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The flower itself is glorious to behold. 
Sharp to the taste. Dryden. 
Noting the subject of an affirmation. 
I trust, I may not trust thee; for thy word 
Is but the vain breath of a common man : 
Believe me, I do not believe thee, man; 
I have a king’s oath to the contrary. Shakspeare. 
In comparison of. As far as.—Some Americans, otherwise 
of quick parts, could not count to one thousand, nor had 
any distinct idea of it, though they could reckon very well to 
twenty. Locke. —Noting intention. 
This the consul sees, yet this man lives. 
Partakes the public cares; and with his eye 
Marks and points out each man of us to slaughter. B. Jonson. 
After an adjective it notes the object. 
All were attentive to the godlike man, 
When from his lofty couch he thus began. Dryden. 
Noting obligation.—Almanzor is taxed with changing 
sides, and what tie has he on him to the contrary ? He is 
not born their subject, and he is injured by them to a very 
high degree. Dryden. —Respecting. 
He’s walk'd the way of nature; 
And to our purposes he lives no more. Shakspeare. 
Noting extent.—From the beginning to the end all is due 
to supernatural grace. Hammond. —Towards.—She stretch’d 
her arms to heav’n. Dryden. —Noting presence.—She still 
beareth him an invincible hatred, and revileth him to his 
face. Swift. —Noting effect; noting consequence. 
Thus, to their fame, when finish’d was the fight. 
The victors from their lofty steeds alight. Dryden. 
After a verb to notes the object. 
Give me some wine; fill full, 
1 drink to th’ general joy of the whole table, 
And to our dear friend Banquo. Shakspeare. 
Noting the degree.—Tell her thy brother languishes to 
death. Addison. —Before day, to notes the present day; 
before morrow, the day next coming; before night, either 
the present night, or night next coming. 
Banquo, thy soul’s flight, 
If it find heav’n, must find it out to night. Shakspeare. 
2'o day, to night, to morrow, are used, not very properly, 
as substantives in the nominative and other cases. 
To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow. 
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day; 
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 
The way to dusky death. Shakspeare. 
To day is ours, why do we fear ? 
To day is ours, we have it here ; 
Let’s banish bus’ness, banish sorrow, 
To the gods belongs to morrow. Cowley. 
TOA, a river of the island of Porto Rico, which runs into 
the harbour of Porto Rico. 
TOAD, s. [tabe, Saxon.] A paddock; an animal re¬ 
sembling a frog; but the frog leaps, the toad crawls: the 
toad is accounted venomous, but without reason. 
From th’ extremest upward of thy head, 
To the descent and dust below thy foot, 
A most Zorzff-spotted traitor. Shakspeare. 
The toad is the rana bufo of Linnaeus, in Zoology See 
Rana. 
TO'ADEATER, s. A contemptuous term of modern 
times for a fawning parasite, a servile sycophant.—I was re¬ 
duced to be as miserable a toadeater as any in Great Britain, 
which in the strictest sense of a word is a servant, except that 
the toadeater has the honour of dining with my lady, and 
the misfortune of receiving no wages. Sir C. Hanbury. 
TO'ADFISH, s. A kind of sea-fish. See Lophius Pis- 
catiux. 
TO'ADFLAX, 5. A plant. 
TO'ADISH, adj. Venomous; like a toad.—-A speckled, 
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ioadish, or poison-fish, as the seamen from experience named 
it. Sir T. Herbert. 
TO'ADSTONE, s. A concretion supposed to be found in 
the head of a toad.—The toadstone presumed to be found in 
the head of that animal is not a thing impossible. BroWn. 
TO'ADSTOOL, s. Probably from a vulgar notion that 
the eating of this poisonous fungus, furnished the toad with 
his poison.—A plant like a mushroom. 
The grisly todestool grown there mought I see, 
And loathed paddocks lording on the same. Spettser. 
Another imperfect plant like a mushroom, but sometimes 
as broad as a hat, called toadstool, is not esculent. Bacon. 
TOAHOUTA, one of the smaller Society islands, near 
Otaha. 
To TOAST, v. a. [toste, old French, Lacombe; torreo, 
tostum, Latin.] To dry or heat at the fire.—The earth 
whereof the grass is soon parched with the sun, and toasted, is 
commonly forced earth. Bacon. —To allure mice I find no 
other magic than to draw out a piece of toasted cheese. 
Brown. —To name when a health is drunk. See the noun. 
—Several popish gentlemen toasted many loyal healths. 
Addison. 
We’ll try the empire you so long have boasted; 
And if we are not prais’d we’ll not be toasted. Prior. 
To TOAST, v. it. To give a toast or health to be drunk. 
—Let not both houses of parliament have law dictated to 
them by the Constitutional, the Revolution, and the Unitarian 
societies. These insect reptiles, whilst they go only caballing 
and toasting, only fill us with disgust. Burke. 
TOAST, s. Bread dried before the fire.—You are both as 
rheumatic as two dry toasts ; you cannot one bear with 
another’s infirmities. Shakspeare. —Every third day take a 
small toast of manchet, dipped in oil of sweet almonds new 
drawn, and sprinkled with loaf sugar. Bacon. —Bread dried 
and put into liquor. 
Where’s then the saucy boat 
Co-rival’d greatness ? or to harbour fled, 
Or made a toast for Neptune. Shakspeare. 
Some squire, perhaps, you take delight to rack; 
Whose game is whisk, whose treat a toast in sack. Pope. 
A celebrated woman whose health is often drunk. Dr. 
Johnson. This was at first the meaning; the reason of which 
is now given in the example from the Tatier. It is now ap¬ 
plied to public characters, or private friends, whose healths 
we propose to drink.—It happened that on a public day, a 
celebrated beauty of those times [King Charles II.’s]w'asin 
the Cross-Bath, [at Bath,] and one of the crowd of her ad¬ 
mirers took a glass of the water, in which the fair one stood, 
and drank her health to the company. There was in the 
place a gay fellow half fuddled, who offered to jump in, and 
swore though he liked not the liquor, he would have the toast. 
He was opposed in his resolution ; yet this whim gave foun¬ 
dation to the present honour which is done to the lady we 
mention in our liquor, v'ho has ever since been called a toast. 
Tatier .—I shall likewise mark out every toast, the club in 
which she was elected, and the number of votes that were on 
her side. Addison. 
Say, why are beauties prais’d and honour’d most, 
The wise man’s passion, and the vain man’s toast? 
Why deck’d with all that land and sea afford, 
Why angels call’d, and angel-like ador’d ? Pope. 
TO'ASTER, s. One who toasts. 
We simple toasters take delight 
To see our women’s teeth look white; 
And ev’rv saucy ill-bred fellow 
Sneers at a mouth profoundly yellow. Prior. 
TOBA, a small island in the Eastern seas, near the west 
coast of Aroo. Lat. 5. 8. S. long. 135.9. E., 
TOBA'CCO, s. [from 2'obaco or Tobago in America. 
It is said not to have been known in Europe before 1560.] 
See Nicotianum. 
And for tobacco —who can bear it ? 
Filthv concomitant of claret. Prior. 
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