
overbalance or give way. 
Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. 
Dryden, MneiA, ii. 384. 
As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. 
Ps. Ixii. 3. 
3f. To dangle at the end of a rope ; swing on 
the gallows. [Slang.] 
I would lose a limb to see their rogueships totter. 
Fletcher and Shirley, Night- Walker, iii. 3. 
= Syn. 1 and 2. Stagger, etc. See red". 2. To tremble, 
rock. 
II. t trims. To shake; impair the stability of; 
render shaky or unstable. 
Examples that may nourish 
Neglect and disobedience in whole bodies, 
And totter the estates and faiths of armies, 
Must not be play'd withal. 
Fletcher, Bonduca, iv. 3. 
Let 's march without the noise of threat'ning drum, 
That from this castle's tattefd battlements 
Our fair appointments may be well perused 
Shak., Rich. II., iii. 3. 52. 
There are some disobedient and fugitive Jonahs that 
thus totter our ship. Jiev. T. Adams, Works, II. 244. 
totter 2 (tot'er), n. and v. An obsolete or dia- 
lectal form of tatter 1 . 
And woon'd our tolt'ring colours clearly vp. 
Shak., K. John, v. 6. 7 (folio 1623). 
totterer (tot'er-er), n. One who or that which 
totters. 
totter-grass (tot'er-gras), TO. The quaking- 
grass, Briza media. Britten and Holland. fProv. 
Eng.] 
totteringly (tot'er-ing-li), adv. In a tottering 
manner. George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ixxi. 
6400 
Tptternhoe stone. A subdivision of the Lower 
Chalk in English geology, locally separating 
the so-called "Gray chalk" from the "Chalk 
marl." It consists of a somewhat silicious chalk with 
some glauconitic grains. The name is derived from Tot- 
ternhoe in Bedfordshire, England. 
tottery (tot'er-i), a. [< totter 1 + -y 1 .] Trem- 
bling or vacillating as if about to fall; un- 
steady; shaky. 
When I looked up and saw what a toiler;/ performance 
it was, I concluded to give them a wide berth. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, I. vi. 
tottle (tot'l),r. i. Same as toddle. [Local,Eng.] 
tottlish(tot'lish),. [< tottle + -i*7ii.] Totter- 
ing; trembling; unsteady; insecure. [U.S.] 
I find I can't lift anything into this canoe alone it 's so 
tottlish. Harper's Mag,, LXXIX. 110. 
totty (tot'i), a. [< ME. toty ; cf. totter 1 .] Wa- 
vering; unsteady; dizzy; tottery. [Obsolete 
or provincial.] 
Myn heed is toty of my swynk to-night 
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 333. 
I was somewhat totty when I received the good knight's 
blow, or I had kept my ground under it. 
Scott, Ivanhoe, xxxii. 
toty 1 !, a. A Middle English variant of totty. 
toty 2 (to'ti), n. ; pi. toties (-tiz). [A native 
name.] In some parts of the Pacific, a sailor 
or a fisherman. Simmonds. 
totyngt, n. An old form of tooting, verbal noun 
of toot 1 . 
toucan (tp-kan' or to'kan), n. [In Charlton 
(1668) (the bird being previously known as 
aracari); < F. toucan (Belon, 1555; Thevet, 1558) 
= It. tucano Sp. tucan = Pg. tuco.no, < Braz. 
tucano, or tueana (Marcgrave), a toucan. Ac- 
cording to Buffon the word means 'feather'; 
but Burton (" Highlands of Brazil," i. 40) says 
that the bird is named from its cry.] 1. One of 
numerous species of picarian birds of the genus 
Rhamphastos or family Bhamphastidse (which 
see for technical characters). Toucans are, on the 
average, large for their order, and are noted for the enor- 
mous size of the beak, which, with their habit of carrying 
the tail turned up over the back, and their bold colora- 
tion, gives them a striking appearance. They are charac- 
teristic of the Neotropical region, where they feed chiefly 
on soft fruits, and are credited with a sort of regurgitation 
of their food suggestive of rumination. They nest in 
holes. Some of the larger species, the toucans most prop- 
erly so called, are 2 feet long, with a bill of 6 or 8 inches. 
Most are smaller, as the aracaris and toucanets, of the 
genera Pteroglossus and Selenidera. Also tocan. See cuts 
under aracari and liamphastos. 
2. [cap.] A small constellation of the south- 
ern hemisphere Hill-toucan, a member of the ge- 
nus Andigena, a group of five or six species, inhabiting 
the Andes up to an altitude of 10,000 feet. 
toucanet (to-ka-nef), . [< toucan + -et.] 
Toucanet ^Selenidera maculirostris), 
One of the smaller toucans, as any species of 
Selenidera. S. maculirostris is a good example. 
toucang (to-kang'), n. [E. Ind.] A kind of 
boat much used at Malacca and Singapore, pro- 
pelled either by oar or by sail, speedy, rather 
flat in the center, but sharp at the extremities. 
touch (tuch), v. [< ME. touclicn, towehen, < OF. 
toucher, tocher, F. toucher = Pr. tocar, tocliar, 
toquar = Sp. Pg. tocar = It. toccare, prob. < 
OTeut. "tukkon, represented by OHG. zucchen, 
eulcken, MHG. zucken, zucken, G. zucken, zucken, 
draw with quick motion, twitch (an intrusive 
formation from zielien), Goth, tiuhan = OHG. 
ziohan, etc., AS. tedn, draw: see tee 1 , and cf. 
tuck 1 and tick 1 .] I. trails. 1. To perceive (an 
object) by means of physical contact with it ; 
especially, to perceive (an object) by bringing 
the hand into contact with it; hence, to per- 
ceive (an object) by bringing something held 
in the hand (as a cane or a pointer), or other- 
wise connected with the body, into contact 
with it. 
Nothing but body can be louch'd or touch. Creech. 
2. To be in contact with ; specifically, in 
geom., to be tangent to. See tangent. 
touch 
Surely never lighted on this orb. which she hardly 
seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. 
Burlte, Rev. in France. 
3. To come in contact with : literally or fig- 
uratively. 
The conqueror at this game [stool-ball] is he who strikes 
the ball most times before it touches the stool. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 166. 
Power, like a desolating pestilence, 
Pollutes whate'er it touches. 
Shelley, Queen Mab, iii. 
Many of the Arabs will not allow the left hand to touch 
food in any case. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. ISO. 
4. To be near or contiguous to ; impinge or 
border upon ; hence, to come up to ; approach ; 
reach; attain to; hence, also, to compare with. 
I have touch' A the highest point of all my greatness. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., iii. 2. 223. 
By his command 
Have I here touch'd Sicilia. 
Shak., W. T., v. 1. 139. 
Mr. William Peer distinguished himself particularly in 
two characters, which no man ever could touch but him- 
self. Steele, Guardian, No. 82. 
Wasn't he always top-sawyer among you all ? Is there 
one of you that could toucA him or come near him on any 
scent? Dickens, Oliver Twist, xliii. 
5. To bring into contact. 
Touch but my lips with those fair lips of thine. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 115. 
Now let us touch Thumbs, and be Friends ere we part. 
Prior, Down-Hall, st. 43. 
6. To bring the hand, finger, or the like into 
contact with ; place the hand or finger to or 
upon; hit or strike gently or lightly; give a 
slight tap or pat to with the hand, the tip of 
the finger, something held in the hand, or in 
any way : as, to touch the hat or cap in saluta- 
tion ; to touch a sore spot - r to touch a piece at 
chess; formerly, in a specific use, to lay the 
hand or finger upon for the purpose of curing 
of a disease, especially scrofula, or the disease 
called the king's evil (a former practice of the 
sovereigns of France and England). 
Esther drew near and touched the top of the sceptre. 
Esther v. 2. 
Then, with his sceptre that the deep contronls, 
He touch'd the chiefs, and steeled their manly souls. 
Pope, Iliad, xiii. 88. 
Every person who is touched on either side in the chase 
is sent to one or other of these prisons, where he must 
remain till the conclusion of the game, 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 145. 
From the time of Edward the Confessor to Queen Anne, 
the monarchs of England were in the habit of touching 
those who were brought to them suffering with the scrofu- 
la, for the cure of that distemper. 
0. W. Holines, Med. Essays, p. 3. 
7. To handle ; meddle with ; interfere with. 
Therfore the Soudan hathe do make a Walle aboute the 
Sepulcre, that no man may towche it. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 76. 
When he went, there was committed to his care a rund- 
let of strong water, sent to some there, he promising that 
upon his life it should not be touched. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 291. 
8. To lay hands on for the purpose of harming ; 
hence, to hurt, injure, annoy, or distress. 
Let us make a covenant with thee, that thou wilt do 
us no hurt, as we have not touched thee. Gen. xxvi. -2!). 
No loss shall touch her by my company. 
Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. 180. 
No temporal Law could touch the innocence of thir 
lives. Milton, Eikonoklastes, xvii. 
9f. To test by contact, as in trying gold with 
a touchstone; hence, to test; try; probe. 
Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed. 
Shak., Othello, iii. 3. 81. 
There 's no judgment 
Goes true upon man's outside, there 's the mischief ; 
He must be touch'd and tried, for gold or dross. 
Fletcher (and another ?), Nice Valour, Iv. 1. 
Words so debased and hard, no stone 
Was hard enough to touch them on. 
S. Butter, Hudibras, I. i. 112. 
10. To touch upon; handle or treat lightly or 
cursorily ; refer or allude to, as in passing. 
Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms. 
Shak., A. and C., ii. 2. 24. 
We glanced from theme to theme, 
Discussed the books to love or hate, 
Or touch'd the changes of the state. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Ixxxix. 
lit. To communicate ; speak; tell; rehearse; 
relate; mention. 
Bot I louche thaym to the a lyttill for thou sulde by this 
littill vndirstande the more. 
Hampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 40. 
I hire touched swiche tales as me told were. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4108. 
For they be as skilful in picking, rilling, and filching as 
the upright men, and nothing inferior to them in all kind 
of wickedness, as in other places hereafter they shall be 
touched. Harmon, Caveat for directors, p. 21. 
