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rises in the form of an amphitheatre, in a deep valley on the 
banks of the Jekil Irmak, the ancient Iris. The streets, 
though frequently steep, from the unevenness of the ground, 
are well paved, which is rare in this country. Tocat is the 
ancient Berisa; 40 miles north-west of Sivas. Lat. 30, 
35. N. long. 36. 30. E. 
TOCAYA, a village of Brazil, in the district of Minas 
Novas, situated at the conflux of the Jigitonhonha with the 
Rio Grande. It is situated in the diamond district, and is 
chiefly supported by this trade; 35 miles north-east of Te- 
juco. 
TOCCO, a town of Naples, in the Abruzzo Citra, on the 
river Pescara. Like other places in this part of Italy, it has 
suffered repeatedly from earthquakes; 24 miles west-south¬ 
west of Ortona-a-Mare. 
TOCHIMILCO, a town of Mexico, and capital of a 
district of the same name, in the intendancy of Puebla ; 60 
miles south-east of Mexico. Lat. 19. 10. S. long. 274. 45. W. 
TOCKETS, or Toccotes, a township of England, North 
Riding of Yorkshire; 1± mile north of Guisborough. 
TOCKHOLES, a township of England, in Lancashire; 4 
miles south-south-west of Blackburn. Population 1077. 
TOCKWITH, a parish of England, East Riding of 
Yorkshire; 5k miles north-east of Wetherby. Population 
419. 
TOCOME, a river of Guiana, which rises in the country 
of the Indians, and joins the Hacha. 
TOCOTA, a river of Portuguese Guiana, which runs 
south, and enters, with a large body, into the Parime. 
TOCRUR, a kingdom of Central Africa, described by the 
Arabian writers as situated along the Niger, or, as they termed 
it, Nile of the Negroes, to the west of Ghana. 
TO'CSIN, s. [ tocsein , old Fr. “ cloche d’alarme ; de Lat. 
tangere signum." Roquefort.'] An alarm-bell.—'The 
priests went up into the steeple, and rang the bells backward, 
which they call tocksaine, whereupon the people of the 
suburbs flocked together. Fulke. 
TOCSON HOTUN, a town of Western Tartary; 20 miles 
west-south-west of Turfan. 
TOCUYO, a town of South America, in the government 
of the Caraccas, and in the province of Venezuela, situated 
near the source of the river of its name. It is built in a val¬ 
ley formed by two mountains. They reckon in the city of 
Tocuyo 10,200 inhabitants; 270 miles south-west of Carac¬ 
cas, and 60 north of Truxillo. Lat. 9. 35. N. long. 72. 
40. W. 
TOCUYO, a river of South America, which has its rise in 
the vicinity of Lake Maracaibo, on its eastern side ; 15 
leagues south of Carora, upwards of 60 leagues from the Car- 
ribean sea, into which it is discharged, and 9 leagues east of 
Coro. It is navigable as far as Banagua, a village situated 
on its banks at the distance of 40 leagues from its mouth. 
TOD, s'. [Mr. G. Chalmers notices tod as Saxon, denot¬ 
ing a quantity of wool.] A bush ; a thick shrub. Obsolete. 
Within the ivie tod,, 
(There shrouded was tne little god), 
I heard a busy bustling. Spenser. 
A certain weight of wool, twenty-eight pounds.—Every 
’leven wether tods; every tod yields—pound and odd shil¬ 
ling. Shakspcarc. —A fox: a common word in Scotland, 
[Mr. Chalmers thinks the animal may have been so named 
from his bushy tail.] 
The wolf, the tod, the brock, 
Or other vermin. B. Jonson. 
To TOD, v. n. To weigh ; to produce a tod : the word, 
in the following passage," has been rightly expounded to 
mean, that the wool of eleven sheep would weigh a tod. 
Ritsov. —Every ’leven wether tods ; every tod yields— 
pound and odd shilling. S/ia/cspeare. —Dealers in wool 
say, twenty sheep ought to tod fifty pounds of wool. Dr. 
Farmer. 
TOD HEAD, a cape on the east coast of Scotland, in the 
county of Kincardine ; 5 miles south of Stonehaven. Lat. 
56. 51. N. long. 2. 11. W. 
TODEA. See O'smunda. 
TODBERE, a parish of England, in Dorsetshire; 5 miles 
south-west-by-west of ShaftsbuFy. 
TODBURN, a hamlet of England, in Northumberland j 
8 | mffes north-west-by-north of Morpeth, 
TODD'S FORK, a river of the United States, in Ohio, 
which joins the Little Miami, 5 miles above Deerfield. 
TODDENHAM, a parish of England, in Gloucestershire; 
3 miles north-east of Moreton in the Marsh. 
TODD1NGTON, or Taddington, a parish of England, 
in Bedfordshire. If was formerly a market-town, and has. 
still five annual fairs. Population 1182; 5 miles north-by¬ 
west of Dunstable, and 39 north-west-by-north of London. 
TODDINGTON, a parish of England, in Gloucestershire ; 
2k miles north-by-east of Winchcombe. 
To TO'DDLE, v. To saunter about: it implies feebleness, 
quasi tottlc. North. Pegge. 
TODDY, s. A tree in the East Indies.—The toddy tree 
is not unlike the date or palm. Sir T. Herbert .—Liquor 
extracted from the tree.'—The wine, or toddy, is got by 
piercing the tree, and putting a jar or pitcher under, so as 
the liquor may distil into it. Sir T. Herbert .—In low lan¬ 
guage, a kind of punch, or mixture of spirits and water. 
TODERO, Cape St., a promontory on the west coast of 
Sicily. Lat. 37. 57. N. long. 12. 39. E. 
TODI, a very lofty mountain of Switzerland, in the con- 
ton of Glaris. Its perpendicular elevation is given at 11,700 
feet. A road passes over one of its sides, into the country of 
the Grisons. 
TODI, an inland town of Italy, in the State of the Church, 
near the Tiber. Though small, it is the see of a bishop; 15 
miles west of Spoleto, and 58 north of Rome. 
TODLAW, the name of a rising ground in England, in 
the county of Northumberland, near Elsden, on which are 
three stone columns, placed in a triangular form 12 feet 
distant from each other, supposed to have been the sepulchral 
monument of some eminent Danes. Each column is nearly 
12 feet in diameter. 
TODMORDEN, a township of England, in Lancashire, 
being part of the town of Huddersfield; 8J miles north-north¬ 
east of Rochdale. Population 3652. 
TODOR NOVI, a small town and castle in the north¬ 
west of European Turkey, in Bosnia, on the Save. 
TODOS SANTOS, a large and convenient bay on the 
coast of Brazil, and province of Bahia. It is 37 miles long 
from north to south; its grealest width from east to west is 27 
miles, and its circumference is 36. The eastern part of the 
bay lies in long. 38. 42. W. lat. 12. 42. S.—It is the 
name also of several inconsiderable settlements in South 
America. 
TODOS SANTOS, Bay of, a deep bay on the coast of 
New California, or New Albion. Point Grajero, its northern 
promontory, is situated in lat. 31. 43. N. long. 243. 34. E. 
TODUS, or Tody, in Ornithology, a genus of the order 
picae, the characters of which are, that the bill is awl-shaped, 
somewhat depressed, obtuse, straight, and at its base beset 
with bristles; the nostrils are ovate and small; the feet are 
formed for walking; and the outer toe is connected at the 
base to the middle one. 
1 . Todus viridis.—Green, with a red breast: the green 
tody.—Found in the warmer parts of America, and the 
neighbouring islands. 
2. Todus cinereus.—Ash-coloured, with the under part 
yellow: the tie-tic of Buffon; the grey and yellow fly¬ 
catcher of Edwards.-—Found in open places of Surinam 
and Guiana. 
3. Todus fuscus.—Ferruginous, under part olive-coloured, 
spotted with white; the tail ferruginous, and wings crossed 
with a blackish bar.—Found in South America, less than the 
green. 
4. Todus creruleus.—Blueish, with white throat; temples, 
throat, and abdomen orange.—Found in America, of the 
size of the green. 
5. Todus varies.—Varied with blue, black and green; the 
bill, head, throat, neck, feet, nails, and tail black; the 
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